Mass Effect: Andromeda | A Complete History and Retrospective
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- Hey Dad,
Today we'll be looking at the Mass Effect series AFTER Mass Effect 3. In this video we dive into the absolute dumpster fire that is Mass Effect: Andromeda.
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Intro 0:00
Development 3:35
Mass Effect Andromeda 6:13
Outro 46:22 
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How did you feel about Mass Effect: Andromeda Dad? 🚀
Real bad, son. Real bad.
Thanks son, I appreciate you and all your hard work! This will make my shift tonight a whole lot easier :)
tried it, hated the controls and the "open world approach etc. Love your videos, bu dogshit game... Also whoever has not romanced Tali as Sheppard has no Taste!!
It was alright. I'd love to say more, but alright is is about as good or bad as it gets.
Though, I did enjoy the finding the other arks part of the story.
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"My face is tired," is still such an appropriate line from this game.
Just 2 minor corrections.
1. Activated Vault DID change the planet, just not aesthetically. The hostile element of the planet will be decreased(radiation, heat, toxic water, etc.) and made easier to traversal.
2. The people on Eos(the first desert planet) aren't Exile. The building you saw was from the Nexas' first attempt to colonize Eos after the coup, and the people that remain are scavengers.
Also the Drell, Elcor, and Hanar (I don't think batarians for good reason) also have incoming Arks. It's mentioned in dialogue, just never really immediately important.
He also claimed that you can't manually skill-up your companions... but you can. It's no different than prior games; With settings to choose auto-skilling if you don't care.
The problem with this game is that there is so much meaningless content and dialogue that the one time something actually meaningful happens or something interesting about the world is revealed, you don't really take it in because you're so used to the boring dialogue and chore quests. You're not really paying attention. You're just playing to play but nothing interesting is happening 95% of the time.
I just finished the game and had no idea about the incoming arks, or scavengers on Eos, because it is buried in the sea of meaningless content.
The absolute vitriol in your voice when you say “fucking NFT video game company” love it.😂
So angry lol
That is not a good statement to make
@@jarredlucas4000No dur 😅
I love the way you tell a story…the slight inflections and pausing in between your words is very interesting to listen to
Great timing, was looking for a retrospective on this game ❤️
Keep looking this is a review
This game honestly did a major accomplishment it killed an amazing franchise that had alot of impact on alot of people, no matter how you look at it that's impressive
The speed was unrivaled
well, that and project dylan - the bob dylan of video games -
you know, the ironman armor "action rpg" which name escapes... yeah, anthem
me when I pretend as if me3 didn't do that all by itself because I refuse to take the nostalgia goggles off
It's not quite true that it killed the franchise, it seemed to make people love the original trilogy more and the legendary edition sold pretty well. It definitely did a few things that make the future questionable
mass effect isn't dead yet! there is a new one in the making. but yeah andromeda ain't it.
It's -7 C here and yet... the son keeps shining.
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Son, you've been putting out these videos so fast I've hardly been able to keep up!
Nice , I've been waiting for this one. Thank you
you're welcome
Remember back in the gold old days of Bioware where you could dismiss nonessential companions or not even hire them? Yeah, I missed that too. Once I started Peebee’s Companion mission I wanted to pull a Javik and throw her out the airlock, but couldn’t.
Peebee felt like a 16 year old's Tumblr self-insert, and her existence grated in me more then Sera (from DA:I) ever did.
@@jglerum94 at least PeeBee isn't criticizing you for being "too Asari" or something like that
Only tolerated peebee cause I wanted to romance her... then when we became a couple I'm driving around with her and Liam and she can't stop flirting with him... 🤦🏽♂️
EA insisting they use frostbite instead of UE4 crippled the game
EA has destroyed bioware
Gotta say, not the biggest Mass Effect fan but I highly respect your consistent upload rate and deep analyses
Good work, son 👍
Thanks Dad!
I am not commander Shepard, but this is my least favorite comment on RUclips 😁
Rest In Peace to the quarians ark it was never found!
