This qualifies as the flop of the generation now. There have been other games with high expectations that didn't deliver(Destiny, Quantum Break, No Man's Sky, Evolve, The Order 1886)...but none of them were established franchises with histories of excellence. Oh I forgot about Street Fighter V although they disappointed for very different reasons.
No Battleborn?
FYI all of the games above are atleast origional and do 1 thing extremely well. (Exploration:No Mans Sky, The Order 1886retty Graphics, Quantum Break: TV Show integration, Destiny:Gameplay, SFV:Gameplay, Evolve:Asynchronous Multiplayer)
Mass Effect is just an unpolished Mediocre game that laks ambition, Good Writing, performances ect. Its the Terminator Genesis of Mass Effect.
To give some perspective killzone shadow fall got a 73 metacritic and has been forgotten by history
To give some perspective killzone shadow fall got a 73 metacritic and has been forgotten by history
MEA is way better than shadowfall.
That's not how review scores work.
Sure, nobody expected that Andromeda would be the Iliad of our times, or that BioWare would suddenly learn how to approach certain issues that can be explored within its game in a more "mature" way. But the writing in this game stands out like a sore thumb when compared to other AAA Open-World RPG games of recent years (I don't have to reference the Witcher 3 again, do I?) or even when compared to the series' past games (I can clearly remember the chats I've had with Wrex, Garrus or Mordin Solus as Shepard, but I honestly have trouble remembering even the names of my companion NPCs in Andromeda despite finishing the game a couple of days ago). Only now do we realise the "damage" Witcher 3 has done to the industry - it opened the eyes of many and it raised the bar for "mainstream" AAA Open-World RPG productions to such a level that mediocrity in such games is now more easy to spot, and elements that in normal circumstances would be ignored or passed-over (or even praised, in some cases) are now reviewed in a much more critical manner.
You have to post the video that goes with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmYgUhXDDio
Such a goddamned mess
You have to post the video that goes with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmYgUhXDDio
Such a goddamned mess
Giantbomb spoke about ME2 has being the Game of the Generation and that the trilogy is a special event in gaming history. And now...this. It hurts.
You have to post the video that goes with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmYgUhXDDio
Such a goddamned mess
I feel like I'm playing a completely different game than some of these people. It has rough edges but I like it quite a bit. I really like the environments, characters and writing (for the most part) and the combat is awesome.
You have to post the video that goes with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmYgUhXDDio
Such a goddamned mess
Giant Bomb 2/5
https://www.giantbomb.com/reviews/mass-effect-andromeda-review/1900-762/
Brad Shoemaker with the review
because as it stands right now this thing is a real mess. Andromeda shouldn't have shipped like this.
For the start of a new chapter to be so bad at the things Mass Effect has traditionally been so good at raises serious questions about where the series, and perhaps even BioWare, go from here.
"Internal mock reviews are tracking very well"
Once an opinion takes hold that's that.
This isn't true right? I mean, Bioware must have known this was coming?
My understanding is that Bioware Montreal's internal expected score was...well, significantly higher than what it is now.This isn't true right? I mean, Bioware must have known this was coming?
So much overreaction
Yeah Shinobi was told as much.My understanding is that Bioware Montreal's internal expected score was...well, significantly higher than what it is now.
Interesting because Sonic Chronicles is objectively far worse.Looks like it's Bioware's lowest reviewed game. Right under Sonic Chronicles.
Giant Bomb 2/5
https://www.giantbomb.com/reviews/mass-effect-andromeda-review/1900-762/
Brad Shoemaker with the review
Just wait for the 2 stars from GB
Just about done and sadly in agreement with most of Brad's take. It's a 3/5 for me that could easily be dropped down another point depending on the amount of technical issues experienced. Turns out a middling Mass Effect is still enough for me to see it through, but at the very least it shouldn't have shipped in its current state.Giant Bomb 2/5
https://www.giantbomb.com/reviews/mass-effect-andromeda-review/1900-762/
Brad Shoemaker with the review
This is pretty fair but I'd argue the companions come pretty close. ME1 in particular didn't have many h8ghs with regards to companions they really only came into being in ME2 and ME3 for me.I... don't know. I don't.
I ADORE Mass Effect Trilogy and I'm playing through ME1 right now while following Andromeda and there are some things ME1 does that are leaps and bounds better than the game that came out a decade later on superior hardware. Expressions, animations, art design, dialogue, story...
That's not bringing up recent games to compare Andromeda against; that's comparing it to its own predecessors from a decade ago on vastly inferior hardware.
But then you do factor in modern games and their evolution of the medium - like Witcher 3, Horizon, or Breath of the Wild - and it casts a looming, dark shadow over what Andromeda brings to the table.
I'm of the opinion the game is not bad - it's NOT - but it's possibly worse than being bad: it's forgettable and average. For all the flaws of the original series, they had incredibly memorable highs that made the games more than the sum of their parts. I haven't experienced that with Andromeda. It's mostly "decent" throughout, but never has those highs, but it DOES have the series lows (after all these years); more glitches than I ever expected, technical issues aplenty, loads of mundane busywork with almost no tangible rewards, animation and expressions more stilted than the original game, etc.
The game feels like a first-pass that was never given the time to polish up what they had, but even IF the game was technically perfect without a single glitch, I still think the story and narrative and mission design are banal enough that it would still be the weakest entry in the series yet by far.
The technical issues that turned the game into a meme are just the cherry on top of an unfinished sunday.
It avoids being awful, but it also avoids being memorable for any positive reasons.
How a major AAA game shipped in this state is a mystery to me.You have to post the video that goes with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmYgUhXDDio
Such a goddamned mess
The game feels like a first-pass that was never given the time to polish up what they had, but even IF the game was technically perfect without a single glitch, I still think the story and narrative and mission design are banal enough that it would still be the weakest entry in the series yet by far.
Piece of shit game, BioWare C team completely shat over the series that I hold dear. Heat breaking to witness.
My understanding is that Bioware Montreal's internal expected score was...well, significantly higher than what it is now.
My understanding is that Bioware Montreal's internal expected score was...well, significantly higher than what it is now.