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Post by izut on Jan 13, 2019 13:41:13 GMT
I decided to do 2 romances this year. My 1st (full) pt was Peebee, 2nd (not finished) was Peebee, 3rd (not finished was Jaal). So this year I intend to do 2 full pts: 1) Jaal, 2) Suvi. I was gonna do Peebee but I always end up going back to Vetra. I've never tried Vetra  Too bad I can't romance Cora, only if I'd play as Scott (which I tried and failed right after reaching 1st planet). |
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Post by * on Jan 13, 2019 15:04:35 GMT
I was gonna do Peebee but I always end up going back to Vetra. I've never tried Vetra Too bad I can't romance Cora, only if I'd play as Scott (which I tried and failed right after reaching 1st planet). Vetra is a slow burn but she has me hooked lol. |
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Jan 13, 2019 18:53:19 GMT
I swore not to do any of the heterosexual romances in Andromeda as a protest of how the M/M romances were handled, and I will stick with that. But, truth to tell, of the heterosexual options for M!Ryder (not comfortable playing female PCs and all), Vetra's really the only one who I feel any real sense of regret on missing out.
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Post by * on Jan 13, 2019 19:26:00 GMT
I swore not to do any of the heterosexual romances in Andromeda as a protest of how the M/M romances were handled, and I will stick with that. But, truth to tell, of the heterosexual options for M!Ryder (not comfortable playing female PCs and all), Vetra's really the only one who I feel any real sense of regret on missing out. Yea still to this day I wouldn't have finished the game if she wasn't an option. She just reinforced how much I love Turians. |
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Post by dmc1001 on Jan 15, 2019 19:14:52 GMT
I swore not to do any of the heterosexual romances in Andromeda as a protest of how the M/M romances were handled, and I will stick with that. But, truth to tell, of the heterosexual options for M!Ryder (not comfortable playing female PCs and all), Vetra's really the only one who I feel any real sense of regret on missing out. I hear you but I'd still rather go with Reyes or Gil (sorry, Jaal fans, but I'm human-centric) than a female. I've dated one or two girls in my life and am not eager to do so again. If I were that upset about the m/m romances I would just not romance anyone. |
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Post by izut on Jan 31, 2019 19:03:47 GMT
When I'll have that bare chest scene with Jaal and Liam, should I use flirting option? I'm trying to romance Jaal, of course.
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Post by lilyena on Jan 31, 2019 19:08:23 GMT
When I'll have that bare chest scene with Jaal and Liam, should I use flirting option? I'm trying to romance Jaal, of course. You can, but it doesn't affect Jaal's romance at all. It's a cute line though. I think it's more aimed at Liam's romance, but it doesn't start a romance with him or anything either. I think I've taken that line in every game except for my Suvi-mancer. |
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Post by izut on Jan 31, 2019 19:14:25 GMT
When I'll have that bare chest scene with Jaal and Liam, should I use flirting option? I'm trying to romance Jaal, of course. You can, but it doesn't affect Jaal's romance at all. It's a cute line though. I think it's more aimed at Liam's romance, but it doesn't start a romance with him or anything either. I think I've taken that line in every game except for my Suvi-mancer. Thank you! I've never tried it before and I really needed to know if it'll work with Jaal's romance or unlock the unwanted one with Liam I'll use it now for sure. |
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Post by Lee on Jan 31, 2019 19:36:24 GMT
I swore not to do any of the heterosexual romances in Andromeda as a protest of how the M/M romances were handled, and I will stick with that. But, truth to tell, of the heterosexual options for M!Ryder (not comfortable playing female PCs and all), Vetra's really the only one who I feel any real sense of regret on missing out. #late to the party I think I have a similar issue with playing as Sara at all in the fact that after the mess we had getting Jaal-I feel like anything else is just a betrayal of all the time and effort so many put into convincing BioWare to do the right thing. Though to be fair, none of the other romances are all that good. So it's lucky that Jaal is the romance I wanted the most anyway. Cora and Peebee were the only other 2 to get decent content, but that content doesn't appeal to me for obvious reasons. |
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Post by * on Feb 21, 2019 18:18:36 GMT
So as much as I'm enjoying anthem the amount of bugs shows once again the game was rushed. This brings me back to Andromeda and the question of was there a sacrifice and was it worth it. I can say right now no I don't think it was worth it. I don't know what's going on in Bioware but these rushed games are severely damaging it's reputation and I worry about a pattern forming with dragon age 4 upcoming. Hopefully they don't give the Andromeda treatment to anthem but I have growing concerns about dragon age 4.
