Mass Effect: Andromeda Pre-Release Thread

[pippin]

To be honest, it's not like the faces for the player character were that good in ME1-3... The only one which looked decent was Maleshep. Femshep always looked like a potato.

 

[RK47]

someone give Dutch Ghost a pathfinder title. he's special.

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

I've watched this and I didn't see any major bugs, everything looks good from technical point (well, game as it is. Facial animations are still bad, although voice acting doesn't sound bad, rather average). If you wanna watch something without annoying commentary, you can watch:

You have got to be high or something the game looks terrible and all the characters walk stooped over and shuffle around like retired crippled old industrail age miners. Check out this next clip for maximum emotional engagement!!!

I've started the clip from the relevant point.



Watch till 14.21.

Those reactions

How the hell can you release a game in this state, was Tommy Wiseau directing the animations and voice acting or something?

 

[Ezeekiel]

To be honest, it's not like the faces for the player character were that good in ME1-3... The only one which looked decent was Maleshep. Femshep always looked like a potato.

Was ME3 femshep default that bad? Other than the broken nose and ludicrously skinny body (the latter of which both genders had for some reason... That's the navy for you, no physical standards worth mentioning...)

 

[Ezeekiel]

I've watched this and I didn't see any major bugs, everything looks good from technical point (well, game as it is. Facial animations are still bad, although voice acting doesn't sound bad, rather average). If you wanna watch something without annoying commentary, you can watch:

You have got to be high or something the game looks terrible and all the characters walk stooped over and shuffle around like retired crippled old industrail age miners. Check out this next clip for maximum emotional engagement!!!



Watch till 14.21.

Those reactions

How the hell can you release a game in this state, was Tommy Wiseau directing the animations and voice acting or something?

Yeah, I mean even the lack of attention to details in the trailers... The EA PR people must be getting ready to murder the devs hahaha

It's like the studio is made up of nothing but the people who wrote the illusive man and kai leng and the ME3 ending along with some SJW webcomic "artists" and no coders or anything after the rest of the crew jumped ship mid-development or something. These guys are so incompetent, they've got to be high all day.

 

[sullynathan]

Can't be worse than fallout 3

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

 

[Ezeekiel]

Can't be worse than fallout 3

That's more than bad enough.

 

[Seethe]

MY MOM IS GONNA FREAK

 

[Haba]

holy fucking shit this is some proper lovecraftian horror right there god their eyes the eyes the eaaaieiaieieiieieeieieiiäiäiäiäiä

 

[GreyWardens Rock]

Was ME3 femshep default that bad? Other than the broken nose and ludicrously skinny body (the latter of which both genders had for some reason... That's the navy for you, no physical standards worth mentioning...)

1. There has always been a default female Shepard in previous games, just no PR,
2. FemShep definitely sounds derogatory,
3. There's "softcore space porn"
They can't even do SJW right.

Also:

Google trolling hard.

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

Maybe the guy with folders and books is some ultra hipster.

Nah the same assests are used behind the guys desk who sells you guns, God knows why he needs box files when he sells you everything over a terminal.

Also I was trying to make a gif but I don't know how/ Can't be assed, to edit Youtube videos, just check out the background guy here, I've started the video at the right time...



AAA release.

 

[Alienman]

I would probably be one of those hipsters in the future with a bookshelf

 

[cpmartins]

Well so far the story telling has been rather bland. I skipped over most of it, only watching a few parts.

- The journey to Andromeda did not go as planned and now the mission is at risk. How unexpected (he said sarcastically)

- The first living person you meet on the nexus acts like a zombie when he first sees you, not at all surprised of suddenly seeing people he has never seen before emerging from an airlock. Either this guy is completely jaded or emotionally dead, just going through the moves as it were when you tell him you are from an ark
(also conveniently, the sensors of the station are in questionable state thus its arrival was seen as a glitch, with as result that the developers don't have to do a more emotional arrival sequence, with dozens of station residents perhaps contacting your ship, surprised to see more survivors, and the player being greeted by a large group of people. Reminds me of when in ME3 I brought a genuine living Promethean with me and no one barely seemed interested, not loads of scholars, scientists, and politicians that wanted to meet it)

- So much for being a nobody, just some scout on the ship, almost everyone calls you by your job title and is impressed by it.

Sounds a lot like Star Control 2, except written by a retard.

 

[pippin]

2. FemShep definitely sounds derogatory,

wat? even biodrones call her that

 

[Lazing Dirk]

Watch till 14.21.

Those reactions

That part gave me flashbacks to watching Manos: The Hands of Fate on MST3K

 

[Scroo]

Spoiler

 

[Raghar]

Just looking at streamer that plays it. And she said:

Face animation is peak Bioware.

