Was Mass Effect Andromeda really that bad? I've been thinking of playing it

You say it like MC of Inquisition is not pathetic

It's got god tier combat and game play with a terrible story and trash characters. Fitting that giant worm was cool as fuck, it's so much more ambitious than the previous MEs in terms of combat

Yea it's pretty damn great. Massive improvement from older games when it comes to combat. I hope they make new game soon. Maybe in other galaxy

heavy rumors of mass effect 1-3 remake

Yes it's bad. But it's not that hard to pirate nowadays, so if you have time go for it.

At least Inq gets occasional show of authority. Ryder remains a wimp for start to end.

but sara is cute and humble character

is the vanilla pc port of mass effect 1 playable?

Sara is a special needs kid given too much responsiblity

Yes. There's an unfixed memory leak problem so you might want to save often and turn the game off every two hours or so.

thanks for the info

yeah, it's fucking awful.

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Haven't play it nor I plan to do so.

While it's not the buggy, barely animated, and obviously unfinished/untested MESS it was at launch, you can't fix the shitty story, annoying companions, bad writing, bad setpieces and creatively sterile universe.

It's shit. It doesn't feel like Mass Effect at all.

Yes, the steam version is stable and playable. The gameplay didn't age well however, you'll be stuck with a dozen (or more) guns and armor in your inventory, with no clear view of the differences, dealing with the same variation of enemies in more or less the same variation of dungeons start to finish. Biotic abilities are ridiculously overpowered.
The graphics were bad for their time and obviously didn't go better.

But it's still arguably the best ME story with an excellent world-building that you'll rarely see today. Too bad the tie-in novels can't capitalise on that.

"muh unrealistic beauty standards"

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>arguably the best ME story
How is it arguable? ME2 barely has a story, and ME3 is an abomination because of the ending. ME wins by default, competition didn't show up.

No, it's not. The game was clearly rushed. You can tell by how unpolished the animations were. I had to turn off the game when I saw my character running up and down stairs like he had a turd hanging out his ass and he didn't want it to touch his legs.
Also none of the characters were interesting. They all felt like self inserts of different staff members.
Also the big allure of the game was that you were supposed to be going to a whole new Galaxy. And they didn't do anything with that. They put no imagination with shit like changing the laws of physics. it was basically just another alien world.

I've finished the game with mods, and it was good.
And honestly, just because something is not perfect doesn't mean its shit. This game won't change the world when you play it. Neither positive, nor negative. Play it only if you like exploring because you have to travel a lot. And also have a strong videocard with minimum 4gb videomemory. If you want more fps not just 30-40.

I've played it for a few hours, gameplay was good and I was willing to give bad animations a pass, but when I've reached the point where it gets open I've met a salarian NPC on the ship or something, the dialogue was so mind-numbingly bland that it snapped me out of it and I couldn't look at this game any longer.

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Mmm, I guess that's true. Come to think of it, ME2 does NOT have a real story, but I guess the competition is between the world building we see in ME1 and ME2 (+ DLCs).

I think they put a lot of work in making their world feel alive, grounded, and interesting in ME2, in a way that is absent in the first one. ME gave us the rough outline and the presentation of the big players, while ME2 polished that world and went into the details.

unpopular opinion, the choice of a doomsday+chosen one plot was a bad idea from the start and it is fully responsible for the weak points of the OT. While you can't see it in ME, in 2 it's the reason why the main story feels so linear, unsurprising, and bland compared to the companion questlines, and in 3 it's the reason why we have this unsatisfying and Deus Ex Machina ending. I can't think of a way to conclude the ME trilogy that would work well.

I don't think so. Mass Effect was always more or less grounded and tried to be something else than magic in space. I think a better path for a new title would have been to explore the galaxy before the reaper wars, see the politics and capitalise on that huge world they created.

Seriously, I've read a Starcraft-Mass Effect crossover fanfiction that took a better advantage of that than Andromeda or the official novels did.

I played it. It's not BAD, but it is bad. It's dumbed down, shoehorned with gay shit and it's really dull, which is made even more apparent with how large and relatively open the world is, in the game.
It had potential, but it chose to be gay instead of bold.

Yes, it really was. The only good thing about it was the combat but that becomes a slog too when the novelty wears off.
I forced myself to finish it just so I could say with confidence that it does not get better.

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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because I felt like the combat was a huge step back. Everything was even more bullet spongey and though we got wide open areas and jetpacks and shit, the combat lost all of its tactical nature. It basically becomes an arpg or a looter-shooter

It's bad. I'm a big sci-fi nerd and could name dozens of books first Mass Effect game took the ideas from and I regret playing Andromeda. It was an empty shell of the game with retconning, ugly characters, shitty dialog, literally ZERO white men in the position of power in the entire game and awful repetetive story.

>my face hurts: the game

Have you read the tie-in novels? What did you think of them?

No, I've read Karpishin's Revan and didn't like it.