Why do people dislike Andromeda?

Sorry, I know this thread is a few months old but I wanted to throw my hat into the ring and hope this hasn't been beaten to death already.


Q. I was thinking of playing through again in about 6 months, but I'd love to hear people's opinions on when to play through the series again please?[/i]

As everyone else has said, this is different for everyone. Personally, I play the game over and over looking for details that could hint at a larger picture in the world. Like the burn scars on the floors in the Remnant vaults. Could be just burn scars from killing vault intruders but it could also be from the battle between the Jardaan and whatever left the scourge to stop them.
So I tend to play a game over and over until I burn out. Wait for a few months, then decide I am in the mood to play it again. As I sit in quarantine sick with CoVid as I write this, I'm on my second playthrough in a row and enjoying it immensely. My last Ryder was Asian and gorgeous as hell. My new Ryder I made look as much like me as possible. My next one will probably be darker skinned. Just because it's a slightly different experience each time. I may eventually play Scott Ryder but I'm enjoying playing Sara for now.
How you wanna play it, and how you wanna justify playing it right away or waiting a while is entirely up to you.

Q. Why do people hate Mass Effect Andromeda so much?[/i]

To be completely honest, as I have said in other threads, the deck was kind of stacked against Andromeda from the beginning. You had people demanding a product on par with the high expectations a new Mass Effect title would bring. Female characters were not as attractive as some dudebros demanded, which didn't help matters. Then there were game review youtubers speculating that the female character appearances and lack of straight male Ryder romances compared to female being less than runway model worthy was proof Bioware was peddling a political agenda.
This then snowballed once Andromeda dropped and everyone was screaming all over the web about how bad Andromeda was. Granted, the game was glitchy, in many cases hilariously so... but the game had a LOT of potential. That potential was just ignored because it didn't immediately deliver as people expected it to. It still does show great promise. But all of the bullshit negative reviews spewed by game review youtube accounts and reviewers like Kotaku (may their HQ facility burn to the ground) pushed people away from buying it and trying it for themselves. The lack of sales caused Bioware to put the title and any possible upcoming DLC, on ice.
It was only later that it came to be known that Andromeda had some development setbacks which caused the issues we experienced at release.
Between direction changes in storyline and changes in directors, Bioware staff only had a solid 18 months development time on Andromeda without setbacks or distractions. Take that into consideration and Andromeda is not nearly as bad as a lot of people claim.

Q. Do we know what they're planning do with the new installment; are they going to continue with the Andromeda Initiative, or will they be going back to the drawing board and taking a completely new direction? [/i]

At this point we don't know Jack beyond that a new Mass Effect title is in the works. Personally, I hope beyond hope that it is a new Andromeda title. It would be a waste not to continue Andromeda after all the time and effort that went into it, and part of me still hopes they will drop at least one Andromeda DLC in the future, as unlikely as that is. Even if just to whet our appetites for the next installment like Trespasser did.

Q. What are people's recommendations for action/adventure games that will give me a suitable fix please?[/i]

Well, if you haven't yet, Dragon Age is a good game to try. It's another Bioware game title series, and definitely worth a playthrough or two.
Otherwise, Outerworld and Borderlands are some good ones. Fallout 4 is alright, too. Horizon Zero Dawn if you got a PS4. Sea of Thieves is pretty fun too, but has a more social aspect to it.


Hope this helped.

Some people like sprouts, some don't.  The thing is if you are making a game to sell you hope the people who like your product are the majority. And yes, while whether you like a character or not is a personal opinion, it was a very common one not to like the Andromeda characters.

Few reasons for MEA hate that hasn't really been discussed:

It was supposed to be a continuation of ME saga and thus had very high expectations placed on it. What was initially released was exceptionally raw. Before all the patches the game was just bad. Coupled with unreasonable expectations and large number of trigger happy MET players who either hated ME or expected MEA to fix everything, it was a recipe for disaster. So, to summarize: very bad first impressions.

The other thing is that it came out almost full year after Blood and Wine expansion for Witcher 3. At this point players had pretty high expectations for the amount of polish and gameplay. Part of the problem is attempt to spice up MMOesque gameplay of pre-expansion DAI - empty spaces with fetch quests. All my attempts for a second playthrough stalled at Kadara. It became boring and repeatative. And the thought of moving up to Elaaden (which quite frankly felt unfinished), made any desire to power through it vanish.

With that said, I can't say MEA is a bad game. It just under-performed expectations by too much to be liked by general public. As others have pointed out, Kett were just not exciting for enemy. I think my entire view of the game can be summarized by "I am Pathfinder: rah bah bah". Unfortunately that includes my view of the villain as well as the Initiative. I think the character I liked the most was Reyes, partly because not many other characters attempted to show and intelligence or planning ability.

Oh, and my first impression of the game is Hyperion, arriving into Andromeda. With audible engine noise observed by external "observer" and (I think) Doppler effect as it passes by. I know, its one of the most common things to do in sci-fi movies, but it doesn't make it any less irksome.

I really like how we made a thread about why people dislike Andromeda, only to have people come in here and say it wasn't bad, therefore entirely missing the point of the thread, so now there's a thread about why people liked Andromeda and it's basically a repeat of the same things posted in this thread. I find it amusing.

I don't think that saying Andromeda did nothing wrong and that people didn't give it a fair chance is correct, when Aaryn Flynn, if I recall it was Aaryn Flynn, was on an interview with Eurogamer and said that Andromeda was "deeply flawed". I think that people who don't accept that Andromeda was "deeply flawed" as Aaryn said, are doing a disservice to themselves, first and foremost.

I never said YOU, otherwise I would have. Yes, I did play the game, but if I took that advice for my first playthrough, would I be in the right for saying the character I chose to ignore was crap?

"Aaryn Flynn is wrong and I know better"
-Hanako Ikezawa

Sounds like what you said, there. Ignore me, is Aary Flynn wrong?