People ragged on it because on the original release it was mandatory to grind it for dozens upon dozens of hours to get the best ending in the single player. Unless you had a near perfect save file, which had so many esoteric decisions required that nearly nobody did without a guide compiled after seeing the payoffs in ME3, you were forcing people who were fans of a single player trilogy to now play a multiplayer game just for worthless "points."
People already hated the points system for a long list of reasons, but locking them out of an ending unless they grinded more in a multiplayer they didn't want made it even worse.
I like the gameplay mechanics of Andromeda, it felt like a natural progression to add more features in to make combat less about hiding behind conveniently placed chest high walls. The constant bugs made it less fun because it broke all the time, but I could see what they had intended the game to play like.
Mostly for me the biggest disappointment was that the plot was terrible, cliche and shot itself in the foot by telling me who the good guys and bad guys were within the first few hours when that shouldn't have been done at all.
It stripped all mystery out of this new galaxy that we just got into by telling us what was happening. What it should have been was my crew and I finding ruins and hints that there was one other species already native to the Andromeda galaxy but then further in details made it seem like there were two of them, and in the end of the game I find one of both species pointing guns at them and I have to make a choice to shoot one, shoot both or if I found a ton of stuff throughout the game, I could shoot neither and end the game there with the sequels setting up finding out about how a galaxy as big as Andromeda only has two species left, when the Milky Way had over a dozen and more on the way for development.
But they blew their load not even halfway through the game and I found my space indians, teepee type not red dot, who didn't trust me but like ten minutes later are all about how great and trustworthy I am.
Well they already tried a 4th game. Andromeda sucked except for okay multiplayer
Pictures FlauntandStraunt rocking back and forth on his chair: Andromeda's not real, it's just a bad dream, it's not real...
People rag on Mass Effect 3 multiplayer but man, they kept that updated and fun with the new classes.
People ragged on it because on the original release it was mandatory to grind it for dozens upon dozens of hours to get the best ending in the single player. Unless you had a near perfect save file, which had so many esoteric decisions required that nearly nobody did without a guide compiled after seeing the payoffs in ME3, you were forcing people who were fans of a single player trilogy to now play a multiplayer game just for worthless "points."
People already hated the points system for a long list of reasons, but locking them out of an ending unless they grinded more in a multiplayer they didn't want made it even worse.
I like the gameplay mechanics of Andromeda, it felt like a natural progression to add more features in to make combat less about hiding behind conveniently placed chest high walls. The constant bugs made it less fun because it broke all the time, but I could see what they had intended the game to play like.
Mostly for me the biggest disappointment was that the plot was terrible, cliche and shot itself in the foot by telling me who the good guys and bad guys were within the first few hours when that shouldn't have been done at all.
It stripped all mystery out of this new galaxy that we just got into by telling us what was happening. What it should have been was my crew and I finding ruins and hints that there was one other species already native to the Andromeda galaxy but then further in details made it seem like there were two of them, and in the end of the game I find one of both species pointing guns at them and I have to make a choice to shoot one, shoot both or if I found a ton of stuff throughout the game, I could shoot neither and end the game there with the sequels setting up finding out about how a galaxy as big as Andromeda only has two species left, when the Milky Way had over a dozen and more on the way for development.
But they blew their load not even halfway through the game and I found my space indians, teepee type not red dot, who didn't trust me but like ten minutes later are all about how great and trustworthy I am.
Complete mess of the writing.