Mass Effect: Andromeda

Glowy69 wrote:
KjGarly wrote:
Glowy69 wrote:
KjGarly wrote:Up to the first main planet during the trial and so far I've seen no animation problems apart from that assault rifle being invisible in someone's arms during a cutscene. What I've played so far I've really enjoyed and love being back in the ME universe.

Is it decent? I tend to like the same sort of games you do Garly?

Yeah it is, simply put if you like the previous Mass Effect games then you'll like this one. Crazy how much hate it's garnered. I most certainly didn't play the previous games for top notch animations and facial features

Loved them, the graphics and animations in the first 3 were all janky so whats the issue here? As long as Ive got the dialogue options, some fun battles and a decent story, i'll be happy.

The issue here is the first game came out 10 years ago.

Fade wrote:
Glowy69 wrote:
KjGarly wrote:
Glowy69 wrote:
KjGarly wrote:Up to the first main planet during the trial and so far I've seen no animation problems apart from that assault rifle being invisible in someone's arms during a cutscene. What I've played so far I've really enjoyed and love being back in the ME universe.

Is it decent? I tend to like the same sort of games you do Garly?

Yeah it is, simply put if you like the previous Mass Effect games then you'll like this one. Crazy how much hate it's garnered. I most certainly didn't play the previous games for top notch animations and facial features

Loved them, the graphics and animations in the first 3 were all janky so whats the issue here? As long as Ive got the dialogue options, some fun battles and a decent story, i'll be happy.

The issue here is the first game came out 10 years ago.

But it's not an issue as I've said so in previous posts. I've played and loved the ME games purely for the Space Opera, not the animations. Don't get me wrong, there shouldn't be gooseberry fool like backwards facing guns firing and gooseberry fool like that should definitely be fixed as soon as.

Reached the end of the trial and gutted I now need to wait to carry on

That's your personal opinion.

People expecting animations to have improved after 10 years, in a character driven game where you spend 50% of the time talking to people isn't unreasonable.

Fade wrote:The issue here is the first game came out 10 years ago.

I think you need to go back and have another look at the original.

This is so good. Can't remember last time I played 4 hours in one sitting . Literally forced myself off.

Reading how people are butt hurt about facial animations . Lol strawberry floating dweebs

Fade wrote:That's your personal opinion.

People expecting animations to have improved after 10 years, in a character driven game where you spend 50% of the time talking to people isn't unreasonable.

It's hyperbole to say that the animations haven't improved at all in 10 years. Back in 2007 the original Mass Effect's animations were a bit stiff and janky compared to some other stuff at the time.

Turns out ten years later, Andromeda's animations are stiff and janky compared to some games at the time. It doesn't mean those animations are the same as the original.

It's just Internet hyperbole where a game has issues in an area and they get blown up out of proportion, perhaps to represent how a game falls short of being outstanding or matching expectations.

Like with AC: Unity with its famous glitches and bugs, which didn't actually affect every single player and the game itself was actually decent, if not a massive leap forward or anything amazing. But it got spun out as if it was a disgrace, and those same bugs were fixed soon after launch.

Mass Effect, and KOTOR before it, always had awkward animations and character faces. It got past this by having good writing, engaging characters, interesting moral dilemmas and solid gameplay.

If Andromeda is nothing more than average than it won't be because the animations are off, but because it's failed in those above areas which are usually it's stronger points.

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http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/mass-ef ... 0-6416638/

6/10

http://m.uk.ign.com/articles/2017/03/20 ... iew?page=2

7.7

http://www.polygon.com/2017/3/20/148866 ... box-One-PC

7.5

https://www.videogamer.com/reviews/mass ... eda-review

7/10

http://venturebeat.com/2017/03/20/mass- ... da-review/

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Mass Effect? More like Mass DEFECT amiright

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Metacritic 73

How the mighty have fallen

6 from Metro Central and Eurogamer calling it Bioware's worst RPG yet.

Welp.

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I'll wait for it to turn up in the vault.

Half glad its not the best game as i have so many to buy and complete and didn't want to add another one to my list. Looks like it was rushed to release, but with so many great games being released perhaps it should have been delayed.

Only 8-10 hours in so plenty of time for it to change, but 6 or 7/10 seems about right. It's enjoyable enough, but it isn't coming together cohesively like the original games did. I like the over-arching story but the characters aren't really doing it for me. It seems that the majority of BioWare's effort went into the technical side of bringing the series to current systems, and that the writing has suffered because of that.

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Dblock wrote:Reading how people are butt hurt about facial animations . Lol strawberry floating dweebs

I'm assuming early access doesn't include multiplayer? I loved ME3's horde mode.

I'd already decided to hold off from this but it's ranking at around 75% on Metacritic so it's not as if it's terrible. It sounds like something that could be worth taking a closer look at once the price drops.

Have this pre-ordered digitally so can't cancel, I MAY wait on delving in till bugs are at least patched out, would be nice to start on Scorpio.

FatDaz wrote:I'm assuming early access doesn't include multiplayer? I loved ME3's horde mode.

I think it does have mp.

jawafour wrote:I'd already decided to hold off from this but it's ranking at around 75% on Metacritic so it's not as if it's terrible. It sounds like something that could be worth taking a closer look at once the price drops.

Jawa is like the UN Peacekeeping force of gaming.

Gaaawwwwd bless you :wub:

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