'I dislike or hate the game' (General feedback)

How is humor in a game teeny? Do you consider uncharted games or the new Star Trek movies or guardians of the galaxy to be teeny? Thank god it's not like the old games

Uncharted keeps its jokes in the right area between lighthearted and mature.

Andromeda has this really Saturday morning cartoon vibe at times, like after Eos when the crew is assembled for the first time and they go

"Hey we accomplished a lot of things today. We got into a vault"
"...and didn't get killed".
"Bumped into the Kett"
"...didn't get killed"
"Aaand, we settled our first outpost!"

It's really child-friendly writing.

I've landed on the icy planet (Havarl? or Vaeld?), and by this stage of the game I don't even read the subtitle or wait for the quest giver to finish speaking before saying "Yep, I'll collect whatever it is you want, just put it on my map, thanks". Skip, skip, skip. The faces and names of the quest givers are interchangeable, the quests are forgettable, only blips on the map to 'do'. Is this burn-out? Should I take some time off to find some empathy so I can give a sh1t again?

Ryder (when the architect worm-thing rose from the ground): "Whoa, what is that thing?"
Cora : "Big, really big."
Me: *Facepalm*

That's it, Cora, you're not coming with me anymore. Stay with Liam in the darkest, dankest corner of the Tempest and save me from your banal dialogues and botox-face.

I'll throw my hat in, I guess.

I don't hate the game, or even dislike it. It's more fair to say I'm disappointed. Let's start with the good. The combat, the exploration (the worlds are for the most part beautiful), and the Ryder character. I was genuinely and pleasantly surprised how much I liked the main character in this game.

Plot

There's nothing particularly bad about the plot per se, but nothing to write home about either. With all the promises of making ME:A more like ME1 I assumed they also meant a strong plot. Nope. Something-something mysterious powerful alien race. And bad guys who happen to look like humans so you could shoot more humanoid enemies. For when you're not straight up murdering large groups of Milky Way races who came with you to Andromeda.

The biggest problem for me was how utterly safe and predictable the plot is. There's so much we could have had with a jump to the new galaxy, but here we are, shooting not only Milky Way humanoids but also Andromeda humanoids because... that's what sells, I guess?

The best parts of the story are actually hidden, you have to dig for them in optional missions, and some exist only in text. Why? Was Bioware afraid that their audience lacks the necessary intelligence and attention-span to appreciate something actually thoughtful? Because actually thoughtful writing exists in this game. The thing is, you have to sift through boring MMO quests to get to it. And what we're shown front-and-center instead is a "snarky young adult adventure... in spaaaace."

Almost all the characters are juvenile

No, saying "they're young" or "they're not all military like Shepard" doesn't excuse this. Remember Tali? That young adult on her coming-of-age quest who acted more mature than just about everyone on the Tempest? I don't want everyone to be "an adult." I'd just like to have some adult characters involved in all this. So I don't feel like I'm playing a simulation of what happens when parents go away for a weekend.

Voice casting

For the most part, the VAs did a good job with the material they were given. Especially Scott's VA. The issue seems to be that they recorded their lines completely out of context, resulting in some odd deliveries.

Then there's the odd casting of some alien races. For example... what is going on with Morda? It's uncanny how mismatched that voice is for that character. I laughed out loud in disbelief when she threw that "you bet we are" sass at the player. Meeeeeeoow! Why is this centuries-old KROGAN LEADER sassing me using contemporary human idioms? Who wrote this? Why does Morda sound like a snarky teen? Compare to how authoritative Urdnot Bakara sounded like in ME3.

Tied to the above... Dialogue

I feel like there isn't much to be said about it at this point. Not all dialogue is weak, but it is step below the original trilogy. This is one of the few things pretty much all reviewers agreed upon, too. I shouldn't have to add that the OT was praised for its dialogue.

Music

It ain't memorable.

The incomplete state of the game

From characters who just stand there, emotionless, with dead eyes while uttering emotionally charged lines... to characters cloning themselves... to falling through the environment... to invisible characters... to completely incompetent user interface design... to all asari except for PeeBee being a creepy clone... the list goes on.

Final verdict: a decent game, and a poor follow up to the original trilogy. Could be an 8/10 with enough bug fixes and polish.

Uncharted and Guardians dialogue isn't cringeworthy and on par with fan-fiction - which a lot of the dialogue is in Andromeda.  That's why it feels like high-school level.  Even the ideas are rehashed - Remnant tech? C'mon, put some effort in, Bioware.  Having a generic big-bad antagonist is also pretty weak.  So much squandered potential with the new setting and all.

