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Post by Scottphoto on May 14, 2019 14:45:35 GMT
Ugh reaching the last parts of this game frustrate me cuz the game gets so good and leaves me wanting that sequel. I really like the Jardaan reveal and want to see more of that. Also, I was always confused about the kett and anagarans but now I get it, though their armies may be transformed angarans, the Archon himself is an original kett, they are being transform by his image. But seriously I want more story  |
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Post by dgcatanisiri on May 14, 2019 19:31:14 GMT
I had a theory some time back about the kett, actually. Let me just copy/paste my Tumblr post... Well now there’s a connection…
So, I realize I’m writing this while everyone is talking Dragon Age, but… I had a thought about Mass Effect. Specifically, the kett.
Back in Mass Effect 2, EDI said the prothean genome had been radically altered to make them into the Collectors. Javik will say in Mass Effect 3 that the protheans believing in “the cosmic imperative,” that evolution was the only force in the galaxy that mattered. Mass Effect Andromeda has the kett and the Archon looking into genetics of species, adding the useful genetic structures of aliens into their own, and bringing others into their “perfection.” And the kett are not native to Heleus.
What if the kett are descended from protheans who fled the Milky Way, fifty thousand years ago, using genetic manipulations to both prolong their lives and make themselves ‘unpalatable’ to the Reapers as they tried turning their people into Collectors? The kett speak of exaltation as if it saved them from destruction - if the imperialistic protheans who forced all their subjects to take the name prothean felt they were dying out, converting others to be like them, as they meddled with their genome… I mean, that doesn’t sound out of the question. And, as they encountered the native species of Andromeda, they continued their conquest - the Reapers become an ancient boogeyman in the face of the new environment of another galaxy, one free of the Reapers. They add these new genomes to their own, and, fifty thousand years later, they believe they’ve always been there. The protheans believed they were the apex of civilization, the kett see all others as “amoeba.”
And, on a thematic level, I think this would work - it makes the protheans a connective tissue between the trilogy and Andromeda, in this thing that came from the Milky Way and the narrative of the trilogy, and it also means that the Initiative is here to clean up the mess left behind from the previous cycle.
Until and unless another Mass Effect game comes along to contradict this, I LIKE this theory and want to build on it. Not that I’m not willing to be proven wrong in a subsequent Mass Effect, but… I mean, with Dragon Age 4 going to take another three years, so any future Mass Effect game is a minimum of five years away, probably closer to ten… Hey, I get to say this is where the story goes. |
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Post by Lee on May 26, 2019 6:38:41 GMT
I find it kind of funny that Drack has a romance path in a way. Not really, but he has 2 scenes that could be the equivalent of a lock-in moment that all the romances have (the Bar fight, and the doctor visit) Then he gets another scene of board games where the actual love interest gets the sex scene. Then in the postgame, you get to meet his grandkids/eggs. (assuming you gave Morda the drive core and saved his scouts). Still, wish that they would have actually shown the eggs not just show Ryder looking at them. I'm curious to know what Krogan eggs look like.  He's the companion with the most content almost-and it makes me kind of sad that the romances that were not in the trio of blessed ones got less content than even Drack.  |
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Post by Lee on Jul 3, 2019 11:24:12 GMT
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Post by disgustednoise on Aug 3, 2019 11:47:11 GMT
As bitter as I am about Andromeda being abandoned, playing the OT really makes me want to replay it because I've been spoiled by the combat. Literally pulling and enemy toward me and then throwing them at another enemy is probably the most satisfying feeling I've ever had in a video game besides Spartan kicking someone off a cliff in Odyssey.
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Post by Scottphoto on Apr 29, 2020 7:39:55 GMT
I find it kind of funny that Drack has a romance path in a way. Not really, but he has 2 scenes that could be the equivalent of a lock-in moment that all the romances have (the Bar fight, and the doctor visit) Then he gets another scene of board games where the actual love interest gets the sex scene. Then in the postgame, you get to meet his grandkids/eggs. (assuming you gave Morda the drive core and saved his scouts). Still, wish that they would have actually shown the eggs not just show Ryder looking at them. I'm curious to know what Krogan eggs look like. He's the companion with the most content almost-and it makes me kind of sad that the romances that were not in the trio of blessed ones got less content than even Drack. Its why I wanted Drack as a romance XD, it felt like the character I felt most close to. And I think one of ryder’s unexpected close mentors of his journey. It was really a fresh take on a krogan character. But it would not surprise me he was being set up for a sad moment in future stories probably. |
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Post by Lee on May 21, 2020 3:38:04 GMT
I took this shot for all the guys that used to lust after a certain doctor pre-launch. lol!
