Mass Effect Megathread: "I'm sorry, my face is tired from dealing with everything." - Games

[QUOTE=Qbe-tex;52477885]So is the 10-hour trial worth getting? I mean, it's free, but I was wondering if it's a good way to see how the game is like, if 10-hours are enough? I don't think I've ever spent upwards of 10 hours with ME:1 so if anything I might get pretty far in the campaign (I probably won't, since it'd suck to be close to finishing only for the trial to end). Also how does it end? Does it just kick me back to the menu?[/QUOTE] It's worth giving it a shot. If the game doesn't grab you in the 10 hour trial it won't grab you.

To my knowledge the game is unlocked. You can play up to as far as you can get. This also includes the Multiplayer, that while grindy is still fun as fuck. At this point in the game's life, I'd say its worth giving a chance. The patches have fixed a lot of the game's issues. It is still always going to be a flawed game and there are still some problems, but post patch Andromeda is a far more stable and polished product, at least in my experiences. But you should also ask yourself why you did not get very far in ME:1. Did you dislike the gameplay? That is ME:A's strongest point. Did you dislike the story? While ME:A has some cool parts, this is arguable the weakest point.

Yeah that is fine. Your wording did make me think you didn't finish it. Honestly the games take me 40+ hours lmao. But I am glad you enjoy them.

Did you guys see [URL="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/mass-effect-director-returns-to-head-up-bioware-as/1100-6451781/"]this[/URL]? [QUOTE] Mass Effect and Dragon Age studio BioWare has announced Aaryn Flynn, general manager of its Edmonton-based studio, will be leaving. Casey Hudson, who initially left BioWare in August 2014, will return to take up the position as his replacement.[/QUOTE]

As if somehow that will fix anything. Hudson signed off on Walter's clusterfucking of three's endgame and bailed in the middle of MEA. This doesn't mean anything for Dragon Age, which is already in hardening or Mass Effect. Hudson is a studio manager; while he is certainly better at logistics than Flynn could ever hope to be, none of that translates into anything for the current gen of BW titles.

Yeah, I see people rallying that the "Old Guard are back" and somehow it was all EA's fault for the recent game's problems. No, Bioware did all that shit on their own. Andromeda had a fucking five year development schedule and came out as a rough draft.

Old but still relevant news [url]http://blog.bioware.com/2017/07/31/remembering-corey-gaspur/[/url] [QUOTE]It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Corey Gaspur. He was a member of our team for over nine years, and worked as a designer on many of our titles, including Sonic Chronicles, Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2 and 3, and most recently Anthem. Corey was a talented designer and an even better person. We offer our condolences to Corey’s family and everyone that knew him. We will miss you.[/QUOTE]

Shit, reading your post kinda pisses me off that we'll never know who the initiative really is. [editline]16th August 2017[/editline] Or about the quarian ark.

[QUOTE=usaokay;52591626][url]https://www.masseffect.com/news/mass-effect-andromeda-update-from-the-studio[/url] They gave up.[/QUOTE] Idiots, the lot of them. Throughout this entire project.

This game is officially a waste of my $60.

[QUOTE=PILLS HERE!;52591679]This game is officially a waste of my $60.[/QUOTE] I mean I got my money's worth purely when it comes to how long i spent having a fairly good time in it, but the more I think of it the more it just feels like ME3 ending stretched over an entire game. At least Vetra is hilariously cute and redeemed 70% of the fails.

I boned Peebee but that still wasn't worth it :'(

A damn shame. I liked Peebee, Vetra, Drack, and Jaal (aka, the only reasonable Angaran alive) and would have liked to see them grow as characters. Hell I even liked Ryder bumbling her way through situations Shepard and crew would have blow through with style. Here's hoping EA give Mass Effect a proper go sometime down the road. Though if it does happen it won't be for many, many years now. [editline]20th August 2017[/editline] P.S. Boned Peebee, she's much cuter if you mod the game to remove her dumb face paint.

peebee got way less annoying once you boned her

[QUOTE=usaokay;52591626][url]https://www.masseffect.com/news/mass-effect-andromeda-update-from-the-studio[/url] They gave up.[/QUOTE] When EA says you're done, you're done.

[QUOTE=Del91;52591816]peebee got way less annoying once you boned her[/QUOTE] After I was forced to take her on my ship I locked her in the airlock and never once opened it. I hated her character so much from what little I ever saw of her from the first planet and those "Crew Meetup" cut scenes.

Can't say I didn't see that coming. I actually liked the 10-hour trial - and this comes from someone, who really loves the original trilogy to death. The entire development was a mess, but the key is dissociating "Shepard" from "Andromeda". I was initially waiting for the price to drop to 15. Now, seeing how they gave up completely, I might as well wait till it goes even lower. I still want to play it, though.

Man I feel bad for you guys. That shit sucks.

i still maintain that peebee and vetra are best companions

See You Space Pioneer I don't think I'll ever pick up their novels or comic books... The Quarian Ark will forever remain a mystery to me

Man this is such a let down, they could have at least made the Quarian Ark DLC to make it up to the fans. Since they teased it at the end of the game. But nope, they've given up. Reading about the Quarian Ark or any future events in Andromeda in a book or comic book just isn't the same as experiencing it for yourself in the game. Honestly, just disappointed and angry that they're only going to continue making multiplayer content and no story content. Don't know the overall consensus about how you guys feel about Casey Hudson. But there is a small glimmer of hope for the future of Mass Effect, however you might want to take it with a pinch of salt. [media]https://twitter.com/CaseyDHudson/status/899094294589341696[/media]

