Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space
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WTF!
Mass Effect: Andromeda Review: Already better than Shepard | Stevivor
Even if you like the game how you could possibly give it a 9.5? The guy is obviously giving this game a pass because he's gay and Bioware is now also gay.
See above.
Mass Effect: Andromeda Review: Already better than Shepard | Stevivor
Even if you like the game how you could possibly give it a 9.5? The guy is obviously giving this game a pass because he's gay and Bioware is now also gay.
See above.
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Qhue
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I started over from the beginning last night since there was still time on the EA Access preview and I wanted to see the difference from doing vs not doing the optional missions.
Anywho, they do actually address the reason you start out going to Habitat 7, but its almost a throwaway line so its easy to miss. After they came out of hyperspace (or whatever we're calling how ships move around without Mass Relays) they mention that they are going to Habitat 7 as standard protocol when they haven't been able to contact the Nexus or the other arks.
Anywho, they do actually address the reason you start out going to Habitat 7, but its almost a throwaway line so its easy to miss. After they came out of hyperspace (or whatever we're calling how ships move around without Mass Relays) they mention that they are going to Habitat 7 as standard protocol when they haven't been able to contact the Nexus or the other arks.
khorum
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Of course they'd manage to make a more underwhelming ending than ME3!! I dunno how I thought they'd learn from that clusterfuck.
Seriously what in the actual fuck. Even the post-climax banter is cringey....and if that's the final battle then it's as good a representation of the rest of the combat gameplay as anything, and I don't see how anyone can say that the gameplay from the first 10 hours was ever gonna improve.
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kegkilla
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Skanda
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lol. I really hope they were going for drunk with that animation. The rest of the animation has been so shitty I'm ready to apply Poe's Law to this.
khorum
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Ahahhahaha. Yeah look at all the hordes of gamergaters shitting on Horizon: New Dawn you guys!!! It's all just shitlords shitlording on the internet, they just can't handle cucknormative genderpositivity in dey vidya!
Yeah, I know it's almost fucking SACRILEGOUS to compare this fucking abomination to Horizon:New Dawn, but that game is fucking full-on Julie Bindel-tier feminazi propaganda and you have the exact shame gamergate shitlords SHILLING IT who are dropping turdnukes on ME:A.
That's because its not a shit game.
Djevel Innenfor
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Got to end of trial. Uninstalled. Too few bright moments in the fog of mediocrity that is this game. Anyone giving this above a 75% rating (and I'm being generous) is straight trippin.
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My thought too, that it was a drunk animation accidentally applied to some rando NPC.
It's not a bad animation of what people who have never gotten drunk think drunk people move like.
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Shew. Good grief. Welp, I'm happy and sad.
Sad because I wanted a new ME game. Not a stinking pile of garbage that they're trying to sell us. Happy because maybe this will teach them to stop making open world games with fetch quests and writing so thin as to be sheer.
They tried to make DAI again. That won't work. Focus on the story.
EDIT : I mean, I'll give them that they were working out the kinks to a new engine in DAI. Sure. But this? No, not when they slapped an entirely different coat of paint on it and called it ME. That's the reason why I think DAI got such high reviews. That and being released in a time when not much else was being released.
Sad because I wanted a new ME game. Not a stinking pile of garbage that they're trying to sell us. Happy because maybe this will teach them to stop making open world games with fetch quests and writing so thin as to be sheer.
They tried to make DAI again. That won't work. Focus on the story.
EDIT : I mean, I'll give them that they were working out the kinks to a new engine in DAI. Sure. But this? No, not when they slapped an entirely different coat of paint on it and called it ME. That's the reason why I think DAI got such high reviews. That and being released in a time when not much else was being released.
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Watched TB stream the first parts of the game yesterday, and his opinion up to Eos was that it wasn't as bad as people claimed it was (it isn't the worst game ever made). It is, as I mentioned before, a game that is especially scrutinized due to the ties to the studio and IP. As a new game from a new studios first game (which it appears to be by the tweet from TB), it would end up in the 60-75% range.
That said, he had to quit the stream at Eos because of massive FPS issues. Not everyone has that issue (I didn't), but he got hit with long loading times and the FPS issues were very severe considering his rig. Got it to above 60 when he changed to low settings, but graphically that was very bad. He also noticed a very strange thing that changing some individual graphics settings required a full game restart in ME:A, while other games developed in the same engine does not need to do that. So it was very hard for him to change settings on the fly to see what actually caused the performance drops.
