MrCurbinator sure no X-ray vision but when you point your gun in the general direction of an enemy you get a ui that tells you exactly where he is and how much health he has left. Personally I feel that's may as well be the same thing.
Ben Neumann that's been the way in every mass effect. Maybe its a little more in your face since its right over their head vs top of the screen. Btw I found X-ray mode. When there's 3 guys left in a multiplayer wave they highlight them so you can get rid of them quickly and get to the next round
I can't believe they actually added the scan planets thing they done after ME1. I admit that the planet exploration got a bit boring in the first one but at least you had freedom! instead of making the exploration better they just abandoned the landing on planets and deploying the Mako and replaaced it with one of my biggest grievances about the ME2/3, I fucking hated scanning planets and they kept that same shitty mechanic in this one.......I'm OUT!
Marmite Hawk - Fair enough, if you want to just quickly scan planets and pick up resources there should be an option for that, like auto-rectify battles in Total War games. I want to actually go down to the planet, find the objective and do something to claim the reward. The fact they just abandoned the planet exloration annoyed me, even though I get the argument that a lot of people complained and it was changed. It could be done better Imo.
Andy - Yeah it was just a big letdown for me. I was going into systems and not interacting with anything in any real way. There could have been a compromise, e.g - Scan the planet, find a resource, beacon etc - land, explore a little, find the resource, a little combat sometimes (some native monster attacks or mercs are going for the same beacon), defeat them, drive back to ship, take off.....say, 15/20 mins per planet or an option to just resolve if you're like the other guy ^^^
The exploration from 1 done better woulda been wonderful. The vistas from ME1 were fuckin incredible, the freedom was great, but it was under developed and would get repetitive quick, even the bases where you had some mission had the same layout. You just needed to improve upon it, make it diverse and with several points of interest, and why not, tweak the makos driving. Otherwise, removing it for shitty scanning didn't do anything good for the game.
Kevin Wilson You know what they kept the annoying scan planets mechanic and got rid of squad mate customization, and the paragon system. The lead character you play with also is boring and the squad mates couldn't be more cliche. They could have just reskinned ME3 in a new universe and taken my money.
Let me tell you some quotes of the amazing writing in this game "The chiefs heart was broken right before it exploded" "I'd prefer to eat lunch, not be lunch" And my favorite. "No one's a pathfinder until they have path found"
You should definitely try to first 1-2 games in the series for comparison if you like the general concept of this type of rpg. Pretty much everything you criticized in this video isn't an issue in the first 2 games. I haven't played the 3rd so I can't comment in it. Playing the first 1-2 games won't make Andromeda any better but it will help you understand why people fell in love with the series back when real effort was put into it and EA had minimal or non-existant influence.
Yeah 2 was pretty good as well. More centralized than 1 sadly not a lot of exploring planets and stations.. Then came 3 and ME became an onrails shooter.
Robert King mass 2 my favourite one and I love first one. I did like third one but 1,2 were the best. Andromeda is another story I better wait when this game will be on sale game don't look promising to me
I'm a pretty big mass effect fan but the SECOND I saw some gameplay from this game I knew it was shit. I haven't even been slightly excited about this game. don't even know what damn date it comes out
the voice acting was so cringey I couldn't even... mass effect is about epic story. and how can you have an epic story with just poor writing, and even worse acting ?
crazy 5 years later and a 2080 super cant lock 60fps at 4k. Maybe a 3080 will. I put about 100 hours into this game, I agree with the wack a mole. I played for the story lol. This game was a royal pain in the tail end to enable HDR too on pc. It was like, if you got it to finally engage after switching on and off on and off you best leave the game running or the next day it wouldn't work.
What is good about the ME games? I tried all 3. Could not even finish one of them due to incredibly boring story, tedious and clunky gameplay. The first one when it came was unplayable due to melting the 360's hardware. So when I tried it on PC many years later it was smooth, but still boring and clunky as fuck. ME is hyped beyond imagination
Well, I do like a good story and are not unpatient. I love Bioware's Knight of the old republic (only the first game). Loved the atmosphere there, the dialogue and the choices to be good / evil. Guess ME just isn't for me. Didn't find any of it interesting.
Inquisition was better than DA2, DA2 was really horrible. DAI was too easy and they failed to create fluid game, they even said "don't do everything from first area or you will be overleveled" or something. But everyone wants to complete (ofc)the area 100%
I love when he starts ringing the bell in this video around the 6:25 mark. The more pissed he gets talking about the game the more he hits it. "The shooting is shit guy's (Ding ! )" "your characters got no knees (ding ding!)". By the end of the video he was playing bongos with it
I have just come across this post on a forum and instantly thought of you Mack. "In terms of third person shooting, IMHO, it feels excellent and the mobility really enhances it. I love being able to cross large gaps and then jump over an enemy and then aim and float above them as I fire down at them"
Always best to wait a while with games like this. I didn't play ME until it had been out 5 years, just going through Skyrim now. No bugs and patched to fuck is how I like my games :)
I think it is the default route with today releases 1) wait a year 2) buy GOTY for the price of "give-us-at-least-something" that is how you get all the content and patches
The Surly Gamer In my world the official release is always 1 year later. Buying a game on release is like a chicken supporting KFC. it's just a bad idea. you get nothing but broken bullshit for a crazy price. Who's Excited for Mass Effect: Andromeda's Proper release 3-21-2018? Because that's when I'll be getting this game. I don't pay full price for half assed work. I pay 1/4 the price for half assed, incomplete work.
Well Mass Effect as a franchise was good until the third game so this is not new or unexpected.. Btw is anyone bothered by how young the characters look? Like in some teen series like One Three Hill or Teen Wolf.
