I'm enjoying it. Sometimes I struggle to find exactly where a mission wants me to go, and it took me way to long to work out how to change my squad, but there's every chance I'm just stupid so I can't blame the game for that.
Gaming Mass Effect: Andromeda (PC, PS4, Xbox One)
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I'm enjoying it. Sometimes I struggle to find exactly where a mission wants me to go, and it took me way to long to work out how to change my squad, but there's every chance I'm just stupid so I can't blame the game for that.
Horizon
I can't comment on ME andromeda since I haven't played it yet but I chose to get horizon instead and didn't regret a second of it. Horizon is (imo) one of the best games on the ps4 and I'd recommend it to anyone. Loved that game so much.
Nier Automatica, Persona 5 and Yakuza are all very good games. If you into Japanese games.
Apart from Final Fantasy never gave Japanese games a chance.
Leaning towards horizon atm.
From all accounts there isn't really a comparison between the two.
I know both quite different games just want to get the better experience.
I mean in terms of quality. Horizon looks like it will be a contender for game of the year. Mass effect appears to be one of the let downs of the year. There are plenty of other games too like nier automata, persona 5, nioh, last guardian and more that have gotten a better reception than ME.
Ugh sooo many games to get through! I might start Horizon today, and I'm still barely scratching Zelda due to the shear amount of distractions that game has. I need more hours in the day
If you're someone familiar with the Mass Effect series and a fan of the genre and its style irrespective of its flaws, go for Andromeda. If you're an objective gamer on the outside simply looking for a game that will tick the most boxes as possible in terms of entertainment, go Horizon.
No way, I love the original trilogy and I'm liking Andromeda but Horizon is a far, far better game.
Well yeah I should've expanded on that a bit better. How about, Horizon is what you go for unless you're a Mass Effect super fanboy?
Again I consider myself a huge ME fanboy to the extent I purposely put horizon off til I played Andromeda, but after playing both.. horizon is the one I want to go to all the time, seriously there's no comparison between the two.
Edit: I too get what you're saying though, but I would never recommend Andromeda over horizon to anyone if it was a choice between both.
Cheers for the advice all, I am a fan of the mass effect series but Andromeda just looks to similar nothing really stands out about it I guess too much ea influence. I think horizon will be my purchase, no major games between now and mordor shadow of war, so horizon will be a solid buy. Also sorry if I have slightly derailed this thread slightly.
Excuse me, Persona 5?
So the gameplay is okay, it's just characters are a bit flat and it's damaging the story. Problem of many triple A games these days.
I'll definitely play it but if EA and Bioware won't take steps in making a sequel I won't blame them.
I'll definitely play it but if EA and Bioware won't take steps in making a sequel I won't blame them.
Ok I bought horizon . Will get mass effect when it's much cheaper.
Some of the professional reviews are a lot more damning than I would have dared imagine.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3186...review-as-vast-and-empty-as-space-itself.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3186...review-as-vast-and-empty-as-space-itself.html
Accurate. It's the only sort of entertainment I'm getting out of it.
This. There have been so many hits in the last 2-3 months that Andromeda looks like a complete waste of time.
Somehow I don't think anything will come close to Zelda for that!
Damn, down to 71 on metacratic.
Despite all its flaws I'm really enjoying the game.
Despite all its flaws I'm really enjoying the game.
Same. If you think of it away from the original trilogy and as it's own game and new direction it's not too bad.
It's not a bad game, just a bad mass effect and bioware game. Fans have gotten accustomed to the quality of the trilogy so the downgrade here does take the pish a little.
If this was an indie/early access title I'd be a bit more sympathetic towards it. Unfortunately it happens to be a multi million dollar triple A game.
If this was an indie/early access title I'd be a bit more sympathetic towards it. Unfortunately it happens to be a multi million dollar triple A game.
Finished this last night with nearly 90 hours played. Absolutely loved every minute of it, and consider it one of the best games in the series.
Samesies.
Planets to explore, albeit only a handful, fun cast of characters to interact with (Drack & Jaal particularly), best combat in the series, and best side missions in the series, I'm not including the additional tasks as they're nothing but fetch quests.
Bar the technical issues on PC, I'm baffled at the scores. If people harp on like they're some expert in literature and say "but teh writing is terrible!!", bar some eye roll moments, it's no different in terms of quality than ME2 or 3, and they reviewed much better.
Well that's simply not true.
In terms of writing, its very similar. Cheesy, formulaic writing all over the shop.
The writing and character development in the original trilogy was great, Andromeda in comparison is a high school drama filled with predictable clichés and cringey one liners. There's no comparing them.
Mass Effect 2 and 3 were chock full of cliches, doesn't mean it wasn't awesome mind you. As for character development, how can you compare the development of characters in a trilogy and the first of a potential trilogy?
Garrus went from a boring cop in Mass Effect 1 to fecking Batman/The Punisher in Mass Effect 2. And again, the cringey dialogue is not as prevelant as you're making out. It'd would be akin to people using the "big, stupid jellyfish" line from ME1 to summarize the dialogue ie not fair at all.
Let's not make everything as black and white as "old one good new one bad". Most of the characters, bar Tali, Garrus and Wrex, were only interesting for the freshness of their races and history, not for the characters themselves. Unless we're saying that Kaiden and Ash were thrilling to talk to? Many characters had little depth to them, but were propped up by the mystery.
This. The writing has massively gone down. "my face is tired" ? it's written for kids.
When have you ever heard a kid say that? Btw I wouldn't have even noticed that line had the gaming media not made a fuss of it. Sounded like a translation thing since they let their B team in Montreal handle this project. Still a good game but you can see the lack of polish for the faces and animations.
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Ash was interesting in the third game, to be fair. Funnily enough, you chose 2 worst characters of the first game to make a point.
What about Mordin and Thane who were amazing on the second game? Liara was awesome in both games (and the DLC). And Miranda was quite nice too.
Second game has a big flaw (the main story is almost non-existent and it doesn't push the story of the trilogy forward) but it has by far the best set of characters I have ever seen in a video game.
I'm comparing the first game in a trilogy to the first game here. If we're talking about the second game I'd also add that Grunt was a fun character as well because he was a whiney teenager.
Does this game has a set of characters comparable with Garrus, Liara, Tali and Wrex? If yes, then it has one of the best set of characters in video gaming.
That quote wasn't the one I was referring to regarding kids.
I heard the quote myself without realising the furore - only after realising how much of a fuss it had caused.
Anyway - I still believe the game wasn't written maturely (hence my flippant comment about it being done for kids)