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Post by kenshen19 on May 2, 2017 22:15:54 GMT
"1.) BioWARE shot themselves in the foot by not letting us be actual colonials. They should've given us a pre-spaceflight race of people to deal with, maybe even to conquer or use against the kett. "
I stayed away from any pre-release info other than what was seen in trailers and I remember one of them made it sound like this is how it could play out. While the Angara are space fairing they don't seem to be all that advanced so my wish would to be given the option to not play nice with them, be it because of desperation or just ruthlessness. To add to that I really wish we had a choice to accept Jaal on board the ship or not. I would love to be able to space him and Liam both can't stand them.
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Post by zipzap2000 on May 3, 2017 6:08:32 GMT
Peebee is my favorite Bioware romance since Liara (and if given 3 games too she might replace her ) Also she's my favorite companion in the game. This is practically blasphemy and bordering on an act of depraved barbarism. *Leaves*
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Post by phantomrachie on May 3, 2017 7:26:07 GMT
The Kett are more interesting and have more potential than the Reapers. While it does have some dicey dialogue, most the writing is on par with the OT Writing's OK. Not running for the Oscars or the Pulitzer, but OK. I hesitated to get the game, but after playing it, I don't understand the hatred. The Kett, well, so far they're as onedimensional as the Reapers. The ending was good, but turn MEA into a series and they may write themselves into a corner again. Complete with red, green and blue explosions. I have nothing against squaddies dying, if it makes sense. As for the player dying. That should only happen if you screw up in your decisions. To expand on why I think the Kett are more interesting than the Reapers. When we met Sovereign in ME1, he basically tells us what the Reapers are all about, there is not a whole lot more to discover about them and ME2 & ME3 just go into more detail about how they do what they do, with a stupid "why" at the very end of ME3. Once the big reveal happens in ME1, are no surprises with them really just some additional info but nothing that would reshape our opinion of them or develops them more than just "we destroy all organic life" With the Kett, I think there is a lot more to know, a lot more surprises on the way. They clearly have some sort of central command that the Archon was reporting too and that he started actively ignoring. So while the main troops seem to have blind loyalty the upper echelons of their society seem to have more free will. This makes me wonder if the Kett have other political divides or was the Archon the first to start ignoring the central command? What is the structure of their society like? If the Remnant are everywhere in Andromeda then why did the Archon become so obsessed with them when he got to Helius? If this was the first time the Kett had come across the Remnant then does that mean that either they or the Remnant are not actually from Andromeda or that the Remnant only exist in Helius cluster? There are still plenty of open questions and plenty of aspects to think about, which IMO makes them more interesting. At least for the moment.
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Post by Ahriman on May 3, 2017 10:02:14 GMT
1. Game's plot would be better without another ancient mysterious aliens. 2. SAM shouldn't have been a separate entity, but a rather complex brain augmentation. 3. Three powers limit is ok. 4. Roekaar are most interesting enemy faction in MEA (story, not gameplay wise) 5. Most of OT references were cringeworthy and felt like they belong to fanfiction.
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Post by Psychevore on May 3, 2017 10:13:12 GMT
Peebee's romance is almost as good as Cassandra's romance. Almost. The core gamgeplay is the best Bioware has ever done in a video game. Ever.
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Post by FeralEwok on May 3, 2017 12:03:35 GMT
Peebee is my favorite Bioware romance since Liara (and if given 3 games too she might replace her ) Also she's my favorite companion in the game. This is practically blasphemy and bordering on an act of depraved barbarism. *Leaves* Does that mean I win?
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Post by zipzap2000 on May 3, 2017 12:19:00 GMT
This is practically blasphemy and bordering on an act of depraved barbarism. *Leaves* Does that mean I win? There is no known cure for Asaru...
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 12:22:38 GMT
This is practically blasphemy and bordering on an act of depraved barbarism. *Leaves* Does that mean I win? + PsychevoreI actually think PeeBee's romance is fine, but I never got to the end of it, unless she ignores Reyes and can complete the relationship after that. I have not really romanced Cassandra far, 'cause Dorian. I thought she was Okay, but her backstory was too much like Dorian's and Dorian did the angst over birthright/civic duty better. Fingers crossed PeeBee doesn't know what happens on Kadara. I want to see how it ends with her. Vette's my favorite in this category of Bio romances (cute rogue girls) In terms of gameplay I need to replay DA2, but Andromeda probably beats DA2 in terms of gameplay, though controlling party... a tough choice.
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Post by FeralEwok on May 3, 2017 12:31:13 GMT
I actually think PeeBee's romance is fine, but I never got to the end of it, unless she ignores Reyes and can complete the relationship after that. I have not really romanced Cassandra far, 'cause Dorian. I thought she was Okay, but her backstory was too much like Dorian's and Dorian did the angst over birthright/civic duty better. Fingers crossed PeeBee doesn't know what happens on Kadara. I want to see how it ends with her. Vette's my favorite in this category of Bio romances (cute rogue girls) I've only played the game once and she was the LI, but I've since watched online other people's romances. Apart from a few moments here and there I disliked almost everything about the other romances. I stopped half-way through Liam's so I don't know completely what it is like (that's fine by me) and I haven't seen Reyes' but I probably should. He seems one of the more popular characters for the game.
