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Damn, that's a good description lol

Yez exactly, I've always thought that too. They forgot that most of the first 3 games are rather serious

That is surprisingly descriptive, the fun part is that I didn't hate this game based on the writing. In fact I was very angry when I heard that they were scrapping the first DLC because all the way through the whole thing I just wanted to know what had happened to the Quarian Ark. No, what made me hate the game was that it's like the writers and animators had never spoken to each other for the entire project. The facial animations were BAD, and since I went with the default "weaselface" preset, the patch that was supposed to "fix" some of it just made it worse, since his face went from "goofy" to just "dumb".

Upon playing Citadel for the first time, I kinda wished for a mass effect game that got that vibe for the entirety of the game... And the monkey paw curled

People don't realize Citadel EARNED that tone specifically because it was a big party game at the end of the long adventure.

Yeah, Sara being the "science geek" of the two siblings open up some cool stuff (and that is why I play Sara as my "canon" Pathfinder, just as I think John is canon Shepard)

Thats the thing that really pissed me off. First planet you get the choice between a science lab or a military base and I chose the military base only for all of the hub npcs complained about how it was a terrible choice. I'm sorry did everyone forget that the kett wiped out the last base and killed everyone and that that was a science lab to boot.

They just kinda forgot.

Well, technically that first enemy humanity met didn't refuse to talk, they just treated humanity like they were juggling hand grenades at an arms depot. You can't really say "Get on the ground with your hands behind your head, move, move, do it or I shoot" in a nice way, they teach you that on the first day of training because you're supposed to shut your brain down so your forget how scared YOU are. =3

@@Reddotzebra well partly the turrians were just doing a brushfire war for kicks they just didn't realize they were kicking the hornets nest and everyoneon the council agreed given there response when they got there was "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU"

'I'm sorry my brain is tired'

Except andromeda is a bad game I played before playing the trilogy and quit it like hour 10

They killed Assassin’s Creed like they killed my boy Desmond. Left the 2 annoying comedy relief characters alive though. We got a good ending for Ezio at least.

@@user-ft5dg1eo1l I liked Black Flag but after that I just can't get into any of the newer games.

True... but I at least know a LOT of people that like new AC and didn't like old AC. From a business point of view it might make good sense for them to rework AC... This just... almost sucked? Certainly didn't bring in any new mass effect fans, just disappointed the ones they already had.

@@acev3521 andromeda 100% is a terrible game. I hope his sentiment wasn't that Andromeda was good and he was speaking generally.

Having been someone that always would meticulously format my me1/me2 saves to get world setting I wanted for me3 to avoid situation(s) that you described. I’ve always wondered what it would have been like to be on the other end of spectrum such as yourself. I can’t even begin to fathom how it must of been to have the culmination of all the world building and drama of me3 be ones intro into the universe. I always felt that it would have all the same capacity to reel one in and make them want to replay to beginning as it did for me when I started with me2. But with situations such as that, lack of history with the characters, and lackluster endings, I always thought that the huge amount of people such as yourself that started with me3 would likely have missed out on the allure of the best sci-fi trilogy ever because of a somewhat botched 3rd game, especially when viewed standalone. Needless to say, it is refreshing after to hear your input and it puts a smile on my face. I would pay ANY amount of money in the world to get to erase my memories and replay the trilogy. So to hear how someone else loves from a completely different angle is eye-opening.

​​​​@@BraveDingoYour just spouting the bias of the bandwagon hate on me3, everyone that I know that played the trilogy years after it launched said they loved the 3rd game. Me3 isn't a masterpiece but its definitely an amazing finale for the series and CERTAINLY better then the mass circle jerk likes to say it is. Stop trying to push the "botched 3rd game" hate on new players just because you can't see past your bias

