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Dunky's ME Andromeda video is great.
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Furiously
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I'm 5 planets in. My review, it's an ok game. There are occasional interactions that seem almost real.
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Furiously
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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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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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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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HaemishM
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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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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.
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Falconeer
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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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That default fem shepwhomever...
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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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Falconeer
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especially considering the model she's supposedly based on.
Who?
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HaemishM
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I'm still mystified how any artist or art director could look at FemRyder and think "This is fine."
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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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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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More importantly the Director of ME:A was Mac Walters, the Lead Writer on ME3.
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Jeff Kelly
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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 ...
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Jeff Kelly
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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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Merusk
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More importantly the Director of ME:A was Mac Walters, the Lead Writer on ME3.
"It's not coding or management so it must be art!"
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HaemishM
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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 ... My wife would disagree with you.
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HaemishM
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More importantly the Director of ME:A was Mac Walters, the Lead Writer on ME3.
Is he legally blind?
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Jeff Kelly
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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 ... My wife would disagree with you. I was talking about Mass Effect's artists, not you.
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Guys, I think in the future we'd be more accepting of an emotionless female retard saving the universe.
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Jeff Kelly
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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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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..
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Special J
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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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Jeff Kelly
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Why is that Asari looking like a 90's goth kid?
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Trippy
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A better question is why is there only one Asari face other than Peebee (the one above) and the doctor:
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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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Sky
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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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I can't really muster the desire to play this.
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Jeff Kelly
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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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Falconeer
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TL:DR it just looks ridiculous
That is a fact.
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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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