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Post by Shai on Jun 15, 2018 21:55:47 GMT -5
I keep seeing that this game flopped and that its terrible...but I'm playing though it right now and I love it so much. So I'm genuinely baffled at why this is considered a bad game.
Please, please no spoilers though I've resisted temptation to look up the ending so far.....I'm on the Hunting the Archon mission right now.
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Post by thetower52 on Jun 15, 2018 22:24:45 GMT -5
I enjoyed it a lot when I played it.
People got way to upset over janmy animations and shit.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jun 15, 2018 23:14:55 GMT -5
A huge part of it was it was released in a pretty underwhelming and (in some areas) broken state, as well as not feeling like the next-gen step up from the OT it should have been.
I've played a bit of it, and I think it's fine. Not terrible, not brilliant, just fine.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Jun 15, 2018 23:54:31 GMT -5
Andromeda is not a bad game, it's just a bad Mass Effect game. It's like Zelda: Skyward Sword.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jun 15, 2018 23:58:50 GMT -5
100% the game when it came out and am a huge fan of the Mass Effect series. (For those that don't believe me I have both the special edition of Andromeda and the Andromeda Crate they put out 4 months later.)
The big issue was it was obviously rushed to market from the jump, and at best it's an ok game in a series that has ranged from Great to Good before hand.
I'll see if I can find my review of it when it came out.
But from what I remember really awkward animations both body and facial, the voice acting was REALLY janky, the writing for a lot of the side quests were really poor, most of the planets are big open and empty with little to actually do on them... and when it gets down to it the things you can do on it are massively repetitive, and the biggest thing that always came back to was an extreme lack of polish from tip to tail.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jun 16, 2018 0:04:24 GMT -5
Found my original review... and I pretty much went over it... It's alright. I enjoyed playing it but I doubt I'll ever go back to revisit it. Unlike I did with ME 1 and ME 2. That said it is WOEFULLY underpolished, some of the voice acting is REALLY spotty, people have a tendency to look past each other instead of at each other... and A LOT of the writing is just not very good. Which for an RPG especially a Bioware RPG pretty much kills it. (not to mention the twist on the enemies... {Spoiler}They are actually the same species as the friendly aliens only someone tampered with their DNA Bioware had already used recently in another one of their games) If this was some New IP just called Andromeda and not tied to Mass Effect it might have been better received as it'd be the first step into a universe ... but it's not it's the fourth... and for all the talk of it being a new Universe... a lot of stuff felt very been there done that. There's no citadel! There's just a large space colony that internally looks identical and serves the same basic function as the citadel. Fight robotic monsters that attack all organic targets while searching their ruins... that have existed for centuries and figure out clues on their existence! and I could go on... it's not a bad game... it's just pretty painfully mediocre and with some polish and love it probably could have been great and later the TLDR review So... how is the game now it's been patched? Is it actually good? Alright not great, definitely the worst Mass Effect Game. patching doesn't fix voice acting, poor writing, repetitive game play and rather empty worlds. Also found my Andromeda crate unboxing photos... not going to post the full thing here but here's a link
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Post by Dub H on Jun 16, 2018 0:11:58 GMT -5
Bad animation,bad voice acting and bad character from what i got.
And some boring area/npcs
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Post by The Spelunker! on Jun 16, 2018 0:27:27 GMT -5
A lot of stuff was broken on launch. The ‘new galaxy’ stuff is pretty underwhelming. Bad voice acting, terrible, embarrassing animation, especially for a AAA title. Lots of tedium.
There are definitely still some highlights, but it really disappointed me.
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Post by Shai on Jun 16, 2018 0:38:40 GMT -5
Found my original review... and I pretty much went over it... It's alright. I enjoyed playing it but I doubt I'll ever go back to revisit it. Unlike I did with ME 1 and ME 2. That said it is WOEFULLY underpolished, some of the voice acting is REALLY spotty, people have a tendency to look past each other instead of at each other... and A LOT of the writing is just not very good. Which for an RPG especially a Bioware RPG pretty much kills it. (not to mention the twist on the enemies... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}They are actually the same species as the friendly aliens only someone tampered with their DNA Bioware had already used recently in another one of their games) If this was some New IP just called Andromeda and not tied to Mass Effect it might have been better received as it'd be the first step into a universe ... but it's not it's the fourth... and for all the talk of it being a new Universe... a lot of stuff felt very been there done that. There's no citadel! There's just a large space colony that internally looks identical and serves the same basic function as the citadel. Fight robotic monsters that attack all organic targets while searching their ruins... that have existed for centuries and figure out clues on their existence! and I could go on... it's not a bad game... it's just pretty painfully mediocre and with some polish and love it probably could have been great and later the TLDR review Alright not great, definitely the worst Mass Effect Game. patching doesn't fix voice acting, poor writing, repetitive game play and rather empty worlds. Also found my Andromeda crate unboxing photos... not going to post the full thing here but here's a link
Has their been like patches and stuff since launch? I'm playing the Deluxe Edition through EA Access and one of the things that I love most IS my character her looks , just everything...like I give Bioware credit I develop a little bit of a crush on myself when I play their games. I get it if there's been patches and shit and I missed out on some drama with it. Same thing happened with Final Fantasy 15. I was late getting it and played it after they fixed all the launch problems. |
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Post by Rave on Jun 16, 2018 0:57:48 GMT -5
Crapton of launch issues, for the most part. That kind of stuff happens when you put a dev team inexperienced with that kind of game on it, give them a new engine they had no experience with, and breathe down their necks to rush development
I picked it up for pretty cheap a while back, it's not bad.
