Mass Effect Andromeda Preview - Worthabuy? 

that comes with the day one DLC only 19.99€

The Day One Patch DLC required to play the game.

M Bison 10 hours in. Still no X-ray vision. Theres a scanner that lets you see mechanism in the wall, thats it

MrCurbinator sure no X-ray vision but when you point your gun in the general direction of an enemy you get a ui that tells you exactly where he is and how much health he has left. Personally I feel that's may as well be the same thing.

Ben Neumann that's been the way in every mass effect. Maybe its a little more in your face since its right over their head vs top of the screen. Btw I found X-ray mode. When there's 3 guys left in a multiplayer wave they highlight them so you can get rid of them quickly and get to the next round

RichieW: There is also a Racist SJW working on this game.

That's not true btw

yes, it is true. Her name is Sam Maggs.

RichieW Apparently she is involved? Kind of shocking.

Says shes an assistant writer. Far from "main."

I see someone watches Pretty Good Gaming.

You forgot the best one "My face is tired."

Cryptotic wow did they took acting advice from Barry Burton

Cryptotic Way to steal other people's jokes....lol

Andy Clifft Hi Andy 👋

Marmite Hawk - Fair enough, if you want to just quickly scan planets and pick up resources there should be an option for that, like auto-rectify battles in Total War games. I want to actually go down to the planet, find the objective and do something to claim the reward. The fact they just abandoned the planet exloration annoyed me, even though I get the argument that a lot of people complained and it was changed. It could be done better Imo.

Andy - Yeah it was just a big letdown for me. I was going into systems and not interacting with anything in any real way. There could have been a compromise, e.g - Scan the planet, find a resource, beacon etc - land, explore a little, find the resource, a little combat sometimes (some native monster attacks or mercs are going for the same beacon), defeat them, drive back to ship, take off.....say, 15/20 mins per planet or an option to just resolve if you're like the other guy ^^^

The exploration from 1 done better woulda been wonderful. The vistas from ME1 were fuckin incredible, the freedom was great, but it was under developed and would get repetitive quick, even the bases where you had some mission had the same layout. You just needed to improve upon it, make it diverse and with several points of interest, and why not, tweak the makos driving. Otherwise, removing it for shitty scanning didn't do anything good for the game.

Trinotik25 - Agree 100%

Kevin Wilson You know what they kept the annoying scan planets mechanic and got rid of squad mate customization, and the paragon system. The lead character you play with also is boring and the squad mates couldn't be more cliche. They could have just reskinned ME3 in a new universe and taken my money.

The idiot complains there's cover shooting mechanics in a cover shooter.

It all went into the thousands of inconsequential dialogue lines!

Nah, it went all into that one actors mouth from the series Game of thrones.

Two actually :)

You cant just blame the actors completely here. blame the crappie writing.

It all went on marketing and paying IGN for hype.

Yeah 2 was pretty good as well. More centralized than 1 sadly not a lot of exploring planets and stations.. Then came 3 and ME became an onrails shooter.

Robert King mass 2 my favourite one and I love first one. I did like third one but 1,2 were the best. Andromeda is another story I better wait when this game will be on sale game don't look promising to me

Robert King Yeah, 3 was meh though. 2 is free on origin btw

so was the first. Had the most satisfying ending i've seen.

i really got to associate with the characters and it was brilliantly written and loved the law and shepherd

HAHA! I was looking for this comment!

Jean Luc I would certainly rather have them developing mass effect than whatever Bioware has become.

Who knows what will they do after CP2077 ? They made fantasy game based on Sapkowski books so maybe they can make a sci-fi game based on Lem books ?

I played TW3 for 30 min. It was boring as fuck. So I think they would make a bad game.

Stick to call of duty then open world RPGs arent your thing

Jean Luc CDP is a crap studio that makes crap games

21st or 23rd depending on where you live. It's gonna be a black day...with 9/10 review scores *sigh*

the voice acting was so cringey I couldn't even... mass effect is about epic story. and how can you have an epic story with just poor writing, and even worse acting ?

20th if you VPN to Korea

Jacabo Blanco and shitty looking characters who look forgettable with this sjw none sense. The devs are getting what they deserve

what the fuck happened to mass effect? the first has a great story.

Oh God, Inquisition was terrible. DA2 was even better than that massive disappointment.

Kelr I don't know why, I know the game was not that good, but I fucking LOVED Inquisition. literally 100%ed the game. I'm embarrassed

Kelr the story just got me with all the little development each quest did.

for real?

