Andromeda Really That Bad in 2024?
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2024
- I set out to know once and for all if Mass Effect Andromeda was as bad as everyone thought. Andromeda was released in 2017 to middling reviews and frankly divisive opinions from fans. Now, years later, my goal is to find out if it really was as bad as many say, or if it holds up to todays standards, and most of all, why it wasn’t as big of a hit as the trilogy.
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God damn it, I just realize that outrider has the exact same intro - alien world, unknown, anomaly and weather towels - and your FATHER figure dies at the start.
They do that trope a lot it seems
the original Lost Planet game did that as well but with mech and monster
To this day, I will never understand how that "My face is tired" line made it past so many people. A team of writers really sat at a table and were like "Yup that's definitely a sentence that normal human beings say"
Then the supervisor saw it and was like "Yep that's some A+ dialogue right there"
Then the director saw it and was like "Brilliant! Put it in the game!"
Then the voice actor recorded the line like a lobotomized robot and everyone was like "Amazing! One take!" 😂
It's funny because you're writing satire but that's exactly what would have had to happen. 🤣
@@Dantics you can tell I've spent a lot of time thinking about that one line. That's how you know it's historically bad 😂
It was such a great line that it had to be put in her first conversation.
Get people hooked early you know.
lol
That’s the only line of dialogue that I clearly remember.
Here's the easy answer, they were pressed for time, and had to host a particular feminist who gave them routine lectures on how to remove "misogyny" from video games which said feminist and the studio then also had to make videos to boast about thus taking up several hours of the day which equalled the equivalent of days worth or work being wasted just so she could stick it to "racist white men" at their game and company's expense. they didn't have the time or energy to do even basic quality control. Also remember the impact of EA on all games at the time was "we'll fix it after release" and "we need that ESG money we're broke and everyone under the sun is suing us, virtue signal because your life depends on it because I will kill you if I lose this job."
The writers were cryogenically frozen for 600 years and then thawed out to write for this game.
nah i bet the writers were the same dogwater woke activists that plague gaming today
Moaners like you killed this game. The bugs were mostly sorted. Of course, NEVER use the original Ryder faces. Use mods.
Andromeda was undercooked. After the patches, it was tolerable, but still mid and predictable. But there were absolute gems in there at times. But it really needed another year plus the patches.
It needed another year in the oven for sure
The combat to its credit is actually fantastic, its just a shame literally EVERYTHING ELSE feels like a really shitty imitation of a Mass Effect game. Mass Effect by this point already does kind of feel like a slightly dated mid 2000s grand sci fi, but Andromeda felt like a *parody* of ME rather than a proper entry into the universe.
Honestly never really gave it much thought the Cora Harper concept art looks WAY better, and even more immersive.
With her hair all tied back like that, it gives her face a similar apperance to Asari, and about 78.3% of her whole character is "I trained with Asari" so it kinda works real well.
The lines around her head, cheeks and neck are all very smooth and contoured just like the Asari "head fins"?
Never Forget What They Took From You.
It makes me sad
Damm I was believed that you were gonna be like oh its not all bad
Then you tore into every aspect of the game and made sure to do amazing sarcastic views we all had when it came out
It was too hard to be serious playing this game. Replaying it had me struggling to find much good in it. It's an okay game but damn, it really doesn't have the magic.
@@DanticsUnderstable
I’ve played through it a few times and it’s not that bad and also super super cheap now and worth the asking price. Also I’ll be brutally honest does a few things better than Starfield 😨 🙈 🤣
Definetly does! Exploration for one.
But we have the context of starfield for that comparison. At the time any predating game did the exploration better if in a smaller area. And of course the release asking price was well the release asking price. The game is now worth the product quality+time spent-time wasted virtue signalling with some obscure RUclips feminist most people have no clue about when I name her, yet who gets invited to everything and seems to just stumble into money like her last name is Clinton.
Completely getting rid of paragon and renegade was a mistake. I wish there were more new races and the enemies were slightly compelling. Other than that, the game is a lot of fun, especially now that it’s not a buggy mess.
@@edwardkitrick5120 it was killed by dumb 'fans'. Actually sales have picked up and it is not a failure now in terms of business.
After warching this, how arent people worried for the new ME? The last two Bioware games have been universally panned flops.
The next Mass Effect has another team that will work on it. Also some very known names. Plus they are using Unreal Engine 5. It is a beast of an engine, I use it too for cinematics. The only thing that can flop is plot. Bugs that occur later can be patched💁🏻♂️
because its not being made entirely by a multiplayer team with no management
Nice job on the character customization , he looks exactly like you .
Hahahaha I actually prefer using the defaults because their models always are better rendered
@@Dantics not really an option
Andromeda as a game by itself was good and fun, but as a mass effect game.. not so much. I just dont think any enemy can beat the Reapers and therefore it will always feel a little lackluster. Plus the fact that all the asari looked the same was unforgivable
They not only looked the same they had this weird chubby cheek thing going on as well that made them look a little cartoonish.
