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[Jibbajabbawockky]

New video at https://www.masseffect.com/andromeda-initiative/training-hub called "PATHFINDER & TEAM"

That makes the game mildly more interesting. But it would be even more interesting if your father doesn't inevitably die in the first 30 minutes of the game leaving you as the Pathfinder in charge of everyone.

 

[Night Hunter]

He's not in the military. Still i wouldn't want to try to fit that much hair in a helmlet

Yeah I know they say they are explorers and all that nice stuff, but the Ark is being led by a N7 soldier and they are an elite team scouting a foreign galaxy. I mean he has to have been military at some point. Plus as you said, that is a lot of hair for one helmet.

 

[Always-honest]

I'm not feeling this team at all...

Me neither. But i have been wrong before about characters. Depends on the writers. And animation... so yeah..
Hopefully the gameplay will be awesome, as well as the world/ vistas and the sound design.

 

[TyphoonStruggle]

New Main Character is generic as hell.

The rest of the squad look... not compelling.

Even if this game gets good reviews I'm waiting on a sale. This is from someone who loved most of the ME trilogy since Day 1.

 

[Anoxida]

Some of you guys are really hard to please, almost to the point where you've already decided you were gonna hate the game before the first trailer showed up.

I think you're on to something here


People comparing the new cast to the old cast saying they don't stack up to mordin and garrus etc.. we've barely heard the new cast talk and you compare them to characters that had up to 3 games of writing to them lol. Give them a fighting chance at least.

 

[Tagavaka]

I can't watch the trailer yet but i've seen the gifs and screenshots.

It is annoying that BroRyder is the focus but as long as Bioware stays true to their word that the marketing is going to be split evely between the two and the upcoming long gameplay trailer is using SisRyder then I am ok with this.

He does look like Nathan Drake but I mean you could always headcanon that he is a descendant of Nathan Drake which would be kind of fun from a roleplaying perspective.

I appreciate Bioware trying to keep the squad diverse and that is a plus for them.

Finally, I cannot tell you the sheer, unadulterated joy that overcame me when I saw that Cora was finally revealed and that she has short hair. I am going to thoroughly enjoy the pathetic and sad brigade of certain gamers, mostly dudes, who are going to be throwing a tantrum that Cora is somehow not feminine enough because she has short hair, as they did with Cassandra in Dragon Age: Inquisition. They had an absolute meltdown on many a forum, spawning countless threads about how ugly she is and how the waifus in Witcher are so much better and more feminine by compare. I'm glad Bioware just didn't give in to their whining and outrage.

*Note: I don't have a problem with people who legitimately don't like Cora for whatever reason I just find the tantrums and outrage toward female romance options who dare to have short hair a really pathetic and sad state of affairs

 

[BeauRoger]

"We're about to change the rules..."

Ugghhh....

YO. 600 years? What?

Also, "I don't need an army. I've got a Krogan."

Yep, pretty cringeworthy writing. Hopefully its not representative of the game itself.

 

[kurahador]

Kinda generic trailer, but I'm sold.

The villain reminds me of the villain in Halo 4. Please don't Halo 4 this.

 

[Putyouinmyoven]

I just cannot decide if this looks good or not. Pretty disappointed with Ryder (that name...) and only 2 aliens in the squad. ME2 is one of my favourite games ever so I guess we'll just have to see.

 

[flaxknuckles]

do not want

please let their be better love interests

 

[Blargonaut]

dangerously cheesy

they even have Noun as the antagonist, what will they think of next

sigh

 

[Man Called Aerodynamics]

Some of you guys are really hard to please, almost to the point where you've already decided you were gonna hate the game before the first trailer showed up.

I think I might be done trying to engage about Mass Effect on NeoGAF honestly. When the thread is page after page of complaints on the order of "I don't like how the default protagonist looks" (in a game with a character creator) "One of the characters' hair is too short" "Antagonist's background isn't fully explained" (it's a trailer, he has one line of dialogue). Everyone has a right to their opinion but it's just a bummer to be excited about ME around here.

