Andromeda had a lot of good in it, tbf. Their big mistake there IMO was hard-resetting the universe the way they did. Like I was excited for more mass effect but I fell off that game so hard. Mechanically it was solid but I just… didn’t care.

Anthem frankly killed them. A live service looter shooter which were already out of vogue by the time it was released. Obviously made by marketing entirely, no soul whatsoever. They never recovered from it.

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krabizzwainch a day ago | parent | next [-]

I will always defend Andromeda as not being as bad as everyone said. I enjoy going back and playing it, and they were a few better writers away from having a really good game. I cared more about the Irish redhead copilot than about any one of the actual companions.

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swiftcoder a day ago | parent | next [-]

> I cared more about the Irish redhead copilot than about any one of the actual companions

This squares with Joker being a fan-favourite character in the main trilogy

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pepperoni_pizza a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, Andromeda has some cool ideas (the whole Remnant thing felt like a very classic Scifi mistery) but it was stuck in classing BioWare cliches with companions loyalty quests and romances, the main character being weird chosen one, the main plot was dumb and it was barely a Mass Effect because of the disconnect from the main universe and missing some of the favorite Mass Effect things (like the Geth).

It might have been successful if it weren't a Mass Effect. Or maybe not, who knows.

	▲	WorldMaker a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> missing some of the favorite Mass Effect things (like the Geth) Some of that is interestingly handled in the Andromeda novels and there were hints that even some of the cancelled DLC was going to reintroduce some of those elements, but EA diverted the DLC teams to Anthem instead.
	▲	keyringlight a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think a large part of the issue is that the sum total of ME trilogy is a hard act to follow, without aiming to sound hyperbolic it's a very bright light that outshines a lot. Anything trying to be a sequel has a difficult balancing act of being familiar versus being different and bringing new ideas in.

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ToucanLoucan a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I didn't say it was bad, I didn't think it was. The combat as I said was the most interesting iteration. I loved the gun play, I just didn't give a fuck about the characters. I found most of them either offputting or just meh.

I genuinely only remember Ryder and PeeBee by name.

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LaurensBER a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Mechanically it was solid but I just… didn’t care.

This is a great summary of the entire issue with the game.

I really tried to like it but it didn't inspire any enthusiasm. I didn't really care for the plot, the stakes seemed so low compared to the previous title and none of the races/planets really scratched that explore itch.

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WorldMaker a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I liked the fresh reset because it was good excuse to get back to the "Exploration" roots of Mass Effect 1.

That said, the rumor is the in development Mass Effect 5 had found a story way to bridge the gap between the two and make it seem a lot less like a hard reset and find a way to continue past the ME3 endings.

Of course we likely will never get to hear the ME5 story the way it was scrapped along with the studio in this announcement.

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asanineassasin a day ago | parent | prev [-]

They where by than "owing the don" as in there existence was company internally subsidized and you do not recover creative control from that. And those external management initiated "next shiny thing" chases kill you.