I played MASS EFFECT ANDROMEDA In 2022 so you don't have to...

There's a lot of positive things to be said about Mass Effect. Andromeda is in a galaxy of its own in the worst possible way. For many, this is the entry that killed the Mass Effect franchise. For others, a misunderstood black sheep. With a half decade gap between me and the last time I played through this game, I decided to suffer through it one more time for all of you to see if anything had improved.
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[@NotDustyDrB]

The writing was the big thing with me. There's SO much forced humor. It's like they were trying to do the Citadel DLC type thing without having earned it. It didn't earn it with the time and weight of the choices that got us there. And it certainly didn't earn it with the characters.

[@arkeshn729]

Citadel is goofy antics with your friends. Me:A is like watching strangers make an ass out of themselves for attention.

[@Slayer398]

I really agree, but one of my other big pet peeves was the bad repetitive npc models. Everybody looked exactly like everyone was a clone...

[@l.p.antaree8216]

@@Slayer398 I saw some analysis of the Asari models and why they looked as bad as they do, apparently it's mostly down to the texture and layering. In ME1-3 there is only 1 asari body and face model, which is that of Liara, Samara/Morinth is the only exception. The difference being that for skin textures, the OT used a gray base model and applied colored textures to it along with some unique shading, I don't understand it completely but it is able to portray much more variance this way. Andromeda uses only one Asari body and face as well (Except PeeBee) but the base model is Blue, being painted on with some markings rather than different skin colors and shading, so they all look much more similar than the Asari of the OT. Andromeda also has a problem with the female humanoids where all the necks are too thin for the size of the heads.

[@Slayer398]

@@l.p.antaree8216 thanks for the info on that, it explains a lot on Andromeda's models vs ME.

[@juddgeshredd]

I believe it was a loyalty mission where it involved boarding a ship and there’s a scene involving communication with the enemy and an airlock being open and almost sucking your team into space. That section had me laughing out loud but you are correct, the humour wasn’t always on mark.

[@DMT-ix9zj]

I recently replayed it with all patches and imo i had a great time game play combat is very good some facial expressions are still goofy/funny AF but i loved it.

[@KJW1967]

I agree, it's the best part of the game. If I could have the story level of the first 3 ME games with Andromeda's gameplay and combat, I'd need no other game.

[@robertkirkpatrick1826]

Agreed. I thought the hate train was over hyped and full of copy cats. I fully enjoyed all 150 hours of my playthrough.

[@johnmecca9008]

Agree one hundred here.

[@johnmecca9008]

@@robertkirkpatrick1826 EXACTLY BRO!!

[@Son_Joe_Productions]

I don't think I have the patches on my game. 😭

[@dukenson831]

I liked it when I first played it, but after replaying the OG trilogy recently, I realized just how empty (both emotionally and literally) this game felt compared to the prior entries.

[@MrMattyPlays]

Yeah, that's why it was interesting going back in a post Legendary Edition world.

[@vivamexico254]

I know exactly what You mean ... Like maybe if it had nothing to do with mass effect it could have done better but i remember every lil npc that they put on for fan service , like the son of zaeed massani or cornad verner sister felt more like a joke than a Homenage

[@FalconOfStorms]

As in, it was much better than the rest.

[@water5054]

@@FalconOfStorms You definitely only played Andromeda and therefore have an inherent bias towards it. The game is bad and is only mass effect in title. You want to play a game for the gameplay, go play COD.

[@FalconOfStorms]

@@water5054 You definitely are on drugs. I played the trilogy multiple times for different roleplaying opportunities. Andromeda is better.

[@Jpow5734]

The only things I liked about this was the combat and movement everything else I hated and going from my first time playing mass effect with the legendary edition straight into this made me bounce off it immediately and actually made me replay the other games just a few days after completing them.

[@jasons2210]

This was actually the first Mass Effect game I really played. I did play ME1 in 2007 for like 10 minutes and didnt like it (I was like 13 and had no patience). My friend who was big into Mass Effect was so hyped for Andromeda so I got it with him. I had fun with the game. The story/characters were completely forgettable but the gameplay was so much fun. Outside of the tech problems, I didnt understand what all the fuss was over this game. To me, it was a perfectly fine, but not amazing, game. It wasnt until a couple years after when I first played the full ME trilogy and was blown away did I realize why everybody was so let down by Andromeda. I still think its an ok game with some redeeming qualities, but its definitely a massive disappointment for a Mass Effect game.

[@mannylara2930]

I have always said , move the gameplay from andromeda to the trilogy without the swapping classes gimmick and the original trilogy would’ve been even more magical

[@StuffedShaun]

No lifed ME Legendary Edition last week so I decided to give Andromeda a go. At the beginning I thought it wasn't bad but about 10 hours in it began to feel like a job rather than a game. I decided to stop playing it tonight and I uninstalled it.

[@_YourFlyIsOpen]

This was literally me.

[@RoaringPhilosopher]

Do elaborate. I’m in a similar situation and considering old school BioWare Kotor games instead of Andromeda

[@BigFootTheRealOne]

​@@RoaringPhilosopherthe original Mass effect trilogy is open world per se but it's fairly linear. Mass effect Andromeda is more so in terms of fallout in terms of big open world.

[@brandontaylor3252]

"It's not as good as one of the greatest gaming experiences in history. " Sure, I'll give you that but on its own I still found it to be a very enjoyable game.

