Fate of the Quarian Ark, through Comics and Novels??

I am not having an argument. Tastes differ. It's futile to argue about works of art. But I take a dim view of being told to change my thinking because the masses think differently. Here is explanation for what you were asking about.

The creation of the whole race in Andromeda is achieved by the authomatic space exploration. Basically, the most efficient way to explore the space are self-replicating machines that go the distance, find the object of interest, land, repair/replicate. Andromeda takes this basic concept and adds the next step, a creation of habitat and designing an organic sentient to populate it. The moral question that it poses is self-evident. The philosophical puzzle is fairily contemporary take, and is not examined in depth during the game, just left to the player to ponder on his/her own. Hence "pedestrian" or populist approach, trying to introduce an issue from a fairily modern philosophy, but not preparing a large essay on it, nor lecturing on wether it was right or wrong to create the Angara.

Companion writing is better than in previous games because they have features that reflect real people, particularly Gil and Liam. I do not mind the over dramatic characters like Thane or Anders, but I enjoyed seeing Liam grow, or getting outraged at Gil's lack of empathy. Their behaviour and dialogue was quite natural. Cora was slightly more traditional videogame character with a fantasy issue blown out of proportion, but she also did have actual real human feel to her when she talked about gardening. They all (save for maybe PeeBee) had a certain warmth to them. Sure, they should probably have thickened colours on PeeBee, Jaal and Drack to make them more of drama-ridden videogame chars, but it was enough for me to balance it out. And, well, there is Reyes who is your traditional bio's charming rogue I like seeing again, and again, and again.

Fun speeder is Nomad. Speeder, mount, whatever you call means of transportation in a video games. Never had a better one, and the modifications carry over to the NG+, so no need to recraft anything.

If people liked other cc's better, that's fine. I thought the cc in Andromeda was the best to date and gave me the most attractive human characters I have played, that did not look cartoonish. Particularly with 1.10 changes that fixed skin texturing and allowed mixing up features. But I was doing the same thing by editing maps before 1.10, so 1.10 just made it available without editing the game files, which is great. Andromeda is the first game where I can create my long-dreamed about dangerous looking Asian gal as a lead, for example. And, hells, she was gorgeous! So was my Male Ryder, and my third char, another gal, this time black. They all looked wonderful.

So, sure thing, I can re-review the game a dozen more times, a hundred, but in the end, I will only be telling you more things I loved about it. Like, you know, male Ryder's voice that so perfectly conveys the "watch out for this kid! He might be young, but there is a dangerous vibe about him!"

And you will disagree all dozen or one hundred times. But would not you rather go play ELEX? (Shrug) seriously, how arrogant or naive can you be to think that one can come out and say "oh, I did not like the character, because it did not resonate with me!" And someone else who previously adored the character reads it and goes: " oh, my! How wrong I was! Thank you for opening my eyes! Thank you, thank you, thank you, oh great one! I now hate this character too!" The "everyone says so" and "it is known" may work on sheep, but I am no sheep. I think for myself, thank you very much.

Yes, it's too bad the masses did not like Andromeda, it's too bad that the AAA games have to appeal to a very large minimum audience to succeed. That's why I am happy to sacrifice some of the bells and whistles and play indie games that target narrower audiences.

Have you gotten as far as seeing the city created by the Remnant/Jadaar and discovered the evidence that Angaran was created by Jadaan following the blueprint of organic species? Did you catch that the unusual cluster of Golden worlds noticed initially was due to the robotic Jadaar terraforming the planets during their expansion to prepare to kick-off seeding of Angaran? The question of what Scourge was, and if, for example, it was Andromeda's own Shepard-like character who wanted to stop bio-synthesis of Angaran because it was immoral on the same grounds Shepard rejected recycling and distillation of organic soul, or maybe it were Angaran themselves, or a faction that created a mysterious AI with an encrypted extinctionist message, and if Kett is another blueprint, and if it was altogether a moral experiment etc. those are questions that will remain unanswered because Andromeda failed, along with the more immediate human conspiracies around the AI to be covered in the spin-off lit.

i regret being denied an opportunity to play this story through to the end.

No, it is not. Comics and novels are not the same experience as a videogame. I will not purchase them, because I am interested in a different story delivery mechanism. I reiterate my previous sentiment that I like the game, it would have benefited from expansions and sequels, and haters gonna hate.

Well, what they chose to include was enough for me to enjoy the game. There are gazillions of extremely successful, high volume, critically acclaimed games that do not have features I absolutely want in my games. I am happy Andromeda cut corners on something that I can live without, because most other games roll over my wishlist with a "ah, that's not important! " and BioWare still does not. For how long, I don't know. But as long as they are willing to splurge on what I want, I am not going to begrudge them the powerful need to eat. I mean, they are one of only four companies I am aware of on the market producing what I want.

Again, really happy for you.


True, Star Wars Battlefront II seems to be a vast improvement compared to the barebones experience of its predecessor.


What? Hold on a second, what about the answers to your questions? You wouldn't be in this position, if they hadn't cut corners and delivered a full gaming experience from the start!


But they just did! That's exactly what they did!


I'm curious who the other three are. Obsidian? Larian? CDPR? Blizzard? InXile? Bethesda?

BioWare, Obsidian, Spiders and Larian.

Personally, as I do consider myself something of an amateur writer, my biggest problem with the original trilogy is the wasted potential. And I do feel like there is a lot of wasted potential with the characters of the OT. Shepard isn't necessary to facilitate that potential, though. I strongly feel like we simply glossed over the dynamic, potential, contrast and similarities between two of my favourite female characters in the medium. And I am talking about Jack and Miranda, but this is not the thread to go into it in length. I have not met another pair of female characters that had such an uncanny antagonistic/cooperative relationship, not only in other Bioware games, but in video games ever. The fact that we are just abandoning a veritable gold mine of character development is painful.

Oh, absolutely. It's up to them to do whatever they want with their characters. It's difficult, though, to ask the fanbase to just forget it all and start clean off. Especially as, like you said, everyone has their own ME2 favourite. The difference is I do not wish that character to have more content compared to others, as to me, development happens not just by the PC's interactions with the squadmates, but, as was more prominent in ME3, by the ssquadmates interacting with each other as well. That provided us with some of the best banter in the trilogy.


Yes, yes, I know. I have, actually. Good effort on paper, not so much in execution. Jack I found much more enjoyable to Kaliyo and Rayna was, well, I didn't like her, to be honest. It's an unfair comparison, though. I've been in love with Courtenay Taylor's voice since her days as Juhani and Damsel and it's hard to match the appeal of Yvonne Strahovski with something fabricated in ToR's Hero engine and ToR is a really unenjoyable experience for me, so I just powered through it, mostly. I was also very hyped for Natalie Dormer in Andromeda. Shame she's just Dr. Lexi. I would have traded Cora for Nat as a character.

I know. I didn't really develop much of a connection with the BG1 characters until BG2. Siege of Dragonspear was a dissapointment in every way, as well.


Which is a very poor coping mechanism, imho. If you're gonna write something, make sure it is canon, so either write your own characters, in your own setting, or just move on. Or write some smut, I dunno, that works too, I guess.


I've noticed. Bastilla is basically Jaheira again, for example. I really like Thane as well, from ME2. I very much liked the entire ME2 crew. Would not single out a specific one of them.


That must be draining, on the mental side.

Speaking as a man who never played Andromeda, I sincerely hope the Quarians are all dead. We don't need those pests to muck-about for handouts in another galaxy now.