Reminder that it was better than the shit vomit 3

3 was fine

>>380591764
It wasn't though.

2>1>>>>>3>Andromeda

>>380591764
can I pirate it yet

>>380592062
Yeah, it got cracked months ago.

>>380591764
3 is a great mass effect game with story issues. Andromeda is a complete mess.

the only bad side of me3 was ending
>play through 3 games
>romance tali
>Want to live forever with her
>no matter what you do she''ll die

>>380591764
3 is the best in the series for me by far. I liked everything except Palaven and the Earth sections at the start and end, I even liked the ending. I went with the control option, Shepard ascends and becomes a literal god, and the Reapers get put to work rebuilding Earth and the relays, what's not to like? Its the perfect ending for me that I envisioned since I finished the first Mass Effect in that November of 2007. The superb DLC and solid multiplayer are extra icing on the cake.

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You're so fucking wrong

>>380591764
To bed, Bioware. TO BED.

>>380594089
also
>shepard controls the reapers
this makes for a peaceful galaxy, whoever makes war will be obliterated

1 > Eating a foot-long shit sandwich > 3 > 2 > Andromeda

>>380591764
I was thinking about buying this, but have a REALLY bad internet connection. How large is the update patch?

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>>380591764
It really wasn't.

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>>380596763
Larger than your penis.

No it fucking wasn't OP faggot.

Even Mass Effect 3 was better than Andromeda. You'd have to be a completely blatant troll or mentally ill and delusional to think Andromeda isn't the worst of the four by far.

Like, holy shit OP, are you even trying?

>>380591764
but i like 3 more..does this mean i suck for not agreeing with op?

1 > 3 > 2 > Sonic Chronicles > Andromeda

>>380591764
The ending was better because it was just boring instead of straight up insulting.

>>380591764
I think Andromeda was probably worse than 3, but it didn't feel as insulting as 3. They didn't carve out a central character and sell it as day 1 DLC. They didn't absolutely ruin a story they'd been building up over 2 quite good games with a horrific ending.

ME3 was infuriating. Andromeda just wasn't notable.

>>380591764
From what I've seen this game is the JUST of the 8th generation though. In the same category of Ride to Hell, except this was from a AAA studio with money to make something good, which arguably makes it worse.

2> Andromeda > 3 > 1

Anyone who says otherwise has been brainwashed by the /v/ hivemind and is beyond help

>>380600809
You disgust me.

>>380600809
I can agree with that if you're rating them just because of the gun play, because the combat in Andromeda was pretty fun. But the story is beyond generic and I ran out of motivation pretty quickly to do anything.

Andromeda felt like a CW show with shitty dialogue and cringe jokes everywhere, no tension at all when your caracter just jokes around every fucking chance he gets, even when his life is on the line. For real, just imagine ME2 loyalty mission with quips everywhere and you get the point.

The gameplay is good though.

>>380591764

So... i haven't played a single mass effect. I tried one but it was awfully boring combat wise.

This one looks more like vanquish, i liked Vanquish... would i like this? (remember, haven't played the previous ones so i won't be comparing them)

>>380600809
t. jacob

>>380600809
blasphemy

>>380600809
You have poor taste.

The game has good combat and gun play but the the story and characters are subpar.

Everything about it feels like amateur hour with poor oversight. Reading the articles talking about how this game was made and released just confirms what everyone already knew, this game needed AT LEAST another 6 months before it went to full development.

After the shitshow that was the EA Access and the release, everything is pointing to EA just putting everything on ice; no single player DLC and no current plans to start with another game.

I don't feel bad either, I refuse to believe anyone working on the game thinks that it was well done. The did what they could with what they had but it was a lot like Vanilla Destiny; good combat and bad/underdeveloped characters and story.

>>380591764
I don't get this Meme. The last 15 minutes aside and the dumb shit with "walk nearby to an NPC and get a grinding quest" it was a good game. The shooting mechanics and the cover was way better than ME1 and 2, the overall story was better and Shepard was finally a real character and not a bland pattern who can talk.
I really really like 3 and it was objectively not a bad game in any way.

>>380591764
true

very true

MP is also vastly improved. No more hour long matches, more guns are viable (although some are still worthless) and team synergy is vastly improved

.but muh facial expressions!
Don't fucking play as Sara Ryder then. Problem solved. Scott Ryder (and the custom males) are at least 75% less autistic in cutscenes than Sara.

>>380602461
The story in 3 was unbelievably contrived and atrocious.

