Mass Effect Andromeda (Zero Punctuation)

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[@zachzent8287]

I don't think he liked it

[@90lancaster]

I think it reminded him of Sandbox games and he's bored of those (at least the identikit ones)

[@ijirving]

Well do be fair, he didn't even land on 3 of the habitable planets and just stuck to the main mission. That means he only saw about 10% of the game.

[@ShortVideosRUs]

If you can just shoot straight through the main story without having to at least set foot in most or all of the major hub areas than that's poor design. Look at Fallout: NV, the first half of the main quest basically made sure you had to get through all the biggest key points of interest on the map so the players wouldn't skip huge portions of the map and miss the opportunity to play side-quests there if they decided to.

[@90lancaster]

To be fair to them they have made "Some" effort to Patch the mess the game is The eyes are a bit less freakish, some of the glitches have been fixed they have made the inventory larger. and you can skip some of the transition scenes now. The whole "My Face is Tired" bit has been even more extensively patched and fixed as has the Sarah Ryder grimacing in pain bit. I hear they plan to polish the walking animations further too. So some kudos for making some attempt to fix it and some brick bats at EA for letting it be released now at all it should have been released closer to Xmas 2017 at least they could have put some decent content in the multi-player by that point too rather than a single game mode with minimal variations to it.

[@maiadraconica6488]

90 Lancaster pretty much every meme about the games animation is patched, my face is tired, weird eyes, that NPC sliding walk, Lexi surprised face, Cora's walk

[@TheEliteJohan]

"Worse ending than the 1930s." Christ

[@86BuzzSaw]

Funny, that's the one thing I picked up on as well

[@Thraim.]

How could one possibly _not_ pick up on a joke where Hitlers face is in the middle of the screen.

[@nedinnis6752]

AdalRoderick By moment of inattention (Aka me)

[@86BuzzSaw]

AdalRoderick lol. didn't even notice, generally in listening to these rather than watching them.

[@Thraim.]

Shame on both of you. The visuals add additional layers to many of the jokes.

[@nerdyvids1]

Remember how in ME2 side quests were super vital to make sure the final mission didn't end with everyone horribly dying? Almost seemed as if side quests could have meaningful impact on the main story.

[@MrItsaplane]

Remember ME1? Remember how basically nothing you did effected the end much in meaningful ways? Yeah....

[@abraaomitichon7868]

yeah THE FIRST GAME back in 2007. oh yeah ME:A could be compared with the first game and still it would lose

[@DominatorEl]

Played the game in full. Side missions did play a part in the ending, like the end off mass effect 2. Who survives or dies depends on whether or not you did the busy work (side missions).

[@DominatorEl]

Fair enough. She wasn't all that much enthusiastic about living in the end game "Party" anyway haha.

[@Owlmare]

Tricho Incorrect - only Loyalty Missions mattered, every other side quest was a resource grab. Even without Loyalty Missions, your team could potentially survive or die, depending on the roles you gave them. Some ship upgrades also dictated if some of your teammates survive or not.

[@Zadamanim]

Nier: Automata has robots that act like humans. Mass Effect Andromeda has humans that act like robots.

[@davidandersson7642]

"After the last game was popularly considered to have a worse conclusion than the 1930s" That's an incredible line.

[@Andri474]

Sorry, I couldn't watch this video. My face is tired.

[@Rick586]

"A conclusion worse than the 1930's" is one of the best lines I've heard this year :D

[@dIRECTOR259]

And now your regularly-scheduled reminder that BioWare is dead: BioWare is dead. For further information look at the BioWare logo and rub shit in EA's eyes.

[@smokinggnu6584]

Anthem pretty much confirms this.

[@riokollivier]

@@smokinggnu6584 especially since BioWare abandoned it all together.

[@jamesstanley792]

Yeah but with announcement of another Mass effect on the horizon along with Dragon Age 4, I feel like these claims of Biowares demise may be somewhat premature.

[@axelsteel3332]

The game equivalent of Berserk 2016

[@SaintAlessa]

Axeiliste W let us not speak of that CGI abomination...😓

[@Killroy1508]

Axeiliste W kind of sad that the band of the hawk game looks downright amazing compared to the 2016 anime lol

[@mb69ful]

Get ready for Berserk 2017.

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

why did they make ti cgi, WHY

[@FlyingJetpack1]

At least this is somewhat funny, berserk is anything but funny, it's downright sad.

[@mariofan989]

Damn, this Star Trek game doesn't seem that great

[@frighteningspoon]

lmao

[@crunchychips8123]

Au contraire, it's a great Star Trek game. Best ST game since Star Flight on the Amiga.

[@bizmonkey007]

If this were "Star Trek: Andromeda" it would actually fit better with the game and tone. It sure as hell doesn't have the tone of a Mass Effect game.

[@Rc3651]

I wish they made big Star Trek games like this, but then again, I also would be really pissed if it was released unfinished like this

[@crunchychips8123]

> It sure as hell doesn't have the tone of a Mass Effect game. Andromeda is straight-up the sequel to ME1 we would have gotten if the world financial crisis hadn't dropped in the planing stages of ME2. Go back and look at ME1 with fresh eyes.

[@GabedalfTheWhite]

"A herd of autistic wildebeest" As an autistic person, I find this statement weirdly hysterical

[@lukedavies3654]

I lost focus on what he was saying because it was too bizarre and funny

[@I_am_ENSanity]

This was neither the Mass Effect we needed or deserved.

[@DigitalGame18]

But it was what Bioware needed to keep themselves a business at EA, next up for the milking is Kotor if rumors are to be believed.

[@GatorMilk]

TheGoodShank Insider here. As of 6 months ago, it was true, but as of now, I don't know.

[@iceinhuman9139]

No, this was the Mass Effect we needed. We needed it so we can stop buying repeat series games so people can make ONE GAME and END THE GAME WITHIN THE SAME GAME. Not sequel our balls off making the games more and more and more mediocre with each installment. Stop buying garbage sequels, they RARELY end up better than the original. Seriously, force game devs to start getting creative and not just recycling the same games over and over.

