I just finished Movie Night

It's not a bad scene per se, comparable with 'tavern cards night' in DAI, I think. Not terrible, somewhat cheesy, but ok and enjoyable. Some parts were fun.

What makes it feel worse are all the preparations & anticipation building. It should have had MUCH less stages, and something must be done with the timing. I mean - after 90 hours of waiting (in my case, approximate playtime from the first step) and so many efforts it's normal to expect something GRAND, yeah? Like a complex Citadel-party-like scenario no less. But all we get is ~2 minutes with little to none variations, commonly accompanied by the final model spawning bug (in my case Liam was holding the 'stealthed' sisRyder, I've seen peoiple mentioning wrong and\or invisible LIs and other glitches).

MN would probably have worked much better as a 'surprise party' (same as in DAI), with the 'fetch' dialogues reworked into the main part (e.g. Vetra talking about the smuggled popcorn). First 'fetch-steps' seemed like a nice touch, but by the end it became annoying, and I'm not sure that any of it actually makes the difference (e.g. it's technically impossible to have an 'awful' party with poor snacks and 'wrong' movie).

I could also live without SO many easter-eggs. Ryder quoting Han Solo (with Liam obviously recognizing the source) was one thing, 8th 'biotics awakening' episode and 'rare unedited versions with no crappy hanar' were like a bit too much. Ok, I get, it, BW love SW (and are waiting for the 'last guardianjedi')

I feel the same way. It's easy to explain that away with the trilogy building such a bond between your player and the returning characters, that they pale n comparison. But it's not that easy with DA:I. Total new player, totally new crew. If you haven't played DA:II, such as me, you didn't even meet Varric before. Leiliana also seems different to what she has been in DA:O. And yet they're all interesting and feel like persons you want to get to know.

In MEA only Peebee and Drak interested me in the same way. With Drak probably because I always liked the Krogan. Vetra isn't a credible replacement for Garrus, and, minor detail, she and her sister's voices bug me to no end. They're just human females dressed up as Turians. That kills whatever immersion they offer. I don't think the character writers did as good a job as they did with DA:I. I leave the trilogy out of comparison, since there might be an unfair element of nostalgia on my part.

Btw, I just played the scene for the second time. And for the second time I ended up with an invisible Ryder. Maybe that's an additional reason why I can't enjoy movie night as much as others seem to do. Fix that ASAP, I'd like to tell the devs. Or at least tell us what's making this happen.

Interestingly, doing an NG+ run and having movie night early on without having to do the fetch quests for the companions, without having an LI either, so far, it's the first time my Ryder didn't disappear.

I've not cringed that hard in years.

I don't know what I find worse: cheesy dialogue/acting or intentionally cheesy dialogue/acting. It also doesn't help that the player disappears if the player has a love interest, but its completely fine without one (on new game +). It's like BioWare never tested this game. How in the hell could a "triple A" developer just let that slip by?    

I'm still waiting half a year before i replay the game because as far as I'm concerned I was playing a beta build

It's like some of you people in this thread have never met new colleagues or people and had a night off with them.

You don't have to be best friends or have a great bond to watch a movie together. A simple movie night is a nice stepping stone for the crew and Ryder to develop said bonds, besides all the action and over the top situations they get themselves into.

Comparing this to Citadel DLC is a bit dumb to be honest. Movie night is one nice moment in one game, Citadel was a separate DLC, meant as a sendoff to the characters with met during 3 whole games.

Andromeda certainly has it's weak points and the glitches that accompany Movie night, i will not defend, but comparing relationships that developed over the course of a trilogy to those that have only had a chance to start developing in one game is not fair or honest.

A "simple" movie night? Dude, Liam himself complains it's not.

Meeting Drack for a night out in Kadara Port is more like what you're describing.

I didn't dislike movie night per say, it was good for what it was trying to accomplish and I did enjoy the scene itself. However I think it was ruined a bit for me by all the build up for it. I distinctly remember a point, I think it was when I was getting Lexi her wine or w/e and I realized this was like the sixth or seventh fetch quest I had done for this movie night. And I had the thought of, "this movie night better be fucking amazing to justify all these extra trips to kadara/aya/etc."

I think another thing that made it fall a bit short for me was how little interaction the crew actually had with each other. It was mainly just shots of them sitting around watching the movie. Drack wanting to fast forward to explosions was the only instance of one of the crew actually making an impact on the scene that I can recall.

Compared to the DAI card game there was both less player input and less interaction between the characters in the scene. And while they both accomplished the same thing, a relaxed team bonding scene, the DAI card game was far more memorable and left me with a lot more warm fuzzy feelings than movie night.

It was actually a Drack who did not want to fast-forward. It was Liam's idea, and Drack said, "You can't just skip parts of the movie," or somesuch. Sensible old guy, he is.

I can understand the fetching becoming annoying. I never made an extra trip to get a supply, as I recall. I just picked them up as I was in the neighborhood, so to speak. That approach makes all quests easier and more tolerable, in my experience.

What bugged me most about the quest is that Liam says tensions are high, nearly at crisis point and they need some r&r and team bonding, but it doesn't actually happen till near the end of the damn game...