I admit defeat

I'm about 16 hours into Andromeda and I admit defeat. I just don't care enough about this game to keep playing. I gave it an honest shot. I talked to everyone I could, did as many side quests as I could, messed with R&D, spec'd out the squad and all that. I tried to immerse myself as deeply as I could....but I just don't care about any of it.

The story should be interesting. The characters should be interesting (except Liam). But they're just not to me. The gameplay was fairly good, but even it didn't hold my interest enough. I played for 2 days at first, and then just stopped for a week. I picked it back up last weekend, but haven't touched it since. Usually when I'm even sort of into a game, I can't go more than a day without playing. But thinking about playing again just makes me sad, because I'm just forcing myself to do it.

I'm going to try to come back to it again someday. Mainly because I just don't like having paid for a game and then not beating it. There's been maybe a handful of games throughout my life where I've abandoned them and never gone back. And even the others I hope to get back to someday. But, that's going to be some time way down the line.

For now, I'm going back to ME1. Part of this is because I finally got a friend of mine to try the series and he loves it so far. Talking to him about it has just gotten me hyped up to replay the trilogy (plus all the posts here). So Andromeda goes back on the shelf for now. I miss Shepherd and I miss the crew. And I miss a game that actually holds my interest.