Is ME:A worth playing?

Just run from ME:A and never look back.

You're right here. Those are bunch of animated pixels. However that's where you're also wrong. Let me explain why.

People often say, how can you be mad or sad? It's just a video game, or bunch of animated pixels as you said. Well true, but they also fail to understand that those pixels often make you feel, or make you think about important things in life, which on daily basis you don't really think of. Some games do that better than the others. People get attached to the characters in video games, to their stories, to their dillemas, and they want to see what happens to them. So yes, animated pixels don't really matter in life, but your feelings do. Because your feelings are true and they exsist. Of course people can get so attached, to the point of marrying a fictional character, but those are extreme examples, who need medical treatment imo.

And I think that many people consider Andromeda not worth playing, because they lack of those feelings. I also think they wouldn't mind different combat system, boring sidequests or tedious exploration at times, if they had that bond with characters.

Currently I'm in the middle of The Witcher 3 playthrough, and I'm in love with every single animated pixel in that game. I care about people there, and I want to see their story. I'm about to head out to Skellige, so I hope to meet you there Qui-Gon GlenN7

I'd say go and play Serious Sam 2 if you want nothing but bunch of animated pixels

PS. I've seen a bit of Anthem gameplay, and I'm not thrilled about it. It looks like Andromeda MMO to me, and I'm not sure it would be an interesting experience. Plus it requires Win 10, so it disqualifies it from the start. Being spied by Micro$oft and Origin at the same time? No thanks

PS II. And no, I don't want Anthem to be BioWare's last game. I still hope to get a good DA 4. Only after that, they can go bust

Big caveat, video games are entertainment first and foremost. How they make you feel should be taken under this context (in other words, not too seriously).



Really enjoyed this myself. Skellige is great and I love the background music there. The DLCs are great too, with Blood and Wine being really cool.

Yes... And I paid $9.99 for the GotY version

Actually, I got W3 free with my GPU, and just bought the Expansion Pass on sale from GoG. Must continue Gottfried's fight against the evil DRM.

100hrs to finish main story, at least another 50 between the two expansions and I am probably being conservative there. The volume of effort and polishing is evident. Even though many module assets are recycled, it isn't egregious like DA2 or original ME.

I did find that the fetch quests were better done than in Inquisition; but once you got past the exposition if you are being honest, it is still just a fancy fetch quest in a shiny package. And they were incredibly repetitive. I would like to see some daring developer move past this tired gaming trope.

So, to answer the thread question: at $12.99 for MEA, I would instead go to GoG and buy the W3 GOTY for $14.99. You won't miss those extra two dollars.

Of course, you might already have TW3; in that case, buy some good beer and play ME3MP. 12.99 buys a really solid 6pk.

Eh, maybe you're right. Also BSNs are by far most civil forums I've been to - as a current F76 player I can tell you Bethesda official forums are literally trench-deep cesspool of toxicity.

Witcher/Wiedzmin/Zaklínač 3 though! What a game. What a book series. What a developer. What a sour apple of an author.

Pretty sure he's just a Tommy Wiseau alt.

What are you guys still talking about? ME:A never happened

It sure happened.  I´m old and my memory isn´t good anymore but I just can´t never forget the disappointment of playing MEA after the release. My first and last pre-ordered game.

I used to think so too

ME3 pre-order - a little upset, but not like many others.
Pre-order DAI - dissatisfied with many things.
refusal of pre-order MEA
time passes
you think - well, because they should not spoil the multiplayer? do not care for the single already.
pre-order MEA - displeased with many things, especially MP
refuse to pre-order Anthem .
waiting for nothing
They give you VIP access to the Anthem demo. play. It seems incomprehensible and having the potential at the same time.
watch your other friends play.
you take the origin subscription
play. you understand that it will be possible to play this game in a year, not earlier.
watch teaser DA4
hoping for something

BioWare makes people suffer

my PC was weak for DAI though still allowed to play. I understood that it wouldn’t be possible to play MEA properly, and for about half a year I assembled a new PC in parts, while our money fell twice in price relative to the dollar - it was hard. BioWare - all for your games = P
it is strange, many people are still waiting for DA4 with great hope, well, or at least saying - give us DA4, and only then close.
I'm watching this now

this is true now, again.
and this is the best demotivation to wait, hope, pre-order.

Is MEA worth playing?....





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MEA got some problems, defauts, glitches, bugs, crashed, and require a powerfull PC, and got less qualities than previous mass effect...

but is it technically a bad game? not really. the story is not worse than ME trilogy (and more captivating than the tri-chromatic prophety, aka the evil-rainbow)

yes, they did crap with their frostbite graphic engine because too greedy to get the next unreal engine, yes humans and asaris got horrific faces that will give PTSD to all asaris lover (but really, who want to date thoose blue-skin futa? ), humans armor looks more like textile suit than rela armor (but i guess it's because they are supposed to explore and not to beat the crap out of some reapers) and turians endured forced-diets.

but the maps are kinda interessing, the jet-pack add few possibilities, kert's weapons are kinda cool, vetra is a good waifu, reliquants are very cool, drax is like the cool uncle you wish you had, you got planets that you can go on with a vehicle like you did in ME1, the ressources-farm thing, despite first annoyed me, make sense in fact (due to the fact that you are relying on what your colonies can farm, you don't have any state to give you any dotation, you got to get things done by yourself)

and some questions of the lore are captivating enough so that you wonder what will be the answer (unfortunately, some answers are missing in my opinion, i would like to know more about the andromeda lore, the kerts's origin, the reliquants's origin, more details about the dark-tentacles formation etc...)



and in the MP, despite the crap with the ton of variation of each weapon (endless loot-nightmare) the maps are interessing, because it's a real 3D environment, not like ME3MP maps which are too flat (and don't exploit enough the notion of height). wich MEA MP, you really use and care about your environment, spawnpoints seem a bit less obvious, and it's harder to exploit bugs from ennemy's behaviour. (also, the lesser number of ennemies who can sync you make it less frustrating) add the invididual power-cooldown on top of that, and you got a much more complex gameplay (where you can use the environment, the jet-pack jumps, the shut-down punches, play with the rythme of your powers, shoot while under-cover, etc...) also, the ammoboxes are more reliable and more explicit (cuz ME3MP's ammoboxes where pure crap)