GAME SINS | Everything Wrong With Mass Effect: Andromeda 

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The text-to-speech part was the best thing lol

the Text-to-speech bit was fucking gold

You know you fucked your game so bad when Text-to-speech software did better than actual in-game voice

Andromeda's biggest sin...nightclubs with no Asari strippers. Shame on you Bioware.

This game actually sounds BETTER in text to speech.

Achievement: My Face Is Tired

Do not insult Garrus by saying Vetra is the same person.

Kill... me... now...

Okay, KOTOR, I get. But the original Mass Effect? Wasn't Shepard experienced enough to be considered a Spectre? I don't get how he was a new guy who was being trained by someone more experienced than him, but dies. That didn't happen in ME1. :/

He was right about the rule34 lmfao. Ryder nor any of the Andromeda companions has much of any rule34 art. Kaidan Alenko who a lot of people thought was boring in the original trilogy has more rule34 content than all of the Andromeda characters combined. Shows you how much no one liked them haha.

In answer to your question TVtropes calls the moment when someone says something that causes the protagonist to suddenly figure things out "The Eureka Moment".

Lol I love the "It takes years of skill and training to become a Pathfinder" "Pathfinder" was a last minute made up rank for the initiative, she says as if that was an already stablished and important role like a Spectre or N7.

The vaults in this game remind me of the vaults from borderlands. The vault's activation in borderlands caused a change to Pandora by triggering Irridium growth, both have ancient alien tech that is user friendly based on what power you have to manipulate it, and both create a narrative about some vilian who wants to harvest that vault's power for their own goals.

Another sin: I payed to play this

sin #41 the text to speech delivery had more life to it than the actual voice acting

Here's one for Mass Effect fans. Remember this line? "LEMME OUT! LETMEOUTLETMEOUTLETMEOUT!" *rams into wall, snaps neck* Am I missing something, or was that nameless Salarian character leagues better than the entire cast of Andromeda? It's cool if you want to argue that, but think about it first. No awkward lines, completely fitting with what was happening, real EMOTION that made you BELIEVE in their predicament... and their deployment? Absolutely superb. Your heart skipped a beat. You asked yourself what the heck you'd just encountered. You got nervous about it. You felt it, and for those reasons, I say that just that moment alone had more power in it than anything I encountered in the entire time I spent playing mass effect andromeda. And that guy wasn't even a character you met twice. He was literally there for forty, seconds, if that.

Lmao using text as speech instead!!! OMG dead 6:55

This whole game is a meme.

Oh man the text to speech thing almost killed me. Thank you.

Peebee is to Andromeda, what Jar Jar binks was to star wars. A real showcase of much the franchise has fallen.

"I think it's safe to say this is one mass effect game that won't be seeing much rule 34 porn" such a thing doesn't exist.

This wasnt supposed to be a horror game i was scared shitless when i saw the faces

GAME SINS | Everything Wrong With Mass Effect: Andromeda Sin#1 - This game

22:57 to be fair, the Archon didn't inject Ryder with anything, he pulled out a blood sample. Archon was messing with SAM Node in the Nexus which messed with the connection that Ryder had.

5:44 sin 35... untrained? Serious? Shepard in ME is already a hardened war veteran on a mission accompanied by a citadel spectre and being assessed as the first human spectre... what is there about untrained? And KOTOR? You actualy play Revan... when it comes down to "rookies taking over" it is actualy more of a Bethesda thing with TES and Fallout...

How they talk about omnigel a lot but dont use it, why not plug the helmet with omnigel, you wont be able to see or fight but all you need is a literal seal for a few minutes. Also dont omnitools dispense omni gel.

24:00 I call it the "House moment". Seems fitting.

When Text-to-Speech has more emotion than all the voice actors combined

My god, the writer of this game has ZERO knowledge in Sci-Fi and storytelling

To be pedantic, they didn't travel at an average 3943 times faster than light, I have no idea where you got that from. Distance to andromeda is 2.537 million light years 2.537x10^6 x 3x10^8 x365.2425x24x60x60 (convert into metres) Which is 2.4018x10^20 m It took them 634 years 634x365.2425x24x60x60 Which is 2.0007x10^10 seconds Speed is distance over time This gives an average velocity of 1.2x10^10m/s which is only 40x the speed of light. If they travelled 3,943 times faster they would've travelled an extra magnitude of 100m (x100m not +100m) past andromeda Yes I can be fun at parties sometimes

the Alien at 12:20 saying "Kill Me" was far too funny.

The malicious part of me wants to point out the Wicher 3 had excellent audio _in multiple languages._ ME:A manages to screw up English spectacularly.

14:21 This is actually adressed in the game. The angara inhabit different planets. If I remember correctly, the Australian sounding ones are from Voeld, the South Africans from Havarl and the English from Aya.

