EPTMass Effect: Andromeda - Page 17
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farvacola
United States18858 Posts
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m4ini
4215 Posts
edit: so far, if you can live with sub-par face animations, i'd actually say yeah, from what i've seen (well, the trial), the game at its core is fun. Exploration, combat, atmosphere. But it's subjective - and $5 really, i mean.. Well. As something to remember: people went completely apeshit and hammered Witcher 3 for the "downgraded graphics". It just seems to be a trend that if you personally have a disappointing experience with something, it automatically makes it horrible for everyone. I wouldn't (in fact, didn't) give a shit about people slamming the game, nor about people who so far thoroughly enjoy it - form your own opinion for $5, one burger less this month, and you get a precise idea. edit2: that being said, if you haven't played the first three MEs, you might wanna consider getting those for cheap. While differing in quality (some are better than others), all of them are very enjoyable. | ||
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Holy_AT
Austria978 Posts
You can have them quite cheep and they are a blast to play. I would really wait on MEA and maybe get it cheeper or wait for bug fixes that they will hopefully do unless you are already a really great fan of the universe... | ||
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m4ini
4215 Posts
Also being a fan of the universe has quite literally nothing to do with ME:A, in fact, it is just another thing that people could (actually, do) rub themselves on because it doesn't "refer enough" to older games. The trial is simply the smartest option. So smart, that i actually wished that every (AAA) game would offer me the first couple of hours for $5 and 10% off if i decide to buy it. Would've prevented shitbuys like Dishonored 2 etc. edit: and it really rubs me the wrong way when people act like this game is unplayable in its current state. It's not. Stop dramatising stuff. There's plenty people out there who don't give a shit if they can't chose "the exact skin color i want", or expressions partially(!) are derpy. It just seems to be a trend that if you personally have a disappointing experience with something, it automatically makes it horrible for everyone. | ||
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TaShadan
Germany1981 Posts
Might but Andromeda as soon as major problems are fixed because i love the universe. | ||
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Clonester
Germany2808 Posts
ME 1 has obviously the worst combat (in my opinion) and some other flaws (like the generic buildings for the side quests, the inventory managment and well, also the open chests mini game), but its atmosphere is so dense, it sucks you right in and doesnt really let you out. Obviously the graphics are outdate as its based on the good old unreal 3 engine, but the game still looks acceptable, textures are big problem for it nowadays, but the characters design and facial animations (huh huh huh) still stand for themself. All games should cost maximum of 10$/€ as keys, if you say, you like sci fi RPGs, then you should really replay all 3 of em starting with the first. Also look out for the mods, there are some good ones, if you play ME3, use this mod: http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/350/?tab=2&navtag=http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/ajax/modfiles/?id=350&pUp=1 Also my face when I made Parasini and Andoles kill each other for the first time ever in a ME 1 run in 2016 and never knew that this was even possible. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22409 Posts
On March 20 2017 00:12 m4ini wrote: The face animations won't get fixed across the board, that's already official. Also being a fan of the universe has quite literally nothing to do with ME:A, in fact, it is just another thing that people could (actually, do) rub themselves on because it doesn't "refer enough" to older games. The trial is simply the smartest option. So smart, that i actually wished that every (AAA) game would offer me the first couple of hours for $5 and 10% off if i decide to buy it. Would've prevented shitbuys like Dishonored 2 etc. edit: and it really rubs me the wrong way when people act like this game is unplayable in its current state. It's not. Stop dramatising stuff. There's plenty people out there who don't give a shit if they can't chose "the exact skin color i want", or expressions partially(!) are derpy. The reason that the trial is so great is the very reason many companies don't offer it. They want the day 1 sucker buy for their "shit" game. + Show Spoiler + High quality Bioware writing right there... | ||
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ApocAlypsE007
Israel1007 Posts
On March 20 2017 00:12 m4ini wrote: The face animations won't get fixed across the board, that's already official. Source? I remember Bioware saying it wont be fixed at day 1, not that it wont be fixed at all. Not that I think that they will be fixed at all, but if the shitstorm is strong enough, who knows. | ||
ZeromuS
Canada13407 Posts
Just getting into ME3 now as well (full of errors and bugs because I messed up the texture mod so I lost 6 hours to a reinstall Q_Q) Its great. I don't think I'll finish it before ME:A comes out but hopefully before friday I can hop into ME:A. I havent bought a new game in a while and ME1/2/3 have been sitting on my PC for months now, and with the new job starting monday I want to get into ME:A with the hype, and then pay for it with my first paycheck :D | ||