Let's not forget that this entire thing started before ME3 so I would like to know where did they get all this tech to build citadel 2.0 when citadel 1.0 was made by reapers. Andromeda doesn't even have mass relays...
Mass Effect Andromeda is way better then starfield.
Agreed unfortunately
Thats crazy because i was choosing between Starfield and Andromeda. Thank god i picked the right one (will play Starfield in time but i know how Bethesda games gets down).
Oh yeah? Mass effect WAS way better? THEN starfield. Yeah I agree starfield did replace Mass Effect in greatness. 😂
Damn Starfield must really suck
It is
TLDR; "fvck this, I'm done"
Prettttty much
After playing Starfield this game is actually awesome LOL
I tried playing this shit and quit during the first mission after getting a level up.
Midway through playing this for the first time after my trilogy replay and my biggest gripe is the main character. I feel like im playing the manager of a walmart, I despise Ryder, there's plenty of other problems too, but having a good player character should be a priority in a RPG.
I'm with you. I point this out multiple times in this video for that reason.
It felt like playing support cast Paul Rudd, or even Adam Scott. It’s a steep decline from original Shepard.
I know compared to Shepherd you're a toaster. But I'm okay with new characters unlike most people
I believe that their claim that no DLC was ever planned for this game was just them not wanting to bother, I hate that we never got to know what happened to Turian/Quarian ship.
They wrote a novel about it
Idk, I feel like I'm the only person unbothered by the female krogan you meet towards the beginning. If she found out early on that she's not one of those highly-valued fertile females, I can totally imagine her deciding to go her own way, maybe learn some new skills, and even hop to another galaxy. Not like she's doing much for her species back home, right? She doesn't have to worry about leaving behind a family, if she can't have children (like MOST females!).
It's pretty common to try and put in unexpected characters. They did this with Legion, Javik and EDI's body in the earlier games.
I never knew the female krogan was bothersome to anyone.
I enjoyed Andromeda, not as much as the holy trilogy, but it's still better than Dragon Age 2 innit. Gamers that put gameplay above the story should love Andromeda, you can space boost whilst cloaked Vanguard Surprise. I'll always customize Sara even when I'm playing default Scott with default Alec switch on
The combat was the only good thing about the game, and that's fucking sad.
You know what, for all the GLARING issues with the game, the multiplayer for Mass Effect Andromeda was actually very enjoyable, well balanced, and was clearly the majority of their effort.
The memes are on point. Zoidberg one got me HARD
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Thank you for jumping on that grenade! I played it twice and both times put it down exactly where you did. Chalk it up to another interstellar lost expedition. Can't wait till "ME4 The Search for Andromeda"
I hope they make another game but I doubt it. Plus Andromeda was a one way trip. Nails likely sealed that coffin. Damn shame.
I hope we do find Andromeda in a future sequel. I hate not finding out who Andromeda was.
Thumbs up for the Shepard, Garrus, Phoebe comic blood 😂😂😂
I played a like 500 hs AND i love this game. It Is not so bad
My personal reasons I didn't like it:
- although some of the ideas of the skills were great, the balance was in favor of the shooty - boomy style of gameplay making it more of a shooter and less of an action RPG like the originals
- regurgitated bosses and boss battles
- regurgitated mechanics that mimicked UbiSoft games (ugh)
- removed the satisfying "BA-DOOM" biotic explosion
- unmemorable soundtrack
- largely unmemorable characters
- boring plot
Ryder Sr. is voiced by Clancy Brown which is a badass VA and actor in general.
The way they misused Clancy was criminal.
Yeah. It kind of baffles me how Bioware could so completely drop the ball on the things they were known for; Good worldbuilding, story and compelling characters.
But somehow manage to make the gunplay, combat and movement so much better.
Which, to be honest, they'd kind of struggled with.
The exploration was kind of 50/50. Some of it was clear improvement and some was, again, fumbled.
Not having guns on the car was a miss. And not filling the worlds with interesting content worth exploring was also a miss.
I don't know if keeping the game in the cooker for longer would have helped, because it doesn't feel like a Bioware game in many ways.
The writing was largely craptacular, after all. It showed that the old gang had either left the company or were doing other things.
Though it did suffer from being rushed in the typical evil EA soulless corporate fashion.
I played it. The ket were weird, but it was pretty good to me. To each their own.
only turning your brain OFF makes this game good.
no mod or miracle will fix it
Thats the problem. You can't fix the writing
A lot of the gripes about gameplay and story could’ve been forgiven if the characters were at least fun and interesting, and the reality is they’re not. Someone once described these characters as being the watered-down, hot topic versions of the trilogy characters, and that holds true after playing.
Liam and Cora are supposed to be this game’s watered down Kaiden and Ashley.
Peebee is a more eccentric version of Liara.
SAM is a less sarcastic, funny version of EDI.
Vetra is just Garrus’ base personality copy-pasted onto a new character without any consideration for what made him so well-loved to begin with.
