I tried to play Mass Effect Andromeda again... 

mr. krabs should've been the protagonist prove me wrong

6 Years. Fuck me. My mom used to say *"When you get older time flies. So make the most of it while you're young!"* She. Was NOT joking. Damn. Good video as always, Jay! here's to the next 6 years mate!

It's so sad that they never reused the first planet. It looked really cool.

Best combat in the series, some gorgeous locations and the premise was good imo. Story just lacked and the characters weren’t anywhere near as engaging as OG. The choices you made in the game had little impact unlike ME1, took a lot of the weight away.

I can imagine Ryder saying that to Liam. “I’m gonna replace you with the first alien I meet.” 😂

I call Andromeda a fun 6/10. It's a shame it wasn't what it could have been but it's still worth playing and there's plenty to enjoy

I actually wish that the other Ryder twin would have woken up earlier and been a squadmate. Someone you could customize to be whatever you needed.

I felt like a glorified electrician by the end of this game. All I did was fix some towers and squash some bugs within my workspace.

They really missed the boat on base building in this game, or at least establishing outposts that felt like real settlements. That first cutscene of everything landing on Eos was awesome. Would have loved more of those just to make it feel like you were actually expanding and developing your colonies.

I just love this "We only have one chance to be first" and the whole pathfinder thing in general where even the aliens have learned perfect British English by the time of your arrival.

This was my first ME game so I didn't have anything to base it on and I really enjoyed it.

I actually grew to like the game, although I did hate on it at launch because of the deadpan expressions and such, but being a massive Mass Effect fan, I fell back into the lore and all the exploration in a futuristic setting, which I love :) Great video as always Jayvee!

Gotta love how consistent Bioware is, the first companion is always the worst, we refer to them as "Carths", there's Canadian Carth, African American Carth, Latino Carth, British Carth, and of course Carth Carth.

The soundtrack and the sound design is criminally underrated, one of the really good - if not the best - among videogames.

It wasn't a bad game, but it wasn't good enough to be a Mass Effect. I really missed the 'pause ability' from the combat.

As a longtime ME player and fan, with over 3662 hours of MEA single-player play. And still with only 99% completion of the game. I am left with many storyline questions. Questions that BioWare should be willing to follow up on at some point. Such as 1: Why didn’t every Pathfinder get a scout ship? (Update, I found the answer to this in one of the books). I.e., Mass Effect Andromeda: Nexus Uprising Book 1 Mass Effect: Initiation Book 2 Mass Effect Andromeda: Annihilation Book 3 2: Who is this Benefactor, and where are they now? (Update, I have no definitive proof, but I know who this is and why they are not showing up in Andromeda.) 3: Who killed or ordered Jien Garson killed and why? (Update, I know who did this from the book). 4: Why didn’t the Krogan people get their own Pathfinder? 5: Why is the Tempest not at least armed with defensive weapons? 6: Does the Quarian Ark Keelah Si'yah ever overcome the pathogen onboard and regain control of their ark? UPDATE, I now know the answer to this one after finishing the book. But I will let the most dedicated fans find that answer as I did. (Spoiler alert), Cora Harper could never have become the Pathfinder when Alec Ryder died because to do so required that his replacement be one of his children for reasons that will be revealed when all the memory blocks are removed. That is why Sarah or Scott were the only options for this transfer. That is NOT the case with the other pathfinders. And finally, who ultimately becomes the leading member of the Initiative ruling body, replacing the current incompetent group? As well as other less essential story tracks left hanging with no way to pursue them. I love this and all the other ME games, but this one has always held my attention. And I am currently on my umpteenth playthrough. I am dedicated to reaching 100% completion of the game. P.S. for the channel owner and others that find several things about this game that they do not like. Try modding the game with Nexus Mods. I am running 30 mods with mine, and none are cheats. IMHO, modding is both fun and allows one to make the game more personal.

I played andromeda first so i can safely say i thought it was a solid game at the time when i had no bias. Didn't feel bored and enjoyed the conversations with the crew, story was a bit vanilla but fine, missions had variety etc. Then i played the legendary edition and understood why people hated ME:A. A lot of the reasons people have already said but i think the biggest as to why it was so good was the fact that it was 3 games, 3 different story lines, same characters and it all led up to a huge finally. By the time you get to the end of me3 you realise you genuinely have history with the characters. Ran missions with them, talked with them, risked life and limb with them over countless missions and 2 major storylines. its honestly unlike any other experience out there. Also, Garrus is a legend

I had a lot of fun with it and put a good amount of time into it. Combat I thought was excellent, story kinda spotty here and there but it still did hold my interest for quite a while. Enough to beat the game and I can't say that for a lot of games.

