ME: Andromeda Mourning Thread

I started mourning the game midway my first playthrough. The hype was the thing that kept me playing until the end and the feeling that I had at least to finish it, given I had spent a great deal of money on it. The symptoms of failure were telling, as I commented months ago, just like another game of another franchise I loved, under Ubisoft's belt that time, the same pre-ordering-sucking-rushing-because-we-think-we-can-fix-later-policy these companies are relying right now.

I had some fun with the game. Imho, it was mildly passable, not worth the expenses, but I wasn't afflicted by many of the most critical bugs or problems other people were, so my validation was still positive, as a 5-10 at most. What really made me cringe was basically almost all the mechanics and gameplay features, their lack of polish, of creativity, of synergy, of finesse. It felt like someone copied and pasted another game on the template of Mass Effect and though it would work without some hard work on it.

One can explain that the production of the game suffered issues here and there etc., etc., sigh, yeah, that happens. But since when customers must pay for a company's problem? If there are problems, you must fix them and do your utmost for a proper delivery, and frankly, aside the cosmetics of facial animation which were dreadful, but not game breaking, the game would have done fairly better, if less issues had arisen.

So we, mostly here referring to those who play this game for SP, which was what really built its foundation, were left to suck our thumbs as we watched SP being slightly set aside for MP stuff, watch some dreadful social justicars wreak havoc with game design, see a company trying to drain dry people with cash-grab features in MP. Awful. Awful. And then, see patches focused mostly on fixing facial animations, fix problems with the un-thought level scalation, weapons, it felt like a big-fat testing time ... well, everyone already knows this story to be retold.

As for future games from Bioware. Nothing. I'm not remotely overjoyed in the idea of finding out the rest of the Andromeda story through books, comics, charges or memes. This is, as a lack of a better word, a fiasco, a scandal. I still expect the least of decency of presenting a proper closure for this story in the shape of a PROPER game in the future, but I won't be on tenterhooks to see it either.

Given the rest of Bioware games never made it to my shelves, so I'm not, for the time being, a customer anymore. As long as they can afford losing some customers, good luck for those who really tried hard to make the game and to play it. The ones who should be mourning the game right now should be those who let this thing become a disaster.