"WE CAN SOLVE THE GENOPHAGE IN LIKE 20 MINUTES EVEN THOUGH IT'S BEEN A PROBLEM FOR WELL OVER A THOUSAND YEARS JUST FLIP THE SWITCH SHEP"
inexcusable. Rannoch was stupid as fuck too. The game's main issues were because of the story being gutted though. The opening is supposed to be Shepard breaking out of jail as a fugitive, not "le milky way sneak attack". But I digress, you don't know anything about the series if you liked the story in 3 so I am not going to bother. 3 is pure, liquid shit. Barring MP.

>>380591764
At least 3 was shit enough that it warranted a discussion. It DID do some things right, but the subpar writing and rushed nature of it held it back.

Andromeda is worse because it has virtually nothing going for it except visuals and gameplay. It's just another generic EA game with no substance.

>>380591764
Not really. At least 3 didn't require any kind of menial busy work to get it over with.

>>380603245

It just didn't feel like a Bioware game. Which, to be fair, it really wasn't.

>>380595859
>People who don't do what they're told get obliterated
>This is somehow peaceful in anon's mind
Nigger you what?

ME3 was also a total fucking mess even ignoring the ending. Cerberus is the main villain? Fuck that shit where the hell do they get the hardware, how the fuck do they manage the logistics, even if their manpower gets (extremely poorly) explained (lul mind control) it's just full retard and makes every race look absurdly moronic and incompetent.

Most older characters get completely fucked, Kai Leng is a fucking joke that never ends, the stupid little boy slow walking segments, it's all fucking dumb as shit right from the start onward.

>>380593497
what? i thought you could save her

>>380600809
This

>>380600809
What a bad taste

>>380603664
She only dies if you side with clankers or bring her along for the final mission while doing everything wrong.

>>380603525
I think that Inquisition suffered from the same problem, but that might've just been me

>>380603823
honestly, I was reading what anon said and was very confused. no character dies if you do everything you can.
I reconciled the Geth and Quarians and Tali lived.

>>380603049
You had to have ignored everything related to Mordin in Mass Effect 2 and 3 to be this stupid

>>380603245
>virtually nothing going for it
The worst thing I can say is that squadmates are not direct controllable but I think it will be added in an update.

It has a lot going for it. I began to really like characters I hated at first. It has a phenomenal soundstage (play this shit with a subwoofer or some good headphones). The galaxy map in this game is the only videogame I have ever seen that replicates movie theatre base and can literally overwhelm home theatre systems. Although there are audio issues mostly to do with ambient noises people make in dialogue sections.

Speaking of which, the soundtrack in this game is phenomenal, but understated compared to some of the previous entries. There are some stellar combat tracks.

You have extreme customization of skills. guns and playstyle but as yet, retarded AI partners.

I loved the game. So did my 3 Mass Effect buds.

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>>380603972
>Mordin is space Jesus
Wow great argument. Care to explain why you consider "le Shroud" to be a competent excuse for an event that SHOULD NOT HAPPEN? Why would you write out the most interesting social concept in your entire series? It's bad writing to just flip the switch. And forcing Mordin to die for it is even worse. It's fucking silly.

>>380603948
There's some characters whose deaths make the story feel more dramatic.
Killing Mording, then Wrex, makes for some great tragic "I need to do awful things if I want the galaxy to survive" for Shepard. Especially on a paragon playthrough.

>>380603591
ME1 was good, 2 improved gameplay but story didn't get anywhere, and 3 had less gameplay improvements than 2 and had more, but shittier story.


Mass Effect 1 with gameplay from 3 would be best mass effect but as it stands ME1 was the best and the others just rode the hype it created

>>380604457
Killing Mordin, then confesing to Garrus and having him understand why you had to do it is some really great writing that I'm sorry more players didn't get to experience.
Damn I miss Garrus, need to play some Fallout 4 now.

>>380595998
This

reminder this is superior to P5 in every way and it's still mediocre at best.

>>380604457
>muh Drama
You realize Shepard is supposed to be a galactic fugitive and being hunted by the Aliiance for the first half of the game? This is a big reason why Cerberus being everywhere makes so little sense. It's because you're supposed to be fighting the Alliance most places and riding around in a stolen Normandy.

Even the little boy sequences, these were supposed to be player specific flashbacks to Akuze, or Mindoir. The boy is Orphan Earthborn Shepard and was meant to show parentless Shepard as being fragile and in need of support. But they scrapped all the different backgrounds and fucked the ending too.