@@bubalfred260 no its not a amazing finale when it first came out, you played it after they updated the ending (and its still mid at best). the Original ending was just 3 colors which the developers promised wouldnt be the case. ME3 as a whole got alot of pushback because it wasnt a finished product either. go back and look at the background pixels thats supposed to be humans running, they still look worse than the original mario side scrollers. stop playing the ending right after you make your choice and thats basically the ending we fans got on our first playthrough. they eventually updated the ending with several new cut scenes and added the ability to shoot the "Star Child" that was never mentioned until the moment you meet it. Its still just a 3 color ending that hurt the franchise so badly that Andromeda was always going to be under a microscope and it failed to survive the scruinity. i mean ME3 got several updates and DLCs, Andromeda 7 years later is still on 1.1 because it was abandoned to finish Anthem which EA was hoping would be a cash cow and was a bigger failure than Andromeda. if nothing else Andromeda did sell well enough and kept Mass Effect in the collective thoughts that helped lead to the Legendary edition of the OG trilogy and now a Mass Effect 4. my opinion is the best Mass Effect was 2 it goes 2, 1, Andromeda, 3.

​​@@johnkeith8619I'm not defending the original ending brother, I understand it was weak, I was around when it came out but played the whole trilogy years later after it was updated and absolutely loved the 3rd game, I originally liked the 2nd game the most but after replaying the trilogy in 2022 I think the 3rd might be my favourite. And I've heard this shared sentiment from many people that played they trilogy years after the ending drama and the all enjoyed the 3rd game. You and the rest of the people that played the 3rd game can choose to continue hating it as much as you see fit, but trying to push your bias on the new players just because you can't move past your hatred is kinda pathetic. Its simply time to move on bro, I'm sure there's lots of people who you can circle jerk about how bad the ending is, go find them. The fact that you have andromeda over me3 1000% speaks for itself 😂 But your entitled to your opinion

@@bubalfred260 im not trying to put any bias on anyone. ME3 in its current state is a good overall game, just like andromeda is a decent game that didnt meet its potential because of being abandoned. But you said the ending of 3 was amazing. In which I replied it wasn't when the game first came out. It was an ending us fans were lied to about. When asked about the real at the time worry by fans asked if the ending would just be a 3 color ending the devs said it wouldn't be. Then what is the ending? Its simply a 3 color ending. Maybe EA told them to change the ending once it was leaked. Also I dont hate ME3. I simply enjoyed Andromeda more. Maybe because I personally always like beginning over endings. Probably because andromeda has the smoothest combat of the entire series. I'm firmly in people can like and love anything they want in gaming. So my personal rankings is 2 is the best in terms of characters and a decent story. 1 is the beginning and a strong story. Andromeda has the potentially good story with best game play crap animations in general. 3 good game play, good characters built thru the previous games the ones shoehorn in like James (who i do like) were weaker because the other had 1-2 full games of development also kinda crappy animations. (The human pixels running in the background on earth, the reporter based on jessica chobot as examples)

Based Baktria.

a bad soldier. in the worst way of that meaning.

@@CarrotConsumer i havent played rome 2 in a long time but i liked the helmet and stayed with it for some reason and i'm the typa guy that changes pfps all the time. I'm always glad when people point it out so thx

@@512TheWolf512 the character is so bad that it kinda poisons the game even more. Like why the fuck would they pick him up for arguably the most complex mission ever devised in history, it makes the andromeda initiative seem like a project devised by toddler trillionaires which it kind of is but whatever

And I almost sure those writers wents to saints row reboot. Similar storytelling, similar loose cannon characters.

I don't think EA even remembers Andromeda.

"We have now removed half the games from your account"

We are sorry to hear that you found the game boring. It is important to remember that people who travel to other galaxies certainly wouldnt be bored

"We have heard your feedback, and promise to make a change in the future. We've already laid off 50% of the devs even though it wasn't their fault. We have given ourselves major bonuses for a "successful launch." Go fk yourselves and thanks for all the money - Bioware execs

Liam may be annoying, and stupid, but he's NOT a communist! Sorry, what were you saying he was again?

Couldn't agree more.

I know it…

Liam isn't worse... it's if u took Jacob and made him less boring and actually tell u things

Liam actually has a personality and his quests relate to the overall premise of the game, at least

How dare you, sir! I challenge you to a Krogan Slap Fight!

Yeah, combat was awkward in Mass Effect 1, but I wasn't playing Mass Effect for the awesome combat mechanics, even though there were shining moments if you upgraded properly. Explosive rounds in a sniper rifle felt like firing off an artillery gun during the final battle.