And Ryder is the blandest version of them all. She’s just so passive and disinterested. The VA for Sara literally sounds BORED. After years of having an overconfident, intimidating, reaper-killing badass, the Ryder siblings just don’t live up to the legacy Shepard left behind.
I bought the game in discount for $8 and… it’s not a devastating loss of money, but it’s really not all that worth it
I love sarcastic comments, this video was hilarious! I usually play as Sara cause she pulls the puns better than Scott. Despite it's flaws, this is my favorite ME game. I like that Ryder doesn't star off as badass. It comes off as more believable when your successes change how people react. Also, Kesh is the best. I sell out Drakk to her hardcore after the bar fight, after telling him that that is exactly what I'm going to do 😂
I actually really enjoyed Andromeda when it was released, considering the events of Ryder are taking place at the same time as Sheppard's campaign against the reapers, im wondering if the new ME, will bring Andromeda into consideration or abandon it totally. Love this video man!
'Technically' it's 600 years after the events, but it doesn't really matter all that much if the next game is set 1000 years after, right? I feel that's what they should do.
@@Dantics ohh really? Thanks for correcting me i had honestly thought it was happening in parallel :)
@@VG_86 oh it's understandable. They leave for Andromeda just after ME2. It takes over 600 years to arrive though!
From what's been gleaned from the teasers so far, the next game should take place not long after Andromeda, and apparently there will be travel between the two galaxies.
Mike Gamble has already said Andromeda will play a role in the game. The real question is, how good is the new writing team?
It's my favourite Mass Effect for one reason, the NOMAD is infinitely better than the MAKO. The MAKO made me hate the original trilogy.
the Mako really made it worse
Despite all the hate i got this game a few months after release and always enjoyed it. It def will never live up to the first 3. mass effect 2 will always be my fav. But it's a good game.
Yes, a lot of hysterics about.
I didn't think it was outstanding or anything, but had the game not been attached to ME it would have got a vastly different reception.
I beat this game on PC recently. It wasn't terrible - I'd rather play it again than Dragon Age Inquisition, for example. I would have preferred if Andromeda followed Dad Ryder when he was doing all his Pathfinder stuff.
See you hit the nail on the head there. Alek Ryder would have made a FAR superior protagonist. Someone you can take seriously.
Fixed character? Really? I don't like that for games that aren't adaptations of movies or books!
It should of never been a MASS EFFECT GAME.. its the worst game in the series and literally a 4-6 at most
Only real bug I found in this game, during Liam’s “armor” mission he was missing and the cutscene had three jaals. That was a bit awkward
I mean, the one thing I was very surprised to see a lack of sarcasm about was the fact that Peebee jumping you like that is OBVIOUSLY a sexual thing. Like, the lack of subtlety is wild. I've never had a game beat me over the head with "HEY, THIS IS A LOVE INTEREST" that hard before.
I did not know I needed this. I have been laughing out loud as I shop. Thank you.
I'm so glad! I did this purely for fun, and knowing someone enjoyed it is icing
Noticing that ME:A's opening chapter is almost the same as ME1's.
ME1 :
Eden Prime, introduces antagonist Saren, main object to chase Saren. Establish first two squad mates.
Citadel, introduces incompetent leadership, run around doing errands for lazy security.
Therum, acquire Asari squad mate Liara, who acts like a naive school girl, that can help you understand the old machines.
During this time you acquire a 1000+ year old, red Krogan, a disgruntled male security officer Turian, and a gypsy girl.
MEA :
Habitat 7, introduces antagonist Archon, main object to avoid Archon. Establish first two squad mates.
Nexus, introduces incompetent leadership, run around doing errands for lazy security.
Eos, acquire Asari squad mate Peebee, who acts like a snarky school girl, that can help you understand the old machines.
During this time you acquire a 1000+ year old yellow Krogan, a disgruntled female logistics officer Turian, and a Jamaican.
So what you're saying is the writing is lazy in ME:A? :P
Southern African, not Jamaican.
Pretty common tropes across all games and some media. The errands are to customise you to how the game works, etc.
Being ME would you expect anything to be different?
Try harder.
Playing through it again now. Andromeda is not as nearly as bad as people made it out to be at release (aside from the stiff facial animations). But it is just *fine*, which after the masterpiece the original trilogy was feels like a bit of a punch in the gut. That said, the game is still enjoyable, and has it's moments. When I first finished the game I still felt like I had fun it so I got what I wanted out of the experience.
I'm not the kind of person who expects EVERY game to be a masterpiece (I think that's an unrealistic expectation many gamers have), but I at least hope the next Mass Effect is a bit more consistent in it's narrative delivery and gameplay polish (save the combat, I really liked the combat in this entry) than Andromeda was.
