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Turkish on 18 March 2017

I expect the game to be amazing, the only thing that looks bad are the animations but I can live with it.

 



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NATO on 18 March 2017

Game looks shit and buggy as hell



theprof00 on 18 March 2017
Panama said:
theprof00 said:

hahaha ok

critics seem hellbent. Fans seem hellbent. Agreeing things should be patched. Agreeing dialogue is bad.

The dialogue in ME has always been just, ok. It's that the dialogue in this specific game is really bad. Saying that the previous games were silly or stereotypical doesn't excuse this kind of writing, which is neither of the previous. That's like saying "sushi is fine, people have been fine with eating raw fruit for thousands of years and they're sometimes even poisonous!"

This is coming from someone (myself) who has played Mass Effect 2. So sorry to burst your opinion facts.

If you like the game, just like, be happy that you enjoy the game.
Like I said earlier, I am a massive resident evil fan. I was extremely disappointed by 5, 6, and even (heaven forbid) 4!!! That's everyone's favorite, isn't it? Well, I personally thought it ruined RE, and it set the series on a path that gave us the dreadful 5 and the literal turd, 6. It's OK for people to think a game doesn't live up to its standards. Don't just attack people cuz you love ME:A.

I dont recall attacking anyone. Im just pointing out people will always find flaws where they wish to find them. Good example, recent Jim Sterling controversy.

You mean how he dislikes the weapon durability system?

He raised a lot of good points, I've played similar games where I really hated the mechanics, and I can see exactly what he's talking about with the "holding onto items because you don't want to lose them".

I don't think that's a case of trying to find flaws but rather, honest complaints.



Cloudman on 18 March 2017
John2290 said:
Cloudman said:

Yeah, it's not just the weird looks of the characters, but they don't seem to match with what's happening on screen. Like the moment with that weird bug that appears behind the player, the blue character shoots it, and there's no reaction from the player unit. There's so much weird going on there. Awkward happy expression, and the strange look of the blue guy with the gun.

And then there's the awkward moving animation in that other clip. I've seen the past ME games and they looked pretty great, but for this being the latest game, it seems shocking some parts of this game look like this.

Have you seen the facial animations in HZD? Much much more detailed than they are here but not in the 50 hours I've played have I gotten an uncanny valley reaction, lack of talent/ecperience/time does not mean the engine is it at fault as there are games that don't have these issues.

I've heard they have been good overall for HZD, minus young Alloy I think it was? As for ME:A I'm not putting blame on anyone, but just surprised that an established series and team put out some awkward animations in the game, at least from footages and gifs put in some threads.



 

              

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starcraft on 19 March 2017
matheusbrito02 said:
I've been playing the trial, I have exactly 04 hours of gameplay and I'm completely in love with this shxt. The animations are bad, thats true. But so far the characters I know are really fun and nothing generic, the Eos planet it's beautiful and I saw a lot to explore. The first mission it self has A LOT TO DO, just not going to point A to B. It's so far an amazing game and I don't wanna play anymore because I dont wanna waste all my ten trial hours.

Where can you see the timer? I have only played multiplayer, don't want to play single-player then be brought to a halt. The game doesn't come out here until Thursday.



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barneystinson69 on 20 March 2017
starcraft said:
matheusbrito02 said:
I've been playing the trial, I have exactly 04 hours of gameplay and I'm completely in love with this shxt. The animations are bad, thats true. But so far the characters I know are really fun and nothing generic, the Eos planet it's beautiful and I saw a lot to explore. The first mission it self has A LOT TO DO, just not going to point A to B. It's so far an amazing game and I don't wanna play anymore because I dont wanna waste all my ten trial hours.

Where can you see the timer? I have only played multiplayer, don't want to play single-player then be brought to a halt. The game doesn't come out here until Thursday.

There is none (at least on the XB1). You just exit the game, and when you reenter, it tells you how many hours are left on your trial.



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).

method114 on 20 March 2017
barneystinson69 said:

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?

I honestly don't know. I got EA access just beause all the comments were making me worried I took days off just to play this game so I was pretty worried. Played the trial and I'm having such a blast. Even my biggest worry (tactical pause not being used as much) has been made irrelevant. The new combat is so fast pace and fun that tactical pause would just seem to get in the way most of the time.

As long as the story turns out to be good I'm really going to enjoy this game.



SvennoJ on 20 March 2017
method114 said:
barneystinson69 said:

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?

I honestly don't know. I got EA access just beause all the comments were making me worried I took days off just to play this game so I was pretty worried. Played the trial and I'm having such a blast. Even my biggest worry (tactical pause not being used as much) has been made irrelevant. The new combat is so fast pace and fun that tactical pause would just seem to get in the way most of the time.

As long as the story turns out to be good I'm really going to enjoy this game.

Hmm did they put the best at the start for that trial...

In some respects, Andromeda is most disappointing when it's at its best. There's a mission in the opening third that conjures up the spectre of Virmire - a raid on a kett facility, accompanied by a crack squad of angaran guerrillas. The shift in mood and focus is faintly miraculous: the music kicks up, the bugs ease off, the dialogue straightens out of its slouch and the combat goes into overdrive. There are familiar but pleasantly ghoulish secrets to uncover, rooms to comb for hints about kett society, and a couple of heated, deftly worded interactions with companions that genuinely get your blood pumping.