I'm ~35 hours into the game, and, tbh, there's a lot to love about it, but:

-Fuck the save system, fuck it very much. Tried to do the Kett HQ on Eos, after turning off those alarms (annoying af), got to the command center and died. Last save was the one before the whole "turn off alarms" section, fuck this shit, i'm out to do some mining.

-Voeld vault bugged out, so i had to do the last section 4-5 times because i couldn't interact with the console (apparently there were still some enemies around eventhough i killed them all) and enemies respawn each time you leave that platform and get back.

-Placing all the mining drones and still have that one pixel left where you can place one more but good luck finding the little shit

-Prodromos is full of invisible people talking.

tbc...

Here's what I don't like (I'm level 18 and currently exploring Voeld):

- Angara are so human-like. Their culture, the way they talk, their relationships, behavior, everything - there's nothing different about them except their appearance. This really is disappointing. I was expecting to find something new and exciting in Andromeda, something never seen before, but it seems like more of just the same. They even seem to be at the exact same place as the Milky Way species culturally.

- Companions are all nice and get along famously. There's no conflict, no differing personalities, nothing. Pelessaria and Jaal maybe are little different than others, but seems like all the rest have all been seen before. Cora is a tough woman with hidden softer side, Liam is Mister Nice Guy, Vetra is your typical rogue with heart of gold, Drack is just like all the other krogan... Not that they are bad, but I don't find any of them particularly interesting and was perhaps hoping for something different.

- CC is obviously one of the worst things about the game.

- NPC's. Animations aren't perfect and seems like at least 90% of the human NPC's are non-white. That combined with the skewed CC raises some questions. Beside that I just don't feel connection to the major NPC's. I hear their stories, but their faces don't convey any emotion and that makes me lose interest a little bit.

- Dialogue. I wish I had more control over Ryder's personality. More than 2 dialogue options should be available at all times. Ryder's dialogue makes it seem like she cares very much about everything but what if I want to play a character who doesn't care so much about the Initiative and is there mainly for her own reasons? Really annoyed by the lack of options at times. I miss the renegade dialogue options.

- So far the story itself and Ryder's role in it isn't very interesting or exciting.

- No companion customization. There are so many nice armor designs too bad I can't make my companions wear them since obviously I have no use for all of them myself. Same with weapons.

- Wish there were more than three casual outfits though that is a minor complaint.

I know I'm feeding the trolls, but whether or not a game has replay value is a personal opinion and nothing more.  For me, this game has zero replay value.  I have played it all the way through and I had to force myself to even login the last 1/3 of the game.  It has it's moments where it shines, but those are too few.  For me, the writing, story, and characters are the worst of the series.  I don't care what the combat is like, since that isn't why I buy Bioware games.

The animation glitches really don't bother me all that much, but the lifeless faces and those eyes, just kill the immersion for me along with the various shades if paragon choices you get with your Ryder for conversations.  More often than not your only getting two chocies on the wheel.  I just stated ME3 again as part of another OT play-through and in most convos, you get more than 2 choices.  This game has more dialogue, but the previous games dialogue had more consequences for those choices so more meaning for me.

I could go on and on, but won't.  Like I said, it's subjective as to whether or not a game has replay value.  I'm guess since your still trolling here, that you must not be enjoying MEA that much either....

lol just LOOOOOOOL still laughing my ass off!!!

Every negative aspect of the game has pretty much been laid bare, The game it self needed to be pretty much redone and it needs ALOT of polish before it hit the shelves but as i said before.

It toke bioware 5 years to make this game 5 not 2 or 3 but 5!!! and it comes out like THIS! Shamefull cannot even begind to descripe how this game is at its current state.

This is surpose to be a AAA game the higest standart there is.....this dosent even deserve a 1 A, The bottom just fell off.

As for Bioware they spendt 40 mil on it but in reality i think they spendt only 25 and gave them selves a bonus or something, maybe they threw a big party a really BIG party!

But what i think is the most hurtfull here is that the company who gave us ME1 to ME3 are the same 1 who gave us this hollow out shamefull display of a ME game.
Where the old Mass Effect games gave us great immersion and a story every1 feelt the ups and downs of shepard and his friends with sound and music even a movie couldent do better here there is no immersion how could there be when you cant relate to the ppl of the story when there faces/bodies are twisting out of shape or there eyes are rolling into the back of their heads or that you just cant take the serius because of the dialog.

And they demand full AAA game price for it.......................

It's not a flaw considering the genre. ME has always been a cosmic opera. It's not a real Sci-Fi though first ME has some good Sci-Fi elements.