You probably don't even know that they scrapped the finished Illusive Man boss fight from the end of the game during the final 48 hours of development because of corss platform issues. The game is the result of compromise, not passion. The story is a mess because it is not even what the makers intended. You are a fool if you found anything salvageable.

>>380595859
Yeah absolute power in the hands of some soldier dude couldn't possibly go wrong

>>380591764
Reminder that the kids who played ME3 when they were 12 and loved it are now 18 and posting on /v/.

ME3 is not a "great game with 15 minutes of bad ending." It was a horrible mass effect game the whole way through.

Haven't touched Andromeda, but it does look worse, amazingly.

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>>380604996
I thought they scrapped illusive man boss fight because it was too video gamey

>>380605064
>hur shepard is just a soldier hur
depends upon the character you played
i played as a good guy who wants to make the galaxy a better place

Reminder that I must control board opinion

false
3 had the characters you knew and loved, even if they butchered a few
androgynous has nothing

>>380603664
i comitted a mistake, i meant you die, none of the endings let you live

>>380592062
Why would you, though?

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>>380591764
3 was fine until the ending, ME: androgynous has nearly no redeeming factors

>>380604996
Got any source on that, bro?
Also, did you really wanna fight TIM? That would be retarded as fuck, he was a intelectual enemy not a physical one, fighting him makes no sense, thematically.

>>380591764
I like it better on the grounds of at least when I got Andromeda I got the whole fucking thing (as far as I know at least.) Major portions of the story weren't locked behind DLC paygates like in 3.

>>380605803
Is this photo supposed to make me mad or anything, because 6 women work in a company with hundreds of employees?

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2>1>3>cwc's smegma>androgynous

>>380605960
No you got 1/3 of a story that won't have any conclusion in the near future thanks to the shit reception that MEA earned for itself.

>>380591764
ME3 is probably the best in the series. It had the best gameplay and the multiplayer kept me occupied more than the subpar singleplayer experiences ME1/ME2 provided. Not sure where this "ME3 is shit" bandwagon comes from.

>>380605397
That was the PR excuse. Devs revealed, slowly, over time, that "certain" missing content was cut because they could not delay game and PS3 version was having issues with certain shit.

>>380605861
Stories need climaxes. And videogames need gameplay climaxes where your skills are pushed, or there is a time limit, etc etc. harbinger is directly controlling the Illusive Man who has had reaper tech in his body for 35 years. He goes full Saren. The devs made sure to make his Reaper version reflect his character traits.

The point is this:

Wouldn't you rather have a 10-15 minute battle with Martin Sheen screaming at you? Wouldn't you rather have Harbinger frothing at the mouth? Sovereign was effectively killed by the player squad in ME1 through Saren's body (never really explained) but it feels like a proper ending. I must also say that the end of a SERIES of games has no choice but to have a bossfight,

Now that mass Effect is "on ice", there is a pretty good chance gameplay footage will finally leak of this fucking fight.

>>380605803
hang yourself
>fine until the ending

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>>380605974
surely bioware hires based on competence and not on diversity and political correctness.
if u can't see what's wrong with it you're part of the problem

>2 superior to 1
When did /v/ acquire such shit taste?

>>380606587
You just want to control other people's opinions.

>>380606398
Again, pic says they got perfect score. So they got judged on competence like you deman.

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>>380606397
>And videogames need gameplay climaxes where your skills are pushed, or there is a time limit
>Wouldn't you rather have a 10-15 minute battle with Martin Sheen screaming at you?
>Wouldn't you rather have Harbinger frothing at the mouth?
>I must also say that the end of a SERIES of games has no choice but to have a bossfight
Fucking kek your autism gave me a good chuckle. If you're not being ironic then please hang yourself for the good of mankind.

>>380606671
But 1 is objectively better

>>380591764

Never played a MA game.
Should i play this or should i wait for Anthem or Beyond G&E 2 to experience a decent sci fi game?

>>380606996
And you're really insecure about it.

>>380607090
It just that ME2 makes me mad

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>>380606689
they were so perfect that Andromeda was critically acclaimed and was a smashing success right? also modern bioware games aren't infested with sjw pandering right? , here's the lead facial animator a cosplayer with no experience,wonder how she got her job

>>380606830
Yes anon, series should end with no climax just like MGSV, such brilliance. Wouldn't it be so special and difference to ignore gameplay flow and momentum and just cut the game off and use color coded endings man that is true brilliance and in no way video gamey.

>>380607089
Sci-fi itself is already a subpar genre, both in literature and other media. A good sci-fi game is a contradiction.

>no andromeda single player DLC
fuck me, it's literally all I wanted from E3

>>380607136
Get out of the house more.

