Nah, why would you skip a game because of a few flawed animations. They will probably patch it. Many hated Mass effect 3 and I loved it.
A Compilation of Hilarious Animations in Mass Effect Andromeda
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Nah, why would you skip a game because of a few flawed animations. They will probably patch it. Many hated Mass effect 3 and I loved it.
Unaha-Closp
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Its too early to know for sure but it has dampened by enthusiasm a tad. It could well be awesome we just don't know enough yet. I have Persona 5 coming so I was always going to wait - there are plenty of games to play and take the wait and see approach on this one. Best case - its awesome. Worst case its not great but then it will go on sale and you can join in the roasting
Tinfoilhatsron
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What.
That's the dumbest thing I've heard all day man. You think she's unattractive therefore BW on purpose made her too ugly for the 'Feminists'? Uh... Hate to break this to you but quote unquote SJWS are not their only demographic to sell too.
STILLethal
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The story and the writing is horrible on top of everything itt
I sort of find myself in an odd position that way. I'd actually pay more to play a super wonky version of the game, with extra animation bugs, as long as there were no crashes or game-breaking issues. A Mass Effect comedy, if you will.
But it's hard for me to imagine that even months of patches will fix some of the issues that seem like they are fundamental to their animation solution. With that said, this is all speculation. Perhaps they are working on such fixes as we speak.
stan423321
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So for what it's worth the silly walk is not something that shows up only with female PC. I was wondering why male PC was getting such minor coverage in this thread - and honestly, I keep wondering! Is no one in the press and Access-subscribers circles playing as Scott, or is that that Sara players are less tolerant to such silliness? I expected "devs polished Sara less" to be the only explanation at some point but that totality is clearly false.
But they told me Silent Hill was cancelled!
What? What's been shown of the writing is good. Addison's one line is silly, but the writing is still great thus far.
Unaha-Closp
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Wait I played 4 hours of the Trial - there is no hold shoulder button to stop time and pick powers is there? I played all 3 previous games almost never shooting guns (needs must of course) and just orchestrating powers from all sides lol I loved doing that. Didn't occur to me when I played the trial but yeah - bummer. I'll have to load it back up and experiment with the combat again.
Tinfoilhatsron
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I don't think they could ever patch animations. It doesn't make any sense from a business perspective. CDPR only did it for their GOTY version because they had the capital and goodwill. Which is a shame because the gunplay is pretty solid.
Could be fixed too, who knows. But nobody finished the game yet. Let's wait for reviews.
CGwizz
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Here i was thinking i could make a cool character in andromeda, just like i did in 20 minutes in inquisition...
20 minutes i did something 1000 times better than the MAIN character made by PROFESSIONALS in modeling characters, made with a CC by the SAME FUCKING COMPANY, 3 years ago... 20 MINUTES I DID THIS:
This game screams " i dont give a fuck " dev work...
How can someone didnt said a word in bioware telling the people who made the models the eyes are completely garbage and lifeless? Its mindblowing and shows this company have no standards in quality.
Not to mention the same company did miles better just 3 years ago.
I am playing Horizon and you can see how much love they put in those characters. In andromeda looks like amateurs made this.
This is a character that you talk for like 10 minutes in Horizon, gives you a quest, shows how much they care about giving us something good.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5F_dIuq8rCY/maxresdefault.jpg
20 minutes i did something 1000 times better than the MAIN character made by PROFESSIONALS in modeling characters, made with a CC by the SAME FUCKING COMPANY, 3 years ago... 20 MINUTES I DID THIS:
This game screams " i dont give a fuck " dev work...
How can someone didnt said a word in bioware telling the people who made the models the eyes are completely garbage and lifeless? Its mindblowing and shows this company have no standards in quality.
Not to mention the same company did miles better just 3 years ago.
I am playing Horizon and you can see how much love they put in those characters. In andromeda looks like amateurs made this.
This is a character that you talk for like 10 minutes in Horizon, gives you a quest, shows how much they care about giving us something good.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5F_dIuq8rCY/maxresdefault.jpg
Nah I've found the writing to be fairly bad overall. Addison is a low point but the rest bounces between being outright laughable and mediocre.
animation is universal. I think more 'bad' clips of the female are mainly due to her awfully modeled face
TetraGenesis
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Here i was thinking i could make a cool character in andromeda, just like i did in 20 minutes in inquisition...
20 minutes i did something 1000 times better than the MAIN character made by PROFESSIONALS in modeling characters, made with a CC by the SAME FUCKING COMPANY, 3 years ago... 20 MINUTES I DID THIS:
This game screams " i dont give a fuck " dev work...
How can someone didnt said a word in bioware telling the people who made the models the eyes are completely garbage and lifeless? Its mindblowing and shows this company have no standards in quality.
Not to mention the same company did miles better just 3 years ago.
I am playing Horizon and you can see how much love they put in those characters. In andromeda looks like amateurs made this.
