Mass Effect Megathread: He said "I should go." Do I sound like that? - Games

Team Mako! Jesus Citadel DLC was the most fun I've had in a serious game. The callbacks to previous events and games had me grinning ear to ear.

God I love romanced Garrus' reaction to Femshep at the Gala. "DAMN!"

Why am I having so much fucking trouble on the "Secret Project" mission on Eos? The heavy Kett just don't.fucking.die.

[QUOTE=Zeos;51998511]Why am I having so much fucking trouble on the "Secret Project" mission on Eos? The heavy Kett just don't.fucking.die.[/QUOTE] It's probably time to upgrade your guns and mods.

I've just finished with Eos. How do you go about upgrading the Nomad, etc?

Nothing like buying a retail copy on PC so I don't have to download as much. But nope, no disk. 45GB+ download from Origin. What was the reason for this?

[QUOTE=-n3o-;51998687]Nothing like buying a retail copy on PC so I don't have to download as much. But nope, no disk. 45GB+ download from Origin. What was the reason for this?[/QUOTE] Hope you bought it at Jb-Hi-Fi, it's $60 on pc. Seems weird that Eb Games charges for an extra $30 without stating why, doesn't come with anything extra.

I gotta admit, its honestly a pretty great game. Its just the technical problems that drag it down. Hell, while I have some qualms with parts of the story, honestly there is some real nice stuff dug into the game. [editline]22nd March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=27X;51997847][URL]http://meadb.thessiandawn.com/skills/characterchart.html[/URL] [URL]http://meadb.thessiandawn.com/skills/skillchart.html[/URL] Krogan Hammerbro drops either friday or tuesday.[/QUOTE] How'd you access this kinda info? Website seems to be closed access

So I'm really really debating buying this to give it a shot. I really enjoyed previous ME games. Is this in a similar vein? I read faintly that it is supposed to be a lot more... "Open World" in the sense that you are given a lot more freedom in what to do, where to go and generally has a lot more randomness to the entire thing. Is this the case or was I merely misinformed?

I played to the end of the trial, then after buying the game made a new game and haven't quite made it back up to where the trial ends but I've enjoyed every minute so far.

[QUOTE=Jamie1992GSC;51998963]So I'm really really debating buying this to give it a shot. I really enjoyed previous ME games. Is this in a similar vein? I read faintly that it is supposed to be a lot more... "Open World" in the sense that you are given a lot more freedom in what to do, where to go and generally has a lot more randomness to the entire thing. Is this the case or was I merely misinformed?[/QUOTE] I'd say wait for a sale. DAI was rough on release and not worth the full price, but it was fine when it was like $10-$15 for everything.

...The shit autosave just made me lose 20 minutes in an area.

[QUOTE=Jamie1992GSC;51998963]So I'm really really debating buying this to give it a shot. I really enjoyed previous ME games. Is this in a similar vein? I read faintly that it is supposed to be a lot more... "Open World" in the sense that you are given a lot more freedom in what to do, where to go and generally has a lot more randomness to the entire thing. Is this the case or was I merely misinformed?[/QUOTE] Think of it like Mass Effect but imbued somewhat with Dragon Age Inquisition. It's not even nearly on the same level of nothing, but think of it like Mass Effect Inquisition as to how it "evolves" from it's predecessors. It's good. It's a flawed but genuinely good game. Although if there is one word that [I]really[/I] describes Andromeda, it's inconsistent. From writing to, hell, just about everything; it's inconsistent. The conversations you had with DadRyder and your sibling have been pretty great, as have some with your crew and the Angaran race, but on the other hand you've got people like Tann and Addison, or the moments where Ryder and Co. have time for light quips while facing mortal peril. Animations is pretty clearly inconsistent too; the combat animations are honestly good and most of the time the faces look just BioWare-quality, yet some people like Suvi just are eugh, nothing but her mouth and jaw moves when she talks and it looks goddamn awful. Inconsistency is just the key term. It doesn't feel rushed (for rushed look at Mass Effect 1 or Dragon Age 2, where either a lot of the content is just text and reused assets), but horribly mismanaged. Nowhere does it feel like there was ever a certain direction it was going for and the lack of a clear director definitely hurts the game. There's also other stuff like how the Kett and Angara just suddenly get translated without any warning. One second every Angaran is talking at you in an incomprehensible language and the next scene everyone is talking in English. The Kett also just get translated out of nowhere as well. Or how one Angaran in specific is wondering if the Milky Way races even have economy, then a second later they're all fine using the same credits. Bottom line, however, is still the flawed-but-good part. It's inconsistent as all hell, it's got a lot of flaws, some pretty glaring ones, but it's still a [I]good[/I] game. That there's a term I don't use lightly.

I'm not entirely bothered by the price or general quirks it may bear. (Aslong as it works anyway) I'm more intrigued on its content. I have a huge thing for games that allow a lot of choice, and have a lot of random elements and replayability to them. Which refers to my previous question. If Andromeda does indeed now fill that quota I can certainly see myself snapping it up.

[QUOTE=Zeos;51999014]...The shit autosave just made me lose 20 minutes in an area.[/QUOTE] Assaulting the large Kett outpost on Voeld is a pain because every time you die, no matter how far you get into it's large ass arena, you start at the complete beginning even though you make very clear progress. The game has, before this point, been really fair with it's autosaves and all of a sudden it feels like they just forgot. [editline]23rd March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Jamie1992GSC;51999022]I'm not entirely bothered by the price or general quirks it may bear. (Aslong as it works anyway) I'm more intrigued on its content. I have a huge thing for games that allow a lot of choice, and have a lot of random elements and replayability to them. Which refers to my previous question. If Andromeda does indeed now fill that quota I can certainly see myself snapping it up.[/QUOTE] The combat is a lot of fun to experiment with. One of the most fun (and blatant) combos is the Throw+Pull one, but it's like having a super gravity gun all day every day.