Avio yep me. im only 30 myself but why the fuck are all these experienced professionals all fucking 12. its completely jarring and unrealistic to have so many 20 somethings running the ship. al the humans look like young uni students.
blablabla90909 Well it was solid in the gameplay and graphics departments. What really mattered to a Mass Effect game like writing, character development and story was bad. The only good parts of the game were the ones which involved something built upon from the previous games. The first two were story-driven while the third was Gears of War driven.. I personally consider it a failure. And btw I don't hate GoW, they are just different types of games and liked for different reasons.
After hearing all the negative stuff about the ending, I finally made it to the end about a year ago. Granted, I had the expanded ending dlc but overall I thought it was pretty good. What was the big issue people had with it and what exactly were people expecting?
You definitely need to play the original games if you're looking for characters and story... Those characters are nearly as iconic as Final Fantasy 7 characters.
i was a hardcore mass effect fan girl cult member and got a N7 tattoo cuz the first 3 game ment so much to me but this game is sooo bad it really ruined the whole mass effect world for me , im sooooo done with bioware ....i also pre-ordered the game 4 months ago and EA refused to give me a refund , i did plan on getting a new mass effect andromeda tattoo but now that is wayyyyy off the table .........bioware is dead to me now !
Gaming 2017 ... Anyway Turok 2 remaster is out and is amazing Mass Effect fanboys already disliking the video because the pre-order the game and you said they make a mistake ;)
The N64 version was ass and the old PC version had an inferior soundtrack and insidiously bad FOV, and there is too little ammo for the weapons. The new release fixes the core design issues with the immediate gameplay while adding several graphical, audio, and convenience features. Nightdive let me appreciate a classic for the first time. I highly recommend it.
Alright, yeah....mhhmm, I watched a shit load of your reviews after/before playing those games and I have to say you are right in everything. I didn't wanna agree with you because of reasons but I played this game for 10 hours, and a massive ME fan and was so hyped for this game. This piece of shit of a game should not be called Mass Effect. It's an insult to the fans, insult to the franchise and insult to all of those people who payed 50 quid for this. I refunded my PreOrder as soon as I finished the 10 hour trial. Shame I can't get back the 4.99 I payed for the "origin access" shit
I had nothing but problems with this game. My system: gtx1080, i5-6600k oc'ed to 4,5ghz, 32gb ddr4 2800mhz ram, installed on hdd. I played about 5 hours now and the game crashed 4 or 5 times. Sometimes when I relaunch the game fps starts jumping around from 50 to 90 when I'm just looking to a white wall and not moving, then after I restart the game, fps becomes steady at about 100. Sometimes dialogue wheel starts selecting answers automatically and again I need to restart the game to fix it. Animations, facial expressions, dead eyes and dialogue are atrocious but everybody already talked about it, so I can't add anything anymore. Menu system is very weird, you need to go through multiple menus just to check your quest log, "M" opens map, but pressing it again does nothing, you need to press Esc once to get to menu and then again to get back into the game which is pretty annoying. There's no option to disable blur on distant objects, so during cutscenes or dialogues half the people are blurry as fuck. Changing some graphic options needs you to restart the game. Colours are weird too, hair on background characters look ridiculous like they're just put their head to a paint bucket. Gameplay wasn't the greatest in previous titles, but story and characters made it not so noticable, now the whole game is painful to play. Andromeda is not finished, they need to delay the release for another year at least, I wouldn't recommend buying this on launch, maybe half a year later when it goes on sale for like 50% at least. Go get Nier Automata instead, it's amazing. Edit: the space map shown at 12:37, that closing in and out of planets happens every single time and after the second time I already didn't want to scan any planet ever again because how long and unnecessary the animations are. Similar thing with the scanner that your char has on hand, it was pretty cool to scan first 5 objects, then I realized I would have to do this for another like 100 or more hours and I remembered search button in Inquisition, where you had to run and constantly spam it to find one elfroot. Edit 2: Just remembered, that one NPC pretty much confirmed, that quarians will be a dlc ("Quarians had technical problems with their spaceship, so they couldn't leave Milky Way at the same time as the others, so we won't be seeing them in a near future.")
I was never interested in this game, they were emphasising the wrong things about Mass effect in the marketing like better combat this, more combat options that........... I recently played the trilogy on my own without buying it from the hype back in the day, loved the story, especially mass effect 3, dialogue felt really professional especially how I was going for a soldier type background with Shepard so I was very friendly at heart but at the heat of certain moments choices I had to live with had to be made, renegade choices...... those moments always felt badass. MACK TRY TRILOGY, YOU WILL HATE ANDROMEDA.
Hiya Mack, just wondering, are you going to play and/or review Rising Storm 2 Vietnam? There's a closed beta at the moment and I'm just wondering if you got in.
GCTR I play on Xbox and I must agree where the skilled games went. When Halo was on top everyone made a skill based game and then the idiots at infinity Ward made a no skill cod 4 a d ruined the gaming community
cagnazzo people have no taste especially ps4 players, they will lap onto whatever game comes out in order to validate their consoles purchase, zero dawn laso has gameplay issues, roll alll the time and just bow and arrows for the next 20 hours or so. open world but you cant go certain parts till you keep on goin with story, story is just an afterthought. facial animations are also laughable especially for npc. zero dawn wouldve made a great monster hunter game had they gona that route.
Step 1: make a good game hardcore gamers will rave about to get casuals interested Step 2: milk that nostalgia for the next 20 years with terrible games Step 3: profit
has anyone else noticed how weak and half arsed the male protagonist is compared to male Shepard in the first 3 games? i cant take the guy seriously or any of the other characters for that matter. i played the first 3 to completion years back and i remember the voice actor Mark Meer did great job doing the dialog where there was a lot more passion behind the words not to mention a much better writing over all. Almost every character had a unique personality and they were more believable. dont get me wrong it wasnt the best story writing/ dialog/animations etc, but i could tell a lot of heart went in to those games.
Yea, Ryder's personality is not very interesting at the moment. I still have hopes that it will somehow evolve later in the game...but if not...man...sad
yeah based on what ive seen so far, the guy has no presence, his voice is very weak and he doesnt look like some one who believes in his role and its a shame.
