The Witcher 3 and Mass Effect Andromeda thread

I Never saw him happier floating in the sky XD

you have....weird priorities. 

"Too long" is not really something I can fix by telling you more about it, I like long games but some people prefer them to be shorter. I did say earlier that if the side content is too much for you, you don't really have to do much of it. 

To be honest, I am not sure that Bioware should try to be more like the Witcher 3 or any other popular game, that always seems to go badly. 
Dragon Age Inquisition had big open maps specifically in an attempt to be like Skyrim, but those maps were either filled with the most basic of fetch quests or they had almost nothing at all in them. Andromeda attempted to copy the Witcher 3 with the Scanner and while the Witcher senses and how heavily most quests rely on them became tedious at times the scanner was even worse, even more tedious and even more over used. Everything great about the story telling in the Witcher 3 Bioware has done before in other games, I don't think that just because some of the devs left they are unable to ever do that again. Inquisition still had the cast of compelling core characters even if it did have massive issues with the plot. 

Witcher 3 has a huge world, but at least that world is beautiful and not empty, it has plenty of content. If bioware wants to make huge worlds they need to make a lot more content, and no I don't mean filler stuff. That is fine especially if it at least gives you loot you can use or something but it's not fine if it comes at the expense of other quest. Andromeda is actually a step in the right direction here, most planets had some form of major side plot and at least a few other quests that were interesting enough, some even had choices, cut scenes, consequences ect. I would still expect more for a world of that size though. Otherwise just make smaller maps people play Bioware games for the story, that should be the priority here. 

I only brought up the Pathfinder's "job" after Geralt's job was brought up as a negative. of course he's a Monster Hunter, that's it, and he breaks curses whenever he can.  No one is denying this. You can't get more simple than that.

Here's the issue I have with the Pathfinder job.

1. The Pathfinder does not find sustainable planets.  The planets were pre picked 600 years before arrival. 
2. The Pathfinder's job can't be to "create a path" to the planets because the Arks were set to reach the Nexus with a pilot at the helm, whose job it was to get the Ark there, not the pathfinder.
3. You can't say the Path Finder's job is to make the worlds viable, as that is based on Rem tech no one knew would be there.

At most, you could say a Pathfinder's job is to find a colony site.  Yet this is done by the Krogan, Nexus, and Exiles long before the first Pathfinder ever shows up. You could argue that Nexus failed without a Pathfinder, but their only issue was the environment and Kett. Two things the AI couldn't have foreseen prelaunch.  Without the Remtech vaults or Kett, Ryder's only job would be resolving colony problems behind a dome like a glorified deputy. 

Yep, I am



Actually it's mentioned more than once how the payments they get is needed to buy potions et al.  And these are one time use bottles.  Yeah, it's a game mechanic, but tied to the story and the job of a Witcher. 

I actually like the idea of weapons et al being made from the parts (research) the Nexus acquires.  They are in a new galaxy.  The only problem I have with it is not finishing the Nexus pre-launch.  That makes no sense. 


Another Edit: What I like about a Tower full of Mice is that the outcome is determined by the player that is outside of just getting a dialogue choice, meaning that if you are a lazy bum who doesn't take the time to investigate the area, Geralt is ignorant of how to resolve the manner in the best way possible.  It's completely your mistake and you have to deal with it. There is no AI in your head giving you information and reminding you to scan the one thing you need to help you out. I don't hate SAM, but I really hope they scale him back big time in the next game. 

Wonder if we get a DLC where the Nexus gets added onto overtime. Darn shame we didn't get to see our efforts turn into progress in the main game.

This sounds like me on MEA. The male Ryder is the ONLY servicable looking male in the whole game.

I should go......

If you're struggling to find the fun in this game, I would suggest putting it down. For me, given that I enjoyed near every second I spent in that wonderful game world, connecting with the main story was never an issue. Indeed, like many, I consider the ancillary quest content and story telling in that game to be standard setting for the genre.

In any case, as for specifics, The Wild Hunt delivers a virtual cavalcade of well drawn, nuanced, memorable characters in a way not managed by many games, Andromeda included. Hearing young Johnny wax lyrical as to the joys of defecating to the rising sun, spending time in the company of the Machiavellian Keira Metz, the gloriously gruesome Crones and the universally celebrated Baron was an absolute delight. 

And did CDPR ever nail the presentation of their game! Their wild areas, lonely homesteads, large city hubs and archipelago's were brilliantly conceived and wonderfully realised in such a way as to convince me I was adventuring in a living, breathing, shockingly cohesive, meticulously detailed world:




Add to that a stellar soundtrack, enjoyable combat, smart writing and dynamic open world and you'll start to understand some of the many (many, many) reasons people appreciate the game so very much. 

Should work PR for them... though I will disagree since their world only felt like a cut and paste game world with little thought to actual lore. But then, I am not a fan of stock dark fantasy design or weiting, so TW never really came alive in any game for me. I expect far more to be impressed.

Whenever I read the complaints about the star map animations I always think, I'll take a hundred of that over the planet scanning in ME2, or having to constantly refuel the fkn ship in ME 2&3. Who-in-the-hell thought that game mechanic was a good idea???

The fuel purchasing/planet scanning in ME2 & ME3 often sucked, but they basically flip-flopped mentalities.  ME2 & ME3 had short travel time between systems but constant planet scanning.  Andromeda has long travel times between systems/planets but planet scanning is pretty short/easy.

I hope the future title takes the best of both worlds.

Many of your complaints don't speak to the things I enjoy about that game at all kabraxal, though I understand that simply not digging a setting (as is the case with me when it comes to Fallout) can make a game totally impenetrable. You know, given that dark fantasy just isn't your thing, Blood and Wine might represent the Wild Hunt's best chance of sinking its hooks into you, as it has so many others. If you play on PS4, I may just have a spare code for you, should you want it?

Hearts Of Stone DLC is probably the best DLC i've ever played in my life. Just unbelieveable story, deep and dark here, funny and colorful there, plus so many beautiful moments with Shani.
I remember the moment when i face the "bad guy" at the end - OMG that was creepy.