#with the exception of peebee

[crqstalite]

i've finally drawn my current ryder twins (and changed their middle names again in the process lmao).

[i feel like the screenshots didn't do talis' mid-crisis 'holy shit i just DIED' haircut so obviously i had to make it a little more chaotic yk lol.]

edit: mateo is younger by a year and half because he was in stasis longer. pretty much everyone considers him as old as talis only because he was only in a coma and not technically sleep, but talis hangs this over his head. he'll never live it down.

[wetsocksinbed]

[cryptidowl]

Remembering Andromeda is like hmm yes time to remember the pain of picking between Vetra and Jaal again hmmm yes

[enlichened]

[ID: An image of three people. One is on their phone and holds an umbrella over the other two, who are kissing. End ID]

how i imagine the three-person party thing to go in DA4 when you bring your love interest + one other companion:

[ageless-aislynn]

Yay, I finished Scott and Peebee's romance, just Scott/Jaal to go and I'll have completed my goal of trying out every romance option in Mass Effect: Andromeda! 🥳🎉

But I, um, backed up to where we landed the first time on Kadara so Scott and I could, wellllll... So we could

Awwwww yeahhhhh, that was my expression, too, Scott! Yep. I literally clicked that trigger faster than any other in the game, except maybe for...

Ahem. Now, onward to Jaal! (Sorry for the detour, babe, you know I can't resist Reyes. I might, er, also be doing a little bit of very light flirting with Gil, too. As one does, you know.)

Jaal: ...the absolute heck? :(

Me and Scott: We just have so much love to give. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

~💖~

[keepitmovinshawty]

One gripe I have as I play ME Andromeda is that they were super lazy with the design of the other species. Every asari has the same face. So does every turian. Every krogan. Every salarian. They all look the same. The only exception is Peebee, who I can’t stand.

But in the trilogy everyone had their own design. Liara, Samara, and Aria looked completely different. Even the nameless commandos each had their own face. Wrex and Grunt looked completely different. Garrus was distinguishable from other turians. Mordin and Maelon were clearly different.

But in Andromeda the nonhumans have a default design with a different voice. Why would they do that?

[veshialles]

we oughta interact more, not enough mass effect mutuals =(

also who is your favorite: male romance, female romance, and just general companion?

yes we really ought to!! I'm so sorry about leaving this in my inbox, things have been so hectic this past week and a bit! And fuck yeah I'm always down to talk about Mass Effect!!

favourite male romance: I actually haven't. done any of them fully except part of ME1 Kaidan (who died 😭) and ME2 Garrus one time. and part of Liam and Jaal's romances. I hear good things about ME3 Kaidan tho and I'm kind of tempted to let him live again in my next playthrough even though it's supposed to be Ashley's turn to survive lol

Favourite female romance: Vetra!!! my cool spiky space wife who i miss every day 🥺 also Jack's romance is so good, especially when modded to reintroduce her canon bisexuality, my beloved 🥰

fav companion: ohh tough call. Huge fan of Tali and Miranda (parental traumas 🤝 parental traumas), and I'm also very taken with Peebee she's such a hot mess disaster of a woman <3 and Jaal is just such A Swell Guy you know?

thank you for the ask!! Would love to know about your ME favs too 👀

[matchbet-allofthetime]

Oh no now I'm falling in love with Reyes :')

God damnit, between Jaal, vetra, Reyes, and Peebee, I'm losing my damn mind!

I can't pick shfjfjfjfj

Now I'm more caught between vetra, Jaal, and Reyes than anything else

(however I've also seen playthroughs plenty of times and I know the romance paths for everyone EXCEPT the humans in this game, so maybe... Maybe I'll go for the fun-loving Reyes AFTER I smooch my big pretty turian)

[miaclemeverett]

Okay everyone seems to really like wu&io but it took me a couple of listens to actually kind of like it and even then some of the songs are kind of mid (not golden hour my babygirl tho)

with wubio i had already heard the entire EP except for portrait, and portrait is my favorite on the EP so i immediately loved it! with peebee it actually did take me a while to warm up to some of the songs, and the same thing had happened there where we had heard most of the songs except with pb the production/mixing was just all over the place like i couldnt understand a word wilbur was singing until like a week later lmfao

[ripleywrites]

Finished my recent playthrough of the Mass Effect trilogy and my mom asked me what was I going to do next? I said play through it again and make different choices but let's be honest I'm already heading to Eos.