Some of the SINS could of been explained using theoretical science. But I can't stop laughing. You pointed out a lot of relevant flaws with the story and scenes that needed to be fixed. But when you're forced to put something together in 18 months after WASTING 3 1/2 years coming up with system that never worked. This is what you get. They really squandered and fucked Mass Effect up. BioWare only has itself to blame for this disaster.

You haven't even scratched the surface.

You think Commander Shepard had insufficient training? Please

Wow Mass Effect does have the plot of KOTOR, but without the religious stuff and laser swords. Also I just remembered that the player in KOTOR is a padawan, and so is Bastila. So the Jedi counsel were sending 2 inexperienced padawans to save the galaxy

Hey, let's go to a whole new galaxy in a virtually defenseless state and hope for the best! What could go wrong? LOL!!!!

Metal Gear Rising. It's easier to understand and it does get stupid...for the right reasons.

Achievement : No Man's Effect Andromeda

Question. WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING WITH RYDER FACE? She look more alien than human with that expressions.

I agree with the "why is the same species of animal found on different planets" question, but haveing watched the whole game as an LP i know now that it actually underlines a certain plotpoint of the game without outright mentioning it.

*37th Sin, the Nexus being incomplete* THANK YOU!! I've always been so fucking pissed about that! I once heard someone argue "Well we took ships apart to build homes when we colonized places like America!" And I said how they're going to an entirely new galaxy, where will they get the resources to build another half of a Citadel like station? The arks are tiny in comparison! They never gave me an answer, and neither did this game!

8:30 my God I screamed because of laughter, when you joke about botox swarm, good job!

The developers definitely favored certain romance options. Male Ryder and Cora as well as female Ryder and Jaal had full nudity but Vetra gears a fade to black! Also when the hell are we getting a Krogan romance?!

I'm probably very late on the train to say it, but there's a notable difference in your voice between the earlier sin videos and latest videos which I'm honestly enjoying. It's like they're slowly evolving, transitioning to a lower, more deadpan tone, and it just feels really cool.

I'm aware that this was a different team, but there was a time when bioware completely blew my mind with their dragon age lore. It's so inspired and suprisingly rich. I just can't believe they can sink this low in terms of writing

Why does she always look so happy in every fucking scene? "My dad is dead?!" *smiling*

I cant stop laughing to Ryder´s Derp Face 🤣🤣🤣

Can we also have a sin for the Krogan not sounding like a Krogan at all? More like a posh British private school student.

Extra sin: How unprofessional everyone is. It makes me want to commit patricide...oh never mind.

This whole entire video should become a try not to laugh challenge by just how funny he executes his commentary. I was laughing the whole time.

I like the Kett, they're like discount collectors.

a fire world, a water world and an ice world confirmed, Mass Effect is now a Mario Game

Even though a ton of sins were missing, I think I enjoyed watching this more than I did actually playing the game. For me the most glaring sin is that they they arrived to Heleus to see planets that were supposedly uninhabitable, yet they had already exiled people from the initiative...who then went and inhabited planets. Makes no fucking sense whatsoever.

I can't stand how everyone in Andromeda is so incompetent. You'd think for such an endeavor they would have hired people who won't turn into space pirates and start fighting each other within the first 6 months of arriving to a new galaxy

I am glad the devs did adjust the facial animations a bit and made the eyes not look like they were made of clay, though they're still super jankey.

Mass Effect Andromeda. The first Bioware game I completed once and have no intention of replaying again, ever (aside from MP which is fun with friends but even that is getting to be a grind already, ME3 MP was far more fun IMO) . Even ME3, DA2 and DA:I, with their flaws, I completed 3 times each. Multiple BW games I replayed a ridiculous number of times. Jade Empire about a half dozen times. KOTOR and DA:O at least the same. ME2 I played about a dozen times and I played ME1 over a dozen times.

10:19 That's the expression of someone who crapped herself. But since Ryder is a strong independent woman, she can suck it up. Then she sucks it back up.

This got me laughing quite a bit. Thanks for making my night a little better. I do wish there were a few post-finale skits and jokes like at the end of Cinema-Sins! Keep up the good work regardless!

8:43 - *King Stannis would be proud.*

no. 15 gets explained in an optional conversation and tells they used Geth technology to get information on 'Golden' Worlds that is actually 600 years old, and not 2,5 million.

