Naughty Dog dev explains what might've happened with Mass Effect Andromeda’s face animations

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JEMC said:

jason1637 said:
So in Mass Effect 1-3 they had defaulted lip sync and facial animations based on the dialogue and in Andromeda the quality of this dialogue to default lip sync and facial animations were lowered? Interesting.

Well, they lowered it because, in his opinion, they would fix it later by hand. What we should ask is why they didn't do it (did they ran out of time or was it because of budget reasons?), and if there is a way to fix it once the game has been launched.

In any case, like he mentions at the end, this will only serve to increase the quality of animations from now on.

The problem is the 5 years between the preproduction and the release. A decision was taken 5 years ago, the early devlopment implemented the algorithm, then they started to implement the facial animation before realising they would never have enough time to finish them and they couldn't go back without tremendously delaying the final game for a single element that went wrong.