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BrianWilly posted:Of...the entire series? Starting from ME1? i think you might get locked out of a romance by virtue of not having enough conversations before endgame if you go for the comedy order, but there might be a way to finesse it if you know what's up
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Some general advice is that unless you live to farm resources, either cheatengine everything you need, or just focus on a couple guns and one suit of armor, otherwise you won't be able to level it all to max.
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Eimi posted:Some general advice is that unless you live to farm resources, either cheatengine everything you need, or just focus on a couple guns and one suit of armor, otherwise you won't be able to level it all to max. I saw a mod that gives your Tempest shop 100,000 of all crafting mats for free. Sounds like a thing to do. Maybe i'll stick it out for awhile and load it up later.
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The main thing to know about andromeda is that the main story and the companion quests are the only good parts, more or less all the sidequests are extremely skippable. Much like DA3, it's only an open world game because someone at EA saw that skyrim was able to sell 10 million copies per console and decided that "open world" was a mandatory characteristic of all successful games.
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Jan 8, 2021 07:23
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The other main thing to know about andromeda is that for a game ostensibly about exploring uncharted worlds/galaxies, there's literally nowhere you can go that isn't already populated
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Bogan Krkic posted:The other main thing to know about andromeda is that for a game ostensibly about exploring uncharted worlds/galaxies, there's literally nowhere you can go that isn't already populated There's one place you can go that isn't populated because everyone died
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Jan 8, 2021 08:10
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Another thing to know is that Andromeda is really very bad on every level
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As are your posts, and some people still read them anyway.
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Jan 8, 2021 13:15
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Very rude and hurtful 
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Moola posted:Another thing to know is that Andromeda is really very bad on every level Not really, no. It's a decent game with fun combat and some great quests. The main quest is decent enough with a lackluster villain, and the companion quests and Ark quests are pretty drat good. This game gets a lot of poo poo it doesn't really deserve.
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I don't think the restriction to three skills only or a huge wait time on changing profiles makes the combat better than ME3, even with a jetpack. And I found the companions largely insufferable, to the point I don't remember any of them fondly aside from NotWrex. Also Andromeda is probably the single worst game Bioware has ever made in regards to LGBT representation. They dropped the ball in every way there.
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on the one hand, i do remember players saying that if you stuck to a 100% guided list of all the best quests, you get a mostly half-way decent selection with no filler ...but on the other hand, in 2017 new players did not know in advance that more than half the quests were absolute time wasting bs and so their experiences were coloured by the heaps of awful content they did not know to avoid i would ultimately call that deserved criticism, but your mileage may vary
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Jan 8, 2021 19:52
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I've heard a lot of bad poo poo about it over the past few years, but it turned out (to me) to not be anywhere near as bad. Its, a lesser ME1. It ticks off some checkboxes that developers thought would make things better. And dont even get me started on the lack of a decent save system. Also emotionless faces. But i've played worse. Bought this on a combo sale recently with DA:Inquisition. I couldnt even play that one any more, and I hadnt even left the Hinterlands. e: hard counter posted:on the one hand, i do remember players saying that if you stuck to a 100% guided list of all the best quests
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Jan 8, 2021 19:57
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I only played it at release but it absolutely, 100% deserved the criticism then.
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chaosapiant posted:Not really, no. It's a decent game with fun combat and some great quests. The main quest is decent enough with a lackluster villain, and the companion quests and Ark quests are pretty drat good. This game gets a lot of poo poo it doesn't really deserve. It's been said before, and it'll be said again; if the game had been not labelled 'Mass Effect,' it would be regarded as a solid if uninspired AA game with some good ideas of gameplay, some really questionable story choices, and people would be interested in seeing where a sequel went.
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I'll admit I didn't dislike it as I was playing it (although I didn't think it was particularly good either) and it wasn't til later when I started reading about how it was bad and thinking about it that I realized "ah, this game wasn't very good". Much like many comic book movies.
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Gonna be honest, playing Cyberpunk 2077 recently gave me added appreciation for the gameplay in Andromeda. But tbh it gave me added appreciation for the gameplay in every other game too, so...
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BrianWilly posted:Gonna be honest, playing Cyberpunk 2077 recently gave me added appreciation for the gameplay in Andromeda. Tough to tell which game was more messed up on launch. Gotta go with Cyberpunk... barely.
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denimgorilla posted:Tough to tell which game was more messed up on launch. Gotta go with Cyberpunk... barely. On PC it has to be andromeda, on consoles cyberpunk by a mile.
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Cyberpunk pros: Well written, incredibly details art assets Cyberpunk cons: all the bugs and the fact that the game part of the video game sucks Andromeda pros: Combat and driving ai that works, the combat can even be fun. Andromeda cons: Writing what's that? Hilarious animations They both get minuses for open world and crafting. Tough call really.
