I really like MEA!

I thought the music was awesome, though in the game, you MUST put settings alike these: music 100%, others around 20-40% depending on your audio equipment. Now you'll hear all the great ambiences which unfortunately are not included in the OST. Same for MP.

Atmosphere and lighting? I'm kinda mixed here, I really really love ME1's lighting, but I also like MEA lighting although its obvious in some places it was never correctly adjusted I think. Atmosphere, well Voeld is like Noveria++ to me, so it won that one, but we dont get those UNC whistling silicate wind hitting our helmets like in ME1, true...

I'm agreeing on other points, adding the UNC missions to some planets would've nailed it, instead of just scanning around. Do check the bsn.boards.net/thread/14800/me-andromeda-cut-content thread for cut out content and imagine if they've had more time...

Yep! Completely agree with sjsharp2010’s take on Andromeda. ME:A is a flawed gem with a lot of heart. I think time will be a lot kinder to it and people will look on it fondly as the years pass, kinda like DA2.

- The story is good.

I don't agree with this at all. Nothing about it made sense to me. Your a Pathfinder, but you're sent late to the game by design. They're telling you that you need to make planets viable before people can be taken out of cryo, but everywhere you go people are living fine. Everyone but the AI can make it work, and the AI has the most resources, never made sense to me, bothered me the entire game. You can live in space, but you can't populate a planet because it's too hot or cold. Really? Noveria anyone. In ME1 the characters were part of the story, in ME:A they were just there. In ME:1 there was so much history and backstory that shaped things your views on things in the game. The Rachni Wars, Krogan uplifting and the Genophage, the Morning War, and whether you supported Geth or Quarians, the contact war, and whether you viewed Ashely as a Xenophobe. ME1 was a one story a large galaxy, whereas ME:A felt like a galaxy made for one story. Each planet having it's own unique circumstances stopping you colonizing would have been a lot better than, activate three vaults, move on to the next world, rinse and repeat.

- The characters on Nexus and Tempest is well written

I agree, Suvi and the others were well written, much better than Chawkwas and the crew of the Normandy.

- The combat system is really good

I agree, the jump jet was a great addition. Just wish you could have more than three skills active at a time.

- The voice acting is good

It was alright. Not great, not terrible.

- The graphics are great.

I agree with this. I often found myself driving up to cliffs and other high location just to look around.

- Male Ryder is a really good character, his voice sounds a lot like Nathan Drake which is a good thing and fits to his personality.

Don't know if it was his voice, or his voice with the character I made. But I didn't like, and ended up stopping and stating again as Sara.

- The customization for armor and weapon are great

I agree, the different looks from different factions was nice.

- It is very similar to ME1 if even more a classic rpg game.

I thought ME1 was better a building the galaxy around the story, as well as having the squadmates be part of the story. Ashley last one of her company defending Eden Prime, Garrus the C-Sec agent investigating Saren, Tali has the evidence to implicate Saren. Nothing like this in ME:A. Saren was a better villain and he was involved in antagonizing you more on a mission to mission basis. Almost every mission you were chasing him because he was a step ahead of you, and he ultimately took down the Citadel defenses. There was no active agent for the enemy in ME:A that filled this role. It was just generic fodder Kett.

-The game is huge

It was also empty. They didn't learn from DA:I in this regard.

-The music isnt as good as in the trilogy, and there is too little music also.

I never really heard the music. I saw a video on the making of the ME:A music, and the entire time I was saying to myself I never heard any of this. By the time I saw a post recommending turning other sounds down, and music all the way up I was done playing it.

- The atmosphere and ligthning isnt as good as in the trilogy

I think this had more to do with the locations. Havraal I thought was good. It's a shame that was the only planet were you got to use the light on your armor. It was just screaming for caves and other dark locations.

- Shepard isnt in the game

I'm glad, leave his story alone. Any attempt to revisit that story would have been too far-fetched to accept. Would have been like Bioware bringing back dead Wardens after DA:O. They would almost have to do it the same way, just tell fans if you don't mind, we don't care.

- Could have been more different new alien races and other different enemies.

Definitely agree. Especially since both races were really shallow. Goes back to my problem with fleshing out the new galaxy in general. The Kett were enemies, and the Angarans have limited history because they created. People always say well, it was just one cluster. But if the AI can make it there, and the Kett can make it there, than you could make a story for other races. If the Kett where storming through the galaxy, that could have been a cluster where other races fled.

- Only two different faces on Asari

I didn't mind reusing the faces. But for one of your crew to have the generic face was just lazy. Honestly, Keri should have had her own as well as a recurring character. But Lexi not having a unique face just highlighted how corners were cut making this game.

- I dont care much about the face animations, doesnt bother me much att all.

The only one that was really bad was Addison. The rest were tolerable. But a lot of little things were harped on because people didn't like the game a whole. A lot of this stuff would have been overlooked if people liked the rest of the game.

I think this thread is flying off the rails...

It was my 2017 game of the year by a large margin. I'm sure my opinion is unpopular but I rank ME games like : ME1 = ME:A / ME2 / ME3.

i loved andromeda it was fun, one of the problems i had with it is that it's too easy on high levels even on the hardest difficulty. i really love the design of some of the new armor and weapons and the story is generally fun. i really have no idea why people complain about companions i loved all of them, aside from liam, but his character did made sense, since sometimes there are people who have more passion over sense, i can see why alec chose him, even if i wouldn't. also funniest companion side quest was liam's. and the rest of the squad are just fun in general.

and while i loved shepard, come on, we moved on, ryder was fun protagonist, the sort of goofy person that is funny and social awakward. it's fun fun playing a more relateable character like that.

Since the game allows you to respec in Lexi's med bay, you can still do a NG+ with leveled equipment without it being too easy.  Just respec to empty all your previously assigned points and just assign the points back into only those skills you want to use in that playthrough.  You can even leave them at the lower ranks and just rank them up as you would have done in a fresh game.  This actually makes the difficulty harder, since the enemies will be levelld to match your level, not the ranks of the skills where you've assigned your points.  Sure, this leaves a bunch of unassigned points in your skill bank... but that's just cosmetic, IMO.

Good for you.