Mass Effect Legendary Edition - it's pretty gud

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Spicey McHaggis said:
Andromeda isn't the worst, it's just not great. Entirely too much hamfisted LGBT shit that doesn't fit in at all, and almost no likeable npcs. There's also a lot of stuff that just doesn't make that much sense. It does have a few good points, but they really are outweighed by the dumb shit. It's sad, because there really was solid potential there, but they really shit the bed on it. The game mechanics and controls aren't bad at least, and it has way more weapons variety over 3, which is nice.
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On a conceptual level, Andromeda was ALWAYS going to be bad because of how much it breaks the lore. The charm of the galaxy was that it was a big place where colonies can pop up and be forgotten. Instead, the Council Races build massive colony ships with very expensive drive cores to send them off to a distant galaxy and no foreseeable return on investment in their lifetimes. I have no idea why the Krogan would be there; they don't have a civilization in the present day nor are they allowed to own ships.

So, what they should have done is go smaller. I'll call it Mass Effect: Corsair, after the Alliance Corsairs. A game where you build a colony out in the Terminus systems and fight merc bands. It doesn't have to--nor should it--tie into the Reaper plot. If anything, governments should be the main antagonists and you decide which one to work with most like a faction system. The types of missions offered can generally be based on race: Humans want you to mine and gather artifacts, Turians want you to police the area, Salarians want you to spy and infiltrate others, Asari want you to do escort missions and other such diplomatic duties. Expand on the game play premises of the first game, which Andromeda sort of does, but not well.
 
WeWuzFinns said:
ME:1 is a piece of shit with unbalanced RPG mechanics. 2 and 3 are excellent FPSs but the snowflakes got triggered over the bullshit ending of 3. The true ending of 3 were the crew made along the way and not the colored explosion.
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I never played 3, I was watching a let's play, the Normandy lands to pick up people. The whole reason the MAKO existed, is because due to the nature of the Mass Effect drive, they needed to do high altitude MAKO drops because the Normandy couldn't make landfall. But it looked cooler so eh.

Then the storyline just diverges completely from what you've assumed where the story was going in ME2. Building relations with the various Alien factions to Unite and fight the Reaper threat. Instead you're just given a Macguffin device. It's the laziest writing I've ever seen for something of this budget.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
I have no idea why the Krogan would be there; they don't have a civilization in the present day nor are they allowed to own ships.
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Not only that but the Initiative was started during the events of ME2 and the Arks left the Milky Way around the same time, so the Krogan weren't in good terms with the Council. On top of that, the Initiative creates another lore-rape: how did the Illusive Man get all the money and resources to also fund that gigantic operation?
The entire premise makes no sense.
 
xXx: State of the Union said:
I remember the multiplayer being fun but predatory as fuck
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The expansions were always free and you can unlock everything through gameplay within a month or two dumbfuck.

Do not conflate it with locking most of the game behind a cash shop like SWTOR.


Andromeda didn’t really have anything alien to it. Sure there were forerunner robots, but the bipedal kett came off more like an acne prone Locust horde with a warframe bend to them in space.

They were also hellbent on making everyone live in an australian space ghetto instead of a futuristic agrarian culture colonizing a distant alien galaxy. Outlaws as a “faction” dont make any sense since everyone was HAND PICKED by ryder or the initiative so they wouldnt do that according to their own lore.
 
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Miller said:
Not with the RNG shit and the different lootboxes.
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Ehhhh, it was pretty fair. It took only one round on Hard to get enough credits to unlock a plat box and the "normal" class were all strong and useful.

Now what was amazing was that EA, after seeing the ME3 Multiplayer success, didn't make it a F2P mode so more people could play it. EA could have had their own Warframe before Warframe.
 
Man, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

Mass Effect 3 multiplayer used to be a point that people would point to for when games got well and truly fucked by microtransactions and predatory practices. (although some people would point out EA sports titles started doing it a few years earlier)

Now it's like "Nah, it was fine."
 
