Mass Effect: Andromeda Pre-Release Thread

[Outlander]

A better comparison would be LOTR, which began production on Oct 11 1999 and ROTK was released December 17 2003. Peter Jackson made the entire LOTR trilogy in less time than ME:A took!

And both franchises are equally boring.

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

salaciousbcrumb Man, am disappointed in the lack of faith you show in support of your Battle Brothers about to embark on a mortal mission. Report to Chapter Chaplain immediately. (and no, I'm not LARP-ing a German, if that's what rustled your jimmies )

No your playing the damn thing, unless your live recording the playthrough for bugs and dank memes it's unforgivable...

Anyway heres another article from gamesradar showing all the tasty bits and giving the credit to gaf again (this time it's forgivable as they only say they rounded up the best bits)

Mass Effect Andromeda's animations are getting compared to Pingu, robots and gorillas

http://www.gamesradar.com/mass-effe...etting-compared-to-pingu-robots-and-gorillas/

Spoiler

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

tfw you wear purple as the set up for a color revolution, but everyone just thinks you look like the Joker.

edit: using postimg instead of imgur? smh

 

[Kem0sabe]

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

Just looking at the gaf forums and even those cucked degenarates are being allowed to take the piss out of this by the mods, while still theiving memes. What the hell happened? During the ME3 shitshow I remember seeing mods shutting down forums over there and banning users for negative vibes. Well if they keep this up and keep giving Bioware bad press, as the gaming media will visit neogaf, but never the codex or chans, I'm more than happy for them to steal my memes.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Just looking at the gaf forums and even those cucked degenarates are being allowed to take the piss out of this by the mods, while still theiving memes. What the hell happened? During the ME3 shitshow I remember seeing mods shutting down forums over there and banning users for negative vibes. Well if they keep this up and keep giving Bioware bad press, as the gaming media will visit neogaf, but never the codex or chans, I'm more than happy for them to steal my memes.

Its not a Playstation exclusive, so they are allowed to shit on it.

 

[Makabb]

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

complilation videos are getting longer already and these are just from a few lets plays for the start of the game and using other glitches, I told you the spoof reel will be a four hour epic...

 

[Durandal]

Can't wait for the CrowbCat video on this.

 

[Sir Dupre]

complilation videos are getting longer already and these are just from a few lets plays for the start of the game and using other glitches, I told you the spoof reel will be a four hour epic...

 

[raesha]

So all the glitches coming out of the early access is apparently with the day one patch included: https://twitter.com/tibermoon/status/842497096607563776

 

[Taskityo]

They can look "too real" sometimes like a real face slapped onto a low-poly character.

Did Witcher 3 use mocap? I don't think so.

They did use Motion Capture. However, CD Projekt came up with a way to make the majority of it by "algorithm" and other tweaking tools so they didn't need to motion capture every dialogue scene (an article about it). And also a separate article for the 7,000 more animations they made for DLC over a year.

The “algorithm” or “generator” as we call it, was used only as a solid base for further development of the scene. It was a shortcut, a tool, but never a goal. More of a production-related thing. It created a rough first pass through a scene, which was always tweaked and adjusted by hand - in all 1463 dialogues. In many, the algorithm wasn't used at all, as they demanded custom approach from the very beginning.

Every cinematic dialogue was approached with the same care, attention and goal - to create the most compelling and emotional scene for given quest and story. Only this way, the characters could ring true and players would want to invest in them, to understand them, to help or condemn them. When they act like humans, not voiceover-delivery machines. Achieving this is a deliberate, careful process.

Bioware backed by EA's loads of cash was unable to achieve a "deliberate careful process" like CD Projekt. Interesting indeed.

 

[MRY]

No one could ever ask for a better three-headed monkey.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Its funny but I really want to play this to enjoy the train wreck. Its to bad they want money for it.

 

[Mozg]

Is there a game with facegen in this console generation that doesn't look bad? I wonder if peoples expectations from shit like Uncharted 4 and RE7 have made it so facegen-compatible heads can't hang in there at the edge of acceptability anymore like they could on Xbox360 shit.

 

[Immortal]

Its funny but I really want to play this to enjoy the train wreck. Its to bad they want money for it.

This game is quickly approaching "So Bad - It's Good" territory..
I had zero interest in the game.. this Thread is making me wanna buy it though.

 

[Gerrard]

They can look "too real" sometimes like a real face slapped onto a low-poly character.

Did Witcher 3 use mocap? I don't think so.

They did use Motion Capture. However, CD Projekt came up with a way to make the majority of it by "algorithm" and other tweaking tools so they didn't need to motion capture every dialogue scene (an article about it). And also a separate article for the 7,000 more animations they made for DLC over a year.

The “algorithm” or “generator” as we call it, was used only as a solid base for further development of the scene. It was a shortcut, a tool, but never a goal. More of a production-related thing. It created a rough first pass through a scene, which was always tweaked and adjusted by hand - in all 1463 dialogues. In many, the algorithm wasn't used at all, as they demanded custom approach from the very beginning.

Every cinematic dialogue was approached with the same care, attention and goal - to create the most compelling and emotional scene for given quest and story. Only this way, the characters could ring true and players would want to invest in them, to understand them, to help or condemn them. When they act like humans, not voiceover-delivery machines. Achieving this is a deliberate, careful process.

Bioware backed by EA's loads of cash was unable to achieve a "deliberate careful process" like CD Projekt. Interesting indeed.

 

[Sentinel]

Is there a game with facegen in this console generation that doesn't look bad? I wonder if peoples expectations from shit like Uncharted 4 and RE7 have made it so facegen-compatible heads can't hang in there at the edge of acceptability anymore like they could on Xbox360 shit.

what do you mean by facegen? Algorithm-generated facial animations?

 

[Mozg]

Is there a game with facegen in this console generation that doesn't look bad? I wonder if peoples expectations from shit like Uncharted 4 and RE7 have made it so facegen-compatible heads can't hang in there at the edge of acceptability anymore like they could on Xbox360 shit.

what do you mean by facegen? Algorithm-generated facial animations?

Games where the player is able to make the character's face/head possibly body in a creator, where I assume the facial animations and stuff have to be made more generic than some guy at Naughty Dog poring over Uncharted Man's face for days to get his sneer right.

 

[Hobo Elf]

I was almost willing to give this game a chance since I enjoyed ME1&2 for their popamoleness, but the last few pages are just.. There's no way this game is worth paying full price for.

 

[Taskityo]

A goof then, sorry. No facial mocap, but assuming they did Motion Capture for other animation work, since that post is specific to (No) Facial Mocap. Walking, running, sword fighting, etc. - at least that's what I've read elsewhere.

 

[RPGMasterLvl2]

It took hundreds of people longer to make ME:A than it took Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

so i just watched a streaming for scientific purposes, i never trust even myself without experiencing firsthand.
15 seconds in and my honest reaction was "holy fucking christ, what the fuck is this fucking shit?". few minutes more i came to the understanding that 90% of the exploration has been made to force the player to keep the witcher senses always active. and they sucked in tw3 already, where they were used sparingly. the remaining 10% is some sort of retarded ass creep wannabe without its precision, basically i watched this guy jumping and trying to grab this ledge, this obviously grabbable ledge, only to be bumped back down because he didn't grab the right pixel.
holy.
fucking.
shit.

 

[Sentinel]

A goof then, sorry. No facial mocap, but assuming they did Motion Capture for other animation work, since that post is specific to (No) Facial Mocap. Walking, running, sword fighting, etc. - at least that's what I've read elsewhere.

I know they did motion capture for sword moves, not sure about the rest.

 

[Kem0sabe]