Mass Effect: Andromeda Pre-Release Thread

[santino27]

That was actually kind of fantastic with the laugh track and Seinfeld riffs.

 

[Somberlain]

Bioware must be doing this on purpose. Like they know EA is going to bring them in front of the firing squad after this game so they are just going to fill the game with chimpanzee animations and prosperous faces for maximum meme legacy and as a middle finger to EA.

 

[RPGMasterLvl2]

Crude when compared to real faces maybe. But have we seen clearly better animations since? I can't think of anything off the top of my head.

FIFA 17 uses the same engine and has better animations.

 

[Latelistener]

The last pages...

 

[Sentinel]

Witcher 3 does a great job with its faces and manages to avoid the uncanny valley that we see now with Andromeda. But for Bloodlines, I think they really went for it with the facial animations. It feels like acting, where they go overboard with the expressions to great effect. I think the Witcher 3 faces still feel a lot stiffer.

Witcher 3 facial animations stiff? I disagree.

Spoiler

 

[HansDampf]

Just for the lolz, facial animation samples from VtM: Bloodlines, 13 god-damned years ago.

Spoiler

Crude, but still managing to seem more "life-like" than these ME:A turds.

Crude only because of old and low detailed graphics. Animations still hold up and don't look stiff like in ME or many other modern games (look at DX: MD for another prosperous example). Lip-sync is also guaranteed.
Ever since I've played Bloodlines I notice this much more in games and it's infuriating. Must either be a difficult problem or nobody gives a shit.

 

[J1M]

I remember in NWN one of the character portraits was basically a traced over picture of Angelina Jolie. It eventually got patched out.

Bio have been stealing art assets for ages.

It's a feature, because I bet you had more fun in the gameplay of trying to identify which porn Bioware traced for NWN than you had playing Jade Empire.

 

[donkeymong]

...why does the krogan in that part 3 video have a jazz hands voice.

Its a female.

 

[pippin]

Witcher 3 does a great job with its faces and manages to avoid the uncanny valley that we see now with Andromeda. But for Bloodlines, I think they really went for it with the facial animations. It feels like acting, where they go overboard with the expressions to great effect. I think the Witcher 3 faces still feel a lot stiffer.

I wouldn't go that far when describing the facial animations in Bloodlines. Often the changes in expression are made when the character will speak a new line, so this means they are mostly stuck with one face until the line changes. This is made specially clear in certain conversations with LaCroix. But I'm ok with that, Bloodlines' artstyle never aimed to be realistic.

 

[Ezeekiel]

Bioware must be doing this on purpose. Like they know EA is going to bring them in front of the firing squad after this game so they are just going to fill the game with chimpanzee animations and prosperous faces for maximum meme legacy and as a middle finger to EA.

Either that, or they're really *that* delusional.

 

[Alienman]

Nice. First crash. It crashed my Nvidia drivers. "Nvidia drivers have stopped responding". Long time since something like that happened.

 

[pippin]

Bioware must be doing this on purpose. Like they know EA is going to bring them in front of the firing squad after this game so they are just going to fill the game with chimpanzee animations and prosperous faces for maximum meme legacy and as a middle finger to EA.

This is wishful thinking imo. As I said before, they just can't make a better game right now. Most of their people right now are fairly new to the games industry. Once I read that people working on this game were doing it for the first time in their lives.

 

[Freddie]

Bioware must be doing this on purpose. Like they know EA is going to bring them in front of the firing squad after this game so they are just going to fill the game with chimpanzee animations and prosperous faces for maximum meme legacy and as a middle finger to EA.

This is wishful thinking imo. As I said before, they just can't make a better game right now. Most of their people right now are fairly new to the games industry. Once I read that people working on this game were doing it for the first time in their lives.

I don't know. I have been thinking if this is revenge of Mac Walters. Now living bitter and in shame after disaster he decided to get back to everyone. Write game so bad that it makes even ME3 look good.

 

[moon knight]

But have we seen clearly better animations since? I can't think of anything off the top of my head.

The Witcher 3.

I know it might not be a ""popular"" opinion on the Codex, but...yes.
Which is kinda normal, I mean, VTMB is not a recent game.

 

[pippin]

shani is so cute

 

[moon knight]

shani is so cute

That's sexist !

 

[Hellion]

PC Gamer's impressions are pretty mediocre as well:

http://www.pcgamer.com/we-have-mixed-feelings-about-the-first-few-hours-of-mass-effect-andromeda/

Could it be that the press has finally had enough of Bioware's crap?

 

[veevoir]

PC Gamer's impressions are pretty mediocre as well:

http://www.pcgamer.com/we-have-mixed-feelings-about-the-first-few-hours-of-mass-effect-andromeda/

Could it be that the press has finally had enough of Bioware's crap?

Some crap cannot be digested even by it's biggest connoisseurs.

However this is interesting:

Tyler Wilde: We’re only allowed to talk about the first couple missions in Andromeda right now, and I think we all agree that’s a mistake on EA’s part. The opening moments are not the highlight of Andromeda at all

Suggesting it gets better after a weak opening.

 

[Iznaliu]

Could it be that the press has finally had enough of Bioware's crap?

Maybe Bioware acted like they didn't need the press anymore

 

[Parabalus]

PC Gamer's impressions are pretty mediocre as well:

http://www.pcgamer.com/we-have-mixed-feelings-about-the-first-few-hours-of-mass-effect-andromeda/

Could it be that the press has finally had enough of Bioware's crap?

From the review:

Tyler: I don’t really mind the exposition, where characters become information bots—I could criticize the great Torment: Tides of Numenera for the same thing.

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

This really is shameful, check out this Webm for some of the worst recorded voice acting in ever and it's a major NPC with fixed dialogue options it's a fucking embarrasment.

https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz


For some reason every cunt in the space station in the clips I've watched is banging on about poetry, the writing sounds as if it was written by an adolescent lovestruck Hungarian with a poor grasp of English.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

This really is shameful, check out this Webm for some of the worst recorded voice acting in ever and it's a major NPC with fixed dialogue options it's a fucking embarrasment.

https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz


For some reason every cunt in the space station in the clips I've watched is banging on about poetry, the writing sounds as if it was written by an adolescent lovestruck Hungarian with a poor grasp of English.

Her face is tired alright. Too tired to move.

 

[santino27]

For some reason every cunt in the space station in the clips I've watched is banging on about poetry, the writing sounds as if it was written by an adolescent lovestruck Hungarian with a poor grasp of English.

The standards for acceptable writing have fallen through the floor over the last fifteen or so years.* (YAASSSS!!! QUEEN! DADDY!) It can't be that much of a surprise that the next generation of 'game writers' exemplify that decline.



*(No doubt, someone older than me would amend that to say over the last thirty years or more)

 

[Parabalus]

That review is a gold mine of degeneracy. If you ever wonder why we can't have nice things look no further.

This is a spiritual successor to the first Mass Effect in many ways, ignoring or undoing many of the ways the original series changed in its sequels. It's an RPG with shooter elements, not a shooter with RPG elements.

Seems innocent, right?

Chris: I like the planet scanning, for what it's worth. It looks lovely and each new world or object is fully-rendered, meaning you can disconnect from the galaxy map and look out of it out of the Tempest's bay windows. It's a small detail, but I appreciate it. And if you don't want to slowly drag a cursor over a load of made-up planets, I honestly don't know why you're playing Mass Effect.

 

[oneself]

ITT: Triggered cis white males unable to handle trans interracial, interspecies glory.