The dialogue looks horrible and so does the protagonist. Roses are red Violets are blue We came for hope But got only poo

Dyson Sphere is built AROUND a sun in sci-fi typically

sin 30 - actually, it is also toxic, and is a serious issue even when the P.C. puts a small crack in their visor. trying to switch the helmet back and forth would likely end up getting both killed, and even with the helmet, the few breaths taken still knocked the player character unconscious. 36 - i will hold that the original trilogy was not someone with inadequate training. if my understanding of the universe was valid, being an N7 is being among the best of the elite. and being tapped as a spectre on top of that shows even among elites, shep was a cut above. i am surprised you didn't mention dragon age origins though. 57, ok yea that bugged me a bit until they patched it, but i wish the cross-system travel was skippable. dunno about anyone else, i actually had one human with my through the entirety of the game - cora. 64 i agree - MAYBE once or twice. 3 times a planet, occasionally allowing one to slip through? i came up with a way to blow through them without the bypasses, but it still doesn't make me dislike it any less. 70, i didn't know that scene existed, but Kallo's reaction was funny as hell. 76, this is a slight stretch, but it is possible there were scans of Ryder jr. in the area available, and they linked the two. a stretch, but still possible, assuming comperable tech. that, or he also went to eos and found a scan of the player character. 79 i blame SAM, though it doesn't explain how non-pathfinder crews would understand them, unless a VI is embedded in everyone's physiology or the omni-tool can do that. which i seriously doubt. 128 the game mentions early that SAM basically rewired parts of ryders mind. though that should probably not transcend the gap between biology and technology, i pretty much said "fk it" 131 i will straight up call out "the scourge has never once moved to follow a ship" - clearly didn't pay attention at the start of the game, where the scourge is clearly moving to intercept the Hyperion. it also moves when the tempest semi-crashlands onto aya. some i agree with to this point, others i see where you come from, this one, no. 138 i will give you though, i was disappointed there wasn't some sort of saren-style boss battle(though dear god if they did that DO NOT MODEL IT AFTER THAT FIGHT! bouncy bastard...). maybe the devs thought the brawl to get there was good enough, and that was a neat fight with the conduit, but i still wanted to end Archon Gears of War style. overall i thought the game was decent, though i usually look more at the gameplay over the animations etc. my major issue with it is actually not inherent to the game - my hard drive is damaged, and when the game taxes it a little too much, and this is fairly often, my framerate will DROP. sometimes in sets of 20-30 seconds looking at the same frame. from a gameplay side, i really liked the research aspect, they really wove the science scanner into the game, though because of how i build, i have milky way points coming out of my everywhere, and even more helius points. the only thing im short at all on is remnant points, and thats because i decided at level 30 or so i wanted to follow a different weapon to allow my weapon mods to come through. because i cant carry 2 of the same level of sniper barrel. though i would guess if the shotgun i went after wasn't one of the ones you can just always craft, i might be a little more strapped for R.P. What should have been a sin in my mind - you cannot carry more than one of any gun mod, even if you attempt to buy them from a vendor. i modded out my black widow with a Barrel V at level 30, and tried to do the same to my Inferno sniper. i could not use the barrel V i had just bought on kadara.

The entire point of a Dyson sphere is that you put one around a star, to allow the collection/use of 100% if its emitted energy.

This is my favorite episode of Game Sins, if only for what MEA does to my favorite gaming franchise. EA, why?

Regarding 36: Alec Ryder (your in-game dad) pushed the initiative to set off with an unfinished Nexus because he knew the Reapers were coming. You gain this knowledge as a part of the family secrets-quest.

12:01 Oh come on... *Even Oblivion was fantastic compared to this shithive.*

I actually think it made perfect sense to go colonize the Andromeda galaxy because it is the galaxy closest to the Milky way and also the drive cores in the ark are far more advanced than what was used in say any of the ships we saw in the other mass Effect games which hints that your information might be just as antiquated plus as you progress through the game you learn that the reason you went to colonize Andromeda was because of the Reaper Invasion the entire mission took off while Shepard was dealing with the collectors as a contingency plan so that if on the off chance Shepard failed all of the races would not die at the hands of the reapers. plus for anyone who read the books that came before this game came out you would learn that one of the jobs of the pathfinder was that in the event of Shepard succeeding in beating the Reapers the Pathfinder would have to find a way to reconnect with the Milky way and build a way for more people to come to the Andromeda galaxy and for people who wanted to visit the place they all came from easier than what the Arks had to endure.

10:25 Did...did her arm just clip into Ryder's shoulder?

Funny enough, the fact that in this plotline humans figure out to activate remnant technology minutes after discovering it..., which is the classic 'white savior trope', shows clearly that it is not a "white" savior trope, but as I commented in a previous video, a main group trope. Whatever the group of identification is will be the savior in the plot.

The voice acting seems SO cheap budget in this game.. Like seriously? Check the Persona 5's voice acting, it's like diamond vs shit...

the saying is that you cannot *always* judge a book by it's cover, with the implication being that usually you can.

well I'm going to play mass effect 2 again

I agree with most of the points in the video but just had one correction. The scourge isn't precisely what damaged the golden worlds - it's attracted to remnant tech, which just happens to be what the terraforming vaults on each of those worlds are made of. So when it reached and damaged each vault, the vault itself is what determined what damage occurred on each world (e.g. going crazy with heat, radiation, cold, plant life etc.) This is why the same scourge can have such different effects on each planet. The scourge being attracted to remnant tech also explains Ryder's strategy near the end, of flying remnant ships (which tow the scourge behind them) straight through the Archon's fleet, decimating it without the Initiative needing to have a fleet of their own.

