Mass Effect: Andromeda Pre-Release Thread

[MadMaxHellfire]

None of the ME characters are particularly great though. They fit tropes. And if incloosiveness hurts you, consider Lara Croft was going to be a latina at first. Would that hurt the enjoyment of TR1, for instance? I don't think so. Then again, the character was different back then. Bio can only do pseudo anime stereotypes.

absolutely not, mainly because the character of lara is not the focus of the game. the focus of mass effect are its characters, its setting, its lore.
mea is as a lore rape as the transition from morrowind to oblivion.

 

[Falksi]

Christ that combat looks so sluggish, cumbersome and dull.

 

[Prime Junta]

You know what the best thing is about the ugly default characters? You're stuck with them; not a single thing I've heard is about a custom character creator like in the old games.

This is BioWare trolling the world. They're going to make everyone look fucking awful and then count how many gaming sites will ignore the character designs and animations completely.

Well, to be honest, the pc port for ME1 had a bug where the graphic quality was stuck in Medium. The third party in charge of its development never fixed it.

I haven't heard of this bug.

I have. Was wondering why it looked like complete shit. There is a workaround though. Applied it, and after that it looked technically pretty damn good.

Visual design was still shit, but you can't fix that with a gfx patch.

 

[Space Satan]

At this point it's just becoming a routine

 

[HansDampf]

Where is the red opening cinematic?

 

[pippin]

That image gave Liara smaller titties, what the fuck.
Also they could always claim it's "their" content. But it's still lazy as fuck.

 

[moon knight]

Did they steal the image from deviantart?

No fucking way.

 

[pippin]

They did it for me3 too

 

[moon knight]

 

[Kem0sabe]

The butthurt in the Mass Effect Andromeda reddit is glorious... so much passive aggressiveness.

 

[moon knight]

https://twitter.com/etdragonpunch/status/840599199129395201

 

[Lambach]

Is it wise to put a picture of a good-looking Asari like Liara in a game where one of your Asari companions is blue Shrek? People are bound to start asking why they couldn't model her to be at least somewhat close to Liara in appearance.

 

[Rev]

It's not mockery, but a pastiche of movies like Boys n the Hood and the west coast hip hop scene. Just like Vice City was a pastiche of Scarface and GTA V a pastiche of Heat. The Houser brothers are huge hip hop buffs.

You're right that Rockstar are far from politically correct though. Having people living in a segregated hellhole speak without using street slang would have been the politically correct thing to do. Rockstar doesn't strive for political correctness or inclusiveness. They look for an interesting setting, pull some contemporary music scenes, take the plot of a blockbuster movie and cram it together to make a game.

I agree with the sense of your post, but I think R* did make a parody out of the setting, just like how they usually make fun of several Hollywood tropes or of different aspects of American society.
The whole "da hood is your family" got mocked by a lot of characters and you as well are bound to realize how it doesn't really mean anything as you progress in the game and you are betrayed, and later move on and find your place in different cities/locations.

I totally agree with the second half of your post, anyway.

 

[Kem0sabe]

I posted it on reddit just to stir up shit, and it panned out... bioware degenerates coming out of the woodwork just to defend the game.

https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...poilers_bioware_using_fan_art_in_mass_effect/

 

[Multiple Sarcasm]

[No Spoilers] Bioware using fan art in Mass Effect Andromeda?

What do you mean no spoilers? I personally don't care about this but this is clearly something to discover for yourself in game, how is that not a spoiler?

Bioware may be dead, but their fanbase sure keeps on giving.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Livestream Q&A

https://www.twitch.tv/logitechg

These fuckers ignore every single question about performance or more technical issues, instead, they spend their time talking about beards and character creation.

 

[Riso]

Give us a tl;dr on the char creation please.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

^^^^

And no one is calling shit on them?
It sounds more like a political party election meeting.

 

[Siel]

I posted it on reddit just to stir up shit, and it panned out... bioware degenerates coming out of the woodwork just to defend the game.

https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...poilers_bioware_using_fan_art_in_mass_effect/

Thanks to using google images and photoshop for assets, they are saving a lot of time and resources which allows them to focus on the game itself and provide great content, gameplay, and story with well developed characters. I think it's a great idea.

 

[vonAchdorf]

Thanks to using google images and photoshop for assets, they are saving a lot of time and resources which allows them to focus on the game itself and provide great content, gameplay, and story with well developed characters. I think it's a great idea.

If only there was a Google images for animations.

 

[pippin]

Spoiler

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

when is this shit due again?

 

[oldmanpaco]

I posted it on reddit just to stir up shit, and it panned out... bioware degenerates coming out of the woodwork just to defend the game.

https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...poilers_bioware_using_fan_art_in_mass_effect/

The best part about this thread is the people saying that the artist used bio characters so bioware has the right to use the pictures.

 

[Prime Junta]

The best part about this thread is the people saying that the artist used bio characters so bioware has the right to use the pictures.

Might actually be true. Copyrightability isn't as simplistic as DeviantArtists usually assume. F.ex. if you take a screenshot of a game made by somebody else, you will have to make a pret-t-t-ty strong argument if you want to claim copyright on it.

 

[oldmanpaco]

The best part about this thread is the people saying that the artist used bio characters so bioware has the right to use the pictures.

Might actually be true. Copyrightability isn't as simplistic as DeviantArtists usually assume. F.ex. if you take a screenshot of a game made by somebody else, you will have to make a pret-t-t-ty strong argument if you want to claim copyright on it.

But those are not screenshots are they? Didn't the artist render them himself?