"She kind of looks like a dumb goldfish" fucking got me

I actually really enjoyed this game by the end of it and have played it multiple times.

I loved reviving each world! I had to try and 100% each one as much as possible. It was so satisfying to see a world come back to life!

Biotic Charge in this felt amazing. I don't care how jank the animation gets, I'll never get sick of biotic charging in midair.

Just up and purchased the digital copy for my PS5 because I couldn’t find the physical copy in my garage, solely based on this video. I forgot how fun the he intro mission was. Now I want to do it all over again.

I've got over 200 hours in this game without even doing any multiplayer. With all it's shortcomings, i still really enjoued my time with this game.

A lot of the issues I had was late game stuff. Having to jump back and forth between worlds for a single item, then hoping back out to another world for a side mission that takes you back to that world again. And then other worlds that either got little use, or to much.

These facial animations are really something special 💀

This video was so entertaining to watch! What I really dislike about Andromeda besides all the well-known issues is that EA had the audacity to not even fix what was possible over the years. They got so much deserved criticism and they just didn't care at all. Even the most memed cutscenes like with the reverse gun and the tired face still persist to this day. They simply took people's money and abandoned the game.

"I don't like the sound of that" Immediately pans to the mouse stuck on the screen

The multi-player is severely underrated on here. I had at least twice as many hours on multiplayer than single

4:23 man this is great. Died at goldfish. Subbed.

There are moments of this game that the graphics are breathtakingly gorgeous.

this was the game that introduced me to your channel back in 2017

I just played through Legendary Edition and then Andromeda, all for the first time (I know right ...). Finished only last month. I honestly really, really enjoyed all of it. They are ALL really good games.

23:05 i love it that they bothered to turn around a gun after thatt epic fail YET didnt bothered to add muzzles/barrels to their gun model

Looking back on it, it really wasnt all that bad. Compare it to the train wrecks that are coming out these days like Redfall, Forspoken and LOTR: Gollum and suddenly Andromeda was a polished masterpiece.

This was seriously the only game I ever bought, and returned after playing it for one day. Mind u, I bought it day 1 so it had a lot of problems before they started patching it. It was my first mass affect game. I was definitely dissapointed but after seeing so many other people being disappointed with this game as well and they were fans of the franchise, I went ahead and got the older games and played them and had fun

Mass Effect Andromeda was a fun experience, I really enjoyed the game 👏👏👏

Honestly, I'm not afraid to admit I enjoyed andromeda. It was an enjoyable experience.

I always loved the combat in this game. Actually been thinking of giving it another go just for that

Drack bustin through the wall like the Kool Aid man was one of my favorite scenes. I freaking love krogans istg. Lol

The thing that always saddens me the most is that the gameplay was actually good, but it wasn't good enough to fix the terrible story, characters, and glitches. I've been replaying the ME legendary edition and have been it makes me realize just how much I can't stand Andromeda.

At the time after some patches I enjoyed playing it, good open world 3rd person shooter

The thing that kills me is that the default Sara's facial animations are *way* worse than Scott's because the actress was smiling when they did the face capture. Scott has a more neutral expression. Anyways this was an enjoyable game. I played it when it first came out, had a good time with it. Started a second playthrough and then.....I never went back. My dad played it for the first time semi recently as did a friend of mine and I realized I remembered absolutely *nothing* about these games. It was a really staggering moment to realize because I can describe the OG trilogy easily and pick out all kinds of stand out moments. I think the biggest sin was that Andromeda was just okay (underneath all the bugs at launch). And that's just not the expectation people had of BioWare at the time.

This was my first jump into the mass effect world, I never really got into the whole sci fi setting until around the time this game came out and I loved the hell out of it despite the problems. Exploring space was super appealing to me and I loved every second, did new game plus 5 times I'm pretty sure, and God I loved the combat

I feel honored to have been one of the few people to play this and Cyberpunk at launch, WITHOUT GLITCHES!!! I truly feel bad for most of you who has glitches it didn’t play because of the bad press.