Heya, I will not cancel mine. Even I agree with most stuff said here. Facial Expressions and character animations are VERY BAD. Bioware promised patch. Character Creation is a JOKE, worse then any previous Bioware game. It just doesn't look good. Music is AVERAGE, not as deep as in previous MEs Gameplay is not that bad, only thing I didn't get why they removed the pause stuff in previous games. In higher difficulty is the gameplay OK. Character story - well its trial, beginning of something new. It is NOT GOOD. Ryder personality is like a child, which probably should be, but its not fun. I hope it will develop further. Companions and story is ok, but sometimes annoying, boring. With the facial failure it is boring. The story telling of a DEAD EYES is interesting like a text readed while there is a screenshot. Questing, Research and other features looks OK. I am not sure where 40 million dollars went for, but probably most of it was consumed by bad management and poor developers salaries. Only reason I will not cancel the preorder is the hidden edge of the story telling. I am just curious as a ME fan, how its going to be. After I finish the game, I can say if it was or wasn't worth a buy. I am just trapped. Heartbroken fan atm.....Masochist probably :D
You can get EA/ Origin access for around $5 for a 1 month subscription, then try the trial for 10 hours, and then you get about that off with the discount you get.
So I was spending last 2h of trial by re-creating main character (3x times, as You can't skip the intro), and I am finally somehow happy with it. The animations are still killing it, but hey, ok....there is nothing else to play. I must say I had fun to re-play the trial mission and I will gladly continue to play when released. Maybe it is my demission, maybe the game is not that bad.
I'm a solid pc gamer and i put mass effect 2 as one of the most gripping games IV played along with mafia, hl 2, stalker, elite dangerous and assassins creed, i enjoyed 1 and 3 too. the story was excellent. it looked decent on the unreal engine too. Andromeda has a new writer after the one from the previous 3 left bioware, it seems the company has new blood and new ideas which aren't always the best. also frostbite looks great for battlefield but maybe it's the wrong engine for ME Andromeda. the music used to be amazing too in the previous 3.
Mass Effect 2 was the best game I ever played, twice. No other game ever got me so attached to my companions and wanted to genuinely explore all of their story and dialog options.
I love that you ripped this up. To each their own with what people like. However all the SJW bullshit wedged in and racism from Manveer Heir, this deserved this kind of treatment. Cheers!
Mass Effect 1 had a great story but crappy gameplay. Then they streamlined ME2, and had a huge detour when it came to the story, effectively crapping all over one. ME3 comes along, craps more over 1, barely acknowledges it and 2, and then rushes itself head first into "I don't know how to resolve what I've written so here are some crappy cop outs" ME: A's story looks to be an utter pile of crap, continuing from ME2 and ME3, with the characters now being a weak point instead of strong point. And the animations are actually WORSE than the previous 3 games. How could that happen? How does one get worse and not better?
Holy god the characters really are jarring. Mixing that kind of facial mocap with wooden cutscene acting is the same as sticking ham slices on the faces of thunderbird puppets.
Mass Effect 2 was the epitome of the Mass Effect series. It all just went downhill from there, this game is pretty much "take cover here, pop up and shoot a couple of times, sit back down again". The dialog options are few, the gameplay is bland, the voice acting lacks emotion, the lip sync is horrible, the player`s animations are stiff and sometimes downright weird. Horribly disappointed with this, EA has proven that they can ruin just about any good game franchise.
He probably won't like it to be honest. The gameplay in ME1 is obviously much worst and I don't think the good story would be enough for him to thumb it up.
Minos the gameplay is miles better because it looks and feel like a RPG rather than a random shooter. As for the story I bet he would love it. Everything is interesting and ambiguous and you only have access to limited information. What you don't know scares you tenfold. In me2 and 3 you're like ..meh ..reapers..bunch of gellie bugs. In me 1 you don't know who they are, what they want, where they come from, what's their deal you literally start discovering everything. I honestly think Mac would like it. And I know he will like the planet exploration without any of this scanning crap going on. And he will totally dig the Mako. P.S. You know how at the end of ME3 you see liara's hologram telling you a story about the reapers and what happened to all the races that tried to fight them etc..? Well that's pretty much how ME1 starts where you find the Prothean A.I and you try your best to piece everything together. My opinion is that ME1 is better than a good scifi book.
Enjoy your "don't hold your punches" style of review. Giving this game such an adjective ladened whiplash was entertaining to watch and informative. You got my Sub.
Holy shit, another 3rd person game review. I wonder if he's going to shit on it like all the other ones...why even review it when you have a clear bias against 3rd person games?
Third-person console games are like Christmas cookies. They're all made with the same cookie cutter, and even though they may have different toppings, they all taste pretty much the same.
because some people dislike 1st person games as much as mack hates 3rd person ones. only fps game ive played in recent years i could actually stand was titanfall 2. not saying they're bad but not my cup of tea. having the choice is always a good thing.
+Not Important Or Shadow of Mordor...or Earth Deffense Force...oh wait. Clearly, mack does NOT hate 3rd person games, any one who pays attention in his videos will know that. The gameplay is just shit. Whoever thought auto cover was a good idea should be fired.
He PREFERS 1st person games, but he absolutely HATES hold your hand, x-ray vision, tag your enemies, follow your waypoints massive HUD all over the screen modern shit console games for 12 year olds with a learning disability. I'm sure, if one was to make a old school challenging no hud game with smart ai,... and it was 3rd person, he would love the shit out of it! ((and then roast it a bit "If only it was first person!!!ding ding ding")) :D
14:16 "YOU FOUND A CRATER" And then it proceeds to tell you what a crater is... How the fuck is that an anomaly? Jeez, I wonder what BWM would do with the Moon. It'd be like a kid in a candy store. WHAT HAPPENED? CHRIST! Noooo *sobs*
The gameplay for ME2 and 3 are almost exactly like this just about 10 times clunkier, yet ME2 and 3 are still considered fantastic games by a massive amount of people (excluding ME3 ending). ME2 was specifically praised for the combat gameplay, which is garbage compared to this. If you don't like this gameplay, you would absolutely hate ME2 and 3 but you can't say that the games are objectively terrible because of it.
