Mass Effect: Andromeda

[murfle]

I've got 4 planets up to 100% viability, and have 2 more queued up in my priority ops missions. I don't even bother looking for minerals or hidden caches anymore unless I just happen to pass over something on the way to something else. The vaults are repetitive, but I like the suduko-esque puzzles. I do most missions, as long as there is a marker on my map. I did enjoy driving around the desert planet.

I must be over 60 hours in. I haven't played much in the past week or so, as I'm also getting a little bored. MP helps, but the constant crashes to homescreen are putting me off that as well, however that is apparently being fixed in the upcoming patch.

[ViperGTI]

We need more input however! Maybe it's just me.
[MENTION=289]Jan[/MENTION] [MENTION=6634]ViperGTI[/MENTION] [MENTION=2530]Wyvern[/MENTION]

What beith your thoughts on Andromeda Single Player?

It's not just you. I did wrote this a while ago and it still stands:

This is for me the indication that this game is way inferior to the previous ones. With both ME2 and ME3, on release I basically finished them in the first weekend. Played non-stop and didn't get bored once. I don't know how long I've been playing this one now but it feels like forever and I get bored often.

This really is like Dragon Age in space and while that was a great game, if I wanted to play Dragon Age... I'd be playing Dragon Age. As with all games that go open world (except maybe for Witcher 3), you get disconnected from the story and characters and now you're running around in different areas / planets having to do the same thing over and over for each planet. It's like ME has lost its identity. They should have rather kept the game shorter and focused more on the story and replayability. While this isn't a bad game, once I'm done with it, I don't see myself playing this again.

I did finish the game however and I really liked the main story (Hunting the Archon and further). I usually try to complete everything so I got bored so many times before I eventually got to the interesting part. They waste way too much time on nonsense making the game so long that I feel it has zero replayability.
I still think they should have kept the structure, engine and length of the previous games and just replaced the story and graphics. They had the winning recipe all along.

[Apollo]

This is on a flash sale at GMG for $34.99 (~R470) if anyone is interested.

[Solitude]

I finally have time to play and now it wants to update.

[Jan]

I finally have time to play and now it wants to update.

Here are the patch notes for anyone interested - http://blog.bioware.com/2017/05/09/m...ch-1-06-notes/

And two articles about the fallout due to Andromeda's lukewarm reception that are worth a read:

EA Responds To Mass Effect: Andromeda's Mixed Reaction, Talks BioWare New IP Delay

"...while overall the aggregate review scores were lower than we would have liked, we did have over 100 reviewers score the game at 80 or higher. So it represents a fanbase that's very passionate, that's looking for very particular things, and many players found exactly what they're looking for, and some players did not."

Sources: BioWare Montreal Scaled Down, Mass Effect Put On Ice For Now

BioWare has put Mass Effect on hiatus and turned Andromeda’s developer, BioWare Montreal, into a support studio, according to four sources close to the company.

[Jan]

What beith your thoughts on Andromeda Single Player?

I enjoyed the gameplay, enjoyed the overall plot, but the side quest design and writing were really bad. Understand I don't like criticising writing and I don't do it lightly -- as a writer I know how it feels to have someone tear into your work.

Andromeda is the kind of game where the environments are more interesting than many of the characters. The supporting characters are not as inspired/inspiring as those from the original Mass Effects, and the alien species just don't seem to offer anything... novel. The pacing in the development of relationships is also off, whether romantic or platonic.

While the narrative reason for the new leveling/character build mechanic was a little hamfisted (and not thought all the way through, it seems), I found the playstyle diversity it unlocked a lot of fun. I spent hours messing around with builds and gun augmentation combinations.

Once I found a really fun build, combat became amazingly fun. The fun builds, evading, and jetpacking in Andromeda coaxed me out of my usual hang-back-and-snipe (Infiltrator) style of playing Mass Effect, and got me right in the thick of the action with a shotgun. That was rad.

[Solitude]

So the patch broke a place in Kadara:
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports...s/td-p/6054297

I can't get close to there without it crashing.

[Solitude]

[czc]

lol