Mass Effect Andromeda (Zero Punctuation) 

Remember ME1? Remember how basically nothing you did effected the end much in meaningful ways? Yeah....

yeah THE FIRST GAME back in 2007. oh yeah ME:A could be compared with the first game and still it would lose

Played the game in full. Side missions did play a part in the ending, like the end off mass effect 2. Who survives or dies depends on whether or not you did the busy work (side missions).

Fair enough. She wasn't all that much enthusiastic about living in the end game "Party" anyway haha.

Tricho Incorrect - only Loyalty Missions mattered, every other side quest was a resource grab. Even without Loyalty Missions, your team could potentially survive or die, depending on the roles you gave them. Some ship upgrades also dictated if some of your teammates survive or not.

Funny, that's the one thing I picked up on as well

How could one possibly _not_ pick up on a joke where Hitlers face is in the middle of the screen.

AdalRoderick By moment of inattention (Aka me)

AdalRoderick lol. didn't even notice, generally in listening to these rather than watching them.

Shame on both of you. The visuals add additional layers to many of the jokes.

I think it reminded him of Sandbox games and he's bored of those (at least the identikit ones)

Well do be fair, he didn't even land on 3 of the habitable planets and just stuck to the main mission. That means he only saw about 10% of the game.

If you can just shoot straight through the main story without having to at least set foot in most or all of the major hub areas than that's poor design. Look at Fallout: NV, the first half of the main quest basically made sure you had to get through all the biggest key points of interest on the map so the players wouldn't skip huge portions of the map and miss the opportunity to play side-quests there if they decided to.

To be fair to them they have made "Some" effort to Patch the mess the game is The eyes are a bit less freakish, some of the glitches have been fixed they have made the inventory larger. and you can skip some of the transition scenes now. The whole "My Face is Tired" bit has been even more extensively patched and fixed as has the Sarah Ryder grimacing in pain bit. I hear they plan to polish the walking animations further too. So some kudos for making some attempt to fix it and some brick bats at EA for letting it be released now at all it should have been released closer to Xmas 2017 at least they could have put some decent content in the multi-player by that point too rather than a single game mode with minimal variations to it.

90 Lancaster pretty much every meme about the games animation is patched, my face is tired, weird eyes, that NPC sliding walk, Lexi surprised face, Cora's walk

But it was what Bioware needed to keep themselves a business at EA, next up for the milking is Kotor if rumors are to be believed.

TheGoodShank Insider here. As of 6 months ago, it was true, but as of now, I don't know.

No, this was the Mass Effect we needed. We needed it so we can stop buying repeat series games so people can make ONE GAME and END THE GAME WITHIN THE SAME GAME. Not sequel our balls off making the games more and more and more mediocre with each installment. Stop buying garbage sequels, they RARELY end up better than the original. Seriously, force game devs to start getting creative and not just recycling the same games over and over.

The thing is: one of the best "sequels" I know was Mass Effect 2. I think I never liked any other sequel more than this. Mass Effect 3 was not that good, but still very enjoyable (I played it only after the Extended Cut and Citadel DLC, what made the ending on the first playthrough much better i guess). We all had our hopes up so high we just got disappointed to a point most just rage. And I think +IceInhuman is totally right: this is the Mass Effect we deserved for trusting an EA game once again

Fwazangalang Entertainment Or wanted

inb4 everybody yells at you about how the ending of ME3 ruined their boring lives or some shit

THE ENDING OF ME3 RUINED MY BORING LIFE, YOU INCONSIDERATE FUCK!

Mass Effect 3 ruined my life! Even tho I never played any game of this series!1!!11

It's the reason why I beat my son in anger.

Which Resident Evil was good in 2017?

I mean yeah, but the 2 Ryders are both equally capable of saving the day, but see, there was only 1 commander Shepard.