​@@Edax_RoyeauxI always liked hitting enemies with lift the throw and watching them shoot into space.

Interesting, I remember the jetpack boost mechanic having the same momentum issue as Sonic Frontiers.

Those improved gameplay aspects are what pretty much saved MEA for me. It felt like the bastard child of Mass Effect 1 and Dragon Age Inquisition, which was just barely enough for me to not write it off entirely.

I actually didn't like the combat. Sure it was flashy but it got old quickly. You are basically just spamming combo explosions, the same problem I had with mass effect 3. The classes list their uniqueness.

This is pretty dead on, most of what I remember is how pretty the landscapes were while driving to and from characters I don't remember for sidequests that weren't more exciting than holding the interact button.

This is exactly what I was thinking while watching/listening to this video. Felt like unearthing buried memories.

I only played it once most of the worst bugs were fixed, but it still wasn't good enough to finish, and it crashed all the damn time cause of some DirectX error. I hated clearing monoliths and most of the side quests were poorly disguised driving quests. Tried to finish it several times, last time I got as far as building a base on Eos before I noped out. Would much rather have taken a game with the traditional more linear approach and exploration of planets mostly from orbit than this Ubisoft game.

Just like Dishonored

The combat was fun exploring was interesting and the terraforming dungeons were fun. But that’s basically all.

Perfect. 10/10.

I know I had 3 games to grow feelings for the ME crew, but I agree with this 100%. I didn't care for the personalities of anyone in this game. Some of the NPC's you do mini side quests for seemed like better people. I wouldn't mind who died in the suicide mission in Andromeda.

@@Kayback No yo didnt have 3 games to grow with the squads of ME. You could have game 1 only and it was plenty of time to get to know everyone.

@@blackknight4152 Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3, some characters were with you the whole way. You could get to know them. I spent one game with the crew in Mass Effect Andromeda and literally didn't care for any of them. PB&J needed spacing in her escape module.

Was she saying anything that was untrue though?

I know right? My jaw dropped when she said that. So out of pocket lol

like she names the second worst thing that's ever happened to them a proper retort woulda been "what's the krogan definition of sucess mass bodies or just one man army bullshit?" that woulda been a decent jest back but it'd need good voice acting or you'd sound like an *ss for the same reason

@@assordante2205Something being true doesn’t mean it’s called for.

It's basically a Twitter argument, but out loud. The writers must have been terminally online before it was cool.

He's in this game he probably had a death wish I know I would

I've seen this argument a lot, and I think it's valid conditionally. Both Ryder's still end up dead despite Alec giving the player the good helmet. The difference is that the player is less dead enough to be resuscitated. This can be for two reasons. Reason A. Alec died of lack of oxygen, and the player died because of fall related injuries OR B. The environment was so dangerous that during the time (like 30 seconds) that the player is helmetless, they take enough damage that they die, then Alec gives the player the helmet and SAM knowing they are both required if the player is going to survive. SAM probably told him that was the case. If option B is correct, then I think it really comes down to toxic air being different then water. I personally imagine habitat 7's air is deadly to touch due to temperature, chemicals, or whatever that stuff is that disperses when you restart a vault. Anyway, I think that if the player still died even with what Alec did for them, there was no way way for both of them to make it out, and Alec did what was best for his kid. Not to say the scene isn't still contrived as all hell: why did that vaults mist go outside the tower when all the others stop at the entrance room and why couldn't he use omnigel to fix the player's helmet are two very big plot holes that I still don't really have an answer for. But yeah. I don't think Alec and the player could share a helmet.

It's like arguing that jack and rose could both have fit on the piece of wood. Yes, but that wasn't the point. It comes off more like the opening to Konosuba where a man dives in front of a truck that's already stopped and dies of embarrasment.

@@Motoko_Urashima then they very easily coulda gone around that by saying he was a very careful N7 that always kept a helmet patch on him, but both of their helmets cracked and he decides to use the patch on his kid and at the same time, takes the AI out of his helmet and puts it into theirs knowing he'd die. there are multiple ways of going about this that would have had the effect your talking about but not be as retarded.