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[@elblah9721]

I like Mass Effect Andromeda. The timbre of many weapons are solid, the combat is smooth, & the environments are gorgeous.

[@Winland88]

If we ignore the characters and majority of main story this was imo best in the series, gameplay, crafting system and the way you can mix and match abilities and combo them was just 5/5. Ryder family secret was interesting side story and left so many questions and vaults also had some interesting story behind them, even main story became interesting just before it ended. Oh and that asteroid H-047c was awesome zone/place. Sucks that we will probably never see sequel for this because stuff started to get interesting near the end.

[@Sytakz]

@@Winland88 If we ignore those factors, we're ignoring what makes Mass Effect. Andreomda was uch a lackluster game with wasted potential; it's insane to think that they even dared only give us a single new species in a game where we're meant to be exploring a new galaxy. We explore more new species in ME2 than we do in Andromeda.

[@Winland88]

@@Sytakz While true i am more practical person, i do like good stories but they are one of the least important part in RPG's for me personally. Gameplay, systems and good optimization always comes first for me as good story can't carry bad game at all, i started playing RPG's before i could even understand english(not native speaker)so i kinda got used to ignore the story part and focus more on the content itself.

[@f.haskins928]

@@Sytakz it takes place in a small cluster on the edge of the galaxy. How many alien races was really needed?

[@Sytakz]

@@Winland88 What is the purpose of playing RPGs then, if not for the story and characters? All your points sounds like features that would matter to a FPS, not a singleplayer RPG

[@MrBergste]

I actually recently ran through this game after playing the legendary collection. I don't think it's as bad as people say it is. It's certainly inferior to the trilogy, but I had a good time with Andromeda as well.

[@chronic_johnson_a.r.a.b]

I played Andromeda for the first time this year after a long time of expecting to hate it, and I really enjoyed it. It has some issues with the writing and the open worlds can get a bit boring from time to time, but overall it's one of the most fun experiences I've had on the PS4. Gameplay is great (possibly best in the series), soundtrack is great, sense of exploration is great. The changes to the dialogue system and removal of paragon/renegade was risky, but I think it worked perfectly for a game about someone thrown into a leadership role that they weren't prepared for. Balancing your behaviour between rational and emotional, trying to keep a level head. It's a solid 7/10 game that was just never capable of living up to the original trilogy.

[@Thedrunkenswede1337]

This is why you dont use other people opinions to make up your own.

[@PaulSmith-nb6md]

The game is very good. I appreciate people who see it for what it is and not what they wished it was

[@CircumSamurai]

I think it's kind of a shame Andromeda gets compared to the entire original trilogy when it really feels like it was going to be the start of a new trilogy of games. I understand it, but if we looked at Andromeda as the Mass Effect 1 of a new set of games, then I think it would've had a better chance.

[@chronic_johnson_a.r.a.b]

@@CircumSamurai I definitely wish it would have received a sequel or even story DLC.

[@ethandudash1073]

I played this last year and personally thought the game was a ton of fun, I didn't have any bugs in my playthrough either so maybe I got lucky? Anyway I thought it was great with abilities also the jumping and evading but movement could be smoother between walking and running around. Makes me excited for next installment in series.

[@monterreyjack463]

Man….I lowkey enjoy Andromeda.

[@MatheusRodrigues-gm5tf]

The gameplay is really good

[@sumireravenclaw8034]

even though I loved 1/2/3 I think andromeda for me was better then the original. the story wasn't all that amazing like 1/2/3 but you have to realise me 1/2/3 was a whole big story inside of 3 FUCKIGN games. imagine if andromeda actually got a trilogy out of it? Would have been 10x better.

[@daetheyleid]

I've come to find that MEA is 7 game in a family of 8s and 9s that's treated as a 3. A fun but flawed game that showed a lot of promise but couldn't get out of in-office politics (By this I mean how the Montreal and Edmonton studios could not manage a clear vision for this project.) To touch a little on the tone system, it could've gone the route of DA2 where your character picks up the tone over the course of the game through your choices. But unfortunately, it's another idea that fell to the wayside. Also I've already done another playthrough this year lol. Anyway, looking forward to the next ME (just as long as Shep is left to rest 🥴) PS picking the casual/ emotional responses leads to more "comical" tone most of the time. logical/professional is actually pretty balanced.

[@_YourFlyIsOpen]

Absolutely not, it’s not a good game it’s more of a 4 in a family of 9s.

[@asura7915]

i disagree it’s more of a 5 or 6 in a family of 9s.

[@daetheyleid]

@@_YourFlyIsOpen Ok

[@daetheyleid]

@@asura7915 ok

[@BigFootTheRealOne]

​@@daetheyleiddon't listen to those snowflakes they've never played it. I've got several playthroughs done and hundreds of hours in the game and I would agree with your ranking of a seven in a group of 8 or 9s

[@killertortoise1]

I actually quite liked Andromeda. It had a lot of issues and never came close to the original trilogy but I didn't hate it. I never really felt like I had enough choice though. Really wanted to see the world react to my decisions but the only time I can remember that was giving some dude a base in the desert. It was a damn cool idea but just needed more choice and the characters needed to be slightly better written.

[@critical-thinker666]

you liked that part where you got 6 planets with 5000 fetch quests and 10 enemy types?

