Most important part of MEA for you

The characters. If not for Garrus, Tali, Wrex, Miranda, Joker, Liara, and many others, it wouldn't be Mass Effect.

I'm fairly certain everybody agrees that the characters are what make Mass Effect such an incredible franchise.

Plot is what our goal is - the story revolves around our goal and characters flesh the story out. So i feel like story should be an alternative. Those 3 things are the most important to me however.

"Characters"
"Get the fuck outta here, I'm trying to shoot sum N*****"


Plot all the way but I was tempted to choose "graphics" just because the terrible animations and models deserve to be made more fun of. The target renders never even looked good despite high fidelity.

Given up a long time ago.

Exploration, since that will make up the majority of the game.

Gameplay covers exploration I think

So by characters you just mean their individual plots right? Cuz, I played those Fire Emblem games on 3DS and they had nothing but character focus... yet it was awful because there was no plot to make any meaningful connections out of anything.

Comparing Mass Effect Andromeda to Dragon Age Inquisition is an apples to oranges comparison. Both franchises have a separate team of writers. The faults of one team won't necessarily be the faults of the other. David Gaider, who was the lead writer of DAO, DAII, and DAI, was inconsistent in my opinion. DAI, in many ways, was him wanting to wrap up DAII because he wasn't able to do his big story expansion that was planned for that game.

The Mass Effect trilogy was spearheaded by Drew Karpyshyn for ME1 and ME2 until he departed for BioWare Austin to help work on SWTOR. Mac Walters took over lead writing duties on ME3, but now he's in Casey Hudson's position as the Creative Director. Chris Schlerf, who was the lead writer on Halo 4, was in charge of writing the main story for Mass Effect Andromeda. He had no prior history with BioWare, so whatever he came up with should be refreshing and new.

Well after me1 and 2 my main attraction to ME games were the characters. But after ME3 and watching the videos on characters for Andromeda my focus have switched to MP and gameplay. Andromenda, as far as I've seen, has nothing to offer but gameplay, and MP is built around that. Watching liam's loyalty and other vids I see writing and dialogue have become cringy, and the awful oneliners have made a return from ME3. So my vote goes to gameplay, because it's the only thing that has gotten better not worse.

I am looking forward to seeing the direction of the game. As you said, it differed from game to game. And, yes, Gaider is Gaider. ME stories always attracted me more than DA, and as long as the team honors what I liked about the franchise, and that's compact story with multiple points of choice that ends up with changing the outcomes of interesting threads throughout the game, not a one track story with a couple of binary work for/with party I vs party II that changes nothing till you can kill or redeem the Evil Overlord, I am happy. If at all possible, I won't mind dodging amnesia, but I know, it's asking too much in a video-game.

I have to go with gameplay. The characters and plot are important to the success of the game to be sure, but it was the gameplay that kept me coming back to ME 2 & 3 for many playthroughs long after I had gotten everything out of the story and characters. Gameplay is also the reason I, as someone who doesn't normally play MP games, logged around 1200 hours in ME3MP.

In order 1. Characters 2. Plot 3. Gameplay 4. Graphics 5. Romances 6. lakes on the tempest 7. My fish tank 8. Slam poetry 9. daddy issues 10. multiplayer