He knew how bad the game would be and made the choice to dip early

They are more of Borg from Star Trek. Assimilating others to achieve perfection.

​@@XxXuzurpatorXxX weren't the collectors also doing that?

@@zagreus8027 The collectors were, well, collecting people to turn them into human-paste to "store memories" in a human reaper. The reapers were to preserve the uniqueness of the component spieces, while the Kett/Borg are into using the best traits of the spieces to better themselves.

Even without knowing anything about the Kett other than their name from watching clips of the game, I just thought ‘these are just the Collectors again, aren’t they’

No the kett are like husks

I agree. With ME1 being my favorite game in the series, the nomad partially felt like a return to form. And the free-form "class" customization meant that I only had abilities that I wanted to have. No longer was I forced into having something like shockwave simply because I wanted to be the shotgunner. In my current vanguard run I've been using the alien "shotgun" that shoots giant orbs of death, and an assault rifle that shoots heatseeking projectiles. In my previous run I did an infiltrator and it was so fun sniping people with that ability that highlights enemies through walls.

Cons list is a bit lacking, there are so many things you could say about the writing and characters 😂

@@bubalfred260 Eh, I found the writing and characters on par with the rest of Mass Effect. I also didn't want to write a thesis so that's why I bundled it all together into the first bad point because ultimately most of the bad stuff is the result of the production problems the game had.

Stop. Just no..

​@bubalfred260 What? Is it because it wasn't a corny as 3 with a phoned in color coded power Rangers esq ending? I agree it should have been cornier. Maybe had a phoned in AI story line like the Geth that just cut & pasted aspects from other scify tropes like they did. Or maybe introduced a story line that turned the nursery rhyme about the old lady that ate a fly then a spider to eat the fly then a bird etc.. like the rachni krogan storyline. Only the first game is really good. The second game squeaks by on nostalgia even though your a terrorist that supplied access to half the weird science shit that kills people in the third game. Which is mostly just phoned in trash. Andromida is better than 3 & almost as good as 2.

I know that was one of the things that pissed me off immediately, when I discovered the Kett were converting people I just thought this is the reapers all over again. I wish that it had focused more on the Remnant, but given the quality of writing I’m sure if anymore attention was put on that part of the story it would have turned into a copy paste of Halo

Idk, the remnant were just prothean 2.0. They didn't interest me one bit

Yeah, that's some of my major concerns regarding this game, I mean, a new galaxy and we only have 2 new sentient species, and one of these species we pretty much only shoot throughout the game. Big waste of potential. I liked the Angara, but we could have some other species to interact.

@@JoaoGuilherme-or5cf Recycled plot is a valid complaint, but if we were in the MW without relays you wouldn't find more than one species in that size of an area, either. It's one tiny cluster not a whole galaxy, even two is more than what you'd likely find.

@@r0cketm00se3 yeah, I understand that in the lore based it wouldn't made much sense, but I think that one of the best things about Mass Effect was discovering the culture, society.and traits of different alien societies, and they did a good job with the Angara, but I think that they could at least create relevant characters of the species that we saw on the previous games. In the original trilogy the focus were on Asari, Turians, Quarians, Salarians, I think they could at least create an interesting Elcor, or Volus or Hanar.

Bioware has been writing the same story, characters, shitty TV dialogue and with the same structure since the beginning, just in different settings. Don't even get me started on their technical incompetence.

Even Kotor, which is set in a Forerunner period of time to its own namesake, the sw orig trilogy, has its own forerunners in the Rakatan. Not a complaint there for me though. It and halo were young mes intro to the concept.

The difference is Anthem had superb flying.

No... No they arent 🤦‍♂ So many of ya'll never even played the games you hate I swear

@@ducky36F I’ve played both start to finish and I hate neither.

I'm not certain where you got during the marketing that it was an adventure with your twin. Like... Maybe they were marketed as being a character/squadmate but not really important at all.

@r0cketm00se3 I got it from the marketing. You know trailers, interviews, social media posts. Your twin was supposed to be very important in the game. It was going to be you and your twin and you pick which one to play.