Inquisition was better than DA2, DA2 was really horrible. DAI was too easy and they failed to create fluid game, they even said "don't do everything from first area or you will be overleveled" or something. But everyone wants to complete (ofc)the area 100%

you don't need knees in the future right? :D

It seems Cerberus forgot to add that function.

A lucky escape then! Never pre-order!

I can't believe you would preorder any game

why do people keep saying good franchises should die? that is the opposite of what you should want

That's a fair point Dunestorm. I don't doubt that there are some things that feel like a Mass Effect game. However, just by seeing a few things in this video, I'm already missing some of the features of the old games. I'll probably end up getting it but when it goes on sale. I know bashing the animations also seems cheap, but they just look really cartoony. From what I've seen so far, it's just not convincing me... Also, I've been following Mack for the last 4 years and he has been pretty much spot on for a lot of the games he reviews. Just my opinion ;)

Luis Rodriguez lol you won't even try it yourself? You blind idiot.

callum page it's $60 who wants to throw that money away at a game that clearly doesn't look worth the price tag

callum page Spending $60 just to "try" something when it already doesn't convince me and having no way to return it is pretty idiotic in itself. Congratulations.

I have one, thanks

Lucky bastard.

Azzalack Do you want it?

Oh, yes please! Where can you send it to?

Azzalack I ll add you on steam if you want

haha

forget the preorder, i cant even load into the main menu for the trial LOL

Always best to wait a while with games like this. I didn't play ME until it had been out 5 years, just going through Skyrim now. No bugs and patched to fuck is how I like my games :)

I think it is the default route with today releases 1) wait a year 2) buy GOTY for the price of "give-us-at-least-something" that is how you get all the content and patches

Mark Kimask i dont think it will get the GOTY award tbh xD

The Surly Gamer In my world the official release is always 1 year later. Buying a game on release is like a chicken supporting KFC. it's just a bad idea. you get nothing but broken bullshit for a crazy price. Who's Excited for Mass Effect: Andromeda's Proper release 3-21-2018? Because that's when I'll be getting this game. I don't pay full price for half assed work. I pay 1/4 the price for half assed, incomplete work.

And he would still trash the combat ^^ And planet scanning. And the Mako.

Wow, that was pretty much the definition of ignoring what makes a game good and replacing it with an old ass meme. "Cut scene simulator"? Like what?

What is good about the ME games? I tried all 3. Could not even finish one of them due to incredibly boring story, tedious and clunky gameplay. The first one when it came was unplayable due to melting the 360's hardware. So when I tried it on PC many years later it was smooth, but still boring and clunky as fuck. ME is hyped beyond imagination

The combat is garbage. You stay for the story. You have to be the kind of person to spend 30+ minutes walking around talking to people I guess

Well, I do like a good story and are not unpatient. I love Bioware's Knight of the old republic (only the first game). Loved the atmosphere there, the dialogue and the choices to be good / evil. Guess ME just isn't for me. Didn't find any of it interesting.

Yeah! I bought that yesterday myself! I haven't played that for 20 odd years! Bloody brilliant! We need a Wab for Turok 2 Mack!

The N64 version was ass and the old PC version had an inferior soundtrack and insidiously bad FOV, and there is too little ammo for the weapons. The new release fixes the core design issues with the immediate gameplay while adding several graphical, audio, and convenience features. Nightdive let me appreciate a classic for the first time. I highly recommend it.

Who?

+Pfaff1911 Well I got mine on the PC! I'm not sure if it's coming out on consoles though?

@Pfaff1911 PC I don't think this version will go anywhere else

Misty Ann oh man if you see bioware and anthem now lol

Joker it would probably be something like RE 4

Mack hates RE4 יהונתן דולב

I can exactly say you how. Mafia 1.

Joker socom 1-3 is how you do a third person shooting.

Personally I'd say Warframe is the prime example of how to do a third person shooting game - while most of it would work just as well in first person, the melee combat system of that game just simply wouldn't work in first person as its more akin to Dynasty Warriors or Devil May Cry as opposed to Condemned or Zeno Clash thus you really need that field of view to know how wide and far your attacks will swing to make sure they connect with the enemies around you.