I actually think ME2 and 3s combat is better. Better cover usage, better aiming, active use of all abilities on your squad. It wasn't perfect, but the combat in ME:A isn't great for a 2017 game. Guns are weak, have insane spread, and enemies act like idiots.
+Diree and far too many bright glow-in-the-dark colours. It reminds me too much of a Joel Schumacher Batman movie. Too much visual polish rather than space military grit like the trilogy games, which will make your "face tired" rofl.
"What's good about this game?"
"The title." loooooool
4:59 The gun is backwards.
I hope it has XRAY vision and a one button does all feature.
that comes with the day one DLC only 19.99€
The Day One Patch DLC required to play the game.
M Bison 10 hours in. Still no X-ray vision. Theres a scanner that lets you see mechanism in the wall, thats it
MrCurbinator sure no X-ray vision but when you point your gun in the general direction of an enemy you get a ui that tells you exactly where he is and how much health he has left. Personally I feel that's may as well be the same thing.
Ben Neumann that's been the way in every mass effect. Maybe its a little more in your face since its right over their head vs top of the screen. Btw I found X-ray mode. When there's 3 guys left in a multiplayer wave they highlight them so you can get rid of them quickly and get to the next round
look up the main writer!
Spoilers: she once went on the news complaining about people being cyber raped in Grand Theft Auto
RichieW: There is also a Racist SJW working on this game.
That's not true btw
yes, it is true. Her name is Sam Maggs.
RichieW Apparently she is involved? Kind of shocking.
Says shes an assistant writer. Far from "main."
I can't believe they actually added the scan planets thing they done after ME1. I admit that the planet exploration got a bit boring in the first one but at least you had freedom! instead of making the exploration better they just abandoned the landing on planets and deploying the Mako and replaaced it with one of my biggest grievances about the ME2/3, I fucking hated scanning planets and they kept that same shitty mechanic in this one.......I'm OUT!
Marmite Hawk - Fair enough, if you want to just quickly scan planets and pick up resources there should be an option for that, like auto-rectify battles in Total War games. I want to actually go down to the planet, find the objective and do something to claim the reward. The fact they just abandoned the planet exloration annoyed me, even though I get the argument that a lot of people complained and it was changed.
It could be done better Imo.
Andy - Yeah it was just a big letdown for me. I was going into systems and not interacting with anything in any real way. There could have been a compromise, e.g - Scan the planet, find a resource, beacon etc - land, explore a little, find the resource, a little combat sometimes (some native monster attacks or mercs are going for the same beacon), defeat them, drive back to ship, take off.....say, 15/20 mins per planet or an option to just resolve if you're like the other guy ^^^
The exploration from 1 done better woulda been wonderful.
The vistas from ME1 were fuckin incredible, the freedom was great, but it was under developed and would get repetitive quick, even the bases where you had some mission had the same layout. You just needed to improve upon it, make it diverse and with several points of interest, and why not, tweak the makos driving.
Otherwise, removing it for shitty scanning didn't do anything good for the game.
Trinotik25 - Agree 100%
Kevin Wilson You know what they kept the annoying scan planets mechanic and got rid of squad mate customization, and the paragon system. The lead character you play with also is boring and the squad mates couldn't be more cliche. They could have just reskinned ME3 in a new universe and taken my money.
You're the only person I trust anymore for reviews/previews.
The idiot complains there's cover shooting mechanics in a cover shooter.
Let me tell you some quotes of the amazing writing in this game
"The chiefs heart was broken right before it exploded"
"I'd prefer to eat lunch, not be lunch"
And my favorite.
"No one's a pathfinder until they have path found"
I see someone watches Pretty Good Gaming.
You forgot the best one "My face is tired."
Cryptotic wow did they took acting advice from Barry Burton
Cryptotic Way to steal other people's jokes....lol
Andy Clifft Hi Andy 👋
40 Million dollars and they couldn't even get decent voices actors or make some good character models.
It all went into the thousands of inconsequential dialogue lines!
Nah, it went all into that one actors mouth from the series Game of thrones.
Two actually :)
You cant just blame the actors completely here. blame the crappie writing.
It all went on marketing and paying IGN for hype.
You should definitely try to first 1-2 games in the series for comparison if you like the general concept of this type of rpg.
Pretty much everything you criticized in this video isn't an issue in the first 2 games.
I haven't played the 3rd so I can't comment in it.
Playing the first 1-2 games won't make Andromeda any better but it will help you understand why people fell in love with the series back when real effort was put into it and EA had minimal or non-existant influence.
I enjoyed the first three, so trust me, you've done fans a favor
Can't speak for this, but Mass Effect 2 was a good game.
Yeah 2 was pretty good as well. More centralized than 1 sadly not a lot of exploring planets and stations.. Then came 3 and ME became an onrails shooter.
Robert King mass 2 my favourite one and I love first one. I did like third one but 1,2 were the best. Andromeda is another story I better wait when this game will be on sale game don't look promising to me
Robert King Yeah, 3 was meh though.
2 is free on origin btw
so was the first. Had the most satisfying ending i've seen.
i really got to associate with the characters and it was brilliantly written and loved the law and shepherd
I suspect that CD Projekt Red would make an awesome mass effect game :)
Jean Luc I would certainly rather have them developing mass effect than whatever Bioware has become.
Who knows what will they do after CP2077 ? They made fantasy game based on Sapkowski books so maybe they can make a sci-fi game based on Lem books ?
I played TW3 for 30 min. It was boring as fuck. So I think they would make a bad game.