This is a character that you talk for like 10 minutes in Horizon, gives you a quest, shows how much they care about giving us something good.
Fixed the images for you.
someone made a comparison of Addison without Homer's make-up shotgun.
We don't know if the full game is like that yet.
I don't think there'll be fixes for the animations in total, only the worst examples and bugs (backwards gun, gorilla walk, etc.).
:lol
Nah, how the companions and side-quests have been written range from decent to hear from both impressions and having actually played it.
That's cute how you felt the need to edit my post into whatever you wanted to get out of it. Fight on!
Since I'm not interested in derailing the thread any further I'd just like to point out that trying to start a witch hunt against that animator is bullshit of the highest order and to please abstain from going down that road y'all.
Now if we could just carry on with the funny gifs?
I mean you're​ objective wrong from both having played it and following impressions.
Here's some avatar If anyone's interested (I highly doubt it though).
I showed these to my husband and now everytime I look at him, he does an impression of "Bioware eyes". I can't stop laughing and will probably be dead soon.
Has anybody seen this post on 9gag:
What an amazing difference! They should hire that guy!
Nah,we need to have much more diversity in the way women look in games.
I like Peebee's design in the video.She's not meant to have a beauty paegent face.
Well, you don't. Most impressions do line up with what I've played though.
Mysterious Stranger
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100gb patch will fix everything! Bring back the face modelers!
SparkleMotion
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Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
As someone else said earlier, calling it like I see it. I'm not gonna coddle gamer culture sexism.
Thank you.
OH my god I need to finish Horizon, the difference is massive!
SparkleMotion
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I wish more companies would hire people with zero experience to senior positions lol
The president.
While the removal of the make-up sure helps the main thing is the eyes.
someone made a comparison of Addison without Homer's make-up shotgun.
Sarcastic Poster
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Those eyes are unforgivable. They're one of the easiest things to fix as well ffs.
Some people will never admit devs can be lazy. They can be over-worked, under-staffed, or mis-managed, but never lazy. The gaming industry is the one exception in the whole of humanity.
The one on the left doesn't look anything like the model whose likeness they used though :/
From what I've seen of streams of the trial, the game seems like it's written in "this is how out of touch companies think millenials speak", which is super jarring in a space opera.
Quick and dirty job. It's definitely the eyes.
Yup, now we just need the same change made to the eyes in that "after" image.
But wich one is more likely? I don't think the devs were lazy, but i don't know, do you? This is just dumb speculation.
That's because the AAA games industry has an awful habit of overworking its employees with startling intensity. "Lazy" devs in these environments don't keep their jobs for long.
someone made a comparison of Addison without Homer's make-up shotgun.
Between the wide eyed stares, emotionless faces, and poor animations, the choice of makeup on this character bothers me the most. It is the simplest thing to fix, yet someone looked at that and thought that was fine.
Well it really depends on who you're calling out here. There's incompetence, laziness, but there's also a shitload of people who work on a game like this. Is it the person in charge of the eye shaders, the team in charge of face modelling or the team in charge of animation? Or a combination of the three? And do you believe they're just lazy and don't care?
Because from what I've heard, EA overworks their employees like crazy, they don't exactly have time to sit around and be lazy.
Admiral Woofington
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The hell does objectively wrong mean? I find the writing to be subpar, maybe not horrible, but the shooting scene made me gag.
The only objectively youd have is if one reviews come out the majority of professional reviews seem to lean towards one way or the other, and ultimately these are all opinions.
Nikodemos
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People have an inherent unconscious bias against 'averageness', thus making more likely that results would go to one of the extremes.
Thanks, thead moved fast since last i read along.
It's the kind of makeup application that girls do when they're first learning - and I say this as someone who skirted the clown makeup line as a young teen. But it's really the eyes that are the main problem.
FlutterPuffs
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In a huge game Dev team in EA?
Anyone who ever works in entertainment production will tell you being lazy or incompetent in a multimillion project will get you fired quickly
Well except for executive producers and marketing execs...
Most problems stem from miscommunication, clash of egos, time/budget issues, and meddling by higher ups.
Relaxed Muscle
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Tha fact the models badly animates and has dead eyes, dosn't have anything to do with the actual modelling.
Some people aren't just asking better eyes and better animation, they're asking the model to be the perfect standard of beauty. Is not the first time we see this, the same happened with Alloy.
I've put a couple hours into the trial now and the experience of playing the game is nowhere near as offputting as the experience of watching the game. At least on PC, the faces/animations don't feel nearly as awkward as these gifs would lead one to believe, and the combat/exploration is really fun in a way that ME has never been before. It costs $4.99 to try it for 10 hours on Access, anyone on the fence should at least give it a shot before pre-judging it based on a hyperbolic gif thread.
Edit: And yeah, I think the gifs are hilarious too
captainnapalm
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I think we can all agree on that.
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