I know Andromeda has a poor reputation, and a lot of it stems from issues at release. I am just curious what people who have played it more recently think about it. I’m a Mass Effect fan, and it looks like I can pick Andromeda up for less than 5 dollars at most places. Is it worth 5 bucks?
Edit: Thank you guys so much for all the perspectives! I’m going to pick it up and give it a try.
Personally, the word I’d use for it is ‘boring’.
Loved ME and did a playthrough with the Legendary re-release, but when I hit Andromeda, I got to the planet and went ‘You know, I don’t care about ANY of these people, what we’re doing, and I’m not going to drive around for 30 more hours of this’ and just kinda… stopped playing.
Kind of the same for me. I really liked the prologue and the combat felt good, but I just felt bored by the world and characters. It felt like a bland open world game with the points of interest and collectables. And on top of that, the choice system didn’t resonate with me.
I think the story got much better towards the end of the game. The last mission is as thrilling as any of the prior titles. The trouble is that it ends as it’s getting good, and major plot hooks are left forever hanging due to the cancelled DLC.
The setting wasn’t great - there seemed little point for setting it in another galaxy other than being able to ignore a lot of the prior games. This was not Stargate Atlantis. Stargate SG-1 only really had humans and Goa’uld since day one so Atlantis having only the two races in another galaxy fit into the established setting. Mass Effect had a lot of sentient races in the Milky Way, and Andromeda only having two made it feel lacking (especially with some plot revelations).
Gameplay was the highlight as others have touched on. They really managed to refine the combat to the best it has been.
Only two races that we met. It’s entirely feasible that more races inhabit Andromeda but keep out the way due to the threat, we could have seen them come out the woodwork in later games given there’s now a valid resistance in the galaxy.
Andromeda is fine as long as you don’t compare it to the core Mass Effect trilogy. Ryder is no Shepard, and none of your squadmates are as memorable as Garrus, Tali, Mordin and the rest. But take the game as its own thing, and it’s a pretty good time.
So it’s missing all the things that made Mass Effect good
I’d say it’s missing all the things that made mass effect great. But its still a fine game.
So it’s missing all the things that made Mass Effect good
I’d say that’s fair.
The graphics are pretty good and combat is enjoyable for about an hour, but the game is incredibly repetitive - drive around the planet, peril will be provided by cold/heat/gas, solve the exact same boring puzzles, fight one of two kinds of bad guy, go to a new planet and do it again, etc.
The story was almost in danger of being interesting at times, but the plot is cliched and predictable. I didn’t like Andromeda and I loved ME1-3
Super worth on sale. The story is definitely weaker but the combat and movement is the best in the series.
Exactly how I’d put it. The story is meh at best -i barely remember it honestly - but the rest of the gameplay is great.
The worst of the series as a whole, but still a good game.
I really liked it. The action is better than the trilogy and the story is decent enough. Maybe not quite up to the trilogy but still good to me.
I played it on release, and enjoyed it for the most part.
It’s not as good as the original games, with a weaker story, weaker characters and a wasted opportunity with the new galaxy, but it’s still a decent game in its own right. The combat was great fun, and while the other stuff isn’t up to the standard of the originals it’s also not bad.
I remember some of the collectathon side quest tasks were a bit tedious, but I think they can be avoided.
The best description of it I’ve heard is “direct-to-video Mass Effect”. Which is to say: it’s got the elements you’re looking for in a Mass Effect title, but it fails to execute on those elements very well.
It’s also on Game Pass!
I quite enjoyed Andromeda, but when I played it it was in its final fully partched state and it had been a decade or so since I played the OG trilogy at the time. I don’t know how much I would have enjoyed it in closer proximity after playing the Legendary version and being reminded how good the OG games were.
I fucking loved it. Even the story. Hell, especially the story. Most of the bugs that are not fixed are annoying but minor and not related to the main story.
To nitpickers, I say again: most. It is by no means perfect but over the years at least for the main story it has become pretty well polished and playable.
You can also do almost all of the side quests as well, but bugs are pretty rampant in that category however, albeit most not in a gamebreaking way.
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I really loved it and it was the only one in the series I finished! Maybe its just because I found the environments beautiful and had some of the best HDR done in a game.
Its better with mods to fix the worst of it. But even so I wouldn’t really recommend it to anyone.
I just watched matrix 4, which gives me the same vibes as ME:A. Nice to revisit the universe but a lot of talk, busywork with no story and nothing new. The direct to video comment below seems apt.
Good setup, good engine, nicely rendered different worlds, not much going on. Like the matrix, could have been worthy in someone else’s hands.
However worth playing at budget price, just set expectations.
My brother played through it and didn’t like the story nearly as much so I never bothered. I’m hoping the new entry is better!
I loved it, the main story, crew quests, combat, customization were the highlights of the game for me.
Cutscenes are gorgeous and it’s definitely worth it if you are a fan of the franchise.
