Andromeda? [Playing MEA after liking ME1 & 2, but not 3?]

It's the journey and the fact that you enjoyed it that matter, not the ending

After ME3 I don't think I want those choices to matter...

That's how I feel about the trilogy as well.

The ME3 ending didn't bother me as much, until I got on the old BSN boards and everyone was bitching. Then it did. I'm a little better about it now.

I still say: if ME3 ended right after Anderson dies - then there was no choice but the Reapers (and Shep) were destroyed - would have been very happy. Nice heroic exit.

My attitude on choices in games has evolved over time. I used to think that for choices to matter they needed to carry into the next game. But when I think about what I liked about Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins it turns out it wasn't seeing those choices reflected in future games. It was really just thinking about my character while playing the game or thinking about my character after I'd completed the game, based on the ending. In other words, choices were really just a vehicle for me to further create my character in my mind.

The imports honestly never amounted to much. I like the effort with the imports. But so far the most rewarding part of making choices comes within the context of the game in which the choices mattered.

So given that I liked playing Mass Effect games, I have enthusiasm for Mass Effect Andromeda. So if you liked 1 and 2, I think you should keep reading the hype and see if you end up wanting to play it.

I was very, _very_ disappointed in the ME3 ending. More upset than I've been at anything in over 30 years of gaming. But the truth is I was so upset because I cared so much by the end. So if I played over 300 hours of great gaming experience in one of the most compelling stories I've ever played, then I probably need to let it go about the last 10 minutes. Its clearly worth my time and money to re-up for another. (and I quite enjoyed DAI in the interim). I haven't lost faith in Bioware to deliver... yet.

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Click on the link in my signature for an excellent playthrough of the trilogy

They were hollow, meaningless, and unbecoming of a Bioware RPG anyway.

Meh...there have been WORSE endings in videogames and to be honest there was no way Bioware was going to please everybody in terms of the ending...waaay too many variables and coding involved for every eventuality. The ride all the way to the end was great....the journey itself far outweighs the ending on some many levels...

Even ME3 had a sense of hopelessness and dread,...struggling against those challenges made the game great. Play the game for the journey...not the endings....which really wasn't that bad to begin with.

Dozens of hours of gameplay per each game Vs 15-20 minutes of ME3 ending, and still has to ask if he should get back to Mass Effect.

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i didnt really understand why people hated the ME3 ending. Yes, choices didnt matter as advertised but try playing ME3 without a savegame and then with a savegame, the game did feel alot different. in fact that is what happened to me because i lost my savegames and i thought ME3 was bad in terms of story.

also ME3 had a fitting ending for a soldier and it was quite obvious that shepard will have his soldiers death. if anything i salute bioware for not taking the mainstream way of a happy end at least story-wise. yes the choice seemed dumb especially in combination with multiplayer but this is a flaw that got way more attention than it should have.


@op: you should really explain the reason why you wouldnt want to play ME:A. is it that you didnt like the ending, that your choices didnt matter that much but you still liked the trilogy?

Given that Shepard's story is 'done and dusted' and completely separate from Andromeda I would give it a go if you enjoyed the gameplay and wish for more of the ME universe. Hopefully the overall story of the trilogy (at least, up to when the AI leave) will be appropriately included in Andromeda as I feel that complete denial of what was going on would be a bit silly, however Bioware did confirm that the actual story and adventure of MEA was its own.