Re: Andromeda, as I mentioned elsewhere lately, I think it's actually a very underrated game that became fashionable to hate. Some of the criticisms were valid and having rifled through the game's assets it would appear that someone ineptly altered a whole bunch of stuff in a manner that can only be described as vandalism, and they did indeed seem to specifically target female characters. I've attempted to undo some of the damage in my own game but it's quite difficult as a lot of the changes are practically impossible to fix due to stuff just being destroyed; I can only assume that the originals were also destroyed (and presumably inadequately backed up) and there wasn't time to redo them.
Other than that, though, my opinion is that most of the game is actually well-designed and well-written. There's a lot of it, plenty to explore, plenty of side-quests and I found the characters to be engaging and interesting. It seems a bunch of other gripes were down to EA's usual pressured release schedule causing a lot of stuff to be cut, some of it ending up seeming quite incongruous as a result, but a lot of the rough edges have been dealt with by subsequent patches.
It's a bit sad that it seems that EA/Bioware practically abandoned it before it had even hit the shelves though the problems I describe with the apparent "vandalism" may have been a significant factor in that decision. I'm speculating and I suspect we'll never know the real reason but it seems not unlikely.
I'm currently having a rather belated second play-through and I'm finally running out of steam after two or three weeks, but that's not so much Andromeda as me just not really being in a Mass Effect mood. I'd sooner play it than ME3 or even ME2, though.
Last edited by vometia; 15/04/20 09:34 AM.