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Post by Davrin's boobs on May 21, 2020 6:20:09 GMT
I took this shot for all the guys that used to lust after a certain doctor pre-launch. lol! I wish Reyes had this CC face instead of what we got lol no offense to Reyes fans (Numai dont ban me lol) |
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Post by Lee on May 21, 2020 8:13:59 GMT
I wish Reyes had this CC face instead of what we got lol no offense to Reyes fans (Numai dont ban me lol) He does have one of the best NPC faces for sure! With Reyes's voice, he'd be highly deadly! |
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Post by turianlannister on Jun 17, 2020 23:17:43 GMT
ME3 and Andromeda have been added to Steam
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Post by Rouccoco on Dec 8, 2020 14:54:24 GMT
Everyone is long done with this game, so of course this is the moment I start playing.
I’ve finished Eos, Havarl, and Voeld. Combat is great, the nomad is great. The writing is a mixed bag, but that was always the case with ME.
The only things that especially stand out compared to the trilogy is the galaxy map (the transitions are excruciating) and the bugs. I biotic charged at an architect and the game freaked out. Got stuck sideways just below the ground...
Trying to romance Jaal, but instead of heart icons he has buddy icons, not sure if I messed up already.
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Post by lilyena on Dec 9, 2020 20:05:03 GMT
I am working on another play through right now.  I think he has buddy icons for the first couple flirt options and then it changes to a heart once you advance far enough. I guess I've gotten lucky with bugs, because I really haven't noticed many. Nothing game breaking, just things like the 'open mike' at the Nexus bar not working and other things like that that are annoying. |
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Post by Rouccoco on Dec 9, 2020 20:53:30 GMT
Yeah, I've gotten his first heart icon, so I'm good.
I'm not getting game-breaking bugs (I somehow got unstuck from the ground that one time), but this is really a state I've never seen from BW, especially so long after the launch. Characters t-posing, camera getting stuck misaligned, the scanner not working in some side tasks (like one of the 5 Voeld "scan X of something and SAM will get the final location" quests), Ryder's neck twisting in all directions during conversations, quest giving characters disappearing, the quest log having for ever a (!), even though I went through the entire list. Nothing major like for example Fallout, but still weird for BW...
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Post by turianlannister on Dec 9, 2020 21:45:30 GMT
Yeah, I've gotten his first heart icon, so I'm good. I'm not getting game-breaking bugs (I somehow got unstuck from the ground that one time), but this is really a state I've never seen from BW, especially so long after the launch. Characters t-posing, camera getting stuck misaligned, the scanner not working in some side tasks (like one of the 5 Voeld "scan X of something and SAM will get the final location" quests), Ryder's neck twisting in all directions during conversations, quest giving characters disappearing, the quest log having for ever a (!), even though I went through the entire list. Nothing major like for example Fallout, but still weird for BW... I don't recall Ryder's neck twisting but the one neck thing I remember from Mass Effect is Shepard's first conversation with Liara in her room on the normandy in ME3, Shepard's head was turned completely to one side even though Liara was directly in front of her and her eyes kept rolling from side to side |
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Post by Scottphoto on Dec 10, 2020 14:18:11 GMT
Anyone tried this game on PS5? I’m looking forward to replay it on it, but of course don’t have a ps5 yet with all the madness to get one.
I didn’t experience that many issues with andromeda but I felt what you Biotic Apostate when I played Anthem. They really need to make sure Dragon Age knocks it out of the park again in quality.
