Current Events > So I bought Mass Effect: Andromeda

(+) Yeah! (+)

Got it for $5. For that price, how bad can it be?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDj-cLnHrRQ
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Eh for $5 it's not much of a risk so that's fine

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Its really not a bad game it's just so much worse than ME 1,2,3

For $5 you'll have a lot of fun
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Its really not a bad game it's just so much worse than ME 1,2,3

For $5 you'll have a lot of fun

I only played a little bit at a friend's house a few years ago. I recall the jetpack actually being kind of fun to play around with, as far as combat goes.
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that's what you spend your allowance on? your mother would weep

it's ok

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Kitt posted...

I only played a little bit at a friend's house a few years ago. I recall the jetpack actually being kind of fun to play around with, as far as combat goes.

The combat is pretty fun. The squad and their interactions aren't too bad either.

It's everything in between that along with the incredibly uninspired story.
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Mechanically it's a good game, definitely worth the price of a cheap lunch

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Reis posted...

that's what you spend your allowance on? your mother would weep

lol
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Darmik posted...

The combat is pretty fun. The squad and their interactions aren't too bad either.

It's everything in between that along with the incredibly uninspired story.

I'm a bit disappointed right off the bat. I was hoping to customize my dad into a big, bald Black guy, who looked radically different from me and my twin. Oh well.
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I did the same thing a lil while back. Even if you just play it for a night, it's 5$ so eh. I didn't make it to the 2nd big planet

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I honestly don't have much good to say about Andromeda. It's wasted potential incarnate.

Plus there will never be a followup to it.

But I guess it did have good gameplay so if that's enough to keep you playing, then you should have fun. Characters and story really brought the experience down for me since it was so dull.

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Ivynn posted...

I honestly don't have much good to say about Andromeda. It's wasted potential incarnate.

I have good things to say
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I'm basically in the mood for a serviceable story-driven action-RPG shooter. I'm in a dry place when it comes to games at the moment.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

I have good things to say

Blue asari tiddies

Kitt posted...

I'm basically in the mood for a serviceable story-driven action-RPG shooter. I'm in a dry place when it comes to games at the moment.

Yeah, I guess serviceable is how I'd describe the story. I just expect better from Bioware. Even Dragon Age 2's story was more enjoyable to me.


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There really hasn't been a great Bioware style game this generation. It sucks. They were always my favorite.
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Darmik posted...

There really hasn't been a great Bioware style game this generation. It sucks. They were always my favorite.

Outer Worlds

I haven't played Greedfall.but everyone says it pulled it off
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Darmik posted...

There really hasn't been a great Bioware style game this generation. It sucks. They were always my favorite.

Ivynn posted...

Yeah, I guess serviceable is how I'd describe the story. I just expect better from Bioware. Even Dragon Age 2's story was more enjoyable to me.

Really, I'm just waiting for Cyberpunk and that's it. I need something that will at least remind of that for a bit. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided should've been it, but that game wasn't doing it for me.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Outer Worlds

I haven't played Greedfall.but everyone says it pulled it off

I played Outer Worlds. It's okay but it wasn't great.

Haven't played Greedfall though.
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I'm replaying it currently.

It's really bad.

I'll persevere through the crashes, insane load times and the game's aggressive efforts to waste my time, though.
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Darmik posted...

I played Outer Worlds. It's okay but it wasn't great.

Haven't played Greedfall though.

it's made by Spiders who have made a career of making low budget shitty knock off Bioware games

Everyone is saying this time they actually nailed it with Greedfall
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DeadBankerDream posted...

I'm replaying it currently.

It's really bad.

I'll persevere through the crashes, insane load times and the game's aggressive efforts to waste my time, though.

I don't remember if there is even any incentive to replay the game other than the romances.
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Enjoy your soiboi krogans

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Not that I remember. Just thought I should give the game another go to see how the "heavy" patching of the game before EA called it quits changes the experience from my first time playing it. After I'm done with this playthrough I will never touch this abhorrent creation for the remainders of my years on the this Earth.

Still, 5 dollars is about as good a price as you can get.

The real overpricing is the expected investment of time running back and forth on Voeld to stock up on ammunition and life support, watching stupid fuckwit animations and load screens of the Tempest flying off and landing again just so you can pick up your timed material rewards and strike team data, because the designers were either insane enough to think that it would be too overpowered to include such an option on the planetside forward stations, or they just forgot to put it in. And let's not forget having to go through all that same stuff because the second you leave a planet after completing some story you will likely get an email or a vidcall on your Notmandy telling you of a new mission on that same planet. And all the going back and forth in menus when crafting weapons because the game refuses to give you all the necessary information on one cohesive screen.

It's so bafflingly poorly designed.
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