Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

Really? I thought there was huge amount of substance in the environments in Witcher, especially if you compare it to Inquisition; where villagers stood in one spot. The world for witcher actually felt lived in. The only things in Inquisition that felt as though they were alive, were bandits and wildlife.

Oh about that yeah. TW3 lategame led me to parallel worlds. How many? Four? They were so pretty and I was so excited. Then I found out they were all there as eye-candies and nothing more than that. 

As opposed to the villagers in W3 who all looked alike and walked around in circles. The open world bullshit of Witcher 3 is easily the worst part of the game. 

Of course it might. Any game that hasn't released yet might be a piece of shit but we simply can't know until we play it.

And if ME:A is only as good as DA:I that still means it's a good game. I think all of the shit thrown at DA:I (from me as well) give some people the impression that it must be the worst game to ever have been made, but in truth, I personally only complain because I have a very high standard of top 10 tier games that I want BioWare to hit becuase they did so with ME2 and DA:O (in my opinion!) and them making games like ME3 and DA:I after that which are only so-so by my ranking it just sucks because they pale in comparison to too many other games I would rather play.

I'm not exactly sure what qualifies "failing hard". It could be that it means that if the game is mediocre/pretty decent like DA:I (yeah yeah, some think it's amazing) or it could mean that the game is about as playable as Sonic The Hedgehog 2006 depending on who you are. Of course if it's literally a buggy, unplayable mess and poorly designed at that, then it's hard to rank it above "failure" but personally I also think because this is Mass Effect riding on BioWare's record even a middle-tier product will be deemed as a failure because, again, it's Mass Effect which had 2.5 amazing games thus far.

They had even less to say than Nazeem as well =D.

And GTAV's open world is dead because you can see repeated NPCs. The reach people can aim for when the competition is leagues ahead is truly a warm sight.

Based on what I have seen and read from BioWare:

• it will use some DAI mechanics,
• but will also have paid attention to TW3.

It's impossible to tell based on what we have seen so far.

I've seen nothing to indicate it will fail and the short clips we've seen are promising. But Bioware Games live or die by their story and characters, the strength of which can't be judged without investing hours into the game.

Honestly I don't need to see any more to convince me to buy it, I have already decided that I will. All I want from Bioware now is direct confirmation on which major species will or won't be returning and a basic idea of the cast so I can go with with appropriate expectations.

I really don't understand why TW3 fanboys insist on coming to a Bioware game forum, and boring us all to death with never ending Witcher crap.
If you like the game, then great go praise it on a TW3 forum.

Same here

Anything is possible. I don't think it's probable, but maybe that's just me.

At this point I'm optimistic that either MEA will be great and I'll love it, or maybe it will bomb and we'll end up with "Hey look, kids, Master Chief Shepard is back!" Which is pretty much a win either way for me.

The one thing I fear is a meh game that doesn't excite me to buy future installments in Andromeda but it's not so bad they go back to the Milky Way.

In any event, I forsee many heated arguments about its merit/lack thereof in the next year.

Let's get a few things out there

No, MEA will not bomb. Sorry.

YES, TW3 is a great game and, lo and fucking behold in a goddamn bleak universe it allowed for A NUMBER of happy endings and some bittersweet ones and a freaking awfully soul crushing one. Did you hear that Bioware? Was that so hard to do...oh wait it would have hurt your art...got it.

Having tried TW3 on Xbox One, PS4 and PC (on high settings) I can tell you it looks great but besides the creatures it is FAAAAAAAR less impressive than people give it credit for. Vistas are amazing but so they seem to be in MEA and the quality of the textures is quite comparable if you ask me not to mention the effects look much better in MEA. I am gonna miss those rolling green hills tho. Character design was always better in MEA for both generic npcs and main characters. Sorry, TW3 had some oddly last gen design in that department.


Bioware has been following the "show as little as possible" attitude for a while because, for the last few years, they have become special, precious, fragile, unable to handle criticism snowflakes. If they show a lot of gameplay as they did in ME2 people will immediately start dissecting it and punching holes in it. Now that is de facto rather than de juro because, as we have seen, Bioware is infatuated with the rile of cool nowadays and wants to draw in the shooter crowds more and more. I am ok with that attitude as long as the final product is worth my money. I would be FAR more peeved if they took a bethesda attitude and they just stopped sending out review copies.


Of course part of me wants this game to be critically slammed for moving the series to Andromeda giving Bioware a free pass on the mess they made in ME3 with the milky way. I really wish they would be forced to address it and fix it but....it is just me disappointment talking.







Also, Evil Chris if you are reading this you owe me an apology.