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Forums - Gaming Discussion - So... what exactly is wrong with ME: Andromeda?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-03-16-mass-effect-andromedas-early-access-trial-is-getting-a-mixed-response

 

I've been playing the trial, and I've enjoyed it so far. The dialog system is interesting and no longer has stupid morality locked into it, the combat is fun, and I personally haven't run into any problems with bugs or wonky animation. Despite that, the comment section here so far is saying the game is shit? I mean I was worried about this game, but it feels a lot like ME1 with better combat, exploration, and a new dialog system. So what exactly is the issue?



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Who says the game is shit? Ive only seen people laugh at some of the animations...



KLXVER said:
Who says the game is shit? Ive only seen people laugh at some of the animations...

Well look at the comments section for yourself. Maybe it's because I paid for the product, and want to feel good, but I'm genuinely enjoying it.



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

barneystinson69 said:
KLXVER said:
Who says the game is shit? Ive only seen people laugh at some of the animations...

Well look at the comments section for yourself. Maybe it's because I paid for the product, and want to feel good, but I'm genuinely enjoying it.

Most of the comments on the page seem to be mocking the animation/graphics, at least from the quick survey I did. I suspect that there's also an element of people (somewhat validly) assuming the entire project is lazy if such little effort went into animation.



When I pressed this at this thread, I missed the word Andromeda, so I thought it said "what exactly is wrong with me?"
From what I've heard people are harshly criticizing the wonky animations. After watching some gameplay, they do look quite a bit off to me as well. However, people are making too much of a big deal out of this, and instantly judge this game as shit just because of this issue. The head animations came straight out of Fallout though, I'm pretty sure.



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Honestly, I think people were ready to pounce on any sign of problems the moment they came. It's been very hard to know what to expect from ME Andromeda, and considering the series has a history of controversy (including one of the biggest in games history), I think everyone wanted to be on the forefront of the latest ME3 ending-gate.

To be fair the facial animations are bad, likely because Frostbite has always produced especially bizarre faces (it's great for landscapes though!), coupled with the fact that all the faces were likely generated by a catch-all character creator. I think if the game is truly great, it won't really matter. And the game looks fun and engrossing as hell.



For me, a huge part of mass effect is the story and the characters, if the dialogue is not good then that's a bad sign. However, the gameplay looks fantastic and I can't judge the story or characters yet, so nothing is wrong yet... except the animations, but i love bethesda games so that's not a problem.



I have absolutely adored the Ass Effect franchise. In-fact, I don't think I can recall a Bioware game I haven't enjoyed. (Yes I enjoyed my run though Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3) So I was looking forwards to Andromeda... But the recent comments on it have me "erring" on the side of caution. Hah.



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Pemalite said:
I have absolutely adored the Ass Effect franchise. In-fact, I don't think I can recall a Bioware game I haven't enjoyed. (Yes I enjoyed my run though Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3) So I was looking forwards to Andromeda... But the recent comments on it have me "erring" on the side of caution. Hah.

Was "Ass Effect" a typo? I'm stealing that if I ever become a porn producer.



Weird because the dialogue and AI seems terrible from what I've seen in the videos. And how ugly is Fem Ryder?