Mass Effect: Andromeda - Page 29

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PoulsenB

Poland7711 Posts

April 22 2017 11:05 GMT

#561

I've just had my first fight with + Show Spoiler +

a Remnant Architect

and holy shit, was that intense o_O the more I play, the better the game gets

Artisreal

Germany9235 Posts

June 07 2017 07:53 GMT

#562

new patch hitting soon.
The "SJW BIOWARE" fraction is gonna be triggered again xD

kajtarp

Hungary474 Posts

June 07 2017 08:28 GMT

#563

On April 22 2017 20:05 PoulsenB wrote:
I've just had my first fight with + Show Spoiler +

a Remnant Architect

and holy shit, was that intense o_O the more I play, the better the game gets

On insanity those fights were a pain in the ass. Quite many times the fight stuck meaning the Architect sometimes became invulnerable because it didnt open any of the conduits. Had to restart those fights many times.

Bacillus

Finland1926 Posts

June 07 2017 11:57 GMT

#564

For a person waiting for a sale and who has been trying to keep an eye on the complaints and praises, the new patch changelog seems pretty underwhelming. Some nice fixes, but considering all the complaints and passed time it still seems quite minimal.

Also, finding a bit weird that they're apparently putting in additional homosexual romance option for male Ryder. The whole time people have been complaining about significant issues with the existing content and its presentation, adding even more content seems sort of counterintuitivie at this point.

Edit: Apparently not the final patch according to Michael Gamble's twitter.

PoulsenB

Poland7711 Posts

June 08 2017 05:45 GMT

#565

An interesting article about development of Andromeda: http://kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mass-effect-andromedas-troubled-five-1795886428

I think it's kinda amazing that with such a clusterfuck of a development process, the game still came out pretty decent (barring the obvious issues at release).

Bacillus

Finland1926 Posts

June 08 2017 09:29 GMT

#566

I'm having trouble understanding the obsession with procedurally generated worlds. As far as I can tell, any person who understands game design should understand how limiting it is. You can surely build a game - even a good one - around it, but it's a game that doesn't play to the expected strengths of a Mass Effect game in any possible way.

Obviously these decisions were made before No Man's Sky crashed and burned, but even before that it was very clear how many problems the approach has. It's definitely not something you want to gamble with a franchise build on reputation for strong scifi storytelling and memorable characters.

haflo

140 Posts

June 11 2017 17:40 GMT

#567

So I finished andromeda I didn't hate it but I didn't love it as well

Pros : the gun play was one of the best in the series
Graphics were good
Few good decision moments
Didn't hate the world and overall story

Now my cons :
Biggest issue is the good moments drown in a big brown meh,
Each planet have 3 monolith and a vault which are long and feel very similar
Fetch quests tasks , busy work missions. for each something i wanted to do I had 2 hours of stuff I just didn't
Why ? This is no subscription model ?
It got to a point I just didn't want to take quests anymore
Never happened to me in me universe , and I thinks it's the major thing they went wrong
It's like adding 10 hours to a movie with boring unrelated stuff , why ?

Too few good moments where your hard decisions matter
Too few missions I can say that are at a story level similar to the loyalty missions on the previous episodes

I didn't feel connected and related to my companions as before

Cora was decent , but I would love another big mission for her to evolve
Pheebe started aweful , I hated some of her mission
Which was wasting my time,
In the end she was endearing , with some good lines
Rest , meh not enough happens
One related mission , and not a lot of story in it

I didn't mind the animation and bugs as were posted so much
The antagonist was boring but had hoped for the future

It just wasn't my me experience ,
It was a fun game.

But I just want more moments and less fluff
Make me care again

Hope it help some of you to make an informed decision on playing or not.
It's of course my opinion , and the statement I make doesn't try to be objective in any way

Clonester

Germany2808 Posts

June 11 2017 19:15 GMT

#568

Everytime the game gets a patch my Mods get broken and I can decide to play with an unstable game or restart... garr

rebuffering

Canada2436 Posts

June 12 2017 01:21 GMT

#569

so the game is 50% off on PS Store right now, is it worth? Have the patches made the game better in any way?

Artisreal

Germany9235 Posts

June 12 2017 18:46 GMT

#570

Singleplayer has received quite some quality of life improvements and personally I have 110 hrs in the game. For definitely worth the 60€ I spent on it.

On a different note, ANTHEM also uses the FROSTBITE engine and has decent facial animations. Though I could see the same "Ryder-wakeup-grimace" in the guy providing the first quest of the E3 trailer.

semantics

10040 Posts

June 12 2017 19:14 GMT

#571

On June 12 2017 10:21 rebuffering wrote:
so the game is 50% off on PS Store right now, is it worth? Have the patches made the game better in any way?

Patches have made the game much better but it's just an okay game if you loved Mass Effect i'd get it else it's story is pretty lackluster and it's core gameplay isn't exactly new and exciting.

If you never completed a mass effect game i wouldn't buy it you'd probably abandon the game half way though. Unless you like rpgs.

imJealous

United States1382 Posts

June 12 2017 19:30 GMT

#572

On June 12 2017 10:21 rebuffering wrote:
so the game is 50% off on PS Store right now, is it worth? Have the patches made the game better in any way?

Read Haflo's post just above yours.

Honestly its a 'good' game and has been since day 1 before any of the patches, it just doesn't live up to the quality of the mass effect franchise.

Its combat is A+, and that combined with all other elements being passable is enough to make the game fun to play from beginning to end if you don't let yourself get obsessed with completing every side quest before you finish the main plot. At its worst this game is 'ok' and at its high points it briefly feels like the glory that was ME2 for a short spurts. Overall though, the plot, aesthetic, and characters aren't as unforgettable as the other three games in the series. At least it doesn't end with your choice of mono chromatic explosions though.

