S2E12 - Beating Mass Effect Andromeda and Buying Video Games in Installments - “I’ve never seen the internet overreact to anything before”

Beating Mass Effect Andromeda and Buying Video Games in
Installments


In this episode:


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Mass Effect Andromeda


Void beat Mass Effect Andromeda very quickly. He reviews the
game for those of us who haven’t played it, and he discusses the
game’s strengths and weaknesses. Primarily, the open-worldedness
wasn’t interesting enough to make him explore, the new races were
too limited, and the story was pretty similar to the old one.

The thing is, Void wanted to love this game, and instead he
only liked it. There is a lot to like here, and a lot of the
internet’s reactions have been overblown. The new dialogue
options are really great, and they work a lot better than the
stark good/bad dichotomy most Bioware games have.

The premise of the game is still pretty amazing, and he has
incredibly high hopes for Mass Effect Andromeda 2 because this
first game laid a great foundation for a series, provided they
make a series of improvements he outlines in the episode.



Games as a Service


More and more these days, games aren’t a
buy-once/play-forever kind of thing like they used to be. Between
DLC and expansion packs and passes and constant content updates,
video games have to be treated as a service to keep players
interested.

We discuss a number of these models--MMO subscriptions, the
one-game-I-play-forever-and-nothing-else system,
microtransactions, mobile updates, events, episodic releases
(free and paid), and even things like toys to life and shareware
titles from a consumer standpoint.



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Weekly Geekery


Beej



Beat Zelda: Breath of the Wild / American Crime Story /
Mario Kart 8 / 10% Happier - Hannah Hart episode / Spider-man
Homecoming Trailer 2



Void



Treadmill desk / Splatoon 2 “Testfire” / I Am Setsuna /
Mario sports Superstars / Card Thief





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