A Compilation of Hilarious Animations in Mass Effect Andromeda

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Mory Dunz said:
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lol
 
inky said:
Oh it's terrible too and to be fair, it has been said in the thread. The whole "my face is tired" exchange is amateur hour. I don't think it would've come out worse if they were using text to speech.

It's unacceptable for a billion dollar studio like Bioware. But funny pics are funnier. Terrible writing is just depressing.
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Amen to this. Every time I hear the bad writing I just think about how good it was in ME2 :*(
 
Slaythe said:
I posted that in the other thread but nobody is trying it out.

Apparently there are two models for Default Sarah.

One that you get by customizing and picking default, and one by selecting quick start.

They're the same "Sarah" but they look dramatically different. They also don't seem to share the exact same animations, so that's gonna fun.
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How strange. Different eye colors too.
 
Slaythe said:
Which one is the big tho ? The right one looks better and doesn't have permanent smirk....
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Well, the one on the right looks a bit like a specially tailored create-a-character. Which I'm sure is why they went with the model we have now, with a real person's likeness.

But they also must have done the facial animations before the switch, which is why there are awkward scenes e.g. Ryder smiling after being told
her father was dead.
They didn't account for the upturned corners of the model's mouth so it looks really inappropriate, and there's no time to correct every single facial animation.

I gotta imagine beta-Ryder will be patched out in not too long.
 
A-V-B said:
Well, the one on the right looks a bit like a specially tailored create-a-character. Which I'm sure is why they went with the model we have now, with a real person's likeness.

But they also must have done the facial animations before the switch, which is why there are awkward scenes e.g. Ryder smiling after being told
her father was dead.
They didn't account for the upturned corners of the model's mouth so it looks really inappropriate, and there's no time to correct every single facial animation.

I gotta imagine beta-Ryder will be patched out in not too long.
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Every single main character, CC included, had real actors.

But now that you bring it up, I wonder if they decided to pick a new model for Sarah long after the mo cap was done, then forced it out on her and resulted in this nightmare.


The problem is that the two Sarahs are extremely similar and that'd be quite an uncanny coincidence.
 
Quick start Sara looks like the left on my NA trial, so who knows?

I gotta imagine beta-Ryder will be patched out in not too long.
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I'd kind of hope if this is the case, they'd put her face back in as an option in the presets.
 
Slaythe said:
Every single main character, CC included, had real actors.

But now that you bring it up, I wonder if they decided to pick a new model for Sarah long after the mo cap was done, then forced it out on her and resulted in this nightmare.


The problem is that the two Sarahs are extremely similar and that'd be quite an uncanny coincidence.
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Then maybe it was an approximation created before they fully face-scanned the model? And they developed the game for a pretty long time before she got in front of the scanners?

EDIT: Just thought of another possibility. That video is already edited. They might have gone in and recreated Ryder to look similar but still different, and not shown us the process. There is no beta Ryder.
 
Slaythe said:
I posted that in the other thread but nobody is trying it out.

Apparently there are two models for Default Sarah.

One that you get by customizing and picking default, and one by selecting quick start.

They're the same "Sarah" but they look dramatically different. They also don't seem to share the exact same animations, so that's gonna fun.
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Are you sure? cause the lighting and background is different as well. Different builds?
 
Saya said:
Quoted it here, because it belongs in the collection.

To me, that's the saddest part. The Captain's heart was broken right before it exploded.

Did this game had a writing editor? lmaooooo
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damn, this is so good, i can't even imagine what the full game will contain!

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Slaythe said:
I posted that in the other thread but nobody is trying it out.

Apparently there are two models for Default Sarah.

One that you get by customizing and picking default, and one by selecting quick start.

They're the same "Sarah" but they look dramatically different. They also don't seem to share the exact same animations, so that's gonna fun.
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That second one looks way better. It's like at the last moment, some artist at Bioware tried to salvage the model through textures. If the eye shaders didn't look like shit, it'd be pretty passable.
 
Titanoboa said:
The day one patch is already implemented in all the gifs, videos, and streams you see.

I wonder what it looks like without the patch?
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I played without the patch (don't ask me why it didn't download I have no clue) and I had a bug that cut off the dialog completly while the cutscene still happened and then the game froze when I make a dialog choice, preventing me from continuing the story. So I guess it's safe to say the patch corrected game breaking bugs.
 
I think default fem ryder's looks totally fine. I think she has a better look then femshep who I never thought bioware thought they ever had a good stock face so they kept tweaking it over and over.