Vinddraken - True, Ryder was just a vessel for SAM, they were one unlocking, decryption, translation, really doing nearly everything. if i was SAM i'd be like....why am i with this human again? Really their reasoning was to learn from how organics react to various situations but still eh

YouGot2BeKitten 1 it would be one thing if SAM only was the normal analytic AI coming up with ideas. But through the implant SAM boosted the pathfinders body and also SAM was the one interfacing with all remnant tech. I'm not saying that you needed to be N7 or Spectre. Just saying that the characters feels like you can replace them with cora, or Liam or even Addison. *start spoilers* Even the Archon says that SAM is the one making you special *end spoilers*

yes, if you don't pay attention to the story of the trilogy. It's one of the few good things of the story of andromeda that you go on an adventure for more then just joy riding the galaxy.

Vinddraken personally I feel that being the only one who can save the day because of a series of rare events would get cliché after a few games.

Axeiliste W let us not speak of that CGI abomination...😓

Axeiliste W kind of sad that the band of the hawk game looks downright amazing compared to the 2016 anime lol

Get ready for Berserk 2017.

why did they make ti cgi, WHY

At least this is somewhat funny, berserk is anything but funny, it's downright sad.

I lost focus on what he was saying because it was too bizarre and funny

EVO6reviews yeah, he does it all the time. My personal favorite is "yoshi's weary wank"

EVO6reviews I'm aware that it was deliberate. I just thought that it was clever of him to use the name of a game that he just reviewed, so I had to point it out.

'Mass Effect: Andrew Lloyd Webber' Come on mate

They were actually androids the whole time!

Nier: Andromeda

derlich09 I know right

nah... way before that. Illusive Mans base when the Prothean AI just casually mentions that "Oh btw... the Reapers totally just stole the Citadel fyi"... right... how? when? what? Dafuq? The space battle cut scene afterwards was nice..., some companion dialogue here and there... but other than that... a giant mess well before the ending even started.

@@Daelyas Yeah the citadel being stolen and taken to earth just came out of fucking nowhere. I mean why take it to earth? From what I understood they were building another reaper with victims but surely you could do that anywhere. Hell take the citadel through the omega 4 relay, the collectors were happily building a reaper there so it wouldn't be to far out of the way

@@themadhammer3305 My main question remains "how even"? Isnt it the relay point for all mass relays... its like putting a train station on a train and driving it somewhere else... how? :D

@@Daelyas Yeah that is also a good point showing how out of nowhere that was. In universe it's probably another case of reaper space magic, but it's still a really strange way that last bit of the plot went

weeb spotted

I didn't like Nioh or Yakuza, I remember Andromeda just fine over them, Nier's alright but nothing beyond a pretty good game, nothing worldbreaking.

J Nah, that's just Japan killing it lately

+J Nonsense, playing Japanese games alone is no proof or even real evidence for love of Japanese stuff in general. My home country rarely creates good games, so I've played many US-American and Japanese games in my life, doesn't mean I'm a fan of either country. (Honestly, if I had to chose to live in one of them I'd probably just shoot myself in the head instead)

if you think about it all good games recently released are japanese games. Zelda botw, persona 5, nier automata etc.

lmao

Au contraire, it's a great Star Trek game. Best ST game since Star Flight on the Amiga.

If this were "Star Trek: Andromeda" it would actually fit better with the game and tone. It sure as hell doesn't have the tone of a Mass Effect game.

I wish they made big Star Trek games like this, but then again, I also would be really pissed if it was released unfinished like this

> It sure as hell doesn't have the tone of a Mass Effect game. Andromeda is straight-up the sequel to ME1 we would have gotten if the world financial crisis hadn't dropped in the planing stages of ME2. Go back and look at ME1 with fresh eyes.

I mean, ME3 *was* a choice of 6 colors to explode in. There were so many memes and jokes made about it that pretty much half the gaming community caught wind. There simply were a lot better ways to kill off Shepard than giving him a bomb with 6 wires that explode if he cuts any of them. Hell, 5 premature bad endings with a single "worth it" bad ending would have done better. ME2 has at least one premature ending.

Wow so funny

Anthem pretty much confirms this.

