Every now and then I think about Andromeda and I get depressed. It's not a game I hate at all. It's a game with stuff I like. But the project as a whole was so grotesquely mismanaged and incoherent in vision that the final work is just so depressingly unambitious for its potential, scattered in quality of content, and far from the mark of promise and delivery that its three successors had set the standard for.
I don't think it's a terrible game at all. But it's so wholly and bizarrely safe and unremarkable, and unfocused in production and vision, that it was a deathblow to a franchise I otherwise adore. And it just makes me so sad that one Andromeda itself didn't meet the potential it could have been, and BioWare failed to truly bring the series into a new generation with equal predecessor quality, and two that failure has essentially robbed the entire franchise of a future.
For all its highs and lows, Mass Effect as a franchise was one I was overwhelmingly eager to continue investing in. For Andromeda to be as dull and unremarkable as it was is the greatest shame.