[@CptFlyke]

The thing is: one of the best "sequels" I know was Mass Effect 2. I think I never liked any other sequel more than this. Mass Effect 3 was not that good, but still very enjoyable (I played it only after the Extended Cut and Citadel DLC, what made the ending on the first playthrough much better i guess). We all had our hopes up so high we just got disappointed to a point most just rage. And I think +IceInhuman is totally right: this is the Mass Effect we deserved for trusting an EA game once again

[@IGotDiabeetus]

Fwazangalang Entertainment Or wanted

[@h.u.n.k493]

In 2012 we got a good Mass Effect game, and a bad Resident Evil game, in 2017 we got a bad Mass Effect and a good Resident Evil.... tables turned hard man.

[@sambog9t]

inb4 everybody yells at you about how the ending of ME3 ruined their boring lives or some shit

[@altvertue347]

THE ENDING OF ME3 RUINED MY BORING LIFE, YOU INCONSIDERATE FUCK!

[@ViktorKruger99]

Mass Effect 3 ruined my life! Even tho I never played any game of this series!1!!11

[@altvertue347]

It's the reason why I beat my son in anger.

[@D34dEY3]

Which Resident Evil was good in 2017?

[@Vinddraken]

You also forgot to say that in the original triology you got a feeling that Shepard was the Galaxys only and last hope. Here it seem like you can be replaced and SAM can just boost someone else body to continue the mission.

[@raptorjesus3894]

I mean yeah, but the 2 Ryders are both equally capable of saving the day, but see, there was only 1 commander Shepard.

[@HyouVizer]

Vinddraken - True, Ryder was just a vessel for SAM, they were one unlocking, decryption, translation, really doing nearly everything. if i was SAM i'd be like....why am i with this human again? Really their reasoning was to learn from how organics react to various situations but still eh

[@Vinddraken]

YouGot2BeKitten 1 it would be one thing if SAM only was the normal analytic AI coming up with ideas. But through the implant SAM boosted the pathfinders body and also SAM was the one interfacing with all remnant tech. I'm not saying that you needed to be N7 or Spectre. Just saying that the characters feels like you can replace them with cora, or Liam or even Addison. *start spoilers* Even the Archon says that SAM is the one making you special *end spoilers*

[@MsLia32]

yes, if you don't pay attention to the story of the trilogy. It's one of the few good things of the story of andromeda that you go on an adventure for more then just joy riding the galaxy.

[@Azron945]

Vinddraken personally I feel that being the only one who can save the day because of a series of rare events would get cliché after a few games.

[@Oblithian]

They basically removed all the depth in characters, plot, back story, and side quests. The developers of the first game created a galaxy stuffed full of wonder and lore. Andomeda basically said, "Screw that it's difficult" and made a largely empty galaxy with no mass to affect and forgot about 95% of the stuff that came before. People like blue people, people like cat people, people like large turtle dudes... But we aren't going to build on or maintain any of the backstory of those races and their cultures. In fact, we're not even going to bring most of the races, and definitely none of the ones you know little about.

[@bryceebert6999]

If there was one major complaint I have, it's how some of the side quests require you to travel to multiple planets to get them done. "Go to your ship, fly to this planet, get out of your ship, go to this remote spot on the map, do a little song and dance, return to your ship, repeat on another planet."

[@Teru91333319]

"They'd make the same face if I pissed on their shoes." 10/10 I love ZP.

[@derlich09]

Mass Effect died with Marauder Shields.

[@puppetmasterey]

derlich09 I know right

[@Daelyas]

nah... way before that. Illusive Mans base when the Prothean AI just casually mentions that "Oh btw... the Reapers totally just stole the Citadel fyi"... right... how? when? what? Dafuq? The space battle cut scene afterwards was nice..., some companion dialogue here and there... but other than that... a giant mess well before the ending even started.

[@themadhammer3305]

@@Daelyas Yeah the citadel being stolen and taken to earth just came out of fucking nowhere. I mean why take it to earth? From what I understood they were building another reaper with victims but surely you could do that anywhere. Hell take the citadel through the omega 4 relay, the collectors were happily building a reaper there so it wouldn't be to far out of the way

[@Daelyas]

@@themadhammer3305 My main question remains "how even"? Isnt it the relay point for all mass relays... its like putting a train station on a train and driving it somewhere else... how? :D

[@themadhammer3305]

@@Daelyas Yeah that is also a good point showing how out of nowhere that was. In universe it's probably another case of reaper space magic, but it's still a really strange way that last bit of the plot went

[@CMKenneth]

people are now saying "its not so bad, they fixed some stuff and now you can skip the cut scenes, blah blah blah." that would be fine if the game were an MMO, or some kind of persistent game... it isn't, i already played about 40% of it and im fed up, fixing some minor annoyances wont get to pick it up and finish it... the damage is done.

[@MrItsaplane]

If they're minor annoyances how did THAT stop you from finishing? Seems like you're just looking for an excuse.

[@jackthompson7125]

"If they're minor annoyances how did THAT stop you from finishing?" Reading comprehension man. The minor annoyances didn't stop him, the fact that only some minor annoyances were fixed, doesn't excuse the game's launch state, nor does even come close to excusing all the stuff that isn't minor and isn't fixed.

[@MsLia32]

that is why you do not play on release

[@R3GARnator]

Its dumb to pre-order games. Always wait a year or two for it to be bundled with dlc then on a big sale.

[@tubekyle2]

I think the matter of fact is that the basic game shouldn't of had so many issues on day one. I can understand the level of complexity in todays game far out pace those of the 8-bit era. If Nintendo can have such a high level of QA why can't many of these other developers do it too? I feel the biggest issue is separating the devs from the publishers. Whose really to blame for such shit? The capitalistic greedy whore mongers constantly setting earlier launch dates, enforced suggestions that ruin immersion and unoriginal. Not to mention they're lack of perspective of not only the market, or consumers but the actual product itself. All they is, is that it makes alot money. Or the over worked, under paid and most likely spiteful SOBS who have to put up with said whore mongers? Whose to say?