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Post by Rouccoco on Dec 10, 2020 15:00:03 GMT
I don't recall Ryder's neck twisting but the one neck thing I remember from Mass Effect is Shepard's first conversation with Liara in her room on the normandy in ME3, Shepard's head was turned completely to one side even though Liara was directly in front of her and her eyes kept rolling from side to side I noticed it happens mostly for the non-scripted scenes, where the camera just zooms in. So you can avoid it depending on the position you stand in, I suspect. Side glances wouldn't be too bad, but I had a scene, where it was turned 180 degrees and looked a little cursed. I didn’t experience that many issues with andromeda but I felt what you Biotic Apostate when I played Anthem. They really need to make sure Dragon Age knocks it out of the park again in quality. Weirdly, Inquisition felt to me way more polished, and I started playing on day one. There were issues, sure (the ambient conversation bug being the biggest one, plus the shiny black hair, and the missing puzzle pieces), but I don't remember the bugs breaking the immersion so often like they do here. I had to get quite a few mods too. In DAI I just removed the clocks on the war map and retextured the pyjamas, but here it's multiple things. Like the comments. SAM constantly telling me it's cold, or that there's a kett camp or Ryder going "THAT'S TECHIIX ACCORDING TO MY MAP" every single time was just too much... It's kinda obvious that the kotaku report that said MEA didn't use DAI's codebase was true. There's so much stuff, like the CC, quest tracking, and dialogue scripting that somehow feels worse. |
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Post by turianlannister on Dec 10, 2020 17:55:33 GMT
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Post by Rouccoco on Dec 18, 2020 0:08:59 GMT
I've just finished Andromeda. I have thoughts. Deploy babble. So first the bad stuff: - buggy. Even after the patches there's quite a few issues. Some broken quest markers, reloads, weird glitches. - had to get quite a few mods to fix annoyances, like SAM weather comments, the Nexus chatter, the beards, quick loot, slow Kadara doors. It's a lot compared to Inquisition - I hate the galaxy map. I dreaded every time I had to scan new worlds. The live view is cool, but the cost is too high - 50% of side quests are "you found X, find Y amount more of X and SAM will decode the final location"; those quests also felt the most redundant - why not delimit the map with mountains? it's not even about making it impossible to cross, just communicating an end - doing it in the middle of a flat field was weird - "Pathfinder, this site could support an initiative outpost" yea, I know, I did that 6 hours ago The mixed - companions. They're mostly good though - Gil - yeah, hate his quest, hate Jill, hate the baby talk; even without it I wouldn't really like him - Peebee - tried to ignore the straddling scene, since she's alright otherwise, but the zero-g scene, where I thought I was helping with her anxiety attack and she proposed sex, was so terrible - Cora - I though people were exaggerating with the commando stuff, but she really is that "barks in Asari" meme. But aside from that she's nice. The garden scene was lovely - Liam, Suvi, Kallo, Lexi are pretty cool (Liam's cop stuff got old fast though) - Drack's anti-AI talk was annoying, but he was a great departure from the one dimensional Krogan characters from the trilogy - Jaal and his romance are great (although they did forget to fix his mom's email about reproduction...), always enjoy the confused outsider - Vetra was easily my favourite, love her so much The good: - the CC is limited, but I like my Ryder a lot - the design for stuff like remnant tech is great, there's a strong visual language here - the environments were pretty neat, Havarl and H-047c were the most impressive - there are so many great characters and they were finally allowed to go beyond their species stereotypical personalities. Yes to more flustered Krogan - quite a few background queer characters, that was neat, especially compared to MET - the story, especially the end with Meridian were really well thought out - unlike with the previous games, the game had a sequel setup that wasn't just "more reapers." The Quarian ark, the Jardaan, the Kett, the Scourge, the unexplored parts of the galaxy. There is just so much to follow up with. MET felt like they were making stuff up on the spot after the initial world building of 1 - give me a time skip and Avitus romance So there are design choices and bugs that hurt the game, plus of course the romance situation at launch, but they should have definitely continued with DLCs and MEA2 (with that stuff in mind). Dropping it was a mistake. I'm hoping ME5 will focus on Andromeda even more now. And now, pics      don't talk to me im angy  |
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Post by turianlannister on Dec 21, 2020 22:59:53 GMT
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Post by Scottphoto on Feb 13, 2021 7:15:49 GMT
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