@@smokinggnu6584 especially since BioWare abandoned it all together.

Yeah but with announcement of another Mass effect on the horizon along with Dragon Age 4, I feel like these claims of Biowares demise may be somewhat premature.

Not _exactly_. Apparently the Andromeda initiative existed for a while (before/during the events of ME1 even); it's just that the Reaper threat pushed things forward (just in time for them being sent off pre-ME3).

The initiative was send out into dark space before the events of ME2 and shortly after the events of ME1

elinfini Of course I know this. They revealed that they already knew of the reapers.

The were sent off before the events of ME3, actually. There are some side characters that reference Project "Lazarus" and "Overlord" (events that happened _during_ ME2).

It was technically right before Shepard woke up. Me2 I think is only 6 months before me3 starts.

And if you keep waiting, maybe someday they'll fix everything else. Just keep waiting. Nope, they are not ditching the effort to make "Mass Effect: Andromeda 2 - This time it's personal" and screw you. Nope. Believe the roadmap!

What? Sorry I was playing Arkham Knight on PC, what was that? (just a little joke, obviously it's nowhere near as bad, but a similar situation.)

Not really, you can skip the animation if youre travelling to planets within the same solar system. You can't skip takeoff, landing or changing solar system animations still...also known as 80% of the animations.

THAT game was a complete dumpster fire on release. Of course, WB, having lots of money, didn't actually care or anything until the backlash got unmanageable, even for PR Firm Hindenburg.

grizzledcroc but you can't skip the zoom in on. a planet animation. which is like a full 10 sec and is absolutely pointless

No...it's not. It's not any more watered down than any other Mass Effect, which is what I'm assuming you're talking about.

Mass Effect: Bud Light

Pass Effect?

Less Effect

Less Erect?

TheKarjee the only problem I have with persona 5 is when my wife plays it I have to stop what I'm doing and watch because it's so much more interesting, I love Atlus ❤️

... why was yen in quotation marks?

TheKarjee fuck me lets compare an actual in depth PROPER Japanese RPG to bullshit created by Americans for retards. There is no comparison . Ones a REAL GAME and the other. IS NOT.

It's always amazing to me how well the characters are done in a persona game as well- they are all so interesting to me- and that sounds lacking in this mass effect as well.

Goku x Sephiroth Well I mean, if we're on the topic of characters, I think they messed up on Morgana. A couple hours into the game it's obvious that they just made a character out of the tutorial and I personally feel like they didn't do so well with him

If they're minor annoyances how did THAT stop you from finishing? Seems like you're just looking for an excuse.

"If they're minor annoyances how did THAT stop you from finishing?" Reading comprehension man. The minor annoyances didn't stop him, the fact that only some minor annoyances were fixed, doesn't excuse the game's launch state, nor does even come close to excusing all the stuff that isn't minor and isn't fixed.

that is why you do not play on release

Its dumb to pre-order games. Always wait a year or two for it to be bundled with dlc then on a big sale.

I think the matter of fact is that the basic game shouldn't of had so many issues on day one. I can understand the level of complexity in todays game far out pace those of the 8-bit era. If Nintendo can have such a high level of QA why can't many of these other developers do it too? I feel the biggest issue is separating the devs from the publishers. Whose really to blame for such shit? The capitalistic greedy whore mongers constantly setting earlier launch dates, enforced suggestions that ruin immersion and unoriginal. Not to mention they're lack of perspective of not only the market, or consumers but the actual product itself. All they is, is that it makes alot money. Or the over worked, under paid and most likely spiteful SOBS who have to put up with said whore mongers? Whose to say?

not to mention it replaced all of my saves with copies of the last one i was on so i had no way of fixing it.

Is that seriously a bug? Seems like the game's way of saying some sort of horrible targeted 'screw you'.

If there’s ever a bug that makes you say “Screw this, I’m playing something else” this is the one all right.

Xiugea Lea it was a good effort and thanks to patches and some amazing side quests that trump those we had in ME2 I am having a lot of fun with it. And the Nomad is fun to drive around with, too.