This game is comedy in its purest form xD Thanks for the round up, laughed a lot !

Basically Bioware accepted a challenge from Hello Games no man's sky "no one can mess up as bad as we did." bioware "hold my beer"

Wow this game is awful...

Here’s a trick about Sara Ryder, don’t use the default look, make your own. Even if you play the default Scott with default Alec switched on, just customize Sara. Was I the only one who did that? Cora & Suvi are hot. Peebee is the best looking Asari in Andromeda (still has nothing on Liara & Samara). Seriously any person that puts gameplay above story should love it, you can space boost (vanguard) whilst you cloak (infiltrator).

Nier: Automata please I need to see this

Nice vid, but the reason ARKs were built to travel to andromeda was because of Reapers. Reapers will spent a lot of time to scrouge through Milky Way so they can't hide in Milky Way and so Andromeda was safer option. If I remember correctly than FTL drive pretty much speeds up until you reach half way point where you turn around and start slow down which could explain such an amount of time to reach the outer ring of Andromeda. When it comes to understanding the planets in Heleus cluster from Milky Way, it was explained that they used Geth tech that used Relays as telescope and so they could perceive planets in real time. It was in the game.

Your text-to-speech re-enactments are disturbing, specifically in how accurate they are to the line delivery. Not only is the script of this game awful, the actors reading the lines seem to be just as bad. What the hell happened there? What was the money spent on if not on writing, animation or voice acting? Because damn near everything else is trash in pretty much all BioWare games.

Im sad because i never experienced any of the wierd facial glitches :(

NANOMACHINES SON

@4:35 How low could oxygen levels have really been, considering there were raging fires all over the place in the beginning?

the text to speech sections are sad rather than funny... just like the writing in this game... and the game in general... and what Bioware has become...

Your use of sarcasm, is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

I have no objections. Wich is sad because ME:A could have been so great. That´s what you get for not letting the original writers do the plot and for rushing the project.

I agree with everything, this game was a joke but that one bit with sharing masks, can they do that if she passed out?

saved so much money by not buying this, it was worth it

Alec Ryder wouldn't have even needed to swap helmets. As a veteran special forces operator, holding his breath for three minutes would be easy.

I vote Metal Gear. That would be fucking hilarious if you did it.

I got the 100% viability achievement for every planet and a notification mentioning Meridian from SAM despite not even landing on Meridian yet

Hey! "Kill me now" is one of the best scenes :). Ok, says much about the game...

- The Scourge was partially explained: it was a galaxy-wide energy...thing placed by whatever was fighting the Jardaan in order to fuck with and destroy Jaardan worlds. Liam compares the Scourge to a landmine, i.e., something designed to do tons of damage even after a war. The exact mechanism wasn't described but that matters less. - Different Angaran accents were explained by Jaal. Angara come from different planets and different regions of planets. You'd expect something growing up on a different planet to have a variation of the language. Look at British vs. American English. Hell, look at a Boston vs. a Bronx accent. If we hand-wave a bit, the translators were rendering different accents in English to reflect phonemic differences in Angaran accents. - A good portion of all NPCs from all races have non-American English accents. That Lexi has one isn't surprising when other Asari and more than half of the humans do as well. Odd choice by Bioware but it's consistent.

(ENDING SPOILERS, just a warning if you're watching this and for some reason aren't expecting spoilers and just came to read comments) You can't even affect the ending at all! You can NOT fail the final mission because you didn't do enough loyalty missions and you were a downright asshole to everyone you meet. I have tried it myself, i did one play through on normal and did a good 3/4 of the loyalty missions and got the same exact ending as when i did no loyalty missions at all aside from one. I didn't help Sloane, i didn't colonise any other planets aside from Eos and basically ran through the game and none of the characters died and all of the same people came to aid in the end. Even if you say kill Sloane and keep Reyes alive i imagine it would also be the same as if she were alive just with different voice lines. It's like very very slight differences in endings with a new paint job. Another example is Vetra and her little sister who upon not doing any of their quests at all had the EXACT word for word ending as the previous time when i completed their missions. Wtf? This is not an RPG Bioware, this is you pretending to be playing an RPG when you're really being hand held all the way through. They stripped away what made Mass Effect so interesting in the first place and turned it into another Dragon Age inquisition. Come on Bioware, wtf is this?

Universal translators only work if the device already has the entire language deciphered. It doesn't decipher unknown languages in real-time 😂

The entire game is wrong