Preview Shocking Report From RPS: First Hours of Mass Effect: Andromeda Stinks

[Bohrain]

reminder this is one of the lead designer in bioware

I guess they also put this guy in charge of the facial animations.

His brow actually moves so I doubt it.

 

[HoboForEternity]

the writing is also cringeworthy as fuck

just look. that stoner dude from siege of dragonspear seems tame compared to this most awkward conversation in recorded history of video gaming

kill. me. now.



even watching that clip made me almost puke in my mind. at least the bright side is i have the urge to boot up a new playtrough of age of decadence to flush the taste out and experience actual good writing.

 

[Bohrain]

the writing is also cringeworthy as fuck

just look. that stoner dude from siege of dragonspear seems tame compared to this most awkward conversation in recorded history of video gaming

kill. me. now.



even watching that clip made me almost puke in my mind. at least the bright side is i have the urge to boot up a new playtrough of age of decadence to flush the taste out and experience actual good writing.

The animations are so bad that it feels like the scene would be better if it was just text with a voiceover.

 

[Somberlain]

I didn't even hear any dialogue. I couldn't concentrate on anything but that sitting girl's mouth animations.

 

[HoboForEternity]

share a laugh day

happy sunday guys!

 

[Sothpaw]

Not buying because I won't support a company who employs trash like Manveer (on top of the fact that Bioware makes trash videogames). Plus, you can't even order companions to use abilities so it is now even more of a below average tps.

 

[naossano]

So many codexers at Bioware...

Can't believe they actually advertized the fact she was thin-shaming.

 

[Ruzen]

Here is article from Kotaku titled "Scumbags Harass Woman For Working On Mass Effect: Andromeda's Animations"

 

[Charles Eli Cheese]

even watching that clip made me almost puke in my mind. at least the bright side is i have the urge to boot up a new playtrough of age of decadence to flush the taste out and experience actual good writing.

 

[l3loodAngel]

the writing is also cringeworthy as fuck

just look. that stoner dude from siege of dragonspear seems tame compared to this most awkward conversation in recorded history of video gaming

kill. me. now.



even watching that clip made me almost puke in my mind. at least the bright side is i have the urge to boot up a new playtrough of age of decadence to flush the taste out and experience actual good writing.

The animations are so bad that it feels like the scene would be better if it was just text with a voiceover.

Looking at the bright side this is the first conversation blowjob I have ever seen! I would lol really hard if we would find out that someone did this as a prank.

 

[DeepOcean]

I never seen so much insecurity on a single picture.

 

[l3loodAngel]

I never seen so much insecurity on a single picture.

She's gonna feel right at home at Bioware. If her t-shirt text is an indication she's going to be an awesome writter. Some deep space thin shaming?

 

[shihonage]

Why is the Down's girl coming on to Robot Verter?

 

[J_C]

share a laugh day

happy sunday guys!

Seriously guys. How can somebody look like this? Does she has no shame? That hair, the thick necklace, the shirt which is 5 size smaller than it should be, the purple purse, to pose. I can't believe there are people out there who dress like this and think, yes, I'm cool and should totally go out.

You can be overweight and dress tasteful honey, but you look like a clown in this setup.

 

[Naraya]

Reviews are rolling in...
/popcorn

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017...andromeda-is-dragon-age-inquisition-in-space/
If I had any interest left, it's been eradicated.

 

[Markman]

Reviews are rolling in...
/popcorn

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017...andromeda-is-dragon-age-inquisition-in-space/
If I had any interest left, it's been eradicated.

God damn, what a shit review. Its like a Polygon wannabe but with half the paycheck.
Like "playing on lowest difficulty cause I want the story". Kill yourself faggot.

 

[I ASK INANE QUESTIONS]

Well, to be fair,
1) an animator doesn't have to be a 2d artist, and actually rarely is
2) facial animations in ME are procedural or mocap or a mix or whatever

So...

Well, to be 100% fair, she does actually have a semi-decent CV, problem is, she only ever worked on toons.

Now why would you want to hire someone who only worked with highly stylized 2d animation before, mostly likely hasn't dealt with 3d animation at all after the college, and then go and put them in charge of making facial animations for a $40 mil vidya game is anybody's guess at this point. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[J_C]

Here is article from Kotaku titled "Scumbags Harass Woman For Working On Mass Effect: Andromeda's Animations"

LOL, I didn't even know it was a woman, and I'm sure most people didn't know either. We just made fun of however is responsible for this garbage animation.