It's gripping stuff, and a reminder of the greatness of the Mass Effect trilogy - its intelligent reworkings of pulp sci-fi cliche, the taut splendour of its scenarios and aesthetic, the colour and dexterity of its writing. All that's still in here somewhere, I think. But then you pop out the other end of the mission, back into Andromeda's labyrinth of drudgery and obfuscation, and remember that you're a long way from home.

Perhaps all the reviews are wrong. The combat seems to be the saving grace, too bad that's the least interesting part to me in a Mass Effect game.



method114 on 20 March 2017
SvennoJ said:
method114 said:

I honestly don't know. I got EA access just beause all the comments were making me worried I took days off just to play this game so I was pretty worried. Played the trial and I'm having such a blast. Even my biggest worry (tactical pause not being used as much) has been made irrelevant. The new combat is so fast pace and fun that tactical pause would just seem to get in the way most of the time.

As long as the story turns out to be good I'm really going to enjoy this game.

Hmm did they put the best at the start for that trial...

In some respects, Andromeda is most disappointing when it's at its best. There's a mission in the opening third that conjures up the spectre of Virmire - a raid on a kett facility, accompanied by a crack squad of angaran guerrillas. The shift in mood and focus is faintly miraculous: the music kicks up, the bugs ease off, the dialogue straightens out of its slouch and the combat goes into overdrive. There are familiar but pleasantly ghoulish secrets to uncover, rooms to comb for hints about kett society, and a couple of heated, deftly worded interactions with companions that genuinely get your blood pumping.

It's gripping stuff, and a reminder of the greatness of the Mass Effect trilogy - its intelligent reworkings of pulp sci-fi cliche, the taut splendour of its scenarios and aesthetic, the colour and dexterity of its writing. All that's still in here somewhere, I think. But then you pop out the other end of the mission, back into Andromeda's labyrinth of drudgery and obfuscation, and remember that you're a long way from home.

Perhaps all the reviews are wrong. The combat seems to be the saving grace, too bad that's the least interesting part to me in a Mass Effect game.

Will see how it is. I honestly just can't trust reviewers after the things I've seen. The Witcher 3 had some of the worst writing I've seen from any video game and people loved it and praised it up and down. The side missions had great writing the main story was "Do this favor for and I'll tell you a little bit more, do this favor and I'll tell you a little bit more" for 20+ hours until I gave up. The Witcher 2 is one of my top 10 games but the writing in W2 was much better and not so lazy in plot progression.

BF4 got low to high 80's but the MP was unplayable for months at a time how did a primarily multiplayer game get such high scores with a barely functional MP?



SvennoJ on 20 March 2017
method114 said:
SvennoJ said:

Hmm did they put the best at the start for that trial...

In some respects, Andromeda is most disappointing when it's at its best. There's a mission in the opening third that conjures up the spectre of Virmire - a raid on a kett facility, accompanied by a crack squad of angaran guerrillas. The shift in mood and focus is faintly miraculous: the music kicks up, the bugs ease off, the dialogue straightens out of its slouch and the combat goes into overdrive. There are familiar but pleasantly ghoulish secrets to uncover, rooms to comb for hints about kett society, and a couple of heated, deftly worded interactions with companions that genuinely get your blood pumping.

It's gripping stuff, and a reminder of the greatness of the Mass Effect trilogy - its intelligent reworkings of pulp sci-fi cliche, the taut splendour of its scenarios and aesthetic, the colour and dexterity of its writing. All that's still in here somewhere, I think. But then you pop out the other end of the mission, back into Andromeda's labyrinth of drudgery and obfuscation, and remember that you're a long way from home.

Perhaps all the reviews are wrong. The combat seems to be the saving grace, too bad that's the least interesting part to me in a Mass Effect game.

Will see how it is. I honestly just can't trust reviewers after the things I've seen. The Witcher 3 had some of the worst writing I've seen from any video game and people loved it and praised it up and down. The side missions had great writing the main story was "Do this favor for and I'll tell you a little bit more, do this favor and I'll tell you a little bit more" for 20+ hours until I gave up. The Witcher 2 is one of my top 10 games but the writing in W2 was much better and not so lazy in plot progression.

BF4 got low to high 80's but the MP was unplayable for months at a time how did a primarily multiplayer game get such high scores with a barely functional MP?

True, TW2 was better, enticed me to play out all different paths. However TW3's writing is still far better than what I've seen of ME: Andromeda. Nor does it seem to have any compelling storyline from what I've read. The plot reads more like something to set up an RTS game. If it was something in the vein of The Expanse, then I would be interested.

The main problem with it is, it seems to be another openworld-keep-you-busy-a-thon. Maybe that's not true, time will tell. But I still haven't played ME3 which looks to be the better choice atm if I want to dive back into ME. Tbh, I wasn't that interested in ME anymore after ME2 and reviews of ME3. Reviews of ME:A haven't gotten me back.