RIP
lost with all hands....
gods what a massive blow, they don't have the numbers to spare and lose, so if they're in with other species then that's a terrible loss man
know what you get when a reaper attacks an Ark? Quarrian ice cubes....cus they're frozen and....ugh sorry, i'm horrible lol
One thing I absolutely love about this game is the concept. You're not a soldier(kinda), you're an explorer. And there are elements in the game that reflect it, buuuut the execution was terrible. Also buggy "first time tryouts with frostbite 3" issues that were thankfully not an issue with inquisition.
Im kinda sad that the general reaction to this game is to just bring Shepard back. I’d really like something different in the future.
I don't think Shepard being gone is a bad thing, but this game just isn't it
Literally, people are making fucking wine out of shepard's corpse. they're dead. move on.
They are incapable of writing a good character to replace shep
@@YourFavoriteSon1 Yea this game was def not it. I mean moreso the rumors of the next one have me worried. Just feels…lazy.
I don't want to play a human again.
Mass effect legendary edition Is really cool I'm just now playing them chronologically and the way the games continue I have to give em props for creating a story that is captivating and interesting
My face is tired will _never_ not be funny to me. This meme is eternal, lol.
I was waiting for this because i refuse to waste my time on this. Thank you, son!
A MASSIVE plothole I wanna point out:
Ryder's dad sacrificing himself is entirely pointless because we see earlier in the same level that Ryder can just fix his helmet with a multitool. Ryder's dad did not have to hand over his helmet to save his life. It's entirely wasted. This is never pointed out at all. It especially brings into question why they even bothered showing that Ryder can fix his helmet himself.
My man a crack is a little different to the whole face plate being destroyed
Yea this is plain stupid if you think about it for 1 second, mending a crack is an entire different beast from THE ENTIRE FACEGLASS BEING SHATTERED, and he doesn't have long before Ryder suffocates
9:25 that's my new wake-up alarm, thank you son.
You're welcome Dad
When you were trashing the remnant monoliths I was on board but I swear completing them changed the world's a bit, doesn't it clear air or remove certain foggy areas?
Definitely, you'd have to be blind or cognitively slow to not see the difference
The monoliths do nothing. You have to go into the vaults. But you aren't turning them off. You're turning them on.
One thing I do not recall from the game is anyone explaining why they had an A.I. as those were illegal during the time the Arks set off and everyone in universe would have known it. Cerberus only made one when they applied reaper-tech to an advanced V.I. that Shepherd blew up on the Moon. And there is no option in the game to just not use SAM. At least in ME2 you could voice your opposition to ADA on the Normandy 2.
I think it had something to do with the Andromeda initiative as a whole going under the nose of the citadel council
The only people who knew SAM was an AI was the Scott father or Ryder whatever your character's last name is, and the leader of the ARK project. To everyone else SAM was required to look and act like a VI. SAM was created in an attempt to save your dying mother and was the result of decades of research by your dad and mom (I think it was funded by Human government at first under the nose of the council to give humans an edge at first but no results came of it). Then the director of the arks comes along and tells your dad they'll give him a blank check to develop and create the AI in secrecy.
The only people who knew SAM was an AI was the Scott father or Ryder whatever your character's last name is, and the leader of the ARK project. To everyone else SAM was required to look and act like a VI. SAM was created in an attempt to save your dying mother and was the result of decades of research by your dad and mom (I think it was funded by Human government at first under the nose of the council to give humans an edge at first but no results came of it). Then the director of the arks comes along and tells your dad they'll give him a blank check to develop and create the AI in secrecy.
Mac Walters was always going to fuck this up. He was the one who took the series from a half-finished proto-masterpiece Sci-Fi RPG to a dumb third-person shooter.
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Hey Dad
Son, you don't need to torture yourself for my approval.
Yes, ME Andromeda isn't perfect game, or a masterpiece, it has many problems, but I like some things it changes, like not bringing Shepard back, his story ended, time to give room for new characters, I liked the planetary exploration, it clearly was upgraded version of first ME games exploration, driving around Nomad was fun and enjoyable.
Combat was good, it was fast and abillities that game gives you made game's combat satisfying.
I'd say this game lays somewhere in 3/5, for me atleast.
