SlyTF1 wrote:Shadowman wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:ashe5k wrote:I'll have to watch the video later, but yeah, Mass Effect Andromeda was pretty much the only game I was planning on buying without waiting for a price drop this year. Love the first trilogy.
It's the only Western AAA game I'm planning on buying period this year. The last couple of years have been terrible in regards to gaming. Every game wants to try to be a movie, and they all end up coming across as playable cutscenes rather than actual video games. I'm hoping Andromeda can break that trend.
It won't. I'm not sure if you noticed this, but it's a Bioware game.
Yes, but the choices are actually meaningful in Bioware's games. There are consequences to your actions, which effectively keeps them as games. It's not like Uncharted, where you just sit there for hours, watching events play out, and occasionally holding the thumbstick up to walk or run through some narrow corridor, or take out a gun and shoot a few scripted enemies with physics and gun mechanics so incompetent and lacking any sense of weight or impact that you feel like you're shooting through paper. Not only that, but the combat is promised to be less "hand-holdy" than even 2 and 3.
If you're going to make unfavorable comparisons to a game series, at the very least don't make it so those comparisons show off that you've never actually played them. Because I've actually played the Uncharted games, and that description is a load of BS.
And yes...
some of the choices you make in Mass Effect have impact. Not all of them; and many of them all lead to the same conclusion, or conclusions with only superficial differences. (Choosing to save or destroy the Collector base only impacts the scenery one one area in a totally insignificant way) Choices in Dragon Age,
significantly less so. Awakening may as well have never happened, nothing you do in there is of any consequence. (Sure would be cool to get a follow-up from the Architect...) It's worst in Inquisition, since no matter what choices you make in the Mage-Templar War, it's completely undone by the time Trespasser takes place and there's nothing you can do or say about it in-game.