It was never as bad as everyone said. It does have some rather 'plastic' character animations and it's not up there with the trilogy, but it has a good deal to still enjoy. The soundtrack is also overshadowed by the trilogy, but I think it's terrific.

I never had the chance to play the OG trilogy as a kid so this was my first mass effect. I played it well after the launch, but I quite enjoyed it still. Definitely could've been better, but it could've been a lot worse. I am currently playing through the OG trilogy, both have some things better than the other and i whole-heartedly understand the critisms of Andromeda, that being said i still love it and still want to get all the collectibles and such.

these vacant eyes with that grin will never cease to make me laugh! I think you've described it perfectly, it's like a human goldfish finding everything interesting. edit: 23:03 oh wow, the gun is still backwards, they just added a muzzle to it! :D

The thing that gets to me about Andromeda is that it could have been fixed. I still enjoy it in 2023, but I'm not blind to its flaws. I just wish that more effort was put into fixing the problems rather than giving up at the first sign of failure.

Its bloody good. It melds the parts of ME1 with exploration and decisions with combat. Your crew now talks, moves around with greater frequency and there's a dark under layer to the optimism you need to explore to get. It was a great spinoff.

I had a great time with the game. I'm a bit more forgiving then others with the face issues but the story and gameplay was solid. This was my first choice based progress game. It was a great intro to that genre for me. Game got a bad rap but so did cyberpunk. May be time for a replay on PC this time.

Mass Effect is my favorite Game franchise ever, Andromeda i liked but not loved, when it came out i got like 90% achievement completion on Xbox and over the years i have been wanting to platinum it on PS, i already bought it (when on sale of course) but i always keep playing other things instead because of that feeling of "i could be playing something new", in the end, it is that sense of Discovery of a new galaxy that calls me back, i'm into that kind of thing, Interstellar is one of My favorite movies for example, maybe it's time to go to Andromeda one last time

How about this. Instead of his kids, you use ryders clone. Like horizon, they needed the pathfinders DNA to do stuff. Ur character needs ro decide if he's still Ryder reborn or a new person. Plus an idea I think should've been implemented is instead of profiles, ur character gets upgrades by infusing DNA from the other species, salarians and quarian make ur character smarter and boosts tech skills, asari for biotics, krogan and turian for assault. And the conversation for how ethical it is can be had. Sam is only a story mcguffin

it's a disaster and EA fired the dev team. there is absolutely no reason to play this. I have spent hundreds of hours playing the trilogy through several times and I spent 1 hour in Andromeda and it was such a buggy disaster I couldn't even get through the first level. That's not something I'm willing to waste my time on. why would anybody go back and try to make excuses for this game?

I've only played this game once, and I couldn't make myself play it again. I was so hyped and even got the collectors' edition. . .it just wasn't for me. The fighting and dashing everywhere was fun. I liked being able to build your own loadouts with the abilities you wanted.

I played the game some time after it came out and most of the issues were fixed by then. It wasn't bad, the combat and movement were good, the main story was decent but could have been so much better. The planet exploration with the vehicle were a bit of a hit and miss. I had a good time playing it, most of the time.

I got the game on a steam sale for like 5 euros and played through the entire story, still felt rob. Had none of the soul of the old games and even gameplay wise it needed a ton of mods to be bearable. Gorgeous graphics and great combat but in every other department it was a huge step back imo

everytime i hear female ryder say liam all i hear is 2005 ashley screaming leon everytime a ganado snatches her

What killed Andromeda for me was the fact that I played it right after finishing the original trilogy for the first time. Let’s just say that after the epic saga I had just been through, starting a whole new story with characters I knew or cared nothing about was really underwhelming

My face is tired is funny, but the fact she's wrong about her grammar correction was always funnier.

Hey Jayvee! This game does have some really fun combat, switching playstyles up is fun, but it just doesn’t compete with the original trilogy where it counts, characters. It isn’t terrible though. Have you played Control? I restarted that recently and it is excellent. It reminds me of Kubrick and SCP had a baby with infamous

Oh Andromeda....This has so many problems just about everywhere.

still better than starfield. you dont need lots of planets to have a good game.