The ryders were just a shitty copy dude cmon lol
While I agree that the game had potential, especially for a trilogy that was planned, I just think it never would’ve lived up to it because of commander Shepard. Admittedly I only got 3-4 hours into the game but Ryder(who has an interesting backstory) is just not as good of a protagonist. He didn’t really feel “special” in the way that Shepard did, even on the first mission of the ME1 with the beacon. Now that could change through the game but from what I’ve seen the majority feel the same. The squad mates aren’t bad and the ship is honestly amazing imo, but the game just feels empty and like it just took the name Mass Effect for granted by being in the same “universe” with the species and backstory without actually adding anything really new or enticing or any real player input, which granted isn’t helped by the cancelled DLC and sequels. It feels too disconnected from the OT imo, probably because BioWare wanted to leave those choices alone and didn’t feel that they should write effects for all of those choices. But not even the codex really talks about them from what I’ve seen. All in all, it feels more like a combat based shooter in a sci fi setting than a story driven RPG with an emphasis on player input and characters(despite the rework of the dialogue wheel). Maybe the new game can help fix some of the issues with andromeda and make it be looked upon more favorably, but until then, I just personally can’t get myself to play the game, despite the technical and gameplay improvements
@@seanwalsh3198 Shepard felt special because he was literally a cardboard cutout insert for us to inhabit. He doesn't have a personality except for the one we give him, and that's been a classic BioWare trope to handle their RPG protagonists. Ryder was given something much closer to the Witcher 3 approach, where the protagonist already has some defined characteristics and personality traits, and we get to play around in that range.
Also, there wasn't any cancelled DLC for Andromeda. The "Quarian Ark DLC" was a hoax started by internet trolls posing as a legitimate company. Unfortunately a lot of respectable gaming news outlets took the fake rumor and ran with it, and here we are. The story was always meant to be expanded upon through novels, the Quarian Ark included.
And yeah, I think the disconnection from the OT is a good thing. The true story of Andromeda starts between Mass Effect 2 & 3, because the Initiative launches the Arks before the Reapers arrives. BUT, I will say that for people who are looking for some nods to the OT, it's in the game. It even has a nice cameo from our favorite Prothean expert.
I'm looking forward to seeing Mass Effect 5 connect to Andromeda.
@@TheOnceandFutureJakeI also don’t love the dialogue wheel, admittedly I don’t know if there is a reputation meter like ME3, but I wish the responses felt more meaningful and differentiated like the OT despite how limited the paragon and renegade could sometimes be. The DLC thing I think eventually would’ve come to fruition seeing as to how key they could be in the OT. I will eventually 100% the game before the next game(honestly probably as soon as real news starts coming hopefully sometime this year) releases, and that will help give me a more informed opinion, as most of my grievances with the game come from when I played it and I didn’t get that far in, so I may be unfairly judging the game, but I just had issues with mainly the dialogue system and how weak they portray Ryder both from how people talk to him and how he responds to them. Maybe then my tune will change on this game but it’s just one that doesn’t really have the substance/depth to keep me invested. It’s honestly a shame that BioWare was never given a chance with this game and any sequels, because a decent amount of the core elements are there or could be improved, it just didn’t get the opportunity to from the community and EA. I honestly wouldn’t mind them canonizing some of the OT choices in order to create a better game(personally I think Destroy is the obvious choice there, as well as not eradicating the quarians, etc.) I am cautiously optimistic that BioWare can use the core gameplay systems and baseline story ideas from Andromeda(the whole idea of the arks and nexus and them somehow getting back home would be cool, but the andromeda galaxy is kind of dull) combined with the magic of the OT Milky Way Galaxy to create something that may not be perfect, but will feel like a mass effect game again.
Having played recently I am most struck by two character model oddities. The "Linda Blair" which used to be much worse if Sloane memes are any indication. It's still present but relatively rare. As a side note most, if not all, ME games suffer from some version of this. I lost count of the number of times in my play through of the legendary edition where Shepard's head twists extremely down and to one side while running through the Normandy. The other oddity is, of course, the "Squatty Potty" where innumerable security personnel are...well...squatting for no apparent reason.
or the pop in on the ark and nexus, you can run through an area to fast then get stuck on a wall as an NPC loads in and bocks you in place....
and don;t you mean Ryder?? not Shepard?? lolz
@@judgedrekk2981 Nah, I'm talking about Shepard in the Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Run through the Normandy with Shepard in 2 or 3 and Shepard's head will bend down and to the right. Not a full 90 or 180 degree twist, but a very unnatural position to hold your head while running. Head positioning on models in the Frostbite engine seems to be very problematic at times.
