Don't disappoint me, Andromeda

What are you even doing here?

I'm sending an email to some BioWare lead if I can this time if I have complaints about the final product if it's at least half-good.

I really don't think the mistakes made in DA:I would've been beyond saving if they had been more aware or cared more to fix them, same with Mass Effect 3 (although I think Casey's ego and sense of ownership was the real issue there)

your own expectations can disappoint you

i think this game will be great, the only thing that worries me is the exploration, i hope it's not boring, and the story, please no plot twist that has makes no sense

Pretty much my feelings on DA I to the t.  Great game with a bunch of niggling little flaws here and there for me.  

Actually its kind of funny.  

DA I-Great game despite a bunch of little annoyances and flaws and ticks and eccentricities.  

Witcher 3- Great game despite one or two Major flaws. 

I will never understand people who say they prefer DA2 over DAI.

I do for one. Ever since I played ME1 and ME2 I've been more of a story-guy than gameplay guy. I've been playing video games since I was 8. It's not particularly impressive to me being able to point and shoot with a gun just because it has really tight mechanics, and the same goes for being able to traverse vast spaces just because they look pretty.

DA2 was worse than DA:O in my opinion but the amount of response and cause-effect it has with what kind of Hawke you create and which companions you take with you, who you talk to etc. is so reactive that the replay-value rockets through the roof. The final act of the story is a letdown for sure, but everything up until that point is really, really intriguing aside from a few headcanonable one-sided characters.

I really disliked the limiations to armor management but aside from that I was fine with the small game world and reused caves as opposed to being able to go everywhere in DA:I but constantly having the feeling that none of it matters from a story-perspective.

^ I think the "If you don't like side-quests don't do them!!1" response to DA:I is ignorant IMO. You disregard the fact that the game practically draws you to do side-objectives at every turn and 70% of the content in the game is just side-content.

If you are to look at ME1 or Witcher 3 a really good amount of what feels like side-content but actually isn't is main content such as the Port Hanshan thing or helping the Feros Colony or finishing the Keira or Red Baron questlines in Witcher 3 that are introduced and heavily used in the Main story in the first place. DA:I has a lot of litter that has absolutely no thematic or arc... arc-something value to the plot that you're forced to choose between just to get that "power" meter up from 5 to 40 before picking the next main quest and by then it's like "oh.. OH, yeah, that's right, something with Grey Wardens. (and you've spent 10 hours doing nothing related to this just to get "Power")"

For ME:A though, sure, don't do side-quests all you like. It's not gating the main story but I'll be damned if there isn't the same amount of litter in the "main attraction" which is going to planets and exploring.

I wasn't 10 years old when ME3 came out. I was 18. It was just a figure of speech in response to guy posting earlier.

Make sure it's a YouTube let's player you trust. Mainstream gaming media always gets bribed.

My only comment to Bioware:




Seriously, Bioware will make a game. People will love it, like it, dislike it, hate it and whatever more people can feel when they have too much emotional problems.

But it will sell, and life will continue. I don't really see how this thread have any use? It's not like bioware are going "Shit, we have a guy here that don't want us to disappoint. Change everything and make it good instead!!"

Yeah I realized I completely read most of that wrong.  My bad.

Has that ever been proven or is that just what people who disagree with the major reviews say?

Yay - trying to correct one misstake (marketing lies) by making another is incredibly smart?

Well, "Fallout 4" doesn't only have "flaws", it's not what most people truly wanted: A Fallout-Game, it's a shooter in the Fallout-Universe, but not a true Fallout-Game

The last true Fallout was Fallout: New Vegas (3 doesn't count IMHO, also it's better than 4 in all regards IMHO!)

Why should we not have high expectations? It's not like Bioware is a new studio that hasn't made any great games that - for their time - kind of were "the second comming of christ" at their time (KOTOR, DA:O, ME1) and are still remembered and loved to this day!

So I feel justified to expect something good, something great! Why? Because they have shown that they can do it and IMHO they really have to return to form (they haven't done so in the last few years, not since DA2 (which wasn't bad, but not as great as it could have been either with its asset-reuse etc.). ME3 was worse and DA:I, while a step in the right direction in certain areas, wasn't great either!)...IMHO they have to prove themselves to us, they've been letting us down for years now and many of us (including myself) have been given them a chance with every game they released and they've disappointed us, especially with their pettyness after the ME3-Ending (Extended Cut did NOTHING for me, it just made the crappy ending longer and more painful to watch!), which they defended (they couldn't admit that they'd fucked up royally, which is something truly great people can - they might not like to admit that they've done fucked it up, but they would admit it, despite doing so being fucking hard!))

greetings LAX