Most Underrated Game: One Year Later

Nice!

That is one handsome Ryder!  

I'm definitely going to have to do that New Game Plus playthrough soon...

Sharable Horizon the person I usually ask is at Element Zero but I am not sure if he has done the math on Sniper Rifles. 

He has shared with me some great assault rifle, shotgun and pistol/SMG builds.

Starting from last month, I challenge anyone I see referring to Andromeda as "trash" to play it again and get back to me.

So far it's been 4/4 successes.

Wow not bad.

Bingo!  It should have been a new IP.  ME should have ended with ME3.  They could have created anything they wanted in any style they wanted and may have been better off in the long run.  There shouldn't have been anything from the ME universe in the game at all.  Just call it Andromeda.

IMO, you can't take a franchise like the OT, change/remove almost everything that made the OT great in the first place and expect your new version is going to be well received.  The fact that you have "Mass Effect" in the title is going to create expectations whether you want them or not.

Underrated?  Not in my book.  Not when comparing it to the OT.  Now if it were a new IP, I might have found the criticism it got a little over the top, but I still wouldn't have liked it since it seemed more like a shooter with a weak story, forgettable characters, and dialog that seemed to be aimed at the GoG fan base, which I'm not.

Nice.

In my case, most of the people I know who played the game at release loved it and most of them were ME fans since ME1. The ones who didn't can't stand open world-like games.

There’s the rub. Comparing it to the OT. It’s vastly different and was meant to be. And what is the GoG fan base?

Make that 4/6. It's still a mediocre game and no amount of patches are going to change that.

I couldn’t disagree with you more. Especially on the Guardians of the Galaxy comparison.

Not to be the sour dude, but...

I mean, it's not trash, but I can't help to compare it to other games in the trilogy, since Bioware itself did it. If it were another developer, sure, different story, but it's not. One would think it would mantain the same level of quality as other games.

Sure, they did try reexploring some concepts, like the Mako/Nomad exploration, present in the first game. Sometimes things became too familiar. Just saying "We're in Andromeda" every two minutes is NOT being on Andromeda. Same cliche: "show, don't tell". Just the presence of the Angara and Kett forces wasn't an "Wow!" factor to me.

And I did play it again. I enjoyed it, but not the same as when I replay other games, Mass Effect or not. Sometimes, Andromeda feels a bit weird to me. The pacing is not that good, since you are stuck with different quests through different planets, and sometimes these just unlock properly later ingame. 

So, yeah. I had my faith it could do something better. Andromeda was good, but not what I(speaking for myself, of course) was expecting from a company such as Bioware.