[@katphoodplaysagame9260]

I have trouble remembering Mass Effect: Andromeda while games such as Nier: Automata, Nioh, Yakuza 0 and Persona 5 exist.

[@user-bf5sc8pn8x]

weeb spotted

[@MrItsaplane]

I didn't like Nioh or Yakuza, I remember Andromeda just fine over them, Nier's alright but nothing beyond a pretty good game, nothing worldbreaking.

[@rikterterran3833]

J Nah, that's just Japan killing it lately

[@Kaefer1973]

+J Nonsense, playing Japanese games alone is no proof or even real evidence for love of Japanese stuff in general. My home country rarely creates good games, so I've played many US-American and Japanese games in my life, doesn't mean I'm a fan of either country. (Honestly, if I had to chose to live in one of them I'd probably just shoot myself in the head instead)

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

if you think about it all good games recently released are japanese games. Zelda botw, persona 5, nier automata etc.

[@piramaniak]

"worse conclusion than the fucking 1930's" Man this guys has been cracking me up for years now, you're hilarious!

[@HORRIOR1]

Andromeda is so watered down you might as well call is Mass Effect Neutered. Or Mass No Effect.

[@MrItsaplane]

No...it's not. It's not any more watered down than any other Mass Effect, which is what I'm assuming you're talking about.

[@Fuogor]

Mass Effect: Bud Light

[@PetarJovanovic993]

Pass Effect?

[@TheTexasDice]

Less Effect

[@AximandTheCursed]

Less Erect?

[@brainflash1]

Even after all these years, it's nice to hear Yahtzee admit that the ending to ME3 was rubbish instead of saying everyone who didn't like it was just upset the series was over.

[@RdTrler]

I mean, ME3 *was* a choice of 6 colors to explode in. There were so many memes and jokes made about it that pretty much half the gaming community caught wind. There simply were a lot better ways to kill off Shepard than giving him a bomb with 6 wires that explode if he cuts any of them. Hell, 5 premature bad endings with a single "worth it" bad ending would have done better. ME2 has at least one premature ending.

[@Perchumovic]

3:38 "Mass Effect: Automata"

[@aurumursus4167]

EVO6reviews yeah, he does it all the time. My personal favorite is "yoshi's weary wank"

[@Perchumovic]

EVO6reviews I'm aware that it was deliberate. I just thought that it was clever of him to use the name of a game that he just reviewed, so I had to point it out.

[@samk7625]

'Mass Effect: Andrew Lloyd Webber' Come on mate

[@JameboHayabusa]

They were actually androids the whole time!

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

Nier: Andromeda

[@iainmaclean4872]

I'm so sorry about this, I know I shouldn't comment this because it's stupid but... That galaxy is actually NGC1300, not the milky way. I know because it's my favorite. :)

[@RAFMnBgaming]

Well i don't think you can really blame him, we don't exactly have any exterior shots of the milky way in our collective photo albums do we?

[@iainmaclean4872]

Artists renditions are neato though

[@TeaDoogun]

Last time I was this early, I actually liked Bioware games.

[@willgm3500]

"actually actually"? you mean "actually liked"?

[@TeaDoogun]

I don't know what you're talking about. If you recheck my comment, I think you'll find that you have misread it.

[@willgm3500]

when I read it, it hadn't been edited so I saw "actually actually"

[@TeaDoogun]

Will gm I know, I edited it after your comment :)

[@wolfieinu]

HEY! THAT'S UNFAIR! BioWare promised patches and stuff! And some critics liked it! Your just a HATER WHAAA WHAAA WHAAAAHAHAAH That was my impression of every comment section on videos slightly critical of ME:A. How'd I do?

[@AzureKing963]

Wolfie Inu Pretty accurate

[@jadak100]

Wolfie Inu not bad, you just forgot to call him names, to use the word fuck (as an adjective of course)

[@AzureKing963]

jadak100 Not to mention " the animations are just a small part of the game"

[@jadak100]

Isaac Lopes oh right!, That too

[@stroheker1]

hm from every thing i have seen its mostly the exact opposite.in fact i very rarely ever see people try to defend the game.its mostly mindless bashing.

[@GazingTrandoshan]

You can skip the planet travel animation now :0

[@frealms]

And if you keep waiting, maybe someday they'll fix everything else. Just keep waiting. Nope, they are not ditching the effort to make "Mass Effect: Andromeda 2 - This time it's personal" and screw you. Nope. Believe the roadmap!

[@YZaiCreates]

What? Sorry I was playing Arkham Knight on PC, what was that? (just a little joke, obviously it's nowhere near as bad, but a similar situation.)

[@ijirving]

Not really, you can skip the animation if youre travelling to planets within the same solar system. You can't skip takeoff, landing or changing solar system animations still...also known as 80% of the animations.

[@andrewcurlutu6422]

THAT game was a complete dumpster fire on release. Of course, WB, having lots of money, didn't actually care or anything until the backlash got unmanageable, even for PR Firm Hindenburg.

[@codepo77]

grizzledcroc but you can't skip the zoom in on. a planet animation. which is like a full 10 sec and is absolutely pointless

[@DJEylisium]

Mass Defect : Blandromeda

[@linusdn2777]

Wow so funny

[@SeanstonVA]

SPOILERS: to be fair, the andromeda initiative turned out to be founded out of fear of the reapers murdering everyone. And they're vague enough to make any ending the player wants canon. Edit: YES I KNOW THE GAME IS SET PRIOR TO THE EVENTS OF ME2 AND SHORTLY AFTER THE EVENTS OF ME1

[@elinfini]

Not _exactly_. Apparently the Andromeda initiative existed for a while (before/during the events of ME1 even); it's just that the Reaper threat pushed things forward (just in time for them being sent off pre-ME3).

[@SeanstonVA]

The initiative was send out into dark space before the events of ME2 and shortly after the events of ME1

[@SeanstonVA]

elinfini Of course I know this. They revealed that they already knew of the reapers.