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Post by themikefest on May 3, 2017 12:31:54 GMT
MEA would be better if the quarians were in the game and the asari were not fiend is the best character in the game Tann and Addison should have been squadmates There should be an option for Ryder to craft Cerberus armor Cora would look good wearing a black dress/skirt with a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other while sitting in her nice leather chair Bain Massani and Conrad's sister, Cassandra, should be squadmates in the next game
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Post by FeralEwok on May 3, 2017 12:35:33 GMT
There is no known cure for Asaru... Well I am a sick sick man. ...and I am okay with that.
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Post by zipzap2000 on May 3, 2017 12:41:19 GMT
There is no known cure for Asaru... Well I am a sick sick man. ...and I am okay with that.Breeding request, accepted. *Clinks Ryncol*
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Post by Ianamus on May 3, 2017 12:48:42 GMT
Reyes isn't a particularly interesting or well written character. He's only popular because he's a bad-boy dashing rogue fighting against a seemingly corrupt system, but is morally ambiguous enough to act as a project for the player to "fix". Basically, he is every young adult romance novel trope that appeals to women condensed into one character.
What's his backstory? What are his real reasons for opposing Sloane? Is there any actual depth to his character? Who cares! He's hot and you can kill his bitchy ex-girlfriend and take her place.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 12:59:06 GMT
Reyes isn't a particularly interesting or well written character. He's only popular because he's a bad-boy dashing rogue fighting against a seemingly corrupt system, but is morally ambiguous enough to act as project for the player to "fix". He is every young adult romance novel trope that appeals to women condensed into one character. What's his backstory? What are his real reasons for opposing Sloane? Is there any actual depth to his character? Who cares! In terms of Reyes, SWTOR's characters that resemble him in part (Skavak, Numen Brock and Hunter) are all better, but Reyes is the best approximation of a romance style I like. I guess, my unpopular opinion is that my favorite style of a romance in a Bio game is out of the party (joinable and "crew") with an important character. Reyes is good in one respect - that you can come back and do another segment once you feel you miss him. There, he beats SWTOR guys because they are all on story-rails with no wiggle room. So, to sum up my unpopular opinion, I like it that Reyes is not a team-mate and that his romance timing is player-driven rather than game events driven (to a degree). I do want to see Reyes back in the sequel, providing Ryder is back & I would prefer for him to keep contacting the PC as story progresses with new stuff on Kadara to do and not be a new teammate we all really wanted. I think it will disappoint.
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Post by timebean on May 3, 2017 14:22:16 GMT
I liked Tann (and hated Addison). I was annoyed that the dialogue options forced me to kinda be an ass to him.
I think Jaal is the worst/blandest alien we have ever had as a companion in any ME game. Romancing him (for science) gave me major icky vibes.
I disliked Havarl (which is the most popular place, according to the planet poll).
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Post by liquidsnake on May 3, 2017 14:48:56 GMT
Writing's OK. Not running for the Oscars or the Pulitzer, but OK. I hesitated to get the game, but after playing it, I don't understand the hatred. The Kett, well, so far they're as onedimensional as the Reapers. The ending was good, but turn MEA into a series and they may write themselves into a corner again. Complete with red, green and blue explosions. I have nothing against squaddies dying, if it makes sense. As for the player dying. That should only happen if you screw up in your decisions. To expand on why I think the Kett are more interesting than the Reapers. When we met Sovereign in ME1, he basically tells us what the Reapers are all about, there is not a whole lot more to discover about them and ME2 & ME3 just go into more detail about how they do what they do, with a stupid "why" at the very end of ME3. Once the big reveal happens in ME1, are no surprises with them really just some additional info but nothing that would reshape our opinion of them or develops them more than just "we destroy all organic life" With the Kett, I think there is a lot more to know, a lot more surprises on the way. They clearly have some sort of central command that the Archon was reporting too and that he started actively ignoring. So while the main troops seem to have blind loyalty the upper echelons of their society seem to have more free will. This makes me wonder if the Kett have other political divides or was the Archon the first to start ignoring the central command? What is the structure of their society like? If the Remnant are everywhere in Andromeda then why did the Archon become so obsessed with them when he got to Helius? If this was the first time the Kett had come across the Remnant then does that mean that either they or the Remnant are not actually from Andromeda or that the Remnant only exist in Helius cluster? There are still plenty of open questions and plenty of aspects to think about, which IMO makes them more interesting. At least for the moment. I agree. Once I learned about the Archon reported to some higher chain of command and references to the Kett Empire, the entire Kett race just became far more interesting to me than they initially were. The OT the main villains for all three games were the Reapers. The race in dark space who were eventually coming back to cull the galaxies advanced races. Awesome. I loved that story line. The Kett however, are an already pre-existing race that apparently has significant power and rule throughout the galaxy in some way that extends well beyond the Helius cluster. I've said before in other posts and I'll say it again here, but MEA reminds me a great deal of the tv series Stargate Atlantis in many ways. Perhaps that's part of why I like it so much. The basic premise even is pretty similar. A group from the Milky Way travels to another galaxy with no real promise of ever returning home to find an ancient extinct race's highly advanced remnants. They also quickly make an enemy of an alien race that utilizes biological weaponry on their opponents. In Atlantis, the enemy is the Wraith who are feared throughout the galaxy and essentially "rule," feeding freely off the people in the Pegasus Galaxy by draining their life energy to sustain themselves. The Kett on the other hand are feared in the Helius cluster and seem to have some sort of empire throughout Andromeda and cull the local races to "exalt" them, making them like themselves and integrating them to their race. It's a very different feeling having an enemy that is already established within the galaxy and have significant power, especially in an unfamiliar galaxy where we don't know the extent of their power as opposed to the Reapers who were a "boogeyman" enemy out in dark space that we didn't know when they would return and were not actively present within the galaxy for the most part. At least the bulk of their presence was not. I don't know if I explained that very well. Either way, I'm hoping the Kett are as good of a villain as I'm hoping. Perhaps even the entire race isn't aligned together and there are sects of "good" Kett who can become allies in the future. That would be interesting to me.