[@Infinity-ki7wi]

I finished it yesterday and I enjoyed it. I'm a big fan of Original trilogy and I have been sceptical when I launched this game for the first time but then I was actually positively surprised. I can recommend this game :)

[@critical-thinker666]

did you finished all planets to 100%? with all sidequests? when you loved it so much? 😂

[@mrspaceman2764]

Played this last year and I really enjoyed it. The trick is to not stay and clear an entire planet but to move along with the story, it'll tell where you need to go and when and bring you back to finish up naturally. The game really needs level suggestions for the quest list. Not for difficulty but for continuity. The second trick is to realize out of the box, that this isn't an evolution of ME3 but a direct evolution of ME1. Once you get Profile Switching down, the combat is really fun on the hardest difficulty. Taking away control of the party members away is something you'll get used to but never appreciate though.

[@KrGsMrNKusinagi0]

nah i did planet by planet completing anything and everything that could be done before coming back.. The additional task quests were trash

[@mrspaceman2764]

@@KrGsMrNKusinagi0 It's certainly not for everyone. Glad you played it though! Those extra quests do culminate in a very thoughtful addition to the games ending.

[@shadowminor]

I didn't get this right away but got it on sale a couple years later and it was still pretty fun by then. At least for me.

[@sinthetic4878]

It seems like people hate this game because it's popular to hate it. It actually holds up really well and is a lot of fun.

[@bardic_inspiration3798]

I feel like if Andromeda wasn't underneath the mass effect mantle, it would've been such good game - aside from the initial bugs. It's such a great concept with amazing gameplay, but it was made out to be worse than it actually was because of how legendary the original trilogy was.

[@oldbittercraig3513]

back when it came out a friend asked about it. I told him "If the original ME trilogy was the original Star Wars trilogy, Andromeda is The Phantom Menace." I stand by that. The combat was definitely fun and planetary graphics were great, but the plot, characters, races, story was so definitely boring, lacking and did nothing for me. Multiplayer was a lot of fun, mostly because it was entirely focused on combat. Which I find hilarious given this is Mass Effect. The series origin, jank/awkward combat that was acceptable because the plot, characters, story were so gripping. Now the best thing in a Mass Effect game was the part that stripped away all the Mass Effect. Should have altered the origin story (why they left the Milky Way) and just given the game a fresh, new title with zero association to the original series. Might have been better received as it's own thing.

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[@DarthRaver-og7qq]

Yo I really like Mass Effect Andromeda!! When it first launched it was buggy as hell but its a solid rpg imo. And when you consider that they actually made this game in less than a year, it's pretty awesome. Plus they had major issues because EA forced them to use the frostbite engine which supposedly was a major issue. Hopefully the next Mass Effect just uses UE5. I'm actually playing it right now. Just started a few days ago. This is like my 3rd playthrough. I guess I really like this game lol.

[@chocho6766]

for me the only issue is the story the setting is superb but the execution is meh ,

[@nathanwinters2400]

So just a few points to cross off as I have a love-hate relationship with how I apparently come off when I give my opinion. The lighthearted side could have worked if you had time to actually develop a rapport with the other people on your Ark. I don't really watch Marvel movies- but I would assume that the energy works better if those characters have some types of history to work with. Things like "that's your dad!" shouldn't be a line. It should have been Ryder getting pulled to the side, the pair of them talking about the mission, and there being some type of line that hints to the relationship. Simple lines like "I know you can do this," or "If it was anyone else I would be more skeptical," in the context of "You are going to lead this mission." for example. By being very direct, or for instance I believe that both Ryder and Cora are gossiping like 20 feet away from Ryder Snr. about how he acts is not only unprofessional in a workplace setting-- it was downright unbelievable. Those are the types of people that would not make the cut to an A Team like position for anything above the most low-maintenance type work. They would be the two characters that exist to give you a reason to shut it down-- think Joker and Kaiden in Mass Effect 1. You now can either build those characters like ME1 did as it was just a one-off type situation, or you can have them be background noise. That ofc doesn't fix things like animation or 110% creating an interesting character, it's just the start. You can have a lighthearted character like Liam (by personality) but it should have been he made the cut because he was extremely good at what he did. I'm talking the trope of "Oh he's unprofessional as hell, but the guy can fix just about any machine/wound/emergency he gets his hands on." And then you have the makings for a good foundation to build a character. Why is he so jovial/sarcastic? If he's so good at (insert profession here), why did he leave it all behind to come here? And my favorite when I write any character-- "Why is he doing this?" which opens up moral questions for later on. If Liam was a top-of-the-line Law Enforcer that had to leave after botching a major situation that became a stain on his department and came here to guide and protect people having his knowledge and experience-- I believe he would have been a great team member. Granted not every character has to be extremely deep with their 'why' question, and as a starting companion maybe it would have been too much. Though him simply stating "it's complicated" to explain later could be a good trade off from deeper complexity. As for things like gameplay, I never really believe that specifically companion commands will work as well with Mass Effect as they would with Dragon Age. The simple reason being a class like the Vanguard where they are the epitome of "high risk, high reward" where their charge is a core part of their damage and sustain wrapped into one. Just as well, a lot of classes are designed to be particularly good at one thing, and very weak in others. While that is realistic (to a point) it is why I strongly believe there should be off-hand or secondary classes for companions and players. Basically where you have a handful of abilities you can switch over to which allow you a layer of survivability w/o compromising the difficulty altogether. Example: being a Primary Class Engineer with strong hacking capabilities but those hacks not being able to just shut down biological units so much as make things take longer-- as such they have the Secondary Class of an Infiltrator where they are able to use solo-stealth to move to safety and once getting there, having access to something like trip-wire explosives or simple grenades to help with sub-par or every just weak weapon use. Instead as of right now, Engineer was kind of memed on for awhile when in reality-- they have been able to completely control, if not just fully shut down practically any combat encounter. They're not as flashy as a biotic Vanguard, but they still have the high reward payoff w/o the major deficit of high risk. Just my two cents of a few things. This is already way too long of a comment xD I struggle finding ways to condense changes w/o offering reasons why I believe they are better in the long run. As it stands if I were in Andrew Wilsons shoes I would be heavily avoiding using "live services" so much then claiming that they are the backbone of their revenue as eventually it's going to fail miserably. Hell, Maxis is currently at risk of losing tons of their players to Paralives simply because Alex Massé & Paralives Studios puts more effort into their gameplay. EA could easily become a loved AND profitable publisher the likes of what Blizzard Entertainment was if they had new management.

