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Yeahhh
sucks that Andromeda was pretty eh cause I think it could've been a pretty decent clean slate for the franchise otherwise
Honestly, Andromeda didn’t deserve the hate it got. It wasn’t awful. It had some issues, sure. But many of the complaints about the story basically boiled down to “it wasn’t larger than the entire first three games combined.” It was trying to start a new story, but instead of being seen as a new start it was compared to the entirety of the original trilogy.
It completely misses that the entire first Mass Effect game was basically just an intro to the Reapers. Like the entire first Mass Effect game is basically just “oh hey here’s a new villain.” And by that metric, Andromeda did a lot more than the first Mass Effect did. But it wasn’t larger than the entire trilogy, so it got panned by the players who were too impatient to wait for a sequel.
Same goes for the Mass Effect 3 ending
drama. Like, Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 also had the "bring your save over from the previous game" thing but someone has to make the endings - of course they're going to be just a few of them. What made Mass Effect interesting at the time is that you got little emails and encyclopedia entries that were effected by stuff you did in the previous games. The ending of 3 was never going to be remarkably different.
Definitely do agree, it's still a game I enjoy a lot and replay regularly