newtmonkey wrote on Yesterday, 15:21:

I'm looking forward to reading your posts as you play through the series!

Cheers! And yeah, I'm definitively playing through the entire trilogy. Guess I've become invested enough in the story and the characters, despite not liking some of the gameplay changes.

Not sure if I should go for Andromeda after that. I do have it as a physical disc for my PS4. Maybe I'll try the unpatched version 1.0 just for the memes. "My face is tired" and all that jazz. 😁

Joseph_Joestar wrote on Yesterday, 17:35:

Not sure if I should go for Andromeda after that. I do have it as a physical disc for my PS4. Maybe I'll try the unpatched version 1.0 just for the memes. "My face is tired" and all that jazz. 😁

I've got Andromeda on PS4 also; it's actually got a cool space/planet exploration feel, but it has nothing to do with the previous games, so I quickly lost interest... maybe some day. I remember it having a weird auto-save system where you cannot save whenever you want, and the first couple of hours of the game were very linear and annoying.

I prefer Andromeda to all the other games. I think I've said this before. The first game should have been called "Space Station Conversation Simulator". The next two were much better, but Andromeda is my favorite. I actually bounced off of the first Mass Effect twice before finally being able to push through it. Was awful.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2025-08-01, 07:31:

Very odd choice to monetize the game in a manner which affects the plot to some degree.

Yeah, it's unfortunate. Comparing at the runtime with or without any DLC (I played both) it really feels like I got half a game at first, then the full game 1.5 years later, when all the DLC were released. Especially without Lair of the Shadow Broker, which is amazing.

ME3 was even worse in that department, with day-one DLC for a character very tied to the core lore... 😒