[@Rhbrehaut]

Im working through all the mass effects agian because they are my favorite games of all time. Should hit this one sometime next month. Im actually excited

[@thesacspajamas]

What this game was missing in its combat was commanding squad mate abilities from the power wheel. I end up preferring the Trilogy’s combat because, in Andromeda it feels as if you are the only one of any use on the battlefield and your squad mates are just along for the ride, while the Trilogy makes each squad member feel like they have some use in combat when you can use their abilities. Andromeda’s combat is still fun and fluid but it’s missing having actually useful party members

[@andrews.5212]

I firmly believe that the speech system for DA2 was hitting a very good sweet spot.. given the "chapter structure" of that game it was easier to track your overall dialogue choice and that influenced the basic personality Hawke had when you weren't choosing lines of dialogue. Example: if in the prologue you decided to be constantly "purple hawke" in the next chapter hawke's base lines with npc would be more quips/sarcastic driven instead of harsh or diplomatic.. And being baseline diplomatically/sarcastic/harsh could open specific resolutions to certain quests and encounters or even change the party banter a bit.. DA:I had a not bad dialogue system but the inki's personality was always a blank slate whenever it wasn't being directed by you

[@TheEngwall]

I played this in 2021. I was doubtful bc of the rumors and negative reviews. But I was BLOWN AWAY by the gameplay! Holy hell, it was so fun! And I didn't think the story and storytelling was as bad as I first thought. I loved it!

[@richie3f]

I played the game in march and I really liked it, solid gameplay, good grapchics, the story is not the best but is interesting and I loved the characters, sure the choices you make dont matter and the open world is too big, but the game doesn't deserve all the hate. I genuinely want a Mass Effect Andromeda 2 rather than Mass Effect 4

[@mcfuckofffilms]

Agreed they really needed to build the lore up for the Andromeda galaxy and a second one would've been perfect

[@menalgharbwalsharq648]

The problem with andromeda is that, you don' t do that after a trilogy like mass effect. Andromeda is the inquisition of ME serie, but this time, people said no. The dragon Age series is a good example of why. Every game is a different meal, in the same univers. Dragon Age Origins was standalone, and was amazing, unique. Dragon Age 2 was really different from Origin, story, design, point of interest, mechanics, it was in the same univers but in the end the game was standalone. Inquisition was not very liked especially for the very grindy, mmo-esc side quests. But it has for it to have great graphics, interesting story, even tho different again. All those games have characters in common that we want to learn more about, and our past decision influence the whole world, which is cool, but each game was a standalone gaming experience so the differences between Origins, II, and inquisition did not bother people that much, except those who could not get over Origins and kept a grudge for it. But Mass effect was THREE games, we spend with the SAME hero and the same companions, experiencing fear, love, adventures, travels, friendship, courage, combats, life and death, with epic music, a continuous storyline, climax, opening, great vilains, crazy deep lore, and so on. You don' t release a half baked inquisition after that. The facials animation were just the cherry on top, the last straw on the camel's back. No sir. But Okey I brought it, I support Bioware, for now. But they better make something better next time or just start a new series, because otherwise I will never buy anything from them anymore. Mass effect legendary was a good start.

[@DeadRider135]

Andromeda is the game that made me realise Bioware is creatively bankrupt when it comes to its villains. The Kett, Reapers and Darkspawn are all alike but with different packaging.

[@TheCddewey]

I love this game, I don't normally like to finish games because I don't want them to be over and I find something new before I've finished everything, but this is one of only two games that I enjoyed so much I've completed it multiple times. To be fair though,I never played the original trilogy until legendary edition

[@AleksNeve]

And probably that's why you love Andromeda. People hate the game because they expected something like original trilogy and didn't get it. Andromeda is a good game in general but it's bad Mass Effect game.

[@critical-thinker666]

so you finished all side quest and maxed all planets? send pictures!

[@J.a.v.i]

If the original trilogy of Mass Effect got Dragon Age Inquisition pregnant, Mass Effect Andromeda would be its baby. I picked up MEA about a year ago and have been having a lot of fun playing it. Aside from some animation issues the graphics have held up very well for a game made in 2017. The Multiplayer is the best in the series because of the combat. The writing made some companions weak but all the companion loyalty missions were pretty good and fun to play. It really is a shame that BioWare abandoned the game because even after you finish the game you still have a lot of questions. Questions that could had been answered with a few DLCs. Let’s see how much of Andromeda BioWare will bring to Mass Effect 4.