I'm currently replaying the trilogy and am about halfway through ME3. I'm really looking forward to replaying Andromeda after it's all said a done; it's a lighthearted, breath of fresh air after being entrenched in Shepard's story. To me, it's the perfect counterpoint to the more gritty reality and bitter histories of the Milky Way. I honestly would've adored a continuation to Andromeda's story

They wanted to get rid of quirky ones

They sent their most incompetent people as far away as possible and told them they were the best just to be rid of them.

Clearly they expected it to fail and saw it as a convenient way to rid the Milky Way of its most annoying denizens.

​@@DeadmanNC1 so the B Ark?

Sounds like a government program.

I know, right 😆

I think you mean movie, not video.

I can hear panties hit the floor. Let the panties hit the floor, let the panties hit the floor.

already on it!

Was giting ready for work.. calling off now

My face is tired LOL. Who wrote that line lmao.

@@Skumtomten1 If Andromeda was a more recent game, I would suspect that an AI wrote that line.

I know it's a rhetorical question, but the answer is rookie studio, an engine that is notoriously hard to work with and way too little time.

@@jtn81x It's been 10 years since Dragon Age Inquisition and I wouldn't be surprised if BioWare still didn't know how to use Frostbite effectively.

@@BradTheAmerican What is the effective use of Frostbite? Cringe-Quip and character animations like in BF2042? ;)

@@juliomontega2868 Frostbite's big thing was environment destruction, which BioWare implemented in the form of wooden crates and sandbags. I suppose it has good lighting too. It boggles my mind that EA forced BioWare to use Frostbite and build RPG mechanics into an engine not designed for RPGs instead of just adding new flashy and visual features into an engine already designed for RPGs. Just feels backwards and giving them more work. It makes me think of that Armageddon movie by Michael Bay where they decided that it was somehow easier to train oil drillers how to be astronauts instead of training astronauts how to drill.

@@BradTheAmerican Agreed, the engine worked very well in BF4, but a FPS game and RPG are two different things. I bet on corporate management deciding to "cut costs by unifying the engine usage to frostbite". Managed to fail.

You can press a button to skip the animation for moving around a system. You still get a little but no more than the previous games.

The basic premise of going to another Galaxy was instantly squandered the moment they decided to populate it with slight variations on Aliens we'd already seen for 3 games and have it serve as the setting for an incredibly generic plot.

The dialog always seemed to me like they wrote like, guidelines, like 'This character says this' 'this character replies sarcastcally' and shit like that, just to block out the mission creation before writing and recording the dialog... But then instead of letting a writer handle it, they sent it off to the editing department and let the guys in charge of punching up good writing just fucking give er.

I stopped playing when I got to one of the first ice planets. The second day after launch I cracked open a box of sangria and turned the temperature warnings into a drinking game... I downed the entire box and was still on the dang ice planet. Haven't played it since.

A huge slap in the face is that the "reward" for 100% planet habitability for all 5 planets is that a planet gets named after you. The planet name doesn't get updated in the UI and you can't land on it or do anything with it. You just get a small cutscene of a voice telling you that it happened.

It probably was. This game had 5 years of development, but the first 4 were spent fucking around with a planet random generation function that was scrapped due to how they weren't going anywhere with it and wasting dev time.

Sure but, does the game actually explore that take in any good faith? lol come on man

@@Poosley I'm not saying that's what the writers intended, just that it is a reasonable explanation and that it does make sense when viewed that way.

@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem sure it makes sense when viewed with an exceptionally favorable perspective that is not rooted in any kind of reality based on the actual body of work

@Poosley What are you going on about? It just looks like you're here to argue with people who like Andromeda. In that case, go somewhere else, because I heavily dislike it. The potential idea which I pointed out is more than likely just bad writing seeing as nobody in game disputes it, but even then, it makes sense that nobody would. They went to the quarian because they didn't know what happened, so they couldn't argue. At this point though, the argument is too flimsy to put much weight on.

It is math error times as long as my total Andromeda playtime (0).

I got 30mins in to the game and then quit. It was buggy af even in '23 🙄

Same. And I've tried to play it on 3 different occasions

I've tried to play this game like 4 times now. I get about 2 ish hours in and just cannot go on.

