Mass Effect: Andromeda

Started by Arachnid137 pages

Originally posted by Nephthys
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The only thing that matters is if its noticeable when you're playing. And even then, only if it's distractingly bad and not just kind of funny.

I mean sure, a mention but it really isn't that big of a deal. Most games have jankiness to them, especially massive RPG's like this one.

Even Witcher 3 had that ridiculous thing where you'd cut people in half and they only had 1 bisected model so they'd suddenly become a different person every goddamn time.

I can agree on small side characters and enemy fodder, but if Gerald had a stupid look on his face that was in no way appropriate to the situation a hundred times throughout the game, it would seriously take me out of it. Take into account that the numerous examples found so far are the few minutes they decided to showcase in a 50 hour game, and that doesn't bode well for whats left. A bit of inconsistancy and jankiness is alright, as long as you get the faces and enviornments we'll be spending most of our time looking at down.

Originally posted by BackFire
The quest journal is one of the most infuriating things about ME3 whenever I replay it. Thankfully now I don't have to look at it as I've got most of the game memorized, but that really annoyed me during my first few playthroughs.
Yeah the journal was fking infuriating. I hope to god there's a mod for that for my ME3 playthrough in a week or so

Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Mass Effect 1 looks dated sure, but there's nothing at all wrong with 2's graphics.

For a game that's 7 years old, it looks perfectly fine to me, certainly much better then any game from the 6th generation. Did it set the standard for graphics at the time? No, but most games fail to reach that peak.


That's pretty much the games at their best. But if you pay attention, you'll see stuff like this all over the place:
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http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/masseffect/images/d/d3/SameshBhatia.png/revision/latest?cb=20090121015104
https://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac298/RyviusRan4/ME211.jpg

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
That's pretty much the games at their best. But if you pay attention, you'll see stuff like this all over the place:
http://s017.radikal.ru/i406/1201/8d/b14261191e05.png
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/masseffect/images/d/d3/SameshBhatia.png/revision/latest?cb=20090121015104
https://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac298/RyviusRan4/ME211.jpg
Now imagine if that was the main characters face instead of an irrelevant side character, and you should be able to see where people are coming from. Ryders face animations need to be better done. There are 360 games that look better at this point. There is no excuse on such a big budget AAA game.

Originally posted by Arachnid1
Now imagine if that was the main characters face instead of an irrelevant side character, and you should be able to see where people are coming from. Ryders face animations need to be better done. There are 360 games that look better at this point. There is no excuse on such a big budget AAA game.

The facial animations, maybe, but not the quality of the models themselves which are far superior in quality to anything we've seen in the previous games.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
The facial animations, maybe, but not the quality of the models themselves which are far superior in quality to anything we've seen in the previous games.
Yeah, agreed. Better graphics than the prior 360 titles at this point is kind of mandatory. Higher quality animations should be too.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
The facial animations, maybe, but not the quality of the models themselves which are far superior in quality to anything we've seen in the previous games.

As I said before, at least Shepard's face isn't covered in a foot of solid grease, nor does he have dilated pupils.

Also Peebee is disgusting and her existence pisses me off.

Originally posted by FinalAnswer
As I said before, at least Shepard's face isn't covered in a foot of solid grease, nor does he have dilated pupils.

Also Peebee is disgusting and her existence pisses me off.


Yeah, but that's pretty much just default male Shepard. More or less every other human looks like a greasy, leathery mannequin.

I know, right? What the hell is wrong with her face?

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
Yeah, but that's pretty much just default male Shepard. More or less every other human looks like a greasy, leathery mannequin.

I know, right? What the hell is wrong with her face?

I'd say the bad models look like plastic, but I disagree, I'd say half the human models are at least passable. Kaidan didn't look too awful. Zaeed and Kasumi look great. Sure you get outliers like Miranda but Bioware has been and always will be incapable of modelling female humans.

Shrek.

Look at these nerds fighting over some toons' models smh

So...multiplayer beta's cancelled. Why? Nobody is saying. Boo, Bioware. Boo.

Originally posted by Nemesis X
So...multiplayer beta's cancelled. Why? Nobody is saying. Boo, Bioware. Boo.
EDIT: I read wrong. The beta. Still sucks, I would have liked to try it. Maybe the maps contain spoilers or something.

Well, it's just the beta. I assume to get the beta running required more work and there was probably more important things to deal with due to the game being a few weeks away.

YouTube video

This really is looking good.

Originally posted by Nemesis X
YouTube video
Okay that looks beautifully rendered

I'm definitely getting a DA:I vibe from that video. I'm hoping Bioware learned from some of the mistakes they made with that game.

I just hope these planets you get to explore involve less a collection-a-thon/fetch quest to something meaningful. But Mass Effect does have a few things going for it.

- planets/space are more appealing to me than fantasy
- driving is fun
- combat mechanics look very good and I wasn't a big fan of DA:I mechanics for combat.

But as long as the story is as good as the previous trilogy, I will be happy.

YouTube video

Oh please please PLEASE give us the option to pick New Earth. I will deduct a point if we can't.

Originally posted by Nemesis X
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Oh please please PLEASE give us the option to pick New Earth. I will deduct a point if we can't.

Lmao Angry Joe said the exact same thing a few weeks back. He played the intro, and no you don't pick new earth. That was something he called out too

Originally posted by Arachnid1
Lmao Angry Joe said the exact same thing a few weeks back. He played the intro, and no you don't pick new earth. That was something he called out too

That planet they call their new home in the trailer could've already been called dibs on by the Kett probably and they don't know it yet.

Launch trailer was released:

YouTube video

It’s actually… decent?

I am not going to survive these 11 days....