[@elinfini]

The were sent off before the events of ME3, actually. There are some side characters that reference Project "Lazarus" and "Overlord" (events that happened _during_ ME2).

[@GazingTrandoshan]

It was technically right before Shepard woke up. Me2 I think is only 6 months before me3 starts.

[@deceasedtuna8480]

Yahtzee, I don't know if you read the comments on your videos, but I wanted to thank you for making Zero Punctuation! I've watched all of the videos multiple times and I like to listen to them when I'm doing other things. This is one of my favorite channels on KZbin and has been for many years. Thank you!

[@XyzCloud]

That explanation of how combat work in bioware games was the single most accurate thing I've ever heard.

[@radioactivegum2298]

Bioware: "We need to be more inclusive but that means putting more effort in so how about we just piss everyone off?"

[@TheKarjee]

This review made me appreciate Persona 5 that bit more, because the core mechanic in Persona games are the rpg combat, which is based on finding out the strengths and weaknesses of the enemies. But outside of combat you socialise with other characters, some you fight with other you don't. But they all add something to the combat experience, such as follow up action or being able to talk an enemy into handing over more "Yen". The core mechanic is heavily supported by character interactions, something that I feel this edition to the Mass Effect franchise has lost.

[@SaintAlessa]

TheKarjee the only problem I have with persona 5 is when my wife plays it I have to stop what I'm doing and watch because it's so much more interesting, I love Atlus ❤️

[@android19willpwn]

... why was yen in quotation marks?

[@hanniffydinn6019]

TheKarjee fuck me lets compare an actual in depth PROPER Japanese RPG to bullshit created by Americans for retards. There is no comparison . Ones a REAL GAME and the other. IS NOT.

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

It's always amazing to me how well the characters are done in a persona game as well- they are all so interesting to me- and that sounds lacking in this mass effect as well.

[@jordyn.w4129]

Goku x Sephiroth Well I mean, if we're on the topic of characters, I think they messed up on Morgana. A couple hours into the game it's obvious that they just made a character out of the tutorial and I personally feel like they didn't do so well with him

[@aaronbrady321]

I got a bug that took all of my gear, experience, and companions away while leaving me in the late game.

[@aaronbrady321]

not to mention it replaced all of my saves with copies of the last one i was on so i had no way of fixing it.

[@brianjaehyunlee]

Is that seriously a bug? Seems like the game's way of saying some sort of horrible targeted 'screw you'.

[@The.Orange.Wizard]

If there’s ever a bug that makes you say “Screw this, I’m playing something else” this is the one all right.

[@kwazhims3lf]

"this character is sad now" lol

[@_gungrave_6802]

I kind of think Witcher 3 just makes EVERY RPG after it with moral decisions to look like absolute horse shit. Witcher 3 had moral decisions but most of them weren't black and white which is what makes that franchise so refreshing.

[@MrItsaplane]

Yeah but it ended the same way everything in RDR did, you got shit on no matter what you did, and I hated that about The Witcher 3. almost everything you did ended up getting shit on. Witchers options and conversation aren't extremely nuanced either, a bit better than Andromeda to be sure but not a bastion of dialogue.

[@MicrowaveBackground]

What are you talking about? There's dozens of endings, some are happy, some are ok and some everything goes wrong

[@VocabDoctor00]

+EdgeOI See, those are the precise reasons why I can't enough of Witcher 3, it's the realization of that world, down to those impossible choices, and the way all of the game's systems work in tandem to create that feeling of impossible odds. I would argue the conversations strike a good balance between being directed and being in control, which is fine with me because it mirrors real life in a way, and you're never for a second taken out of Geralt's boots. I feel ya though, I'd like a much wider range of dialogue options in Cyberpunk, which I think we'll get.

[@JohnBack]

I believe Witcher3 has probably spoiled everyone for a generation to come by raising the bar so high it continually bangs you on the head whenever you walk into a new sandbox/rpg.

[@physe8052]

Yeah, but they were overwhelming just different shades of black. Kill a man who murdered an entire village or spare him because the villagers betrayed and tried to murder him? Save a man from dying at the hands of drowners or let him die because he'll go on to murder a bunch of refugees? I try to be altruistic, both in life and gaming, but the Witcher games make that so difficult it's almost not worth pursuing.

[@MetalWingedWolf]

Thanks to Yahtzee I will now always think of sending alien life on small errands upon first contact. I will think exactly of that, then this video and then I will smile.

[@rokhamler3352]

Also it doesn't feel like a new galaxy, doesn't feel alien at all. Mass effect 1 comes off much more alien when you get introduced to the Elcor and Hanar. The Kett give me a strong vibe of being more or less the Collectors from ME2 with their weird brownish looks, weird heads and kidnapping people for their secretive nefarious ends. The Remnant robots look and feel like the Geth's retarded cousins, not the product of some much more advanced civilization. It all comes off as a Lite version of the original Mass Effect trilogy, very many cans of it. Will not make your mass erect.

[@generico366]

More like Mess Defect.

[@BrendanStuart]

Hey, they left during the events of ME2. The Reapers hadn't arrived yet, and the only real influence they had were Collectors abducting human colonies out in the galactic boonies. IT'S A SMALL POINT BUT GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME, CROSHAW, YOU HACK

[@vanyadolly]

Sounds like the same problem Inquisition had. 75% filler with no point whatsoever.

[@mr.e2239]

vanyadolly that was a problem with inquisition, rather dragon age 2.

[@LagunaLoiregr]

Honestly i spent more that 70 hours so far and i love the game. Granted i got after 1.4 so most of the initial bugs where fixed so i am not going to debate that. Story actually made sense, and the npcs had beautiful writing. Drak is the best Krogan in the game so far (in all mass effect). All in all it was a great experience for me. If you do not agree with me then i don't really care :) Thank you

[@RAFMnBgaming]

Wait... isn't Drak the name of the lizardman from irregular webcomic? that's strangely fitting.

