*spoilers obviously* but I’m laying out one of my predictions now…
Based on the lovely scene of Mike and El discussing happy endings….Eleven won’t get one. Believe me, it kills me to say this because I love her, but the second she asked if there would be a place like that for them, I knew it couldn’t be. This always happens in movies/shows!
Now, we could go with the classic El dies to save the world story but I will do you one better. If we have to go this route, I want a His Dark Materials ending. Give me a finale where Vecna is destroyed but the only thing keeping the Upside Down from collapsing into the real world is El staying there. Forever. No more gates. No more visits. No more Mike. Because of course he tries to go with but she won’t let him. She could never do that to him. All they have left is flickering lights.
Fuuuuuuuck 2017 Lara would be all over this and would have like 5000 words of angst written up already but 2025 Lara has 2 kids and is pregnant so I’m a little tired. If ANYONE wants to take this idea and roll with it, please do and I would love to read it!!!!
I feel for all of the BF employees being let go...
I worked at a major television network for eight years when I was let go in a swooping “redundancy” layoff that cut about 75% of the staff. It came after we had a company quarterly meeting that promised we were profiting more than ever and that great things were in the future! It came after I moved states to keep my job, because I liked it that much and was promised a future there.
It SUCKS - plain and simple.
But in the wake, I’d love if everyone could make a promise to promote and share whatever it is that their favorite creators do in their next venture. They’re going to need our support as they step away from the Buzzfeed shadow and do something new and unknown.
Hopefully, this is an opportunity for everyone to move on to bigger and better things. I did, in the end! And the last I heard - that TV network is not doing too great.
So, when asked about "bloopers" of the miniseries, Craig did say there are some, but he didn't include it on the blu-ray because he says it would be "disrespectful" and such. Your thoughts?
Ohh that’s a difficult one, personally I would love to see the bloopers because the cast is great and bloopers are funny and charming (also more Jared and Stellan content is always a big yes) but I can definitely see where Craig is coming from, he probably wants to keep the show as meaningful as it is and not include „goofy“ scenes/takes.
...and I CANNOT understand how it got this ridiculous amount of hate.
To be honest, I was disappointed myself when the game released and I heard all those negative things about it but that was mainly cause I had only gotten into the Mass Effect franchise around that time. I entered the BioWare fandom about two years ago with Dragon Age: Inquisition and back then I thought I had found my favourite game of all time. But then I gave Mass Effect a chance because of how popular it was after all these years and I have to say, (sorry Dorian, I love you) it’s the best video game series I’ve ever played. Even a year and a half later, I still think about Shepard’s story and the ending of the games, especially cause they got me through a very rough patch of my life.
I’ve played quite a few different games since then, like Overwatch and Destiny 2, (which both went to hell in the past few months imo) but I still sometimes feel like going back to the trilogy even though I’m lacking the freetime for it. So, when I was desperate for a new experience cause the games I’ve been playing for a while just weren’t enjoyable to me anymore, I checked out Andromeda. Cause even tho it probably had one of the worst releases in gaming history it was still a Mass Effect game. So when I actually found it for 8 bucks, which looking back is more than just ridiculously cheap, I was like okay why not. To be fair, I didn’t expect much at all but after 10 hours into Andromeda I somehow already knew I was gonna enjoy it. And I did. Hell, it’s not the trilogy but I absolutely loved the game and I do not, not even the tiniest bit, understand HOW it got THAT much hate?!
Don’t get me wrong, it had its flaws, a lot of them and I probably don’t even know the full extent of it because I didn’t play it around the release but the stuff I read online is mostly just an absolute shitshow of dumbass arguments of why the game is apparently so bad. The worst part is, it looks like a stupid ass trend to me. Hating Andromeda was a trend. It’s so obvious that such a huge amount of people who shit on the game didn’t even fucking play it.
I understand disappointment, especially after the trilogy but painting it as the worst game of 2017 when it is definitely NOT feels like a bad joke to me. Yes, I prefer the original games as well, but I actually enjoyed Andromeda more than the first Mass Effect. But hey, Mass Effect 3 was my favourite and I actually enjoyed the ending so maybe that’s just me having unpopular opinions, hah.
Anyways, yes, I like Shepard a bit more but I absolutely adore Ryder as well. They were actually a bit more relatable to me because Shep is just this amazingly skilled N7 guy, who knows what he’s doing and even tho he’s an ass and a huge dork sometimes, he’s still this born leader, while Ryder feels more all over the place to me. Maybe that’s because they are younger and you get just thrown into all of this, Shepard does too, but Ryder seems more helpless to me a lot of the time, I don’t know. I definitely enjoyed both of them. Especially because they were both sarcastic idiots but in totally different ways. Both of them had their own humor, their own sarcasm and I loved it.
The characters, your squad from the original trilogy are more interesting to me, yeah. But I can’t really say I adored them as much after the first game already as I did after finishing all three. It all came with the journey. I can see why people think that at first the Tempest crew isn’t that fun but after finishing Andromeda, I can say that they all grew on me a lot and I actually loved their loyalty missions and those cute as hell friendship cutscenes at the end.
When it comes to gameplay I can’t really complain at all because I enjoyed it A LOT. I don’t exactly prefer it over the other Mass Effect gameplay styles cause I think I liked them equally. The combat felt very dynamic to me and that’s probably what I loved most about it and playing as a Biotic was definitely awesome.
Storywise it’s a bit complicated. I DID enjoy the storyline and I don’t think it was nearly as bad as people made it out to be. One of the main things I have to say about it is that it felt, much like the first Mass Effect, like the beginning of something BIG to me and it’s pretty damn obvious that they had a lot of stuff planned for Ryder and the Andromeda galaxy. If we’ll ever get a sequel after all of this... and that’s probably the thing that pisses me off the most. I don’t really think people realized that they basically helped digging Mass Effect’s grave with that absolutely ridiculous amount of unnecessary hate.
Overall it’s just? I don’t get it. Hell, BioWare (or more like EA, big fuck you for that one by the way, you deserve all those Worst Company awards) fucked up and the game did have a lot more potential and I totally understand that compared to the other Mass Effect games it isn’t as good but god damn it, Andromeda is NOT a bad game. Because fuck no, tons of fetching missions, which literally exist in every single RPG out there and some weird facial animations don’t make a game awful.
The thing I appreciate the most is that they listened, they tried to fix the stuff we were mad about, worked on the animations, gave us bi Jaal and that’s more than most companies do nowdays. It doesn’t excuse the fact that they released an unfinished game or that the DLC got cancelled but it’s not exactly the teams fault when they got disbanded and didn’t even have a chance to release any new content.
I loved the vibes of Andromeda, the graphics and visuals were awesome (apart from some facial animations), the soundtrack was great, the planets just looked absolutely stunning, I adored playing as Ryder and to me it just felt like the start of something big, something amazing. And I want more.
People need to get those sticks out their asses and stop being pressed about the fact that it’s not like the trilogy because it was never supposed to be. Shepard’s story is over and I’m glad it doesn’t feel like an imitation of the original BECAUSE even tho it doesn’t, it still feels like a Mass Effect game to me. Yes, it could’ve been better and like I said, it had a lot more potential but that doesn’t mean it was a bad game. The community needs to see Andromeda for what it is: something new. I still believe in the potential of the series and I hope we’ll get a sequel and even after all of this, I trust BioWare and hope that the next Mass Effect will satisfy people the way the trilogy did.
Mass Effect: Andromeda was a good RYDE (hah, I hate myself).
For anyone who has actually read this far: Thank you for taking your time and I totally don’t understand why you did this to yourself but I appreciate it.