I love the Mass Effect trilogy, but I LOVE, ADORE CONNECT with Andromeda. I want to be Vetra. I want to date Peebee for all time. I love my disaster Ryder. For no reason whatsoever I named her Whilemina Aurora so her initials spell WAR. Except it wouldn't fit so she's W. Aurora. I figured that's something Alec would have done.

[gloryofdawn]

I think there's merit to what you're saying, and these things almost certainly contributed to the game dying, but I think the ultimate failures that doomed Andromeda are threefold:

1) The game was rushed out. This is obviously a frequent issue, but Andromeda had it bad. The game had less graphical fidelity than Mass Effect 1, which was, what, a decade earlier? I'm not normally one to condemn a game solely on its graphics, but the character modeling was awful. The HR administrator whose name escapes me at the moment looked like a clown, every Asari had the same face except for Peebee, and characters were prone to spawn in missing parts of their face, which is... jarring, to say the least. Obviously, beyond graphics, there were a mess of other bugs, but I feel that they weren't much more egregious than your average Bethesda game.

2) The game was empty. This is a complaint I have about a lot of open world games. For some reason, developers seem to equate map size with game quality. While it was cool to explore new worlds and boldly go, the time it took to go around and make it to various quest objectives was... rough, to say the least. ME1 succeeded at this better because the planets you explored were just neat pieces of side content, not fully fleshed out or meant to be, and they told you straight up where you needed to go to finish up. Andromeda had good cartography, but the experience of driving around Hostile Planet #3 lost its charm once you started trying to Skyrim up a mountain because otherwise you're going around the whole goddamn map again just to get to this one spot on the corner of the map that you would never go to except the goddamn quest giver is a hermit.

I think this is a failure compared to the trilogy as a whole because the trilogy was, largely, tight. You could spend time exploring the hubs, and you definitely did in 3 (bordering on the point of excessively), but when you were out playing the game, you were actively doing something.

And 3), perhaps the most damning, EA made it very clear during Andromeda's tenure that they hated their players. Even the people going in in good faith were looking at the state of the game and going, "Uh, hey, what the fuck?" And rather than address the issue, they went immediately into the standby from the ME3 debacle: "You gamers are a bunch of ingrates! You complain about everything, especially stuff that doesn't matter, and criticize a masterpiece because of a few scuff marks!"

I actually really liked Andromeda, and I think that it easily has the best combat of any of the games. The characters were good, I only really disliked Peebee, and that's mostly because her archetype grates on me. The story was good in places and fine in others. I just wish EA hadn't shot Bioware in the foot for it.

The more time I sink into andromeda, the more I suspect the biggest reason it ultimately failed commercially was because of the massive tonal shift I've already mentioned, and how there was probably a pretty big chunk of original trilogy players who simply no longer fit as a demographic, while the game failed to reach the people who might’ve enjoyed it.

The original trilogy, much as I love it, feels a little bit like a wishfulfillment power fantasy for a very obvious demographic. Almost all women are overtly sexy in design and the f/f relationship in the first game seems to be written along the guidelines of 'what would a straight man find hot'; you play as someone cool and confident and powerful, the most specialest human ever, and maybe you aren’t always respected but YOU and the NARRATIVE always know you're right and you get to be rude to and sometimes punch/murder people who disagree with you so it’s fine. The game then salvages all this by means of genuinely well-written characters and arcs, really cool sci-fi tech and lore, a fantastic story, and meaningful and hard-hitting choices and consequences (which also allow and often encourage you to steer away from that exact macho ideal).

Enter andromeda. Instead of being a super powerful supersoldier from the start, you're the kid of one. You barely know what you're doing. Everyone doubts you, including yourself. You don’t get the assuredness of knowing you are Right and Cool that you have as Shepard. You don’t demand that same respect. And I'm sure there are a lot of people who hated that.

[championsandheroes]

I'm sure that the other romance options in Mass Effect Andromeda were perfectly lovely. Unfortunately, MEA was a bit like ME1 for me. It didn't really "click" for me with the vast majority of the characters. I liked Drack and, well, Reyes (however obvious his plot was)., but otherwise it was a range of "eh". And sure, perhaps Reyes idea of celebrating our great victory was a bit... unconventional, but I'll be damned if I wasn't disappointed that I couldn't accept and abandon the party. That being said, Reyes didn't need to tell me I have a really bad taste in men. Thanks. I know. And I'd still romance Zaeed or Loghain in a heartbeat.

