ME:A MP - Worth The Purchase?

TW3 is from years ago, no one that plays these games wouldn't have bought it by now. It's old news.

So best buy the new shiny.

Buy it when EA and BW solve the constant CTD and Disconnects........

Good to see you Jack and I assume into the spirits....

If you rely on PUGS, I'd get it now: the player base who loved ME3 have already bought it and will be out of bronze if you wait to get it, and nothing about the game encourages SP folks to play the MP, so late adopters probably won't make a second wave.

If you have friends or make them easily, I'd wait to see what balance changes they make. ME3 was rough at the get-go but got considerably better. If they balance as well as they did for ME3, and you can make most of a group on your own, then there's some potential for this game.

I don't like it at all: the environments are too tight, the cooldowns are too long, and the movement sucks. And they took out reave and left in pull, which is just a gigantic wtf moment in a game full of them. Also, gating character development through RNG in addition to manifest maxing just makes everything feels endlessly underpowered. Finally, there are very few good design decisions that I've noticed in the game, and I'm not really confident that these guys can make good decisions with this game.

I'm not saying the game simply sucks; clearly some folks are really enjoying it, and managing to extract is a bit of a thrill. That said, I power up the highly-polished Warframe instead of this almost every time.

I'll take your gauntlets.

Andromeda since I don't care for the Witcher 3. You can't change your combat play style or change his look. 

witcher 3 just on the case that all the fetch quests have story to them. good amount of game play hours.

As someone who has been gifted a copy, but also bought 2 extra copies (for modding/research purposes), don't bother. I haven't fired up multiplayer in 2 days (am already APEX 5k rating and soloed gold) because of how boring it gets. The combat is pretty decent (although clunky/unpolished, poor execution but great ideas), but... there's no content. Once you've played all the maps, you've played the whole thing. There's no physical progression, once you camp a spot, you "master" that map forever. It's just so empty. At least in DAIMP, you'd progress through doors everytime you'd finish a wave, here, you just camp the same spot for 15 minutes, clear waves and finish the mission. Grind and repeat. No variety.

You took it right out of my mind - just when I was playing today I was thinking "hey, this movement and combat style really reminds me on Warframe. Except that Warframe does it much better." And I got burned out on Warframe long ago, much earlier than I did on ME3 - I would still play ME3 today but I'm done with Warframe. And I got burned out on MEA in the first week.

And, like, it's funny how much of a downgrade the MEAMP seems, it really is more like Warframe now - hell, even the Kett design principles are way too similiar to Grineer. They really remind me on Grineer so much, from their physiology, environments all down to weapons. And they are both so similar now that I'd almost rather play Warframe where I'd get so much more content and variety out of it compared to what we get in MEA. I always prefered ME3 over Warframe because the combat style was more down to the ground, and all powers and weapons felt a lot more impactful. They're just taking a step back now with that, with things that you mentioned.

The truth? I think I'm going to start playing ME3 soon again.

Because the combat sucks in the Witcher 3. Good story, well done side missions, but sleep inducing combat.

I haven't played the game yet but I did see a couple reviews and gameplays and while it seems like a fun game, compared to the original fun series that was Mass Effect, this one seems rather uninspired and generic to me.

For one thing, the facial animations seemed to have as much subtlety to them as the ones from a 90's arcade shooter. I'm also heavily disappointed in the apparent lack of any alien species that is truly different especially given that we're going to an entirely new galaxy. Penguinz0 did a review that I find sums it up pretty well for the SP;



As for the MP, there's the rather disturbing absence of both the High Lord Claymore as well as the Krogan Backhand of Justice! Nah ah, no bueno, no bang!

Also, send me socks. 

Yes, The Doggo attacks make it worth it. Now, do you have an Australian hat?