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Feb 22, 2019 0:56:51 GMT
It's probably more EA, rather than something going on at BioWare - my guess revolves around the idea that TO BIOWARE, Anthem was meant to be a fun little throwback to their days doing multiplayer games, back at the start of the company (Shattered Steel, I believe), now that tech has caught up to a lot of the dreams of those developing these games. But when EA learned about the concept, they saw a competitor with games like Destiny and Overwatch, which are making their publishers pretty good money. So EA pushes for this to be the big focus for BioWare, demanding Edmonton, the main studio, develop it, while Andromeda ended up at the satellite studio, rather than the other way around, because EA wanted to seize on the multiplayer/battle royale game boom before the bubble pops.
Because EA destroys studios and tears them apart after they've demanded they cut the schedule, slash the budget, and do the things that the studio in question isn't actually familiar with. And when that proves to sour the audience, EA dissolves the studio, because it must be THEIR fault, not EA's, never EA's.
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Post by mediocreogre on Feb 22, 2019 1:41:00 GMT
So as much as I'm enjoying anthem the amount of bugs shows once again the game was rushed. This brings me back to Andromeda and the question of was there a sacrifice and was it worth it. I can say right now no I don't think it was worth it. I don't know what's going on in Bioware but these rushed games are severely damaging it's reputation and I worry about a pattern forming with dragon age 4 upcoming. Hopefully they don't give the Andromeda treatment to anthem but I have growing concerns about dragon age 4. MEA was most definitely mismanaged. The team was talented enough to make a satisfying game had they not wasted 3 years of dev time on procedurally generated planets. Anthem is still a big question mark to me as to what happened, might just be they were struggling with how to do a game like Anthem but I feel like there has to have been another issue. Some people say BW is weirdly terrible with Frostbite but I kinda doubt that. DA4.... god. Who knows. Sad times for fans of BW IPs. |
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Post by * on Feb 22, 2019 2:01:25 GMT
So as much as I'm enjoying anthem the amount of bugs shows once again the game was rushed. This brings me back to Andromeda and the question of was there a sacrifice and was it worth it. I can say right now no I don't think it was worth it. I don't know what's going on in Bioware but these rushed games are severely damaging it's reputation and I worry about a pattern forming with dragon age 4 upcoming. Hopefully they don't give the Andromeda treatment to anthem but I have growing concerns about dragon age 4. MEA was most definitely mismanaged. The team was talented enough to make a satisfying game had they not wasted 3 years of dev time on procedurally generated planets. Anthem is still a big question mark to me as to what happened, might just be they were struggling with how to do a game like Anthem but I feel like there has to have been another issue. Some people say BW is weirdly terrible with Frostbite but I kinda doubt that. DA4.... god. Who knows. Sad times for fans of BW IPs. I don't know much about game engines but it seems like frostbite isn't meant for these kinds of expansive games. It's either that or bioware is really bad at using it lol. Or maybe its both or maybe its neither. I have no idea. |
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Post by mediocreogre on Feb 22, 2019 2:30:09 GMT
MEA was most definitely mismanaged. The team was talented enough to make a satisfying game had they not wasted 3 years of dev time on procedurally generated planets. Anthem is still a big question mark to me as to what happened, might just be they were struggling with how to do a game like Anthem but I feel like there has to have been another issue. Some people say BW is weirdly terrible with Frostbite but I kinda doubt that. DA4.... god. Who knows. Sad times for fans of BW IPs. I don't know much about game engines but it seems like frostbite isn't meant for these kinds of expansive games. It's either that or bioware is really bad at using it lol. Or maybe its both or maybe its neither. I have no idea. I think it is probably a case of “that reason and this reason.” We’ll see though. I’m still not ruling out EA being soul crushing because they were waaaay to suspicious with the “EA is not the evil empire” PR that BW did. |