[@emilygordbort7300]

What's this? Yatzhee uploads on the same exact day that I happen to be in full swing of a life-threatening Zero Punctuation binge that will leave me typing out comments in his voice for the rest of the week?

[@Gashako]

Andromeda was my first Mass Effect. I had so few issues with it gameplay-wise (no or very minor glitches/bugs) that it actually got me to play the original three.

[@sonnystar2428]

Not a lot of people seem to realize that the crew that made this game had only worked on Mass Effect 3's multiplayer before EA showed up and dumped an impossible challenge on there laps. For a crews first game to be something as big as Mass effect: Andromeda while having to follow up on the the first trilogy I don't think they did a bad job. Distracting at times with dead-eyed people and a fair amount of bugs, absolutely, but not inherently bad.

[@danim1442]

Xiugea Lea it was a good effort and thanks to patches and some amazing side quests that trump those we had in ME2 I am having a lot of fun with it. And the Nomad is fun to drive around with, too.

[@hausy]

At least they've patched a faster travel option in by now. But ya, the characters are far worse than previous games,and the story which had potential has so far for me not lived up to it at all.

[@MrItsaplane]

CHARACTERS ARE FAR WORSE THAN PREVIOUS GAMES? How? Where? In what way? ME1 had 6 characters and 4 of them were insufferably boring (Including Garrus, he got good in 2) I can only think of ONE boring character in Andromeda, and that's Cora, Peebe, Vetra, Drack, Liam, Jaal (especially Jaal) are all cool.

[@BoogerLeader]

@EdgeOI ME2, in my opinion, had the best character roster. To me, Cora was boring as hell, Vetra was non existant, Liam was annoying, Jaal was alright, Peebee was funny and Drack was pretty awesome. ME2 had really interesting characters and a bit of everything, so I'd say Andromeda has second when comparing it to the original trilogy.

[@hausy]

EdgeOI Your comment reads like all the characters are boring in ME:A. Well that's fine if you found them boring, but I found them interesting.

[@hausy]

BoogerLeader I have found Drack to be the coolest so far, at least his voice acting is pretty good. No one will ever replace Garrus personally though lol.

[@hausy]

YouGot2BeKitten 1 No it's the way they present their argument that makes them a 12 year old fanboy. All caps with retarded grammar and spelling equals not worth listening too. Well done defending this cancer.

[@deadwillsmithmeme1077]

So that's it huh, we're some kind of Mass Effect Andromeda?

[@khaosbydesignuk946]

I actually quite liked the combat, and the driving, and the characters, and the exploration... but I fixed having to keep looking at Ryders face by constantly wearing an outlaw/outcast/raider helmet :)

[@JustAndre92]

You know, a lot of people have tired of the whole _Zero Punctuation_ schtick as the years have gone on, but games on the level of _Mass Effect: Andromeda_ coming around demonstrate perfectly why _ZP_ is still needed, because this feels like an episode from the show's glory days; "a worse ending than the fucking 1930s" had me rolling.

[@Juk3n]

I thought the combat was some of the most intuitive, fast paced and fun in an rpg.

[@anthonyzapata1600]

Do Planescape Torment Enhanced Edition!

[@justinitforthemen5412]

has anyone ever pointed out that andromeda starts about halfway through mass effect 2 and that's why the ending of 3 was never brought up, because it hadn't happened yet?

[@camwyn256]

That's stupid and not at all obvious. ;)

[@avatareternal3204]

This is actually one of the more positive (or at least lenient) reviews I've seen.

[@TheOfficialPSI]

Honestly I just wish Bioware made the ONLY ENDING WHERE SHEPARD SURVIVES be the true ending. You know, the one that makes SENSE and the one the fans always seem to forget when they bitch about the ending.

[@tusharveeramani3742]

there once was a game called Destiny, seemed more like a graphical test to me, its brown there's a gun and it seems as much fun as requiring a double mastectomy

[@madquest8]

The game that was the final nail in the Mass Effect Coffin. Stubborn developers don't make any sense to me... want to know how to make money with Mass Effect? Make a new game... Sheperd is alive, ME3 ending was a dream. Include three of his Love interests, don't bother with all the gay stuff (because your primary audience is straight men, sorry... just facts there) get him back in the Normandy and set up another Galactic threat. People would lap it up... but NO, they can't do that , they have to set up a silly feminist agenda game with unpopular PC nonsense vomitted all over it, then wait to complain when no one wants to buy the shoddily programmed story lacking mess of a game they shat out. Sad.

[@DrunkenGlums]

MY FACE IS TIRED!

[@thedeergod435]

Was your face tired after making this That's a mass effect meme btw

[@russianspy5307]

My father is dead *creepy smile*

[@TowelGamingHammer]

Launch issues did the game no favors, experience does feel underwhelming overall and the game has a bad start, but it gets better once you get past the first couple planets. I still wouldn't recommend anyone buy this for $60, I'd say 30-40 bucks would be more fair. It seems more of a spinoff series that went fairly well, rather than a AAA game that went really bad, and I think pricing it as such would be more fair. I don't recommend buying any DLC when it comes out, vote with your wallet for their terrible business practice of making customers their beta testers. Of course, never preorder either.

[@Grymbaldknight]

I personally like Andromeda... but i'll be damned if these criticisms aren't actually true. It's a mess, to be sure, but it's a fairly palatable mess, like a tin of fruit cocktail. No central element, no real "theme", but nonetheless gently enjoyable.

[@theworstbest3652]

Grymbaldknight you don’t like andromeda you just thing the main character looks funny

[@gus.smedstad]

"Would it help if we made the journey to each planet excruciatingly boring?" - well, obviously, the Bioware team had been playing a lot of Elite Dangerous. They'd gone to one of those binary star systems where half the planets are 15 minutes travel away from the jump point and said "this is exactly what we need."

