Ever since the announcement and information reveal of Mass Effect: Andromeda, we have received much contradictory information that isn't being talked about. It has brought the entire original trilogy into question with a timeline that just doesn't make sense.
While Mass Effect: Andromeda was let in several key areas, one of its approaches to romances is something Mass Effect 4 should consider revisiting.
I hope Mass Effect 4 ignores the inferior prequels and instead closely follows the far superior Mass Effect: Andromeda and Dragon Age Inquisition.
Mass Effect 4 should just make Mass Effect 1 but better with current tech. Fans would be happy. As far as romance, they should take notes from the Witcher and Cyberpunk.
Later Bioware games have to little build up. You can have a normal conversation and all of a sudden BAM! The character you talk to becomes super flirty.
Reminds me of Baldur’s Gate. I wanted to practice some magic and Gale made it super weird. Not even gonna mention Astarion.
iii dunno about that.
the only really great and funny dating partner, is that outlaw guy anyways haha he was funny as hell.
other than that, i found every character to be very annoying.
Shout out to Keri the Asari reporter. Current relationship status be damned as she's game either way. Anything for a good story. 🤣
One of the best things about the Mas Effect series is the companions you meet along the way. So here is a tier list of all the companions from Mass Effect!
To think that Bioware at some point was capable of doing games like this, you see those characters and remember them like good old friends, and now check ME Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard etc and wonder what the hell happened.
some in andromeda are decent, I agree with peebee and Vetra being good companions. Except Liam he's trash tier
it's like bitch but your shirt back on, your not blue or spikey get away from me
BioWare thinks Mass Effect: Andromeda was a better game than what reception suggested; taught the studio not to shoehorn open-world without any meaningful content in it.
I played it and it wasn't as bad as people said. Is it in the 8-10 range? No.
It's a 6-7, which means it's a solid game.
Veilguard and Andromeda are of similar level to me.
6 to 6.5 ish
Though I think i enjoyed Andromeda's combat and sense of scale a little bit more.
I agree with you It was a 6.5 type game. Gameplay was solid everything else was lacking. Playing at launch with all the issues was just absurd. EA could have let the developers keep patching and fix the game but they stopped just like they did with anthem. It’s crazy to think multi billion dollar publishers can’t afford to keeping patching their games get medium size developers can support the game for years
But when you have android wilson running the company what else can we expect.
Except 6-7 doesn't translate as solid. 6 means a bit flimsy, but still good/enjoyable if you can look past the flaws. 7, a little less flimsy, and enjoyable. 8-10 would be "solid".
But I get your point. I skipped the game entirely, so I don't have an opinion on it.
I played this game back when I wanted to give every game I bought a fair chance and finish it, it was the reason why I stopped doing so, god the game was bad
I actually enjoyed Andromeda. It wasn't a 10/10, by any means, but I played it years after the fact, after a lot of patching, and I had a good time with it.
I liked it as well, and also played it for the first time over a year after it was released. The original trilogy was a better story overall IMO but I still enjoyed Andromeda.
It really wasn’t. Well for me nd I’m a big fan of the series.
Was it mass effect standard? No
But overall I thought it was a decent game.
6-7/10.
You might want to try playing a truly bad game. Go boot up two worlds or gollum to get the perspective you need
Lol. Its one of the only games that I have experienced buyers remorse with. The only one I can think of is riders Republic.
So delusional, the title was an embarrassment to the original trilogy. it’s the equivalent of 2042 to the battlefield franchise.
At this point we all have to wait until the game is out to see for ourselves whatsup
It all comes down to the writers trying to retcon things in. Bioware writers made many changes, from removing cooldowns on weapons, the 3 colours endings, Starchild, Shepard having PTSD in ME3 over some kid, and weirdly, having the option for same-sex romance in the third game despite it not being present in the first two. Just seems like bad writing imo.
This author is missing a huge portion of the timeline. The game may start in 2185, but that could very well be when the voyage to Andromeda begins. The Andromeda Initiative clearly states the voyage takes 600 years, so even though the planning to voyage may have began during the ME trilogy, you're not in Andromeda until 600 years later.
Another click bait critic article for upcoming popular AAA game, just move along.
The author should go back to physics lessons, when you travel close to light speed the space is shrinking, so for them it will be much faster than 2.5 mln light years, this is how much time passed from earth perspective, so yeah, a long time ago, could not exist anymore even.
I they made it back, another 600 years of sleep, it would pass 5 mln years on earth, so basically it is one way ticket.
The game takes place after a 600 years travel , that leads them 2.5 million ly away from earth, so it's not at the same time. Also, "humans don't possess the ability to travel at faster than light speed in 2185 yet, according to the original trilogy, so how does it exist here?" is just wrong. Alliance ships in ME trilogy travel around 15 light years per day (reapers travel 30ly per day, twice as fast as alliance ships). That's a lot faster than light. But still, they used Mass Relay cause even at that speed, it would take 20 years to travel accross the milky way.
Also, 2.5 million light years in 600 hundred years is about 11 light years per day. It's not "another reference to the hundreds and not millions of light years between the two galaxies", it works fine with the lore.
And doesn't contradict that it would take "several human lifetimes with faster than light travel" to reach Andromeda.
Basically, this article is just wrong. Maybe some things are inconsistant with real life physics, but it works within the game physics (based on the original trilogy).