You can let me know that I do, indeed, have bad taste in men over at Patreon and Society6.

[theravenofwynter]

Hot meme time - Sparatus, Peebee and Kolyat. :)

Sparatus

Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

PeeBee

Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

Kolyat

Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

[ageless-aislynn]

Oooo, you play mass effect, it finally clicked in my head. Who do you romance in Andromeda?

Also, I really did enjoy the game regardless of the amount of hate it got

ZOMG, you must've missed me at my most Andromeda obsessed, lol! I haven't actually been able to play it since last November, when my previous computer gave out and then this one has been super lousy. However, as soon as I can hopefully get my Vegas back on and thus be able to GIF (and vid) again, I'm planning on going back to Andromeda to finally finish the big Ryder twins romance GIF project I had going, lol!

In short, I've romanced every single option available except Scott/Peebee and Scott/Jaal. Scott/Peebee was in progress when I got derailed. But here are some posts I've made about various things, if you'd like to see them!

Sara's romances with Jaal, Reyes, Peebee and Vetra

Scott/Cora and the shocking, unexpected Scott/Harry romance 😂😜

I was working on the Scott/Gil vid here

I've vidded Sara/Reyes, Scott/Cora, Scott/Gil and my final vid ever was about Scott and his dad, Alec

Mass Effect: Andromeda incorrect quotes

Me at the bottom talking about doing an Insanity run and showing my Sara in her Mjolnir-like tanky armor plus the name of my crafted weapons 😂

I absolutely adore this game and I've honestly missed playing it so much! Also, did you know that Kate Kennedy aka Kai from Halo is the voice of one of the Angara?

I romanced Avela as Scott JUST for that fact alone, lol!

Anyway, like I said, I never did get the chance to finish making GIFs for all of my romances and I still hope to finish those last two for Scott. As for which are my favs...

Sara: Reyes. I'm a sucker for that scoundrel, what can I say? 😍😇 But Vetra is a close second. I have to physically restrain myself from flirting with her if I'm planning on romancing somebody else because there's no way I'd hurt my best Turian girl like that! 😱😉

Scott: Gil surprisingly became my favorite "I have to make SURE not to click the flirt options if I'm romancing somebody else" romance. I also, no surprise, loved his romance with Reyes. Cora also was great!

I honestly really enjoyed all of the romance options, except for Keri's (the reporter) and not for any fault of hers but I disliked how she looks kinda uncomfortable with either Ryder flirting with her while she's just trying to do her job. I felt like a real creep, I have to say! 😩Then at the end, after I've annoyed this poor Asari at her workplace this entire time, the "payoff" was we went from a table at the Vortex to Ryder's just suddenly outside of her room? Not even a kiss? 🫤(I legit have headcanoned that Keri never actually let Ryder into her room, just went in herself, closed the door, and left them out in the hall, lol! "That's for continuing to come on to me and never taking the hint while I'm clearly just doing my job, you creep!" 😖😂😉)

If I could've romanced Evfra *points up at his pic above* I totally would have because I'm a sucker for a good "enemies to lovers" trope, lol! And I think Evfra would haaaaate himself for falling for the human Pathfinder. 😍😍😍

I clearly have put a lot of silly thoughts into Andromeda, lol! Anyway, thanks so much for letting me ramble about this! Who did you romance? Have you played as both twins or do you prefer just the one? Default or custom? Do you mod? My computer was coming off the rails at the time so I've only stuck to what's available in-game but I've seen some beautiful Ryder twins and some awesome clothing options with mods. 😉💖💖💖

[guccimedusa]

why did Peebee get so much hate? her enthusiasm for the Remnant culture is cute and her energetic disposition is a nice contrast to the other teammates' more serious personalities

every team mate, with the exceptions of Drack and Jaal, that you pair Peebee with on missions act so mean or rude to her.

i didn't pay much attention to ME:A when it first came out (cuz i wasn't into ME back then) but i do remember seeing people hate on Peebee, so when i first started ME:A recently i expected her be a SUPER annoying character and was very confused when she...wasn't at all like that. lol

[hollandeiram]

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