[@fufufu7034]

I had to try it out to see all the complaints for myself and I am confused on who I should listen to. Apart from the small bugs left and right the game wasn't really that bad. The game play was a step up, the controls were cleaned up from the previous ME games. On the other hand, I do agree as per the pre update 1.05, the faces were glunky and the stances were bugged abit. One of the devs messed up and the faces are kinda meh. I know it isn't the best but it really doesn't deserve all the hate.

[@darossigamer2553]

Andromeda wasn't the WORST game I've played. Sure, there wasn't any real plot beyond “find security bunkers under planets and hit the on switch”, but I wasn't really in it for the plot. I just wanted to play the game as a fresh new experience into the Mass Effect universe. And I'll be honest, as an exploration game, it works. I liked the dialogue wheel this time around, because it's less about maximizing your nice guy points, vs. your maverick points, and more about building relations with the people you meet. In my first playthrough, I roleplayed as a male Ryder who had a chance to poke and prod everything to find out what it does, and tried to keep it together by masking their worries and doubts with humour and trying to be honest with everyone. The second time, it was as a female Ryder who was a bookworm, who enjoyed studying the Prothean relics she saw the scientists unearth back in the Milky Way. Both experiences were different for me, because I was dealing with what felt like a different character each time. Meeting the angara was also a high point for me, because we've heard so many stories about first contact in Mass Effect, but never really seen any of it, save for a few historic snippets. With the angara, I was genuinely curious about their culture, history, and the like, because I saw this fantastic new species in a way that hadn't been done in Mass Effect before: they weren't integrated into our known society, and we weren't expected to know the species because we weren't next-door-neighbours with them. For me, seeing a turian in ME1 for the first time wasn't as exciting because we'd already seen them in-universe, so the appeal of learning about them was kind of lost. When it came to the angara, I wanted to learn everything about them I will admit the game had it's flaws. Every game does. But I didn't see it as a reason to get on the hate bandwagon. I'm still irked about that one programmer who received a lot of rape threats because the faces barely emoted. Isn't that a little extreme? And don't try to justify it by saying that she wasn't qualified, or some other bullshit. I know from experience that animation is difficult and time consuming. It's not just about making models, and rendering them. There are other things to consider as well, like textures, scaling, file size. Do I think it's the best game in the series? No. But I still thought it was an enjoyable game.

[@wotshish]

Bioware faces > Bethesda faces

[@ZeroB4NG]

After 102 hours with the game, i'd say it was... "OK" but average, nothing outstanding... i got my moneys worth out of it and had fun, it is still very much Mass Effect to me. It is only depressing that it has potential to be so much better in literally every single aspect. The Mix of it all makes it work well enouh, but if you inspect every single mechanic and system, there is nothing there that is really well done, the Combat, is average, the User Interface is terribly average, the Characters, for a BioWare game, painfully average, animations and faces... average, the open world aspect, average, base building, well it is no Fallout 4 that is for sure, one click outpost established. There is nothing, that truly blows my mind, but the mix of all those things makes it feel like Mass Effect, the Atmosphere is certainly there. There is also nothing that is inherently bad... it just lacks, talent and content and polish. I can't say that i liked ME2 or 3 any better, but they were a bit more streamlined, less open world... ME1 was of course the best because it had the new and shiny concept factor, you only get that bonus once in every franchise.

[@batmenace15]

I was a little hyped for this game for months until I saw that game footage, so I bought Persona 5 instead. I think I made a good choice.

[@JhericFury]

After having eventually played it, after they patched over all the graphical problems and bugs, my review is this: have you replayed the whole ME trilogy? Then you'll enjoy it well enough

[@Spartan322]

The fanboys - "Its a good game, fuck you for being a hater" Me - "Wait, so you expect your games to buggier then Sonic 06 on release date? Where the fuck have I been that indies can have high standards of alpha builds then a release game on hardware built for the fucking thing?" Also, he's right, MEA has no core gameplay, connecting a bunch of smaller bits of game mechanic does not a good game make, especially not a AAA games of a budget of over 40mil.

[@millymino665]

MegaCake1234 it reminds me of what he said in his horizon zero dawn review. "Stringing together enough c+ in hopes to get an A." Although what they did in this game is string a bunch of F's together and the result was an F+

[@Corrael]

I know it's unpopular, but I liked it. I wouldn't suggest that you pay full price for it, maybe wait for a free weekend or something to try it out first, but do give it a shot. It's a better game than Dragon Age 2 -- it's mediocre, not awful.

[@Dusty--]

Despite its setbacks and differences its still relatively fun to play I'd say.

[@wanderingursa8184]

One mistake you made, the ships leave the Milkyway between Mass Effect 2 and 3, meaning they did not get to experience the ending. Which is why the Krogans in Andromeda are still mostly affected by the genophage.

[@mooninite114]

I'm still salty about the ME3 ending.

[@Quizzmet]

I think you got your facts at the beginning a little wrong, the ships were sent right after the battle of the citadel in ME1 but before Shepard was revived in ME2. Or in any case, they weren't around when ME3 ended, they already fucked off by that point.

[@captainchrono6448]

I don't think he realised ME:A took play inbetween 2 and 3

[@captainchrono6448]

Not that you would know, since it's completely retconn'd in

[@quietusq489]

I mean, they left inbetween 2 and 3, but ME:A actually takes place 600 years after that... something the game seems to sometimes forget.

[@Hillthugsta]

How so? Sees like I can't go five minutes without someone me or over hearing someone saying it's 600 years later.

[@quietusq489]

Some stuff that you randomly hear on the Nexus, this specific one being heard multiple times; "A member of the initiative was found floating dead in space, the identity of the individual is to be withheld until their next of kind back in the milky way has been informed." - what next of kin? They're great great great grand nephew? how long does it take to transmit a message back to a galaxy 600 years away? I was probably being hyperbolic, but I personally felt it squandered the opportunity to do some cool narrative with the time difference (albeit i'm still only 30% through the game so far).

[@ZinkyStinky]

I couldn't find a video that told me why the games story just cuts off all of your choices from the previous three games and just sticks you in a new galaxy. This video helped me not buy mass erect andropmygrandmotheroffabridge

[@qw000pz]

Comment complaining about the lack of original comments that is also an just unoriginal comment trying to get top comment.