I went in not expecting it to be as good as the Mass Effect trilogy; and, my expectations were met. But, that's okay, because the ME trilogy was astounding and a cult classic - few titles can rival it. And, not trying to compare it, I played it for what it was - and had a good time. Also, the stay frosty quip at the end was a hint on which powers to use there... just sayin'. :)
It was 100% a joke about them being on an ice planet and the fact that 'stay frosty' is a term used to mean 'stay alert'. The enemies them selves are not vulnerable to ice attacks more than usual.
I never lost Wrex, I never lost a companion in the suicide mission...I don't get how people made the wrong decisions in ME1 and 2...I never did!
Facts. I had to do other playthroughs just to fail loyalty mission or purposely kill my squad
The game was decent, despite some frustrating bugs and glitches, which most games suffer from, until patches are added. The amount of patches and fixes is what matters the most, some games do a great job with their patches and fixes, while other games are totallt abandoned. My score for Mass Effect: Andromeda is a 7.5, or 8 at tops.
"Most games suffer from..." does not make a game better. For some games, patches makes them OK. For some, the game still suck (CP2077). For some, it makes it great (or one of the best games ever (Witcher 3)). But for patches to make up for initial faults, the core game in itself needs to be good. ME:A is not such a game. Even after patches it is mediocre at best.
You are nutty if you think cyberpunk 2077 is not on the same lvl as witcher.
@@Dexyu You are entitaled to your opinion. But CP2077 is nowhere near W3 in any way.
W3 had some bugs at launch. I had none with CP2077 except quest not starting or ending and other bits and bobs (game breaking in their own way), but it seems everyone else had. (CP2077 still has t-posing and textures not loading)
W3 was a complete game. CP2077 is still missing parts.
W3 had a decent skill system. CP2077 is still struggling.
W3 had a solid expansion. CP2077 got Phantom Liberty that is a cinematic trailer.
And that are some of the collective and objective truths.
Then there are my opinion which is that CP2077 is brilliant in some parts, but mostly shite.
I would say it was a meh game over all. Meh is fine but fine is not okay for a sequel of such an amazing trilogy imo. That's why people are 'harder' on it. It's fine but it has a lot of problems it shouldn't have had because the studio has already learned what is successful.
@@Dantics Pardon me for the late reply, but any game that has Mass Effect or Dragon Age in the title has to be better than okay or even pretty good. I think Andromeda is an okay game once you overlook the more cringy parts, and could have been worthy of the ME title with another six months to a year to cook and a better/more consistent team working it. It's a coulda...woulda...shoulda game
I like the equipment customization and the power sets, thats about it.
I like all those things too. If there was classes and more than 3 equipped, would have been perfect.
@@Dantics I mean gameplay-wise sure, but the narrative was horrid, it needed more time to cook in the oven. Maybe give your teammates more depth and give the Archon and your twin an actual character.
Bullshit plus the Mass Effect series gave you three abilities to work with...Only three. This one gave you all of them. You had a choice between which special ammo you could use. Maybe barrier (which you get as a passive ability with the biotic tree so that makes 4). Add in the consumables portion and you can have 8 abilities including a goddamn rocket launcher. That definitely trumps ME2 who had to dumb things down because the goated ME1 system was "too much work" 😑
There is more "depth" from all the characters. You can find out more of their personalities as well as who gets along with who since the two characters you take on missions that make you use the nomad for transport will be talking to each other. None of the other ME games did this. The majority of the "cons" coming from most people is putting the term "petty nitpicking" under a microscope and dissecting it for further analysis.
Mass Effect Andromeda is better in 2024 especially in light of the current state of games.
For telling you the truth I played & beat this game 3X also clearing all the quest & get the platinum trophy on ps4, named my character Philip jay Fry 😂
Hahaha man of class I see. I finished it 2.5 times but still, can't get into like I did with the trilogy
@@Dantics I like the trilogy but for some unexplainble reason I love this game I have so much fun maybe bcuz I love watching Futurama all over again & again haha ,I'm going for the 4th playthrough ds week playing as female "Amee Wong" 😂
the story and forced decisions you have to make was trash
some dialogue was just idiotic 8:55
Agreed!
The unbelievable part is some people thought this was going to be good! ME3 started with Day 1 DLC and just went downhill from there.
Expectations are set before you even start. The first humans to travel to another galaxy. Untamed wilderness surrounds you at every turn. You are the Pathfinder! But no matter where you go, somebody's already been there first. Not only that, but they made big mistakes and ruined something, and you have to fix it. I have yet to find a place that hasn't been thoroughly trampled.
Everyone seems to be based on the same base culture as every other alien race, especially the natives of Andromeda. Nobody respects you, no matter what you do. The "aliens" look like Claymation gone digital and there appears to be no difference between their culture and what we left behind. And your "enemy" just seems to be there just to give you somebody to shoot. This is a B movie right out of the 80s.
Maybe things improve. I don't know, I haven't finished the game. But blame me, I dare you?
The only thing I could say about this game was that after the patches the gameplay wasn't bad. The rest of it? Cora: "I'm an asari commando and don't you forget it." I hope to god ME5 doesn't go back to Andromeda.