Back me up! said:
Ehhhh, it was pretty fair. It took only one round on Hard to get enough credits to unlock a plat box and the "normal" class were all strong and useful.
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Maybe at launch but later they added more boxes and screwed with the chances. I think I've played around 80 hours on the 360 version and never got the Particle Beam or the M-7 Lancer. I miss the weel-end challenges and the special events, I wish Bioware had found a way to have them roll again after the support ended.
The unlock system in ME:A multiplayer seemed less grindy. The trick was to only buy the basic crate until you maxed out the weapons and characters.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
On a conceptual level, Andromeda was ALWAYS going to be bad because of how much it breaks the lore. The charm of the galaxy was that it was a big place where colonies can pop up and be forgotten. Instead, the Council Races build massive colony ships with very expensive drive cores to send them off to a distant galaxy and no foreseeable return on investment in their lifetimes. I have no idea why the Krogan would be there; they don't have a civilization in the present day nor are they allowed to own ships.
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Bringing the Krogan along totally broke the whole premise for me. This is the insanely violent race that breeds out of control and almost took over the galaxy once already. At the time the expedition was planned they were still living under a fertility plague to keep their numbers in check so they can't do that again (and, honestly, curing the Genophage always felt like dumb fanservice instead of making sense in the setting). Why on God's green earth would you export that problem to a separate galaxy? Do you want literally all of the natives to be justifiably hostile to you?
 
xXx: State of the Union said:
Man, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

Mass Effect 3 multiplayer used to be a point that people would point to for when games got well and truly fucked by microtransactions and predatory practices. (although some people would point out EA sports titles started doing it a few years earlier)

Now it's like "Nah, it was fine."
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In an era of tacked on multiplayer modes locked behind online passes made to kill the second-hand market. Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode turned out to be surprisingly good in spite of the main game's flaws.

But ME3 multiplayer is also spawned lootboxes into existence so it's a bit of a double edged sword.
 
xXx: State of the Union said:
Man, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

Mass Effect 3 multiplayer used to be a point that people would point to for when games got well and truly fucked by microtransactions and predatory practices. (although some people would point out EA sports titles started doing it a few years earlier)

Now it's like "Nah, it was fine."
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apparently you could easily cheat it on pc since bioware in their infinite wisdom didn't check for it or something. never tried it myself, stopped before it became a thing.

also horde mode became boring at some point, shit should've been more like left4dead.
 
I'll never forget the first time I got to the end of Mass Effect 3. It gets to the point where you control Shepard for the last time and I turned around and shot the Space Child Machine God in the head to demonstrate the fact that I didn't appreciate a 3 game story arc being condensed into a trichotomous choice. I didn't expect anything to happen, and then he responds in a Reapers voice "SO BE IT!!!" and starts to walk away. I was like "Oh shit!".
 
Manul Otocolobus said:
I'll never forget the first time I got to the end of Mass Effect 3. It gets to the point where you control Shepard for the last time and I turned around and shot the Space Child Machine God in the head to demonstrate the fact that I didn't appreciate a 3 game story arc being condensed into a trichotomous choice. I didn't expect anything to happen, and then he responds in a Reapers voice "SO BE IT!!!" and starts to walk away. I was like "Oh shit!".
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That one was added in a patch iirc. Mostly as a petulant "fuck you" to the players after the response to the ending(s) was universally negative. In the original release you were forced to choose the flavour of Reaper cum you'd like to slurp on.
 
Kane Lives said:
That one was added in a patch iirc. Mostly as a petulant "fuck you" to the players after the response to the ending(s) was universally negative. In the original release you were forced to choose the flavour of Reaper cum you'd like to slurp on.
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it was already in, you had to wait it out. iirc the timer was a few minutes, that's why most people didn't see it.
 
Absolutego said:
Bringing the Krogan along totally broke the whole premise for me. This is the insanely violent race that breeds out of control and almost took over the galaxy once already. At the time the expedition was planned they were still living under a fertility plague to keep their numbers in check so they can't do that again (and, honestly, curing the Genophage always felt like dumb fanservice instead of making sense in the setting). Why on God's green earth would you export that problem to a separate galaxy? Do you want literally all of the natives to be justifiably hostile to you?
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Should have been an Alliance joint expedition with the Turians. Since the Turians are the ones who scout the uncharted relays and document them hence why they got assmad over humans unknowingly attempting to use one they marked as dangerous.

The SR1 being a "joint effort" didn't mean jack shit with zero turians onboard besides Silas who dies in the first hour of ME1 and Garrus, who would not have been there in the first place if it wasn't for shepard being a spectre. Would have made a better excuse that the Turians made a second one just in case the humans used the state of the art stealth ship they just built against them in the form of the SR2. Rather than "Cerberus bought its blueprint off the internet and made it better using random parts from hardware stores lol"-EDI.
 
Kane Lives said:
That one was added in a patch iirc. Mostly as a petulant "fuck you" to the players after the response to the ending(s) was universally negative. In the original release you were forced to choose the flavour of Reaper cum you'd like to slurp on.
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I didn't realize that. I played it after the ending was revised. I never saw the original ending that pissed so many people off. The revised ending was bad enough.
 
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