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PSA Mass Effect: Andromeda is a little rough around the edges.


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16 minutes ago, zettlock said:

Oh, come on - it's so bad it's actually funny. Everybody needs some comic relief once in a while when space-faring, right :giggle:?

 

 

2 minutes ago, yellowwindow7 said:

this is why you shouldn't aboard the hype train of any game Ubisoft or EA is behind them.

 

I'm an Assassin's Creed fan and I approve of this message.

 

Exceptions that prove the rule - South Park: The Stick Of Truth, and soon South Park: The Fractured But Whole. It's okay to be hyped for The Fractured But Whole. Heheh.

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4 minutes ago, Dragon-Archon said:

I haven't really paid attention to the voice cast, but which ones are bad?

 

Personally, I hate Kumail Ninjiani's voice in whatever he's in. He's the Salarian in the clip below.

 

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10 hours ago, xZoneHunter said:

 

 

 

 

Then there's the Krogan in the video below, sounding more like a bored human reading from a script than a Krogan:

 

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I really liked the voice cast in the previous Mass Effect games, but this all sounds very wrong to me.

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30 minutes ago, yellowwindow7 said:

this is why you shouldn't aboard the hype train of any game Ubisoft or EA is behind them.

 

and seriously, playing the uncharted series especially Uncharted 4, L.A Noire, The Last of Us, Beyond: Two Souls and sometimes the Yakuza series, I start to notice any other game " no matter what the platform is " animation and facial expressions in comparison looks Cringy! 

That's really not a fair comparison at all..

Uncharted, L.A Noire, TLoU, Beyond and all the Yakuza games have 1 face that the player chooses. In Bioware games, however, Mass Effect: Andromeda included, you can. Because of this, they need to make facial expressions look okay on thousands of different face structures that people will be creating, and that will lead to some awkward animations here and there.

The other developers of games you mentioned only had to worry about 1 face. They had a template to work with.

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8 minutes ago, BillyHorrible said:

 

Then there's the Krogan in the video below, sounding more like a bored human reading from a script than a Krogan:

 

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Oh, yikes. I'm a huge Mass Effect fan, but when the companions were revealed, no one really grabbed me and since I'm really strapped for cash right now, I opted to wait for a price drop. That Krogan voice tells me I made the right decision.

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13 minutes ago, BillyHorrible said:

Then there's the Krogan in the video below, sounding more like a bored human reading from a script than a Krogan:

 

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Isn't that a female Krogan? She isn't supposed to sound like Batman, doesn't she? (I'm not trying to defend it, just asking questions!)

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3 minutes ago, madbuk said:

That's really not a fair comparison at all..

Uncharted, L.A Noire, TLoU, Beyond and all the Yakuza games have 1 face that the player chooses. In Bioware games, however, Mass Effect: Andromeda included, you can. Because of this, they need to make facial expressions look okay on thousands of different face structures that people will be creating, and that will lead to some awkward animations here and there.

The other developers of games you mentioned only had to worry about 1 face. They had a template to work with.

 

Those were indeed not the best comparisons, but I have to admit that the Mass Effect series is the only game with face create I've ever played where I ended up restarting the game and using the basic face because the ones I was creating ended up behaving awful in cutscenes. Never had that problem with other games where you can create your own face before.

 

Just now, GlennRhee said:

Oh, yikes. I'm a huge Mass Effect fan, but when the companions were revealed, no one really grabbed me and since I'm really strapped for cash right now, I opted to wait for a price drop. That Krogan voice tells me I made the right decision.

 

Ninjiani's involvement is an even bigger letdown for me but yeah, same here, I'm glad that I chose for Zelda and decided to not go day one on Horizon Zero Dawn and Mass Effect Andromeda. Seems like I'll buy Horizon Zero Dawn soon after all since it's supposed to be actually pretty decent/good, and I'll wait with Andromeda until I can find it in the bargain bin.

 

2 minutes ago, zettlock said:

Isn't that a female Krogan? She isn't supposed to sound like Batman, doesn't she? (I'm not trying to defend it, just asking questions!)