It has been said 'that Andromeda was written by people who only played the Citadel DLC' I think about this alot...you need to earn a Citadel DLC.
19:25 sounds like how most of my experiences go.
You're right that the sarcasm is draining my life support...and doing so with such intensity that my face is tired.
Bro, this was the best Mass Effect video I've ever watched on RUclips. Well, ok. It's the only Mass Effect video I've ever watched on RUclips. But I still subscribed!
Thank you man. I really appreciate this. Just so I know for next time, what did you enjoy?
it's not a bad game. Just a bad Mass Effect.
What I don't understand is how they found this many people who thought the humor was, well humorous. I have said from the start that the writing was terrible, but there are plenty of games with worse dialogue. The problem with ME: Andromeda is that the jokes draw so much attention to the writing which was obviously not the game's strong point. It was like they decided that since combat was probably the weakest part of the ME trilogy, well they should obviously change everything? And they had the same person writing jokes for each character, thereby giving them all the same kinda off sense of humor. It's like when you say something you think is witty just to realize it sounded better in your head. Except in a video game you could have edited it out once you realize that it isn't funny, but they didn't.
Next was Fem Ryder. I get it, Jayde Rossi is too attractive and women don't look like that in real life. The contradiction being that Jayde Rossi is a real person and everyone isn't an out of shape 5'4" 180lbs woman from the US, while the ones with proportions like Fem Ryder are far less common than women with beautiful faces. So why do games, and this almost seems to have started with Andromeda, keep making women's faces _eh_ compared to their models'? They got Male Ryder and Liam almost perfect, so the initial statement about the facial tech not working well seemed dubious from the get-go. As for Cora, I was fine with her hair, though I do like the concept art a bit better. Lol, now her proportions seemed out of whack and I am OK with that.
Moving on to the Asari. Wow did they f that up. From the bodies to their poor, poor faces...how could they possibly let that slide? Also, there was a lot of chatter about not bothering with proper lore, well the Asari portrayal nails that to a "T". I mean c'mon, Peebee has eyebrows! I don't even mind her face as a whole, as I guess she is _cute_ in a bi-sexual high school crush kind of way, but you at least have to know that Asari don't have eyebrows. Bloody heck. Only having two facial models for the Asari in the entire game does not help either. Peebee's and everyone else's.
Vetra was by far my favorite NPC. She definitely had the best overall writing. She didn't have the repeated annoying _quirks_ of Cora, Liam, Peebee or Jarl which goes a long way when those quirks are annoying as heck. _"But I was an Asari commando...", "Back in my days with an elite Asari Commando squad...", "It was hard being the only human on a team of special tactics Asari Commandos..."_ Yes Cora, we get it, you like doing pushups with your shirt off and joking about everything. Oh wait, that may have actually gone a long way in making her repeated dialogue more bearable...
All that said, once I finally got passed Eos (which took me about 35 real life hours over 3 separate attempts at starting the game) I did end up enjoying the game. The graphics were pretty exceptional save female faces and the gameplay was above average. I was not a huge fan of the vaults, but that mostly had to do with not being able to save along with the scanning leading up to them. I've never heard it called _"Scandromeda,"_ but wow does that fit perfectly and was my least favorite part of the game, to the point where I ended up using a trainer to find materials as looking for them manually slowed the game to a crawl. I'd rather launch probes than use the ME:A approach. It wasn't jsut resources either. From the initial sabotage quest to the murder mystery on the planet, I just found it obtrusive to my enjoyment of the game. Once the game found it's footing and scanning was almost exclusively relegated to finding the glyphs to do the puzzles to get into the vaults it didn't bother me as much.
Hopefully they learned what players find most important in these games, with games like Cyberpunk and Baldur's Gate showing that writing really is the most important thing in RPG's, whether they are action based or thoughtful strategy doesn't matter. Writing should be the first priority in the genre. That means not letting companies like _"Sweet Baby Inc"_ within 1000 miles of your drafts. I'm not bothered in the least by "woke" characters, and it makes sense to have as many different personalities as you can, including a harpy uber feminist along with an old school "super" misogynist. What doesn't work is when everyone is straight out of a _"Kickass"_ fanfic written by an 8th grader, which is kinda how the dialogue came off. You have to be some kind of talented to pull off the same type of humor with the entire cast, and even then, it's better when you change it up. _shrug_ Idk what to expect from DA: Dreadwolf or ME 5. I have far more _hope_ for ME 5 than I do Dreadwolf, as Dreadwolf has gone through heck in for the last 7 years, had a lot of the same writers Andromeda had, with what I have to assume was a ton of the dialogue written in a very one-sides social/media climate. ME 5 will be made in an environment where at least gaming companies know what sells and what doesn't. You can't get away with a Spider-Man 2 political _lean_ without a character like Spider-Man being the main selling point of the game.
