Mass Effect: Andromeda

[d-dave]

Anyone been playing early release?

Anyone interested?

Anyone loving/hating it?

I've watched a fair number of videos and read a bunch of stuff.  It sounds interesting, and looks cool.  What I'm hearing is that the story telling and character development are much worse compared to the combat, which is pretty polished.

Thoughts?

[Seamonk]

I've read that it got EA'd. Animation issues at launch, lack of story.. coming from BioWare.. Combat only thing that improved while their usual areas of expertise got maybe a little worse. Should still be a fun game but prob not $60. 

[d-dave]

2 hours ago, Seamonk said:

I've read that it got EA'd. Animation issues at launch, lack of story.. coming from BioWare.. Combat only thing that improved while their usual areas of expertise got maybe a little worse. Should still be a fun game but prob not $60. 

That's kind of where I am.  When it hits $40, I'll jump!

[Omega Atrocity]

I bought it and played like 3 hours of the campaign and 3 hours of the multiplayer and I'll give my thoughts.

The combat is a lot better, but that's mostly just a function of it being five years newer than Mass Effect 3, games improve bit by bit, even if we don't notice it as much as we used to. The story is interesting, but from what I've played thus far the amount of player choice is a lot more limited than in the first 3, which is a little disappointing. I haven't ran into any of the animation errors that people point out, or any glitch really thus far, so I won't comment on that.

Since I really like the multiplayer (it's very similar to mass effect 3's) it was definitely worth it to me, but I can see waiting until it drops to $40 that's probably the most economically viable decision, but it definitely deserves a play through in your life if you liked the first 3.