Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

Thus far, I agree but that email was so disappointing though. She's probably my favorite squadmate all things considered because I feel like she's the only character so far that has dialogue that doesn't feel... strangely disjointed or meandering. With Liam, Vetra, Gil etc. they just didn't really give off a good first impression. I know Luke Kristjanson is still in DA:I mode but I'm just not ready to sit down and chill with Liam over some beers right after I get on my ship. I thought we were in the middle of something important :/

Until I read this it never quit clicked, but I did sorta get a Star Wars-y type feel. Everything in the new is "different" enough to be "new" but close enough to the old to be really familiar.

It was made with the express purpose, of giving the fans a chance to emotionally say goodbye, because the main game denied us that. It was hammy, and ridiculous, and cliche, and drowning in cringe and fan service. It was a weird situation where it's basically breaking the 4th wall in a lot of ways, but at that point, fans didn't care, because they were too emotional about everything and wanted to just enjoy this One Last Ride. 

The problem arises here, because Bioware obviously believes we loved it because of all the cringe and cliche and ham, and we did in part, but not because we like those things. In any other situation, that DLC would have been nuked from orbit for being horribly written. Citadel was a style of DLC that could've only come out right when it did, really imo. Fans felt they needed something, anything, to get that emotional closure that many people felt was not given to them. Obviously, despite Bioware making it for the right reasons, has failed entirely to understand why it was so popular, and why we gave a pass to all that horrible, horrible cheese. 

I'm just going to play the MP / SP (afterthought) and disregard the absurd nuts and fruitcakes they think to add / change to the original lore of MET.

I played trial single player for about an hour. I hope it gets better later on but so far, it is so silly, just unbelievable. And these animations, I don't even know where these $40 million production costs went. The multiplayer is great though apart from occasional connection issues.

Story wise, it might get better. Silly animations, undoubtul, but more and more patches are coming in.

I'd laugh though if the latter parts of the game are supposed to have less animations problems (they won't). It'd make the decision of going for the early access really dumb.

I know the file. I don't want to watch and hear more then I saw for now. If they say they prefer the other two compared to the female pronoun, it's pretty weird. The latter should be dominant in any case.
They'd have used mother then. I think it was intentional, regardless of the reason. Although I think it's a term they started using when they came in contact with the other species with two genders.

That's what I thought to, they started to use the term to describe the second participant in a way that would be relatable to a non mono-gendered species. Even if they don't mean the same thing.

The audio I linked was very brief, like a sentence long codex entry.  I can understand the "father/mother" thing as a shorter way for them to say "Person who gives birth to the child/person who's code of DNA was used to randomize offspring's DNA". Those terms describe the role in the creation of an asari child. However some asari describing themselves as a different gender from the rest the asari goes against what they are, mono-gendered. So I dunno, maybe MEA will act like a soft reboot for the Asari also.

Why so?  Otherwise you statement holds zero weight.

I feel like I may be disappointed bc of shortcuts.  No ground vehicles to keep the world's from feeling alive with colonists.  Every vehicle is just parked as a scenery prop.  

I don't get why people are burying their heads in the sand, totally in denial. DA2 negativity affected the sales, the only reason is wasn't a loss for EA was because the devs worked in under an year. MEA had 5.

If this affects the sales enough, it could probably be the end of ME.

Friendly reminder that they've killed Dead Space, Crysis (I think) and the Mirror's Edge reboot probably will be the last one as well.

Just a friendly reminder for the fellow sceptics here.