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[diaspora]

Is this real or some kind of glitch? That's not what the running animation actually looks like, is it?

That's not the normal running animation.

 

[Zesh]

Just finished the opening mission. The game seems okay, and I can definitely see why some previews were negative (and I say this as someone who loved the OT). Coming off Zelda, the game feels very unpolished and janky.

 

[HelloNewman]

All the defaults for the Ryder twins look like ass aliens in multiplayer look fantastic though.

 

[hydruxo]

https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz

what the fuck is this

horrendous animations and even worse dialogue with robotic delivery

do they even play their own game

Wow...that's just awful haha.

 

[Cross-Section]

Is this real or some kind of glitch? That's not what the running animation actually looks like, is it?

It's a glitch. The actual running animation looks quite good.

 

[matrixman92]

Is there an actual part where the single player cuts u off, or can u just play till 10 hours are up? I thought it was a cut off, but im past the point where I thought there would be a cut off.

I just got to

Spoiler

the nexus and they are seeing it wasnt finished being built

 

[CrichtonKicks]

Just an hour in but, man, this is by far the worst start to a ME game ever. I really felt like all 3 previous games totally nailed their openings but this is just a wet fart.

I do like some of the reactivity that they added with lots and lots of incidental dialogue based on contextual actions. It's a shame that the dialogues themselves are just so boring.

 

[NoSkillz187]

https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz

what the fuck is this

horrendous animations and even worse dialogue with robotic delivery

do they even play their own game

Spoilers. WTF, Seriously.

 

[bryanee]

https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz

what the fuck is this

horrendous animations and even worse dialogue with robotic delivery

do they even play their own game

lol oh man. I wasnt expecting it to be as bad as you said.

 

[Froli]

https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz

what the fuck is this

horrendous animations and even worse dialogue with robotic delivery

do they even play their own game

What THE FUCK...

 

[ironcreed]

https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz

what the fuck is this

horrendous animations and even worse dialogue with robotic delivery

do they even play their own game

I am still excited for it, but yeah, that is pretty awful.

 

[killroy87]

This is crazy. Even Inquisition seemed to look way better than this visually, and by quite a wide margin.

 

[ironcreed]

Can't believe the animations is still this bad.

It is darn new Two Worlds bad.

 

[liquidfox00]

Hey Gaf. This has probably been asked ad nauseum so apologies. I do have Access. If I play the 10 hour trial and then play a disk version of the title will my progress be saved? I assume it would but I would like some confirmation. Thanks.

 

[CrazyDude]

https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz

what the fuck is this

horrendous animations and even worse dialogue with robotic delivery

do they even play their own game

Like I don't even understand what is being said.

 

[Kalentan]

This is crazy. Even Inquisition seemed to look way better than this visually, and by quite a wide margin.

Inquisition imho looked great and so did its characters. Nothing like this. Hell, Inquisition looks next-gen by comparison!

 

[U2NUMB]

At least the title screen has great build up audio

Mass Effect Andromeda title Screen

 

[Cross-Section]

This is crazy. Even Inquisition seemed to look way better than this visually, and by quite a wide margin.

Faces, sure. Environments, no way; lighting, for example, is ten times better (and more optimized) than DA:I ever was.

 

[Ryzaki009]

Playing with a custom femryder the facial expressions aren't really that bad.

There's some doozies but that's always the case.

I think the default femryder is just garbage.

Like that youtube vid there was no smile during the scene. Her eyes did bulge a bit tho.

 

[dEvAnGeL]

Ohhh GAF, now this looks worse than inquisition you say? Give me a fucking brake, this game aside from the standard bioware bad animations it looks great, environments looks detailed and the game actually is well optimized for pc, at least for me it is, looking forward to the full game!

 

[killroy87]

Faces, sure. Environments, no way; lighting, for example, is ten times better (and more optimized) than DA:I ever was.

Considering how story-heavy this game is, I'd rather have the faces.

 

[Frabba]

Or when, in that segment, Ryder says

Spoiler

If things were revered, and they landed on our planet holding weapons, we'd shoot them immediately. PRETTY SURE that wouldn't be how that goes. If a space ship with only 4 aliens lands on earth and they come out holding weapons, you wouldn't just fire away immediately for fucks sake.

The amount of faith you have in humanity is adorable.

Anyways on topic I've enjoyed my couple hours so far. The animations are noticeable, but ultimately not detracting meaningfully from my experience. The dialog isn't great, but it gets the job done.

I just enjoy the Mass Effect formula, I guess.

 

[Yopis]

Do they give an achievement/trophy for insanity run still?

 

[rashbeep]

This is crazy. Even Inquisition seemed to look way better than this visually, and by quite a wide margin.

Faces had better art direction. On a technical level (expect animations maybe?) this is far better.

 

[Toa TAK]

Holy crap the galaxy map controls awfully.

 

[Risev1]

Goddamn after so much time trying to create a decent looking female Ryder, this was the best I could do. Crazy that I only managed to make something decent AFTER adding scars.
http://i.imgur.com/99Zjm09.png

 

[Zen Aku]

Why does​ all the human have dead eyes... Whyyyyy

 

[Lime]

Like I don't even understand what is being said.

maybe your face is too tired...pathfinda

 

[GenericBadGuy]

Got a couple hours in tonight, enough to go through the first intro mission while dilly-dallying.

