Did you love your 10 hours of MEA early access?

Yes it is bad. But the thing is whilst the most talked about aspect, the animations, although they are indeed awful and immersion breaking, are actually hardly the worst of the game's problems imo. To me this game is a mess in many more aspects, apsects that greatly effect ones enjoyment and matter far more than the facial animations. You've got to contend with...

.Fan fiction level, cringe af, tween, inane, Z-list hack writing.

.Badly delivered, stilted dialogue.

.Rehashed, reused, nonsensical, self contradicting and very contrived plot that lacks any new, interesting or refreshing takes on meaty political and cultral intrigue n exploration and richness one would expect of being set in such a epic, far off new setting with this large a scope. (Personal Thoughts: It all feels just feels a bit old hat imo. I was thinking whilst watching and now having played it myself.. Why even bother going to Andromeda to begin with then if its just the same shit we've been there and done that and got the t-shirt etc?. The same shit but only not as interesting because the characters are nowhere near as compelling. Of course we know why we're going there, but it all just feels a bit pointless to me. There's no good reason for the game to even be set here, and then they fail to actually take advantage of this new setting any way).

.Lore pretty much retconned/ignored and too much of what should be important info and questions just hand waved away

.Asking for way too much suspension of disbelief

.Poor world building

.MMO style fetch quests

.Too much asset reuse and even using assets found on image search, instead of creating their own

.Broken AI

.Tons of content but with no depth to it(wide as an ocean deep as a puddle syndrome) etc

The most damning thing for me though is that Mass Effect Andromeda it continues DA:I's singleplayer MMO structure, and that to me is a complete no go, as I feel like an MMO structure is just admitting defeat of single-player game design, showing that the player is just there for a streamlined grind. Its a design by committee feel to things. And it's a wrong formula to follow, especially so for Mass Effect. Honestly i cant believe how anybody at Bioware, all the interns and writers who cant write who made this game could be happy with the finished product they're putting out here for us. It decidedly does not cut the musturd in 2017, in a post Mass Effect 2, Fallout: New Vegas and post Witcher 3 world. Its just not good enough.

And tbh this is no longer Mass Effect to me, its something else entirely at this point. And its no longer something i find myself liking either. This will be a wait till its cheap buy for me. Im still gonna play at somepoint though, as large scale science fiction rpgs are not exactly in abundance but i wont be rushing out to buy it. I just have to admit that these games are not for me or my tastes anymore. Im not the audience Bioware/EA are aiming for and want with Mass Effect Andromeda.

No. No i did not. My in-depth post i made yesterday explains why...

So yeah thats my two cents.

I don't have any early access/time trial to try but from what I've seen while people have been vocal about the problems that there are in the game the overall vote is that its still pretty dam good.

While there are definitely some shortcomings that the game suffers from (a restrictive CC and awkward facial animations), I absolutely had a blast playing through my first 10 hours of Mass Effect Andromeda. In fact, it felt more like two hours at best, and I can't wait to get back into the swing of things and finish up work on Eos. I spent most of my time exploring every nook and cranny and scanning like a madman, so I didn't even finish the story that was available in the trial.

I am absolutely loving the new combat and traversal with the jump jet is fun and feels really good. I've been playing on Insanity and it's absolutely a blast and actually a challenge. My only minor complaint would be the stupidity of your squadmates, as they tend to have a propensity for suicidal actions. I also really feel that the Nomad suffers due to not having any weapons. It just seems like a missed opportunity I'm constantly reminded of every time I drive it.

Overall, I'm already addicted to this game and I can't wait to invest 100 of hours finding everything. I was also really impressed by how fast the load screens are! It's night and day from the nightmare loading of DAI.