I like grinding, if the rate of payoff is good. I have to fight the same battles over and over to scrape the money together and roll the dice on payoff to gradually build toward equipment that gives me a chance at higher levels of random crap. Sigh. The same amount of time spent on Skyrim I can create another supreme Dragonborn who can one-shot a giant. But I play Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer socially. I look forward to the same on Andromeda.
When Diablo III came out, I happened to be living just down the street from a Gamestop, so I figured it would be easier to buy a physical copy, install from a disc, and only have to fight the launch day crowds for the Day 1 patch, not the whole game.
When I got to the counter, the clerk tried to “upsell” me on buying a download code on a plastic card instead.
Think about that for a minute, and consider that there are some people who took them up on that offer.
That’s the difference between you and me then. I cannot stand grinding. I can live with it a little, but after a while it’s so tedious it makes me want to shoot myself. Love the idea of Pokemon, but I just can’t do the grinding.
I consider ME different because the grinding was on the side missions and the side missions only. Plus they had a point.
There was a time when you could just troll and troll for encounters until the next boss fight was trivial. Now game designers often limit the encounters you can hope to find, or they level the whole world with you. Bastages.
Grinding is fun if there is a good balance of effort and reward. But a game where you can just buy your way out of grinding does not want the balance of the free grinding to be fun. They want your money. The money is worth spending if there is a good balance between what you buy and what you get. Instead of good value for your money, they give you random value for your money because random reinforcement is addictive, so you’ll accept overall lower value overall so you can keep spinning the slot machine. Ugh. Most of these games I just don’t play because of shit like this.
Looks like I’m I’m a slight processor issue away from making minimum requirements for Andromeda.
I have:
FX-6300 six-core processor running at 3.5 GHz.
The game requires:
FX-6350 six-core processor that apparently runs at 3.9 GHz.
Am I doomed?
Nah. You might have to turn down some CPU intensive stuff, possibly. If you’re running windows 10, I wouldn’t worry about it as Frostbite’s DX12 renderer is really good.
Be warned…I watched that 17 minute play through and cancelled my order (my GF had gotten it for me as a Valentine’s Day gift).
It is so disappointing on several levels. The dialogue is terrible added to lousy voice acting added to over-the-top hand holding. It’s like it was made for 12 year olds.
The combat is “meh” too. Bullet spongy enemies and lackluster weapons.
Mind you I am a big ME fan. This seriously bums me out.
Yeah that preview sucked, starting with the super weird/awkward pose from the fem shep at the start when the ship rocks. Arms akimbo, and hip twisted, weird expression on her face. It’s just lol.
I think I fell asleep last night watching it. ::Sigh:: I’m still getting the damned thing, or at leas tI’m joining EA’s ORigin Insider program thingy and playing it before release to make up my mind.
It didn’t look that bad but I get what you guys are saying. What concerns me is it seems you can respec on the fly. If you can be everything it means your character’s not really anything.
Yeah…the respec thing seems weird. Like you say, what is the point of role playing if you can change to anything at any time? Not sure I have a handle on that one yet though.
Ok…weird…
I was replaying ME2 intending to play ME3 in prep for ME:Andromeda. I saw someone say ME2 is free on Origin (it is) so I figured I’d put it in my library cuz why not?
Well, I had noticed that my ME2 playthrough on Steam seemed really lackluster compared to what I remembered. When I went to download it from Origin I got a whole raft (I think everything) of the DLCs and added content.
Not sure why my Steam copy is now a pale shadow of ME2 but I highly recommend everyone go get their free copy of ME2 on Origin. I do not know if it includes all the DLC and addons (I had bought them originally) but hey…free…hard to complain.
I went home, watched the clip, and pretty much agree with this. I definitely see how the CONSTANT quipping of Pee Bee is annoying, and it’s a bit grating to hear “look under this rock” every two seconds.
But the game looks beautiful and combat looks fun as hell. The thing that (I think) I’ll have to get over when I play it is to remind myself that the game is Mass Effect, but it’s not Mass Effect, ya know?
I also heard a Game Spot review that said he was conflicted over the game because the game was great, but the technical aspects (lagging, lip syncing, etc.) didn’t impress him. I’m too dumb to notice those things, so it made me pretty excited.
Because different enemies and situations call for different loadouts…and I want to win! Nothing drove me more insane than constantly dying in a section of ME because I was an engineer, could only use pistols and SMGs, and I happen to choose squadmates that aren’t good in a situation.
I love the idea of “omg these guys have so much armor, time to change to tech powers and shotguns” and then 10 minutes later saying “So many shields! Lets biotic them from a distance”.
So far, it seems to hit the right notes for the casual gamer, which I definitely am. I’m eager to hear more reviews as they come out.
The quality of the dialogue and voice acting is what has me most worried now. Crappy animations and weird facial glitches I have endured in past mass effects. But I really need the characters and story to shine.
Really worried 
Bioware isn’t really known for their Class-A voice acting. Honestly other than Garrus’ silky-smooth voice (Brandon Keener shoutout) and Miranda’s nails-on-chalkboard grating voice…there isn’t anyone that stands out at all (Martin Sheen nonwithstanding).
Mass Effect ain’t Uncharted if you know what I’m sayin.
I get being able to load out different weapons and equipment but if you can respec to get different abilities why bother having enemies that require different abilities if to solve that you just click a different load out? You could just make all the enemies work the same and save me the click. It’s possible I just don’t understand how the game mechanic really works and it is more than that.
Are you kidding me?
- Seth Green as Joker
- Tricia Helfer as EDI
- Martin Jarvis as Admiral Zaal’Koris
- Michael Hogan as Captain Bailey
- Keith David as Counselor Anderson
- Shohreh Aghdashloo as Admiral Shala’Raan (I never get tired of her sexy voice)
- Adam Baldwin as Kal’Reegar
- Michael Beattie as Mordin
I am missing a lot. The voice acting was outstanding (mostly).
Excuse me, but you seem to be implying that there is something about Yvonne Strahovski that isn’t perfect
Yes, I know who all of them ARE, and they did fine for what they needed to do, but nothing in the voice acting left me feeling like anything groundbreaking or truly impressive happened. Krogans were all low and gravely, salarians were all hyper, Quarians were vaguely Russian for whatever reason. I get the characters, I just didn’t think the voice acting was anything to write home about other than good for what it was.
Everything? I’ll admit I have no idea who she is outside of being the look and voice of Miranda, but her voice drove me insane throughout the 2 games she was in. Miranda was a boring-ass character too, so it didn’t help that I didn’t care about her in the least
This gives me a bit more hope for ME:Andromeda –
MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA | Exploration & Discovery | Official Gameplay Series - Part 3
Still going to wait for some reviews before buying though.
Lots of interesting systems. Looks like the game is going to be vast at least.