>>380607197
>lead facial animator
But she wasn't, This was debunked.

>>380591764
Lolno.
Mass Effect 3 was return to form after the abysmal, series ruining, Gears of Mass 2: The filler corridor shooter.

>>380607327
>return to form
>entire game you fight zombies
>no enemies have powers other than the female Cerberus
>no tactics needed
>don't need to plan
>just keep shooting the worthless enemies, goyim

>>380593497
Yes, Shep dies in every path but sometimes you don't have the super perfect choice and have to make the best out of a bad situation.
It was refreshing.

>>380607209
ME3 does have a climax though. Whether you think it's shit or not it exists. You should look up what a climax is, the dictionary definition isn't "boss fight".

I like to pretend the series ended with 1

1 had a lot of problems but instead of improving it they just changed direction completely

>>380607319
are you seriously defending nu-bioware's incompetence due to sjw pandering?

>>380607197
If you'd have read that behind the scenes story on Shitaku you'd know the problem was they had too few animators, not neccesarily bad ones.

>>380607197
>REEEEE IT'S A GIRL
>REEEEE SHE'S ATTRACTIVE
>REEEEE SHE HAS A HIGHLY IN DEMAND SKILL
>REEEEE I AM A NECKBEARD
this is how you sound right now.

>>380607509
Worst taste.
Go play cod.

>>380607197
>M-MUH SJW BOOGEYMAN
Graduate from high school first underage-kun.

>>380607567
Shep lives in the Red ending if you did well enough (needs almost perfect game if you don't do multiplayer stuff)

>>380607980
CoD is more challenging and has more interesting gameplay than any RPG

is it true that there's a secret ending in me3 which shepard survives?

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>>380607889
it's not that she's attractive, it's more like putting unqualified people in charge of huge projects just because of affirmative action. if she was qualified

>>380607665
Video games require a climax of player input, anon.

Sorry you don't understand anything beyond middle school English class.

>>380608041

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIQu1yROUo4

fuck off tranny

>>380595998
>3 better than 2

Nope.

>>380607980
ME3 is basically MASS EFFECT ZOMBIES so I do not know why you defend it. Again, the enemies do not use tech or biotic powers. They are inferior on every level to the enemies fought in Mass Effect 2, where you had to plan out every mission with the proper guns and squadmates or you were fucked (unless of course you did not play on Insanity, and if not, why am I even talking to you about ME2)

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>>380608290
???

There is a climax with player input in ME3 though. You sure you played the game?

>tfw EA sacrificed Mass Effect for a shitty Destiny clone

>>380608146
see >>380608048

>>380608048
>what is save editor

>>380608572
Fighting 3 or 4 banshees next to those missile launchers is a pretty weak climax. The beam run isn't even a QTE, it's just a gameplay headfake.

>>380608362
Stop shilling your youtube channel son, you're going to have to find a real job sooner or later.

>>380608719
fuck off tranny

Reapers where a mistake, reapers made it so that the only possible ending for the series was the one we got or one where organic life dies.

>>380604534
>but as it stands ME1 was the best
ME1 was the worst

>>380608703
>he still thinks the climax of a game is shooting enemies
I'll spoonfeed you this one time. The climax of ME3 occurs around the final Illusive Man conversation and the actual starbrat conversation. Both of which require player input and can't be completed without it.

>>380608669
Why even play then? Just flip the save flag for "Game completed" you're done.

>>380593497
>the only bad side of me3 was ending
Only retards with shit standards say this.

>>380608583
Lets be real, they ditched it because they see more futute on multiplayer game than on single player narrative.
Andromeda tanking hard simply reinforced this belief.

Not to mention they could probably milk anthem for a decade, simply by trickling content every 4-6 months and making a cash shops for different suits and skins

>>380591764
It really wasn't. Actually it was so bad that I stopped playing after the second planet and went to replay the original mass effect for the first time in ten years and it shit all over it. I'm having a blast with it (except exploring planets. Fucking hills are the god damn worst with the mako).

>>380600708
>take the beloved franchise, give it to C-rate developer, with no quality control, just because you expect fans will preorder it anyway
>not insulting

>>380605749
check again destroy ending fag

>>380607250

I disagree. Sci fi can be a really interesting genre and there are some really good sci fi movies out there.

> Brazil
> Never let me go
> Predestination
> Matrix
> Blade Runner
> Dark City
> Minority Report
> Back to the future
> Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
> Alien
> Terminator 2

I could go on but i think you get the point... I haven't actually played many Sci fi games that i actually consider good though...

