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Mass Effect Andromeda actor says the game got a 'bum rap' from 'chuds' and was 'done dirty by a publisher expecting too much from it' (www.pcgamer.com)
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Their love of hate sealed the deal.

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[–] darkmarx@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I loved the original Mass Effect trilogy. Until recently, it was my all-time favorite story in any game. I've completed play throughs as both Shepherds using every character type. I'm probably approaching 30 play throughs of the full trilogy. Liara is the middle name of one of my kids. When I say I love this trilogy, I mean it.

Andromeda on the other hand, is a travesty. I've tried to play it a few times. Bugginess and weird faces aside, from story to mechanics, it had no cohesion. It was a bunch of half-baked ideas they just shoved together. The exploration and settlement founding was arduous at best. The apex missions and loot boxes felt like an unrealized microtransaction attempt. The story was generic and side characters were as flat as can be. I should care about Liam because he somehow snuck a couch on the Tempest? Oh, he's so quirky. Ugg. They used the Mass Effect name and world building to create a pseudo fan-fiction knock off and hoped no one would notice.

Andromeda didn't get a bum rap because people enjoy hating things. It got one because it is an objectively horrible game.