'I like or love the game' (General feedback)

Over the years I've played my share of crappy games, with awful graphics, laughable story and CC's that allowed you to only pick your gender and/or race. I'm only 2 hours into the game (due to RL), and I've managed to get killed in every single Kett encounter so far (on the easy mode no less; yes, I know...), but I am enjoying my pants off in this game. Is the game perfect? No. Does it have faults? Yes. Do they it stop it from being enjoyable? I don't think so. The game certainly does not deserve the level of vitriol out there. To criticize is easy. Any fool can do it.

Great game so far. Loving it. Revilling in it. This game got the sickest burn in the history of sick burns.

same here game is fantastic.

Even with low expectations, I'm not enjoying myself as much as I wanted. THe gameplay is pretty solid, but the writing is so bad. People can yell "Bad animations! Bad animations!" all they want, but all that would've been forgiven, if the story had at least been good. We forgave ME1's combat because we loved the story.

The story in Andromeda is just....bad. I'm sorry but it is. It's generic and worst yet, it's boring. I've been thinking so much about Mass Effect 1-3. All the amazing characters we met, the great directing, the situations, the choices, the mystery, the music, all of it was top notch. It felt like a real cinematic experience. Andromeda feels like a generic sci fi story, with a Mass Effect paint job over it. I would've embraced every bad animation, every glitch, every ounce of bad UI design with wide open arms, if only the story of the game had been solid. And it's NOT guys. It's just not.

It's alright so far.

36 hours in, love it, way better than expected.

- Was able to make a character that I like without much hassle despite the CC shortcomings
- Story is shaping up quite nicely at this point
- combat is fun, three power limit does not concern me
(Charge ALL THE THINGS - turned down difficulty to Hardcore because I am ill atm, going for Insanity again asap)
- Sidequests are actually really well done, some straightforward ones, lots with nice twists, amount is just right for my taste
- game is friggin' HUGE, geez
- looks really nice, runs very well on PC
(2560 x 1080, everything Ultra except textures on High, Motion blur off, my system is an old I5 3.3Ghz, 16GB RAM DDR3, GTX 970, SSD, Win10)

the bad stuff:
- dead eyes/facial animations on humans are real bad 80% of the time, yeah (other races look a lot better)
- super bright lighting in a lot of places for conversations does not help, washed out colors and hard shadows
- no manual save during priority missions, that was a pita in the beginning
(level 23 now, character build almost complete, not really dying anymore)

Nope. So far in terms of gameplay, combat, graphics, and RPG elements, Its the best game in the series. You just have to get past about 10-15 hours before it really starts opening up.

Multiplayer alone makes it a great game. I'm really questioning the reviewers judgement. There are plenty of games that got 9/10s and were more buggy/unpolished than this game

I'm absolutely loving it!

Pretty much every Bethesda RPG game. Hell even Red Dead Remdemption was full of bugs when it first released.

Oh yeah, baby. ME1 was especially egregious since it came out after Gears of War set the standard for TPS gameplay, and it was still a massive (pun not intended) success.


I feel you, man. I've been madly in love with this franchise since ME1 and it really hurts to see it being mishandled like this.

You do realize those games made up for their bugs by having good gameplay, and in the case of RDR, a very well-written story?

ME:A got 74 on Metacritic not just because of technical issues but also because of uninspired writing and poor gameplay.

Metacritic is an aggregate site, it doesn't make any reviews of its own.

And gameplay is more than the combat, bub.