EmP's Mass Effect: Andromeda review

Really liked this one. You did a great job of showing how this game is really good, but shoots itself in the foot by stupid dialogue and how it peaks with the first planet. But the whole "sense of exploration" is so addicting to, at least, me when it comes to games that I can easily see how a person can endure the stupid crap to play through it.

The Mass Effect series was a distinct...experience for me, and I should probably review the original trilogy. I'm glad that my instinctive aversion to this one proved to be correct. It's just not one of those things I can get into if the story is so weak and affected by a buggy world that will never be officially fixed. I'm sure the fans have patched the heck out of it, though, just as they did the OG Trilogy.

Thanks both for reading. Ultimately, I didn't mind my time with Andromeda, though replaying the original trilogy just before didn't help hide its flaws any, but it was open enough for me to make my own stories, and, turns out, I'm better at it than modern day Bioware.

Hasty - Actually, mod support for this game is lacking. That never used to be the case, but various engine updates have made previous fan efforts stop working, and no one cares enough about the game anymore to fix it. Which is a shame, because I modded the hell out of ME3 when I replayed, and the experience was much better for it.