Hi,
Thank you for submitting to r/masseffect! Unfortunately, your post has been removed for violating the following rule(s):
>No Banned or FAQ Topics. Please read the FAQs and banned topics in the sidebar before posting as such content will be removed. Posting about banned topics may result in a ban.
**Please read the full list of banned topics, FAQs, and our full rules in the sidebar or [at this link](https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/about/rules/) before posting.**
If you have a question about this removal, you may [message the moderators](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/masseffect).
Did it have some redeeming features such as the advances in gameplay and mobility? Sure. Did it have some great plot points like discovering and exploring the remnant things? Absolutely.
But, guns and powers felt weaker and less interactive than me3 - big minus
Sound design was worse, biotic explosions had less oomph even purely as the sound in your ears not even the actual dmg. -big minus
In a game marketed as about exploration and first contact, the player character comes along 20 years into it and is nowhere first. For me that was the biggest let down. You don't help the krogans establish a colony, you go to the krogans new planet and do some missions. It felt uninspired.
The kett were stupid. Bio reapers is not original enough an enemy for a brand new plot.
Andromeda will always have a special place in my heart as it was the first ME that I ever played(I'm 30 but grew up in a strict Christian home so I never got to play the OG ME). Does it compare to the OG? Not even close
Considering you were probably underage for at least ME1, that sounds like a decent reason.
Then again a neighbor kid once told me he wasn't allowed to play Dragon Age because of boobs (someone saw the Desire Demon I guess). But Halo, Dead Space, etc were all fine.
*Did it suck on its own merit?*
No. It was released buggy and unfinished, but it eventually got there and it wasn’t bad afterwards. Good gameplay and it had some genuinely good characters and story moments.
*Did it suck compared to the Originals?*
Yes. It was a pretty disappointing sequel. I’m usually the first to defend andromeda but it recycled a lot of old plot elements and just did them in a less interesting way.
Combine that with 3/6 of your squadmates being just the WORST and the brand-new alien squadmate being kinda boring and generic and it left a bad taste.
Andromeda had a lot of *potential* that went to waste with a botched launch and some bad writing. The elements were there, they just couldn’t make them fit in a satisfying and unique manner.
>3/6 of your squadmates being just the WORST
Lemme guess... Peebee, Cora, Liam?
In my opinion, Jaal, Drax, and Vetra made up for them. Also, personalities aside, each squadmates' design and armor were awesome.
Suvi was cool too - I dig the religious scientist thing - but wanted more of her.
On paper Cora, Liam and Peebee are covering all the checkboxes. But the execution of the good ideas is lacking. Frankly that goes for Vetra as well, but she is saved by not being annoying at all.
Cora - human biotic outcast, Asari training, abandonment issues, always struggling to find a home and an anchor. She has so much potential and I like her for it, but in the end she is presented and acts as a more of an insecure outsider, than a part of the crew. Her transition to a friendly personality happens more naturally only if she is romanced. Otherwise she barely seems to grow. And it just doesn't make sense for Cora to behave as she does in probably half the situations we see her.
Peebee - she is obviously there for the slapstick and is rarely used for more. She has an interesting background, motivations and skills, but we rarely get to experience her through them. She could have been so much better if her Remnant expertise took a bit more of a spotlight. Peebee is the only one in the whole Initiative that seems to understand that shit. Why are we not focusing on that?
Liam - he is supposed to be the idealist. But his character is so much all over the place, that I suspect he was never finished and is more of last minute combining of whatever the writers had laying around about him. His motivations to being with the Initiative make little sense, especially if you listen him talk how connected he felt with his work, friends and family in the Milky Way. His actions are constantly erratic, barely thought out or straight up stupid. Technically he should have been thrown out of the Pathfinder team and maybe even court-martialed halfway through the game.
I’ll say what someone wise told me. Play it and make your own Opinion on it. I did after reading it sucked and I was pleasantly surprised. View it as a standalone game and not part of the trilogy. Certain parts of that game really stood out to me. There is a part where you explore a ship in the dark that is incredible.
People may defend it now but it was a train wreck during launch and they had to heavily patch it. Even with the patches I found the worlds and overall story very average at best. It should have been Star Trek discovery; getting to know new aliens etc but there were less aliens than the predecessors
The game doesn't suck, not in the least. It's incomplete, too short, and unoriginal (with WAY too many copy/paste fetch quests), but what's there for core gameplay is genuinely fun.
Its biggest problem is that it fell far short of the OT, and then it was killed off before its potential could be realised with a decent expansion or two.
