Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space

Charge is good mainly because mele is the highest source of attack damage (why they nerfed it on bosses in MP) and it regains shield. The common thread of all the powers I recommend (aside from Incinerate which is good against armor and acts as ghetto stun) is shield regain. With the right choices in the passives, Annihilation Field, Charge, and an Asari Sword (for the autotracking attack animation), you can charge in to gain 50% shields, then whack something with a sword to gain another 50% shield. If you have a combo trigger to pop an explosion off of Afield, you can rack up another 20% shield per kill with optimum talent choices. This applies in both SP and MP, but its more vital in Insanity SP since the enemies have so many HP and warp in magically. With the dogshit cover mechanics, you basically are best off having constant shield regeneration power cycles, which the Vanguard setup does best. But simply having Shied Boost and Energy Drain can achieve the same effect, if you want to play the hunker down and shoot approach. Basically, due to the crappy cover and DA2 style warp ins, stacking shield regeneration is essential on Veteran and above. Plus playing as a Vanguard is the least boring in SP and the best way around the crappy netcode in MP. And the most hilarious part is that the developers have not figured out that the reason people do it is because of the shield regen, so they have been nerfing mele damage instead.

goddamnit.

So yeah, brief history. I played ME1 for about 15 minutes back in the day, wasn't exactly looking for a cover shooter, didn't get in to it. And I played and beat ME2 when it came out but that was the extent of my ME experience. Never bothered with ME3 because I heard the ending was terrible and it required Mulltiplayer and IOS game add ons to "beat it properly and get the good sp ending" and fuck all that noise.

But i'm traveling with limited internet connectivity so I bought the ME Trilogy instead of buying this game.

So i just played through the full trilogy, basically you can say for the First time (since I only really played ME2, and basically got everyone killed on the suicide mission the 1 time I played it). Played the same Character through Imports (and boy is that shit buggy as fuck now with origin). Max Paragon, "perfect" endings to all 3 games. With the "extended Cut" I was able to get the "Shepard Lives" ending before multiplayer, which is good because there's only about 5 people total still playing MP and with my limited internet was only able to get in 5 matches total over the course of a week, most of the time just me and 1 other person playing, and barely got 70% readiness with that (which put me over the original number needed to get the perfect ending without the extended cut)

So ok, I like the ME universe. The trilogy was great. You can see the progression of the game, the systems, the UI, the clunkiness etc as the games get better and better over time. I think the main problem with the Ending of ME3 is that it's an ending. You don't get to do anything afterwards. And Yeah I get it, it takes "a perfect" game to even have the option to do anything afterwards, but after going through all the trouble I wanted something, shit just a cut scene showing me and Tali making babies or something. living life on Quarian homeworld with a dog or something. Basically I just wanted to see some continuum of the Shepard story.

And that's where I fucked up. I was like "man I want to keep playing ME....let's see if this Andromeda Game is really as bad as the reviews...."


oh man



So Yeah, basically fresh perspective from someone who is very recent to the series and never experienced the original hate of the ME3 ending checking in.

This shit is garbage. I haven't played enough to know the story yet, so I can't even bitch about SJWism or whatever. Purely on gameplay this shit is trash.

It's like they took the worst parts of each Mass Effect game and made that a game. Seriously for those of you who haven't played the original games in a while you probably don't remember all the crappy parts of the various games, but they are all back, and none of the good of those games came with it.

Everything about the game is a step backwards. The UI is the worst parts of ME1 with both the tedious "looting everything" from ME1, plus the "upgrade" system from 2/3 which was used to replace the shitty loot system from 1 making it even more bloated. They brought Maps back but instead of Hitting "M" to open and close you hit "M" to open, then have to hit escape twice to close it, because clunkiness is a virtue. No more quick saving? Can't save at all on certain missions, and have to navigate this bloated trash UI to save manually. the fuck? There are no more levels, they brought back the open world maps from 1 (the mako side missions with limited PoIs and a lot of shitty traveling in between) but those are the levels now. It's nothing but that. "exploration". It's one thing to hide upgrades in cubby holes and corners of a largely linear Map, but doing so in huge open world terrains with limited POIs? the fuck is wrong with these kids. that shit is just fucking tedious.

Oh remember the worst part of ME2? Scanning planets? Let's bring that back and ramp up the gayness to 11. Now you have a scanner on your arm in addition to your ship, and you need to walk around really slow across these huge open world maps scanning for shit all the time. Basically walking simulator. Oh and occassionally things shoot at you, but fuck the cover system (which I finally got around to liking cover based shooters playing the trilogy), fuck being able to control being in cover or not. But here's a jet pack, it'll totally get you killed if you use it, but you'll need it for more EXPLORATION!.


After all that, you have the regular gripes: the Voice acting and animations are just so shitty. Salarians are now gay pakistani's. That's how they talk now. Krogan are trans boys who's hormones are all fucked up. Everyone got hit with the ugly stick, humans are all fucking down syndrome kids. Seriously the graphics are just a higher polycount version of ME1 graphics. Hell i'm confident that ME1 had better graphics, just lower res.

The only decent NPC is your father and he dies immediately.

They haven't explained it yet why this Andromeda Initiative went down, but i'm assume it was to "escape what was going on in the Milky Way, with the Reapers" since that's the logical explanation on why these people would flee. "Best and Brightest of the Milky Way" i'm assuming was just the brochure to get these dimwits to volunteer to leave.

Someone said it earlier and it makes sense with the story. While Shepard was busy saving the galaxy he needed the "undesirables" to be dealt with so they weren't a burden on the galaxy during war time, so someone convinced all the retard tranny down kids to pack their shit and leave voluntarily, they were sold some bull shit fantasy about a new start "best and brightest" and they bought that shit hook line and sinker. Of course it all went to hell because they only had 1 man with a goddamn clue sent with them to baby sit and he dies immediately and nobody is around to handle shit, and it's left to you, the retarded millennial kid

oh man this game is even gayer than I thought.

So they took the shitty controls of the Mako from ME1, took the cannon off so it's just a car, and then combined that with the shitty scanning for resources mechanic from ME2.

So basically you drive around this shitty car that handles like shit with no ability to defend itself (I have just been running over enemies with it, takes like 6 or 7 hits to kill an enemy by running it over) with a scanner screen up and launch mining drones from the car. Talk about shit design.


And fuck that, nope. Time Line is as follows: Shepard needed to MMWGA and he couldn't do that with all these degenerates mooching resources so he used spectre authorization to send all these shitstains to another galaxy so they could be someone elses problem.

It reminds me of one of the stories from Hitchhikers guide to the universe. A civilization sent all their administrators and bedwetters on an expedition to colonize another galaxy just to get rid of them.

Agreed. Plus they are developing this for PSVR.

With that also said, I am going to wait for reviews on Farpoint. The last games I had spent $39-49 on were no where near that in terms of content.

lol how is that a nice thing?

With a lot of bullshit tedium you can get a vehicle that's still infinitely shittier than Mako from ME1.

That's all this game is, fucking tedium. The worst elements of the 3 previous games amalgamated together in a shit sandwich of which there is no escape.

Played a little bit more to find out the story is just as shitty as everything else in the game. Your a bunch of hipster millenials who "aww shucks well you tried" your way through some trite bullshit. So far I got a Transracial Asari wanna be, faggot salarians and tranny krogan, to top off the down syndrome humans.

This game sucks period it has zero redeeming qualities.

i'm just going to replay 1 - 3, Renegade shep vanguard here i come