Mass Effect BioWare Montreal's Mass Effect: Andromeda - where element zero meets trisomy 21

[BBMorti]

Nice, so it is possible to launch undesirables out the air hatch

 

[Aenra]

Assuming any of you are capable of an objective look at this.. (lol)

How bad is it? Seriously
Forget the 'story', i can more than guess on my own (would probably get an apoplexy, what with my views). How is it in combat, encounters, design, etc?

 

[Somberlain]

After some digging, I found the core character animations that every animation in the game was built around:

Spoiler

 

[prodigydancer]

most of the (female) characters look like LGBT rights blog activists

It must've been a coincidence.

 

[EtcEtcEtc]

Yeah, I feel you man. Hell, many average, everyday (I mean, not from a tv show or anything) army girls, as well, look hot in a normal way, or normal in a hot way. FFS. Why nobody at bioware ever bothered to google up "girls of IDF"?

IDF is compulsory though, of course there's going to be hot girls, they take every girl.

Still, I agree there should be more uggo's in games - but they should also be mixed with average, and hot -

Having said that though, when you're coming from a world where Zoey Quinn is considered hot, Bioware devs probably DO think their characters are hot - cuz they're more real

 

[vonAchdorf]

Most female players don't want to play ugly characters. Source: every MMO.

 

[Doktor Best]

you see less and less 30-40 year old action heroes, but instead the supposedly badass characters are played by young and pretty looking 20 year olds. Who buys that crap?

The part i find hilarious is that the premise and concept of the character doesn't actually change to fit the actor.The result is a character with tons of experience and expertise who had time to develop multiple careers ,retire and have a long standing history with the story's villain yet they look like a teen barely out of highschool whos biggest concern until yesterday was who kissed Jessica under the bleachers and weather or not hes gonna flunk that one chemistry test.

The biggest offender ive seen so far was the barfight scene, with the little brat acting tough like chuck norris.

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

I don't think I've ever seen this posted here, I don't know how I feel about this scene, this is on a Tali sings level cringe which I would find hillarious on most occasions, but the game is so bad and this scene is just such utterly awful fanfiction, with forced shitty quirky writing and everyone gets a turn to speak and show off how cool and crazzzzzy they are.

It shows zero self awareness of the sheer awfulness of the product that they have produced, in fact it feels so self indulgent and like the developers are patting themselves on the back, that my emotions on watching it go from blank faced disbelief, to despair, to disgust, to rage and back again.

 

[Storyfag]

Thing is, you can have ugly characters in your game still look human.

BioWEAr just cannot into it.

 

[J_C]

I don't think I've ever seen this posted here, I don't know how I feel about this scene, this is on a Tali sings level cringe which I would find hillarious on most occasions, but the game is so bad and this scene is just such utterly awful fanfiction, with forced shitty quirky writing and everyone gets a turn to speak and show off how cool and crazzzzzy they are.

It shows zero self awareness of the sheer awfulness of the product that they have produced, in fact it feels so self indulgent and like the developers are patting themselves on the back, that my emotions on watching it go from blank faced disbelief, to despair, to disgust, to rage and back again.

Look at the girl's face at 3:37. If you hit up the dictionary at uncanny valley, this is the illustration you find there. Zero human emotions, it's just a plastic doll. She doesn't even blink in that scene at all. Not the the other characters are any better.

 

[Somberlain]

 

[racofer]

The problem is NOT that all characters stopped looking like super models/porn stars. Yes please, insert average looking people, ugly people along beautiful people, just like in real life.
The problem is that most of the (female) characters look like LGBT rights blog activists instead of someone who could handle himself in a firefight, endure extreme physcial and psychological stress or let alone lead an exploration mission into unknown regions of space.

