Andromeda lacks intensity

I have been hooked on the Mass Effect series ever since number 1 came out.

When I pre-purchased Andromeda, I looked at the specs - and spent $4000 on a new rig, to do it justice.


After every one of the first three games, I felt depressed, because it had ended, and was eagerly looking forward to the next instalment. I have just finished Andromeda and feel - nothing. No interest in finding out what happens next. Only a faint hope, that MEA2 will be - much - better.


The main problem with Andromeda is, that it lacks the edge-of-the-seat intensity of ME1-3.

In the first three, there were many cut-scenes, which still - after numerous play-throughs - take my breath away.

There were also many tense interactions between Shepard and various characters. I still get a thrill - for example - every time the camera pans out, after Shepard releases Grunt from the tank, showing how the whole time, while Grunt had his arm on Shepard's throat, Shepard had his/her gun in Grunt's belly. ME1-3 are full of such magic moments.

There was nothing like it in Andromeda. I can see, how it was tried in places, but it all fell somehow flat.

As for the main story-arc, in ME1-3, you felt the doom approaching the galaxy, as you tried - ever more frantically - to avert enslavement/extinction. In Andromeda, I never felt more than inconvenienced by the scourge, Kett, and countless scum-bag types, which just left a bad taste in my mouth.

ME1-3 was full of WOW!! moments. Andromeda can only manage a luke-warm meh.

ME1-3 was a vibrant palette of intense interactions, and cut-scenes. Andromeda has been done in pastels. It needs spice - a LOT of spice!

I will be buying MEA2 when it comes out, I guess. Even though it means, I will have to play through this weak Ryder again. A Ryder, who lacks the force-full character of Shepard. But I also know that - unless Andromeda goes from "Meh", back to "WOW!", I will be done with the series.

Anyone else feel the same about the lack of intensity in Andromeda?