Andromeda biggest weakness

I have only played 20 hours of single player or so, but I agree that the game feels quite soulless and bland. The combat and the upgrade system with constantly new weapons, mods skills and so on makes the game quite entertaining as there is always something new to try in combat. However the story and single player experience all in all feels very much like a Michael Bay movie, it is a decent production for the masses but shallow and unengaging.

I guess I´m mostly disapointed because it feels like there was so much opportunity here for a great story. They set themselves up with a blank canvas, humanity travels to a completely new galaxy and it takes like 30 seconds after humans have encountered a new alien race before you start shooting at the evil aliens.

In my opinion they could have taken it slower.
Humans meets the Kett, this first encounter is a big thing, humans and Kett have a suspicious attitude towards each other. An hour or so after the first encounter with the Kett the humans and Kett will inevitably be at war, but depending on your actions leading up to that point it could happen after 30 minutes with 30 minutes of warfare up to the 60 minute mark or after 60 minutes but with the last 30 minutes a bit scary with an uneasy tone as it dawns on you step by step that the Kett are only playing nice to kill you easier. Maybe add in a dimension that depending on how aggresively you play, i.e. did the Kett see you kill the inferior wildlife like nothing or did you try to take the peaceful route against inferior beings. And let that be a factor if you start going to war after 30 minutes or 60 minutes. The player can get a feeling that maybe humanity brought on the suspicion of the Kett by being showcasing us as agressive species.. it doesn´t need to matter that much and make the gameplay more complex in the long run. Just this small thing that your actions can lead to a different outcome in the next hour and that not everything is so black and white.

Well anyway. I am having fun with multiplayer right now, all action and upgrades with no story, I will see if I go back to the story later.

I know I saw this same comment in just about every review that came out around the time of the 10 hour trial.

I guess the intro to the kett on Habitat 7 was to get us to ask the question as to why are they shooting at us, which is pretty much answered by the time you get to the Nexus and then Eos.

I've been seeing a lot of comments about paralleling ME1 to MEA and it is kind of funny how the geth start shooting at the Normandy crew because they want the beacon whereas the kett start shooting at the pathfinder team to keep them away from the remnant monoliths.

So you were trolling me? And you're kind of trolling this thread as well, as it's a thread about what people think ME:A biggest weakness is - not a hugfest about how it gave you amazing feels.

Totally agree with OP - the main plot is just - soulless. It's like no passion went into making this game, it's just a bullet point list of Mass Effect features.

It's funny, I felt the same way with Mass Effect after I played the first game of the series.

It was a one and done kind of deal, moved on. Like Andromeda for me, i'm curious about the future, but i'm not wowed by it yet.

Mass Effect 2 "wowed" me, and 3 compounded it despite it's own flaws.

I have a feeling BioWare is going follow a Dragon Age Route with some self-contained story lines and overarching plot threads, and this leads into the bigger issue.

I said this weeks ago, a lot of people expected greatness from Andromeda, and instead we get "good" in an age where that is not good enough anymore. 

people usually start threads so other people can discuss the topics. Including if people have differing opinions. I have a differing opinion then the OP and I'd hope they'd welcome my input or would seek to understand my POV. If not then I'll likely bow out of the conversation.

Just out of interest, how do you compare it with the main plot of ME2?

They are one and the same, except ME2 did it better.

I´m just going to leave this here (spoiler alert if you haven´t played the witcher 3 already).

The story behind the Witcher 3s bloody baron quest:
kotaku.com/the-story-behind-the-witcher-3s-bloody-baron-quest-1736090893

I still now and then think of this quest and then I have to go in on youtube and watch clips of the botchling and the ladies of the woods.
One of the best quests in gaming history in my opinion and a bit of a contrast to the quests in MEA.

Of course it did, silly me.

No, it's like posting a bug thread, and then having fanboys like you say, "I didn't experience ANY bugs at all!"  It's not the appropriate place.  If the subject of a talk is about "How I survived getting Raped" it's rather annoying when you stand up and go, "Hey everyone I didn't get raped, or my rape experience wasn't that bad!"  Get it?

ME:A is a remake of ME2?