Mass Effect: Andromeda Pre-Release Thread

[raesha]

Just to try and gauge how different ME:A would be if it was made by BioWare's main studio: how were the animations/story/quests in DA:I? Were they as bad as they apparently are in ME:A?

Aside from how much I disagree with their decision to try to merge an action rpg with a RTwP one into a hybrid that makes both sides of it more flawed, Inquistion didn't have technical flaws to the level Andromeda seems to. Edmonton is still biowares A-team with montreal being their B, and Austin the C judging form how badly their currently fucking up on SWTOR.

 

[Lord Carlos Wafflebum]

Austin should be doing the ME series. They clearly don't want to be writing a Star Wars game, but they sure do seem to want to write a generic space opera

 

[Sentinel]

I kind of doubt this considering some webms I've seen of DA:I. Especially that one of kicking some fag out of a balcony. Is it the odd one out?

I don't remember that.

As I said, overall the animations were fine. Certainly nothing like the hopw roewur ne in ME:A.

Found the three I was thinking of.

Spoiler

 

[Prime Junta]

Those are lulzy. Also not representative of the general quality.

 

[Lord Carlos Wafflebum]

Agreed, and not nearly as bad as MEA. Janky animations sure, but nowhere near prosperous

 

[Hellion]

A small BioWare history lesson from back in 2012 that may or may not be relevant to why they turned into the studio that ended up making ME:A in this state.

 

[Makabb]

 

[GloomFrost]

I dont know about you guys but i m glad that Andromeda is such a spectacular mess. Some videos i watched in this thread OMG i havent laughed that hard in ages. Thank you bioware! (Oh im not spending any money on it btw).

 

[Sykar]

So the antagonists are teletubbies? First class design, Bioderp, first class. The more I see of this turd the more I am reminded of this old video about EA:



I guess the abbrevation ME:A should have been considered a dead giveaway by me...

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

I have cognitive dissonance while watching the gameplay. It doesn't look bad, I'd like to play it. But at the same time I don't understand how can it be so bad. It's like half of the workers rreally cared and did some great job (location design, locations, enviroment, combat) and the other half didn't give a fuck about the game, so they made fudge.

You've got to be kidding right? 10 year old clip art that is an 800 year old anachronism in the games universe and background furniture created from 2003 home depot kitchen planner software. Here's a re post as you seem to have forgotten.

In the future
There
Will
Be
Boxfiles!

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

Even such shitlord like Pewdiepie are waking up to Bioware's newest fuckup.

Pewdiepie has had to quickly level up after fighting of the fake news Wall street Journal and level 12 Jews...

 

[Ramnozack]

This is why I refuse to buy this game

Just imagine if some white dude in Bioware said this shit about black people. He would be fucking fired immediately and blacklisted from the entire industry.

That and the game looks like absolute trash.

 

[Makabb]

 

[RPGMasterLvl2]

http://bsn.boards.net/thread/5332/mass-effect-andromeda-alpha-protocol

 

[veevoir]

http://bsn.boards.net/thread/5332/mass-effect-andromeda-alpha-protocol

Yeah, the comparison would make sense if there was good writing in MEA. Spoiler: there is probably none

 

[Alienman]

Just to try and gauge how different ME:A would be if it was made by BioWare's main studio: how were the animations/story/quests in DA:I? Were they as bad as they apparently are in ME:A?

Almost all cut-scene animations were recycled from Mass Effect and Origins. Facial animations was pretty good though.

 

[RapineDel]

So either they're rushing to pay the big reviewers so they finally get some good press, or they'll push these reviews back even further in hopes the most casual players don't get a chance to see the rabble that awaits them.

EDIT: Confirmed for tomorrow 8am EDT.

 

[Kuattro]

http://bsn.boards.net/thread/5332/mass-effect-andromeda-alpha-protocol

I don't think I could be more triggered right now.

 

[raesha]

So either they're rushing to pay the big reviewers so they finally get some good press, or they'll push these reviews back even further in hopes the most casual players don't get a chance to see the rabble that awaits them.

EDIT: Confirmed for tomorrow 8am EDT.

Considering the meme factory the early access period of the game has turned into, that's actually not a bad move by their marketing department, if the content gets better further in.

That's a mighty big if.

 

[RapineDel]

Just saw this gem:

"My wife, who has worked w/ stroke patients, saw this over my shoulder and asked if this was supposed to be a stroke patient.

I said no, it was the main character in a game called Mass Effect.

She then noted that a "Mass Effect" in medicine is when tumor expansion causes secondary pathology. This occurs often with brain tumors, which she suggested might also explain the character's bizarre movements and expression."

 

[Kem0sabe]

They wouldn't do this if they didn't have at least some assurances of positive reviews from some of the press.

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

But frankly, I am losing desire to play it for "being mass effect" at all. I mostly want to explore planets, gather resources (but not like in Inqusition), and make prepared for colonists, beceause this actaully sound fun and gameplays show that we actually do it, by increasing "hatiable level" or something like that. Also, the plot must be at least average. Having entire new galaxy is and having humans which came from other galaxy is setting, that needs high skill of incompetency to fail. And yes, I know that everything so far seems bad, no big chances that it will get better as the game goes further.
As I said before, good hiking simulator similiar to skyrim. My hopes were reducted to this.

Your the only one here who actually wants to play the game for anything other than to take clips and screenshots and laugh at this fucking disaster.

I hope to God you're not serious and are just a Bioware shill, it would be the funniest thing if you were and had gone from trying to shill this game with your faux hype of 3 days ago to your now desperate position of "yeah it looks like shit but it's shit in space!!! Right guys? I can't wait to play this open world (that forces you into corridors) and hike around bland enviroments while I solve soduku puzzles and do MMO fetch quests, while I listen to the inane chatter of my badly written and voiced companions."

The funniest thing I've seen from the game so far is the writing, boy oh boy, is it bad, it's the worst written thing I've ever read/watched/played and I wasn't kidding about it being something you'd expect from a lovestruck Hungarian teen with a poor grasp of English. Some of the writing reminds me of Bosnian Eurovison song contest lyrics, where they try to be clever but don't understand the nuance of the English language and just end up baffling everyone. The best thing about it though is that some of the writers actually think they are creating something profound, hence all the references to poetry and there are also snippets of conversations in the game where it comes through that the writers think they are transcending video games. It's really jarring and you know it when you hear it, the dialogue comes out of character and the writer takes over to make their own views manifest and starts grandstanding. It's hard to explain but I'll give you an example...

I've linked to the start time now watch the following ten seconds or so and tell me the writer isn't writing about themselves and their tragically delusional over inflated sense of self worth...




I actually think I know who wrote that part because it's such a self insert...

 

[RK47]

 

[prodigydancer]

Anybody dumb enough to buy MEA deserves to experience everything that MEA is.

I mean I used to feel kind of sorry for people who fell for marketing tricks and wasted their money on shitty games but this time there's really no excuse.

 

[RapineDel]

They wouldn't do this if they didn't have at least some assurances of positive reviews from some of the press.

Looking into it further, I think it might just be streamers being allowed to show/talk about more of the game and not the actual review scores. That said I can't see things getting any better, most of these sorts of games have a polished beginning/most of the main story as that's what reviewers will see and focus on. They couldn't even accomplish that with this game so I highly doubt mid-game/optional content is where most of the work was done.