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SvennoJ on 20 March 2017
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method114 said:
SvennoJ said:

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.

Will see how it is. I honestly just can't trust reviewers after the things I've seen. The Witcher 3 had some of the worst writing I've seen from any video game and people loved it and praised it up and down. The side missions had great writing the main story was "Do this favor for and I'll tell you a little bit more, do this favor and I'll tell you a little bit more" for 20+ hours until I gave up. The Witcher 2 is one of my top 10 games but the writing in W2 was much better and not so lazy in plot progression.

BF4 got low to high 80's but the MP was unplayable for months at a time how did a primarily multiplayer game get such high scores with a barely functional MP?

True, TW2 was better, enticed me to play out all different paths. However TW3's writing is still far better than what I've seen of ME: Andromeda. Nor does it seem to have any compelling storyline from what I've read. The plot reads more like something to set up an RTS game. If it was something in the vein of The Expanse, then I would be interested.

The main problem with it is, it seems to be another openworld-keep-you-busy-a-thon. Maybe that's not true, time will tell. But I still haven't played ME3 which looks to be the better choice atm if I want to dive back into ME. Tbh, I wasn't that interested in ME anymore after ME2 and reviews of ME3. Reviews of ME:A haven't gotten me back.