Mass Effect: Andromeda liveblog (inactive)

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There is a 50% chance that this journal will be liveblogs and the occasional rant, going forward. I almost ranted about the all-female Lord of the Flies remake this morning, but I've lost interest in it by now.

Does anyone use Discord? Maybe want a server to chat about current events and/or fictional fandoms and/or just be dorks?

Anyway, I was blackmailed by a certain person to download the trial version of Mass Effect: Andromeda, and after a few hours of playing it, all I want to do is continue playing it, even though I only have a few hours left on the trial and by god I will not buy another game before at least finishing FFXV. But here I am...


Current progress: Arrived at the Nexus

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Ryder is part of the Andromeda Initiative, which is a project launched somewhen during Mass Effect 2, neatly bypassing the ending of the original trilogy. (That ending was Destroy, by the way.) They're off to colonize a new galaxy!

So... the 20,000 people on these "arks" have been asleep for 600 years while they traveled. Also a neat way to bypass the ending of the original trilogy.

Ryder is on the Pathfinder team on Ark Hyperion, which has mostly humans aboard. It's her job to scout out the "golden worlds" and make them safe for colonization.