@@phillipthompson5937I never had buggy problems when I got around to getting it on discount.

It does feel like a bit like a skill nerf. I don't miss the tactical pause but the commands were nice.

People seem to love to shit on most things in ME3, but I think the controls were pretty good once you got used to them and edited some files to remap sprint, cover and use to separate buttons. Which is a step you should not have to do, but at least you could.

I wish that BioWare would have more faith in the player base, but they have seemingly fully embraced the idea of dumbing down the gameplay because they think players are too intimidated by the prospect of taking 2 seconds to think about things during combat.

I really missed that one in Andromeda and Inquisition, where it would be so much better if I could actually do complex stuff without taking full control of characters just to launch a single attack.

Yup now chores will have to get done tomorrow

For me it was drakk and, vetra i think her name was? The female turian. And that's probably in large part because I romanced her than her own honest merits. Not a great feeling, disliking or despising half the party members. Not even jokingly - Liam is an actually terrible person, Cora is annoying... and peebee, ugh, peebee. Jal was fine, but kinda carried as "the new alien guy".

I liked the Salarian ship captain, no idea what his name was, but his dialogue was fun sometimes. I would like Drak if he was a romance and wouldnt 100% remind me of Wrex, Vetra was fine, but I couldnt care much more about the rest of them, no matter how much dialogue I heard from them or how much I took them on missions :/

@@Robolewa the female Turian, Vetra, had cut “sex noises” for the romance scene 🥰

Drack was excellent. Grumpy grampa who still has the strength to make sure you don't give him sh*t. We finally have the trilogy of Young Wrex (Grunt), Adult Wrex and Grampa Wrex (Drack).

i loved Vetra but i am biased because she's a turian and i love every one of them

I loved that so much about the Geth. They only fought because they were attacked.

The Heretics followed Sovereign. Not Harbinger.

@@thesomethingthatisntathing514, correct!

Same here, hadn't pre ordered anything since fable 3 and after this nothing since. And that was only because of the collectors edition only available through pre order

Same. Crazy, the preorder killer

I built a new computer in 2017 for this game and then bought Witcher 3. Enjoyed both. Good investment. But since then the only game I've ever pre-ordered two games I think.

The same for me. And it took me so damn long to play through it. It was a real torture at times to struggle through it and keep playing. Mass Effect Andromeda is in many ways just... wrong. I have no idea what Bioware was thinking.

I preordered watch_dogs 1 and made a vow never again

Was thinking the same thing.

All anyone had to do was ask the geth to learn this, seeing the geth memory was a side quest shepard got when deleting the reaper code.

@@iliterallycanteven5347 the geth weren’t open to talking until Legion though. Before him and Sovereign the geth were reclusive but openly hostile to ships in their space. Also the geth committed a genocide. Who tf would talk to them after that

"While they prevented any contact by other races with themselves, the geth monitored communications and the extranet." Geth did in fact not commit genocide and were always listening. No other races even tried peaceful talks with them in any serious way. Legion was made to look for Shepard not as a Geth diplomat.

@@iliterallycanteven5347 it seems like you just agreed with me tbh. I guess ethnic cleansing is the more accurate term for what the geth did to the quarians

You had that option in game with different types of weapons and weapon mods.

Flavor isn't the only thing that matters. The gameplay (gunplay included) is the reason I only ever finished ME1 once and even then I had to push myself through it.

I replayed all the mass effect games during lockdown cuz i never linked my shepards and also the collection came out. I will never play mass effect 1 again cuz of those shitty guns.

@@rafabuda0 honestly i kinda like ME1's combat over the others? it feels much more military, slower, more tactical shooter. reminds me a bit of 360's rainbow six (though obviously more arcade), taking cover, poking out for a few shots and a grenade, back into cover again. the recharge didn't bother me because it fit very well with my "cover, snipe, cover" playstyle. In general i like that of ME1, that you can actually roleplay as a fucking professional, from then on you're too much "the hero" as opposed to "the trained, competent guy".

Always wished that it had done a hybrid system. Thermal Clips that you can immediately eject and replace to keep on shooting. But if you're out of thermal clips you'll have to wait for a longer cooldown. Having a hybrid system like that makes it actually seem like a military improvement over going from unlimited ammo to limited ammo.

