Were there any gameplay differences for that final battle if you hadn't recruited everyone?
Gaming Mass Effect: Andromeda (PC, PS4, Xbox One)
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The first game so far is ok, storyline is fine, combat is pretty sucky, no running and jumping I find ridiculous, and the way it makes you go in and out of your journals and maps every damn time is annoying. Suppose it all immerses you in more having to read everything and find everywhere.
If you don't like RPG (especially old RPGs) then the first game sucks a bit. I think that combat is quite good, but not if you're only experienced with shooters. The strength in combat is customizing the weapons and combining weapons with other powers, not on being precise at shooting.
The second and third game have much more straightforward combat, which while might be more enjoyable, it makes it a bit easier and less challenging.
Reading the journals was one of the best part of the game IMO. It is after all a very story based game, and the more exploration about the story, the better.
I think that the expectation this time are significantly lower than for Mass Effect 3, in addition to being the start of the story (not the conclusion), so if it sucks, you just stop it playing and don't play the others.
game looks very good tbh 
You can sprint for brief periods.
Have they said whether it's going to be a series of games again or if it's just this one game?
Thanks, it sounds like they're planning more within the ME universe but not necessarily linking directly to Andromeda.
The combat in the first game was proper rubbish, and I mean rubbish, and that's from someone who really liked the game cause of the story and RPG elements. Anyone who's telling you the combat is better cause it's 'less dumbed down' than the other two is talking shit. I mean sure, it's less dumbed down in that it has loads of terrible features. It's just terrible for a TPS. The mouse and keyboard suck, the enemies are crap, the AI is crap, the aiming is crap. I'd be happy if I could play through the entire first game without having do any of the shooting. The 2nd and 3rd are actually pretty good TPS games in their own right, it's just that all the nerds who loved the story of the first got all moany cause they mainstreamed it for those two and sacrified some of their beloved RPG elements in doing so. Lil bitches.
So, essentially the Dragon Age road when games are just loosely related to each other.
Can live with that, as long as it is a good game.
For the final boss fight in ME1 I literally just run in circles holding the trigger for about a minute.
Saren was a great villain.
Saren was a great villain.
Didn't the weapons got overheated?
I actually struggled with Saren on the first one. Needed 3-4 attempts to defeat him. At the contrary, I found very easy to defeat the baby Reaper in the second one. The third one didn't had a final boss, but remember finding the last mission quite difficult.
Think the multiple configurations (profile-thing) will be what makes the PC 'special'.
Anyone else a bit concerned by the trailers and the lack of gameplay videos? I'm excited and I'll buy it either way, but something seems off to me. I'm expecting a flawed game
imho the time to be concerned is next month, not now. The decision to release less gameplay vids can/should be a conscious choice until a certain point.
I'm no expecting them to release more gameplay videos, we'll get trailers with some gameplay thrown in there. I still remember the horrible facial animation from the last gameplay trailer, and that was very recent. I don't think the development of the game has gone well tbh, but I hope I'm wrong.
I think we'll get a good game, won't live up to some of the hype though.
They did, but the most advanced gun would go on forever and cool down quickly if you stopped just before overheating point.
Yeah, just nuked the baby Reaper everytime
It's been so long since I've played them, but I do recall liking the first one the best. Played on a XBox, mind you.https://www.origin.com/mex/en-us/store/mass-effect/mass-effect-2/standard-edition
Mass Effect 2 for free...
Mass Effect 2 for free...
Mass Effect 1,2 and 3 plus all of the DLCs for about £30 on the PSN January sale. For some bizarre reason the trilogy pack isn't discounted so buy the games individually. In fact almost eveything on the store is about 60-80 percent off.
PeeBee has not tickled my fancy so far.
Apparently named Cora Harper, and iirc isn't The Illusive Man called Jack Harper? She might provide a little more intrigue than Optimistic Jacob, The Absent Father and Tweedledee 'n Dummer lookin'. Doubt it though.
I think I've liked the short pathfinder briefing vids more enjoyable than the main trailers overall, despite their lack of originality.
Decent looking accretion disk.
Nailed on they will screw up the multiplayer that they almost accidentally got right in ME3.
Looks great.
Can't fecking wait to play some ME again. Combat looks really fun as well.
MY DICK IS SO HARD
I am a huge fan of the original trinity (yes, even ME3) but havent really been too inspired yet by Andromeda. I dont know, I just feel that the biggest attraction of the first three was the characters and relationships you form - I would have rather had another installment in the original galaxy with some of the same characters etc.
Saw that, graphics look great, the animations kinda meh. Good video though
I'm with you. It lacks something, I can't pinpoint what though. Someone said travelling to Andromeda doesn't make much sense for the series and I agree with that. Just going there to explore or resources doesn't do it for me.
I'm going to hold off pre-ordering it for now, unless I see a great deal.
Yeah - as you said I cant quite pinpoint it, but it doesnt excite me just yet.
Agree with this. The story of the original trilogy had me absolutely hooked, I loved it. Andromeda definitely feels very meh from what I've seen so far.
That latest video makes the game look way too combat centric. I know that's the way Mass Effect has been going with each new game, but if it's at the expensive of story and other RPG elements, then it's not a good thing.
I pre-ordered but then cancelled. I'm gonna wait and see.
I'm not worried about the trailers, and I hold out little hope of Bioware's current team of returning to ME1-DA:O and previous levels of storytelling. I just hope they learned from the mistakes of DA:I MP and make the online portion fun again.
I probably won't even play SP for a couple months or so.
I probably won't even play SP for a couple months or so.
You did the right thing, it's good to wait sometimes. I think the game looks far too generic, just doesn't have the ME magic. I want to say the characters look bland, but we haven't seen much of them, so I think they should have focused on that more.
I do like that they're keeping the story a mystery, but they should have showed a bit more or even dropped some hints.
The original ME had one, if not two, novels with back story to the universe before the game was even released. I read the one about how Saren found Sovereign and that got me really stoked for the game. Nothing like that for Andromeda that I know of. Story was everything in the previous ME games, it feels less so with Andromeda and as you say, that makes the game pretty generic.
Yeah the original also had the benefit of being completely uncharted territory and allowed to strike up whatever they wanted to. This time round they have to not only figure out a way to make going to Andromeda plausible but I assume also not actually use the things the game is named after, unless the reapers are there too and the whole thing is a rehash.
Still, it'll probably be very good, like most bioware games, but it is hard to be hyped in the way I was with the original trilogy.
Still, it'll probably be very good, like most bioware games, but it is hard to be hyped in the way I was with the original trilogy.
Unfortunately not before the game, but http://screenrant.com/mass-effect-andromeda-books/
By the end of the whole trilogy on the whole, I'd have to disagree and say Mass Effect's biggest draw was the characters. It was a sub-par attempt at an epic story, too similar to Dragon Age: Origins in terms of 'chosen one leading talented squad to end an ancient threat that recurs every x-amount of years', with ME 1 being the exception.
The story/plot was crap for the last two installments. It got by on character development/interaction, which is what BW is best at now.
I don't get the worrying about it anyway; we know feck all at this point...