If you are only interested in playing the game if it is as good as or better than previous Mass Effect games, do not buy Andromeda

If you are interested in playing a Mass Effect style game with an improved combat system and don't mind that the story won't match up to previous titles, then you'll be very happy with Andromeda

Artisreal

Germany9235 Posts

June 12 2017 21:34 GMT

#573

You can always take drack and peebee in your rover and listen to them talk. Entertained me more than any other combo.

rebuffering

Canada2436 Posts

June 12 2017 22:44 GMT

#574

Well seeing as how the Mass Effect trilogy is one my favorite gaming experiences from the passed 10 years, i feel like i need to play Andromeda because i am a huge fan of the original games. Seems like a good time to jump with patches and 50% off. Ill be buying tonight, I just started playing Persona 5 though, so it might be a few weeks before i even get to play Andromeda lol.

Xarles

459 Posts

August 20 2017 00:05 GMT

#575

"Our last update, 1.10, was the final update for Mass Effect: Andromeda. There are no planned future patches for single-player or in-game story content."

https://www.masseffect.com/news/mass-effect-andromeda-update-from-the-studio

Artisreal

Germany9235 Posts

August 24 2017 20:17 GMT

#576

I wish they had implemented ship accessibility WHILE landed with that patch.
Leaving a planet (i.e. going home) to check your e-mails. How 1990 is that?!

Yurie

11822 Posts

August 24 2017 21:02 GMT

#577

On August 25 2017 05:17 Artisreal wrote:
I wish they had implemented ship accessibility WHILE landed with that patch.
Leaving a planet (i.e. going home) to check your e-mails. How 1990 is that?!

Agreed that they should have allowed you loading into the ship on the planet.

Only mod for it I have found just makes the cinematic much shorter so you save a bit of time on that if you have a SSD or fast computer in general.
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectandromeda/mods/467/?

Artisreal

Germany9235 Posts

August 24 2017 21:40 GMT

#578

On August 25 2017 06:02 Yurie wrote:

Show nested quote +

Wow that's amazing. Thanks for sharing!

Sermokala

United States13924 Posts

August 25 2017 04:00 GMT

#579

I just finished it after taking another shot at it after the 1.10 patch. Its a significant improvement but it doesn't change the fundamental issues with the game itself. The core game play system that is combat is good maybe even great. The issue is the further away from shooting you get the worse the game is. The craftsmanship is good. the drawn assets were drawn well. The sound is cool and spacy. The music has decent riffs at times. The problem is that everything that went into the game before things got made was such utter garbage that its Prequil star wars level of damage to the mass effect universe and credibility. Angara are shit. The Kett are shit. Their names are dumb their designs are dumb the twists about them get dumb and dumber the more I think about them. The Racism themes in the game are laughable past the point of being taken seriously enough to be offended by them. (I'm 100% sure that the slarians are treated as asians and the Krogan are treated as black people) The lack of the diversity of the races from the milky way galaxy just so inferiating. Where is the salarian team member? We get a female bird girl and a black man but we can't get a Lizard on the team? The Krogan character is really old. Thats the extent of his character. Hes really old but its never clear what his position of authority in the krogan world is and he care little to nothing about his clan in any reality. Hes really old but hes the same basic krogan as every other krogan. he has no pressure or experience or dignity as a really old person might have. Hes just old for flavor to make any sort of difference between him and the other stock Krogan in the universe. He whole fucking character arc is him getting over how replaceable and ilrelevent he is to the game and people trying to convince him otherwise. But he is entirely replaceable and ilrelevent both in his world and in the game. Wrex has this huge ass burden on his shoulders and gets to the level were you might need to kill him for legitimate reasons that make you feel for the hard charging turtle man. only the Krogan get modified out of the milky way races and that only happens once. I just finished the game with im in my squad for the majority of the last week and I can't remember the name of the guy's name. only that he bitched and moaned about some kid trying to catch a bullet for him in the most ham fisted jellious father cliche that i've ever seen. and this carrys on so much to other characters and quests. No direction to any story decision as if everything was made in isolation to another in order to create content instead of trying to create something good. The ending level was so bad I can't even. The remnant architects are good bosses throughout the game and when the game introduce one at the end its completely ilrelevent and you end up with a pair of "stay in the circle and defend" directions that pop up in the worse parts of the rest of the game. The non Milky way weapons are bad. They look cool sometimes but they're ilrelevent to the degree that the Milky way weapons are all better objectively and creatively. Bullets are good who knew?

The worst things about the story are the things that they leave open at the end. The multi racial ark is confused and are in a crisis with no explanation or info past a single line of dialogue. The benefactor and the initiative founding conspiracy founding story has no payoff and just gets dropped after a while. The main kett race and government is just a dumb explanation for why they're still around in the next game. SAM basically makes the protagonist ilrelevent until the "power of will" solves that issue but this is ever seriously approached past a "I don't want to be racist against an AI". At the same beat were the game unironicaly tell the player that their character doesn't really matter they suddenly matter a ton more now as you're litearly able to deus ex machina a whole fucking fleet out your ass. Even this fleet is worthless because space smoke monster is the thing that actually stops the archons fleet. The Mom is brought up as a nice emotional point but then immediately drooped ignored and you never even see her face. Finally after getting every planet to 100% viability the end game reward is to rename the planet your parent died on to "Ryder-1" except the game doesn't actually do this.

TLDR ME:A is the star wars prequels of Video games and i'm now done with this.

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