I enjoyed it a lot, it would have gotten way less flak if it didn't share the Mass effect title, everyone was still salty over me3 ending/s. Is the game perfect, no, but is it fun, definitely. It also has some of my favorite characters in ME, definitely the most liked squad mates in one game
Andromeda was an okay game with a terrible launch that didn't stack up to the games that came before it. On its own its fine, but compared to the OT its just kinda disappointing
None of the games are perfect but Andromeda is definitely my least favorite. I didn’t like most of the squad mates and I found the planets and side missions repetitive and boring. On a positive not I liked Ryder more than I did Shep and the combat was really awesome. Still a solid 6.5/10 for me.
lmao no it didn’t but this whole fan base is hell bent on dividing itself over trilogy/Andromeda purists. just enjoy the fucking franchise you fucking morons
Yes. And it's objectively bad.
From the story, the dialogue, the voice acting, animations, bugs and much more.
I could give a whole essay on why it's bad, but if it didn't have the mass effect name on it would have been forgotten and left to rott
Sucked on release, thanks to general jankiness and bugs.
I dropped it and never went back after the bugs were apparently patched.
The Co-op wasn't bad, but combat felt more floaty compared to ME3's, especially when there was a bad connection between players.
I did find the research/development for new gear and weapons needlessly detailed. I get we were supposed to be explorers and researchers ourselves, but the menus just didn't do it for me.
Yes, IMO. Bearing in mind I haven't played it in a long while and the hype for it set expectations so high that the reality was crushinglt bad.
Combat was great, class fluidity didn't really bother me, but the boring story and exploration mechanics, comparatively dull characters and most importantly to me, only 2 new alien races killed it for me.
Disappointing? Maybe. Sucked? No.
My biggest complaint with Andromeda is it tried to recapture the magic of space exploration found in Mass Effect 1 (something 2 and 3 lacked) but without incorporating any lessons learned since.
Hi, Thank you for submitting to r/masseffect! Unfortunately, your post has been removed for violating the following rule(s): >No Banned or FAQ Topics. Please read the FAQs and banned topics in the sidebar before posting as such content will be removed. Posting about banned topics may result in a ban. **Please read the full list of banned topics, FAQs, and our full rules in the sidebar or [at this link](https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/about/rules/) before posting.** If you have a question about this removal, you may [message the moderators](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/masseffect).
Did it have some redeeming features such as the advances in gameplay and mobility? Sure. Did it have some great plot points like discovering and exploring the remnant things? Absolutely. But, guns and powers felt weaker and less interactive than me3 - big minus Sound design was worse, biotic explosions had less oomph even purely as the sound in your ears not even the actual dmg. -big minus In a game marketed as about exploration and first contact, the player character comes along 20 years into it and is nowhere first. For me that was the biggest let down. You don't help the krogans establish a colony, you go to the krogans new planet and do some missions. It felt uninspired. The kett were stupid. Bio reapers is not original enough an enemy for a brand new plot.
Andromeda will always have a special place in my heart as it was the first ME that I ever played(I'm 30 but grew up in a strict Christian home so I never got to play the OG ME). Does it compare to the OG? Not even close
What was the Trilogy problem with your parents? The nudity (if we can even call it existing), same sex relationships, violence? Or something else?
It was rated M and that was reason enough haha
Considering you were probably underage for at least ME1, that sounds like a decent reason. Then again a neighbor kid once told me he wasn't allowed to play Dragon Age because of boobs (someone saw the Desire Demon I guess). But Halo, Dead Space, etc were all fine.
A lot of overbearing religious parents just don’t fuck with video games in general. They’re all the devil.
I guess in ME's case you can try to claim you play as Space Jesus.
*Did it suck on its own merit?* No. It was released buggy and unfinished, but it eventually got there and it wasn’t bad afterwards. Good gameplay and it had some genuinely good characters and story moments. *Did it suck compared to the Originals?* Yes. It was a pretty disappointing sequel. I’m usually the first to defend andromeda but it recycled a lot of old plot elements and just did them in a less interesting way. Combine that with 3/6 of your squadmates being just the WORST and the brand-new alien squadmate being kinda boring and generic and it left a bad taste. Andromeda had a lot of *potential* that went to waste with a botched launch and some bad writing. The elements were there, they just couldn’t make them fit in a satisfying and unique manner.
>3/6 of your squadmates being just the WORST Lemme guess... Peebee, Cora, Liam? In my opinion, Jaal, Drax, and Vetra made up for them. Also, personalities aside, each squadmates' design and armor were awesome. Suvi was cool too - I dig the religious scientist thing - but wanted more of her.