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Post by AwamoriRock on Jun 16, 2018 1:27:05 GMT -5
I wanted to be able to build some dream teams from past games. Get why you couldn’t, but that was a let down.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jun 16, 2018 1:36:16 GMT -5
Crapton of launch issues, for the most part. That kind of stuff happens when you put a dev team inexperienced with that kind of game on it, give them a new engine they had no experience with, and breathe down their necks to rush development. Even more than that, the Frostbite 3 engine simply wasn't designed to handle RPGs and so BioWare had to build additional components to add to the engine just to make the game work. kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mass-effect-andromedas-troubled-five-1795886428 |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jun 16, 2018 1:51:57 GMT -5
Found my original review... and I pretty much went over it... and later the TLDR review Also found my Andromeda crate unboxing photos... not going to post the full thing here but here's a link
Has their been like patches and stuff since launch? I'm playing the Deluxe Edition through EA Access and one of the things that I love most IS my character her looks , just everything...like I give Bioware credit I develop a little bit of a crush on myself when I play their games. I get it if there's been patches and shit and I missed out on some drama with it. Same thing happened with Final Fantasy 15. I was late getting it and played it after they fixed all the launch problems. Yep. 1.05 fixed a lot of the really bad facial animations.  Especially noticeable with the Default Sara Ryder... who was really bad on launch. |
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Post by Jiren on Jun 16, 2018 3:11:03 GMT -5
- crap story
- crap animations
- tons of glitches
- shit characters
Gameplay was fine but it's not enough to make up for everything else, a lot of the blame needs to be on EA as they caused a lot problems during development and had them release it in such a terrible state.
By the time the fixes came out it was too late as the damage was already done.
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Post by adamclark52 on Jun 16, 2018 3:29:59 GMT -5
It really wasn't a bad game at all. As others said it was just released in an incomplete state. I played it three or four months after release and a lot had been fixed by then. I can only imagine how bad it was on launch.
Another big problem is if you ask me the Shepard trilogy are THE BEST video games ever released. So Andromeda had to follow that up.
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Post by Mike Strike on Jun 16, 2018 5:23:13 GMT -5
From my own personal collection:
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Post by 111111 on Jun 16, 2018 5:36:32 GMT -5
I had a brief go on it and enjoyed my time with it alot more than I did Mass Effect 2.
The first game was so good and then they just turned the series from a very good rpg to an alright tps.
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Post by Hurbster on Jun 16, 2018 7:01:18 GMT -5
Right then...
Irrespective of the glitches and whatnot the writing is bloody awful and the characters are terrible. Almost quit the game after playing Liam's personal quest it was so badly done. And I'm fairly sure he was designed to be as bloody annoying as possible.
Drack is a pretty interesting character, I will say. Why the hell could I not blow Peebee out of a goddam airlock ?
Also the reasoning behind the game makes no sense whatsover. I get that Bioware wanted to get as far away as possible from the shitcakes we all had to eat at the end of ME3 but to go to Andromeda when it's mentioned in the lore that only about 5% of the Milky Way has been explored makes about as much sense as someone telling you their face is tired.
Bioware, once again has proved that it cannot fill large maps with meaningfull content.
The combat is ok, but it would be as they make money from it.
The game at it's best never gets above bang-average. It let me down, and I'm pretty much done with Bioware now after DA2 and Inquisition.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jun 16, 2018 7:52:13 GMT -5
hyperbolic fanboy piss-taking mostly. yeah the facial animations weren't the best but they were already patched before I opened the box on release day. it's not the best thing ever. it's deeply flawed in a few ways, they really should have stuck with the formula instead of aping Dragon Age: Inquisition. and the combat is a massive step back from 2 and 3, but it was still a pretty enjoyable experience over all. I think the kerfuffle about 3's ending turned a bunch of fans into the video game equivalent of Star Wars fans who hate on everything that isn't the originall trilogy just because of the prequels.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Jun 16, 2018 10:41:25 GMT -5
Boring, like really really boring. Story was generic and boring, worlds were open, empty and boring, combat was tedious and boring.
I was able to work through a full play through but I have zero desire to play it again.
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