[@forest3823]

My biggest problem with the game is that it just didnt seem to have a point. I enjoyed playing it, sort of, but it never really went anywhere. There is definitly something to build off of if Bioware gets their shit together and rembers that they are supposed to be making great story driven games. It wasnt an awful game, but it was mediocre.

[@togekiss1995]

Fun fact; I have never played a Mass Effect game. Never saw any reason to honestly... Then comes along this new game that Yahtzee reviewed that might have gotten me to buy a console with no backwards compatibility. It might have, but as we all know after the almighty Magikarp, Yahtzee is the highest of gods. He may not flop in the same majestic way, but his words are no less unwise. You don't even need a translator that may or may not just be screwing with you about what your god is saying.

[@hannibalburgers477]

OathKeeper you dont have to buy console to play console games.

[@darkindragon]

why bother then?

[@SamFreelancePolice]

this fact was so fun

[@togekiss1995]

Well I meant it as a reference, but if I were planning to buy the game, than the lord Crowshaw would have smited me.

[@hannibalburgers477]

sct vsk emulators m8

[@Draakdarkmaster6]

they should have just made a bunch of a sequel games exploring each of the possible canon endings in depth, having a different hero try to pick up the pieces of the aftermath of the reaper war. with the perfect destroy ending resulting in a chance meeting with a comatose but still alive commander shepard.

[@Logikek]

Best combat in the series so far imo.

[@t.n7648]

Imrakul and everything else is shitiest...

[@Suedocode]

I hate the dumbed down combat actually. I can deal with all the other weaker aspects, but it has lost all value as a tactical shooter. I play on insanity difficulty where the teammates are absolutely useless except for the Drack, who is the only likable character in the game. In the other games, teammates were very important for harder difficulties. There used to be a synergy in planning your squad's abilities and equipment, but all that is gone. Your squad mates are not much more than a few moments of bullet sponge now.

[@ShortVideosRUs]

At the sacrifice of good writing in what is meant to be an RPG? I don't think that's a fair trade.

[@Odilwerk]

Yet they gutted out squad actions so we can't give direct commands. Whilst the jetpack they've implemented constantly gets stuck on everything, whilst simultaneously being redundant on higher difficulties due to damage taken. I'd honestly say it's a step backwards for the series. It feels like a sub-par TPS; which the Mass Effect has always felt like, but the depth always elevated it above that. Now there's nothing to redeem it.

[@LaughingOwl10]

It's great combat if you like every enemy being a bullet sponge and seriously limiting what abilities you can use.

[@lynxager]

"Planet scanning that Mass Effect 2 replaced the driving with is back and badger buggingly boring as ever" LOL

[@thismarxtheendforjoo2298]

SJW Effect : Transdramaduh

[@donniedewitt6841]

DankLogistics 67 shadilay brother

[@thismarxtheendforjoo2298]

Donnie Dewitt- Praise be to kek my friend

[@scytheseven9173]

Yoseph Fitzgerald It's ~100,000 people, there is only one trans character, and if you want to be a dick you can leave her fiance in cryo. I do miss the reporter punching.

[@Guntfarm]

Statistically she shouldn't be there then, trans are outcasts, as it should be. Plus they wouldn't put a mentally disabled person on a spaceship when its supposed to be the best .

[@tprime2702]

Yoseph Fitzgerald What does gender have to do with "being the best"?

[@FTZPLTC]

I hate to be "this guy", but don't the people in Andromeda leave the Milky Way *before* the events of Mass Effect?

[@Daveyygeee]

I loved this game.. but I knew yahtzee was going to shred it.. its kind of a mess.. but if you love that mass effect experience you kinda end up loving the game anyway

[@SaintAlessa]

David Gash I'm trying so hard to love it, but I sort of kind of totally hate Ryder! I feel like no matter what I pick she's very "tee hee lol" about everything. Also everyone keeps jumping up and disappearing when I land on a planet, or the Kett fall from an invisible ship and surround me...or the Enoch glide around super fast no matter where I am and eat me instantly. I like parts of this game, but no love yet, and of course I miss my Shepard and my old squad. 😂

[@pancakelad]

no, shepard was a commander and that emotionalless persona works well for that. ryder is shit. no one would follow that into battle.

[@SaintAlessa]

Ealdy omg that is the perfect description for Ryder lol. Aw, I liked Shepard! She was such a badass, but to each his own.

[@KazumiKiguma]

I didn't...I played ME1 when it was new and loved it, played ME2 when it was new and thought it was great, played 3 and uuuuuuuuugh, and played this and UUUUUUUUUUUUGH. The only good things about ME:A are the combat's okay and it didnt have an advertising campaign based on fucking Jersey Shore. YES BIOWARE THAT WILL NOW FOREVER BE A PLUS POINT FOR EVERY OTHER GAME IN THE UNIVERSE NO MATTER HOW BAD THEY ARE.

[@Daveyygeee]

The mass effect experience in my opinion is trawling through the boring fetch quests and coming across a piece of ridiculous or hilarious writing and some genuinely exciting missions.. basically it has all of the bad shit from the first three and some of the good things and occasionally an absolute gem shines through.. like Liam's side mission

[@NRGH89]

I'm about to watch this video. I predict a savage fatality.

[@hoshi314]

bioware as far as i acknowledge sells stories.........with sometimes questionable visuals......

[@ArtyTheta]

Ryouga Mizuchi then they should write a book

[@hoshi314]

Maybe bioware wants to but thanks to the gaming warlord EA it won't happen

[@YZaiCreates]

There are many mass effect and dragon age books.

[@crazyyenii]

Ryouga Mizuchi that is true. however, this story is also bad!

[@MrItsaplane]

Story's bad? Not any worse than the other ones imo, I mean if you don't like Mass Effect good for you, what gets me is the hypocrites acting like this is dogshit compared to the others when it's far from it.