• Game looks great on PC
• I was very happy with my custom Scott Ryder, as he looks like a normal human being and daddy and sister Ryder automatically turned out great too. I'll share it when I can figure out how to take a screenshot in Origin. PrntScrn doesn't work. Like many Bioware games, most of the hair looks like trash and colors just look so bizarre.
• I recommend turning captions on so your eyes will be drawn towards the bottom of the screen during conversations, as lip-synch can be wonky.
• Characters are already saying some of the most stupid shit. Here's to later ones being better.
• Combat is working well, and I had to make sure to utilize cover to not die even on Normal difficulty. Power combos are devastating and so I feel they will play a large part of good strategy. My beef so far is with the natural cover system being kind of hit and miss - I may invest in a shield power just so I don't have to always look for the correctly shaped rock to dryhump.

 

[Cross-Section]

Considering how story-heavy this game is, I'd rather have the faces.

That's fair, though having pretty environments definitely does help balance out that shortcoming for me.

 

[dEvAnGeL]

Goddamn after so much time trying to create a decent looking female Ryder, this was the best I could do. Crazy that I only managed to make something decent AFTER adding scars.
http://i.imgur.com/99Zjm09.png

Looking good, i didn't mess around with the CC, will do in the final game since it'll probably take me 10 hours to create a femryder lol, can presets be shared like previous ME games?

 

[ClutchAnderson]

Hmmm this is weird I can't actually get the game to launch. I click the game and it just goes to a window that shows a black screen. Task Managers shows the process but it is using 0% CPU..

 

[Alter_Fridge]

I hate the faces so much

 

[Alter_Fridge]

Goddamn after so much time trying to create a decent looking female Ryder, this was the best I could do. Crazy that I only managed to make something decent AFTER adding scars.
http://i.imgur.com/99Zjm09.png

You know what they say, blemishes maketh the person

 

[SunDimension24]

Is there an actual part where the single player cuts u off, or can u just play till 10 hours are up? I thought it was a cut off, but im past the point where I thought there would be a cut off.

I just got to

Spoiler

the nexus and they are seeing it wasnt finished being built

Spoiler

It cuts off around halfway through the first planet mission you do after the prologue.

 

[killroy87]

That's fair, though having pretty environments definitely does help balance out that shortcoming for me.

Fair enough. Those dead eyes darting around during emotional beats will bother me way more than a more static lighting model, haha.

 

[Corpekata]

There is certainly a "Too much dialogue" sort of thing going on here. I feel like they heard complaints about Inquisitions sometimes slow to trigger conversations (to the point many people thought it was a bug) but they've really overcompensated here.

 

[dEvAnGeL]

Fair enough. Those dead eyes darting around during emotional beats will bother me way more than a more static lighting model, haha.

The problem with the eyes is that they made the iris to big, so most of the time it looks scary lol

 

[benicillin]

I think a lot of people are remembering Inquisition more fondly than they realize. Coming straight off a 93 hour playthrough, that game was jank personified.

 

[A-V-B]

Like I don't even understand what is being said.

Yeah, it's like dialogue written by Google Translate. People just don't... talk like that.

 

[SonicXtreme]

if you pay for EA ACCESS, can you play 10 hours on xbox and 10 hours on PC lol or is it combined? or are they completely different services? I just used a 1 month trial on xbox and have never used it b4

 

[Renekton]

if you pay for EA ACCESS, can you play 10 hours on xbox and 10 hours on PC lol or is it combined?

EA and Origin Access seem to be separate 😮

 

[rashbeep]

Like I don't even understand what is being said.

It honestly reads like it was written in another language and translated poorly back to English.

 

[killroy87]

The problem with the eyes is that they made the iris to big, so most of the time it looks scary lol

And they don't seem to know how human eyes work in a conversation, lol. It's like they felt the need to make them move for the sake of making them move. The way they just dart from side to side randomly during a cutscene is truly odd.


This might sound weird, but this feels like the Fallout 4 of Mass Effect. It should, on paper, be hitting every box. But something just doesn't feel right here.
(edit: apparently I'm not the first to make that analogy)

 

[Collateral22]

if you pay for EA ACCESS, can you play 10 hours on xbox and 10 hours on PC lol or is it combined? or are they completely different services? I just used a 1 month trial on xbox and have never used it b4

EA Access is only for X1. You need Origin access for PC.

 

[Trojita]

https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz

what the fuck is this

horrendous animations and even worse dialogue with robotic delivery

do they even play their own game

Is she a synth?

This is really Fallout 4.

 

[BabyFaceKillah]

how are people playing on xbox? i dont see it anywhere on EA access

 

[SonicXtreme]

EA Access is only for X1. You need Origin access for PC.

gotcha. man i wish they just let you use the same character/profile for MP on all consoles. i'd double dip if it was a common pool, but much like grand theft auto, i have no reason to get it on PC and double dip since most of my friends play on xbox, i'll play the worse version so i can coop with better friends.

 

[Phamit]

https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz

what the fuck is this

horrendous animations and even worse dialogue with robotic delivery

do they even play their own game

Looks like german translation fixed some of the writing, she didn't say something weird in german.

 

[Grisby]

Well, keep the impressions coming guys. I'm bummed about the animations and faces (seriously they needed to get some Inquisition peeps to help them out at least) but some of the stuff I'm reading sounds ok.

Pathfinder Broccoli is ready to save his new galaxy!

"Let me tell you a tale of the Broccoli."