So I finished ME: Legendary Edition and wanted more ME...

[Rodney McKay]

An entire game composed of "Uh, yeah, that just happened" dialogue.

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Yeah, they really "Joss Whedon"d the dialog. Nothing is serious, and everything is a joke.

I actually made a list of the horrible dialog from the first hour or two of the game (which is when things are going horribly for your mission and you're fighting for your life):

• *killer lightning everywhere*: "Weather's still crappy"
• "what's that sound?" "Alien gods of the underworld?" "But who built it?" "Alien gods!"
• *rocks are floating on the planet you're on* "Rocks shouldn't float!"
• "I didn't know you were Biotic." "Don't worry it's not contagious"
• "these guys don't look happy, maybe because I shot him in the face!"
• "What happened?" "To who?" "It's 'to Whom' and your goddamn father."

The Mass Effect Trilogy has funny dialog, but it's spread out enough that you still feel the seriousness of the situation your in, Andromeda is trying to make everything seem like Guardians of the Galaxy (and GOTG still manages to balance humor and drama way better than this).

 

[Rover_]

It's just not though. Even if it never had the Mass Effect name attached the same issues persist.

It's not just mediocre "in comparison to", MEA it's wholly mediocre on its own merits.

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Andromeda did several things ME Fans always wanted right:

- planet exploration and diversity
- great vehicle gameplay
- great and snappy gameplay overall
- build freedom with class fluidity
- interesting squad
- very good and fun multiplayer

but the game comitted the two biggest sins in gaming: launch with bugs + less than stellar writing, if your game launch with that nowadays it's pure trash and the rest go discarded.

 

[TheDave545]

Each to there own I suppose, but I loved it. If I remember I completed it within the first week of launch, with all the bugs.

Couldn't wait for the continuation of the story, and then it was shelved, gutted.

 

[Stoney Mason]

Each to there own I suppose, but I loved it. If I remember I completed it within the first week of launch, with all the bugs.

Couldn't wait for the continuation of the story, and then it was shelved, gutted.

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I wouldn't say I loved it, but I definitely liked it. And while I understood the backlash because of bugs and other issues, I never thought it was remotely as bad as people made it out to be. Its biggest sin is that it simply isn't as good as the first three games. Even though a few aspects are pretty improved like the feel of combat.

I would like to replay it but I would prefer if it got the fps boost treatment or an official ea patch to do the same although the latter is unlikely.

 

[Ocean]

It's not as great as the previous games, but I still don't understand the hate Andromeda gets. If your only experience was at launch, I can see how the bugs may have soured you on it. But specially people like OP starting off now? It's not peak ME, but it's still a good game.

 

[Anustart]

As I say in every one of these threads, I've only played some me1 and Andromeda. Andromeda is a hell of a lot more fun to play than me1.

 

[OneTrueJack]

Stick with it. Once you get into a good flow the combat and exploration reveal themselves as being the best in the series. The companions also improve once you start different combinations of open-world banter.

It's a decent game. A paint-by-numbers Bioware experience after the original (much more ambitious) Andromeda project fell through, but that still puts it in good standing among its peers. Paint-by-numbers Bioware still scratches an itch no one else can.

7/10

 

[Voytek]

Played through ME 1-3 many many times but I couldn't make it through Andromeda even once. Wasn't even the bugs that kept me from playing. I tried it at launch and I tried it again much later after it was patched but I just couldn't do it. The game is just so boring to me. I couldn't ever care about anything that was going on and the gameplay wasn't good enough to keep me wanting to play.

 

[jotun?]

Consider yourself lucky that you decided to quit early.

It keeps teasing that it might get better, but it never does

 

[thediamondage]

yeah i remember the thing that turned me off a lot were my companions, i loved most of them in ME1-3 and they felt like friends to chill with. Andromeda companions felt like annoying edge lords who i wanted absolutely nothing to do with. It felt like the story and characters were written by people who only live in social media.

the hook also of "we went to another galaxy!" felt very off with how everything felt familiar and understandable. They should have just gone way, way more wild and insane with the aliens, story, planets, etc. Giant dyson spheres inhabited by slow thinking AIs. Tiny life that lives in the void between stars. Completely different life, not stuff that looks like us.

