Everything that was wrong with Andromeda. A video that sums it up well.

You can't say that to gothpunkboy over in the MET section?  (You'd have to read through walls of text to notice it.)

You need to take off the nostalgia googles because ME:A is much better than ME1 in those departments.

In ME1:

You had the same damn buildings with boxes in different places and the same with the mines, ME1 makes DA2 looks like vast an open world.

The planets in ME1 are DEAD there is no life (other than the villains you have to shoot) some with vague environment threats.


In ME:A:

You had more a wide variety of places to explore on all of the worlds and a lot less of recycled environments to put up with.

The planets in MEA are ALIVE with animals, plants, and you can see and feel what the environment threats are.


Simply put IMHO ME:A was ME1 done right in every department. The Archon's plan is simple he wants Meridian so he can force everyone in the Heleus Cluster to submit to exaltation or be destroyed. That is all we need to know we don't need his damn sob story of how the other Kett misunderstood him and exiled him and his followers or anything because it's not relevant to the story. He has a plan that he explains several times by the way to Ryder, and his followers and if you can't understand it then that your problem not the games.


Now the following is my general feelings about the MEA haters:

"If you dummies can't figure out a simple plot in a piece of entertainment, then you dummies need to find new way to entertain themselves and that is not an insult, that is a fact of life."- to paraphrase Eli Drake professional wrestler and the namer of dummies.   

In ME:A the combat is fun, the villain is evil, the story is great, the Nomad is better than either of those stupid tanks were, and other than Jaal none of the characters aren't walking exposition dumps and have their own personalities and are way better than any of ME1. For me ME:A is everything ME1 should have been. It was a bunch of  butthurt crybabies still whining about the ME3 endings and armchair animation morons crying about facial animations, and a bunch of of talent less ME fanfic hacks who don't a damn thing about story, characters, and writing in general and the usual alt-right bigot trolls crying "SJW" about every character that isn't a cis-genered straight white male and whining about not getting to bang a virtual bimbo supermodel because they can't get laid in real life and their dicks are too small that ruined ME:A as well as those who hate everything EA does regardless.


So in the end: NO, I don't blame BioWare for ME:A reported "failures", I blame ME:A "failures" on the above mentioned haters, they are the ones who ruined Mass Effect. Personally they can all fuck off as far as I'm concerned.

The exploration, for example. People should have told Bioware that one of the basic tenets of world building is that people are more interesting than places. So to build a universe to explore that's untouched by people, yeah that will get old for most people very quick. Sand? Check. Ice? Check. Trees? Check? 40 more hours of this? Wonderful.

do have 2 stories I could write, but they are crossovers.
(one is a ME+Punisher crossover and the other is a ME+W40K crossover). Both are... shall we say, VERY 18 rated. 😎

Uh huh, sure.

Well alot of folks already know i'm not a big fan of Andromeda, but the worlds in Andromeda was fully realized and not boxed off with artificial boundaries (yeah they was there but you had to really expose it)....and the Nomad handled like a charm...physics and animations was great. It's just that i wish the side missions felt more substantial and that they wasn't so spread out.


You could easily get tied up in another side mission while traveling or doing a current mission...idk...it's hard to say because the worlds felt "BIG" as they are supposed to feel, which i wouldn't mind if the side missions just wasn't so flat....i never got a sense of really accomplishing anything after i finished one.....i would complete a side mission and that would be it...oh i would receive exp... .

Another aspect i liked tho really small was the paint jobs for the Nomad.....the majority of the paint jobs was pretty slick.....my fav's i believe was the platinum, the red and black (N7?) and  few more i can't recall ATM....the wheels on the nomad was pretty slick looking too.... ....and while i never played ME1, the nomad handles decades better than that thing used to travel the planet in ME2....

And for the cheap seats:
The second half of my previous is not directed at anyone here and is basically a generalization but the above quoted post does represent my personal feelings and opinions on the subject of who killed Mass Effect on April 18th, 2018. My opinions sometimes change due to new info, re-examination, time, my personal life, and many other factors.

In case you missed that let me repeat it all caps and in bold type:

THE SECOND HALF OF MY PREVIOUS POST IS NOT DIRECTED AT ANYONE HERE IN PARTICULAR AND IS BASICALLY A GENERALIZATION BUT THE POST QUOTED ABOVE DOES PRESENT MY PERSONAL FEELINGS AND OPINIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF WHO KILLED MASS EFFECT ON APRIL 18TH, 2018. MY OPINIONS CAN CHANGE SOMETIMES DUE TO NEW INFO, RE-EXAMINATION, TIME, MY PERSONAL LIFE, AND MANY OTHER FACTORS.

Now if you are offended by my comments then please find or go to your nearest safe space and cry to some one who cares about you and tell them: "how mean ole Cyberstrike hurt your feelings over a video game," just please don't bother me about it. 

Yeah that's fair... ....i guess i should have just stated that the side missions in Andromeda was lacking.....just meh. I'm currently playing ME2 and the side missions, whether boarding a vessel running rampant with geth or landing on a planet with hostile mechs or batarians,...the missions where interesting and had an overall impact as to why you was either getting a package or gathering information...it all directly or indirectly related to the mission itself....

Andromeda..."eh take this bracelet and place it on top of that mountain for me.... mmkay.?...bye!"..... 

You're joking right?  ME2 side missions were like: Land, shoot, back to Normandy. Ok there are some other variants but I don't see where the side missions of ME2 are particularly strong. But yeah I guess if you never got past Eos site 1 that may be what you've seen of MEA:s side missions. Either that or you're just being dishonest and disingenuous. As per usual of basher behaviour.

I’ve never done that, at least not intentionally. I respect that some don’t like Andromeda but when you treat your opinion as absolute fact that’s a problem.