>>380610351
but its true, you die

>>380610467
with enough meme war assets shep can survive destroy ending

>>380610698
yeah i heard, how many i need?

>>380605749
>>380610351
>>380610467
it seems that they changed one part of the destroy ending in the extended cut, because before extended cut it was implied that Sheppard survived after the destroy ending.

https://youtu.be/6AdWqlsQjWo?t=270

>>380591764
You're right, this one was so shit the whole series is now ded. Thanks andromeda I no longer have to watch this series die slowly anymore.

>>380610856
so now he dies always?

Could someone tell me what the point is to playing a RPG that has:

A) A ruined universe
B) Confirmed for never ever getting a sequel

So what exactly is the draw now to Andromeda? Why should anyone play it even if some bugs are fixed?

>>380610793
Full war asset and 100% galactic readiness

>>380609328
There's nothing 'climactic' about choosing A, B or C. Or in the case of ME3, red, blue or green.

>>380610981
>he didn't read my post
Enjoy the (You)s I guess.

>>380610954
At first I thought so but the wiki says otherwise.

>>380610962
you don't need 100% after EC, you can ignore multiplayer
>>380610793
something above 5k
>>380610856
lol wut? He/she can survive before EC and after EC you just need enough war assets

It was demonstrably worse than 3, something that both diehard Mass Effect fans and Bioware haters agree on. The only improvement made was to the combat, and that’s faint praise at best since people don't play Bioware games for that.

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>>380611278
To see Sheppard alive after the destroy ending you need 3100+ EMS.

EMS= War Assets * Readiness Rating

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>>380591764

I've never completed a Mass Effect game. I got fairly far in ME1 I think but gave up and watched the ending on Youtube. I played probably 1/5th of ME2 (maybe not even that), up to the nightclub asari chick and getting garrus, but was too lazy to finish. I started ME3 but the animations and graphics looked terrible to me, didn't even get remotely far enough to be disappointed with the ending. I played the ME Andromeda Trial on Origin, and I liked the graphics but the gameplay was tedious and the writing was absolutely dreadful.

I've revisited ME1 and 2 twice but still didn't progress far. Mass Effect just isn't my cup of tea, I guess.

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>>380606398

unironically want to fuck the one on the left

>>380591764
No it´s not.
You don´t even need to watch any of the videos titled "why andromeda was such a pile of trash", you only needed to play the game for the free trial.

>>380591764
>Reminder that it was better than the shit vomit 3

>I-its not that bad guys its not even as bad as their last game

>keeps throwing their money at the company responsible for the rape and death of one of my favorite franchises

i hope someone smashes your head in with a blunt object

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>>380607889
wew all that projection god damn,take it easy son

OP is a faggot

1>2>3>>>>>>>>shit>Andromeda

1 is shit cause i cant romance tali
only shit tier ashley and that disgusting blue futanari

>>380591764
3 is one of those rare instances were the parts are greater than the sum of said parts. Great chapters weaved together poorly.

There's not a single moment in Andromeda that surpasses anything from the previous games.

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>>380591764
Wrong.
Me3 had many terrible aspects, and the retards who say it was good until the end need to be gassed, but it had some good parts.
The Tuchanka arc, the voice acting (mostly), the gunplay and power system and some of the banter was decent, an Squat slabthrust was a surprisingly decent companion.
That's not to say it's a good game. They didn't offset abortions like the general standard of sidequests, the railroaded conversations, the butchery they did to the Geth/Quarian conflict and Cerberus, the ending is still terrible, and The Crucible remains one of the worst Deus Ex machinas I've ever seen.

Andromeda varied from bad to bland, which is far worse.
The only thing you can say is that the sheer incompetence it revealed is the best goldmine of hilarity this year.

>>380591764
1 > 3

2 and Andromeda are spin-off games that I couldn't care less about.

>andromeda was better than 3 guys
face it, you made a game that was so shit ea closed bioware montreal and put you in the welfare line

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>Best girl
>Can't romance her
Not cool Bioware

not col

>>380604996
>The game is the result of compromise, not passion
Every game is a result of a compromise. Only indie devs not beholden to release dates are free to be passionate about their projects. Not that being passionate about a project is relevant.

>>380606397
Their intention with the ending was to have people still talking about it years later. It worked. Just not the way they intended.

3 was good until the ending, though. Then the ending pulls it down 5 points.

>>380609676
>Ties up the game beautifully
>Continues your fantastic journey to divert the huge threat
>The only time i second guess the game is within the last 20 minutes.
Kill your