@@snowdenwyatt6276 that hasn't happened to me at all, I play it on XBOX though....
@@judgedrekk2981 I play on Xbox as well. It's not an unnatural angle for the neck (like Sloane in Andromeda) but for me Shepard's often looking down and behind (almost under their armpit rather than over the shoulder) while running on the Normandy (but never in combat). Didn't notice it at all in 1, but in 2 and 3 it happens quite often.
Just google "shepard running on normandy" and the first few results will be about this odd effect.
Damn, didn't expect you to dislike it this much. Andromeda is certainly my least favourite Mass Effect game (so far?)
I played it at launch and luckily didn't run into anything more than graphical glitches and horrible facial animations.
I really like the potential of the story and I truly believe that it could be great with a sequel. That the choices didn't seem to affect too much in the game didn't bother me overly much because I always plased it with a sequel in mind (only one that really bothered me was that the choice of outpost had virtually no effect on anything). Vetra and Drack were great companions and Peebee grew on me during repeated playthroughs. Jaal was at least interesting and something new. Cora and Liam just sucked.
It had some great things in it. The banter when driving was excellent, the planets looked varied and the mystery surrounding the Remnant and the scourge is intruiging. I personally liked the combat a lot but like you I discovered my favourite loadout pretty early and just upgraded it.
I do not share your opinion on the side quests though. A lot of them were well written and fleshed out the situation on the planet. The Krogan settlement had some interesting insights into the culture, Kadara Port felt very alive despite being the size of like a single floor on the citadel in ME3.
I really do hope that the game receives a sequel that expands on it's strength and story. Though I hope the Kett get pushed into the background...as you mentioned they're very similar to the Collectors and not really that interesting as a villain.
We'll see what Mass Effect 4 brings. After all it's supposed to also be a sequel to Andromeda...somehow?
Nah it will be nostalgia porn for the original trilogy.
Studios should be forced to change their name if more than 60% of the original team is gone.
I think I hate it less than most because I played it right after 1 and 2, all three for a decent price and followed by struggling through the slog that is Witcher 1.
It felt like I played out of order. Like Andromeda was a remake version of what should be the first entry in the series, and I did really get into the vibe of it. I also think I just wanted the Andromeda story of space exploration and diplomacy more than Shepherd’s, Star Trek in the ME universe.
I wish the aliens had been really different instead of more of the same. It's a whole new galaxy! I guess life is life no matter where you go
It was only a Cluster of planets in that galaxy. Same way that humans were only in one section, or Turians, etc. They don't have Mass Relays in Andromeda, the Kett Empire were the only ones we knew of in the game that could travel the vast distances between.
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This is also a Galaxy where the reapers were not a thing, so there is no reason why hyper FTL should not be a thing.
@@spacejunk2186 Well, there's a lot of hints that the Jardaans were a race not unlike the Protheans in that they would go around and terraform and seed planets with life.
Maybe the Kett were the first and advanced quicker. Like a Roman Empire against the barbarians, but in space.
Also, the Scourge is a huge deal and really messes with interstellar travel. I don't think we got a definitive answer of how far-reaching it was.
I don't know how it was for MEA, but for ME1 they stated that all the humanoids were just the human skeleton with a different body stuck over the top
Mass Effect 2 is the best single player game I have ever played, and I have come to accept that nothing will come close :(
I have no idea why Bioware/EA couldn't properly understand *why* ME2 was so good. You nailed it: it was the characters, winning their loyalty and developing relationships with them, and the clear moral impact of choices. The potential for ME3 was clearly for TWO possible game paths right form the beginning: you rejoin the Alliance (Paragon) or stay with Cerberus (Renegade) depending on the ending you got at the end of ME2. How amazing would that have been! Instead, they flattened the game by making Cerberus the bad guys and wasted time on changes to the engine and textures and EA gave them HALF of the time the game really needed even if there wasn't the two game paths as I imagined there would be, clearly because EA thought the PS4/XB1 consoles were coming sooner than they did.