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Progression in CP is busted. There are skill trees that are near impossible to progress, perks you waste points on that are actively detrimental when they don't just do nothing (underwater stealth!  ), the armor has broken numbers, and combat is mostly bullet sponging while huffing health crack....Okay, the storytelling and writing is pretty good though. I don't really know why I'm comparing it to ME, they're apples and oranges in most respects. I'm just bitter 
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Jan 9, 2021 00:17
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I mean...its following the Bioware legacy to a T. CD Projekt figured out a way to sell out without getting bought out.
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OgNar posted:I've heard a lot of bad poo poo about it over the past few years, but it turned out (to me) to not be anywhere near as bad. Well, you should leave the Hinterlands as soon as you can. Trying to 100% any area in that game is a fool's errand. Just see what grabs you after seeing what there is to do.
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Jan 9, 2021 00:55
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chaosapiant posted:This game gets a lot of poo poo it doesn't really deserve. it deserves to be poo poo on more
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Moola posted:it deserves to be poo poo on more Andromeda is a mediocre game. When put next to the really good (take issue with that as you will) trilogy it’s real bad.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Well, you should leave the Hinterlands as soon as you can. Trying to 100% any area in that game is a fool's errand. Just see what grabs you after seeing what there is to do. Bioware is not good at open world game design (and frankly, I've only seen one or two games that I thought benefited from being open world), and shame on EA for ordering it. Inquisition and Andromeda are both garbage.
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Cythereal posted:Bioware is not good at open world game design (and frankly, I've only seen one or two games that I thought benefited from being open world), and shame on EA for ordering it. Inquisition and Andromeda are both garbage. They’re basically the same crappy game but DA:I was more polished.
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Tresspasser is totally what saves DA:I, the entire open world game is basically just a prequel for the actual story in the dlc. Which is hilariously sad on reflection.
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TheCenturion posted:It's been said before, and it'll be said again; if the game had been not labelled 'Mass Effect,' it would be regarded as a solid if uninspired AA game with some good ideas of gameplay, some really questionable story choices, and people would be interested in seeing where a sequel went. Everything good in Andromeda comes from Mass Effect. You can't remove Mass Effect from Andromeda without removing the best parts. And the most requested DLC was the quarian ark. The thing that was going to save Andromeda wasn't anything in the game but a bunch of aliens from another game coming in. And Andromeda was always a AAA title.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Well, you should leave the Hinterlands as soon as you can. Trying to 100% any area in that game is a fool's errand. Just see what grabs you after seeing what there is to do. Oh.. whoops 
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Eimi posted:Tresspasser is totally what saves DA:I, the entire open world game is basically just a prequel for the actual story in the dlc. Which is hilariously sad on reflection. I’m in the minority but I love Inquisition to pieces, including its open world design. Almost every cool fantasy backdrop is in the game and the environment art is gorgeous, the companions and main quests are awesome, and I enjoy Skyhold. Trespasser is a fat cherry on an already awesome sundae. Also The Descent DLC is loving awesome and I also love it to pieces.
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chaosapiant posted:I’m in the minority but I love Inquisition to pieces, including its open world design. Almost every cool fantasy backdrop is in the game and the environment art is gorgeous, the companions and main quests are awesome, and I enjoy Skyhold. Trespasser is a fat cherry on an already awesome sundae. Also The Descent DLC is loving awesome and I also love it to pieces. I'm definitely with you on this. Sera is a bit much sometimes but other than that I love the game enough to have played it through a few times. I legitimately think that trespasser is one of the best single stories Bioware has done so far as a complete package. ME2 probably edges it out, but it's just so well paced and the end sequence is just so cool, up there with the suicide mission imo.
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womb with a view posted:I only played it at release but it absolutely, 100% deserved the criticism then. I also only played it at release, and no, it was a pretty good game even then. Even without a curated list of quests to do or ignore. MEA gets poo poo on because people had decided prior to release that it was gonna be the worst game of all time, so now we have posters like moola who have built their entire identities around ironyposting about how terrible it supposedly is.
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Andromeda is a game where some of the fetch quests will tell you to go to five areas to find a thing, only whether or not the thing spawns in one of those areas is random, so you have to go back to the Tempest and then back on the planet if it doesn't
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Mymla posted:I also only played it at release, and no, it was a pretty good game even then. Even without a curated list of quests to do or ignore. They were mad about primary colors, STILL.
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Mymla posted:I also only played it at release, and no, it was a pretty good game even then. Even without a curated list of quests to do or ignore. lmao
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Inquisition was super mediocre and long and Andromeda sucked rear end. Anthem existed. High Hope's for bioware's next venture!
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Andromeda defenders have a very powerful "the prequels are GOOD actually!" aura, and I fear their raw chaotic power that drives them
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Inquisition was the first BioWare game I didn’t finish and andromeda was the first I just never played at all. They’re basically done at this point
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poisonpill posted:Inquisition was the first BioWare game I didn’t finish and andromeda was the first I just never played at all. They’re basically done at this point 
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