Initial Impressions: ME: Andromeda (Spoilers Inside)

So as far as I understand this game states the trip started before the events of ME3, so is there an explanation of why they sent Krogan, a species that was expelled from the Council and is on the border of extinction because of a Sterility plague to the Expedition to colonize planets?
 
BigGuyCIA said:
This will certainly be the last time Bioware ever engages with its community. The project has had some serious hurdles, and people are now witch hunting for the animators which is just plain dumb.

The faces were jarring in some cases, but for the most part the experience as a whole has been pretty solid - it feels like a Mass Effect game - specifically a return to Mass Effect 1. My initial reaction was pretty harsh because the character creator completely soured the rest of the experience. I've gotten over it and the experience has left me on a more positive note.

I'm doing a slower run through the prologue stuff and I customized the Sara Ryder to be African with preset 7 or 8(?) and she looks leagues better than the default Sara.
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Really? Because to me, this game is a major downer. Especially when even without the animation fuckups, the story, characters, and emotion and immersion in said game is fucking abysmal to the point it doesn't really exist. Character creation hardly exists, and the combat is pretty much meh to a snore fest. This, to me, makes this a fucking terrible game. If I can't be immersed by story, than the gameplay better be damn good, and by the looks of it, it's not.
 
Walpknut said:
So as far as I understand this game states the trip started before the events of ME3, so is there an explanation of why they sent Krogan, a species that was expelled from the Council and is on the border of extinction because of a Sterility plague to the Expedition to colonize planets?
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So the Pathfinder has more NPCs to fuck around with.
 
Walpknut said:
So as far as I understand this game states the trip started before the events of ME3, so is there an explanation of why they sent Krogan, a species that was expelled from the Council and is on the border of extinction because of a Sterility plague to the Expedition to colonize planets?
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Haven't seen an explanation for it, yet. There's little to go on as to why a female Krogan (pre-genophage cure) is walking around on the Nexus when you first arrive. I may have missed it in one of the dialogue options with her (I admittedly was spacebaring through shit because of the 10 hour limit).

Zerginfestor said:
Really? Because to me, this game is a major downer. Especially when even without the animation fuckups, the story, characters, and emotion and immersion in said game is fucking abysmal to the point it doesn't really exist. Character creation hardly exists, and the combat is pretty much meh to a snore fest. This, to me, makes this a fucking terrible game. If I can't be immersed by story, than the gameplay better be damn good, and by the looks of it, it's not.
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Yes, really - I can get past the surface level presentation of some things. The gameplay kept me engaged for the most part, I'm just aware of the fact that I'm not going to get a traditional RPG experience going into the game. I'll see how the story pans out as I sit down with the game more on Monday.
 
I would imagine the Krogan would sooner nuke the whole planet before they let a female Krogan go into a 600 year space trip with Council races.
 
That was my initial thought. Quarians are absent so far because of their current situation (there's only 4 known arcs: Salarian, Krogan, Turian, and Human). Asari are just along for the ride on each arc apparently.
 


For those of you who can stand it, here are the cutscenes from ME:A.

I haven't been able to see all of it because of the perpetual loading on my side but I can tell you this that there are quite some plot conveniences regarding the whole colonization of the Heleus cluster.
Imagine if the plot device had not existed at all and the colonists had traveled to this parts of the universe and the planets they found were naturally uninhabitable.

Eh I don't want to go to deep into detail about the plot, but it is your usual series of clichés if you have seen the various Star Trek series or played the previous ME games. Edit: Oh and Halo.

The sci-fi genre in gaming is a dying one.

Oh and as bonus;



I felt like kicking this guy in the face when he started to talk about how ME:A could have been some sort of critical look at European colonization efforts.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
I felt like kicking this guy in the face when he started to talk about how ME:A could have been some sort of critical look at European colonization efforts.
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Why? It sounds like an interesting storyline with actual relevance to real life. Certainly, Mass Effect was never better than when it was less about punching Space Cthulhu and more about the commerce and politics of an existing society humanity is joining as Space Belgium.
 
CT Phipps said:
Why? It sounds like an interesting storyline with actual relevance to real life. Certainly, Mass Effect was never better than when it was less about punching Space Cthulhu and more about the commerce and politics of an existing society humanity is joining as Space Belgium.
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Because it's high time masochism stops being served to the masses by sadists.
 
Now, this is gonna be shocking ya'll but here yet again we have another triple-a game where the critics and users are 'really' divided on its quality. Could just be bandwagon hate though, personally I don't like to write off negative scores as just bandwagon hate especially when the flaws of the product is widely known.

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CT Phipps said:
Why? It sounds like an interesting storyline with actual relevance to real life. Certainly, Mass Effect was never better than when it was less about punching Space Cthulhu and more about the commerce and politics of an existing society humanity is joining as Space Belgium.
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My main reason is is that I am sick of the white man guilt trip developers seem to be on these days.
Yes, colonialism happened, yes a lot of European nations did so, but so did cultures in the Middle East and Asia.
And colonists may have affected developing cultures for generations to come but it was not as if these were living in some utopia and harmony with another.
Am I saying that colonists brought "civilization and order" to some backward lot? Well it is honestly not as if some of them didn't see their own advantages of the influx of new ideas and goods.
 
Mr Fish said:
Now, this is gonna be shocking ya'll but here yet again we have another triple-a game where the critics and users are 'really' divided on its quality. Could just be bandwagon hate though, personally I don't like to write off negative scores as just bandwagon hate especially when the flaws of the product is widely known.

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I think the critic score is on the mark. There's something great sitting just below a surface of mud and dirt that the devs didn't really attempt to wipe away before launch.

The game makes a terrible first impression, so I'm not surprised people are writing user-reviews with that first impression in mind. The first thing you see is a terribly clunky character creator with no way to really insert yourself into the role.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
My main reason is is that I am sick of the white man guilt trip developers seem to be on these days.
Yes, colonialism happened, yes a lot of European nations did so, but so did cultures in the Middle East and Asia.
And colonists may have affected developing cultures for generations to come but it was not as if these were living in some utopia and harmony with another.
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For me, it's about good writing. Part of why I love A Song of Ice and Fire is because it isn't bullshit which romanticizes the nobility and treats it all as one big happy game. What I enjoyed about Star Trek Deep Space Nine was it questioned the Utopian values of the Federation which were frequently built on giving easy answers to harsh problems or just dismissing the concerns of many RL peoples. I like complexities as well as honesty in my writing.

A Mass Effect game where you find yourself in a situation where you can, should, or want to take from less advanced civilizations like the "Avatar" movie but maybe with some nuance would be interesting to me. It's certainly more interesting than, "We show up in Andromeda and fight only BAD aliens."

Am I saying that colonists brought "civilization and order" to some backward lot? Well it is honestly not as if some of them didn't see their own advantages of the influx of new ideas and goods.
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Honestly, that's a dishonest summation of the situation. Colonialism wasn't about the Natives, it was about the Europeans and the Europeans of the time knew that. The missionaries might have wanted to spread Christianity but colonialism was about gaining land and wealth with all of what Europe "brought" being devoted to taking. They knew it and didn't delude themselves about what it was about.

Certainly, Native americans weren't about being civilized as the Natives who assimilated into white culture, The Cherokee, were put on the Trail of Tears because they were Natives and had land.

Have respect for the fact Rhodesia was about setting up oneself as a God King. Not because it would somehow benefit the people forced to worship.

How does this relate to Andromeda?

It looks like the plot of the game is "go in, fight the Kett, find some worlds to colonize, everything is happy."

It sounds so...shallow.
 
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