And now I'm just sitting here thinking about fixes and script doctoring. Like having one of the Ryder twins being Alec's favorite. (Could resolve some of that narrative whiplash and would give an incentive to replay as the other). And it really, really, *really* should have been a refugee story where this is a backup plan for the Milky Way if the catalyst plan doesn't work. Or like, for people who don't believe in that plan. (Or bankrolled by Cerberus, whatever). This manifest destiny, "exploring for the sake" of it narrative was really weird when there were plenty of more compelling in universe justifications. Of course, I also thought ME should've done a prequel about the first contact war anyway for the first non-Shep entry in the series 🤣
I tried to get into this game a couple times, as I LOVED the original trilogy and put hundreds of hours into it. I just really didn't care for the gameplay (especially the "open world" aspects) or the characters in Andromeda. I don't think I ever made it more than 4 or 5 hours into Andromeda before giving up and uninstalling.
I liked Tempest as well, but I had one huge issue with it. In the overall story of Mass Effect series, we went from SSV Normandy SR-2, one of the best ships in entire Milky Way galaxy, fast, resiliant and armed enough to take down a reaper... to an exploration ship that had no weapons whatsoever. Tempest looked cool, had a decent loadout, but could not reach that epicness SSV Normandy has set up.
To be fair, the Normandy SR-2 never single-handedly took down a Reaper and definitely wasn't able to. Sovereign and the Rannoch Reaper were both absolutely hammered by massive fleets of which the Normandy was only a single member, and in Priority: Earth the Normandy notably weaves *through* the Reaper lines (an amazing feat to be sure).
I totally get what you're saying, but the Normandy was a recognizance stealth vessel that only had the offensive capabilities it did bc of Shepards upgrades and Garrus' damnedable calibrations xD
Kinda weird/sad we couldn't similarly upgrade Tempest.
Andromeda did one thing better than the trilogy. It improved the combat.
And had an actual ending.
The 4 choices idea was so weird because you don't always get 4 choices.
Maybe because it was my first mass effect but i really enjoyed andromeda. I think the combat is best in the franchise.
Cant wait for nex mass effect.
I love Mass Effect: Andromeda and I come froM Mass Effect: Trilogy... I played Mass Effect: Andromeda 6 times (one per year since came out)
I really don't understand why I was the only one that really liked this game
I'm replaying me1 right now and ooo boi it's stacking up. Andromeda might very well be an OK game
I remember finishing the game 100% -seeing the 110 hours playtime when I was done and the first thought that came to my mind was "well i wont get that life time back"
So you're telling me there's a race of cat people called angaran that get absorbed by another race called kett becoming angaran kett? Nothing to do with angora cat I'm sure. That should tell u a lot about the creativity of the people behind this game. One of the things I loved in the original trilogy was how original the races were, it was not simply pig people, or monkey people.
No it was just make the look fuckable
will you look into the dragon age franchise if you haven't already?
“My face is tired….”
-ME:A Adderson… 😂
Reading the article about the development shenanigans behind the scenes (similar issues that killed Anthem) put it into perspective. This was my first Mass Effect game, sadly, and I remember how awful it was even at release. I have no idea how I managed to finish it considering how lackluster it was in comparison to its predecessors.
This was a treat to watch. Thank you for posting!
Peanut Butter looks extremely funny, it's something about the eyes.
I loved the alien Sudoku, don't fail.
The Power Wheel would've been perfect for this game, given how many powers you have. In ME1, each character had like 7 or 8 powers on the wheel. How did something from 2008 not make into this game
personally, I loved this game. I hope we get more clarification on the lore, because there is so much left to the imagination.
Glad I'm not the only one lol
I just finished it and loved it ❤
PA boy here, the Penelec joke was solid
At least someone appreciated it
With all its faults I still grew to love this game. It took me awhile too get really into it though. Good video son.
Really? Personally, it just made me angry. lol
@@TheOneGreat not me. I played it 3 times. Once on the hardest difficulty. Once as a speed run and once just doing everything. It has a lot of great stuff if you give it a chance. But everyone deserves their opinion.
