Board 8 > Mass Effect Andromeda is done

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

No DLC confirmed. Sucks! I really liked it.
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horrible

great game and series destroyed by trolls and haters
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Yeah, I kinda figured.

hopefully the series is in cryo-sleep for a shorter period of time than the Andromeda crew was
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Was the game actually good? Better than 1-3? I doubt I'll ever play it.
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It's better than ME1. Not as good as ME2 or 3, but that's a pretty high bar to clear!
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Well BioWare Montreal merged with EA Motive almost two months ago so this was a forgone conclusion. Still, sucks. Andromeda was a fine, if inessential, game that cost too much money to develop, but it's still quite strange that one of the biggest franchises in modern games is now dormant.
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This sucks.
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Tie-in media for the quarian ark, eh?

Man, this game did not meet expectations by any metric.
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Jeff Zero posted...

Tie-in media for the quarian ark, eh?

I am actually interested in the two upcoming novels.

Less because it's Mass Effect and more because they're being written by two of the finest writers working in spec fic.
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Andromeda is a game with many problems, but also showed plenty of potential. Its combat was amazing, dialogue system not great, cast too hit-and-miss, story a rip-off of the trilogy, sidequests better developed than the ones in Inquisition (and the ME trilogy tbh) and the class-changing was a lot of fun.

But I've said it before, Mass Effect's future is completely dependent on Anthem. If it flops, it will be safer financially to revive and revitalize the ME franchise as opposed to making an Anthem 2. If Anthem 2 is succesful, we'll never see another ME game, or it will be after a very long time.
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LeonhartFour posted...

It's better than ME1. Not as good as ME2 or 3, but that's a pretty high bar to clear!

what if I liked ME1 more than ME2
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ninkendo posted...

LeonhartFour posted...

It's better than ME1. Not as good as ME2 or 3, but that's a pretty high bar to clear!

what if I liked ME1 more than ME2

then Andromeda is probably right up your alley
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The only problem I had with Andromeda were the bugs, which, while not game breaking for me, were very prevalent.
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I'm surprised we've yet to see an "enhanced" collection selling the whole trilogy and all DLC on one disk. Even at $60, it would be big money.
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ninkendo posted...

LeonhartFour posted...

It's better than ME1. Not as good as ME2 or 3, but that's a pretty high bar to clear!

what if I liked ME1 more than ME2

I'd prescribe seroquel.
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I've barely played ME1 and never touched the rest of the series, but I do feel like the video game industry was robbed of having essentially its own type of Star Wars trilogy. I don't feel bad about EA and Bioware making whatever mistakes they make -- they have to own that -- but the series was incredibly important at one point and this was the closest to anything touching Ocarina of Time for being like THE game saga-experience to ever play. I wanted that for the industry and I wonder when we'll ever approach that again.
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I thoroughly did not enjoy the game on any front, bugs be damned, so really I can't bring myself to feel anything about this. Shame for those who somehow managed to enjoy it, regardless of my feelings. I don't think there was anything they could have done to make me interested in playing any DLC after doing 100% on every planet.

There wasn't a season pass for this game right?
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KCF0107 posted...

There wasn't a season pass for this game right?

Correct. Even the deluxe edition just came with some in-game trinkets, no significant stuff.
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HaRRicH posted...

I've barely played ME1 and never touched the rest of the series, but I do feel like the video game industry was robbed of having essentially its own type of Star Wars trilogy. I don't feel bad about EA and Bioware making whatever mistakes they make -- they have to own that -- but the series was incredibly important at one point and this was the closest to anything touching Ocarina of Time for being like THE game saga-experience to ever play. I wanted that for the industry and I wonder when we'll ever approach that again.

I honestly feel like ME1-3 did give people that. It wasn't as universally beloved as Star Wars, but it's still easily the most "nostalgic" collection of games from the modern era. ME1 isn't even ten years old at the moment, but it feels so much older because players got so damn emotionally invested in the games, and THAT didn't truly happen until ME2. By the time ME became unquestionably relevant in the industry, we had already had a dozen GameFAQs contests. Most fans have only been playing the games for like seven years, but it feels like we've been talking about them for 20!
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Yeah, I feel like we did get that, right down to people arguing over whether the third installment was the best or the absolute worst.
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No more patches either? So that sodding mouse cursor is never going to go away?