 

Yeah, true, female Krogan sound less Batman-y than the male ones even in the original trilogy. This new one sounds really wrong, though. (Not even going into the whole "Krogans aren't scientists, they're all warriors" thing the first game told us, which is being thrown out of the window more and more)

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3 hours ago, xZoneHunter said:

Gameplay is on point from my experience. But cmon, it's mass effect it's definitely one of the franchises where the story and characters are pretty important.

 

Not even a little bit IMO. For me, when it comes to video games, story can enhance the experience but I really couldn't care less if it's there or not. It's very much like porn in that sense lol. If I want story and characters there's literally millions of hours of TV and movies out there that can give me that, for a lot less $.

 

It all comes down to the math really. Take Mass Effect 2 for example. I've beat that game about a dozen times over the years and only paid attention to the story the first time. Let's say the story takes up about 10 hours of that playthrough, and I've probably spent about 400 hours with the game. That means story accounted for about 2.5% of my enjoyment of that game. 2.5% of anything is not a deciding factor. And that # would be a lot lower when compared to ME3 which I spent well over 1000 hours on lol.

 

So no, story and characters don't mean crap to me.

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1 hour ago, Happy said:

"A little rough around the edges"

 

 

Watching this trainwreck would be extremely entertaining if it wasn't so sad.

 

16 minutes ago, Gommes_ said:

This is hilarious and sad at the same time. I doubt that this will be fixed until release

 

I really hope that these are just the only two or three bad dialogue / voice acting moments in the game people are putting online and that the rest of the game is fine.

 

Damn it, I want it to be really good.

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6 minutes ago, BillyHorrible said:

 

 

I really hope that these are just the only two or three bad dialogue / voice acting moments in the game people are putting online and that the rest of the game is fine.

 

Damn it, I want it to be really good.

 

Bad voice acting here and there is tolerable, i would be more concerned about the fact that every face we've seen during dialogue is completely devoid of emotion.

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Mass Effect has never had great animation. No BioWare game has. And to the people complaining about the dialogue, you can't judge the entire thing off of one scene. One scene of bad dialogue is not indicative of the whole product. Even the best games and films have rough spots.

28 minutes ago, Happy said:

 

Bad voice acting here and there is tolerable, i would be more concerned about the fact that every face we've seen during dialogue is completely devoid of emotion.

 

Facial animation has always been garbage in Mass Effect.

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29 minutes ago, Happy said:

 

Bad voice acting here and there is tolerable, i would be more concerned about the fact that every face we've seen during dialogue is completely devoid of emotion.

 

It's BioWare, I expected the emotionless faces.

 

1 minute ago, Nishikino Maki said:

Mass Effect has never had great animation. No BioWare game has. And to the people complaining about the dialogue, you can't judge the entire thing off of one scene. One scene of bad dialogue is not indicative of the whole product. Even the best games and films have rough spots.

 

No they don't. The best games and films don't have rough spots. That's why they are the best.

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1 hour ago, BillyHorrible said:

 

 

I really hope that these are just the only two or three bad dialogue / voice acting moments in the game people are putting online and that the rest of the game is fine.

 

Damn it, I want it to be really good.

 

It's not really. I mean i personally think the voice acting is good but the dialogue is pretty bad from the 2 hours i've played. But nothing as bad as the emotionless faces. It's so bad, that all the other things ME:A does well are kind of overshadowed and pointless since you can't take the game seriously.

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20 minutes ago, Happy said:

Consider the Following: https://puu.sh/uLKkS/6b0014a8b6.webm

 

Wow, that makes it look really bad. Damn.

 

19 minutes ago, xZoneHunter said:

 

It's not really. I mean i personally think the voice acting is good but the dialogue is pretty bad from the 2 hours i've played. But nothing as bad as the emotionless faces. It's so bad, that all the other things ME:A does well are kind of overshadowed and pointless since you can't take the game seriously.

 

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