Replaying Andromeda one year later. God i like this game. am i the only one?

You're better than I.

I completed the game exactly once, and my feelings at the time were that it wasn't a bad game at all. It wasn't a brilliant mind-blowing, awe-inspiring game, but it was fine. Better than Inquisition, and with some good moments, along with some tedious and frustrating ones.

But I've never been able to replay it. God-knows I've tried, but I always end up feeling bored, and burned out around half way through. Having said that, it's still a better result than Dragon Age Inquisition. I've tried to re-play that game maybe six times, and tried to do everything in my power to bring it into line with my tastes, installing all kinds of mods. But each time I get around a quarter of the way through and just utterly lose interest. Loading up the game just feels like a chore.

I just have to accept that these 'modern' Bioware open world games just aren't for me.

Well i don't want to ruin the feel good moment because Andromeda isn't a bad game, but it was the first Mass Effect game i EVER fell asleep on in the middle of playing it. Un-inspired characters and writing is the bottomline for me...and for the next game, please get rid of SAM...Ryder couldn't do anything without him....Sam unlock this door....Sam do this....and how in the world was Alex able to stabilize these atmospheres using Sam even tho no human understood this alien tech?



Yes Sam may be advanced A.I. but it still has basic understandings and fundamentals from a human perspective...going into Andromeda and configuring alien tech and manipulating it to the point to where you can stabilize the planets atmosphere is a bit of a stretch even from a sci-fi perspective. Yes we have to use our imagination, but we also like for these aspects to be implemented in some form of grounded reality...not lol...Alex used advanced A.I. space magic to do things the Kett could never do...





That said....Andromeda had stunning visuals and incredible art direction and design.....but i've seen scores from review sites ranging from 6's to solid 8....with the overall criticisms pointing to story and character issues outside of Andromeda's initial animation and glitching problems. The series can redeem itself with a solid sequel with a strong narrative and compelling characters....the kett turning Angarians into kett felt too much like what the Reapers was doing....just rehashing ideas with a different color....and some side missions had you traveling from planet to planet often times running into other side missions.....some aspects of it just felt like a clusterf**k...





Don't want to rag too much on the game tho as again it's not a bad game, just for me it wasn't a very good Mass Effect game.

I fired up a brand new Mass Effect 1 this weekend to try to either blow up the Collector Base or end the Reapers (probably the former) by N7 day. It'd been a few months, and while I've been known to whine, moan, and bitch about Mass Effect 1 on these boards (hidden autodialogue where Shepard spouts the same damn nonsense no matter which choice you pick gets up my nose more than Shepard just autodialogue-ing without your input for whatever reason), I'm having a stupid amount of fun. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that.


But anyway, I'm looking forward to getting to Andromeda eventually. I always enjoyed it. Part of that was by the time the game had finished downloading on MAGICAL ARCTIC INTERNET, the first two patches had hit, so I never really got to play the janky version that apparently set the internet on fire and let everyone and their mothers down. So my first impression was decidedly fonder. The OTHER part is that while I was waiting for that download, I replayed my entire Bioware folder, including a round of SWTOR class story, so my expectations were realistic.


Game's not a revelation. It has lots of flaws, like every title before it. But what it is is damn fun, with some characters I genuinely enjoy and none I can't stand. And I like Liam, damnit. I get where he's coming from, and him occasionally being a complete dumbass makes him more realistic than most of the previous companions. I have a very visceral "I know that guy. I'VE BEEN THAT GUY." reaction to him, which was probably worth the price of entry (when combined with meleeing an Architect to death) right there.

Hear yea hear yea.. although I think DAI still has a small edge on music amount and quality, I love MEA(+MP) more.

Too bad the manadatory modifiers turned me off from playing the multiplayer, especially if those involve (use x weapon only to do proper damage/empty resupplies/melee only to do proper damage/etc.).I’ll stick to ME3 since I had more freedom and better gameplay in that game over Crapomeda.

Bullet sponge enemies =/= riveting gameplay. When the starting equipment is utter crap just because I never bought the game at launch nor spent money just to get better equipment to get myself on an even playing field, they fucked up on the design. If I hate using shotguns or sniper rifles, I am punished. If I am not a Gears of War nut, I am punished. ME3’s MP had a lower barrier to entry.

I need to ask, when did you play it? Starting weapons are now OK on bronze - of course its not one shot like in me3mp - different game mechanics alltogether