My face is tired.Is the dialogue quality It is incredible what happens when you hire people not based on qualifications

Just like most of the former good studios, yet people will keep pre-ordering their dogshit like they are afraid the digital copies will run out. And enable them to keep releasing said dogshit.

Yeah it's terminal, will probably get worse

Honestly i feel lile new people should be given a chance to explore new IPs. It's not that they are incapable of producing good ME or DA products but maybe they should be given new venues to explore their own creativity. Don't know, perhaps i'm just huffing copium and the absolute failure of Anthem proves the point wrong. I'm just curious to see what New Bioware would be capable of if they were given enough freedom.

@@uomoafide6539 new Bioware is a bunch of risk capitalists that don't care about games, they just want good return on their investments. There is maybe a 5% chance the next games in these series will be good, but whatever you do DO NOT PRE-ORDER. I repeat, do not pre-order. Pre-ordering is what enables them to keep releasing dogshit. They won't run out of digital copies, and you can live without this in game pet or this art book. Come on you are an adult.

@@uomoafide6539 Dreadwolf could be good, but I don't have my hopes up. I expect it to be like Inquisition. Which wasn't bad, but wasn't that good either.

I had a similar experience, but then I just... stopped doing the busy work. I really enjoyed it then!

@@onchristieroad I'm happy for you. I found it all a bit too tied together. I knew I'd be giving up the "good" ending by not doing it and I found that because I'd done it to start with I'd lost all care for the story.

Eh thats 99% of rpgs esp around that time and esp from bioware. Its busy work with some story tacked on.

I felt with the Settlement system of Fallout 4, that game was also full of busywork, but because I was upgrading my armor, my power armor, my weapons, my home, it was something I was willing to actively engage in. There needs to be tangible rewards for busywork that the player can notice.

That was my issue with mafia 3. After the intro it just busy work until the game rewards you with a story mission

Agreed, the combat was great from what I remember (though I think I preferred the trilogys linear arenas), and let down by the crafting system craze of the time. I didn't mind the dodgy character models (or the glitches), but the story and writing was a big oof

the combat was fine but what I didn't like is it being the same from start to finish. basically same enemies, same battle. only thing that differs is how op you got and how many waves basically.

Gameplay was decent. But the open world felt empty.

It's set up to fail, really. It's not enough for the only point of the game to be exploring randomly generated environments. You need something to do in those environments. But if those things to do are also procedurally generated, then that means the entire game is basically procedurally generate and if that was possible to do in a fun way then there would be no need for human ingenuity and we just are not at that point yet. At some point in the creation process, a human needs to creatively and intentionally design the core parts of the game, not a computer.

NMS' planets ended up being boring because they were afraid of players being inconvenienced, and neutered the generation parameters. This resulted in easily traversable planets...which also makes them very boring.

​@@kw9849Which would also happen if Andromeda used it as they'd need to accommodate driving the Nomad around.

Counterpoint HD2's planets are procedurally generated

@@aredjayc2858 HD2's planets get dull too especially as most are just barren rocky planets.

It is good in terms of gameplay and i really like the armour customisation and ive played through it 2 times but god the story is awful, didnt like any characters except for drack the quests are boring and the kett are some of the most boring looking antagonists ive seen in a game. If they ever made a sequel id rather they create a whole new enemy faction

​@@tuggat6487So the opposite of inquisition which had a pretty good story and characters but awful gameplay?

@@michaelh878 Cant speak too much on inquisition since I only played about an hour of it but missed opportunity to ride dragons 👎

Wait till you see that the whole party are just Trans dudes

We shall see in few weeks. But I do not think it will, as apparently, the leaked stuff from year or so ago (or was it two years?) was true, and the game is very "action combat focused"

If we can still drop kick people as a knight, it will already be 100 times better

What mods did you use?

Same 😂

nice try but no. esg killed it.

I'm sure there's a limit to how Irish he can claim to be. Gerald Strickland is the CO of the Royal Gurkha Rifles, but it'd be pretty odd if he referred to himself as a Gorkha.