It's weird, ME: Andromeda would certainly not be considered a _woke_ game by today's standards, but at release it absolutely was (considered a bit too far on the "left" for many long term fans). I didn't see it all that much in the writing and it didn't really bother me. If the next game comes out further left without much, much better writing it is going to be a disaster that could stop ME 5 from ever seeing a release. Just like a game can't go full MAGA and expect to appeal to a wide audience, it can't go full _"Cornpop"_ and expect to sell 15M+ copies either.
Look the writing was bad and it was highlighted far too often. I came up with scandromida this time around simply because I got tired of having to do it for everything that wasn't 'combat' or 'talking'. I wrote in a part about how the female Ryder model was changed and the males wasn't but I had to cut about 20 mins of content (since vid was over an hour). I feel like I get made out to be a conspiracy theorist if I dare suggest there are deliberate attempts to do things like this.
This right here is nitpicking be damned but i respect your opinion. Writing (in my opinion) was very solid for a new game that carried the name of a legendary series. Cora's dialogue was just fine and she has a great ass so she can say whatever she wants.
The ride alongs conversations with different characters was very funny at times and pretty good. Actually Peebee called Cora out for pretending to be a Matriarch and she took offense to that. I saw Peebee's titties (and femsheps tits too) and romanced Liara through all three games of the ME series recently. I didnt notice or care about eyebrows in the slightest.
You said you didnt even play the murder mystery on Kadara (which was ten minutes long at most). That tells me that you likely skipped through the dialogue to finish the game which makes your opinion ultimately invalid.
Also why is everyone using the term "woke" all the time. Yall say woke more than the people pushing woke agendas. Its annoying. I get that the engineer was queer and the ship scientist was a lesbian but who gives a shit? The characters and the conversations you can have with them (a gay guy realizing that he has to contribute to repopulation and a religious scientist whose faith is challenged after Meridian 1 is excellent work) As long as they didnt paint the ship rainbow colored or have a gun that shoots skittles that whispered "taste the rainbow". Or give you the option of making Ryder transgender equipped with a shirt that said "my other penis is a vagina" or vice versa depending on what gender you chose, i highly disagree and consider it to be a cop out becaus you ran out of valid criticisms.
Bro ive played as many video games as a introverted asian kid. Also played every Mass Effect multiple times besides three just yet. Andromeda deserved the title of being a mass effect game and did a lot of things a hell of a lot better than its predecessors. Deserves criticism without a doubt (especially since it was a hot mess at launch) but nowhere near to extent that it has gotten and wont even get a chance to improve. This game got dragged so hard that they didnt even unveil the new DLC for it (Tali is babe so i was really interested in seeing the quarian ark) and most of the DLC for the story is now free.
There are still people playing the multiplayer which is a testament to a game that has been out for half a decade. I digress.
Andromeda was actually pretty good, after they fixed the bugs.
I love this game. The only things that ever really get to me is how glitchy using cover can be (especially annoying in hard mode) and the facial expressions of the characters.
Yes the cover annoys me, coming straight from ME3 it is very evident.
Funny video! But... is it weird that my favorite part was recognizing the music as Banjo Kazooie? Ugh, I'm old now! Waaaaaaah!
I mean, who's older? The person who recognises it, or the person who loves it and puts it in? Hehe
@@Dantics It's like in inception. come, let us be old men together.... I might have it backwards
@@Dantics Having just watched Star Wars with my son, I'm also reminded of Obi-Wan Kenobi's great line: Who's the more foolish; the fool, or the fool who follows him?
Damn, I love that character. I hate how the prequels made him a dunce.
Liam didn't know that the kett were dangerous when first meeting then as Ryder had to push them into cover
Sure but I started shooting first, and he still says 'they' were not friendly when clearly I let my guns do the talking. What a bro.
I enjoyed playing outside of most dialog.
Short answer: yep
Im glad people are still enjoying this game years later, hopefully they support the games multiplayer and mobile app for a few more years.
Is it as bad as they said it was back then? Imo no. It’s still better than SOME AAA titles in 2024. Compared to 1-3 it doesn’t feel like mass effect. But I’ve played way worse.
Definitely not as bad. It's a solid 7/10 for me which is good. It just needed a handful of things to bring it up.
I tried to play it this month but the bugged controls are impossible to handle. I surrended and uninstalled it yesterday.
I just started so im not watching this whole thing but only thing thats bothering me so far is that youre not living from what couldve been the result of what you chose from the trilogy.. lets see what happens tho, but i really like it so far.
2024? It wasn't bad shortly after release. I enjoyed my playthrough.
You should do a why commander Shepard shouldn't play Andromeda
Ryder is a looser with bad sense of humor. I don't want to play video games as me, i play video games to feel cool.
18:15 Max CLIP size?
IT IS CALLED! A *MAGAZINE!*
Superman punching a guy 100meters in the air was fucking gorgious!
I keep seeing this video's revisiting games that were panned and saying "are they really that bad" and mostly it just makes me think our standards are lower now because of the utter dogshit being pumped out.
Oh no, watch the vid and you see the game doesn't feel any better.
