Andromeda is 1 of the worst games I've ever played

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Only one time in my entire life have I bought a game and returned it the very next day to Gamestop, took the financial hit selling it back…and felt good about the situation.

The first was Madden 2007 and the second is Mass Effect Andromeda.

As an enormous Mass Effect fan (own a jacket and several T-shirts) I am absolutely appalled by this heap of garbage that has been released.

Forget the fact that Andromeda designer Manveer Heir has twittered for the last two years how much he hates white people & wants all of them to die, or how Sam Maggs one of the main writers for Andromeda who was an unknown blogger until she said she was virtually raped in GTA V can’t write worth a darn, or the fact that Frostbite could be one of the worst gaming engines of all-time…there is nothing great about this game at all.

1.) Unreal 4 blows Frostite absolutely out of the water and I would go as far as to say Unreal 3.5 does as well.

I just played the original trilogy via PC and used texture packs to update the graphics and Mass Effect 3 looks way better than Andromeda. WAY better.

2.) WTF Bioware you got rid of the pause feature that was synonymous with Mass Effect. I love holding the pause button, giving my squad orders, tell them what to shoot or launch powers-wise, and move back into the game. GONE!

3.) The story is incredibly generic and is a retread of the original. Oooohh ancient race is doing bad things hiding their treasures and we have to find them. Been there done that. Oh…and Andromeda is a giant go do this fetch that game. After just 10 hours I couldn’t handle it anymore.

This game is not a disappointment but an absolute travesty. I honestly feel like a family member has died, because I am convinced this game is going to bomb hard and there will be no monitary justification to try and make another one…and honestly that is probably a good thing.

3/10.

P.S. If you were hoping for a Mass Effect Trilogy re-master you can probably all but count on it at this point. Bioware is going to lose so much money from Andromeda, that they are going to not only need to recoup loses some how, but try and get the awful horrific taste out of everybody’s mouth from this fecal bomb of a game.

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Haven’t played it yet since I’m out of state, but I’ll start this weekend.

Reviews don’t look promising though. I read a few, and it seems like they filled a lot of the game with “busywork” missions and side quests, which I utterly hate. Can’t tell you how pissed I was when they added the stupid planet scanning and probing in ME2, and how all of ME3 was just building up a certain percentage to fight the Reapers. I don’t want to play an Assassin’s Creed game where it’s just running around making my weapons better and collecting silly flags, I want to be immersed into a story.

Also, if there are “loyalty missions” again, Imma flip. That was one of the dumbest things they added to the game.

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> Haven’t played it yet since I’m out of state, but I’ll start this weekend.
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> Reviews don’t look promising though. I read a few, and it seems like they filled a lot of the game with “busywork” missions and side quests, which I utterly hate. Can’t tell you how pissed I was when they added the stupid planet scanning and probing in ME2, and how all of ME3 was just building up a certain percentage to fight the Reapers. I don’t want to play an Assassin’s Creed game where it’s just running around making my weapons better and collecting silly flags, I want to be immersed into a story.
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> Also, if there are “loyalty missions” again, Imma flip. That was one of the dumbest things they added to the game.

Save your money. I highly regret playing this game.

It is so sad for me to say that too.

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I will probably get it in 2 years time for dirt cheap.

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> I will probably get it in 2 years time for dirt cheap.

I think you are wise.

I don’t normally pre-order games anymore because too many times I have been burned.

Most games I want to play I wait about six months once they’ve dropped to $35.00-40.00 price point. Mass Effect though I wanted. I thought it would be great but it is not.

Bioware and Mass Effect are dead to me.

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You know something’s wrong when a game focused on dialogue and plot has animations that make you wonder if it was made by aliens trying to immitate humans.

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> I will probably get it in 2 years time for dirt cheap.

yeah, wait for the price to drop and some patches to come out.

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> > I will probably get it in 2 years time for dirt cheap.
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> yeah, wait for the price to drop and some patches to come out.

I HATE this line of thought, but you’re so right.

Can’t tell you how many games were actually good games (after six months of patches) that were ruined or initially disappointing for me because I bought them and played them on release. I just can’t contain my excitement though.

GTA V Online
MCC
ME 3
Battlefield 4

I’m sure there are more, but that’s just off the top of my head.

SIDE EDIT - Just noticed this, but I loved me some Madden 2007. What the hell man!

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I remember hearing a story that they hired on the ground of diversity and not experience and skill

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I’d never played the previous Mass Effect games and effectively went in blind. I’m honestly surprised at just how much stuff there is to do. I’ve never seen so much content in a game before. Animations never mattered to me and I honestly stopped noticing them after a couple hours. I’m only partially through the story so I’m not gonna say anything about it but otherwise I’ve really enjoyed the gameplay and visuals. Every single main story Achievement after Eos is a Rare Achievement, which kind of surprises me given that Mass Effect is kind of known for the singleplayer campaign.

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> I’d never played the previous Mass Effect games and effectively went in blind. I’m honestly surprised at just how much stuff there is to do. I’ve never seen so much content in a game before. Animations never mattered to me and I honestly stopped noticing them after a couple hours. I’m only partially through the story so I’m not gonna say anything about it but otherwise I’ve really enjoyed the gameplay and visuals. Every single main story Achievement after Eos is a Rare Achievement, which kind of surprises me given that Mass Effect is kind of known for the singleplayer campaign.

If I had your perspective I probably would have a similar experience and opinion as you.

Mass Effect 1-3 are among the finest video game and entertainment experiences of all-time. I rank the ME trilogy in the top 25 games of all-time.

To fall as far as they have is the issues with Andromeda. Andromeda is a “good” game while the previous were excellent/masterful creations.

It is the fall from grace that I have referred too.

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> > I’d never played the previous Mass Effect games and effectively went in blind. I’m honestly surprised at just how much stuff there is to do. I’ve never seen so much content in a game before. Animations never mattered to me and I honestly stopped noticing them after a couple hours. I’m only partially through the story so I’m not gonna say anything about it but otherwise I’ve really enjoyed the gameplay and visuals. Every single main story Achievement after Eos is a Rare Achievement, which kind of surprises me given that Mass Effect is kind of known for the singleplayer campaign.
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> If I had your perspective I probably would have a similar experience and opinion as you.
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> Mass Effect 1-3 are among the finest video game and entertainment experiences of all-time. I rank the ME trilogy in the top 25 games of all-time.
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> To fall as far as they have is the issues with Andromeda. Andromeda is a “good” game while the previous were excellent/masterful creations.
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> It is the fall from grace that I have referred too.

Yeah, but you called it “1 of the worst games I’ve ever played.” It’s not at all. It’s a good game, it’s just not a “masterpiece” like the first 3 (which are also flawed but whatever). People have set a ridiculously high bar for it to meet and I don’t that’s fair. A game should be rated based on its own merits, not just how it compares to other games.