I recently started a new game of Andromeda, and it finally clicked for me. I really think people are too unfair with it. The characters grew on me mostly, Cora and Liam were Jacob-like boring, but not particularly bad. Vetra, Peebee, Jaal, and Drack were all fun and likeable imo, and I really appreciated how much dynamic companion dialogue there was. It really felt any two party member combinations always had plenty of dialogue with each other on all planets, and it really made me like them more. I think it's a pretty good game even though it drops the ball in a few areas.

Combat was so fun!

"… but… yeah… we're really gonna need to find a bathroom." And I nearly died.

listen if you compare this game to anthem it’s really not that bad 😂

The game has actually improved a lot with the new patches - the expressions are better, the characters are much good looking, there is a new limitless galaxy to explore and the combat is awesome. But if you easily get bored by long exposition dumps, cheesy dialogue, and dry, deadpan humor + need every dialogue choice to evoke an emotional reaction from you - then definitely this is not the game for you. The biggest issue is Ryder's personality and the choices having nearly zero impact on the story. I believe most people were disappointed with the story and dialogue because like the original trilogy they believed by pursuing only one morality like paragon/renegade would give them super emotionally engaging scenes as they did with Shepard which would also drastically alter the story and the endgame. The problem is - Andromeda takes no such risks, you could be the worst Pathfinder yet the story would play out exactly the same save for one character's death in the ending. Ignore all the sidequests, make the worst decisions possible, be the most reluctant, lazy & incompetent explorer ever, be an a$$ to your squadmates, gaslight and shift the blame on the top brass - no problem!! All you get at the most is a scolding from some character - there are no world-altering implications save for some questlines being blocked in the Krogan ark, squadmates do not leave your ship and the bad guy never wins because of your incompetence. So, to make Ryder engaging it's up to the player to make them practical, decisive and show leadership skills when needed & to empathise + react emotionally when building relationships. Here the issue is that making Ryder emotional when they need to show leadership makes them an absolute, boring, indecisive downer & making them practical when they are supposed to open up about their feelings make them a slow, socially incompetent robot who behaves like a potential serial killer. Oh god, and the flirting is so horribly written and voice-acted. Shepard could be a bro ( paragon ) or an a$$ ( renegade ) depending on the choice - yet their alpha personality was a constant that made them engaging - they always have a plan, is headstrong and is a natural leader + they earned their place & were a smooth flirt. Characters were in awe of them and were naturally drawn to them. Compared to Shepard - Ryder is an omega - follows protocol to a t, is led around by those around them + SAM, reacts to events without a plan, was given authority as a handmedown. The only impactful decisive action they take is using the scourge against the kett which unlocks only after completing a long sidequest - which requires patience.

Those spaceships are enormous, I got tired of running around in dumb quests and never finished the game

Love this one too. Played it three times. Always took me 80 to 90 hours.

I would have loved a co-op mode - the chance to play the story through with a friend would have been awesome. Loved it - still my fav of the series - the controls were the best, combat was great. A lot more intuitive than the previous versions. Yeah you can argue faces and expressions - but it's the story the wraps you around it's little finger, and the humour - listening to the conversation between PeeBee and Drak or Cora and Drak for example while hooning about in the Nomad.... Still makes me smile. It would have been nice if the romance side of things had been expanded on - you romance someone, there's a peak, and then, nothing. It's like, hey, didn't we have a thing goin on here? Now you act like you don't know me anymore? Hows about a cuddle, a nice compliment? A bit of whaddaya fancy this evening? The only one that does more than a flash in the pan is PeeBee, and even that's fairly limited. It's kinda like they threw that whole aspect in as an afterthought. But would serve to round the whole story out, flesh things out as it were. After all, there's more to just flying around shooting aliens. How about building a home/base somewhere, something more personal? Where you can stash stuff, display your trophies, breed offspring etc. Ok, I digress - all in all - I loved it, inspite of all its flaws, can't wait to see what they have in store for us in ME5 - the stories in the series up until this point have all had the knack of getting under your skin - but all left you wanting more, and leaving many questions unanswered.

I’m playing it , and honestly I’m having fun ! Great graphics..and really nice alien locations ( diversity ) who likes sci-fi..it’s a easy go ! many planets to visit with missions…cool 😊

Jay try not to play a bad game challenge.... (IMPOSSIBLE DIFFICULTY)

I was genuinely impressed with Sarah’s initial face reveal, soo much better

This game is criminally underrated, I love this game sm

Thanks for this video. Clearly the game was never really "fixed" to meet its ambitions. Now I know I don't want to waste the $4.74 for this one on steam right now even though it's on sale.

