The Early Impressions thread.

I suppose you could call it that yes.

My early impressions are thus... Now the giant bomb stream of the singleplayer that i watched earlier basically made this a "wait till its cheap" buy for me. Its basically confirmed my worst fears, Andromeda is DA:I in space, and that is just a complete non-starter for me. Watching it i just couldnt shake the impression of just how dull, contrived, dumb and repetitive, how lacklustre, how lacking in any sense of style, of any real science fiction chops etc the whole affair looked and felt. The awful, cringey, tweeny, average internet fan fiction level, unatural sounding dialogue and piss poor writing stood out to me like a stubbed pinky toe as well. Not to mention the dead eyes... Its unbelivable. This is a supposed triple A game being released in 2017 ffs.

Like what the heck happened?. I mean 200 developers, 3 teams (Montreal, Edmonton & Austin), over $40 million dollars, decades worth of "experience", 5 years development time (and a delay), looked to the Witcher 3 & Mass Effect 2 as inspiration etc etc...yet still somehow the game has come out like this?. A complete mess in so many areas. Its literally ridiculous. Makes you wonder what were the Montreal team doing for those 5 years exactly?. Clearly they werent developing the game(and from what ive heard BioWare Montreal were screwing the project up royall, and about a year ago BioWare Edmonton had to step in and too k control back to fix it up asap). Its amazing how inept Bioware are nowadays. I guess Mass Effect Andromeda is what happens when all the people and all the talent who actually know what they're doing leave the company/and or the project. Leaving only bottom of the barrel, Z-list hacks and inexperienced interns to carry on with making the game. It shows, boy does it show in the final product we're getting here. So much squandered potential once again with Mass Effect, makes me sad.

I played it to the very end of this trial origin edition and I had so much fun actually... Don't know why people are so sceptical.

How different is this game in contrast to Me3?

There are some sweet nods for old ME players.

600 years has passed: Alec Ryder "Things can't have changed!!!!" I had to fucking face palm. Watching Angry Joe's stream. Holy hell the voice acting is bad. The writing is pretty meh too so far.

And most are looking to rip into Bioware anyway. It's been clear for some time that ME:A was always going to have a lot of negativity around it no matter its quality. 

Monday we're going to have an overall idea regarding the game's quality, we should calm our titties until then.

Huh?  I could have swore he said "things could have changed". 

In the lore codex for mass effect ftl travel it says there is no time dilation at all. 

One thing I would like to add is that Cora and Liam are already leagues ahead of the two initial squadmates in ME1, one isn't an annoying space racist, and the other also doesn't have the same barebones depth Henry Cavill's acting has. Thank the Maker for those two.