I once again invite you to join me on team Mass Effect: Andromeda Was Good

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I once again invite you to join me on team Mass Effect: Andromeda Was Good

Don't believe the unhype

This weekend for N7 day, it was revealed that not only are we getting a remaster of the original Mass Consequence Trilogy, just also a brand new Mass Consequence game! We should take a moment here to admit that Imogen is apparently able to will news into existence. Send her your requests for sequel announcements.

Imogen has also already analysed the images to build a compelling argument that this will exist set after Mass Event: Andromeda, quaternary and well-nigh maligned entry in the series. It makes sense: bring out a remaster of the ones anybody loved to cleanse the memory of Andromeda, the one a lot of people hated. That being said, I would too similar to remind you all at this early juncture that Andromeda wasn't even that bad.

Like, I'1000 not going to prevarication that some of the animations and the flat colour on eyes and makeup options fabricated a lot of the characters await similar the staring dolls my grandmother had that scared the shit out of me. The exemplar for that was Foster Addison, the at present infamous "my face is tired" adult female. Simply the 1.05 patch fixed nearly of those bug.

Also, I don't retrieve the line "My face is tired" is an example of terrible writing because I actually say that. I say that all the time. I said it the other solar day because I spent at to the lowest degree 24 of the 48 hours this weekend playing Assassinator'due south Creed. There are different types of tiredness, including head tired, leg tired, and middle tired.

It's also not as if wonky animations and bugs plagued the game - they existed, but they didn't correspond the bulk of it. You can play basically all of Andromeda and have an result-free time. I'm sure if I clipped all the bugs I saw in a thirty-60 minutes open world game into one ten-minute YouTube video I'd make information technology await similar a slice of shit, too.

Some of the squad in Mass Effect: Andromeda, from left to right: PeeBee, Liam, Ryder, Cora and Nakmor

But even if Andromeda was broken and unplayable on launch, at that place are still loads of actually good things about information technology. The premise of colony arks arriving at unlike times because of a erect upwardly remains an properly arresting one for a game set in space. An early level where you explored a darkened ark send and tried to figure out what shit had gone down was pretty damn spooky.

All right, the companion characters for your squad might not have been as fuckable equally the sexy lizards from the original trilogy, merely they were however a fun bunch. Liam was a proper south London dude and I loved hanging out with him. Nakmor was like having a cool, chubby iguana grandad who smashed the shit out of people. And there was some bully level and area design! I liked the desert planet Elaaden, and the frozen world Voeld that had weird shapes swimming effectually under the ice.

This is too not to mention that the combat in Andromeda was undoubtedly the all-time in the whole series. You got a jetpack. It fucking rocked.

So if Mass Effect v is a sequel to Andromeda, I'm all for it. And if it isn't, I might just go and play Andromeda again, just to stick it to the haters. And if you avoided Andromeda considering of the bad hype you'd heard, perchance now is the time to requite it a chance.