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I never got the hate for Andromeda
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2020 15:07 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 22:25 |
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Don Dongington posted:The combat in Andromeda was top notch, but the character animations, characterisation and plot fell flat in a way that prevented a lot of people from really getting invested in the new characters the way they did Shep, Garrus, Wrex and Liara. The writing team wasn't as strong as the ME 1/2 team, and, and while it was at least as good as ME3, that was the weakest of the series. They really needed a stronger start. Yeah that’s fair. The combat was the best in the series, I think I cut the writing a lot of slack because thinking back on Mass Effect 1 I don’t think I really cared for the characters all that much back then except Tali, all the work of making them memorable and likable felt like it was done in ME2. While the characters in Andromeda didn’t impress me too much I felt like it was at least on the level of ME1 and thought they were a solid base to build on in the next game. The story also could have been more tightly plotted but I liked the relatively small scope of it, trying to protect this small colonization effort was a lot more engaging to me than Galactic Space Opera #877 so I think I was willing to overlook the minute-by-minute faults. Either way I hope this rumored new ME game builds on Andromeda instead of scrapping it
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2020 16:12 |
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Zoran posted:ME3 presaged the sequel trilogy. Couple of neat set pieces, wraps up one or two story arcs nicely, but it ends up being an incoherent mess because no one had any real clue what they were doing or what the story was ultimately going to be about Didn’t they rewrite the whole ending because the script leaked? iirc the original actually involved the dark matter/dying suns thing that got brought up a few times in ME2
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2020 19:51 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:Mass Effect had a bad problem with swapping out the person in charge between entries, so whatever was set up to provide fertile ground for a sequel got totally swept away each time. That’s why we’re talking about it in this forum
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2020 00:58 |
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ungulateman posted:the twist that the protheans were just as petty, venal and stupid as everyone else is good, actually. i don't actually like what they did with javik that much, but totally letting the wind out of the sails of the ancient precursor civilisation was a good move Yeah, that rocked
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2020 05:05 |
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Cerberus is cool
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2020 12:35 |
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I like that ME3 proved that Cerberus was right because as soon as Earth got occupied all humanity’s alien allies were like “gently caress you, we’ve got our own problems” immediately
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2020 12:37 |
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ungulateman posted:Eh. Apart from the respective main themes I don't think I could tell a single song from me apart from any of the halo soundtrack. I liked Clint Mansell’s work on ME3. Especially “An End, Once and For All” https://youtu.be/x5JvbD2Zc9I
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2020 14:03 |
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“drat, those alien bastards are going to pay for shooting up my ride” — Commander Shepard, Mass Effect 2
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2020 19:24 |
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Destroy is the best one and what I did with my first character but picking control as a renegade was cool because your character uses the Reapers as her own personal army to ruthlessly enforce order in the galaxy
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# ¿ Feb 11, 2020 16:07 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 22:25 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:I kinda thought a lot of Mass Effect takes a lot from Star Control 3 (the bad one), especially the Reapers, since SC3 focuses around the threat of the Eternal Ones, creatures from beyond our galaxy that cyclically allow galactic civilization to prosper before wiping it out because they feed on sentience. It sure seemed like that's what ME2 was leading towards when it showed a Reaper being created out of a weird emulsion of a sentient species. There was even a whole thing about dark energy buildup from Eternal One feedings or some poo poo that it seemed ME2 was hinting at. I always thought the Galactic Civilizations ripoff was stronger, the main plot of GalCiv 2 is about a race of giant biomechanical cephalopod (squid, vs cuttlefish) monsters returning to purge life from the galaxy after being away 10s of thousands of years. It also has the Iconian refuge, a race of aliens that were driven off their homeworld by their own robotic servants and strives constantly to take their planet back. The batarians also remind me of the Drengin--they're both warlike races of slavers who are humanity's nearest neighbors and bitter rivals. I think there's more than that but it's been a long time since I played either.
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 06:25 |