Stick to call of duty then open world RPGs arent your thing
Jean Luc CDP is a crap studio that makes crap games
"My face is tired"
Never forget
HAHA! I was looking for this comment!
And people get angry when they hear negative stuff about this game. I guess they just rather accept a lie than the inevitable truth.
16:31 The ending is just perfect!
"Could be worse.."
"HOW??!!!"
Ah man I was laughing with you on this one 😂 Mass Effect: the Monty Python Edition
I'm a pretty big mass effect fan but the SECOND I saw some gameplay from this game I knew it was shit. I haven't even been slightly excited about this game. don't even know what damn date it comes out
21st or 23rd depending on where you live. It's gonna be a black day...with 9/10 review scores *sigh*
the voice acting was so cringey I couldn't even...
mass effect is about epic story. and how can you have an epic story with just poor writing, and even worse acting ?
20th if you VPN to Korea
Jacabo Blanco and shitty looking characters who look forgettable with this sjw none sense. The devs are getting what they deserve
what the fuck happened to mass effect? the first has a great story.
crazy 5 years later and a 2080 super cant lock 60fps at 4k. Maybe a 3080 will. I put about 100 hours into this game, I agree with the wack a mole. I played for the story lol. This game was a royal pain in the tail end to enable HDR too on pc. It was like, if you got it to finally engage after switching on and off on and off you best leave the game running or the next day it wouldn't work.
You really should play the original trilogy. SO much better than this garbage. Also Liara
And he would still trash the combat ^^ And planet scanning. And the Mako.
Wow, that was pretty much the definition of ignoring what makes a game good and replacing it with an old ass meme. "Cut scene simulator"? Like what?
What is good about the ME games? I tried all 3. Could not even finish one of them due to incredibly boring story, tedious and clunky gameplay.
The first one when it came was unplayable due to melting the 360's hardware. So when I tried it on PC many years later it was smooth, but still boring and clunky as fuck.
ME is hyped beyond imagination
The combat is garbage. You stay for the story. You have to be the kind of person to spend 30+ minutes walking around talking to people I guess
Well, I do like a good story and are not unpatient. I love Bioware's Knight of the old republic (only the first game). Loved the atmosphere there, the dialogue and the choices to be good / evil.
Guess ME just isn't for me. Didn't find any of it interesting.
"It's like your mouse becomes a wobbly jelly" - Mack
This reminds me of what BioWare did to Dragon Age when they released Inquisition.
Oh God, Inquisition was terrible. DA2 was even better than that massive disappointment.
Kelr I don't know why, I know the game was not that good, but I fucking LOVED Inquisition.
literally 100%ed the game.
I'm embarrassed
Kelr the story just got me with all the little development each quest did.
for real?
Inquisition was better than DA2, DA2 was really horrible. DAI was too easy and they failed to create fluid game, they even said "don't do everything from first area or you will be overleveled" or something. But everyone wants to complete (ofc)the area 100%
5:00 The bloody gun is actually backwards, how did they mess that one up?
Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 .. Amazing. Mass Effect 3 was ok. Andromeda was less than ok, but I powered through. What a waste of time honestly.
"Guppy fish at feeding time". That's just made my morning.
"Gaming for f***ing infants"
Sums up this review pretty well :)
I love when he starts ringing the bell in this video around the 6:25 mark. The more pissed he gets talking about the game the more he hits it. "The shooting is shit guy's (Ding ! )" "your characters got no knees (ding ding!)". By the end of the video he was playing bongos with it
I can't believe I was going to preorder this shite! I'm bored just by watching the combat.
A lucky escape then! Never pre-order!
I can't believe you would preorder any game
I have just come across this post on a forum and instantly thought of you Mack.
"In terms of third person shooting, IMHO, it feels excellent and the mobility really enhances it. I love being able to cross large gaps and then jump over an enemy and then aim and float above them as I fire down at them"
Love watching these reviews love the honesty other reviews don't give thanks 😊
Almost died laughing during the planet scanning section, it's hilarious how pissed off you get and I don't blame you.
Been trying to describe the combat and was using yoyo analogies, you got it spot on, whack-a-mole is exactly what it is.
Oh my God, this guy had me laughing so hard I was crying...
I had a feeling this was gonna suck
I preordered it.
Me to Me: "Why are you the way you are?"
Dude, when did I say they could put me in this game..? 3:56
haha
Now that, was harsh. Glad to get an honest semi-review
5:00 The gun model is backwards BWUAHAHAHAHA
At 5:00 the gun model in her hand is the wrong way around. What the actual actual?
I've cancelled my preorder, I'll buy it in a year or so when it's $20 and patched. Not paying full price for this stuff anymore.
forget the preorder, i cant even load into the main menu for the trial LOL
Always best to wait a while with games like this. I didn't play ME until it had been out 5 years, just going through Skyrim now. No bugs and patched to fuck is how I like my games :)
I think it is the default route with today releases
1) wait a year
2) buy GOTY for the price of "give-us-at-least-something"
that is how you get all the content and patches
Mark Kimask i dont think it will get the GOTY award tbh xD
The Surly Gamer In my world the official release is always 1 year later. Buying a game on release is like a chicken supporting KFC. it's just a bad idea. you get nothing but broken bullshit for a crazy price. Who's Excited for Mass Effect: Andromeda's Proper release 3-21-2018? Because that's when I'll be getting this game. I don't pay full price for half assed work. I pay 1/4 the price for half assed, incomplete work.
Well Mass Effect as a franchise was good until the third game so this is not new or unexpected.. Btw is anyone bothered by how young the characters look? Like in some teen series like One Three Hill or Teen Wolf.
Avio yep me. im only 30 myself but why the fuck are all these experienced professionals all fucking 12. its completely jarring and unrealistic to have so many 20 somethings running the ship. al the humans look like young uni students.