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Holy_AT
Austria978 Posts
On March 20 2017 00:33 ApocAlypsE007 wrote: Source? I remember Bioware saying it wont be fixed at day 1, not that it wont be fixed at all. Not that I think that they will be fixed at all, but if the shitstorm is strong enough, who knows. In my opinion this issue deserves a shit storm, because otherwise there would be no motiviation for them to fix anything or do better in possible sequels. It is just unfathombale how the main characters could pass through their internal reviews, quality control and external monitoring without raising red flags ... How could they screw this up? The main character is the red line that runs through the entire game. It is the most important aspect of the game and it is that bad ... In general all human females in the game look like they have been hit with the Niqab of uglyness to make them uninteresting and weak. This game could have been programmed by ISIS to make the players who actually want to play female characters hide them in their space suits ... This is eithur blunt incompetence or malicous intent to model females across the board like this. The staff that was in charge of character modelling, managing and quality control and game design should be layed off immediatly... | ||
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Disengaged
United States6994 Posts
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ZeromuS
Canada13407 Posts
From what I've seen they just messed up the small things which make talking to people face to face seem okay. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22409 Posts
On March 20 2017 01:48 Plansix wrote: The knives seem to be out for this game, that is for sure. The faces look silly, but the blow back seems out out of control. Because this is has been a long string of disappointments from Bioware. From DA:2 and DA:I to ME:3's ending and now a failure of basic animation so obvious it should have never been allowed to pass beyond the animation department, meaning they knowingly skimped on it. It makes people wonder how more glaring failures there are past the trial. That and the internet has a hard on for AAA studio's failing | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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Disengaged
United States6994 Posts
Andromeda is not without its flaws, thats for sure, but its a pretty good game, just like the old games. I'd say the combat is the best its ever been. I'd compare it to ME1, slow to start, but once it gets going its good. The trial did its job on me because I can't wait. | ||
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InFiNitY[pG]
Germany3474 Posts
On March 20 2017 02:00 Plansix wrote: Yeah, seems misguided. DA:2 was clearly a game being rushed out the door by EA to meet a financial quarter. ME:3 ending was meh, but I never felt the rage. The DA:I was fine. But people gunna be pissed if they are still mad about ME:3. DA:I was not fine, it was severely flawed in several key aspects such as storytelling, character developement and so on, they sacrificed deepness for size. Bioware openly admittes this and promised improvements come MEA. | ||
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Elentos
55579 Posts
So like... am I in for a 10 GB download on launch day? | ||
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Godwrath
Spain10142 Posts
I just see a lot of the hate as people jumping on the bandwagon because its the cool thing to do right now. Yep, and to defend it is the hipster thing to do. Silly labelling is silly. People are hating on it because what we had seen from the animations is completely trash, specially if we compare it to a 2007 videogame. That's 10 years, and we are speaking about a cinematic RPG here. And i say this as someone who has it did reserve after the trial, because the combat looks promising, and that weights more for me at this point, but i won't claim people are just hating because it's cool to hate. C'mon. They have some legit reasons to criticize it. | ||
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m4ini
4215 Posts
Hell, nobody would actually give a shit if you couldn't stand it so much that you can't play it. The problem are people who think they're so important that their opinion of something goes so far that it's enough to make a blanket statement like "don't get it, it's shit". Nobody here is actually defending the flaws, every single posting i've seen (and written) is acknowledging the problems, except the "hipsters" as you call them (first time ever heard that comparison) realise that they have fun with the game despite the flaws. Whereas you have others, getting a raging boner telling you how bad and disappointing it is and you totally should stay away from it. See the difference? And that's actually considered "medium hardcore" now, the real fans go after a girl who they think is solely responsible for the entire animation system. Obviously. So like... am I in for a 10 GB download on launch day? According to Bioware, you already should have downloaded the full client, nothing more. That's how in understand it anyway. Not even a day 1 patch, that's already applied. | ||
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