 

[l3loodAngel]

so... its gonna be rpg in which you kill white people?

He complains about how in the West, "brown people are marginalised" because of 9/11.

Dude, maybe lose the "I'm sexually repressed and angry beard" and people won't think you're a psycho. That thing on your face ain't helping.

Don't blame the beard for his insanity. It's the shit comes out his mouth and well his desire to kill/hunt whites aka. "the new project".

 

[Invictus]

When I recall all the good studios that EA absorbed and then left a lifeless husk like Origin or Bullfrog I kind of feel that at least those studios were snuffed out relatively quickly and only produced a few quick death games but honestly seeing what Bioware has become is so disgusting with all that retarded dialogue, plots, transexual employed writers and a fixiation for allowing the player to live out their fantasies of sticking it in some orifice of some alien is frankly too much... not even entertaining anymore its like Bethesda and Fallout 4 it is not even funny anymore

 

[Vault Dweller]

GameSpot 6/10

http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/mass-effect-andromeda-review/1900-6416638/

Worse still, your agency in these conversations is limited. Sure, you can periodically select from up to four dialogue options, but these frequently boil down to "be optimistic" or "be realistic." On paper, this system improves over the rigid renegade/paragon dichotomy of the original series, but in practice, the various options felt only superficially different. And regardless of what I picked, my inputs only rarely impacted the outcome. Even when I tried to be rude, characters generally found a way to shrug it off. And after beating the campaign, I can only recall one major decision that had serious repercussions, and even that felt contrived. It also paled in comparison to the memorably gut-wrenching choices forced on me in the original games.

 

[Zed]

The gut-wrenching choices like choosing which alien to romance.

 

[SausageInYourFace]

GameSpot 6/10

Oh dear.

After first falling out with the hardcore crowd, then falling out increasingly with the mainstream gamers and rising tension even with their very own SJW audience, now they finally fall out with the press too. Mass Effect was supposed to be their saving grace series after they ran DA into the ground. So.. is it finally dead?

 

[Urthor]

Unfortunately it's EA, and they'll run Bioware until it cracks up and burns, and actually makes an unprofitable game.

 

[Vault Dweller]

The slaughter continues:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-03-19-mass-effect-andromeda

If there's any genuine mystique to the idea of travelling 2.5 million lightyears to colonise another galaxy, BioWare's fourth Mass Effect smacks it over the head with a prospector's shovel and boots it out the airlock during the first few hours of play. You're left with a zesty but unsurprising third-person shooter, struggling through a soup of mundane chores - a game of mesmerising, gargantuan landscapes sabotaged by uneven writing and (at the time of review) an astonishing quantity of bugs. Perhaps above all, there's a shortage of drama or real consequence to Andromeda, apparently brought on by the shift to an open world template, that is sadly new to Mass Effect - a series celebrated not merely for its freedom of choice, but for making those choices matter.
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Unfortunately, many of the key dilemmas recycle well-trodden conceits from the original trilogy and RPGs at large - yes, the salarians and krogans are still at each other's throats over the genophage, and yes, you'll be asked to decide the fate of a possibly innocent convict. Other decisions are revealed to be of small import in hindsight, which reflects both the relative weakness of the writing and a broader structural shift - away from the flexible yet impactful narratives of previous games and towards the spineless, anything-goes tepidity of an open world.
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The lion's share of Andromeda's missions are busywork - go to a waypoint, scan 10 Remnant collapsible shelving units with your ugly wrist-mounted display, scoop up five mineral deposits for some lazy boffin back on the Nexus, blow up three raider outposts, and so forth. The game's partiality for such insipid fare is made all the worse by some needless toing-and-froing - this is a universe with FTL communications and cranial AI implants, but you can't check your email, pick a weapon prototype to research or take a vidcall without heading home to the Tempest. More aggravating still is the act of travelling between planets and solar systems, a janky, unskippable 20 second cinematic which feels like some animator's pet project that nobody had the heart to erase.
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A wider problem with Andromeda's writing is BioWare's failure to convincingly replace the old Paragon/Renegade system, which awarded points for Nice and Nasty dialogue choices or actions. As a way of thinking about ethics Paragon/Renegade is obviously very clunky, but as a dramatic device it creates strong pivotal moments in dialogue while underlining the effects of your decisions over time. Andromeda's equivalent, a four-way split between rational, emotional, casual and professional options, is relatively non-committal. It's basically the choice between bored Ryder, soppy Ryder, flip Ryder and parent Ryder, neither of whom are really worth getting to know.