Heya, I will not cancel mine. Even I agree with most stuff said here. Facial Expressions and character animations are VERY BAD. Bioware promised patch. Character Creation is a JOKE, worse then any previous Bioware game. It just doesn't look good. Music is AVERAGE, not as deep as in previous MEs Gameplay is not that bad, only thing I didn't get why they removed the pause stuff in previous games. In higher difficulty is the gameplay OK. Character story - well its trial, beginning of something new. It is NOT GOOD. Ryder personality is like a child, which probably should be, but its not fun. I hope it will develop further. Companions and story is ok, but sometimes annoying, boring. With the facial failure it is boring. The story telling of a DEAD EYES is interesting like a text readed while there is a screenshot. Questing, Research and other features looks OK. I am not sure where 40 million dollars went for, but probably most of it was consumed by bad management and poor developers salaries. Only reason I will not cancel the preorder is the hidden edge of the story telling. I am just curious as a ME fan, how its going to be. After I finish the game, I can say if it was or wasn't worth a buy. I am just trapped. Heartbroken fan atm.....Masochist probably :D

You can get EA/ Origin access for around $5 for a 1 month subscription, then try the trial for 10 hours, and then you get about that off with the discount you get.

Vlad Singer Most of the money was dumped into cinematic trailers and massive advertising to maximize the profits.

So I was spending last 2h of trial by re-creating main character (3x times, as You can't skip the intro), and I am finally somehow happy with it. The animations are still killing it, but hey, ok....there is nothing else to play. I must say I had fun to re-play the trial mission and I will gladly continue to play when released. Maybe it is my demission, maybe the game is not that bad.

Well ill go back to playing ME2 again

Age of PC literally not even worth stealing

Wrong. They can't profit anymore after a dud like MEA.

Avio yep me. im only 30 myself but why the fuck are all these experienced professionals all fucking 12. its completely jarring and unrealistic to have so many 20 somethings running the ship. al the humans look like young uni students.

I would say Mass Effect 3 was good until the very large debacle at the end, Mack would be having a field day with Starchild

3 as a whole was solid. Just the ending FUCKING SUCKED.

blablabla90909 Well it was solid in the gameplay and graphics departments. What really mattered to a Mass Effect game like writing, character development and story was bad. The only good parts of the game were the ones which involved something built upon from the previous games. The first two were story-driven while the third was Gears of War driven.. I personally consider it a failure. And btw I don't hate GoW, they are just different types of games and liked for different reasons.

After hearing all the negative stuff about the ending, I finally made it to the end about a year ago. Granted, I had the expanded ending dlc but overall I thought it was pretty good. What was the big issue people had with it and what exactly were people expecting?

Quacktics are Go: I know right.

GCTR: Indeed.

GCTR I play on Xbox and I must agree where the skilled games went. When Halo was on top everyone made a skill based game and then the idiots at infinity Ward made a no skill cod 4 a d ruined the gaming community

Actually Liberal cucks happened to this game.

dead_zombies Horizon Zero Dawn is more liberal and it's currently the most successful game out.

cagnazzo people have no taste especially ps4 players, they will lap onto whatever game comes out in order to validate their consoles purchase, zero dawn laso has gameplay issues, roll alll the time and just bow and arrows for the next 20 hours or so. open world but you cant go certain parts till you keep on goin with story, story is just an afterthought. facial animations are also laughable especially for npc. zero dawn wouldve made a great monster hunter game had they gona that route.

Unfortunately it have not aged very well.

what is it from, 2007? it aged super well for a game this old imo, replaying it right now and it's not too bad when you get used to relatively shitty graphics

2's gameplay is way better, but 1's world and story are the best of the series

Mass Effect 1 is not perfect but its an incredible game. Mass Effect 1 and KOTOR are my favorite games

Mass effect 1 is an actual RPG. 2 and 3 are call of duty in space. Andromeda looks like a fucking abortion. Only thing I truly liked about the mass effect series were the awesome characters. Now instead of a group of total badasses you have a bunch of tiny bopping hipsters, the art team for Andromeda should be castrated.

Yea, Ryder's personality is not very interesting at the moment. I still have hopes that it will somehow evolve later in the game...but if not...man...sad

yeah based on what ive seen so far, the guy has no presence, his voice is very weak and he doesnt look like some one who believes in his role and its a shame.

I played Fem Ryder, and its the same. Like child which doesn't know at all what is going on. Maybe it is an intention, but its pretty slooooow start.

123starikov “great” male voice acting, I don’t think so. The actor always felt like he had 1 tone and NEVER deviated from that

He looks like a bitch

Latest, greatest game was Mass Effect 3 in my opinion.