@@joeivo911 I tried. The nicest thing I can say is that the combat was okay and I liked some characters. The story was quite generic, the UI was atrocious (seriously, why so many menues within menus) and the quests your typical open world 'liberate the bandit camp' but in space. I was so bored out of my mind I quit after like 15 hours. Maybe less. I rarely do that but I uninstalled it after and felt good about it. Only paid £10 so whatever. I'm more angry about the lackluster-ness of it all combined with it effectively killing a otherwise great franchise. Shame. :c
The game has actually improved a lot with the new patches - the expressions are better, the characters are much good looking, there is a new limitless galaxy to explore and the combat is awesome.
But if you easily get bored by long exposition dumps, cheesy dialogue, and dry, deadpan humor + need every dialogue choice to evoke an emotional reaction from you - then definitely this is not the game for you.
The biggest issue is Ryder's personality and the choices having nearly zero impact on the story.
I believe most people were disappointed with the story and dialogue because like the original trilogy they believed by pursuing only one morality like paragon/renegade would give them super emotionally engaging scenes as they did with Shepard which would also drastically alter the story and the endgame.
The problem is - Andromeda takes no such risks, you could be the worst Pathfinder yet the story would play out exactly the same save for one character's death in the ending.
Ignore all the sidequests, make the worst decisions possible, be the most reluctant, lazy & incompetent explorer ever, be an a$$ to your squadmates, gaslight and shift the blame on the top brass - no problem!! All you get at the most is a scolding from some character - there are no world-altering implications save for some questlines being blocked in the Krogan ark, squadmates do not leave your ship and the bad guy never wins because of your incompetence.
So, to make Ryder engaging it's up to the player to make them practical, decisive and show leadership skills when needed & to empathise + react emotionally when building relationships.
Here the issue is that making Ryder emotional when they need to show leadership makes them an absolute, boring, indecisive downer & making them practical when they are supposed to open up about their feelings make them a slow, socially incompetent robot who behaves like a potential serial killer. Oh god, and the flirting is so horribly written and voice-acted.
Shepard could be a bro ( paragon ) or an a$$ ( renegade ) depending on the choice - yet their alpha personality was a constant that made them engaging - they always have a plan, is headstrong and is a natural leader + they earned their place & were a smooth flirt. Characters were in awe of them and were naturally drawn to them.
Compared to Shepard - Ryder is an omega - follows protocol to a t, is led around by those around them + SAM, reacts to events without a plan, was given authority as a handmedown.
The only impactful decisive action they take is using the scourge against the kett which unlocks only after completing a long sidequest - which requires patience.
Mass effect was my favorite series for quite some time. I bought this used when the game was relatively new. As soon as I heard the voice line “I think I pissed him off. Maybe because I shot him in the face”, I returned it. Picked it up a while later for like four bucks, for that price it was playable, but still depressing to see a once great franchise brought low.
I have a feeling there WAS a lot more to your sibling in the game, possibly they would have even been a squadmate of their own. A lot about this game feels like rewrites and loose ends; a lot of the latter was probably just them banking on DLCs that never happened, but other things like your twin's role in the story feel like at one point they were a lot more important before getting mostly scrapped.
Nice touch that the MC looks like Android Wilson. lol
Randomly talked to a friend of mine tonight who is playing this game for the first time and I realized that aside from the dude Ryder playthrough I did at launch after playing as lady Ryder, I've never gone back to replay this game. (and I don't think I even finished the second playthrough). More than that, I couldn't remember *anything* about it. None of the characters, plot, nothing. I went in with low to no expectations at launch and I do remember having a good enough time though, bugs and all. Not a fantastic time, but I didn't feel cheated or anything like that. I thought the open world aspects were improved over Inquisition, but I think your critique that Andromeda moved forward and backwards at the same time is 💯 spot on. I think the fact that it's so forgettable is its worst sin. I don't think it deserved all the hate it got at launch, it's just..... Fine.
I think this is the most heated I've ever heard you, You ok, Son?
Truth be told I looked past many of the faults this game had technically but what I couldn't get passed was the writing. This feels like a fan fiction written by people who don't understand the lore. It was to the disrespect to the lore I didn't like.
