How are you enjoying the game so far?

One thing to keep in mind is: everyone's opinion varies.

Personally, I am loving the game. The new running, shooting, jogging and even the cover and omni tool interaction animations are pretty amazing.
That said, there are bugs, facial animations are lacking at times. And the lack of a storage system can be off putting.

But I still love it. It made me laugh at times. It made me sad or worried- heck even a little anxious/excited at other times.
It was a nice ride, but doesn't have a big ending to it. But rather a "watch, what's to come" feel to the ending. Which I actually liked.

Our adventures in Andromeda seem to have only just begun.

That feeling comes from the fact that you saw how your choices resolved themselves in the next game. A dead or alive Council didn't change much about ME1 but it did change a lot about ME2.

Giving the Krogan the remnant core or not affects the number of settlements you can have, the number of planets you can get to 100% viability, the people who show up to help at the end. This one decision makes a much bigger difference to MEA than all of the decisions in ME1 affected ME1.

No it didn't. Plot played out exactly the same anyway the only things that changed was you had Coucilor Airquotes going: "ah yes, "Reapers"... We have dismissed that claim because i play the role of the stereotypical-condecending-republican in a disaster movie" instead of the human council screwing you over. Also some mentions from NPC's like shopkeepers and Punchingbag Journalist but besides the game sort of aknowledging your choice, it didn't affect diddly squat.

It's because they did a better job putting up their smoke and mirrors, but besides a few things like what you did with the Genophage most of your "major" choices never actually had any affect on the plot. Playing through the game your first time  i thought it mattered but come ME2 it was clear that they didn't.
Haven't completed this game yet so can say much about it other than it just sounds like more of the same but with worse writers.

The glitches aside, I'm really enjoying it.

I wasn't convinced about the combat at first, but now I'm sold. It's even tempted me to look beyond my near-exclusive use of adept/sniper rifle setup. Tech and shotguns are getting much more of a look in than they ever did in the trilogy!

The main negative for me is the open world nature of planet exploration. It's a bit false, it's a bit repetitive and ultimately it slows down the main story considerably if you let it. Personally, for the next game, I'd rather that they just went with a number of hubs instead.

They mattered greatly from game to game - here they just don't matter at all, you're just pathfinding along a straight road.  Biggest deterrent for me with this game - writing is a close second.  Those two things bug me more than the animations, I could get over those if the story/writing/choices were any good.

Right, and in the OT we're just Spectre-ing along a straight road to the star child.

Sure, the decisions in ME1 impacted ME2 which in turn impacted ME3, but in the end NONE of it made any real difference.

We don't even know how the decisions made in MEA may impact future game installments, if they even bother to continue on with the Andromeda arc, so how can we even make that judgement anyway?

Until MEA has another couple of games under it's belt to see how the decisions truly play out I just can't get on board with saying that the decisions in MEA matter any more or less than they did in the OT.

Wow, I did not expect this many responses. Thank you everyone for replying. I hope you see this message. I really appreciate all your insight and just wanted to let you all know, I read through all your posts. Just a few things; absolutely opinions will differ from each and everyone of you, however, I wanted to see what the general community thought and had to say.

I just bought the game because patch 1.05 is live and I want me some intergalactic love So heres to enjoying ME:A.

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I'm still on my first playthrough - I like to take things real slow. Now have three planets on 100% viability, and am wearing rank 2 N7 armor, a rank 4 Revenant, and a rank 4 Black Widow. My Ryder is level 27.

The optimistic-but-mixed feelings I had in the early stages of the game have evaporated - indeed this occurred well before the patch. The patch doesn't matter much, as I didn't really have many problems to begin with, and experienced only very minor, superficial bugs.

I can honestly say that I'm absolutely loving the game right now, to the extent that I'm filled with impatience to get home from work and get it fired up. I can't wait to get back into Ryder's boots once again.

And anyone thinks I'm some kind of gushing Bioware fanboy, incapable of finding fault with their products should have checked out some of my scathing reviews of some of their other releases back on the old BSN, and my very mixed views views on Dragon Age Inquisition (only Bioware title I had to physically force myself to complete) written on this forum.

To my mind, Andromeda gives me pretty much everything I want in a game. Sure there's lots of flaws, sure it could have been better in many areas, and sure I get very frustrated with the gameplay sometimes, but it's also a deep, rich complex game. All the dumbing down issues that marred ME3 have been dealt with. I love the deep crafting system, I love the combat, which is action-packed and frantic. The story doesn't appear to be anything breathtakingly original, but it's still interesting, and fun to play through - and even the side quests are (mostly) interesting and fun - a far cry from the endless fetch quests of ME3 and Inquisition.

I can even forgive the lack of quicksave, though I wish there was one.


They've basically given me what I want in a videogame, and so I'm pretty happy. The fact that so many others - including professional reviewers effectively tarnished the title by slating the game to hell; purely on the basis of a few bugs, and wonky animations strikes me as almost malicious.