Gaming Mass Effect: Andromeda (PC, PS4, Xbox One)

Niall said:
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.
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Good point about the novels, those were great. There's actually a novel coming out alongside the game, called Mass Effect: Nexus Uprising. Hints that there's unrest on the Nexus. Guessing that leads to the races all going their way and setting up on different planets. That doesn't really appeal to me much tbh, but we'll see how it plays out. Came across a pretty interesting theory, that would interesting if done right:


But it's all guess work. The game is out month and I feel like I know nothing about it still. Best to wait for the reviews at this point
 
PlayerOne said:
Good point about the novels, those were great. There's actually a novel coming out alongside the game, called Mass Effect: Nexus Uprising. Hints that there's unrest on the Nexus. Guessing that leads to the races all going their way and setting up on different planets. That doesn't really appeal to me much tbh, but we'll see how it plays out. Came across a pretty interesting theory, that would interesting if done right:


But it's all guess work. The game is out month and I feel like I know nothing about it still. Best to wait for the reviews at this point
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I'm not sure why he's confused about what the thing at the centre of the cluster is - it's a black hole surrounded by an accretion disk. The one in Interstellar is a good visualisation:

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Ubik said:
I'm not sure why he's confused about what the thing at the centre of the cluster is - it's a black hole surrounded by an accretion disk. The one in Interstellar is a good visualisation:

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He made a update video, gives some reasons why he doesn't think that's a blackhole. Dark energy is a big thing in the ME universe too, so Bioware could play that up. Here's the follow up -

 
PlayerOne said:
He made a update video, gives some reasons why he doesn't think that's a blackhole. Dark energy is a big thing in the ME universe too, so Bioware could play that up. Here's the follow up -

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:lol: I like how my response was the exact one a load of others gave, even down to the Interstellar pic. Nolan acolytes everywhere :lol:

Still think it has to be a black hole, anything lensing like that pretty much has to be by definition. But it's BioWare scifi so I could of course be wrong.
 
ADJUDICATOR said:
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.
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Indeed. The first game had a brilliant story, but the second game was all about the characters. The third game made a decent attempt at combining those two things, but managed to be totally pathetic at the end of it.

I still love the trilogy, but not as excited as I should be for this one. It looks much more generic than a Mass Effect game should be. Going to wait for the reviews before I get it, but really hoping that there is some good story there, otherwise likely going to skip it (or play it later).
 
Revan said:
Indeed. The first game had a brilliant story, but the second game was all about the characters. The third game made a decent attempt at combining those two things, but managed to be totally pathetic at the end of it.

I still love the trilogy, but not as excited as I should be for this one. It looks much more generic than a Mass Effect game should be. Going to wait for the reviews before I get it, but really hoping that there is some good story there, otherwise likely going to skip it (or play it later).
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I'm actually excited for this, from what I heard and played the first had a good story, but the gameplay was quite shite to me (only played end of last year), so haven't progressed into the 2nd and third, but heard they improved on the first in terms of gameplay but lacking story. I'm hopeful they are hitting the balance with this new series.
 
Let's get real here, if it gets good reviews, every ME fan will go and buy it regardless of their principles or feelings on the third game or whatever.
 
Almost tempted to splurge on a ps4 pro for this. Would love to play it in its best state. I'm pretty confident it will be a great game anyway, the gameplay in ME2 & 3 was terrific and I'd be stunned if it wasn't at least on par with them.
 
Multiplayer tech test cancelled. What a collosal waste of time that form turned out to be.
 
Seriously stoked for this game. I've been waiting to buy a PS4 the past few months, think I'm going to get it a few days before the game.
 

Gamespot's hands on impressions. They like the game, but are worried.


Peebee's loyalty mission gameplay. Doesn't look all that good. The characters just seem boring so far
 
My hopes aren't sky-high for this, so I think expecting a respectable-to-decent game is fine and probably what we'll end up with.
 
PlayerOne said:

Gamespot's hands on impressions. They like the game, but are worried.


Peebee's loyalty mission gameplay. Doesn't look all that good. The characters just seem boring so far
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Gamespot's review is very promising. The only complaint is the bugs, but then BioWare typically manages to fix most of them before the release (I had no problems with bugs on BioWare games for a long time).

Peebee's mission looks very generic though.
 
My biggest complaint is the lack of story and dialogue so far, that was the reason why the original trilogy was so great. The combat looks good imo, but difficult to judge the writing/plot so far, which went already a bit downhill in Mass Effect 3.

Still hyped for that one, the trilogy was one of the best experiences for me on last generation's consoles.
 