Given the results of Mass Effect Andromeda, another game from the series with Casey Hudson should either: 1) Pick up from where Andromeda left off in terms of setting and story, being extremely careful to distance itself as much as it can from the hated flop game but at the same time expand on its premise, characters and events not to waste the new galaxy idea (think of it as something a la Dragon Age: Inquisition). 2) Discard the new setting entirely and come up with a new idea from scratch, trying to make people forget about the Andromeda fiasco as hardly as possible. At this moment, the only idea I could think of is a new trilogy or something taking place in the Milky Way years or [I]centuries[/I] after the events of the original trilogy (remember the Stargazer sequence at the end of Mass Effect 3?) or, once again, going for another galaxy entirely (maybe using the prospective of a near-human species instead of yet another human. Like the Quarians, for instance). But once again, I don't really know at this point. And I can't say I [I]wasn't[/I] expecting the game to recive the harsh threatment it got, to the point of killing the whole series (for the time being, anyway)

[QUOTE=iThinkN7;52592909]Man this is such a let down, they could have at least made the Quarian Ark DLC to make it up to the fans. Since they teased it at the end of the game. But nope, they've given up. Reading about the Quarian Ark or any future events in Andromeda in a book or comic book just isn't the same as experiencing it for yourself in the game. Honestly, just disappointed and angry that they're only going to continue making multiplayer content and no story content. Don't know the overall consensus about how you guys feel about Casey Hudson. But there is a small glimmer of hope for the future of Mass Effect, however you might want to take it with a pinch of salt. [media]https://twitter.com/CaseyDHudson/status/899094294589341696[/media][/QUOTE] Considering the connection between Casey and ME3 Ending, I'm not so sure.

None of this means that they're abandoning the idea of another game in the Andromeda series though, right? Just single player for the current game, even though that's really annoying and there are still many bugs that were never fixed, like that one that makes [I]Running a fever[/I] impossible.

[QUOTE=Notanything;52593116]None of this means that they're abandoning the idea of another game in the Andromeda series though, right? Just single player for the current game, even though that's really annoying and there are still many bugs that were never fixed, like that one that makes [I]Running a fever[/I] impossible.[/QUOTE] Done. Over. Dead. Finished. Ex-Parrot. Joined the Choir Invisible.

Far as i understood, they're still gonna resume delivering multiplayer content, i may be wrong though.

I want EA to dump anything new they have planned, put together a remastered version of the original trilogy (preferably with some tweaks to the combat in ME1 so it's not as cack), and then maybe come back to the series in a decade or so with a fresh perspective. There [I]was[/I] a lot of potential for expansion off the back of the first two games, but what's been put out over the past five years has been desperately average at best and bitterly disappointing at worst.

While we can all agree that the game didn't pan out as great as expected, I can't help but think that the game played worse just due to the sheer negative rep it got. Like if the media didn't make such a big fuss about the shortcomings the game wouldn't feel such... guilty pleasure, which somehow had a bad impression to the experience. Ofc in the end we should thank them for pressing the devs into improving the game. I guess you can't really separate the artist from their work...

Doubt the whole Andromeda setting in Mass Effect would be abandoned. As Mass Effect Andromeda does give good foundations for future Mass Effect games to be set within the Andromeda galaxy. It would be a shame if Bioware abandoned the idea of another Mass Effect game being set in Andromeda due to Mass Effect Andromeda's overall reception (Pre and post release). If they were to do that, it would seem like wasted effort. Why bother setting the game in Andromeda if future games are not going to be set within that galaxy. Wasted effort in lore and world building. However, by all means they could do games set in either galaxy. A future Mass Effect game could be set within the Milky Way galaxy after, during, or even before the original trilogy. Whilst other Mass Effect games could be set within Andromeda after or even during the events of Mass Effect Andromeda. It would be a shame if they simply abandoned the idea of Andromeda, as it is an interesting idea with a huge ammount of potential. Future games could cover a wider area of the galaxy, with different clusters able to be explorable. Seeing as Mass Effect Andromeda and the Andromeda Initiative only explores one cluster of the Andromeda galaxy, the Heleus Cluster.

[QUOTE=Noob4life;52593276]While we can all agree that the game didn't pan out as great as expected, I can't help but think that the game played worse just due to the sheer negative rep it got. Like if the media didn't make such a big fuss about the shortcomings the game wouldn't feel such... guilty pleasure, which somehow had a bad impression to the experience. Ofc in the end we should thank them for pressing the devs into improving the game. I guess you can't really separate the artist from their work...[/QUOTE] What universe is this exactly? "the media" adored this game. "the media" threw up every trailer and ad with abandon. Unless you count the exactly two "media" outlets that dared to criticize this game openly well before or during launch. This "media" you're generalizing like hell was youtube, aka youtube streamers whom bought the game and then displayed the rather gigantic litany of flaws for the world to see. This is a bad game. You like a bad game. Which is fine. But you shouldn't act like this was some kind of bandwagoned witchhunt, because this game is objectively broken, not subjectively. From still extant bugs to openly predatory MP filled with now over a [I]thousand[/I] RNG items, most of which have a 1/300 chance of dropping per [B]premium[/B] lootcrate with only a guarantee you might get ONE of these items after nine premium crate purchases, said MP which has widly varying kits that do not synergize with their own ability schemes, much less team-mates. Still has graphical glitches, still has power/animation lock glitches, still loses its shader cache with routine regularity, still has antialiasing issues, still has HDR issues that literally prevent you from seeing the screen at certain angles, still has weapon bloom that completely obscures both crosshair and target, and weapon and class balance in something circa ME2 UP/OP shitshow. You like a bad game, objectively speaking. A bad game sold for 110 dollars. You seriously think TEH MEDIAS assassinated this game after the fact?