I bought Mass Effect Andromeda about 2 weeks after it first came out, and I’ve played through as much of the first planet as it would let me (which wasn’t all that much). As I’ve played the game, I’ve wrote down what has annoyed me. Here I will detail what has annoyed me about the game so far. POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD
Main Menu
- mouse highlights wrong item on hover (fixed – sorta) after update 1.05
- Game loads for a significant amount of time after exiting character creator back into the main menu
Dialogue
- Almost all the dialogue listed here will be goofy. As a general rule, if the dialogue isn’t goofy, it’s flat fucking boring.
- “I feel like a 600 year old popsicle” after coming out of stasis.
- “since when do rocks float” ‘just go with it’ when flying above the first planet you come to, to complete the tutorial level, Liam and Ryder have this exchange.
- “it’s like they didn’t finish building it” after it was stated that the Nexus wasn’t built.
- “can you tell me where the welcome party is hiding” after boarding the Nexus and seeing no one around
- “you’re a BRAVE PIONEER” don’t blow smoke up my arse, NPCs.
- Liam continually mentions the Nexus is vacant
- “Unknown Error” spoken like VI has never spoken either word before
- MEMES LOL
- “14 months and you start stooping to poetry”
- “ugh goddamn poetry”
- Tann’s voice actor seems to be playing a “character” and is doing it badly.
- Scott uses “uh” to answer questions
- Suvi sounds fucking stupid
- LIAM SPEAKS IN MEMES
- “oh you know things? good for you, I know things too” Wow, Peebee you sure showed them
- “We nearly died!” “YEAH BUT IT WAS TOTALLY COOL” – definite seizure probability.
Game
- textures shimmer
- blank, non-moving faced weird fucking NPCs (noted as fixed with update 1.05, but not actually fixed)
- Ryder’s hand passes through an item he is grabbing hold of in a cutscene
- too easy to cut off dialogue/dialogue doesn’t complete often
- clunky movement at times (but combat is very satisfying)
- Rocks. Are. Floating.
- animation of shooting at corpse doesn’t contact
- dopey, clueless expressions POST 1.05 update
- Scott Ryder seems overly happy immediately after his dad’s death
- Foster Addison is excessively stupid. Holy fuck.
- Female Krogan – goofiest fucking Krogan in the galaxy
- Numpad keys are totally randomised
- Not much difference between selection colours – already chosen dialogue very slightly different hue from unused dialogue. Gets really fucking confusing during times where you revisit a character.
- Animations do not match voices
- Textures popping in and out during interviews
- Weird model tooth overlap
- Vetra is an atypical turian
- Two audio files from the same NPC can play simultaneously, creating some weird fucking shit
- only 2 squadmates compared to 3 in Dragon Age Inquisition (minor annoyance)
- 3 different NPCs talking over each other…
- Peebee is an annoying fucking Mary Sue who speaks in Tumblr memes.
- Pretty sure they won’t be calling it “3D printing” so far in the future
- Quests with no clear objective
- After selecting to land on a planet, the decision CANNOT be cancelled.
- Weapons loadout cannot be changed at the ship without leaving the planet.
- Pee(nis)b(reath)ee walks like she’s shat in her fucking pants
- No choice of whether to recruit or abandon new team mates, they are automatically added.
- Ore remains behind after being picked up, instead of disappearing.
- Game flickers yellow in certain areas, due to the ingame filter having a certain boundry the camera crosses
- Group dialogue reads/plays out like a fucking terrible sitcom, without a pathetic laugh track
- Game arbitrarily forces you to leave Eos. No real reason at all, just so you don’t exhaust all the content on that planet straight up.
- BORED ALREADY WITH NO DESIRE TO PLAY ANY FURTHER.
Hopefully I’ll end up playing more, so I can make a part 2, but until then, this is all. EOF