An insightful post, thank you I Am Error. I had heard there was slight issues with animation and story being a tad...askew. Aww my merge. [editline]23rd March 2017[/editline] Screw it, bit the bullet and purchased it. Now just to anxiously wait for the hour to pass till it downloads and I can give it a go.

So I've looked on reddit and a few other places and it doesn't seem to just be me, but who else has had enemies spawn inside or under terrain and/or building or just floating in midair doing nothing? I've had it happen numerous times to be, even worse is when it's for an objective and I'm forced to reload a save or autosave.

[vid]https://i.imgur.com/CgsNZLn.mp4[/vid] So with this and the women who is apparently drunk, is there something wrong with the air on Eos?

My playthrough has been virtually bug free. I've only had a single really odd thing happen with a Kett: [vid]https://my.mixtape.moe/tgysku.mp4[/vid] All in all, it feels like a Mass Effect game to me for the most part. Biotics are still the king of fun when it comes to combat IMO.

Just played for around an hour and a half, tad more, did the initial stuff and back at the Nexus. Gotta say really enjoying it so far. And good lord does the game look beautiful maxed out at 4k. Stunning visuals. I can certainly see what people mean about some of the animations. Especially facial animations at some points. But overall really enjoyed what I played so far. Looking forward to playing a fair bit more after work tomorrow.

Yesterday the lead designer of the game, Ian S. Frazier, said on Twitter that his team could be working towards tweaking the character creation and several animations. Since I have the game ready on PC, at this point I don't know if I should wait or not

Liam's loyalty mission is straight comedy all the way through. I love it.

[QUOTE=TheJoey;51996630]the design changes between ME2 and this also seem like a retcon. i can see a SAM user (like alec ryder et al) using a different hologram interface but is there an in-universe reason why andromeda initiative members have new omnitools that can also turn into physical omniblades? not like ME3 did any favors in that regard either, though.[/QUOTE] The codex entry on omnitool weapons mentions that they are almost as old as the device itself, popularized by the need to efficiently combat husks.

I'm kind of disappointed that mp doesn't take full advantage of the armour and weapon system that's in sp. Every armour piece, even for aliens, is modular like Ryder's, meaning that you can theoretically equip your mp characters like Ryder, but nope gotta have them predefined characters and rngsus equipment packs.

I've been super critical about bioware since ME3 and even some of the changes made in ME2, and that can often detract from my experiences with their games. That being said I'm basically frothing for a revisit to the mass effect universe. Is the game enjoyable enough for me to pick it up? I can deal with the poor facial animations but if the story/writing blows I'm out. I already hear the combat gameplay itself is awesome.

[QUOTE=WillerinV1.02;51999924]I've been super critical about bioware since ME3 and even some of the changes made in ME2, and that can often detract from my experiences with their games. That being said I'm basically frothing for a revisit to the mass effect universe. Is the game enjoyable enough for me to pick it up? I can deal with the poor facial animations but if the story/writing blows I'm out. I already hear the combat gameplay itself is awesome.[/QUOTE] The story seems to be average, with a lackluster ending and a hook that makes you question why they even did spoilers if they pretty much spoilers it no more than a minute later. Plus the villain seems to be not that threatning, imagine Harbinger lines, expect not as unintentionally funny, and nowhere near the weight. Of course this all is coming from someone who has not played Andromeda at all, maybe the in between makes baddies actually interesting, but I doubt it. It seems to lack the darkness and the eternal threat of greater evil, and seems to build up to a sequel instead of being the best possible stand alone story.

[QUOTE=WillerinV1.02;51999924]Is the game enjoyable enough for me to pick it up? I can deal with the poor facial animations but if the story/writing blows I'm out. I already hear the combat gameplay itself is awesome.[/QUOTE] Yes. Are the story and writing amazing so far? wouldn't call it. it's very inconsistent. some good moments, some bad moments (and some terrible moments like anything that comes from addison). Still, the main plot is interesting enough to keep you following it at least to the point i'm right now. And the crew grows on you - i love how they email you about things when you take them to missions, the casual chatter, the comments about stuff you see/scan, it feels really natural. Combat is indeed awesome and i'm having fun nonstop with it. If the jank doesn't bother you then yeah it's enjoyable enough to pick up. Dunno how expensive the game is in straya so if you want to wait for deals/patches it could be an option, but i just like mass effect and preordered and so far i'm not regretting it, even with the flaws. It plays and feels like mass effect and damn if i don't like mass effect games. [QUOTE=HL_Tentacle;52000024]The story seems to be average, with a lackluster ending and a hook that makes you question why they even did spoilers if they pretty much spoilers it no more than a minute later. Plus the villain seems to be not that threatning, imagine Harbinger lines, expect not as unintentionally funny, and nowhere near the weight. Of course this all is coming from someone who has not played Andromeda at all, maybe the in between makes baddies actually interesting, but I doubt it.[/QUOTE] uhh so you've just watched a video of the ending and its judging the game based on that? nothing against it, but that's pretty weird. i think the game does a good job showing the threats to the initiative as a whole so far, not just by one big baddie. haven't finished the game yet so i can still end up disappointed with the ending but so far so good

Possible quest spoiler for 2. planet: [sp]So I just took out all the consoles on top of the Kett Garrison thingy. Now, how do I get down from there? The chopper doesn't prompt with some kind of extraction. Do I have to backtrack all the way or what did I miss?[/sp]

Alright, I'm caving in and buying the game Hopefully the writing/story doesn't disappoint (setting my standards kinda low for this one tbh) :dance:

I enjoyed ME3 but completely lost interest in DA:I like 20 hours in, is ME:A worth a buy?