"actually actually"? you mean "actually liked"?

I don't know what you're talking about. If you recheck my comment, I think you'll find that you have misread it.

when I read it, it hadn't been edited so I saw "actually actually"

Will gm I know, I edited it after your comment :)

Well i don't think you can really blame him, we don't exactly have any exterior shots of the milky way in our collective photo albums do we?

Artists renditions are neato though

That's stupid and not at all obvious. ;)

Tremendous poke at 04:35

Yeah but it ended the same way everything in RDR did, you got shit on no matter what you did, and I hated that about The Witcher 3. almost everything you did ended up getting shit on. Witchers options and conversation aren't extremely nuanced either, a bit better than Andromeda to be sure but not a bastion of dialogue.

What are you talking about? There's dozens of endings, some are happy, some are ok and some everything goes wrong

+EdgeOI See, those are the precise reasons why I can't enough of Witcher 3, it's the realization of that world, down to those impossible choices, and the way all of the game's systems work in tandem to create that feeling of impossible odds. I would argue the conversations strike a good balance between being directed and being in control, which is fine with me because it mirrors real life in a way, and you're never for a second taken out of Geralt's boots. I feel ya though, I'd like a much wider range of dialogue options in Cyberpunk, which I think we'll get.

I believe Witcher3 has probably spoiled everyone for a generation to come by raising the bar so high it continually bangs you on the head whenever you walk into a new sandbox/rpg.

Yeah, but they were overwhelming just different shades of black. Kill a man who murdered an entire village or spare him because the villagers betrayed and tried to murder him? Save a man from dying at the hands of drowners or let him die because he'll go on to murder a bunch of refugees? I try to be altruistic, both in life and gaming, but the Witcher games make that so difficult it's almost not worth pursuing.

vanyadolly that was a problem with inquisition, rather dragon age 2.

Imrakul and everything else is shitiest...

I hate the dumbed down combat actually. I can deal with all the other weaker aspects, but it has lost all value as a tactical shooter. I play on insanity difficulty where the teammates are absolutely useless except for the Drack, who is the only likable character in the game. In the other games, teammates were very important for harder difficulties. There used to be a synergy in planning your squad's abilities and equipment, but all that is gone. Your squad mates are not much more than a few moments of bullet sponge now.

At the sacrifice of good writing in what is meant to be an RPG? I don't think that's a fair trade.

Yet they gutted out squad actions so we can't give direct commands. Whilst the jetpack they've implemented constantly gets stuck on everything, whilst simultaneously being redundant on higher difficulties due to damage taken. I'd honestly say it's a step backwards for the series. It feels like a sub-par TPS; which the Mass Effect has always felt like, but the depth always elevated it above that. Now there's nothing to redeem it.

It's great combat if you like every enemy being a bullet sponge and seriously limiting what abilities you can use.

Wolfie Inu Pretty accurate

Wolfie Inu not bad, you just forgot to call him names, to use the word fuck (as an adjective of course)

jadak100 Not to mention " the animations are just a small part of the game"

Isaac Lopes oh right!, That too

hm from every thing i have seen its mostly the exact opposite.in fact i very rarely ever see people try to defend the game.its mostly mindless bashing.

CHARACTERS ARE FAR WORSE THAN PREVIOUS GAMES? How? Where? In what way? ME1 had 6 characters and 4 of them were insufferably boring (Including Garrus, he got good in 2) I can only think of ONE boring character in Andromeda, and that's Cora, Peebe, Vetra, Drack, Liam, Jaal (especially Jaal) are all cool.

@EdgeOI ME2, in my opinion, had the best character roster. To me, Cora was boring as hell, Vetra was non existant, Liam was annoying, Jaal was alright, Peebee was funny and Drack was pretty awesome. ME2 had really interesting characters and a bit of everything, so I'd say Andromeda has second when comparing it to the original trilogy.

EdgeOI Your comment reads like all the characters are boring in ME:A. Well that's fine if you found them boring, but I found them interesting.

