In 2012, as work on Mass Effect 3 came to a close, a small group of top BioWare employees huddled to talk about the next entry in their epic sci-fi franchise. Their goal, they decided, was to make a game about exploration—one that would dig into the untapped potential of the first three games. Instead of visiting just a few planets, they said, what if you could explore hundreds?
Five years later, it’s hard to find anyone who’s happy with the results.
A little more time in the oven would've done these products some good a lot sooner.
Sega Saturn made it but not the 360. Don't remember Saturn having a horrid rrod rate. Absolutely horrid
The launch games were all right, but look at how Virtua Fighter and Daytona USA compared to their re-releases.
From Xfire: "BioWare's Mass Effect franchise took gamers on a fascinating universal sci-fi journey that will never be forgotten. While fighting against the ever-looming threat of the Reapers was central to Mass Effect's storyline, what made the series so iconic was its vast and diverse cast of characters.
Not only do these companions accompany Commander Shepard as you make your way through hell and back, but, throughout your journey, you also get to learn who these characters were and are and what they think about what it is that you are doing. Some will even fall in love with you, and others will even become your enemy based on your decision."
When I looked at the list I thought they were saying Garrus was the worst lol. And tali being so far down the list was fighting words for me. But the numbered list is just the order they are shown so you are forgiven.
I think they listed them from worst to best. Also keep in mind that this includes Andromeda characters that aren't part of the remastered trilogy. Interesting refresh on the characters though.
They did but I didn’t realize it until I started reading. That’s just the order they are shown.
I couldn't stand Miranda I could never like her as a character and I always skipped Jacob and James. I always liked Grunt, Jack, Legion, Tali, Garrus, Samara, Liara, Wrex, Edi, Zaeed, Kasumi I always use these characters. Using Martin Sheen as the Illusive Man just fits the character like using Keith David as Admiral Anderson was another good choice always feels like Goliath from Gargoyles is yelling at you which I like.
Zahi AR. from Link Cable Gaming writes “Welcome back Link Cable Gaming fans, with me in andromeda. Specifically, Mass Effect: Andromeda in 2021. With the recent announcement of Anthem shutting down its future plans, I wanted to look at another recent BioWare game. My switch to a PlayStation 5 destroyed my save file right while I was at the end. So, I decided to do a fresh start on the new console to see just how well (or not) it’s been since launch. How has the new generation of hardware treated the game that fell from grace? Should you play Mass Effect: Andromeda in 2021? Let’s find out.”
Such a good game! It got a 4K X1X upgrade and it looks fantastic! Also like the story! Was playing it again before Series X dropped. Going to download it for the Series X, as soon as I have more room on my HD. Playing too many other games right now.
Instant resume is AMAZING! I can Switch between 5 games in seconds. Like 10 to 15 at the most! No closing a game and opening another one! Thank you Microsoft!
It’s was decent to me. I didn’t feel the magic I felt when I played two or even three. I don’t know. It was repetitive, and the worlds felt bland.
There's a reason it reviewed so poorly in the first place... these reasons among others.
I finally gave it a go last autumn and was amazed by how bad a game can be. And believe me my expectations were low. After 10ish hours I just had to give up.
I powered through it, myself. It was just repetitive, and the Land Rover Exploration wasn’t interesting at all. The story also we mahhhhhhh.
Wow that was a 5 year dev hell for sure. Bioware/EA should have delayed the game for at least 1 year if not 2, bring in more people and work out all these issues.
Its very sad that ME had to go out like this...this is a tragedy.
Who wants to run around a hundred procedurally generated planets anyway. When will developers learn that bigger doesnt always mean better.
It still turned out to be pretty good game. And while the story could have been executed better the idea of a arks sent out to another galaxy to preserve the sentient races from the reaper invasion was a great basis for a story.
I really enjoyed the game, of course there were some things that felt rushed like the fact there were only two species the good Angara and the evil Kett and I I watched a lets play of someone playing the console version which seems to have a some bugs that I didn't encounter on the PC. And the animation thing which i never understood why it was a big deal. None of the other Mass Effect games had good animations with their exit stage righting all the time ect. and I have absolutely played games recently with much worse animations that weren't panned about it.
Despite what people say I still think the main reason why the game failed was because people wanted to bring it down for perceived progressive ideologies even though it's a 100+ hour game where the progressive stuff is less than 1% of the content and can be totally ignored if you simply don't click the blatantly obvious romance options.
Either way I'm just disappointed that the story may not continue, you make a lot of choices that were clearly designed to effect the next games in the series including getting to see the planets you activated the vaults on come full circle. It will be unfortunate if all the work by both the developers and the players is lost over what really were minor issues that were overblown due to the charged political landscape.