3/10 for me it was just to booring

Thank you for playing this again. I was considering another try at it then I watched this.

Another game that does not deserve the hate it gets

I basically stopped on the desert planet, because one of the generators would not turn off, and I just quit where I was.

This video started, "It's been..." and my mind immediately went "...one week since you looked at me!"

3:46 "Not gonna talk to any of you coz I know some of you gonna die" - omg that was so funny

The combat was good with a big asterisk of them not programming the AI to deal with you at all if you engaged at long range in the open. I immediately saved up for the best sniper rifle and if you just parked out on a hill, those outposts would really be janky when you'd snipe everybody out of them. Enemies would spawn T-posed, then the ones that could move would just bounce back and forth between two pieces of cover, etc. I felt smart at first because it made all of the open world combat super easy, but that just made the best part of the game (combat) tedious, which wasn't my intended result.

23:05 I like how they “fixed” PeeBees gun, now instead of fully backward it’s now half backwards 😂

The only pathfinding ME4 did was pathfind unfinished games, nasty corporate practices and overall deterioration of the gaming industry.

It's really coming to something when "male and female" are the most shocking thing I remember a game having from 6 years ago, and not "body type A and B"

One thing I do love about this game is the space cinimatics sences and the sound track

The combat in this games was really fun, some of the moments can be really good and have the same quality of ME Trilogy and the characters works enough. We can't deny the fact that even ME Trilogy have "Meh" characters and some of them were just annoying. But the biggest problem with ME Andromeda for me is wanted to make situations just to deliver a joke, if we think about it the first moment of real frustration, sad and anger for the characters and us as a player is when we realize the Kett are turning everyone in the Andromeda Galaxy into Kett Soldiers. Also we can agree on the fact that the game miss a opportunity to let us play as another alien race, if everyone have his own Pathfinder why close that chance. This game have potential, but EA with the dumb politics and BioWare was really a mess in the production.

Fuckin first contact for the new species was like "oh I guess there's aliens" instead of the world shattering reality it should have been.

Im sad that well never get to find out what happened to the rest of the Arks 😥 i was actually really invested in that plot point

I really liked Andromeda once I got my mind away from the original trilogy and figured out the gameplay. I actually like Andromeda's fighting style better. You can literally customize your fighting however you want. This was the initiative that Liara sent out to save the races from the Reaper invasion. Their travels in Andromeda made for a really good story. Yes it was incomplete in places. Like the creators once again got tired of working on a masterpiece and released it for what they could get out of it finished or not. That was not the games fault they left the storyline hanging in many places. I played this through twice. After figuring out how to play it, I went back through to enjoy the storyline.

Yeah buddy ! The only thing I hate about this game is the camera angle. It's like on top and over the right shoulder kind of .. like god of war.

7:30 I feel like this is how a young person who isn’t a grizzled veteran would talk. It’s just we are used to Shepard which, is frankly more interesting to see.

This is one of those games that does a lot of things right and a LOT of things wrong (there's not much room for middle ground). I lean toward the latter, but it still does things that I think are really cool for the series.

seeing the size of the Tempest i now understand what Galadriel had in mind when saying "I have a Tempest in me" ... not a stick... but a big interstellar fregate... no wonder she was so stiff all the time... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I tried to re-play it before Legendary Edition came out and just couldn't get through more than a few hours. The story seemed so boring and the world completely uninteresting. The combat was decent, but I preferred ME3's. There are so many worlds to explore in the Milky Way (by ME1 something like 1% of star systems are discovered), I don't know why they decided to set a game in another galaxy that's completely disconnected from all the amazing world-building they did in the trilogy - just baffling.

Being called a Pathfinder is about the worst downgrade ever. Going from being Commander Shepard , savior of the galaxy , first human specter. Over to being a friggin Pathfinder. I want my Normandy back.

I started playing it but the problem with me was I fell asleep when I got to the 2nd planet forgot the name. Graphics were beautiful though.

the community should stick together and keep the game in rotation. Played a little but im about to start asap!

Bioware were shoehorned into using Frostbite engine for this game. That's a large part of the game's appearance issues/facial issues. But that doesn't excuse the overwhelming cheese. THAT is what was such an abomination.