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Post by congokong on May 3, 2017 15:56:30 GMT
- PeeBee is not a believable character; possibly the least believable in all ME (rivaling Kaidan). A quickly bored thrill-seeker who is also a scientist dedicated to remnant tech? She'd lose interest in an hour. Her behavior fits that of the typical maiden asari dancer.
- I don't dislike Tann or Addison despite how much the game pushes you to dislike the former especially.
- I don't care about Drack's feelings; at least enough to save the scouts just to please him. Like Wrex, he spent many years as a pirate which basically means he's done enough to deserve a bullet.
- Alec Ryder was a selfish moron. Javik would love how he did illegal research with shady funding to merge AI's with humans (zha'til, anyone?), blacklisting his entire family in the process, and then leaves the fate of thousands in the hands of someone with no training (Ryder) instead of Cora; all for his dying wife's benefit.
- I have trouble remembering Vetra exists.
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Post by jennica on May 3, 2017 16:11:08 GMT
I liked Addison.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 18:30:18 GMT
Oh, yeah. Another opinion that is rare, is that I really like the cc and love toying with it.
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Post by kalasaurus on May 3, 2017 22:23:31 GMT
I've avoided online discussion of Andromeda for awhile (to stay away from spoilers), so I may be wrong on what's unpopular, but this is what I've gathered:
I'll jump in and say that I enjoyed the game too. I heard from a friend that people were raging about it on the forums, and I was really confused about why when I played the game. The bugs that prevented me from turning in some side quests, and the ones I recently encountered in NG+ (no gear drops or store inventory from level 60-70, and Movie Night getting messed up if I talk to Lexi) are annoying, though, and I hope they get fixed soon in a Patch.
ME:A is different than the original trilogy, but different doesn't equal bad.
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Post by duskwanderer on May 3, 2017 23:39:32 GMT
MEA would be better if the quarians were in the game and the asari were not fiend is the best character in the game Tann and Addison should have been squadmates There should be an option for Ryder to craft Cerberus armor Cora would look good wearing a black dress/skirt with a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other while sitting in her nice leather chair Bain Massani and Conrad's sister, Cassandra, should be squadmates in the next game She makes a good Jenkins...
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Post by docklenator on May 4, 2017 3:53:17 GMT
Im liking the gameplay and story more and more with each playthrough.
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Post by pixiqui on May 4, 2017 5:24:43 GMT
Asari are hardly the master race BW wants them to be. Any PC can murder them all with ease. Default Scott Ryder is ugly as fuck. Kallo should replace either Cora or Peepee as a romance. If you think default scott is "ugly as fuck" then who do you consider attractive? Im honestly curious btw
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Post by Element Zero on May 4, 2017 6:06:07 GMT
I've formed another unpopular opinion. I like Cora, and don't agree that she's boring. Her tendency to talk about her Commando-days makes sense, and is not unrealistic. It also ends after her LM. Her romance progression with Scott seems to fit the idea that they were "into one another" before Alec's death, but hadn't pursued it. Seen through that light, the arc feels pretty realistic, considering it's a game and has standard BioWare pacing-issues.
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Post by phantomrachie on May 4, 2017 7:59:03 GMT
I've formed another unpopular opinion. I like Cora, and don't agree that she's boring. Her tendency to talk about her Commando-days makes sense, and is not unrealistic. It also ends after her LM. Her romance progression with Scott seems to fit the idea that they were "into one another" before Alec's death, but hadn't pursued it. Seen through that light, the arc feels pretty realistic, considering it's a game and has standard BioWare pacing-issues. Should've added that to my list. I think Cora is great. I haven't done my Scott playthrough yet but it's possible to form a really nice friendship with her and Sara. She has clearly dealt with a lot of rejection in her life and while it has affected her, she still has a positive outlook.
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