Hearing some mixed reviews on Mass Effect Andromeda. Was planning on getting the game right away, but I might hold off a week or two.
Was hearing the same thing. Will still probably pick it up day 1, but it might give me some time to finish H:ZD. Started playing that after the Wild **** the bed last night.... wow, you guys were right. Beautiful game with an interesting story, really excited to play more tonight.
Watched Giant Bomb's stream of it, it doesn't look great. The writing/VO does not seem very good.
The only thing I've really seen about the new Mass Effect is that the facial animations are a colossal step downwards from the previous games, and I agree.
Not really concerned about the graphics... Mass Effect has never been a cutting edge graphics game.
The writing criticisms I have read don't really concern me that much either. Comments about how the game starts out really slow (so did the original Mass Effect, so did KOTOR back in the day - this is typical of Bioware, those who expected Mass Effect 2 or 3 type quick starts were fooling themselves), and gripes about character comments here and there being thin (ie run over some bad guys, Ryder says "Speed Bump" etc) just don't bother me much. It's the overall STORY that really matters when it comes to Mass Effect. You can't get a real idea about THAT quality of writing on a 50-70hr game until you get well into it. Reviewers don't even have the ability to comment on anything but the first 10hrs of the game right now because of the EA early access only being able to get through that.
I have read some early "comments" outside of reviews that those who have gotten more into the game say it gets a lot stronger as it goes.
Official reviews about the full game aren't going to be available until the 20th.
I'm still a full go on day one. Mass Effect is just my type of game, graphics be damned... though I do hear the environments look top notch, if the animations don't.