SvennoJ said:
method114 said:
I honestly don't know. I got EA access just beause all the comments were making me worried I took days off just to play this game so I was pretty worried. Played the trial and I'm having such a blast. Even my biggest worry (tactical pause not being used as much) has been made irrelevant. The new combat is so fast pace and fun that tactical pause would just seem to get in the way most of the time.
As long as the story turns out to be good I'm really going to enjoy this game.
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Hmm did they put the best at the start for that trial...
In some respects, Andromeda is most disappointing when it's at its best. There's a mission in the opening third that conjures up the spectre of Virmire - a raid on a kett facility, accompanied by a crack squad of angaran guerrillas. The shift in mood and focus is faintly miraculous: the music kicks up, the bugs ease off, the dialogue straightens out of its slouch and the combat goes into overdrive. There are familiar but pleasantly ghoulish secrets to uncover, rooms to comb for hints about kett society, and a couple of heated, deftly worded interactions with companions that genuinely get your blood pumping.
It's gripping stuff, and a reminder of the greatness of the Mass Effect trilogy - its intelligent reworkings of pulp sci-fi cliche, the taut splendour of its scenarios and aesthetic, the colour and dexterity of its writing. All that's still in here somewhere, I think. But then you pop out the other end of the mission, back into Andromeda's labyrinth of drudgery and obfuscation, and remember that you're a long way from home.
Perhaps all the reviews are wrong. The combat seems to be the saving grace, too bad that's the least interesting part to me in a Mass Effect game.
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Wasn't this the exact same issue most fans had with Halo 5 when it was handed off to a fledgling studio?
Best combat out of the series, worst story and plot?