I am torn with this game. On one hand, bad development should be punished with bad sales, but I'd really like a new good Mass Effect game. Hopefully sales will indicate a much lower volume than expected, but enough to make them realize their mistake and go full on A team studio for the next one and not just cancel the franchise. Enough sales to indicate that there is a want for the franchise, but not done by their C "potato" team.
And boardroom suits don't care about "games" they look at the numbers and don't really care where they came from. Like the Bethesda thing.
Obsidian missed Fallout: New Vegas Metacritic bonus by one point
That said, he had to quit the stream at Eos because of massive FPS issues. Not everyone has that issue (I didn't), but he got hit with long loading times and the FPS issues were very severe considering his rig. Got it to above 60 when he changed to low settings, but graphically that was very bad. He also noticed a very strange thing that changing some individual graphics settings required a full game restart in ME:A, while other games developed in the same engine does not need to do that. So it was very hard for him to change settings on the fly to see what actually caused the performance drops.
I am torn with this game. On one hand, bad development should be punished with bad sales, but I'd really like a new good Mass Effect game. Hopefully sales will indicate a much lower volume than expected, but enough to make them realize their mistake and go full on A team studio for the next one and not just cancel the franchise. Enough sales to indicate that there is a want for the franchise, but not done by their C "potato" team.
And boardroom suits don't care about "games" they look at the numbers and don't really care where they came from. Like the Bethesda thing.
Obsidian missed Fallout: New Vegas Metacritic bonus by one point
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So I got to the final end point of the trial, did the side missions, and some multiplayer.
Verdict: 2/10.
About the only thing they did well were the world environments. Which some look like they were cut right out of SWTOR.
Everything else from the animations, story, dialogue, reply options (I mean holy shit.... I think I heard "OK LETS DO THIS!" about 56 times over the course 4 hours with the trial over a couple days) shitty combat (Feedback on hits is ridiculous) the absolutely horrid UI and AI, HORRIBLE, and I mean down right horrible voice acting (The only voice acting that is even close to passable is Ryder and the Ship voice itself when it is explaining how the initiative was started. Everything else, and it isn't even Hyperbole, is so God Awful there were times I just wanted to turn off my Xbox One and be done with it) The Multiplayer working with the single player was decent enough for resource gathering and ship upgrades, etc - but the entire system is weighed down on rewards because guess what? EA Microtransactions in the multiplayer. What is even more hilarious was a thought for a second I would see different mission types because of the mission descriptions (When tied into the single player) but nope... All it is is a horde mode every single time and the mobs at silver level are just bullet sponges and the entire mode is HORRIBLY overtuned to the point where you will need to buy things from the Microtransaction shop immediately if you want to stand a chance.
Seriously on top of everything else wrong with the game, they twisted the knife with that last one.
This all seems like some social experiment or market test. And unfortunately, they completely ruined the Mass Effect IP and anything with Bioware on the box. I will never be purchasing another Bioware title ever again after this train wreck.
Verdict: 2/10.
About the only thing they did well were the world environments. Which some look like they were cut right out of SWTOR.
Everything else from the animations, story, dialogue, reply options (I mean holy shit.... I think I heard "OK LETS DO THIS!" about 56 times over the course 4 hours with the trial over a couple days) shitty combat (Feedback on hits is ridiculous) the absolutely horrid UI and AI, HORRIBLE, and I mean down right horrible voice acting (The only voice acting that is even close to passable is Ryder and the Ship voice itself when it is explaining how the initiative was started. Everything else, and it isn't even Hyperbole, is so God Awful there were times I just wanted to turn off my Xbox One and be done with it) The Multiplayer working with the single player was decent enough for resource gathering and ship upgrades, etc - but the entire system is weighed down on rewards because guess what? EA Microtransactions in the multiplayer. What is even more hilarious was a thought for a second I would see different mission types because of the mission descriptions (When tied into the single player) but nope... All it is is a horde mode every single time and the mobs at silver level are just bullet sponges and the entire mode is HORRIBLY overtuned to the point where you will need to buy things from the Microtransaction shop immediately if you want to stand a chance.
Seriously on top of everything else wrong with the game, they twisted the knife with that last one.
This all seems like some social experiment or market test. And unfortunately, they completely ruined the Mass Effect IP and anything with Bioware on the box. I will never be purchasing another Bioware title ever again after this train wreck.
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A new game from a new studio wouldn't have 40 million dollars to blow on it, either.
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