the terrifying thing to me (and I suppose this could be said about Inquisition as well), is that these newer Bioware games look SO much worse in terms of overall art, character designs, faces, etc, than, say, Dragon Age Origins (2009). or hell even early Mass Effect games in some respect look more visually pleasing. Not more advanded but artistically better put together

its somewhat appalling. I don't know the history of Bioware the last number of years but I can't help but think they lost a good deal of freedom or secretly axed a big amount of their quality staff. Not sure what else explains the shit quality in basically their last run of like 5 games. They went from a GOAT in the industry from like early 2000s to late 2000s, but since like 2010 have been awful

I made my own character and her facial animations are truly, truly bizarre to witness in action. I think in the older ME games facial animations were actually created by a specialty studio outside of Bioware. Looks like they tried to do it themselves and the results are euphemistically amusing

I do like what ive played of it though, but it is defintiely lacking the overall polish that past ME games were known for

Dragon Age Origins is a masterpiece imo and that's, what, 2009? 2 years after they were acquired by EA? I think something must have happened after they were already with EA. because 2010 and onwards is when they're noticably shittier to me

well I was being a bit harsh when i said it was shitty, the weakest in the series i really meant. I wouldn't call it good though personally

Do the chicken run.

Yeah I'm playing Horizon right now and I was having similar thoughts about Andromeda. The character to creator is awful. The only real issue I had with Inquisition was the lack of hair options. The faces were fully customizable and I was able to make so pretty good characters. Andromeda's a joke. It's crazy how unpolished these game is after 5 years. Inquistion had it's faults but I could see where the development time went. It seems like they whipped this game out in 18 months. Here are some of the Inquisitors I made in Dragon Age's character creator. 

I can't manage anything close to these in Andromeda. It's really puts a damper on the experience. I may just use the default Ryder.

Yeah. It's pretty gnarly...
Animation is a hard job, and its even harder for videogames, especially that IK blending stuff. But it's her fish lips I'm more worried about.

I've been meaning to make a thread about this for some time but I figured I would just be called a hater or something. Good to see a lot of others in the same boat.

ME is my favourite game series.

ME Andromeda looks like a complete abomination in terms of script, dialogue, characters, voice acting and animation. A complete shit show.

I am not sure who's to blame, but I won't be supporting any EA, Bioware or Dice games from now on.

I mean seriously, I was considering complaining about the mild uncanny valley feels I get from dialogue sequences and low level cutscenes in Horizon but this...Horizon's mild animation flubs are nothing compared to this train wreck. 

For the people who made these animations