[@thatwasveryscary5910]

Why nobody talk about one of the mains problem in Andromeda, is that they have removed the principle of 50/50 gameplay and interactive cinema, when you never do one thing for a long time as it was in the trilogy

[@normal6969]

Noice video! (Y) The story starting is perfect, I've researched a bit before making a series (and I still have the save to continue), and also in game for in-character knowledge. The project was made between Mass Effect 2-3 timeline, when it was possible that the Reapers will pick the Milky Way clean of biological life again. It's not widely advertised but could be put together from secret notes that it was put together quickly with unconventional resources (like Cerberus, and forbidden AI experiment on you) to possibly save the last of intelligent biological life and technological knowledge into another galaxy. My first surprise (after getting a morning coffee and toilet) was that effectively I am the parent of a newborn, an AI which sees what I do all the time, learning from it. Out-of-character I liked it a lot. For most of the time I solved some problems with the game in-character - for example only I was talking about palinka (a strong, alcoholic drink from Mordor, especially törkölypálinka which is famously bad tourist trap), and there was an NPC with pathing problems beside where I've landed, so I ackowledged her as a consumer, like our stonefaced woman boss on the Nexus, which I knew was from hangover. Yes in my mistranslated misadventures I enjoy altering translation. :P So the main enemy boss quickly got a nickname "Keyringhead". My main problem were: -the unskippable animations while exploring the galaxy you've mentioned -this galactic community was just a reskin of our home; money, pubs, police (for example faction favour point would interest me better than mere money, especially befriending the Enemy and getting controlled mutations) -there was no real end to strive for, just when the evil one first escapes beaten and warns us of an even greater danger cliche

[@JayIceColdD]

I still have one architect to defeat in my original playthrough. the completionist in me wants to do that before I put this game on the shelf forever.

[@I_am_ENSanity]

After the absolute disappointment that was Mass Effect 3 I made up 3 rules. 1) Never preorder 2) Never buy day 1 3) Never purchase microtransactions PS: Have never played this one and I honestly don't think I ever will.

[@StephenYuan]

Good rules

[@RKGrizz]

Andromeda could have been a worthy successor if they had more time for development.

[@gamingsethzers]

I must admit, when it first came out, I didn't exactly hate the game, but I didn't enjoy it as much as the first three games. But I recently replayed it myself just before the legendary edition came out. Completely blank slate as I didn't remember much of it, no expectations, no ME hype. And that's when I throughly enjoyed playing it, the combat is just beautiful in this game.

[@James-gj8rn]

My face is tired from dealing with... everything :'D

[@CircumSamurai]

I think it's somewhat unfair to compare Andromeda to the entirety of the trilogy before it, as people seem to love to do. Andromeda really does give those Mass Effect 1 vibes, for better or for worse, where it feels like the start of a series of games. Had DLC expansions &/or sequels been made, I think an Andromeda series could've been great. A single game trying to start a new chapter shouldn't be fully compared to 3 other games with all their DLC's all lumped together at once. And after playing through the trilogy with LE, I can really see just how many fans happily wear rose tinted goggles when it comes to Mass Effect. The games are really good don't get me wrong, but they are plagued with many of the same or similar graphical, animation, AI, etc. issues that people gave Andromeda hell for. That doesn't excuse Andromeda for having those issues or the state it originally released in, but they've patched many of these issues out & aside from somewhat weaker story/characters it's a fine game.

[@KJW1967]

My biggest gripe will always be that they rehashed and re-skinned Protheans and Collectors. Plus, when you get there, you're not actually making first contact. In my opinion, if they had the villains be the Angaarans, have Jaal join as a spy originally and then realise these new species aren't so bad and have to fight to be seen as equal and to find peace. OR if it was " we got to the promised land, but it's crumbling due to natural decay, how do we survive now", then you could have the Angaarans fighting for your equipment and your ships to be able to travel to the next galaxy in order to survive. That would have been amazing, and also it would make send for Ryder to be Pathfinder, in reality, MC would never keep the Pathfinder title, they may have the technology but they're untested and would be sidelined as an expert in their field, but they would NOT have sway. If it was life or death in the sense that the planets are dying and can't be saved at all, but you have to pathfind supplies, safe passage, etc, it would lend credence. I will never not be mad about wasted potential.

[@Chakeis]

Why does the faces of the characters look like it was made 10 years earlier

[@kaptainawesome8921]

I did return to this after playing the mass effect legendary editions and once I tried to keep it separate from the trilogy and ignored a lot of grinding collecting chore work I actually did have fun with it. In no way compares to the trilogy but once I stopped trying to do that, I had fun

[@reshypoo9447]

I just can't get past the plastic faces. Though I appreciate they explained the "I'm the son/daughter of the guy assigned to lead the expedition, therefore I'm naturally a badass super-soldier!" by basically saying the AI (SAM) is doing all the work.

[@rickh852]

All I can say is that I enjoyed it when it first came out and upon replaying it recently, I still found it enjoyable and that's all I ask for in a game. that I have a good time when I'm playing it.