I would say Mass Effect 3 was good until the very large debacle at the end, Mack would be having a field day with Starchild
3 as a whole was solid. Just the ending FUCKING SUCKED.
blablabla90909 Well it was solid in the gameplay and graphics departments. What really mattered to a Mass Effect game like writing, character development and story was bad. The only good parts of the game were the ones which involved something built upon from the previous games. The first two were story-driven while the third was Gears of War driven.. I personally consider it a failure. And btw I don't hate GoW, they are just different types of games and liked for different reasons.
After hearing all the negative stuff about the ending, I finally made it to the end about a year ago. Granted, I had the expanded ending dlc but overall I thought it was pretty good.
What was the big issue people had with it and what exactly were people expecting?
You definitely need to play the original games if you're looking for characters and story...
Those characters are nearly as iconic as Final Fantasy 7 characters.
Mack I have a spare Closed beta key for Rising Storm 2 Vietnam would love to hear your opinion. How do you donate keys?
I have one, thanks
Lucky bastard.
Azzalack Do you want it?
Oh, yes please! Where can you send it to?
Azzalack I ll add you on steam if you want
You destroyed all my hopes and dreams with this review.
What I wouldn't give to see Mack driving around in that rover from the first Mass Effect ...the bell would be broken.
crouching was removed in mass effect 2.
you don't need knees in the future right? :D
It seems Cerberus forgot to add that function.
Mack whats Gang Ho means ? at 2:11
i was a hardcore mass effect fan girl cult member and got a N7 tattoo cuz the first 3 game ment so much to me but this game is sooo bad it really ruined the whole mass effect world for me , im sooooo done with bioware ....i also pre-ordered the game 4 months ago and EA refused to give me a refund , i did plan on getting a new mass effect andromeda tattoo but now that is wayyyyy off the table .........bioware is dead to me now !
Misty Ann oh man if you see bioware and anthem now lol
Hey Mac, can you try out the original trilogy and share your thoughts? I am really interested to hear what you'll have to say about it.
Gaming 2017 ...
Anyway Turok 2 remaster is out and is amazing
Mass Effect fanboys already disliking the video because the pre-order the game and you said they make a mistake ;)
Yeah! I bought that yesterday myself! I haven't played that for 20 odd years! Bloody brilliant!
We need a Wab for Turok 2 Mack!
The N64 version was ass and the old PC version had an inferior soundtrack and insidiously bad FOV, and there is too little ammo for the weapons. The new release fixes the core design issues with the immediate gameplay while adding several graphical, audio, and convenience features. Nightdive let me appreciate a classic for the first time. I highly recommend it.
Who?
+Pfaff1911
Well I got mine on the PC! I'm not sure if it's coming out on consoles though?
@Pfaff1911 PC I don't think this version will go anywhere else
"You have no fucking knees"
I will pass on this then i was hoping for knees :(
Alright, yeah....mhhmm, I watched a shit load of your reviews after/before playing those games and I have to say you are right in everything. I didn't wanna agree with you because of reasons but I played this game for 10 hours, and a massive ME fan and was so hyped for this game. This piece of shit of a game should not be called Mass Effect. It's an insult to the fans, insult to the franchise and insult to all of those people who payed 50 quid for this. I refunded my PreOrder as soon as I finished the 10 hour trial. Shame I can't get back the 4.99 I payed for the "origin access" shit
I had nothing but problems with this game. My system: gtx1080, i5-6600k oc'ed to 4,5ghz, 32gb ddr4 2800mhz ram, installed on hdd. I played about 5 hours now and the game crashed 4 or 5 times. Sometimes when I relaunch the game fps starts jumping around from 50 to 90 when I'm just looking to a white wall and not moving, then after I restart the game, fps becomes steady at about 100. Sometimes dialogue wheel starts selecting answers automatically and again I need to restart the game to fix it. Animations, facial expressions, dead eyes and dialogue are atrocious but everybody already talked about it, so I can't add anything anymore. Menu system is very weird, you need to go through multiple menus just to check your quest log, "M" opens map, but pressing it again does nothing, you need to press Esc once to get to menu and then again to get back into the game which is pretty annoying. There's no option to disable blur on distant objects, so during cutscenes or dialogues half the people are blurry as fuck. Changing some graphic options needs you to restart the game. Colours are weird too, hair on background characters look ridiculous like they're just put their head to a paint bucket. Gameplay wasn't the greatest in previous titles, but story and characters made it not so noticable, now the whole game is painful to play. Andromeda is not finished, they need to delay the release for another year at least, I wouldn't recommend buying this on launch, maybe half a year later when it goes on sale for like 50% at least. Go get Nier Automata instead, it's amazing.
Edit: the space map shown at 12:37, that closing in and out of planets happens every single time and after the second time I already didn't want to scan any planet ever again because how long and unnecessary the animations are. Similar thing with the scanner that your char has on hand, it was pretty cool to scan first 5 objects, then I realized I would have to do this for another like 100 or more hours and I remembered search button in Inquisition, where you had to run and constantly spam it to find one elfroot.
Edit 2: Just remembered, that one NPC pretty much confirmed, that quarians will be a dlc ("Quarians had technical problems with their spaceship, so they couldn't leave Milky Way at the same time as the others, so we won't be seeing them in a near future.")
I was never interested in this game, they were emphasising the wrong things about Mass effect in the marketing like better combat this, more combat options that........... I recently played the trilogy on my own without buying it from the hype back in the day, loved the story, especially mass effect 3, dialogue felt really professional especially how I was going for a soldier type background with Shepard so I was very friendly at heart but at the heat of certain moments choices I had to live with had to be made, renegade choices...... those moments always felt badass. MACK TRY TRILOGY, YOU WILL HATE ANDROMEDA.
Hiya Mack, just wondering, are you going to play and/or review Rising Storm 2 Vietnam? There's a closed beta at the moment and I'm just wondering if you got in.
