No secret I hate this game with every fibre of my body. And just because I know people who love it, I feel I need to say, - if you like it, great! I just didn't.
I am not taking issue with people who liked this game at all, - I mean one of my favorite games is RE6, which is universally hated by all RE players. hahaha so there's that, I get it.
Why I hate this game?
Well, besides the fact that I played it on release, and it was so broken it was just barely fucking playable.
The characters was stupid, I actually played through the game, missing two companions, - because I didn't care enough to talk to them I suppose. But I honestly didn't realise they weren't just NPCs
I didn't do specific characters questline because they annoyed the fuck out of me, and the less time I had to spend listen to them, - the better. And doing a whole quest for them, just meant I had to spend time with said character. thanks but no thanks.
The storyline was insultingly bad, like at no point did I feel the slightest invested, and habibi, - I get invested in fucking hidden object games, okay?
And I hated the damn Shepard nod in there, because as cool as it was, - I'm still salty over the ME3 ending, and they need to stop digging up my boys to drag them through the mud, - seriously. #notmyshepard
And then there was the arcon, or whatever he was called, - almost the same as that pitiful autotune rapper dude, - that i remember. He was also insultingly bad. I mean look at the trilogy, - you had plausible (or as plausible as it gets in the ME universe) threats, all with reasons. I mean okay so the reapers were like a lovecraftian threat, but that too worked because it was like a desperate end of the world situation with an enemy that couldn't be reasoned with. The Elusive man was fucking peak story writing, villain wise. And then you got that absolute cartoon in Andromeda, who is evil because they are, - it's a fucking space pinky and the brain situation. That was so dumb, I felt dumber for having played that game.
The story was so absolutely horrendous that you didn't care about the story, you didn't care about the other characters, and you sure as shit didn't feel a threat at any point, ever.
What DID work for it, and the only reason I ever finished it, - was the combat. that was fucking smooth, I had a great time when I got to kill shit on weird planets.
And for me that is what mattered, I mean I absolutely hate ME1's combat, and still to this day, if I pay ME2 I have an old ME1 savefile I import to avoid playing ME1, but keep my choices. But that was bad because it was clunky in all the wrong ways. and don't get me started on the Mako, I swear that was just there to make me rage quit.
Andromeda was a bad game, you can be loyal to the IP or whatever, but it was truly a mess, - pushed out before it was ready by an arrogant and greedy game company, - let's not forget they are the same who believe the fanbases will gobble up whatever shit they do, in their little caves, or whatever they called it.
It might have been better was it not for that, - but the fact they end this game without a goddamn conclusion is very, very telling. They thought they'd do a rapidfire 3 or 4 game series, half low efford gameplay, half nostalgia fan baiting. I don't know man, - but seriously. The game has no damn ending, because they were so confident that the gamer base had no sense of quality control or integrity, that they could get away with not having a conclusion to any extend. It's not even a 'for now' ending, there's just like fade to black, - see you next year. (at least that how I recall it)
Why am I talking about this?
Because I just saw gameplay of code violent, and that shit looks like it was made for xbox 360, or perhaps ps3. Dino Crisis which is from 1999, is still far superior in every way to that shit pile.
And I can't help but to think, - taken this corporation into consideration, and the buyout and all that. Do I really want to see a new mass effect game?
I honestly don't think so. I really don't