 

[Succinct Verbosity]

I think this looks really bad, and I love Mass Effect. Those animations and character designs... Yeeeesh.

 

[Ridesh]

Why people whine about Ryder? you can customize him/her you know?

 

[Floex]

The worst thing about this is how boring it all looks. I once was so invested in the ME universe but this all looks so bland. The bad voice work, the bad script, the side characters look like a revisit from the first but just worse in every single way.

 

[Hagi]

Looking at the new briefing vid, I'd also rather just play the father instead

I think that would have been pretty cool actually, playing as the parent. Could even have had one of the kids as a squad mate.

Gotta say the crew doesn't really look that interesting from a design standpoint. I think they peaked with ME2. Would've been nice if the new races didn't default to english speaking humanoids but having their own languages is probably too much work. Doesn't really feel like something new which is likely why I'm having a hard time getting excited for the game.

 

[adj_noun]

they even have Noun as the antagonist

SURRENDER OR BURN

 

[Andodalf]

Kinda generic trailer, but I'm sold.

The villain reminds me of the villain in Halo 4. Please don't Halo 4 this.

He seems nothing like the Didact, also the Didact is a terrific Villian if you read the forerunner trilogy.

Halo 4 had a great Story, and gave the characters more personality than ever before. It's fault was in the gameplay and multiplayer departments. Which I fell MEA will nail.

 

[JMZ555]

Feels in terms of animation, voice acting, facial capture etc they are behind compared to a lot of developers.

 

[ViciousDS]

looks ok..........will hold the train and maintain speed......or hold the ship I should say


But man.....do Bioware need to invest in facial capture or something. It looks insanely off compared to a ton of games this gen.

 

[MartyStu]

The worst thing about this is how boring it all looks. I once was so invested in the ME universe but this all looks so bland. The bad voice work, the bad script, the side characters look like a revisit from the first but just worse in every single way.

I would not say bad, but definitely feel well-worn.

 

[CarbonFire]

Some of you guys are really hard to please, almost to the point where you've already decided you were gonna hate the game before the first trailer showed up.

Or perhaps some of us are just long time Mass Effect fans who've been left cold on everything released for this game so far, but continue coming back HOPING that one of these videos clicks and gets us excited for ME again.

 

[Dysun]

I'm still super excited for the game but that trailer wasn't good. Made the crew look ultra generic

 

[rashbeep]

Or perhaps some of us are just long time Mass Effect fans who've been left cold on everything released for this game so far, but continue coming back HOPING that one of these videos clicks and gets us excited for ME again.

.

 

[d3vnull]

Finally a trailer worthy of Mass Effect. That was great.

 

[m_dorian]

I liked the trailer.
Continue to dislike the Asari, i hope the airlock works. Apart from that and the obvious Bioware hatred for long hair people the crew seems ok enough to have my interest.

 

[Kalamari]

Looks pretty mediocre. I'm looking forward to the review thread though.

 

[A-V-B]

dangerously cheesy

they even have Noun as the antagonist, what will they think of next

I'd laugh so hard if they ever named a main baddie Noun.

"I am... the Noun. Think of the most horrible word, and that is me."

"Hey, I thought of a noun. Hahahaha!"

 

[DrD]

I'm hyped! Where's Garrus?

 

[george_us]

This looks so....bland? I adore Mass Effect so why am I not more excited? The voice acting and writing seem really poor.

Yeah the character design looks super bland. World art looks pretty stellar though. As long as they give me some sweet alien worlds to explore, I'll be alright.

 

[StoppedInTracks]

How do the same company with a better engine and 8x more powerful GPU/ CPU went from this:

to this:

is beyond me.

Looks so boring and generic.

 

[LordOcidax]

Is me... or the game looks worse in every new trailer/gameplay?

 

[diaspora]

I'm hyped! Where's Garrus?

... It's 600 years later why would he be anywhere?

 

[callsignkrogan]

New video at https://www.masseffect.com/andromeda-initiative/training-hub called "PATHFINDER & TEAM"

Oh geeze the dad looks awful lol. He looks like a scummy car salesman.