 

[pippin]

they all make kissy faces :*

 

[Revenant]

Jebus, look at that face, just LOOK AT THAT FACE

 

[Black]

We're experiencing hopw roewur ne inflation.

 

[Ezeekiel]

Was ME3 femshep default that bad? Other than the broken nose and ludicrously skinny body (the latter of which both genders had for some reason... That's the navy for you, no physical standards worth mentioning...)

1. There has always been a default female Shepard in previous games, just no PR,
2. FemShep definitely sounds derogatory,
3. There's "softcore space porn"
They can't even do SJW right.

I meant her face in me3, which was based off a real person for the first time I thought.
Maleshep default was always based off a real dude. Even with all of his issues and biowarean (butter)face technology he looked notably different in quality compared to the female shep defaults and alt variants in me 1 and 2. 3 only had the 1 decent-ish female face but at least it had one for the first time.

Still trying to figure out what the devs have been smoking lately...

 

[pippin]

I meant her face in me3, which was based off a real person for the first time I thought.

Femshep was never based on any real person. When Mass Effect 3 was going to be released, part of the marketing campaign involved choosing the face of Female Shepard (she wasn't even considered in previous marketing campaigns actually)

People were speculating that the one with the bangs was inspired by Bailey Jay, but that's about it.

 

[Kem0sabe]

[NO SPOILERS] BioWare and BDSM (x-post from r/DragonAge)(self.masseffect)

submitted 9 minutes ago by N7quivorian

18+ discussion below, just sayin'.

Also, the post below assumes Mass Effect fans are BioWare fans, and therefore are also fans of Dragon Age. You may like one, but not the other, and may not get some of the references below. In that case, I am sorry.

Read on.

So, I've been thinking, as people tend to do... BioWare writes great games and they are especially good at crafting characters who are representative of various walks of life. We've had characters of multiple races (fantasy and sci-fi), skin colors and sexuality and we've also had a transgender character with DA:I's Krem.

But are there any characters amongst the vast counts of BioWare characters – and while I mostly talk about companions below when I ask this, every character who has been fleshed out does count – who might be into BDSM?

(For the uninitiated, BDSM is sort of a compound term and includes Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission and Sadism & Masochism. Pretty sure you can figure out the rest.)

Now, anyone who has played through the rather fantastic Dragon Age: Inquisition and has romanced– no, actually, I'm pretty sure anyone who has so much as looked at the Iron Bull will nod their heads fervently. The Iron Bull is definitely into the B&D and the D&S and maybe the S&M.

But other than the Iron Bull (who I haven't romanced, nor do I plan to, but I adore and respect as a #nohomobro and a Dom) have we any BioWare characters who are or may be into BDSM?

In Dragon Age, I suspect Zevran might be into BDSM. We should also consider Leliana, who just seems kinky enough and I can easily headcanon her as being a sweet, seductive and sly submissive. Another possibility is Isabela, but to me at least she was less into BDSM and more just... openly and aggressively sexual.

Anyway, while Dragon Age seems to have shades of kinkyness/BDSMness in it's characters, Mass Effect... I am having a hard time finding characters in Mass Effect who may be into BDSM and some powerplay or bondage or some spanking and the like in the confines of Commander Shepard's bedroom (or their own one, they don't necessarily have to romance you). Well... Kelly Chambers, maybe? Possibly.

So, the question is:

Do you think there are characters in the Mass Effect OT/Mass Effect: Andromeda and Dragon Age series who might prefer a bit of BDSM? Who are they? What do you think they'd be into? Are they doms or subs?

Whatcha think?

And an important note: The Iron Bull is an example of a Dom who has been portrayed very well and one who understands the concept of consent, and safety and etc quite well. Read more of this in u/Dramatological's "rant" here. At any rate, he is much better than the character, who I won't name, but has his name rhyme with Kristian Tray from a rather (undeservingly) well-known franchise of books/movies.

Something further proved by Cole's insightful line (the "HE" below refers to the Male Inquisitor):

But it's really him. He decides when, and you measure it carefully, enough to enjoy, to energize, but never to anger. He's tied, teased, tantalized. But it's tempered to what he wants. He submits, but you serve.

 

[Ezeekiel]

I meant her face in me3, which was based off a real person for the first time I thought.

Femshep was never based on any real person. When Mass Effect 3 was going to be released, part of the marketing campaign involved choosing the face of Female Shepard (she wasn't even considered in previous marketing campaigns actually)

People were speculating that the one with the bangs was inspired by Bailey Jay, but that's about it.

Ah, got it. And after googling the default face it seems it looked a lot worse than I remembered, too.