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Post by * on Feb 22, 2019 2:51:23 GMT
I don't know much about game engines but it seems like frostbite isn't meant for these kinds of expansive games. It's either that or bioware is really bad at using it lol. Or maybe its both or maybe its neither. I have no idea. I think it is probably a case of “that reason and this reason.” We’ll see though. I’m still not ruling out EA being soul crushing because they were waaaay to suspicious with the “EA is not the evil empire” PR that BW did. Well the plus side is bioware is working their ass off to fix all the bugs in anthem so "hopefully" once all those are knocked out the game will do pretty damn good I think. |
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Post by Lee on Feb 22, 2019 3:28:43 GMT
It's going to need a hell of a lot more than bug fixes to save it form the reviews I saw last night.
Back on actual topic, Mass Effect Andromeda is living proof that fixing almost every major issue is not enough to turn the sea of negativity once the storm hits.
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Post by * on Feb 22, 2019 4:01:34 GMT
It's going to need a hell of a lot more than bug fixes to save it form the reviews I saw last night. Back on actual topic, Mass Effect Andromeda is living proof that fixing almost every major issue is not enough to turn the sea of negativity once the storm hits. I'd argue andromeda had to live up to the juggernaut that was the mass effect trilogy whereas anthem is its own thing. I think it has more room for failure because people are VERY protective over mass effect. |
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Post by Lee on Feb 22, 2019 4:20:32 GMT
It's going to need a hell of a lot more than bug fixes to save it form the reviews I saw last night. Back on actual topic, Mass Effect Andromeda is living proof that fixing almost every major issue is not enough to turn the sea of negativity once the storm hits. I'd argue andromeda had to live up to the juggernaut that was the mass effect trilogy whereas anthem is its own thing. I think it has more room for failure because people are VERY protective over mass effect. Fair or not, many BioWare fans blame Andromeda's failures on Anthem-so the game itself has a large cloud over it going in. I would say it's not getting the fresh start it should get-and probably have gotten had it been done by another company or even another branch of EA. BioWare's still in hot water for dropping mass Effect Andromeda before it was done, and then not supporting it with dlc or more fixes. |
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Feb 22, 2019 4:21:35 GMT
It's going to need a hell of a lot more than bug fixes to save it form the reviews I saw last night. Back on actual topic, Mass Effect Andromeda is living proof that fixing almost every major issue is not enough to turn the sea of negativity once the storm hits. I'd argue andromeda had to live up to the juggernaut that was the mass effect trilogy whereas anthem is its own thing. I think it has more room for failure because people are VERY protective over mass effect. A fair point, but I think there are going to be a lot of angry Mass Effect fans going "you killed Mass Effect for THIS?"
Like yeah, a good chunk of the hate for Andromeda came from people trying to compare Ryder's story to Shepard's, an inherently losing proposition, but then... What's the hate gonna be like considering that Anthem is viewed as the reason that the b-team got Andromeda AND led to its shelving?
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Post by * on Feb 22, 2019 4:29:34 GMT
So I think in summary its damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Also yea I'm about as huge a mass effect fan as anyone but I guess I'm willing to have bioware try something new. It's just unfortunate how we got here.
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Too bad I can't romance Cora, only if I'd play as Scott (which I tried and failed right after reaching 1st planet).