BoogerLeader I have found Drack to be the coolest so far, at least his voice acting is pretty good. No one will ever replace Garrus personally though lol.

YouGot2BeKitten 1 No it's the way they present their argument that makes them a 12 year old fanboy. All caps with retarded grammar and spelling equals not worth listening too. Well done defending this cancer.

Not that you would know, since it's completely retconn'd in

I mean, they left inbetween 2 and 3, but ME:A actually takes place 600 years after that... something the game seems to sometimes forget.

How so? Sees like I can't go five minutes without someone me or over hearing someone saying it's 600 years later.

Some stuff that you randomly hear on the Nexus, this specific one being heard multiple times; "A member of the initiative was found floating dead in space, the identity of the individual is to be withheld until their next of kind back in the milky way has been informed." - what next of kin? They're great great great grand nephew? how long does it take to transmit a message back to a galaxy 600 years away? I was probably being hyperbolic, but I personally felt it squandered the opportunity to do some cool narrative with the time difference (albeit i'm still only 30% through the game so far).

My father is dead *creepy smile*

OathKeeper you dont have to buy console to play console games.

why bother then?

this fact was so fun

Well I meant it as a reference, but if I were planning to buy the game, than the lord Crowshaw would have smited me.

sct vsk emulators m8

MegaCake1234 it reminds me of what he said in his horizon zero dawn review. "Stringing together enough c+ in hopes to get an A." Although what they did in this game is string a bunch of F's together and the result was an F+

Grymbaldknight you don’t like andromeda you just thing the main character looks funny

David Gash I'm trying so hard to love it, but I sort of kind of totally hate Ryder! I feel like no matter what I pick she's very "tee hee lol" about everything. Also everyone keeps jumping up and disappearing when I land on a planet, or the Kett fall from an invisible ship and surround me...or the Enoch glide around super fast no matter where I am and eat me instantly. I like parts of this game, but no love yet, and of course I miss my Shepard and my old squad. 😂

no, shepard was a commander and that emotionalless persona works well for that. ryder is shit. no one would follow that into battle.

Ealdy omg that is the perfect description for Ryder lol. Aw, I liked Shepard! She was such a badass, but to each his own.

I didn't...I played ME1 when it was new and loved it, played ME2 when it was new and thought it was great, played 3 and uuuuuuuuugh, and played this and UUUUUUUUUUUUGH. The only good things about ME:A are the combat's okay and it didnt have an advertising campaign based on fucking Jersey Shore. YES BIOWARE THAT WILL NOW FOREVER BE A PLUS POINT FOR EVERY OTHER GAME IN THE UNIVERSE NO MATTER HOW BAD THEY ARE.

The mass effect experience in my opinion is trawling through the boring fetch quests and coming across a piece of ridiculous or hilarious writing and some genuinely exciting missions.. basically it has all of the bad shit from the first three and some of the good things and occasionally an absolute gem shines through.. like Liam's side mission

Ryouga Mizuchi then they should write a book

Maybe bioware wants to but thanks to the gaming warlord EA it won't happen

There are many mass effect and dragon age books.

Ryouga Mizuchi that is true. however, this story is also bad!

Story's bad? Not any worse than the other ones imo, I mean if you don't like Mass Effect good for you, what gets me is the hypocrites acting like this is dogshit compared to the others when it's far from it.

DankLogistics 67 shadilay brother

Donnie Dewitt- Praise be to kek my friend

Yoseph Fitzgerald It's ~100,000 people, there is only one trans character, and if you want to be a dick you can leave her fiance in cryo. I do miss the reporter punching.

Statistically she shouldn't be there then, trans are outcasts, as it should be. Plus they wouldn't put a mentally disabled person on a spaceship when its supposed to be the best .

Yoseph Fitzgerald What does gender have to do with "being the best"?

for me, when a game gets shit on for a plethora of bugs, I just wait 6-12 months and then buy it once everything is fixed. I did that with AC Unity and now it's one of my favorite games in the series even though it's considered one of the worst.