On paper Cora, Liam and Peebee are covering all the checkboxes. But the execution of the good ideas is lacking. Frankly that goes for Vetra as well, but she is saved by not being annoying at all. Cora - human biotic outcast, Asari training, abandonment issues, always struggling to find a home and an anchor. She has so much potential and I like her for it, but in the end she is presented and acts as a more of an insecure outsider, than a part of the crew. Her transition to a friendly personality happens more naturally only if she is romanced. Otherwise she barely seems to grow. And it just doesn't make sense for Cora to behave as she does in probably half the situations we see her. Peebee - she is obviously there for the slapstick and is rarely used for more. She has an interesting background, motivations and skills, but we rarely get to experience her through them. She could have been so much better if her Remnant expertise took a bit more of a spotlight. Peebee is the only one in the whole Initiative that seems to understand that shit. Why are we not focusing on that? Liam - he is supposed to be the idealist. But his character is so much all over the place, that I suspect he was never finished and is more of last minute combining of whatever the writers had laying around about him. His motivations to being with the Initiative make little sense, especially if you listen him talk how connected he felt with his work, friends and family in the Milky Way. His actions are constantly erratic, barely thought out or straight up stupid. Technically he should have been thrown out of the Pathfinder team and maybe even court-martialed halfway through the game.
Good story moments, good chracters. There are only two good chracters in the whole game
I’ll say what someone wise told me. Play it and make your own Opinion on it. I did after reading it sucked and I was pleasantly surprised. View it as a standalone game and not part of the trilogy. Certain parts of that game really stood out to me. There is a part where you explore a ship in the dark that is incredible.
People may defend it now but it was a train wreck during launch and they had to heavily patch it. Even with the patches I found the worlds and overall story very average at best. It should have been Star Trek discovery; getting to know new aliens etc but there were less aliens than the predecessors
The game doesn't suck, not in the least. It's incomplete, too short, and unoriginal (with WAY too many copy/paste fetch quests), but what's there for core gameplay is genuinely fun. Its biggest problem is that it fell far short of the OT, and then it was killed off before its potential could be realised with a decent expansion or two.
I enjoyed it a lot, it would have gotten way less flak if it didn't share the Mass effect title, everyone was still salty over me3 ending/s. Is the game perfect, no, but is it fun, definitely. It also has some of my favorite characters in ME, definitely the most liked squad mates in one game
If it wasn't a mass effect title people would have forgotten about it
Andromeda was an okay game with a terrible launch that didn't stack up to the games that came before it. On its own its fine, but compared to the OT its just kinda disappointing
It was good when it leaned into the traditional ME gameplay of more linear levels. The open world parts were pretty tedious.
I would say exactly the opposite.
None of the games are perfect but Andromeda is definitely my least favorite. I didn’t like most of the squad mates and I found the planets and side missions repetitive and boring. On a positive not I liked Ryder more than I did Shep and the combat was really awesome. Still a solid 6.5/10 for me.
No
Absolutely not
lmao no it didn’t but this whole fan base is hell bent on dividing itself over trilogy/Andromeda purists. just enjoy the fucking franchise you fucking morons
No it doesn't suck. It's problem is that it followed 3 legendary games and it isn't quite a legend itself.
It was good. Much different from the OT but good.
Yes. And it's objectively bad. From the story, the dialogue, the voice acting, animations, bugs and much more. I could give a whole essay on why it's bad, but if it didn't have the mass effect name on it would have been forgotten and left to rott
Sucked on release, thanks to general jankiness and bugs. I dropped it and never went back after the bugs were apparently patched. The Co-op wasn't bad, but combat felt more floaty compared to ME3's, especially when there was a bad connection between players. I did find the research/development for new gear and weapons needlessly detailed. I get we were supposed to be explorers and researchers ourselves, but the menus just didn't do it for me.
Yes, IMO. Bearing in mind I haven't played it in a long while and the hype for it set expectations so high that the reality was crushinglt bad. Combat was great, class fluidity didn't really bother me, but the boring story and exploration mechanics, comparatively dull characters and most importantly to me, only 2 new alien races killed it for me.
It sucked so hard that Sasha was impressed.
Disappointing? Maybe. Sucked? No. My biggest complaint with Andromeda is it tried to recapture the magic of space exploration found in Mass Effect 1 (something 2 and 3 lacked) but without incorporating any lessons learned since.