You can't beat a VO performance from Clancy Brown ❤
I just finished playing it again. And I hated it more than when I initially played it. The endless, pointless sidequests were the worst. Just awful. And the traversal of the open world was tedious. The planets were night empty and the only decent moments were the linear missions (which resemble ME 2 & ME 3). The characters, Drack aside, were flat and lifeless. Just a big bore of a game.
Sadly, the combat was fun--but wasted in this otherwise terrible game.
Agree with everything. All supposedly livable places feel dead. Hyperion feels like an empty stadium. Original trilogy had some stunning places, where all sorts of stuff going on and you can blend into place. Like Omega where you can SMELL disturbing stuff from all the galaxy in one place. Citadel, Noveria, Illium... Andromeda have obviously nothing like that, it's just... deserted.
It surprises me to this day how much the abolishment or the Paragon/Renegade system was praised as a step forward, yet they completely failed to notice that they moved two steps backwards at the same time by not having any character progression at all. Dragon Age really excelled in this area. I'm pretty sure the developers envisioned something similar, but just didn't have the required time or skill.
i liked andromeda
it had potrntial (which i knew was ruined)
i simply never gave a shit about anything ryder says
and enjoyed good parts of the game
it was the first mass effect game i played so i didn't have anything that i can compare it to
The writing in this game is just overly shit.......
Sometimes it seems like a fever dream
For me Mass Effect ended with ME3! I was horrified to see, they included some of andromeda's lore in ME4! I did enjoyed playing it, but it was no Mass Effect! my opinion!
It didn't have the same magic as the trilogy for sure. Thankfully ME4 is moving on in the future of the milkyway
How did they go from the species design of the trilogy to whatever the angara have going on? That angle on their legs looks wrong, and their skin looks like play dough, to say the absolute least
I see a lot of people recently giving Andromeda a second chance in my recommendations. What’s going on?
Was Starfield this bad?)
Wasn't too recent for me. As a Mass Effect fan I give it another shot every year.
My first time playing the game I went with the female Ryder, she came out better than the male, and Suvi was receptive. A computer problem led me to restart and as default male Suvi rejects me. So can't romance lady with accent. Suvi = Judy
It's a shame really.
I like the mention of coffee in this one, other ones just had a steaming coffee cup in the menus. Now it's gets a prominent mention. Also I like the freedom between classes as I like biotics a LOT, but I want some soldier based stuff like better armor and guns.
My man Jaal was the one that made me finish it
Definitely "Angaran" are Turkish "Angora" and "Kett" are "Cat" look at their face. LOL
I never could give this game a chance. Exchanging squad commands which incouraged synergy and made me feel like I was THE Commander for switching between the classes which I didn't want and took all the depth out of the classes is not a fair trade and is a deal breaker.
Seriously, jump packs and map verticality is not enough. I wanted to order my squad into setting up combos. Combos which I hear still exist in this game but are lolrandom now because the AI does them if they feel like it. I don't mind being stuck in one class either. I play RPGs thats not a constraint which grates on me. I am very used to it and didn't ask for it to change. I want depth more than flexibility. So they gave us the opposite.
Everything else like animations and lackluster VA and unimpactful story only make it worse.
Credit to BioWare... they came up with a way to have another game in the franchise without ruining anyone's experience of the trilogy.
What happened to the Reapers? What happened to Shepard? ...doesn't matter! This crew is 600 years and an entire galaxy away; whatever choices YOU made in the trilogy, that's YOUR canon!
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Now, yes, Andromeda launched with issues; but thankfully most of those have been fixed. However, i think the big issue of why Andromeda failed is that everyone was comparing it to the entire Shepard trilogy, and not treating it as a 'part 1' of a new trilogy. When Mass Effect 1 came out, they didn't know if it would be a hit or not, so they made an open and closed story. Saren was defeated and the Reapers were prevented from coming through the relay. Same thing with Back to the Future or the original Star Wars, open and closed first story, but then when it became a hit, part 2 was open ended to lead into 3. But since the Mass Effect trilogy was already a hit, BioWare didn't feel like they needed to make part 1 of the Andromeda story open and closed; the fans should know that there will be more. But when they're comparing this 1 new game to the 3-games worth of story arc and expecting this new game to be all of that in one...well of course it doesn't hold up to the trilogy.
Which is why now, instead of getting parts 2 & 3 of the Andromeda trilogy, they're having to find a way to connect the Andromeda crew back to the Milky Way. Which means they ARE going to have to canonize an ending to Mass Effect 3 and ruin 2/3rds of the fans' own canon based on their play style and choices.
.....and all because people couldn't accept that Andromeda was part 1 of a new story so that ALL of the fans could have a new, clean slate experience without undermining their choices in the original story.