 

[Quinton]

Andromeda is a very good game but Era ain't ready for that talk.

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You're right, I'm not

 

[Rover_]

You're right, I'm not

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give it a second chance :b

 

[Quinton]

what do you think of Andromeda? xD

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It's like the epitome of a 7 for me, haha. Good but not great on most levels. The writing and jank are probably closer to a 5-6, but exploration and combat feel like an 8?

That's a lot of numbers that don't really mean anything, I guess - it's just a slightly above-average title that I haven't found it in myself to replay. I think the 'Quarian Ark DLC is now a book" thing broke me.

 

[Androidsleeps]

I was in your shoes when I finished the LE last year, itching for more and went ahead and bought Andromeda and couldn't stomach more than 7 hours. That game is six different kinds of awful, the people who praise it are on serious copium.

 

[SofNascimento]

It's like the epitome of a 7 for me, haha. Good but not great on most levels. The writing and jank are probably closer to a 5-6, but exploration and combat feel like an 8?

That's a lot of numbers that don't really mean anything, I guess - it's just a slightly above-average title that I haven't found it in myself to replay. I think the 'Quarian Ark DLC is now a book" thing broke me.

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You're way too generous with the game.

On a 1 to 10 scale it's a 3 at best. I don't know why people think a game simply by the merit of working already deserves a good score. Maybe I like your good hearted spirit...

 

[Quinton]

simply by the merit of working already deserves a good score.

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I mean, complete and utter tangential strawman here, but...

These days... that's... yeah...

 

[TheYanger]

Andromeda isn't a bad game by any stretch just a totally uninspired one. But if you're coming in thinking the combat is bad idk what to tell you, the combat is like the one unequivocally better thing

 

[Ralemont]

Andromeda isn't a bad game by any stretch just a totally uninspired one. But if you're coming in thinking the combat is bad idk what to tell you, the combat is like the one unequivocally better thing

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The combat is definitely great, but I really missed the control over squadmates. Bioware over the course of two franchises (Dragon Age and Mass Effect) has built this amazing fun power/ability combo system, and then they improve so much about the combat in Andromeda only to take away your ability to command squadmates to use a power so you can set up/complete a combo. You have to rely on the AI to do it, which is not nearly as terrible at it as Inquisition, but still lacking.

 

[RayCharlizard]

I actually somewhat liked Andromeda when it released and nearly platinum'd it on PS4. Also wanted to dive in again after finishing LE and within the first few cutscenes I bolted. The whiplash is real with this series and I guess I just didn't see it having so much time between ME3 and Andromeda.

 

[SofNascimento]

Andromeda's combat was a stepback compared to ME3's. The gunplay is bad which makes you rely too much on powers. It's an ok combat system though, it had some good ideas, like how it could happen at anytime, and bad ones, like how you lost control over your squadmates. But overall it was functional. A lot of things make Andromeda such a terrible game, the combat is not one of them.

 

[Deleted member 93841]

I'm in the camp of Andromeda being a good game, gameplay-wise, but a terrible game when it comes to the characters and dialogue. There's not a single character that I actually liked. Even the story was fairly okay, if a bit silly at times.

If I had to score it, I'd say it's a solid 7/10 game. Not the trainwreck that most make it out to be, though.

 

[jeffLebowski]

The combat is definitely great, but I really missed the control over squadmates. Bioware over the course of two franchises (Dragon Age and Mass Effect) has built this amazing fun power/ability combo system, and then they improve so much about the combat in Andromeda only to take away your ability to command squadmates to use a power so you can set up/complete a combo. You have to rely on the AI to do it, which is not nearly as terrible at it as Inquisition, but still lacking.

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The lack of squadmate control was a massive deal breaker for me too. I play the original trilogy almost as a tactical shooter, carefully pausing and picking every single power use. To not be able to do so in Andromeda feels so imprecise and sloppy. It actually feels like the battles are playing out and you're more of a spectator. So much of the combat is now out of your control.