Struggling to get through Andromeda after LE Mass Effect trilogy (LE-MET)

I get the tutorial part, but not having the asari telling Shepard to get to cover.


No to the friends, and definitely no to the comrade in arms. Shepard has been in the military for a long time would know when to get into cover. There were moments before the asari showed up to have Shepard taking cover. My Shepard took cover before leaving earth when facing the uglies before the SR2 showed up. And if it was done for the omni-blade scene, that could have been done when first seeing Cerberus or even one of the uglies before leaving earth.  

Wrong. It's because there were a number of opportunities before that it could have happened. By the time she says get to cover, the player most likely would have already known about getting to cover after facing the uglies on earth just before the SR2 showed up and when facing Cerberus right after arriving on earth.

I disagree with your soory nope.  She says get to cover, right? By that point Shepard has already been in cover a number of times. Why would you get into cover after seeing a character get gunned down. From where the gunfire came from, it would be risky to get into cover since it's a good chance Shepard might be seen. It would have been better to be on the right along the wall before entering that area to make sure you're not seen. 

Talking about funny faces that "smile" in OT ... oh god.

These are really interesting takes tbh. Before I started playing ME again with the LE. I always considered ME1 to be the best game in the series, it set the stage for the trilogy and while some of it's systems were a little clunky (though amazing for it's time), I always had nostalgic memories from the first game. However having now replayed it, and testimonials of friends I had play the OT for the 1st time, ME2 is where it's at. It was a much darker side of the MEU than we'd seen before. Plus learning more about the cultures of new and established alien species (Thane and Samara respectively) was awesome. These "info dumps" is what Mass Effect was all about to me, the talky and techy sci-fi genre like Star Trek where it's 10% intense action and 90% talking. The in-depth codex entries, and Neil Ross' voice was all I needed. Speaking of voice acting, sometimes the illusion of choice is better than the elimination of it. Even if you get the same response from the NPC, at least Shepard's personality and responses could be more aligned with how you saw your Shepard. There was nothing more immersion breaking for me, as the moments when Shepard said something I never wanted her to say.


While speaking about MEA to OT specifically, I always preferred the renegade/paragon system from OT than the dragon age style they went for in MEA. Despite the conversations becoming disjointed sometimes if you went from paragon to renegade quickly in a cutscene. It was nice to play an actual badass where you could push mercs out of windows every now and then.

Also, "ME:A is no less serious than ME2" made me laugh. ME2 you could kill your entire squad, never even recruit some of them, a combination between and variations of fail/success to the final mission based on how successful you wanted to be as a leader. You could even legitimately play that game to fail the final mission, resulting in Shepard dying organically in the story and that be the end of your Shepard, if you wanted. One of those characters you could recruit, resulted in the death of a noble Asari Justicar in favour of her actually psychotic daughter. MEA everyone just hugs and the Archon falls over, then everyone hugs again, and then there's some more pop culture references and cringe-worthy emails between squadmates. And then it ends.

Maybe my rider doesn't care about civilians and why should we care about the Angara? We just got here. Except we don't have that choice, we don't even have the choice to do it begrudgingly. Further to this, MEA voice actors all sounded like they were teenagers. Whereas Shepard was like late 20's but sounded early 30's, and all the actions you performed had more dire consequenecs. It doesn't necessarily mean people have to die, but it does make for a more interesting story if it punishes you based on your actions.

Oh and ME1, ME2, ME3, DAO, DA2, DAI, KOTOR.. Heck let's even throw on SWTOR too. All of these games, at least once, made you make a decision, perform an act, or follow certain rules or it resulted in the death of someone in the story line.

Yeah it doesn't look especially alien but then none of the planets do in the OT tbh the ypretty muc hjust look lik edifferent places you'd find on Earth Habitat 7 and other places in Andromeda with all  th eweird looking plants and things  and the various differnt wildlife species like the fiends and Adhi and things like those Rylkors look fa rmore alien to me. 

Onto the topic at hand I don' tthink I'll struggle to get through anothe rplaythroug hof MEA because I've often played MEA after doing runs of the original trilogy anywa yand I doubt the LE version will change that even though I'm almost through my first run of th eLE given I'm in ME3 now. I probably won't be jumping into MEA straightaway after finishing the LE but not becawuse I think I'd srtuggle but because I want to play other things afte rI'm finished but I do have a couple of Ryder's planned that I do want to go through the game with so I definitely intend to jump back in. I could see myself diong a MEA run befoer I go through the LE again though

No you don't. It's only A/K. In one playthrough, I placed t'soni at the top of the stairs. 

Bioshock Infinite has the best tutorial.