Quote Originally Posted by Vyk View Post
Amusing that you can call Zelda out for being repetitive and have issue with durability and stamina and doing the same shrine dungeon 12 times and people are like "yeah it may look bring and annoying at times but you have to play it to understand" and then turn around and criticize this game after not touching it and swearing it off

Edit - I am sad about all the things wrong, but my girlfriend is still completely immersed
I haven't sworn off it, though I have said "eh, not really interested yet". It's on my list, but my budget is only so big, and there are other games ahead of it.

At risk of sidetracking, I will say that Breath of the Wild is not really that repetitive. Except for the combat shrines, I don't think it's fair to list ANY of them as "the same dungeon multiple times", as the diversity in the puzzles and mechanics of them is actually quite surprising. Plenty have unique quirks or demand thinking of new and unique uses for your abilities. The fights are usually staged in ways that give you a lot of interesting and unique ways to take them down, and there is a decent selection of enemies as well (though, sadly, some old staples are missing). There are probably a dozen or more different styles of puzzles to find Koroks, and most of them are unique as well (or involve reaching a particular part of unique terrain). The diversity of the content is really quite surprising to me, especially compared to every other open-world game I've played.

I just never really got hooked in to Andromeda. I didn't even know about most of the development troubles the game experienced until the past couple of days. The most I'd seen of it was a couple screenshots, which, honestly, didn't make the game look that appealing. I think they might have pushed graphical fidelity too far without balancing out their modeling skills, as a couple of the characters just look a bit "off". None of them particularly appeal to me, and, as I've not seen any trailers or anything but screenshots, there's not a lot else to go on. I wouldn't even say that the characters are "ugly" because, frankly, they always have been. I mean, name me one character in Mass Effect that's visually appealing. The closest is probably Garrus, but even he's ruined by the texture issue that plagued the PC port (which is the only version I played) and made the close ups of him all use the lowest-rez textures (there's a mod to fix this, but I'm lazy). They got better as the series went on, but this does strike me as a typical "we've pushed too far towards photo-realism without having the design chops to pull it off".

There's not been anything big about the story that's hooked me either. From what I can tell, we take a trip to the Andromeda galaxy. And...explore? Anything else? I don't know. I haven't seen anything else mentioned. But, abandoning the characters and worlds and history of the series for something completely new and unrelated didn't particularly interest me. I wanted more Mass Effect because I wanted more of the series, not something else that just shares the name. Though, admittedly, they so thoroughly destroyed the series at the end of ME3 that I'm not sure they could anything else with it.

I don't know. I'm interested. I want to play it. In a casual, thrown off "yeah, it'd be fun" kind of way. But I'm not interested enough to want to buy it. Maybe if it goes on sale sometime when I don't have other games I'm playing. It's weird to think about, because I got kind of freakishly obsessed with the original trilogy.