I like how you simply put it it feels like a Young Adult novel and a bad one at that. It's not good. It's also just killed my interest in Mass Effect 4, because I just don't have faith in the writing.
Play it on PC and mod it. There are number of mods that further clean things up and make it a lot less grindy. Streamlining the grind makes the game's story pace and flow better.
the quality of writing took plunge as soon as Drew Kaprysin left, he was one of the top writers for the first 3 mass effect plus a few novels set between the games. and worked on the starwars old republic as well
Don Brow (?) then is the one to blame because I can't rescue that kid getting dragged by the leg on Grissom?
There are 2 things I'd like to comment on regarding Andromeda. One is that probably over half. Of the game's content, including the profile system and the crafting system, is retscanned rip offs of kingdom of amular reckoning. The other thing I say is that on each of the planets. You can trigger a massive world boss who has some unique mechanics to it.
I really thought the twin was going to play a huge factor in the game. It was the biggest bummer for me. The game would have been so much better if they had an Eve Jacob from assassin's creed type of thing going on.
it woulda been interesting to have the sibling in the squad the whole time....there's so many let downs with this game
Alec get's the best VO actor money could hire and he delivers a stellar performance as always....Clancy Brown who was in detroit become human and highlander as the Kurgan also he was in the Gargoyles as Hakon one of the Vikings who attack the castle in episode 1 and as Wolf one of the wolfpack, great actor, awesome voice....
the sibling issue, you seem to have no authority, decisions have no weight or consequences nor play a part later? dialog is wishy washy at best....
a few good things: personally i like Peebee especially for how she flirts, I like Jaal, I like the Salarian pathfinder.....had it been a male I likely woulda saved Drack's scouts knowing they'd transfer to a female.....seriously young female Salarian was a voice we never heard in the originals....and her energetic personality I just liked more...call me nuts!
I like drack a lot, they were right to channel Grandpa Wrex right? lol
and I like the new rover design also i like the tempest but feel they coulda did it a little better like how normandy SR1 was designed, stairs leading to the different decks, not ladders eesh
also i thought all stealth ships came with a standard Joker....sorry that's a bad joke....
as far as botched game entries go, I still feel the saints row reboot is way worse....they can write this out and forget this happened but if ME4 is also bad then the franchise is sunk and that's the real fear....
Cora’s mission was pretty well done.. for its budget ig. But mainly there was sum good that needa stay for tha series
Spent 200 hours in this game. The combat was the only thing that kept me playing. I replayed all the ME games but couldn't finish this one on my replay
I thought this game was called, "Harass alien creatures until they let you do them"
The memes where the best at this game
This game made me so sad. It was like someone took my childhood and took a shit all over it
Mass Effect Andromeda must be canon in the Jacoby Shepherd universe. Only explanation for this tragedy.
Thanks son, for playing this so I don't have to.
Meh, I don’t think Andromeda was a bad game. It was just far from the heights of the OG trilogy.
Now that I’m an adult, I find the best barometer of how good a game is is in my willingness to finish it. Especially if it’s open world. I had no problem beating ME:A, and I didn’t exactly streamline it! I even ended up doing a second playthrough at the start of the pandemic.
I actually agree with most of your points (except in regards to combat, which I loved), I just don’t think they’re as bad as you think.
While I was very disappointed it didn’t rise to the same level as the rest of the franchise, I still very much enjoyed it.
Another banger! Well done, Son - you make me so proud
Dad - London UK 🙏🏻❤🍻
Thanks Dad
I know I am late, but it always feels cathartic seeing people rip into this game and you are the first that I have seen that has actually went into more detail than the ugly faces and graphic. Good job, son I am proud of you.
they had lots of down the middle choices on top of the paragon system in ME2
I honestly feel like if Andromeda had smaller maps, less filler content, and sequel games... it would've been fine. Not great, but it feels so much worse as a standalone experience. There is so much in it that sets up for future events that will never come to fruition.
Rip ME andromeda March 20-August 19 2017. At least they’re working next ME5
Can’t wait to watch this! Time get get some popcorn 🍿, thanks good sir!
Hope you enjoy!