[@DaJman99]

I think that Andromeda got a bad rap. The issue of “would we have fought the aliens if they came to earth” is already established as a probably with The First Contact Wars. The story seems less significant because we know and love Shepherds story. If you take Andromeda as it is, a story about a young leader trying to do their best with too much weight on their shoulders, it holds its own in my opinion. People forget Shepherd was already a Commander when we got a hold of them, this kid was just supposed to be finding a new home.

[@bradcoalburn943]

As a huge ME fan I went into this one with a different look, its not Shepard so I didn't try to compare it. The combat was excellent, but the animations were busted and later patches the PC version is better I do believe programming on the frostbite engine made it harder to get it right vs the original. Some characters were flat and not fleshed out well while others had a decent story to them. Is it a great game...no but it's not bad either sort of middle of the road overall.

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[@Harrison11106]

Such a blown opportunity with this game. It wasn't "bad" per se, but damn what wasted potential. It was those little things that got me, like the re-used creatures, the fact that when you improved the worlds you settled on you didn't see so much as one new building under contraction, the dialog "options" which were usually the same f**king option, just worded differently. Each race had it's own pathfinder, but you couldn't play as one. The fact that you could become really OP, quite literally a one person army, very quickly, which to me begged the question, "What the hell were the companions even there for?"

[@VaLZan1a]

Im a huge fan of the original trilogy. Just replayed the legendary edition. I also love Andromeda. It's not as bad as everyone made it out to be. Nothing was gonna live up to the Shepard trilogy. Which is why it looks they bringing him back for ME5. It's just a shame we didn't get a conclusion or at least dlc for Andromeda. I replay it often. The combat was just fantastic. Man I loved that asari melee weapon that teleported you behind the enemy.

[@jackalh1z117]

The issue with the dialogue isnt about comparing to commander shepard but rather it was pointless as they had no consequence on anything outside of maybe on one or two situations. Whereas, at least with Paragon and renegade they had an impact on the outcome of situations and both solely to the game and that was carried on to other games like mass effect 1 choices carried on to mass effect 2.

[@KrixiusTV]

I just finished the game last night, it was amazing. I love this game so much!!

[@gr8effect]

If this game was a new IP and didn't bear the ME name it would be reviewed and looked upon with a different mindset imo.

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[@wntdspartan1345]

I’ve played every mass effect. Loved them all including andromeda. Of course andromeda felt empty. Out main character had died. The characters we invested 3 games into were gone. So yeah that made it empty for me. But I still enjoyed the game. It wasn’t bad,

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[@exidna17]

I loved this game. Even when everyone was torching it, I enjoyed the combat, movement mechanics and the planets. I am not that critical on games when I actually enjoyed them. It looked great on the Xbox One X

[@WebstarGaming]

14:00 something tells me he hasn’t met humans before lmaoo it would take a quick second for that situation to happen on earth

[@yarogrigoriev1609]

So, they made milky ways lost hope by sending colony ships not armored or armed. I was like if these colony ships where armed the Ket would have lost in less then a year.

[@markowens5446]

I haven’t been able to make it through it. I have replayed the original hundreds of times.

[@yorkshirebhoy4049]

Yo Matty will you be getting the KOTR II: The Sith Lords Masters Edition from limited run?.

[@captainahab9602]

This game is just mass effect universe decorated (cozy decorations I’ll add) actually compelling action adventure game (not sticky wall hugger simulator - sorry OG series) dragon age inquisition zone design half assed on planets AND as someone who liked dai and every ME, if you’re the same I really can’t see what your issue with this would be. For $10 or so it’s a steal for content hours per dollar, even ditching the lame dai fetch quest for a totally extra crafting system. I think people expected the relatively railroad exp of ME main story levels, so they felt they had to go completionist planet by planet INCLUDING tedious DAI filler for adderall junkies ‘quests’ If u wanna enjoy this good game buried in inscrutable quest logs and just chase the main quest and companion quests (great returned idea) and for filler side quests whatever tf you feel like - you get great experience Also it improved over dai by not capping zones in a forced grind unlock, even tho that was overplayed for dai. Here u just do the main quests and worlds unlock universally ez

[@tacotime1212]

Bro I had this on my Xbox a few years back I was at the part when like the shop exploded and there was this jumping part on land I never passed it

[@baytom95]

I enjoyed the playthrough in 2017... got to 99.6% complete and a bug stopped me from getting 100% never got into it again... i ignored alot of its problems as i was just enjoying a mass effect game again

[@michaelmiradezandband]

I think the biggest problem this game had was overcoming the rose-tinted glasses people have for the OT. They’re great games, don’t get me wrong, but so many people played them in their teens when they were less critical then came to ME:A as adults with higher expectations. It’s not perfect by any means, but all of the common criticisms of ME:A can absolutely be applied to the original three games as well. Janky animations, weird looking, dead-eyed characters, extremely lame attempts at humor, bugs, underwhelming action cutscenes… etc. I also don’t understand how so many people thought ME:A was terrible while also thinking DA:I was amazing.

[@evanmildrum897]

Such a shame because In concept this game could have been so damn good. I mean they sent essentially life rafts to a whole other galaxy to ensure the reapers didn’t wipe out everyone. A whole new galaxy think of all the worlds and new species and who knows what other wonders they might find.. to bad they kinda fumbled it

[@shaftofthespear3599]

No need to play for me. I actually really like Mass Effect Andromeda. I didn't mind the story, I wish they had expanded it more and tied up its loose ends - I love the game play - I still play Andromeda and its multiplayer - REGULARLY - In fact, I just finished playing a few rounds of its multiplayer just a couple hours ago. I just wish it had the variety in races, characters, and game objectives that ME3 multiplayer had - which I still play, by the way.

