This. This exactly. (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 18:13 (2578 days ago) @ cheapLEY

Kinda seems that Raga is not allowed to have an opinion pretty often, according to some around here, as well. :/

No, it's just that Raga calls people idiots for voicing their opinion. Or maybe that was just me.

Oh heck no. I said:

And, if you'd waited two days and said the same thing it would have made sense.

Yeah, but what was the title of that post? FWIW, there aren't any hard feelings, really. I can only assume I have the reputation of being negative about Destiny, and you like to come to Destiny's defense. It's not a big deal. I was mostly poking fun anyway--I suppose a smiley face in my reply to Cruel would have been appropriate.

Cool.

I'm playing Mass Effect: Andromeda.

How is it? I'm on the fence about getting it. I don't care about all the wonky animations, but the stuff I've seen of the game just doesn't seem all that good to begin with. I've watched a few sections of some let's plays, and Giant Bomb's quick look and all the writing seems bad and uninteresting, but I realize that just watching some videos doesn't necessarily showcase that stuff well.

I'll do a full write of ME:A later. The short version is:

1. The writing / story / gameplay is right in line with past Mass Effects, baring the obvious new combat changes and additions (like the jump jet) which I thought were very much a positive. It's not industry leading but it's also far better than a few of those reviewers who savaged it were saying. It did take a while for me to grow to know the characters but by the end I enjoyed who they all are.
2. I love the return to ME:1-ish exploration and driving around planets and crafting and complexity. In a lot of ways, I think ME:A is what Mass Effect always wanted to be... or at least what I always wanted it to be.
3. With no spoilers, I thought it ended very strong and also did a good job of recognizing that you might continue playing even after finish up the main storyline.