Also I love how the bloated game that is easily twice as long as the previous games, gets the shortest retrospective, which is so fair
Recently downloaded this on a whim, never played it originally. It is fair to criticize it. One of the things that bothered me a lot were the new character models, their proportions feel so off and so different from the original game. Maybe it's petty but I can't unsee it.
I decided to omit an entire section from this video where I criticize the way everyone's legs look
I feel kind of same regarding DAI.
Ea succeedes at destorying every franchise they own
Son, you seem like the type to hang out and eat by the wawa trashcan. (Unless you’re a sheetz guy)
Definitely a Sheetz guy
If you pick Science....then your breakthroughs are much faster, so Health gets a big boost. Military....well thats the guns.
Divinity did the same concept of having two player created characters interacting in a world so well and your telling me a AAA with more than 5x the budget can't pull off a fraction of that? Sucks to suck
Unpopular take but I find ME2 to be overrated. It suffers from middle-of-a-trilogy syndrome: no real reason to kill off Shepherd at the start and resurrect her, the whole story is just a recruitment drive similar to Rebel Moon (oof) and the Human Reaper boss was groan inducing and really diminished the almost mythic threat the Reapers had in the first game. Still a great game though.
The problem with only looking at sales numbers is people buy the game before they know they hate it. Most people don't watch reviews before buying games so they've already spent the money. High sales numbers do not mean the game is good or bad, merely that it is recognised. In same cases it can mean something like if the game is amazing and that spreads then more people will buy it or it's incredibly bad people who hear might avoid buying it but a lot of people try to avoid hearing anything about a game before playing it themselves or just don't believe the hate so buy it anyway. Which is why the whole "vote with your wallet" or whatever the phrase is is annoying bs, can't not buy something I have to buy to learn if I don't like it in the first place.
Comparing it to mcdonalds hamburgers is unfair to mcdonalds, some days I'd even prefer the burgers. It's more like burger king or something.
How dare you talk bad about Burger King. He's the king for a reason!
@@YourFavoriteSon1 I'm Australian and it's called Hungry Jacks here and apparently tastes different. He's not my king!
Think the paragon and renegade system was perfect in ME:3 but they did away with it becauseeee? Could pick either option based on reputation and could play a more fluid character rather than just go all paragon or renegade. Would've loved it if a system like that was extended to the whole OT with the remake.
Wouldn't even say Andromeda's combat is better tbh... 3 ability slots is extremely restrictive... yes you can pick and chose from different "classes" but you have less tools to use than any one class in any other game. Thats less than half the ability slots than even in DA:I which people already said was too few for them years before ME:A came out.
So the best solution was obviously to reduce that even further from 8 to 3... Logic? Who knows.
Game devs love removing stuff, not anything in return and then they call it "innovative."
Ima be honest…I think this game is a better overall game than 1&3…..it was just plagued with bugs and the expectations of previous games. By todays standards it’s a 7-8/10
Yep that's what drive me crazy everyone acting like 1 alone wasn't a game with flat companies and everything else
Just finished my 8th playthrough of this game, still liking it even after so long ^^
Krogan engineer…I’m pretty sure that’s an oxymoron.
you can get a team of vorcha engineers in mass effect 3
We can't forget to mention how many mechanics are straight up copy past from DA inquisition
Is this the same content at the other video?
You don't turn off the vaults. It's established in game that whatever caused the scourge screwed up the terraformers. You're more or less rebooing them so they start fixing the planets.
Really hate how the Asari were sooooo ugly in Andromeda. Let's hope the next Dragon age and mass effect doesn't use the garbage dice engine.
And also we return to more good looking alien species with less bugs.
Fr all female characters were fugly
The sense of exploration/discovery and combat was excellent. The story, most companions, and the overwhelming amount of fetch quest really make the whole game a very forgettable experience
I enjoyed this game more when I pretended it wasn’t a Mass Effect game.
Solid 6/10 game but a 2/10 Mass Effect game
I don't know, I had fun with it. In fact I played through it twice with a few years in between playthroughs. If they had of released it as a new IP it wouldn't have been dragged so hard.
This was an EA AAA title, the "no resources to make it work" excuse is pure nonsense. What they mean is that they got a big huge budget and squandered it because they didn't know what they were doing.