"Scandromeda". Love it!! So accurate 🤣
Yep. This is the B-Grade sci-fi horror/comedy movie of the RPG world. Best consumed while smoked up and 3 sheets to the wind. If you're too inebriated to absorb more than every second word, you just don't care about the many... MANY plot holes and issues. It just becomes a hilarious cult classic that we all know is terrible and we love it FOR its flaws rather than caring it's not perfect (aaat least until we're sober again). I mean let's face it, screaming "DRINK!!" every time a character makes a facial expression that doesn't match the dialogue or says something totally incongruous to the situation is practically a moral imperative. It's almost great!
Just don't pay full price 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Came for the review. Stayed for the simpsons/futurama references.
It was boring. Really boring i dont feel like walking up to a platform and booping a button for the millionth time and the side qeusts suck too.
I tried to give Andromeda another chance but just gave up. The story couldn’t keep me interested and the game was so slow.
Yeah i played this whole game and the environments are super well done, but theres problems with everything else. Sure, combat is nice...buuuut. It has issues, especially when it comes to spawning in enemies and distance. I trend toward sniper rifles in any game where I can shoot stuff. Not that good when everyone spawns in a dozen meters away and the actual maximum distance all rifles can shoot is 200m thanks to the game's limits.
I also did not like the alien designs at all. Its all kind of rushed through and that you're easily able to communicate and get along. Despite being from different GALAXIES. The fucking Yawhg are more alien and they're in the milky way.
Didn't like the whole precursors thing either. Honestly, having a game that takes place over a longer period of time about settling in a new galaxy should have been a slam dunk. But they overcomplicated it. AND they had you be human again. Playing something new would have been a real breath of fresh air.
tbh I enjoyed it, didn't think of it as a mass effect game bc it felt more like inquisition in space, pathfinder? just call me space inqusitor lmao
Just play the multi-player. It's really good. 💯👍🏾
Agreed!
I failed to notice where you were not being sarcastic🤣
I always say that this game swings between weak and mediocre.
This kind of vid always remind me the reason why I quit this piece of garbage.
Hahahah yeah I didn't make it super clear. Basically I did enjoy the combat and the universe traversal but not much else really caught me.
@@Dantics👍 😂
Maybe not, but it still isn't good, the characters are shallow, annoying and/or boring...if I look at the first Mass Effect there's only one half way boring character: Kaidan Alenko (and Ashley can be annoying if you don't know her yet)...but in MEA? I can't name one character I was genuinely interested in! They annoyed the crap out of me. The story also stucks, too and that vehicle? Damned, give me the MAKO any day! At least it has a gun and jump-jets!
Maybe not what sorry? What are you referring to?
When I first played Andromeda, I was blown away by the graphics (not the character models) and the combat. The combat was so fun and Andromeda really is a beautiful game. But I thought that would be the end of the good news. Surprisingly…it wasn’t. All the squadmates are likable. Jaal and Drak in particular are just perfect. I love the loyalty missions too. And the hub worlds are all so unique and interesting, they each have their own kind of theme. And the ship…fell in love with it. The crew, love them. But what surprised me the most was the story, because I really liked the story. It is really freaking good.
As for the downsides…I really only have two major complaints: 1. The game isn’t serious enough. Self explanatory, there is too much humor and comedy. 2. They did not care about the source material. *sigh* Here we go…Everyone sounds squeaky and weird. Krogan are meant to have deep, raspy voices. That includes the women, who shouldn’t be there in the first place because it isn’t lore accurate. Salarians speak erratically, they talk quick, they move quickly and sporadically, and half the time they do not even say “I”. Every single Turian has this almost robotically computerized sound in their voice, not every Turian does in this game. The Asari…they just don’t look like that. They are skin and bones, rounded but not chubby. The Asari also sound mysterious and almost tired and out of breathe (best examples are Liara and Samara), they sound like school girls in this game. Also, no one speaks with conviction. The writing itself is decent enough, but the delivery of voice lines is atrocious at times. Other times, like with Alec Ryder, the lines are delivered perfectly. One last critique, the plot is somewhat shallow. Great story, just not as detailed as I would’ve liked.
Appreciated the banjo kazooie music in this. Classic.
Brought back a flood of memories for me
Damned, don't make me defend this crap, but Krogan have all skills if they want to - must just don't, they want to fight and make money, so they become mercs and most don't survive long enough to get the fighting out of their system! Some (like Okeer - who made Grunt! - do however! Hell, Wrex is another!)
Like watching a long form cinema sins video😂
I still have a soft spot for MEA. Still subpar overall, but i just wanted more ME and I guess I fall into the smooth brains who went "ooh DIFFERENT" with some of the 'subverts expectations' stuff, but you aren't wrong 🤷♂️🤷♂️😂
Hahaha look I didn't mind the game. I'm just having a little fun ripping on it 🤣
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you should've been able to say 14:38
if i don't then you're even more screwed than before
The game is not bad. Repetitive yes. But combat was good. Graphics really good. I liked the game it was entertaining. But I hope they do much better next time.
It has the best combat and gameplay of the mass effect series. But thats it. Everything else is subpar compared to the rest of the series.
Completely agree. If they let us have more than 3 skills at any time, and differentiated classes, that would have been perfect.