I've been away since Bioware destroyed my home. How does Andromeda seem so far?

I never heard of this glitch. Is it common?

Mass Effect 1 + The Witcher 3 + Destiny + Star Trek reboot films + Halo 4 = Mass Effect Andromeda

Try and combine all of these games (and films) into one and you more or less have Mass Effect Andromeda.

Two words: Unpolished turd. Or cream chocolate. Unsavory either way.

I really liked that trailer and I get similar vibes from the Andromeda trailers I've seen so far mainly because they heavily emphasize exploration. But I also get alot more combat focus in the andromeda stuff and that's what Honestly concerns me. 

This is only my opinion, so take it with a grain of salt.

Mass Effect, to me, was an RPG first, with 3rd person shooter elements to drive the combat portions. The gameplay was "meh, but ok" at the time, but certainly not great in my opinion. Mass Effect 2 and then 3 greatly improved on the 3rd person shooter combat elements, but the RPG elements were either cut or vastly simplified. For example, in ME1, for every enemy killed or any action taken "on the field" (scanning resources, unlocking doors/chests, etc) you gained exp. You could chat (albeit in a simple way) with your squad while on a mission, and different locations had them saying specific things. These kinds of things were simplified to a large extent in ME2 and ME3.

Now, the last two games in the trilogy were good games in their own right, and continued Shepard's story quite well (we won't talk about ME3's ending) but in many ways, they felt completely different than ME1 did. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but my preference would have been to see ME1's gameplay but improved. Now in ME:A, I feel like I may finally be getting my wish.

The combat does look faster and more fluid, but quite a few reviewers I've read or watched videos on (thankfully very spoiler free!) have commented that the "soul" of Mass Effect remains intact, and that the combat feels very good and solid. From the gameplay videos that we've seen, we can see that killing enemies in the field gives exp immediately, instead of an after-action-report-mission-summary type of thing, which broke ME2 and ME3 up into chunks unnecessarily, in my opinion.

Add in the exploration elements that the last two games of the trilogy really lacked, and the more traditional loot style system it appears to have, and it looks to me like Bioware are returning to Mass Effect 1 for inspiration for ME:A, but with vastly improved combat gameplay. This to me seems to be the best of all possibilities.

My only concern is the potential for the story to be lackluster, given the attention to gameplay we've seen, but even there a bunch of the reviewers (who, to be fair, only played a small part of the game to review) have said that there's some solid potential. It's obviously a wait and see type thing, but I'm cautiously hopeful that ME:A could be the spiritual successor to Mass Effect that I've been waiting for these past 10 years.

The "cream chocolate" metaphor went right past me.

Cream chocolate. As in Nutella? Sounds good to me.

Sorry for your house:


As to what is known about the game see this thread.

I'll take your word for it, but what is it?