I mean, this is perfect, really. What it’s a perfect example of is left up to you, the reader.
Basically, this is what popped up in Top Stories for me when I went to go look up Mass Effect: Andromeda in Google (wanted to see whether it was dropping March 21st or 22nd). Frankly, in my experience both reviews are unlikely. Video games that you’ll be playing for sixty, seventy hours tend not to be too overwhelming right out of the box; likewise, video games that end up sucking typically have strong beginnings, not weak ones. At least, they do when they come out of A-list software shops, which Bioware is. But, hey, either way: free publicity, right? That’s why they send out the review copies.
But that’s not the travesty. That’s not even close to being the travesty. No, the travesty is that nobody sent me a review copy. But, hey, those grapes were probably sour anyway…
Moe Lane
PS: March 21st.
My expectations are considerably low. The character models and animation shown so far are… not great. Certainly not what I’d expect for the next installment of a pretty huge franchise. But we’ll see.
Eh. Wounds have healed enough that I might give it a shot.
Eventually.
After the price point drops below $20.
Before Destiny 2, anyway. (Bungie has broken yet more promises. It’s obviously been over three years since I was helping run a amalgamator of pre-launch news, but I’m hard pressed to think of any major promise that they haven’t broken. I’ve gone from a hardcore fan of the company, to someone who would like to see them go bankrupt.)