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

Objectively?

...... nah, I'll pass. I can't even work up any decent snark for this one.

Objective > "I think" > air of hyperbole.

Seems legit!

Think of it as an homage! 

$0.07 has been deposited into your EA account!!

I also can't stand the Ryders - snarky tumblr personalities are brutal. I'd prefer a silent protagonist to them.

The Nomad is garbage. Bring back the damn MAKO already, at least it could go up an incline greater than 20 degrees and had guns.

Shouldn't have to upgrade a QoL feature. 

The title might sound like a post about my issues with the game, but it's really about what I think you could have done better to give your audience a better experience. 

1. Mining -1

It's tedious and dull to the point where I think it's serves no other purpose to the player than to delay, which never works as a game concept. It reminds a little of MMO gathering, which i loath deep into my core and I would never put it into a singleplayer game. 

2. The Scanner / Sam -1 

Missed opportunity and used in an entirely wrong way. It's about oversaturation, where you litterally scan everything. It makes it tedious once again and it gives no value to the game other than serving to annoy the player that they have to pull out the scanner in every area.


3. Dialogue -1 

Infected with conceptions of our own real world problems. Let me tell you a secret, people dont play games to educate themselves about the problems in the real world.

Every time I spoke with Gil or Jill I almost threw up in my mouth. Its moralising for the sake of moralising.

There are many instances where Ryder would say something because it serves the purpose of educating the people about the political views that the writers/developers has. It continues through the game in every conversation.

The only companion i found slightly amusing was Drack, but only in a midget with a chainsaw kinda way. 

4. The space cutscenes OMFG!!! -1

There is a reason they only had very little space flight cutscenes in the previous Mass Effect games. It's because sitting and waiting for you to go to a new system quickly becomes boring when you have to see it for the hundred time.

Yes you can TAB when you are inside a system, but I would honestly rather see a loading screen.


5. Combat is good but far to simple -1

Combat is very bizar in a way its very good and in other ways its very bad. Why can't we control companions anymore?  

3 skills and no option to control companion skills seems to simple.

The facebook game inside the game -1 

Strike teams should be thrown away, so should any multiplayer involvement in the singleplayer. Its a shit feature that serves no other purpose than to make people install apps on their phones to they can feel like they are achieving something when they send their strike teams. 

Story lacks delivery and it becomes pointless -1 

Fire every writer from the ME:A team because they can't write for shit. There is a reason everything seems so shallow in ME:A and it starts with bad writers. The story doesn't establish any character well. Even the the main character seems stupid most of the time a person that has to ask his retard helper SAM because even the most simple task is beyond him. 

By the end of the game I hated every single character in the game. Those I could remember anyway. 

It's like Bioware told themselves that ofcourse they are gonna make atleast 3 games in this new trilogy and therefore only gave 33,33% effort. Focus on what you are doing today and not what you are doing tomorrow or you risk pissing off your fans.


So my final score of ME:A becomes 3/10. Harsh I know, but too many things bug me. 

The strike team thing is just nitpicking and can easily be ignored. It literally has no ties to the single player unless you want extra materials and weapons.

Mining has been tedious in every single ME game to date. In one way or another. Here is a tip, skip it. You have that option.

Scanner added an interesting new element, I liked when I could see the past and do the crime solving ones. It was overly relied upon and should have been treated as one of several tools.

SAM is a critical plot device. No less annoying then EDI was in ME2 or ME3. I actually like the under riding concept a lot more interesting.

Dialogue - wasn't really a critic so much as another anti-gay rant>

The Space Cut Scenes are gorgeous compared to the previous games which were the same one repeated over and over and over again. And given the patch lets you skip them now, a dead issue.

Combat is miles ahead of all 3 previous games.

Strike Teams are optional and a fun element for those that like to gather resources and build armor and weapons. For others they can raise cash through the game and buy stuff and skip this completely.

Story was excellent, it came together well, did what all good Bioware games do and make you curious about stuff that will play out in future installments, introduced diverse and intresting characters and let you make decisions.

This is a 7-8/10 game easy. But then again, none of these things are why you really hate this game.

You lost all credibility with me when you began your anti gay rant.

Bye, Felicia.

- skip mining

- don't do strike teams

- don't talk to Gil or Jill

Seems easy enough, then we'd be spared this post.