[@elisabetta611]

I am SO TIRED of the OTT MEA hate. So fucking tired. That's why we didn't get DLC. I've enjoyed it since launch and the patches & mods only made it better and more fun. And I've been playing Mass Effect since ME1 dropped in 2007. What the dev team of this game was subjected to was beyond vile and Gotcha! videos like this only reassure ppl. it's okay to do this. Let it go. Leave this game and us who enjoy it alone already. We've taken enough vitriol from you lot and we're DONE.

[@legionkahn]

I liked the game. I think the main problem is so many fans are never going to accept anyone but Shepard as the lead. We see that when they keep wanting Shepard back for Mass Effect 4 even though their story is done.

[@isaac80745]

It's alright I might play again to level up. On the contrary I can't get myself to play borderlands bc the weapon system so outdated but has a great story.

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[@krispy3681]

I keep trying so hard to finish Andromeda. I bought it on release. Still to this day, I just can't do it. It seems like such a trudge to me just to play this game.

[@seaneskimobandman]

What folks forget though is that andromeda wasn’t the main team it was a side team. It felt too much ME1 Jenkins dies in the first mission-Kirkland dies in first mission. I love this game I love the doors it opened. I’d love to see a return to this trilogy in the future once they get things right

[@ericwilliams7945]

lol I’ve played the beginning but i do want go back and play it since I’ve played the remaster of 1-3.

[@DeusNyx]

I think I sunk 600hrs in to this game. Game and Ng+, and then again, and again - I don't know why, maybe the combat, be the nagging feeling that I missed something, or the endless hope that the game will get better. Also...I spent 20hrs looking for the quarian ark, just to find out its DLC. Imagine my hopes being dashed when Bioware gave up on the game.

[@TH3M1GHTYM1K3]

I got stuck in a vault, ran out of ammo, and didn’t save so I quit lol I love mass effect but this game hurt

[@RangerAstarte]

I have a crazy theory that the reason for legendary edition is to get mass effect on the new gen so when the new one comes out.........all of our decisions in the first 3 will carry over also except for the no DLC part i enjoyed andromeda

[@EvilOdysseus]

ME:A is basically trashy Mass Effect fanfiction, but you still read it because it's funny to check out every now and then

[@MattsCollection]

If Andromeda didn't have the Mass Effect moniker it would've been a great game. There's tons of content, the combat mechanics are fun, the worlds are huge and fun to explore and the crafting is a lot of fun. Where it falls short is the characters are written poorly and the story is just ok...not even close to the standards Bioware used to have. Ultimately, it's a good game, but not a good Mass effect game. It's a shame because there was a lot of wasted potential.

[@frankblazkiewicz2636]

Andromeda clearly shows the DLC team worked on the game, great gameplay, multiplayer while suffering from poor story and companions who weren't developed with the experience and expertise that mass effect/bioware fans expected.

[@pattyviggers3581]

I played Andromeda in two profiles on Xbox One, I lie you not, 2 times each profile for around 400 hours in total, why did I do that to myself, I was hurt, I got deeply hurt when they tossed Quarain Ark plot, was here when I got my heart broken with AAA games, I learn that well, having hope just disappoints you.

[@CrowYaeger]

I loved the gameplay for Andromeda, the ability to build your character in a very specific way and all the armor, weapon and mod crafting was a nice concept, the rest of the game was just.. meh. I mean hell, one of the most animated scenes in the game is a sex scene with Cora so you can tell where their priorities were

[@Shmurph]

I do genuinely enjoy this game, but it is kind of a hot mess in a lot of areas, I'll admit. While not a big issue, BioWare's affinity for the ugliest, frumpiest space pajamas will always infuriate me. Clothes in the trilogy were by-and-large pretty damn ugly, and for some reason they didn't get *any* better in Andromeda. Fingers crossed the game in development improves in that department. One of the actual stand-out issues that got to me with this game is the dialogue. Definitely some of it was the tonal issues you mentioned. It didn't get to me too bad, I kinda like that Ryder wasn't as serious as Shepard. But a lot of the script felt like we got the first draft. Like they were scrambling to get the script done and didn't have anyone look it over to make sure that the dialogue actually felt like something someone would say. And sometimes the performances felt weird, like the actors only did a single reading of certain lines and they just went with that one recording no matter how flat the delivery was. Noticed this a lot with Gil, his dialogue was usually pretty terrible. Which is weird because Gethin Anthony isn't a bad actor. Also, I hate Cora so much. One of the worst Mass Effect squadmates by far. She's basically an Asari weaboo, it's embarrassing to hear her talk like she's an Asari, it was only *four goddamn years* that she served with them. I even came up with my own backstory for her just so that she wouldn't be quite so unbearable.

[@machbass]

It's crazy to me that this game killed a series in a genre I love, from a series that broke ground and was one of the most popular games of its time. Yet, in modern times combat gameplay, and if you remember, microtransactions still seeped its way into the gaming zeitgeist. You'd be hard pressed to even find a rpg game with true decision making since the time of this games launch.c

[@jonwilliams6996]

The writing is not the best, but what Ryder says about how Earth would react is not an example of poor writing. As a species, we're hardly peaceful.