 

[Tansut]

This feels focus-tested to hell and back because they're deathly afraid of pissing anyone off due to ME3's reception.

 

[Melchiah]

Some of you guys are really hard to please, almost to the point where you've already decided you were gonna hate the game before the first trailer showed up.

That's definitely not the case with me. I'm going to buy the game regardless, since I enjoyed the trilogy, and DAI. The characters' personalities just seem lacking compared to the previous games. The trailer also failed to get me excited, unlike the ME2-3 trailers. The Andromeda Initiative's videos are better though.

 

[adj_noun]

I'd laugh so hard if they ever named a main baddie Noun.

It's a good name.

SURRENDER OR BE DIS......IIIIIIIINTEGRATED

 

[Ultimadrago]

All I have are yawns.

Oh well, will play eventually (for cheap).

 

[Fbh]

Still not feeling it. Not sold on the art direction (looks a bit like the new startrek movies) , characters (so far the squad looks like the least interesting one in the franchise) or story

I hope I'm wrong, and there have been great games with bad marketing, but I just don't get a "Mass effect is back!!" Feeling from this.
I know some people hate the term, but it looks kinda uninspired to me.

 

[curlycare]

itsbeen600years.gif, is cdkeys.com still the cheapest place to buy the PC version?

 

[lucebuce12]

... It's 600 years later why would he be anywhere?

He'd be doing calibrations, if the Tempest had any guns.

 

[Tovarisc]

I'm hyped! Where's Garrus?

Here;

 

[Garlador]

Yep, pretty cringeworthy writing. Hopefully its not representative of the game itself.

Yeah, but Mass Effect had plenty of dialogue like that, even in stuff we all used to like.

"I will show you true power!"
"We will stop at nothing!"
"You were born to do this!"
"Go to hell!"
"Each of you needs to be willing to die! Anything less and you're already dead!"

I could roll my eyes at plenty of stuff from the series, especially some of those Renegade one-liners from the original ("I have nothing more to you." *pushes out window* "How about "goodbye"?").

I'm not expecting Shakespeare here. I'm expecting a solid, fun, and occasionally well-told sci fi story, on par with the original games (which had their own moments of both gravitas and ridiculous writing).

I know what level my expectations lie at.

 

[- J - D -]

Pretty weak trailer, honestly. Not impactful at all. No personality to speak of either.

Bleh.

 

[xam3l]

How do the same company with a better engine and 8x more powerful GPU/ CPU went from this:

to this:

is beyond me.

Looks so boring and generic.

Youtube compression.
And PBR.

 

[Bisnic]

Or perhaps some of us are just long time Mass Effect fans who've been left cold on everything released for this game so far, but continue coming back HOPING that one of these videos clicks and gets us excited for ME again.

Sorry if you feel that way, but a lot of long time Mass Effect fans don't feel like that.

That's definitely not the case with me. I'm going to buy the game regardless, since I enjoyed the trilogy, and DAI. The characters' personalities just seem lacking compared to the previous games. The trailer also failed to get me excited, unlike the ME2-3 trailers. The Andromeda Initiative's videos are better though.

How about we wait for longer videos than a 1:30 trailer to judge personalities of multiple characters though?

 

[A-V-B]

It's a good name.

SURRENDER OR BE DIS......IIIIIIIINTEGRATED

"No, you! Surrender or be declined, Noun!"

"...you jerk."

 

[Tovarisc]

itsbeen600years.gif, is cdkeys.com still the cheapest place to buy the PC version?

Yes

 

[adversarial]

I think I might be done trying to engage about Mass Effect on NeoGAF honestly. When the thread is page after page of complaints on the order of "I don't like how the default protagonist looks" (in a game with a character creator) "One of the characters' hair is too short" "Antagonist's background isn't fully explained" (it's a trailer, he has one line of dialogue). Everyone has a right to their opinion but it's just a bummer to be excited about ME around here.

Pretty much. After the MEIII fiasco, it's business-as-usual to shit on ME.

Been waiting for this game for so long, can't fucking wait.

 

[Carn82]

Really missing some characters that instantly impress me, someone like Thane for example.