Not feeling that cutesy tone in the dialogue of that loyalty mission clip. Maybe it's just that mission and especially that annoying Peebee character but it sounds like something out of Life is Strange (which was fine in that particular game, though). There was banter and fun in Mass Effect, but overall it always had an oppressive and quite serious tone which I hope is still there.

Also, while the graphics are great the characters look very cartoonish and there's some crazy hand holding going on with regards to the puzzles. As a fan of the series I'll buy it but my expectations are rather low. What I really hope they nail is gameplay (not convinced yet) but especially the sense of exploration which they have been talking about was a major leaf that they wanted to take out of Mass Effect 1's book.

I'm still somewhat hyped, but I've been burnt by nu-Bioware too many times now so can't really expect too much.
 
Seriously, they deserve a medal if they really managed to make Peebee boring. She's played from Natalie fecking Dormer, it should be illegal to make her anything but awesome.

The gameplay looks nice to be fair. From those clips, seems better than any of the other Mass Effect games, and that reviewer praised it, saying that it has a lot of RPG elements.
 
Revan said:
Seriously, they deserve a medal if they really managed to make Peebee boring. She's played from Natalie fecking Dormer, it should be illegal to make her anything but awesome.

The gameplay looks nice to be fair. From those clips, seems better than any of the other Mass Effect games, and that reviewer praised it, saying that it has a lot of RPG elements.
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Natalie Dormer is playing some Asari doctor, not Peebee :)
 
Some of the missions from previous games would look boring in isolation in my opinion. Their strength came from the world around it along with the strength of characters and dialog.

As long as they nail the story im not sure i even care about the rest that much.
 
Smores said:
Some of the missions from previous games would look boring in isolation in my opinion. Their strength came from the world around it along with the strength of characters and dialog.

As long as they nail the story im not sure i even care about the rest that much.
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The story comes first for me too, but my expectations are nowhere as high as they were for ME3. Drew Karpyshyn has left (he wrote the stories for Baldur's Gate games, Kotor, Mass Effect 1, part of Mass Effect 2, The Old Republic - Jedi Knight), the doctors have left and Casey Hudson has left. The guy in charge of the game is apparently Mac Walters whose achievement include writing the mediocre Arrival and Mass Effect 3 (thinking that the ending is as good as the ending of The Matrix and Brave New World).

The Inquisition also had a boring story and writing.

I think that unlike the other Mass Effect games, this game's main strength will be the gameplay (which looks nice), but I am already accepting that the story likely will be something like that of Inquisition. Some big baddy, a lot of exploring that has nothing to do with anything and boring squad with a lot of references to the awesome things from the other games. Not necessarily bad, Inquisition was a fine game after all, but I doubt that we're gonna get a classic BioWare game.
 
Revan said:
The story comes first for me too, but my expectations are nowhere as high as they were for ME3. Drew Karpyshyn has left (he wrote the stories for Baldur's Gate games, Kotor, Mass Effect 1, part of Mass Effect 2, The Old Republic - Jedi Knight), the doctors have left and Casey Hudson has left. The guy in charge of the game is apparently Mac Walters whose achievement include writing the mediocre Arrival and Mass Effect 3 (thinking that the ending is as good as the ending of The Matrix and Brave New World).

The Inquisition also had a boring story and writing.

I think that unlike the other Mass Effect games, this game's main strength will be the gameplay (which looks nice), but I am already accepting that the story likely will be something like that of Inquisition. Some big baddy, a lot of exploring that has nothing to do with anything and boring squad with a lot of references to the awesome things from the other games. Not necessarily bad, Inquisition was a fine game after all, but I doubt that we're gonna get a classic BioWare game.
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I liked inquisition and its dlc, only played it fairly recently though.

Let's not right it off before its even out :)
 
Smores said:
I liked inquisition and its dlc, only played it fairly recently though.

Let's not right it off before its even out :)
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I liked it too. Just that its story is so much weaker than Origins, Kotor or Mass Effect trilogy.
 
Yeah, the exploration looks great. Just hoping the story is as tight.
 
Not sure whether to get this on my laptop or PS4. I've got a GTX 960M and an i7 processor, it'll run ok on that will it? I'm shit with specs and stuff.
 
TheSamulator said:
Not sure whether to get this on my laptop or PS4. I've got a GTX 960M and an i7 processor, it'll run ok on that will it? I'm shit with specs and stuff.
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It'll run better yeah. Plus it's likely to be better with a keyboard and mouse and it'll be cheaper if you get it off somewhere like cdkeys.
 
With jet packs and melee weapons, the Vanguard class is going to be absolutely bonkers. If biotic charge doesn't have input lag again, it should be beastly in multiplayer too.

Unless the class system is so diluted anyone can get charge...I'm not real clear on that...
 
That bloke just looks so boring.
 
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