Well Ryder looks better once she doesn't move.


I am started to think maybe bioware did facial capture by just having eyes randomly blink then used a sock puppet to mocap mouths.
 
YankeeDonB said:
My wife, who has worked w/ stroke patients, saw this over my shoulder and asked if this was supposed to be a stroke patient.

I said no, it was the main character in a game called Mass Effect.

She then noted that a "Mass Effect" in medicine is when tumor expansion causes secondary pathology. This occurs often with brain tumors, which she suggested might also explain the character's bizarre movements and expression.
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aha, ice cold.
 
Both females are fine. They are, you know, just girls, not models. It's you guys, you have a problem with females in video games, they don't have to be sexy and gorgeous all the time...
 
DSN2K said:
completely changing facial features to stereotypical attractive looks is an improvement ?
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pashmilla said:
No, no, no, no, no

no

That picture is sexist bullshit
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thumb said:
As we all know, female characters are only good when they're maximally attractive.

/s
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Come on guys it's not about the beauty! It's about the more realistic animation of the face. Look for example at the improvement on how the eyes look.
 
thumb said:
There's no animation in a static image.
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I mean the facial design, sorry. But I hope you get my point, it's not about how sexy the changed characters look like(that was the artist's choice), it's about how more real they look like(well Ryder at least).
 
I'm just guessing here but after Ass Erect Ammonia doesn't hit 93% on Meta Critic and ship 29 million copies in the first two weeks this will happen and nobody should be surprised
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Mergesort said:
I mean the facial design, sorry. But I hope you get my point, it's not about how sexy the changed characters look like(that was the artist's choice), it's about how more real they look like(well Ryder at least).
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Sorry, I don't see it. There's a little bit of a fish-eye lens effect on the first image, but that's not the model, that's the way the picture is taken.
 
Mergesort said:
Has anybody seen this post on 9gag:

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What an amazing difference! They should hire that guy!
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From derpy to human, and from Shrek to sexy.

Everyone complaining these are sexist must've never played Mass Effect 1-3, where most of the female characters were sculpted like literal barbie dolls.
 
pashmilla said:
No, no, no, no, no

no

That picture is sexist bullshit
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I get your point. In fact I think the default second alien model looks fine. With the Sara model however, it's not about beauty really. It's that the features are so over exaggerated. She looks inhuman. And when she animates it looks downright hilarious.

I do agree with you though. Female characters always have to be attractive, where male ones can be scarred, weathered, ugly... doesnt matter. I actually thought the last femshep was ridiculous, and I would have welcomed a more "normal" looking Sara. The base is there but her eyes and lips, just all of her features are way too big. It doesn't look realistic.
 
Mergesort said:
Has anybody seen this post on 9gag:

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What an amazing difference! They should hire that guy!
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Fuck no, especially the Asari, he just a made a standard top model out of it. Way to make everyone look the same (standard hot female).

Betty said:
Everyone complaining these are sexist must've never played Mass Effect 1-3, where most of the female characters were sculpted like literal barbie dolls.
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That doesn't mean Andromeda has to follow that template though.
 
Jezehbell said:
Both females are fine. They are, you know, just girls, not models. It's you guys, you have a problem with females in video games, they don't have to be sexy and gorgeous all the time...
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Girls? If we want to fix problems, we could start by calling them women, because that's what they are, not girls...
 
Mergesort said:
Has anybody seen this post on 9gag:

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What an amazing difference! They should hire that guy!
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Even though I don't support making every character overly attractive for no good reason. It's much better to have convincing, believable characters that are somehow way too photogenic rather than making everyone's face look like a flat, ugly, lifless potato.
At least the images on the right look human, the top left image literally looks like some cheaply made action figure made in China.

Also, I don't think making every character's face overly attractive is ''sexist'', it's just immersion breaking. I mean, everyone in FFXV look like a freaking pop star.
But then again, most people in my university (Taiwan) look attractive as fuck, tons of make up and pretty faces, so it's not exactly that unrealistic.
 
Mergesort said:
Has anybody seen this post on 9gag:

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What an amazing difference! They should hire that guy!
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Erm no, he just made the cheekbones thinner and the chin pointy for both of them that's the stereotypical "attractive" look. And not only that he changed the facial expression as well, take the PeeBee picture for example in the original she is reacting to something in the touch up the dude just gave her a general expression taking that reaction out, basically those are two completely different expressions....the context of why the expression is like that matters rather than just looking at a still and thinking oh that's stupid looking.
 
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