Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

Honestly, I didn't feel like that footage was overly atrocious. It was really chatty in the very beginning, but the over tutorialization faded a bit as the mission went on. I wasn't even as annoyed by Peebee as I thought I would be. I think that's been the first time I've really heard her talk? She's way less obnoxious than Sera, so I feel much much better about her.

The guy playing was fucking garbage though. Andromeda is supposed to be based around mobility, and he's constantly hunkered down in a corner somewhere, forgetting to charge abilities, aiming poorly, tossing turrets into lava, tossing self into lava, standing around like a jackass while taking heavy fire... I barely saw him use the jetpack at all.

The scanner also seems like a less efficient version of Inquisition's weird SONAR thing. Like, it's the same concept, but now you have to be staring directly at the thing you want to interact with. I really hope it doesn't take gratuitously long to actually get through the scanning process.

I will say that the mission itself didn't seem overly exciting, but as I'm thinking back to Mass Effect 1 and 2, there were a huge plethora of "meh" missions in there. Including some of the loyalty missions. It was especially bad in ME1 where no one could bother to pick mission-appropriate music for the vast majority of side missions, and there was just some obscure ambient Sci-fi track and a bunch of "GO! GO! GO!", "ENEMIES EVERYWHERE!", "I WILL DESTROY YOU!", and some footsteps as background noise.

It's a tad concerning how the dialogue wheel doesn't seem to come up anywhere during the entire mission. I would've expected a bit more dialogue than that during a loyalty mission. Maybe most of the talking is at the very beginning and near the end. I dunno.

It really wasn't that bad though. Not as bad as everyone is making it sound, anyway.

It never even occurred to me that someone would assume you could be an all-melee character. It seems pretty clear that there's a "melee button", same as ME2 and 3, and that button is used for when someone gets too close, not as your primary form of combat. 

Evidently so. 

Since people generally liked how the older games played, what should Bio have done differently? Big changes would have a downside.

And all the while other developers are gazing on the game and come up a game that is better than Mass Effect like CDPR looked @ Skyrim and made Witcher 3 and it's way better than Skyrim.

The game got almost everything that Skyrim lacks. Dark setting to make the game more believable, great combat, story, and pretty much the gist of it really.

Well each to his own.

That winds me up in Skyrim.

'What can I do for you, my thane?'

'Fuck off, Lydia!'

Metroid Prime has no dialogue that is spoken. Batman only uses it for a handful of scripted moments. Witcher 3 uses it as an excuse to make filler and listen to Geralt talk to himself for the 100th time. Andromeda will be like Witcher 3.

I also noticed a bit of dialogue cutting out, but the guy playing said it was his third time doing the mission. Maybe he was triggering dialogue because he was in a rush, since he already knew what to do? That would explain why the lines are always cutting each other off, and why they're trying to say so much at one time. 

As was already mentioned, Metroid was brought up in regards to the scanner, not dialogue.

I hate that about Witcher though. I wish it was at least a sort of "detective monologue", like it is in the Arkham games, since that makes it a little bit more understandable, but Geralt just straight up has full conversations with himself. It's so jarring.