{"id":2823,"date":"2017-04-16T19:41:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T19:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2020-09-07T00:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T00:29:15","slug":"mass-effect-andromeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/mass-effect-andromeda\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect: Andromeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short version: An inferior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/dragon-age-inquisition-first-impressions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dragon Age: Inquisition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly longer version:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mass_Effect:_Andromeda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This<\/a> is a large game with quite a lot to do. So it&#8217;s unfortunate that navigating the galaxy map is such a chore (especially since they got planetside fast-travel right), the minor glitches it has end up remarkably annoying, the respawning mechanic is pretty bad, and that the dialog\/script is <em>atrocious<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Really everything else could be forgiven if it weren&#8217;t for the writing. We&#8217;re talking internet-published fanfiction level here. It goes well beyond cringe-inducing, which ends up something of a mystery considering it starts off well enough. Did the writing team change partway through development? Did they just give up and\/or run out of inspiration a quarter of the way through? Whatever the case the end-result is practically unreadable and late-endgame developments in particular feel like they were pulled out of thin air.<\/p>\n<p>All that said, if you&#8217;re just looking for something to waste some time with the game is good enough. If you&#8217;re looking for something engaging or, worse, you&#8217;re a serious completionist (the glitches and random spawning combined with the slow system map make getting 100% a real pain), it should be avoided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short version: An inferior Dragon Age: Inquisition. Slightly longer version: This is a large game with quite a lot to do. So it&#8217;s unfortunate that navigating the galaxy map is such a chore (especially since they got planetside fast-travel right), the minor glitches it has end up remarkably annoying, the respawning mechanic is pretty bad, and that the dialog\/script is atrocious. Really everything else could be forgiven if it weren&#8217;t for the writing. We&#8217;re talking internet-published fanfiction level here. It goes well beyond cringe-inducing, which ends up something of a mystery considering it starts off well enough. Did the writing team change partway through development? Did they just give up and\/or run out of inspiration a quarter of the way through? Whatever the case the end-result is practically unreadable and late-endgame developments in particular feel like they were pulled out of thin air. All that said, if you&#8217;re just looking for something to waste some time with the game is good enough. If you&#8217;re looking for something engaging or, worse, you&#8217;re a serious completionist (the glitches and random spawning combined with the slow system map make getting 100% a real pain), it should be avoided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[477,121,62,473],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-exploration","tag-rpg","tag-science-fiction","tag-third-person-perspective"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}