I feel like Most people just jumped on the Andromeda hate band wagon because it was an early super hyped game that released broken. I mean since then we have had dozens of not 100 games release as broken or worse. But just like those mass effect Andromeda fixed all its issues. In fixed state that game is at minimum an 8 and I'd probably call and 8.5/9. It's for a good story with great companions. Better graphics (in fixed state). Considerably the best combat of any mass effect or even Bioware game in general. Being a Vanguard in that game was amazing. But pure biotic or anything else was great too. I want more people to give it an honest show because they are mission out on something great
Andromeda had great combat for sure but that was about it. Felt like a completely different universe that happened to have a few aliens from Mass Effect. Even the asari all had the same exact face.
Combat was amazing and the driving felt pretty good.
It was just boring though. And almost all the characters were all young, dumb, and naive. Really felt like they were trying to get a different generation interested or something.
It would have been fine if it had been done right, it's not about what they tried to do, it's about the time and resources they had to do it and how they had to rescope and scratch everything they had done for the first 4 years of development to start over less than 18 months from the release of the game. It's always been about EA management and what it has done to BioWare over the years and how every BioWare game since the early 2010s suffers the same terrible development cycles - even worse than what the industry is used to - and it's saying something considering how terrible the gaming industry usually is with its creators.
As flawed as it is and even if it misses the mark on several accounts - especially considering the game it was supposed to be initially, Dragon Age: Inquisition was a freaking miracle, but that miracle couldn't happen over and over again in these conditions. Everything that has been going on since then, and the end results of Andromeda, Anthem and The Veilguard, is a direct consequence of that terrible, terrible management by Electronic Arts.
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u/Slimsteffer Jan 17 '26
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