GavinUK86
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Mass Effect: Andromeda |OT| Ryders on the Storm
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Oh nice, thanks.
lastplayed
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There might be some moments. Inquisition let you make some tough choices, and I'm sure Andromeda will too. But like Inquisition you just can't seem to be outright rude, nasty or murderous like jerk Shepard or jerk Hawke, which was pretty hilarious at times. Bioware seems to have moved away from that aspect which is a shame.
YankeeDonB
Member
It's still weird to me that this was all prefaced on traveling to an entirely NEW GALAXY. Like, wow, now we're really going to see some new shit.
Except, mostly, it seems, not so much...
Here's a snowy planet. Here's a jungle planet. Here's a desert planet. Here's another Turian, another Krogan, another Asari to kick it with.
Much of the fun of the initial ME was getting to explore the universe, meet new alien species, and really get a feel for humanity's expansion into the stars. This jump to a new galaxy seems narratively wasted, at least in the first 10 hours.
In PvE horde mode MP P2P is far more forgivable than in PvP environment.
Garrett Hawke
Member
That was my main disappointment when I saw the squad mates.
Why bother moving galaxy at all if we're going to be surrounded by Asari, Krogans, Salarians etc?
TC McQueen
Member
Peer to peer connections are literally why you can play ME3 MP today.
Yea that's pretty lame.
Well, they only just got there, kind of makes sense that they'd try and stick together (I mean, why would a bunch of native aliens follow the lead of some inexperienced human who's only just arrived in the galaxy and doesn't know shit about it?). I could see them having more new aliens in the squad in the second Andromeda game.
oneils
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Digital foundry did a video on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJG9d6zcwLk
They haven't made one yet. They have made an xbox vs. ps4 video but have not made a pc or ps4 pro one yet. I expect they will due to all of the attention they paid to it when the ps4 pro version was demoed a while back. It might take a while, though. Those videos take a lot of time to produce.
YankeeDonB
Member
Yeah, it seems like they wanted to use the galaxy jump to thematically emphasize a series reboot. But then, somewhere along the way, someone got nervous and decided that most of the old series would also be shipped right along to Andromeda.
I'll still probably bite down the road if the dialogue/plotting takes a real turn for the not-horrible in the later parts of the game. The combat looks pretty fun at least...
RedlineRonin
Member
Damn, I could be playing at 10AM central US tomorrow? I might not wanna wait for my BBY copy if I could play that much earlier.....
Hmmmm
Hmmmm
lastplayed
Member
Because the Milky Way is derped isn't it, depending on how your ME3 ended.
Yeah I thought this was odd as well. I thought the whole point was to introduce new races of aliens. Aside from reviewers though most people have only played 10 hours, maybe this changes later in the game since your beginning squad mates are gonna be races you're already familiar with. At least I hope it changes.
Admiral Woofington
Member
This is the perfect week to have to work nights.
Before the animation and jank stuff coming out, this was my biggest gripe with everything I had seen in ME:A.
Like, this is supposed to be a new galaxy, and so far everything they have shown are stuff from previous ME asides from the enemy factions, and one new companion race. Is this really it?
Retrofluxed
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Why make a new Mass Effect if you're going to just carry over humans to Andromeda? Might as well make a new IP at that point.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Because Mass Effect has always been about the human struggle???
Garrett Hawke
Member
Lmao I don't even remember what I picked. Replaying the trilogy ATM.
Yeah, I figured it was supposed to be a fresh start/reboot sort of situation.
That... makes sense I guess but I feel like they could've figured something out.
Like in Dragon Age Origins one of your first companions is a Qunari. In Mass Effect 1 by the time you leave the citadel you have a Krogan, a Quarian and a Turian.
I had almost zero problem with this in ME3. I know it was looking iffy in the ME:A trial, but in ME3 the connection was almost always perfect, so hopefully they can get it right here.
KaoticBlaze
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This. I cant wait to see it on my 4k oled with hdr. If its anything like how beautiful horizon is then we're in for a visual treat
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I sure hope so.I think they're joking
Inceptional
Member
Alright gaffers, time to get pumped. Mass Effect 1 is still my GOAT so I'm glad to hear this game evokes the OG.
https://youtu.be/sUKiOcV1SSc
https://youtu.be/sUKiOcV1SSc
Retrofluxed
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I'm not. Yes, humans are a focus, but the other races are just as iconic.
Sure, though in the the ME original trilogy humanity's already established for a couple of decades with the other races. Also- no mass relays for easy access to the whole galaxy. I sympathise with the sentiment but how they've played it isn't unreasonable IMO.
Actually... what current-gen title is not P2P or semi-P2P these days?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
They aren't the focus, they are the core. Making a Mass Effect w/o humans might as well be a new IP.
Retrofluxed
Member
I didn't say to make a new Mass Effect without humans, I said it doesn't feel like Mass Effect without the other races too.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhAKxsQLp3U
You can punch, bully, and even downright tell your party followers to fuck off and/or get out and you don't consider that to be rude? Lol.
But other races aren't absent here. I don't understand. Your avatar is one of them from this game.
Sure but then you'd have other people complaining about not getting to have their favourite Milky Way races in their squad. They would've disappointed people either way.
Retrofluxed
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People are complaining that the other races made it over to Andromeda. I said without them it doesn't feel like Mass Effect.
Garrett Hawke
Member
That's true.
Again tho, as someone else suggested I think production reasons definitely played a part. I'll need to play it to find out how it feels, though.
ToyMachine228
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Is there any word on the meta yet? Any particular weapons/bio/tech/armor thar we should be using or striving for?
Familienoberhauptvogel
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YankeeDonB
Member
That's a fair question I guess. I'd just interpreted the early promotional materials as promising a much more radical reboot with fewer immediately relevant touchstones to the original trilogy.
Mass Effect was about humans trying to make it via diplomacy and force in a mostly hostile galaxy. Putting that in a colonization context in an entirely new galaxy with a whole host of new (and hopefully super weird) alien species seemed a promising concept.
And maybe the full game will pull that off. But most everything seems so familiar so far.
Oh, I guess I didn't get the context.
Yeah, I think it would be pretty weird to just have humans come over. I can't think of any reason humans would have tried to block other species from joining the project.
11am
MagicWithEarvin
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Someone's going to make a Sith lightning building, aren't they?
Retrofluxed
Member
If it were up to me, this would have been a direct sequel. Pick a color, tell people to suck it up and write a new story. I wasn't done with the Milky Way.
lastplayed
Member
lol yeah I've seen that. It's just not the same as the ME2 or DA2 compilations.
tearsintherain
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How did it work for people playing on PC this weekend? I play a lot of PVP fps/tps games weekly with zero issues - Titanfall2, Infinite Warfare, Modern Warfare 4, Forza horizon 3, Destiny, BF1, Uncharted 4 - but MEA was janky as hell on xbox one. Out of six games I could not complete a single one, every single game "crashed" (game restarted) at some point right when a wave finished, although it did seem to give me some sort of partial points every wave that persisted. Three of the games suffered horrid rubber banding to the point where it was basically unplayable.
I'm hoping its just launch week issues that get sorted eventually and/or maybe PC or PS4 is better but that was severely disappointing, especially given the cancellation of the multiplayer tech test.
YankeeDonB
Member
Heh, I hear that. Given that the Milky Way has 100s of billions of stars, and new planet-finding science suggests that many or more planets, it's not like going to a new galaxy is required to bring in some fresh ideas. But then that's part of why I though they were really going to play up the novelty aspect....