[@wesleythomas7125]

I got ME:A at a pawn shop last Saturday and it's the most fun I've had in years. I wish I'd have gotten it when it came out.

[@doctoreggnog6644]

I couldn't even get into the first Mass Effect. The people were so creepy looking and the dialogue was so boring.

[@CarozQH]

So I guess the developers of Andromeduh just wanted to make people all nostalgic by making a sequel with the same problems?

[@wanghaifeng7998]

You should try to give it more time, Mass Effect 1 has not aged well in a lot of aspects but as an RPG the world building is amazing and the story and characters really grow on you in my opinion. Best thing about ME1 are the characters. I replayed it 2 times because I lost my initial save file and had a lot of fun both times. It is also highly re-playable and with how the save file transfers between the trilogy even with all it's flaws I consider them one of the best trilogies in video games. Anyone who wants to get into Mass Effect should start with the first one because every small detail is accounted for.

[@sEaNoYeAh]

Not surprised, even as a fan I've got to say the start to Mass Effect 1 in particular is terrible. The set up is pretty poor, and the first level is one of the worst in the whole series.

[@wanghaifeng7998]

I have to say the first title scroll still gives me chills. The opening for the second game was indeed better but you really had to play the first one to get the full range of emotions in my opinion.

[@avatareternal3204]

+Doctor Eggnog The dialogue and animations are somehow way worse in Andromeda.

[@Unformed8]

Even though I am a dirty fanboy of ME series, yahtzee might not have liked ME:A but he didn't slaughter it as bad as he might have.

[@ST34LTH17]

Okay... What? I generally find Yahtzee to be hilarious and good at pointing out the obvious flaws of the game (or what went on behind them)... BUT! (You probably already figured this coming, so congratz to you)... but... I've never seen him this poorly informed before. I mean sure, Andromeda is by no means perfect (is anything?) and was quite honestly bad at certain things before some of the make-over patches they did post launch, but he's got the background lore and origin of the story waaaaay off the mark here. For starters, the very glaring error that he assumes the Andromeda Initiative launched AFTER Mass Effect 3's mediocre ending just frustrates me to no end. If you were more familiar with the story of ME:A, then you'd know it was launched waaaay before ME3, fitting somewhere into the early points of ME2 (if my timeline is correct). So NO, Yahtzee, N-O... They did not avoid ME3's ending, they circumvented it, allowing for a "no comments" policy and instead letting the player imagine what happened after ME3 on their own. Secondly, ME:A's core gameplay is NOT combat, but exploration and the story side of RPGs. I know there are plenty who disagree with me here, but this is hardly just my opinion, it's the developer's idea and is clearly shown in Ryder being a PATHFINDER, not the super-soldier Sheppard was. That he is good at combat gives the option of adding a ton of combat to the game, but even so it is still only a secondary feature; albeit a close second at that.

[@jakeus2575]

I actually like mass effect andromeda. Is it bad? No. Is it good? No. It's somewhere in the grey area of mmmmyeahmmeehh

[@GazingTrandoshan]

I feel like he doesnt like any of the Mass effects :p .

[@argentaquila6364]

If I'm remembering right, he liked things in them but he found something seriously annoying with them as well, Like the planet scanning in ME2.

[@BackwardsPancake]

And that makes sense. Since, in the end, they all have very similar problems, and if they bothered you in one game, they will likely bother you in others.

[@raggedcritical]

I liked the combat. I specced for a biotic charge style which meant my combat loop was rocketing into the enemy, exploding, shooting them in the face with a shotgun, exploding again then zipping away. It was great - the best version of that kind of combat I've played. What were my squadmates doing? Who cares.

[@TenthSgtSnipes]

And now we wait for the experts who've never even touched the game to all run in and tell us about how terrible it is. Yknow cause they heard it from that one review they kind of liked.

[@Lightscribe225]

TenthSgtSnipes Well we already got the biased players willing to ignore all the glaring problems and act like acknowledging any flaw it might possess means they admit it's not fun.

[@GazingTrandoshan]

No if you actually check the ME reddit there is a ton of huge threads providing critical feedback and acknowledging the problems but are still having fun with the game .

[@Lightscribe225]

grizzledcroc And just as many across the internet that act like just because it's a AAA title(had a shitload more money and time) it deserves more than an average score, as if 70 suddenly stopped meaning 'C' and now means 'F'.

[@TenthSgtSnipes]

Lightscribe225 TBH though like besides the obvious facial animations problems and very few minor bugs, I haven't had many problems myself with the game so I can't really say anything about that. Plus they did patch some faces and the crab walk, yknow the more wide spread issues that existed with the game.

[@markmark6799]

Lightscribe225 ever scince blacklisting and paid reviews by publishers a 70 rating does mean an F.

[@HGShurtugal]

I just got Shepards name he is taking care of the galaxy and protecting them from the reapers who take the place of wolfs.

[@kcido14]

Just finished the game, there was a lot of annoying mechanics and bugs, but overall I enjoyed the experience. Hence why I watch reviews after I finish the game :)

[@spaghettiioassassin8151]

for me, when a game gets shit on for a plethora of bugs, I just wait 6-12 months and then buy it once everything is fixed. I did that with AC Unity and now it's one of my favorite games in the series even though it's considered one of the worst.

[@lexington6447]

Watching you violently shred apart these games gives me purpose

[@paladinboyd1228]

Please tell me there are gay Krogan in this one that's all I want, well that and decent character animations.

[@TeaDoogun]

You sound like my mate...he was really disappointed that he couldn't get rogered by Wrex.

[@joeysephy]

"Rogered" is a tragically underused verb that I shall endeavour to use much more often in future.

[@TeaDoogun]

Then perhaps the English language can be saved after all.

[@ijirving]

A gay man does the voice of a female krogan, so...sort of?

[@TeaDoogun]

In space, no one can hear you ream. Also, Krogan have 4 balls. Can't let that go to waste.

[@TheBicycleRepairman2]

I still consider dragon age origins the best/ last good bioware game to this date. Which is frankly not a good sign.