Never been bothered by any other bugs, but that one really annoys the hell out of me.
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BlackMageJawa posted...

No more patches either? So that sodding mouse cursor is never going to go away?

Never been bothered by any other bugs, but that one really annoys the hell out of me.

I'm sure there will be fan patches.
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I won 50 dollars writing about Andromeda so I can't complain!

HaRRicH posted...

but the series was incredibly important at one point and this was the closest to anything touching Ocarina of Time for being like THE game saga-experience to ever play.

Man, when I beat the third game, I was sad. Not because of how the ending played out, but because I had to stop LIVING with these characters. The epic was done. No more moments with Garrus, no more checking in with Liara, and no more experiencing the stories of all the different races and peoples. Do you know how much that sucked? To not be able to experience that world anymore? And how impressive it is that Bioware made a world where you can still feel like you want to keep experiencing it and all the people in it after 250-300 hours?

Mass Effect was THE game saga. Each game on its own isn't necessarily the best game of all time (especially not the first one), but there is no continuous story in video game history that was as amazing as the Mass Effect trilogy. And it's totally on par with Star Wars as a space epic. In my opinion, it's better, but that's just me.
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Yeah for all the faults you might or might not have with it, playing it continuously through 3 games with your choices altering stuff was really cool. Could have done more in terms of your choices having an impact but that's a production issue and I'm more than satisfied with what we got
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Do you know how much that sucked?

Yes.
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Jeff Zero posted...

Do you know how much that sucked?

Yes.

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Cool, I'm glad ya'll had that lasting epic experience. I was worried after ME3's ending drama that it ruined it for too many people.
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it only ruined it for dumb people and people who wanted to get into the series and got scared off
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The worst thing about the Andromeda debacle is the people who just didn't like the game because they thought it wasn't very good getting shouted at by people calling them idiots and saying they're just following the herd and memes, and only hate it because the bugs.

Like, playing the game for over 60 hours and doing every single mission and then when you say you don't think it was good because of the story and characters people straight up call you a liar and claim you never played the game?

Can you even imagine being so defensive that you totally shut down anyone who doesn't like the game you like?

Iunno I remember you being like that with Undertale for a while there
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Nope. I praised the game really hard but I never told anyone they were an idiot for not liking it! In fact I very specifically was open about the belief that the game wasn't for everyone.

Alright
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JonThePenguin posted...

Jeff Zero posted...

Do you know how much that sucked?

Yes.

Good. Everyone should know how much that sucked because that means that you got the most out of the games.
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LtMplusCATS posted...

The worst thing about the Andromeda debacle is the people who just didn't like the game because they thought it wasn't very good getting shouted at by people calling them idiots and saying they're just following the herd and memes, and only hate it because the bugs.

Like, playing the game for over 60 hours and doing every single mission and then when you say you don't think it was good because of the story and characters people straight up call you a liar and claim you never played the game?

Can you even imagine being so defensive that you totally shut down anyone who doesn't like the game you like?

if you're talking about me and SMuffin the joke wasn't that you never played it

the joke was that you secretly love it because only a masochist would 100% a game they say they hate
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I'm at ~50% completion of Andromeda right now and this makes me sad. The game is far from perfect, but I'm enjoying it.
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the joke was that you secretly love it because only a masochist would 100% a game they say they hate

I loved it and didn't even 100%, lulz
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I honestly thought there might be some hidden payoff somewhere in the story, but the main reason I did everything is that I didn't know until after I beat it that they weren't planning to carry over to another game. Thought this was the start of a new trilogy.

And someone did specifically accuse me of lying, but I don't remember who it was. Was in that same topic at least.

Oddly enough I know it wasn't Smuffin because he directly asked me what my issues with the game were.

Also I heard the patched planet transitions, so I assume that part is coming off much more favorably to newer players.

I feel bad for the people who worked on it, but this game deserves it. I'm glad a rushed sequel game full of bugs finally got destroyed and burned the company. It teaches a lesson to stop doing that crap. Like, Street Fighter V did the same thing and while Marvel vs Capcom Infinite has a bunch of unrelated issues with it, the one thing they did was learn and take feedback from all the people who dumped on their game to make sure they didn't make the same mistakes.
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LeonhartFour posted...

people who wanted to get into the series and got scared off

hi

although with my backlog I most likely never would've gotten around to it anyway!!
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