SJWs and consolization happened to this game
GCTR: Indeed.
GCTR I play on Xbox and I must agree where the skilled games went. When Halo was on top everyone made a skill based game and then the idiots at infinity Ward made a no skill cod 4 a d ruined the gaming community
Actually Liberal cucks happened to this game.
dead_zombies Horizon Zero Dawn is more liberal and it's currently the most successful game out.
cagnazzo people have no taste especially ps4 players, they will lap onto whatever game comes out in order to validate their consoles purchase, zero dawn laso has gameplay issues, roll alll the time and just bow and arrows for the next 20 hours or so. open world but you cant go certain parts till you keep on goin with story, story is just an afterthought. facial animations are also laughable especially for npc. zero dawn wouldve made a great monster hunter game had they gona that route.
Couldn't stop laughing after the "knees" comments. Fucking comedy gold. Thank you. :D
Mack you're like the only reviewer I trust now days. Keep up the good work!
whats the name of your background sound sir please it relax my nerve love it so much
Step 1: make a good game hardcore gamers will rave about to get casuals interested
Step 2: milk that nostalgia for the next 20 years with terrible games
Step 3: profit
Wrong. They can't profit anymore after a dud like MEA.
What do you think of the game demo for Heathen. It actually got me excited.
Iwonder how long its going to take until giving honest reviews on bad games becomes hate speech.
8:27 - Wth is the team-mate doing?? :D
has anyone else noticed how weak and half arsed the male protagonist is compared to male Shepard in the first 3 games? i cant take the guy seriously or any of the other characters for that matter.
i played the first 3 to completion years back and i remember the voice actor Mark Meer did great job doing the dialog where there was a lot more passion behind the words not to mention a much better writing over all.
Almost every character had a unique personality and they were more believable.
dont get me wrong it wasnt the best story writing/ dialog/animations etc, but i could tell a lot of heart went in to those games.
Yea, Ryder's personality is not very interesting at the moment. I still have hopes that it will somehow evolve later in the game...but if not...man...sad
yeah based on what ive seen so far, the guy has no presence, his voice is very weak and he doesnt look like some one who believes in his role and its a shame.
I played Fem Ryder, and its the same. Like child which doesn't know at all what is going on. Maybe it is an intention, but its pretty slooooow start.
123starikov “great” male voice acting, I don’t think so. The actor always felt like he had 1 tone and NEVER deviated from that
He looks like a bitch
15.22 "SPACE EXPLORATION WITH YOUR DRONES" I just about fell out of my chair laughing, the way he says is so awesome!
should i cancel my pre-order. is it really as bad as people say?
Heya, I will not cancel mine. Even I agree with most stuff said here.
Facial Expressions and character animations are VERY BAD. Bioware promised patch.
Character Creation is a JOKE, worse then any previous Bioware game. It just doesn't look good.
Music is AVERAGE, not as deep as in previous MEs
Gameplay is not that bad, only thing I didn't get why they removed the pause stuff in previous games. In higher difficulty is the gameplay OK.
Character story - well its trial, beginning of something new. It is NOT GOOD. Ryder personality is like a child, which probably should be, but its not fun. I hope it will develop further. Companions and story is ok, but sometimes annoying, boring. With the facial failure it is boring. The story telling of a DEAD EYES is interesting like a text readed while there is a screenshot.
Questing, Research and other features looks OK.
I am not sure where 40 million dollars went for, but probably most of it was consumed by bad management and poor developers salaries.
Only reason I will not cancel the preorder is the hidden edge of the story telling. I am just curious as a ME fan, how its going to be. After I finish the game, I can say if it was or wasn't worth a buy. I am just trapped. Heartbroken fan atm.....Masochist probably :D
You can get EA/ Origin access for around $5 for a 1 month subscription, then try the trial for 10 hours, and then you get about that off with the discount you get.
Vlad Singer Most of the money was dumped into cinematic trailers and massive advertising to maximize the profits.
So I was spending last 2h of trial by re-creating main character (3x times, as You can't skip the intro), and I am finally somehow happy with it. The animations are still killing it, but hey, ok....there is nothing else to play. I must say I had fun to re-play the trial mission and I will gladly continue to play when released. Maybe it is my demission, maybe the game is not that bad.
Well ill go back to playing ME2 again
Metal gear solid is the best game series with stories and cutscenes.
Bioware pretty much lost their soul after Mass Effect 2.
I'm a solid pc gamer and i put mass effect 2 as one of the most gripping games IV played along with mafia, hl 2, stalker, elite dangerous and assassins creed, i enjoyed 1 and 3 too. the story was excellent. it looked decent on the unreal engine too. Andromeda has a new writer after the one from the previous 3 left bioware, it seems the company has new blood and new ideas which aren't always the best. also frostbite looks great for battlefield but maybe it's the wrong engine for ME Andromeda. the music used to be amazing too in the previous 3.
Great review, what an embarrassment
lmao I love when the part about the crouching, he has no f****** knees! lmfao
Mass Effect 2 was the best game I ever played, twice. No other game ever got me so attached to my companions and wanted to genuinely explore all of their story and dialog options.
Shepard knew how to crouch.
Another game i don't find worth even torrenting :/
Age of PC literally not even worth stealing
So Mack, a new partner now? ;) Fair play man, keep up the good work with your videos!
lol those 1000 kids that can't take criticism
"I'm coming in completely unbiased.." *third person camera*
I love that you ripped this up. To each their own with what people like. However all the SJW bullshit wedged in and racism from Manveer Heir, this deserved this kind of treatment. Cheers!
dude your voice is so funny mate 6:05 had me loll
lmaoooo im laughing so hard dude
I agree with everything u say but damn that is funny
This doesn't surprise me at all.
Quacktics are Go: I know right.
4:04 - I noticed you didn't push her off Mack!
I wouldn't neither! ;)
Yeah, why would anyone :)
I would, she looks like a man
EA stopped making good games years and years ago.
