Re: Mass Effect Andromeda officially dead...
i thought overall the game was pretty good, just not great or amazing like some of the previous mass effect games. When you put the name Mass Effect in the title i expect certain things. Namely, a deep multiple branch story with decisions points that make a real difference on how your character is perceived and the environment around you. I felt like this game was more milk toast. They went with quantity over quality instead of focusing on some of the quest lines to really define who the characters are. It is sad that the game is now offically dead as i think it could have had some interesting DLC to fill out some of the questions i still had. I think many were expecting the new game to be totally different and have a lot of new aliens and personalities to explore. instead it was most of the same and there was not as many classic characters that i couldnt go without (see Garrus/Mordin/Wrex). Mass effect was always my favorite game series and i played the triology through many many times always finding some new angle to keep my interest. I felt like in this game there is not as much variety in the playthroughs, because of the lack of Paragon/Rengade, all decisions feels like they dont really mean anything. I liked that im not shoe horned into picking a specific answer to keep my Paragon/Renegade score high, but the overall result of picking different choices just amounted to a few different character lines instead of actual changes in how people behaved with you. The game felt disjointed, like many different teams worked on different parts of it totally independently but did not work to tie everything together. And while exploration focus can be fun, without really interesting side quests, its easy to get bored and start to lose interest. Speaking of losing interest, some of the quests were so long and convulted, having you talk to random people all over the galaxy that you just met without throughly developing the background. Halfway through some of the quests i just totally forgot what the original purpose of undertaking it was. Oh well. I feel like if this was the last mass effect game, bioware kind of did it dirty. I hope for the series sake that it can have one final game to send it off the way it was meant to be.
