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

Oh really? You know what just happened?

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I say yes. I never really got the hate over the endings anyway. Granted, weird star boy was an out of the blue thing but you had a choice between destroying the reapers and 2 choices of letting them win in some form so... it just came down to what the entire trilogy had been about all along... choose your fate. I chose destroy and all was well. Reapers lost, happy day.

I'm looking forward to a new story in Andromeda in a setting and series I love.

I think BSN definitely strengthened my worst thoughts about the ending by going into way more depth about why it was so bad, but it wouldn't have saved me from my own disappointment. I can easily remember the exact moment when I beat the game in 2012 because I was just so into Mass Effect, that moment has been burned into my memory, and I just remember how my heart sank during the scene with the Catalyst and how depressed I felt watching the richocheting Crucible blast across the galaxy only to be followed with "Man, please give me something more" and all that was, was some vague artsy ending on some Garden of Eden planet and credits and then Buzz talking about some BS with his kid.

That said, I went into ME3 knowing the ending was really controversial, and looking by my Origin account I can see I started march 9th (It was launch day in europe) and ended on the 12th. I was pretty heartbroken by what I saw back then. I don't think any other game really tops that level of sheer depressive feelings, but it wasn't just the ending. It was also the whole "ME3 feels too different" that plagued the whole game. I couldn't tell what it was aside from the autodialogue, but there was just something the entire time I didn't like about the game which was strange because I LOVED ME2, like, I remember saying it was my new favorite game of all time superceding Ocarina of Time which was my previous timeless, perfect game I couldn't stop bringing up in conversations about video games.

So yeah, the echo chamber stirred up the pot but I think a large chunk of the contestants came in pretty confused or disappointed already looking for something to clear things up and all we got was angry, ranty topics about why the ending WAS bad (confirming the worst suspicion) and then all we got from BIoWare was silence... silence, then a PR statement deflecting the criticism... silence and then the announcement of EC which despite aiming to improve things didn't address the problem which was that the ending was broken.

But at least it gave that need for closure and it gave a more personalized finale which revitalized my wanting to replay the games. But even still ME3 had me aiming THIS high in my expecations, but ended up being such a big disappointment. I guess I just expected too much but I really believed in BioWare after ME1 and ME2 to create an outstanding culmination and despite the fans that totally loved the majority of ME3 I never quite found that satisfaction in the way things were wrapped up as most did.

But it has been years. I've learned to set more realistic expectations and I've also learned a lot more about how game development goes and what kind of staff BioWare has, so my expectations are somewhere in the middle for Andromeda and I expect it'll be a nice game that I'll want to replay. For sure some things will end up disappointing the everliving fuck out of me -- such has been the case with 3 BioWare games in a row now, but I think I can easilier brush it aside and just play it for what it is on subsequent playthroughs unless they get really close to success and just absolutely waste it or something.

This might be harsher then I intend it to be.

I think your expectations of how your choices mattered were then unrealistic for are there any games that have had a save import had a level of import that impacted the game as much as you expected from Mass Effect 3? Plenty of choices impacted Mass Effect 3 and frankly I believe those negatively impacted the game overall such as companions for they wrote completely secondary characters to fill the roles of characters that might have died. They had a poor side mission with the Rachni that did change base on your choices from the prior games. Major story missions had their outcomes influenced by choices from the other games. Conrad Vernor's side mission takes into consideration multiple things from the prior games as well. I can't see it being possible to write a game that has major alterations to how the game works to satisfy how some people want their choices to matter, for then we get a mess like Inquisition when it tries to be everything, but at release it is just a bunch of things thrown together to try and satisfy everyone.

If you really want to see that choices did matter, just not in the way your expect try replaying Mass Effect 3 without an import and see the differences.

With that being said. Do what you think is best for you, if you liked the majority of the games and didn't like how the choices worked out I can't see why you probably wouldn't like Andromeda for they are being upfront about this being an extremely clean break from the prior games and sounds like anything from the prior games will be limited to almost non-existent.