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I've seen these going around and they speak to me.

I'll trust you on this, i was bored to death after 8 hours playing it.

Oh and Btw some of the NewBSN guys are coming here, my post about number and DRM was rewrote there, so, since i'm waiting for my computer to finish Darksiders 2 installation (how can i resist ?), i was reading their forum (it's a good way to see what is happening in MEA. Answer: nothing), i've some time to loose so I'll answer their questions here:

-Yes, without Denuvo the game is waaaay more stable because the DRM always use your HD to monitore your actions, always, even when you're not playing it's watching if you're making any change in the files of the game. It shorten the lifespan of your HD because it always check the files and bugs can appear because your HD is saturated. Pirates have way less bugs because of that (but they can have trojan if they're careless EDIT: you can PM me for a good link, some here are used to it lol).
-Yes Andromeda is already forgotten almost everywhere, it's an average and forgottable game without any controversy launched at the same time than mighty blockbusters way better in every way.
-No, MEA isn't in ANY WAY better than TW3. Nor DAI, DA2 or ME3. Yes, TW3 won RPG of the year two years in a row and No MEA isn't a gotty and will never be.
-Yes, Bethesda teased an open world sci-fi RPG
-Yes, Adromeda cost more than TW3, 80 millions with advertising for TW3, 40 for MEA WITHOUT (and it was more bigger for MEA). You should stop the silly comparison between the two, taking MEA budget without advertisment and TW3 with it. It's just blindness and is showing people using this kind of strawman an hypocrit.

To finish, since my installation is over, MEA will forever be compared to TW3 and you should just learn to deal with it. MEA is subpar in all area of comparison and no DLCs will be able to save it, the ship sailed and is sinking.

i found a review of the game that nail every problem within it.
This guy is good.


sevach : i was wrong, CPY just announced to have cracked the last denuvo's generation. To prove it, they already shared the MEA update.
It puzzled me. Why EA upgraded their denuvo protection ? Without they would have saw their games not updated for a year, it was an invitation.

Oh and BTW, Bioware's announced working on a multiplayer DLC but nothing on a new patch.

Edit: Well, the MEA numbers are here and ME3 sold more on 360 alone than MEA on all platforms for the same time.
Counting digital sales for consoles and only physical for PC, MEA sold 1,031,628 units in the first week. ME3 only on 360 sold 300k more.

The second week is showing a huge drop in sales, approximately 200k worldwide, we are far from the 3 millions announced by EA as a target number and their silence about it is really telling.

Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise, lol.

It sure is generic AF. I just finished one of the side quests about the anti-AF faction and it was super forgettable. It could have been this big thing considering how important AI is to the Pathfinder, but no, check the boxes, reference ME2, call it good...


As soon as I heard the Ark was delayed in the prologue I instantly thought DLC. Thanks EA!

It just leaked! The battle to cancel the Apocalypse continues!

After playing as War in the first game and Death in the second game, this time around we'll be playing as the Horseman Fury, and she has these whip weapon thingies. Perhaps a similar style to Gabriel Belmont from the recent Castlevania games?

Quotes via VG247:





Screenshots in the spoiler:

There isn't much to speak about. Andromeda was played very safe. Too safe. So safe that I'm struggling to even recall things as I'm jotting down each individual story arc in this thread. It's quite possibly the most generic Mass Effect of them all. I like the combat for the most part, and a couple of the characters are decent, but that's it. I was going to wait until after I'd finished with the individual story bits, but screw it, already typing so why not.

First off, having played the game on Insanity, I'd recommend not doing that. Not because of the difficulty or anything, but because it broke my suspension of disbelief. When I'm wielding an anti-materiel rifle designed for fighting VEHICLES, and the most BASIC KETT UNIT SURVIVES A HEADSHOT, that's just stupid. There's level scaling involved here. Nothing as broken as say, Oblivion, but it's there. Experimenting I turned it down to normal difficulty and lo and behold, suddenly they're dying from an anti-materiel round to the face, AS THEY SHOULD.

The main story is very short. Jaal's cool, but like seemingly every other ME race in existence the squadmate is way cooler than the rest of his race, who are fairly one-note. The Kett are a boring enemy faction, thematically, half copied from Halo's Covenant and mopping up whatever they can get away with for copy-pasting Collector or Reaper traits. The Archon is an idiot. Saren spent the whole game looking for the Conduit and prepping armies for the arrival of the Reapers (cloned Krogan, the Rachni, getting the Geth, etc). The Archon is mindlessly studying Remnant technology until his motivations take a plot swerve It doesn't make sense save to try and ratchet up tension as the main story is coming to a close.

Most choices are very meh, usually ending up with if a certain person or faction decides to help or not in the final mission.

The open world has also hurt the game a lot. I haven't played any of the Witcher games, so I'm going to compare it to an open world RPG I have played. Skyrim has often been described as "wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle" or something similar. Well for all it's flaws, Skyrim's world is a heckuva lot better than Andromeda's. Part of this is simply because Bethesda is just better than Bioware at making open worlds. Andromeda's open world is 90% driving around in the Nomad from Point A to Point B. Going out and exploring does yield a treasure trove of quests, usually involving scanning for a set of items (enemy datapads or something) and this type of side quest is the most common variety. So if Skyrim's depth is as shallow as a puddle, Andromeda's is like spilling some water on a flat surface.

Loyalty missions are hit or miss. First off, they don't have the same necessity that was needed in ME2. There you were building up to a Suicide Mission and you needed everyone at the top of their game. The whole game was about this, to some detriment, as you ended up babysitting these guys to life or death. Andromeda doesn't have that urgency. At all. You're just doing it because they have a problem and you feel like helping them. Secondly, you can't even fail them. No matter what you do, they WILL become loyal and let you access their Tier 6 perks. You couldn't fail every mission in ME2, but you could fail some if you made a boneheaded move, or lose loyalty gained if you supported one squadmate over another in an argument. That in and of itself was also stupid in the execution, but at least the possibility existed.

What's that? You didn't trust Jaal and shot whats-his-face so he could be martyred? He's really upset with you? Eh, still loyal.

Finally, it seems like the Quarian Ark (carrying all the other misfit races like Quarians, Drell, Hanar, etc) is being reserved for DLC. Yay.