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Honestly, I understand the purpose of reviews and critics, but at the end of the day no one can tell me to like/dislike a movie/book/videogame. You have to experience it yourself. An experience I'm very much looking forward to undertaking starting tomorrow night. Regardless, riding the hype train these past months and even years with fellow mass effect fans to discuss and predict this game has been a blast.
So thanks to everyone who's contributed to these great discussions. It's made the wait more bearable knowing you're not the only one waiting for this game.
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So far the reviews I've seen have been inconsistent on the issues I care about most, namely plot and character writing.
Some reviews are saying the character writing is as strong as it's ever been and a highlight of the game. Others are saying they're aweful and bland. Judgements on the main plot range from "aweful" to "it's fine but nothing to write home about."
So it could be that this will be like ME2 where the character writing saves the experience from an uninteresting and overwrought main plot, or not.
I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
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So far the reviews I've seen have been inconsistent on the issues I care about most, namely plot and character writing.
Some reviews are saying the character writing is as strong as it's ever been and a highlight of the game. Others are saying they're aweful and bland. Judgements on the main plot range from "aweful" to "it's fine but nothing to write home about."
So it could be that this will be like ME2 where the character writing saves the experience from an uninteresting and overwrought main plot, or not.
I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
Yeah this is the first time I've seen reviewers who can't agree on anything. This will come down in actually playing the game.
Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, KOTOR, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda, Anthem, Mass Effect Legendary Edition
So far the reviews I've seen have been inconsistent on the issues I care about most, namely plot and character writing.
Some reviews are saying the character writing is as strong as it's ever been and a highlight of the game. Others are saying they're aweful and bland. Judgements on the main plot range from "aweful" to "it's fine but nothing to write home about."
So it could be that this will be like ME2 where the character writing saves the experience from an uninteresting and overwrought main plot, or not.
I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
Yeah this is the first time I've seen reviewers who can't agree on anything. This will come down in actually playing the game.
I will say that a few of the character moments I've seen in YouTube videos seemed a bit forced, and I'm a bit concerned the writers might be trying too hard to make characters snarky and quippy. A few characters struck me that way in Inquisition, though most of them turned out to have enjoyable characters overall.
And I have consistently seen the concern that the dialogue is a cheese-fest, but not as charming as it was when the previous games did it.
Still, this is the sort of this where your mileage may vary.
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I'm sure there's a lot of truth in the reviews and I'm not going to write them off completely, but I cannot shake this feeling that there's definitely a rose-tinted view of the trilogy affecting some of them.
Replaying the trilogy in the run-up to MEA, then playing the EA Access trial right afterwards, I can't say I noticed any real drop in overall 'quality', despite the warning about the game's first 15 hours being slow.
I've been watching streamers play MEA, making certain choices and then saying "oh this would have happened that way anyway" and criticising it for that, when I've seen people make the other decision and it having a completely different outcome. You can't know how much plot diversion there is when you've only played it once :/
Post by velvetstraitjacket on Mar 20, 2017 16:46:23 GMT
I think that it's a mistake to pin Andromeda against the Trilogy. Story wise, it's a completely different setting, tone, and characters. I think a lot of these reviewers were expecting Mass Effect 4, with a reskinned(not)Shepard. The technical issues I won't excuse, because they had 5 years. Hopefully they'll fix them with patches, along with the CC. Overall, I think some reviews are a bit harsher than they should be, because there have been plenty of games with technical issues and shitty animations that were approached more lightly, but since this is Mass Effect, there will be blood. Anyway, I hope Bioware take this as a learning experience and improve.
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Ashe ladyinsanity Basically doing a completionist run of Andromeda for my review. 4/5 Outposts at 100%, most loyalties done..and still at 45% game completion. Despite the facial animation shitshow (not talking about the game), having fun. Trying not to let others paint their experience over mine. There's a lot of good and some portion of bad. But enjoying myself so far. Not even focusing on main story, I'm digging the side stories. What I'm trying to say is if you play #MEAndromeda... play it for yourself. Don't focus on what everyone tells you to. Just ride it out.
Amen to that.
Don't be a sheep. Lots of the reviewers talk like they rushed through the game or don't even know what the game is about
I have this mental image of some of them waiting in the dark, wringing their hands together since the end of ME3 just waiting for this moment to strike.
I think that it's a mistake to pin Andromeda against the Trilogy.
This was my main thought when reading the reviews. I know it's technically the logical thing to do, but they're comparing one game to THREE games, the first of which has been in our conciousness for 10 years at this point.
The characters in MEA have way way more content than those in ME1, that much is a matter of fact, and that's all I ask for. You can't expect an entire cast of new characters to suddenly have the depth and development the OT familiar faces had by the end of ME3. Just think back to ME1 and how much - or little - content our squadmates really had in that game.
I totally get that the trilogy is a complete package and will forever be viewed as such, but I wish people would be a little more aware of the fact they're comparing one game with three.
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Ashe ladyinsanity Basically doing a completionist run of Andromeda for my review. 4/5 Outposts at 100%, most loyalties done..and still at 45% game completion. Despite the facial animation shitshow (not talking about the game), having fun. Trying not to let others paint their experience over mine. There's a lot of good and some portion of bad. But enjoying myself so far. Not even focusing on main story, I'm digging the side stories. What I'm trying to say is if you play #MEAndromeda... play it for yourself. Don't focus on what everyone tells you to. Just ride it out.
Amen to that.
Don't be a sheep. Lots of the reviewers talk like they rushed through the game or don't even know what the game is about
I have this mental image of some of them waiting in the dark, wringing their hands together since the end of ME3 just waiting for this moment to strike.
couldn't agree more, i hate those reviews. IDK why i even bother to look at them. I still love several games which were heavily criticised. Besides, there's a lot of games which they give hell of a lot of low scores, talk shit about, and then it's GOTY. Go figures
I think that it's a mistake to pin Andromeda against the Trilogy.
This was my main thought when reading the reviews. I know it's technically the logical thing to do, but they're comparing one game to THREE games, the first of which has been in our conciousness for 10 years at this point.
The characters in MEA have way way more content than those in ME1, that much is a matter of fact, and that's all I ask for. You can't expect an entire cast of new characters to suddenly have the depth and development of the OT familiar faces by the end of ME3. Just think back to ME1 and how much - or little - content our squadmates really had in that game.
I totally get that the trilogy is a complete package and will forever be viewed as such, but I wish people would be a little more aware of the fact they're comparing one game with three.
Lol remember the horrible writing in ME1? And the repetitive side missions and empty planets? And look at how ME1 was received. But like you said, they're comparing Andromeda to the whole Trilogy, which is bullshit. I don't trust reviews, especially not the likes of IGN, who gives a steaming pile of glitches and broken gameplay like WWE 2k17 an 8.
Good god, it's like the Scientology faithful. BioWare fangurls/fanbois unite.
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