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Reply #140 on: March 27, 2017, 07:41:10 PM

Dunky's ME Andromeda video is great.
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Reply #141 on: March 27, 2017, 08:31:59 PM

I'm 5 planets in. My review, it's an ok game. There are occasional interactions that seem almost real.

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Reply #142 on: March 27, 2017, 11:06:41 PM

And done..... it's should have been better. A lot better. I'd liken the game to Lost. Lots of cool stuff that went no where. Lots of lose ends, lots of horrid facial animations and lots of time spent staring at the loading screens.
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Reply #143 on: March 28, 2017, 03:47:51 AM

Dunky's ME Andromeda video is great.
I was about ready to say that.

Even with games that aren't great you can tell he's having fun at some point- he even enjoys parts of The Last Guardian. He can barely muster a joke in his Andromeda review that ISN'T just showcasing actual game footage of the game.

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Reply #144 on: March 28, 2017, 04:34:19 AM

I feel myself stalling out on it a bit now. Even the multiplayer isn't feeling as sticky for me as it did in ME3. I can forgive a lot of the game's technical faults, but I'm just not feeling very invested in any of the characters and the new alien races are nowhere near as interesting as any of the ones from the trilogy. It's not a bad game but there's too much other stuff I could be doing at the moment. I'm sure I'll continue to play it a bit here an there but it's not my main focus as far as games go.
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Reply #145 on: March 28, 2017, 05:21:41 AM

I hadn't looked up anything at all on this game and just spent 30 minutes watching Dunky's review and then the 5 years + $40M = Mass Effect Andromeda video.

Wow. This just looks terrible.


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Reply #146 on: March 28, 2017, 07:22:50 AM

I hadn't looked up anything at all on this game and just spent 30 minutes watching Dunky's review and then the 5 years + $40M = Mass Effect Andromeda video.

Wow. This just looks terrible.

This. Those videos... that any of that is in the actual game is amazing to me. Some of those fuckups are just inexcusable. The faces are horrifically bad and graphical shit like wonky stupid animations are not even remotely ok for a AAA game. Graphics should be the least of their worries.

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Reply #147 on: March 28, 2017, 09:12:22 AM

Even as a Bioware fanboy, I can't get myself to buy this one.  This need a "Witcher 1/2" style apology patch/version. At that point it'll probably just be what I was afraid of: DA:I in space.  Ohhhhh, I see.


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Reply #148 on: March 28, 2017, 10:29:06 AM

My biggest problem with Mass Effect Andromeda is that it feels to me lot more like SWTOR than Mass Effect.


Other than that, I feel exactly as Velorath. I enjoy it, it's OK, but none of the attachment that I used to have for all the previous three. Bummer.

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Reply #149 on: March 28, 2017, 01:32:22 PM

That default femshepwhomever...  swamp poop
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Reply #150 on: March 28, 2017, 01:48:08 PM

SisRyder and BroRyder are the two protagonists. BroRyder looks fine. SisRyder is...special...especially considering the model she's supposedly based on.

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Reply #151 on: March 28, 2017, 11:50:27 PM

especially considering the model she's supposedly based on.


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Reply #152 on: March 29, 2017, 02:17:56 AM


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Reply #153 on: March 29, 2017, 09:58:52 AM

I'm still mystified how any artist or art director could look at FemRyder and think "This is fine."

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Reply #154 on: March 29, 2017, 10:15:14 AM

I agree. And I like my FemRyder






but I just don't understand how they could not notice that the eye animations are messed up as they constantly do that thing where it looks like they are about to pop out.

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Reply #155 on: March 29, 2017, 11:36:52 AM

I'm still mystified how any artist or art director could look at FemRyder and think "This is fine."

Even art directors can fail upwards.

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Reply #156 on: March 29, 2017, 11:48:27 AM

More importantly the Director of ME:A was Mac Walters, the Lead Writer on ME3.
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Reply #157 on: March 29, 2017, 12:51:23 PM

I'm still mystified how any artist or art director could look at FemRyder and think "This is fine."

Well if you've never seen a woman up close or talked to one ... Rimshot
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Reply #158 on: March 29, 2017, 12:54:58 PM

but I just don't understand how they could not notice that the eye animations are messed up as they constantly do that thing where it looks like they are about to pop out.

Noticing it and knowing how to fix it are two different things, unfortunately.
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Reply #159 on: March 29, 2017, 01:07:38 PM

More importantly the Director of ME:A was Mac Walters, the Lead Writer on ME3.


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Reply #160 on: March 29, 2017, 01:57:34 PM

I'm still mystified how any artist or art director could look at FemRyder and think "This is fine."

Well if you've never seen a woman up close or talked to one ... Rimshot

My wife would disagree with you.  why so serious?

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Reply #161 on: March 29, 2017, 01:58:01 PM

More importantly the Director of ME:A was Mac Walters, the Lead Writer on ME3.


Is he legally blind?

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Reply #162 on: March 29, 2017, 04:58:44 PM

I'm still mystified how any artist or art director could look at FemRyder and think "This is fine."

Well if you've never seen a woman up close or talked to one ... Rimshot

My wife would disagree with you.  why so serious?

I was talking about Mass Effect's artists, not you.
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Reply #163 on: March 29, 2017, 08:43:06 PM

Guys, I think in the future we'd be more accepting of an emotionless female retard saving the universe.
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Reply #164 on: March 29, 2017, 08:57:55 PM

It would be less weird somehow if they had fucked up the male Shepherd's model as badly as the female one. Male Shepherd looks fine though while Femshep looks like the modeler fell face forward onto his keyboard.
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Reply #165 on: March 29, 2017, 09:52:18 PM

Anyone noticed the head-snap animation everytime you're in conversation and the focus kept changing between speakers?
That shit was unreal. They're like voice-activated androids. 5 Participants take turn staring at the speaker, usually insta-gazing 120 degrees like a robot..  why so serious?

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Reply #166 on: March 30, 2017, 10:25:52 AM

Peebee? Where you at?


Oh there you are. Welp.


The best part is she does the lower arm & hand gestures while her upper arm is frozen.
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Reply #167 on: March 30, 2017, 10:36:46 AM

Why is that Asari looking like a 90's goth kid?
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Reply #168 on: March 30, 2017, 10:50:48 AM

A better question is why is there only one Asari face other than Peebee (the one above) and the doctor:


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Reply #169 on: March 30, 2017, 11:01:41 AM

Why is that Asari looking like a 90's goth kid?

80's. It's a "tribute" to Pris from Blade Runner.

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Reply #170 on: March 30, 2017, 01:44:16 PM

A better question is why is there only one Asari face other than Peebee (the one above) and the doctor:



That's just fucking lazy.
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Reply #171 on: March 30, 2017, 01:49:34 PM

I can't really muster the desire to play this.
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Reply #172 on: March 30, 2017, 02:05:59 PM

Why is that Asari looking like a 90's goth kid?

80's. It's a "tribute" to Pris from Blade Runner.

It's missing the bleached blonde hairsprayed 80's do and distressed pantyhose for that. Also a sense of style. It's also a tribute that will be lost on almost all players of the game. Blade Runner came out in 82. None of the people playing or making the game were born when that movie came out.

TL:DR it just looks ridiculous
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Reply #173 on: March 30, 2017, 07:00:39 PM

TL:DR it just looks ridiculous

That is a fact.

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Reply #174 on: March 31, 2017, 05:20:44 AM

More importantly the Director of ME:A was Mac Walters, the Lead Writer on ME3.


That explains so much. That'd be like letting Damon Lindeldof(sp?) direct Prometheus 2.

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