>switching out squadmates with different powers is a huge part of the gameplay in 2 and 3 >completely drop this feature in andromedawhy?
>>737936353Because they wanted to increase the power of the main character, so you would rely less on squadmates
>>737936391it literally made combat worse
>>737936491andromeda has the best gameplay in the series
>>737936546Why do that, just lie on the internet?
CEO: Ugh, my bonus this year won't be enough to cover my fourth yacht. Guys put out a new Mass Effect, people go crazy for that name alone and will buy millions. Squad mates? Wtf are those? Nobody cares about that shit, just make the player character able to do everything and make sure we meet our Jew LGBT quota for the free journalism bump. Gotta go snort coke now, bye.
>>737936546Andromeda has the worst gameplay in the series. worse than the original ME1. I didn't finish MEA because the combat was so fucking bad
>>737936567>>737936704You just have bad taste
I never changed characters in the original trilogy
>>737936804You like Andromeda, your opinion is already questionable.
andromeda's gameplay is mid
>>737936804you liked mass effect andromeda, retard >>737936881how did you do the loyalty missions?Did you just play 1 with Ash and gayden, 2 with miranda and jacob and 3 with james and liara?
>>737936353Too bad they never tried to implement more strategic pause based tactical combat like how they showed with the pre-release build of the first game. Rather than lean into that style of gameplay they kept acitonfying it until it basically became GOW but with powers.
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>>737937643EA bought them after the first game or before the first game came out but after it was mostly done
>>737937643ME3s combat might've been unintentionally better than BioWare expected it to be, and the horde mode they made as a tagalong mode shows how much blood you could squeeze from that stone. If someone took that and actually did make a more action focused game set in the ME universe I think it would be pretty good....a decade ago. Now, with how BioWare and EA is, I don't see that being very good.
>>737938316Well damn I never knew of this game. It even looks exactly like what they seemed to have in plan for Mass Effect 1. Looking at this game it really makes me sad now that Bioware didn't do this for the series. Bunch of hacks.>>737939210I think it was very shortly after the first game's release but yeah.>>737939390Not saying ME3's combat is bad necessarily but that Xcom game anon posted is actually along the lines of what seemed to be planned for the first game initially. Of course they retained some of that pause based combat through the series but as the OP said it seems clear they wanted to keep empowering the player and have your sidekicks there mostly just as backup.
>>737936353>switching out charactersyeah nah, its tali + garrus for every mission I can
>>737939390good post
>>737939812>Well damn I never knew of this game. It even looks exactly like what they seemed to have in plan for Mass Effect 1. Looking at this game it really makes me sad now that Bioware didn't do this for the series. Bunch of hacks.the bureau is weird. I think what happened is they started making it in response to mass effect and when they started doing the first leaks/PR things people seethed about muh xcom so they made xcom EU and then no one played the bureau. ME2 might have played like the bureau if EA didn't buy bioware
>>737940470I skimmed through a few videos of bureau but yeah it definitely looks a lot like ME in its combat. The pause seems to slow the game down rather than outright stopping it though like how ME does. Bureau looks pretty good although I've never played any Xcom game. I think you are right that ME could have potentially ended up more like this and probably retained or even added more RPG elements in the sequels had EA not bought the company out.Video with timestamp of what I was talking about. https://youtu.be/LCvCvqbn4qY?t=427
>>737940868ME 1 is very early 2000s RPG jenk. it's kind of similar to like that pirates of the caribbean game that was never supposed to be a movie tie-inThe Bureau even has the mass effect dialogue wheels. they were trying to copy mass effect
>>737940981I remember this Pirates game was regarded as surprisingly good back in the day. I never played this either. Its too bad more didn't try to copy ME back in the day since the series never came close to the hype or potential it had. There is some small hope with Exodus so we will see how that comes out with Drew back in as lead writer of the game. I think it looks decent so far at least but I'm holding full judgment until a lot more is revealed.
>>737941249the pirates game was good because they had already made it and then slapped the movie branding on it at the last minute. as much as I like ME2 it's a shame it loses all the atmosphere and world building 1 had
>>737936546it has the best shootan and jumpan, and also has the worst enemies
>>737936567>>737936704turning off the spur and mcl blockers so i can post and say hes right, andromeda has the best gameplay of any ME game and is a direct ME1 upgrade, where 2 and 3 only made everything worse and more limited
>>737941498Yeah definitely agree on that. ME2 is a great game overall and I can see why it gets glazed for the most part although its also really stupid how these same people love to overlook a ton of its obvious glaring flaws. But the squadmates, their side stories and the whole suicide mission set up is largely why the game gets so much praise. I do like though that ME2 has a darker atmosphere in some aspects. Like that prison part on the asteroid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qP71GT6Xvk
>>737941665>>737941717MEA has the worst gameplay and it isn't even close, thirdie
