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

I like the game. There's a ton of potential, especially with the storylines that were left open at the end of the game. Especially looking forward to . That'll be awesome.

Pair Liam and Vetra while driving the Nomad around to get banter... Too nice, lol.

While I think the criticisms of ME:A are legitimate (if sometimes overstated), the bottom line is that I had fun. This game made me laugh. It made me feel for my companions. It made me care about the new galaxy I was in. It made me want to see what was over that next horizon. It made me stand there like an idiot for five minutes, admiring the beauty of space. It even let me chuck swarms of robots at enemies while I ran around like an idiot

It needed more time for polish, and the negatives are serious enough to detract from the whole. (Wonky facial animations and bizarre save system are up there in problems for me.) But hey, I already sunk 90+ hours into it! I hope the developers can resolve some of the issues, because the heart of this game is great.

I love Kadara. So far my favorite place in the game. Lots of GREAT, interesting characters and even Ryder's dialogue options are pretty good here!

Liam's loyalty mission was pretty good as well. Being able to make that choice and argue with Liam about it at the end in particular. Looking forward to other characters loyalty missions now.

Man, I could nonstop listen to the galaxy map theme for days, it's really facing Uncharted Worlds for me.

Good story that has potential.

Almost unbearable gameplay.

I'm on my second playthrough so obviously there are many things that I like about it. The loyalty missions are really fun, the Kett bases are fun. I'm level 64 and switching out powers keeps it interesting, trying out different builds. It has beautiful environments. There are some funny casual dialogues that go on when driving around. There are some funny dialogues. But it's flawed in a bunch of little ways that kind of add up. It really needed to be edited down. Some of the stuff is just a waste of time, some small missions have glitched so that I couldn't finish them. Some of the things you have to do to get to the loyalty missions are boring pains in the buttoks.Like Cora's mission, tracing down signals, YAWN. Some missions are structured in obnoxious ways, go to this planet, go the that planet, go back to this planet. Time wasting bs, that I consider beyond unnecessary.The worst glitch that doesn't happen every time but occasionally is that if you die in battle the game won't go to a continue screen. Your character just lays there while squad mates continue to to fight. You have to restart the game. The second time around is better because you can line up the quests better and minimize some of the tedious going back and forth. All in all though it's fun. First time I did 87% of the game. This time I'm not going to do as many bs tasks, and stick to the fun stuff. It's well worth the money I spent on it , to me the combat is a blast and I love the battle maps.

Also if you mess around with making a custom character enough, you can end up with a pretty decent looking female. First time I did default, this time I messed around for 30 mins or so and I'm pleased with result, looks good (not great, good) in game. I'm really picky so that says something.

Every next planet is like my favorite planet. Ah, I just started Kadara... after a flurry of emails and chatting with the crew.

That's probably what really makes Andromeda stand out - how well the interactions are mixed into the content. So far, like 30+ hours in, and not a single stretch of the game where characters were just mules with guns. Well, they don't share the inventory, so they are not really mules, but you know. Bots. Instead I feel their investment into the process.

I found Gil's notes on poker, and immediately after - an e-mail telling me it is a ruse... how cool is that?

And, I finally got to refuse to drink, lol. She's growing!

I am also getting a vibe that the game suggests, but not forces best comps for each planet, or maybe I am just RP it myself, and I appreciate it.

To be honest, as much as I miss my male Quarian I always wanted, I like that the crew is so intimately small, because it is easy to get to know everyone.

Every time you deconstruct or destroy something, there'd be a pop-up to basically ask if you are sure. If deconstructing, it says deconstruct and lists what you'd gain. If destroying, it says destroy and lists nothing. I thought that was a fine enough way of doing it. Granted, I'm from a time where games tended to either be incredibly vague, provide no help or were so littered with hints you never left the tutorial no matter how far you got in the game.

Having to unequip was a bit of an annoyance, though, but I guess that was because there wasn't a suit underneath armor that could show up if your character was unequipped like there is in Dragon Age: Inquisition.  

Love? No. Like? Yeah I suppose. I had fun (just finished my first play through last night), but the game certainly isn't without its faults. I thought the story was decent enough, much of it is terribly predictable, but that is forgivable. The companions aside from Liam I liked, they are relatable and believable enough. Liam just really got on my nerves but I suppose not all of them are going to gel with every player. Vetra was the only one I would say I really liked. The others are just kinda "yeah they are okay I guess". They don't really stand out or impact me they way characters like Wrex, Liara, Garrus and Tali did in ME1.

I enjoyed the open world aspects and the Nomad was fun. Combat was really smooth and well done though I don't like the 3 powers restriction. It would have worked if they didn't all go on cooldown when switching profiles, about halfway through the game I respeced to put all my points in 3 actives powers and passives and just ignored the profiles for the most part.

Plenty of what I would call technical issues. Bugs, yeah I had them. Usually minor things, buggy animations, enemies in terrain that sort of thing. My biggest complaints would be the CC and face/body models.

Lets face it the CC is just bad. You can't really make a unique player character anymore and the presets given are, well, not attractive. The skin colors are all far too dark, the hair colors are all too 'neon' and using a CC character turns Alec into some kind of humanoid monstrosity. I feel like we would have been better off given only the default Ryders and allowed to just change hairstyle, hair/eye colors, facial hair, and makeup. I can understand not wanting to change the defaults facial geometry (sort of) but at least let us change their cosmetic attributes. If they had done that I wouldn't have needed the CC presets, but they didn't and I do and the CC presets are horrendous so I can't really use them either. Just bad all around.

The one thing that constantly annoyed me and brought me out of the experience was the human bodies though. They all look like 25% of their legs are missing, they have weird horrible postures, and the animations are jarring (I dunno exactly how to describe it they just don't look natural when in motion). Don't get me started on the giant dirty man hands on the female characters...

All in all, MEA was enjoyable. Needed a few more months of polish, bug squishing, and CC design but it was a solid 6.5 or 7/10. Not what I expect from Bioware though, this was definitely not the best I have seen out of them but it is a "just good enough" start for them to build a better MEA2 off of.

So far I've managed to avoid getting grabbed when I go toe to toe with those things. I biotic blink through them, fire and rinse repeat, like some kind of magical matador. Then when his health is just a sliver left, I charge+nova his space gorilla ass.