Why not just take real life as an inspiration for your characters? This is how fighter jet and helicopter pilots look like in real life. Certainly no male underwear models:

 

[Dexter]

Don't worry, BioWare is about to fix the most pressing problems with the game, they're on top of this:

 

[Glaucon]

I don't think I've ever seen this posted here, I don't know how I feel about this scene, this is on a Tali sings level cringe which I would find hillarious on most occasions, but the game is so bad and this scene is just such utterly awful fanfiction, with forced shitty quirky writing and everyone gets a turn to speak and show off how cool and crazzzzzy they are.

It shows zero self awareness of the sheer awfulness of the product that they have produced, in fact it feels so self indulgent and like the developers are patting themselves on the back, that my emotions on watching it go from blank faced disbelief, to despair, to disgust, to rage and back again.

I blame Joss Whedon.

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

I don't think I've ever seen this posted here, I don't know how I feel about this scene, this is on a Tali sings level cringe which I would find hillarious on most occasions, but the game is so bad and this scene is just such utterly awful fanfiction, with forced shitty quirky writing and everyone gets a turn to speak and show off how cool and crazzzzzy they are.

It shows zero self awareness of the sheer awfulness of the product that they have produced, in fact it feels so self indulgent and like the developers are patting themselves on the back, that my emotions on watching it go from blank faced disbelief, to despair, to disgust, to rage and back again.

Look at the girl's face at 3:37. If you hit up the dictionary at uncanny valley, this is the illustration you find there. Zero human emotions, it's just a plastic doll. She doesn't even blink in that scene at all. Not the the other characters are any better.

That's just terrible, her expression reminds me of this, only this character blinks...

 

[GreyWardens Rock]

Technomancer is crap. It has some charm - the setting, atmosphere and audio/visuals are imo very cool but the game is horrible (a lot of recycling and repetition).

That's with every Spiders game, at least it has charms.

Bossfights are already uploaded by some player on you tube.(gamerrZombie)
Bulletsponges with no interesting abilities.

Just like Inquisishit or even some ME3 enemies (banshees).

Thing is, you can have ugly characters in your game still look human.
BioWEAr just cannot into it.

Dead Rising 3 has ugly natural characters

 

[norolim]

there should be more uggo's in games

Why?

 

[Jarmaro]

Why?

Wouldn't you like to play America XVIII farmer simulator?

 

[commie]

16% off ME:A on Green Man Gaming already

 

[Glaucon]

Why?

Wouldn't you like to play America XVIII farmer simulator?

Lol I'm just imagining the outcry over what would be essentially (in the south anyways) a slave management game. Make sure not to let the slave happiness meter get too low!

 

[warpig]

That's with every Spiders game, at least it has charms.

Mars War Logs was like this but shorter (around 10 hours) so with Technomancer I was hoping they would invest more resources to make the gameplay more varied, interesting, more boss fights, just few quests but memorable etc. Instead it's just a bloated version of Mars with a few new featutes (different fighting styles for example). It could be way better imo if they decided to go for quality instead of increasing playing time (I finished it in 20-something hours but with al the boringl sidequests it supposedly takes 40). It was a fuck up imo and a dumb way to make a sequel that was supposed to be better than the first game.

 

[pippin]

"Understood" is the new "delete your account".

Also: Tali singing isn't cringeworthy because of the singing itself, but also because she's singing the theme song from her favorite Interracial romance soap opera.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

16% off ME:A on Green Man Gaming already

They always have sub 20% off for new games.

 

[santino27]

Something Awful review: http://www.somethingawful.com/video-game-article/game-headlines-2017/
"The writing is miserable and its delivery is often stilted or flat out broken, but after investing twenty hours you might occasionally encounter 'fun' moments so I give it a 7 out of 10!" - A Bad Reviewer Who Probably Would Have Given Dragon Age II 8/10

4/10

Unsurprisingly, they nailed the Kotaku review.

 

[commie]

16% off ME:A on Green Man Gaming already

They always have sub 20% off for new games.

Ghost Recon Wildlands is full price. Must be just for those games over 40 quid since no limey likes to spend 50 quid.