[@lumina1104]

I replayed it a couple months ago. I was bored and it was in my digital library. I originally bought it due to it having a Mass Effect title. It wasn't as bad going in with my expectations already diminished. It's a decent enough action game, with the backbone of a great RPG. I like that the character customization and crafting allow for much more variety in builds compared to the original trilogy. For me, those aspects are great. Dialogue choices mattered very little and the writing was inferior. I didn't really care about any of my squadmates. It was more about just satisfying them to get achievements. I'll still likely play it again at some point, but I don't even think of it as part of Mass Effect. I just hope that the next Mass Effect game learns from the high points of the original trilogy and Andromeda. Andromeda was better at a couple select things.

[@DannyRayqu]

I love ME Andromeda for some reason, as much as the original trilogy, I love the idea of fixing worlds and recovering the territory, the animations weren't that great, the fighting was awesome a lot more exciting, Jaals romance was great the others I didn't like that much, but overall I love it xp

[@EMiramontesII]

I loved the idea of fixing worlds, but hated the process of traveling to 3 monoliths and then a vault and killing countless remnants. It was just so tedious for me lol

[@DannyRayqu]

@@EMiramontesII and yet isn't it exactly the same as the missions of ME1 where you have yo go to these three different places just to find the correct one? I say it's more a problem with the formula rather than the game itself, also fights during the monoliths? I only had to fight like twice on those, did you mean the vaults?

[@EMiramontesII]

@@DannyRayqu yeah the vaults, ME1 was definitely just as tedious but the citadel was awesome, there was intrigue with side missions it was more fulfilling in my opinion ME2 AND ME3 was the step forward to capture the magic.

[@marcmichaud1643]

Had this game received its DLC I think we'd be having a different conversation. They should've let the team work the problem vs shutting it down. And the story of the development of the game is nuts. EA and Bioware failed the devteam on so many occasions, right down to the actual process during this time. Thing is the team wasn't even allowed to really do its own thing. The DLC could've been different and allowed them to pull off what they wanted to do. If Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a second chance then ME:Andromeda could've been saved.

[@86mrnelson]

I think too many people give it a bad rep. The og trilogy has enormous expectations set for anything that followed. I do agree that the writing was a bit too light-hearted in a lot of areas. And the enemies were recycled a good bit in Andromeda. But the game itself I really enjoyed over-all. I think of it as a fun summer popcorn flick set in the same universe as a franchise that makes heavy but exciting period dramas.

[@adepressedcatwithabadnicot246]

if this had been a new ip, with better writing and free of the mass effect constraints, people would have loved it to some degree.

[@majorastorm]

If this game gets an FPS boost on Xbox or Playstation im down for replaying it but I'm not visiting it until then

[@thanevakarian9762]

As long as I have a face Cora will always have a seat

[@Asteel94231]

I think letting us see Ryder grow as a character would be a good payoff, though I'm not sure when we will step into the pathfinder role again since the next one seems to be either a new protagonist or shepherd.

[@Savage--]

I played it in its entirety before and remember nothing about the story, characters or planets. By comparison I can practically quote every piece of dialogue in the original trilogy, remember even the most remote of places and absolutely love the characters, story and especially the companions. Recently I tried to replay Andromeda for the first time and couldn't even be bothered to finish the first enemy encounter. By comparison, I've replayed the mass effect trilogy completely (100% each game) 5 times. Andromeda feels like a cheaply made spin off and completely lost what makes mass effect games so damn good.

[@aaronbrownlee1854]

I 100% Andromeda recently on Xbox and I loved it. Sure, it doesn’t compare to Commander Shepherds story in the trilogy which are some of my favourite games of all time. But I’d still give this game at least a 7 out of 10.

[@leonelrivera3082]

Imagine Shepard and crew cracking jokes while investigating the Collector's ship Exactly lol

[@vtheman1850]

There was this weird marketing take that Andromeda is a different galaxy, so It should be wild and completely different, featuring different forms of life etc... Now the ME series has had, pretty decent sci-fi chops as far as video games go, and quite frankly that doesn't track. Andromeda would still be bound by the laws of physics, and in universe the bipedal intelligent hunter gatherer species was clearly shown to be a common evolutionary path. Within it's own rules, Andromeda should be no different.

[@rickgear2579]

Game wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either. The bloat and worst, the tendiousness of fast travel, having to sit through so many screens to get to another planet was the game breaker for me.

[@Rogue615]

I miss the old Mass Effects especially 2. When Milton got got in that tower on 3 it broke my soul :( I think I could have saved him on that Krogan planet? Anyone know?

[@lucianwong420]

I finished the game about a week ago and i thought it was fun… for one playthrough. Your choices don’t even matter because the game barely has any consequences.

[@Jburneyjr]

There were some vehicle sections in mass effect 2. But I loved the game play of this game beat it like 2 or 3 times on insanity.

[@lunch_trey]

This is a game I'm on the fence about. I loved the trilogy and the idea that this focuses on humanity trying to get more of a foothold in the galaxy, which we barely saw the surface of in the trilogy, sounds like "Yeah. This could be awesome and set this new MC up as another hero to humanity." I may still get it someday, but I really don't know.

[@ashb899]

It's not that bad, its actually an OK game, it's just if you hold it up next to ME2 it looks like poo

[@takahashisato1402]

This game was hated on because of shepherd Simps, yes is had bugs but what modern game dosnt now with the state of current game development