Latest, greatest game was Mass Effect 3 in my opinion.
Thanks for the honest review, Just wait a couple of days and we will have piles of 10 out of 10 reviews from the major, paid off game reviewers.
Mass Effect 1 had a great story but crappy gameplay. Then they streamlined ME2, and had a huge detour when it came to the story, effectively crapping all over one. ME3 comes along, craps more over 1, barely acknowledges it and 2, and then rushes itself head first into "I don't know how to resolve what I've written so here are some crappy cop outs"
ME: A's story looks to be an utter pile of crap, continuing from ME2 and ME3, with the characters now being a weak point instead of strong point. And the animations are actually WORSE than the previous 3 games. How could that happen? How does one get worse and not better?
that moment when u disable Adblock for supporting Mack, but he doesnt run ads :D
Thanks for the money save Mack. I'll just replay the previous Mass Effect games.
I subscribed after hearing your fantastic Scottish(?) accent! Oh, and the ranting is a good bonus.
Och aye that noo
I fear my Scottish ain't good enough to understand that one :D
Fuck EA.
Holy god the characters really are jarring. Mixing that kind of facial mocap with wooden cutscene acting is the same as sticking ham slices on the faces of thunderbird puppets.
Mass Effect 2 was the epitome of the Mass Effect series. It all just went downhill from there, this game is pretty much "take cover here, pop up and shoot a couple of times, sit back down again". The dialog options are few, the gameplay is bland, the voice acting lacks emotion, the lip sync is horrible, the player`s animations are stiff and sometimes downright weird. Horribly disappointed with this, EA has proven that they can ruin just about any good game franchise.
Are you going to do a full review?
Let's move on to the actual gameplay which is pretty much what it's all about... I'm.sad to say the gameplay is shit!
This why we love mack 😂😂😂
Mac please, do a MAss Effect 1 quick review and compare that with this pile of festering shit
He probably won't like it to be honest. The gameplay in ME1 is obviously much worst and I don't think the good story would be enough for him to thumb it up.
+Minos I think he would give a thumbs up, he gave the new tom clancy game a thumb up, and fallout 4 despite their failings of a combat system.
I played ME 2 and 3 before I played ME1. I though ME 1 was the best. Combat was still fun even though it was aged.
Mass Effect 1 was the only good one.
Minos the gameplay is miles better because it looks and feel like a RPG rather than a random shooter. As for the story I bet he would love it. Everything is interesting and ambiguous and you only have access to limited information. What you don't know scares you tenfold. In me2 and 3 you're like ..meh ..reapers..bunch of gellie bugs. In me 1 you don't know who they are, what they want, where they come from, what's their deal you literally start discovering everything. I honestly think Mac would like it. And I know he will like the planet exploration without any of this scanning crap going on. And he will totally dig the Mako.
P.S. You know how at the end of ME3 you see liara's hologram telling you a story about the reapers and what happened to all the races that tried to fight them etc..? Well that's pretty much how ME1 starts where you find the Prothean A.I and you try your best to piece everything together. My opinion is that ME1 is better than a good scifi book.
Hahaa! The outro. Great video and spot on.
I'm voting for Trump's re- election because of this game.
Enjoy your "don't hold your punches" style of review. Giving this game such an adjective ladened whiplash was entertaining to watch and informative. You got my Sub.
Holy shit, another 3rd person game review. I wonder if he's going to shit on it like all the other ones...why even review it when you have a clear bias against 3rd person games?
He's thumbed up quite a few 3rd person games though. I agree with him 100% there is almost no need for 3rd person games anymore.
Third-person console games are like Christmas cookies. They're all made with the same cookie cutter, and even though they may have different toppings, they all taste pretty much the same.
because some people dislike 1st person games as much as mack hates 3rd person ones. only fps game ive played in recent years i could actually stand was titanfall 2. not saying they're bad but not my cup of tea. having the choice is always a good thing.
+Not Important Or Shadow of Mordor...or Earth Deffense Force...oh wait. Clearly, mack does NOT hate 3rd person games, any one who pays attention in his videos will know that. The gameplay is just shit. Whoever thought auto cover was a good idea should be fired.
He PREFERS 1st person games, but he absolutely HATES hold your hand, x-ray vision, tag your enemies, follow your waypoints massive HUD all over the screen modern shit console games for 12 year olds with a learning disability.
I'm sure, if one was to make a old school challenging no hud game with smart ai,... and it was 3rd person, he would love the shit out of it! ((and then roast it a bit "If only it was first person!!!ding ding ding")) :D
14:16 "YOU FOUND A CRATER"
And then it proceeds to tell you what a crater is...
How the fuck is that an anomaly? Jeez, I wonder what BWM would do with the Moon. It'd be like a kid in a candy store. WHAT HAPPENED? CHRIST! Noooo *sobs*
The gameplay for ME2 and 3 are almost exactly like this just about 10 times clunkier, yet ME2 and 3 are still considered fantastic games by a massive amount of people (excluding ME3 ending). ME2 was specifically praised for the combat gameplay, which is garbage compared to this. If you don't like this gameplay, you would absolutely hate ME2 and 3 but you can't say that the games are objectively terrible because of it.
I actually think ME2 and 3s combat is better. Better cover usage, better aiming, active use of all abilities on your squad. It wasn't perfect, but the combat in ME:A isn't great for a 2017 game. Guns are weak, have insane spread, and enemies act like idiots.
-100- Jovial me2 and 3 had better combat
+Diree and far too many bright glow-in-the-dark colours. It reminds me too much of a Joel Schumacher Batman movie. Too much visual polish rather than space military grit like the trilogy games, which will make your "face tired" rofl.
nope. I found the loyalty suicide mission quite impressive. The writing was actually better even 3 was great but the fucks up in the end was... shit
I agree man.
She just fired out of the back of her gun at 5:00.