A Compilation of Hilarious Animations in Mass Effect Andromeda

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This will also be a lesson in how bad publicity won't affect sales. Expect ME:A to sell a lot.

The marketing power will bulldoze through criticism. In the end they'll laugh at memes while counting the money.

I hope so. I don't wish the game to fail. I just hope they see the criticism and look to do better in the future.
 
Just canceled my pre-order. If EA/Bioware can't place a modicum of time into quality control for the visuals in a story-based rpg, I fail to see why they'd focus on tightening up anything else.
 
I wonder if EA just shipped it to get it over with and Star Wars is their focus now going forward for an RPG. Would be a shame.

Given what we know of Andromeda's development history and EA's true passion
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, this is almost certainly the case. The series' future likely depends on the sales (and microtransaction sales) of this one game.

Just canceled my pre-order. If EA/Bioware can't place a modicum of time into quality control for the visuals in a story-based rpg, I fail to see why they'd focus on tightening up anything else.

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This will also be a lesson in how bad publicity won't affect sales. Expect ME:A to sell a lot.

The marketing power will bulldoze through criticism. In the end they'll laugh at memes while counting the money.

I'm sure it'll still sell well, but I highly doubt the negative buzz will do nothing to its sales. I'm honestly surprised they just didn't go full AC:Unity on it and not let press or players get their hands on the game until the release date. Would've been a red flag, sure, but not as damaging as all this.
 
Wow. So casual misogyny in gaming is at the point where THIS:

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is a fuck ugly troll. Incredible.

Oh, but I forgot, games are meant to cater exclusively to straight male gamers. Silly me.

She looks fine in that picture, but she looks ugly as shit during actual cut scenes where the game puts here face front and center.
 
Well I just canceled my collector's edition. Bad animations are one thing but I caught a smell of that writing, and the smell is too nasty.

That's what ultimately did it for me, I can get past bad animations, I played The Witcher 1, I can do it. I can't get past lazy and absurd dialogue / story.
 
EA lost control of the marketed product vision even before it has been released.

Wow. They cannot be happy.

I would agree a few years ago but I'm pretty sure they knew this would happen. They simply thought this was the thing to do. ME has already lost its "clean" name with ME3 ending debacle, and throwing more money at the studio developing ME:A would not guarantee improvements.

Those of you saying that EA should have not given out the Access trial, I see your point but Access is supposed to give you those ten hours on every major EA in-house game if I remember correctly, not allowing it would be kinda equivalent to not sending out review copies in my humble opinion.
 
The early access might even give them a better heads up on the issues that need patching which leads to a quicker and better patches. I'm sure they know the game has lots of issues but people playing it helps a lot to pick it apart.
 
Ahahaha, oh my god. Please tell me this is not something that has a high chance of happening.

The video description suggested that this happened to the uploader after deleting their save past some point to start again, and game apparently somehow failing to do that. (Unless this is secretly Mass Effect certainIndieGame Edition. Hey, I doubt this, but better to be safe.)

I don't think anyone wants to volunteer to check if this universally happens in such a situation. But if it does, oh dear.
 
Well I just canceled my collector's edition. Bad animations are one thing but I caught a smell of that writing, and the smell is too nasty.

Yeah, that's the big thing- Bioware games have frequently been "passing" in the animation/visuals department, so a downgrade to "laughably bad" isn't a huge deal, relatively speaking. The main draw of their games has been the story, characters, and dialogue, and it seems like they've fucked up there too, which is much more damning.
 
Yeah, that's the big thing- Bioware games have frequently been "passing" in the animation/visuals department, so a downgrade to "laughably bad" isn't a huge deal, relatively speaking. The main draw of their games has been the story, characters, and dialogue, and it seems like they've fucked up there too, which is much more damning.

Yep, when ME1 came out a common compliment across reviews was the animation was quite good especially on the faces.
 
The early access might even give them a better heads up on the issues that need patching which leads to a quicker and better patches. I'm sure they know the game has lots of issues but people playing it helps a lot to pick it apart.

I can guarantee nearly all these issues - and probably more - are already logged in a database somewhere, and probably already prioritized.
 
I don't know why people are so into arguing with idiots on the internet.
Yeah I know, his point doesn't make any sense and it's very misogynistic blah blah blah...but this really isn't the place, you are not changing anyone's mind and you are literally not making any difference, save the enerygy and use it in real life when facing real misogynists, give them a good slap if you want. More power to you!
 
Yep, when ME1 came out a common compliment across reviews was the animation was quite good especially on the faces.

Yeah, considering the amount of dialogue ME1's animation variety was practically peerless when it launched. Keep in mind Oblivion was only a year before it.
 
Dammit, if my wife wasnt into this I'd cancel my preorder. None of this stuff is going to stop her except maybe the terrible writting. Ah well, at least I get it for 40 bucks. Pains me to even pay that much.
 
Wait it's not only PewDiePie... YouTube is overflowing from negative ME4 videos pointing all this crap in serious or funny manner.

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-msmx9yW5Q
(almost 500k views)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CPYw5uxER4
(200k views)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=celQWazUUMg
(another 200k)

etc.

This goes into email inbox of all those milions subscribers to those channells.

EA lost control of the marketed product vision even before it has been released.

Wow. They cannot be happy.
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I hadn't seen that jolt back to life revive yet, that got me!

I'm still getting the game Tuesday and think it will be fun, I was never expecting ME2 level greatness, but even with lower expectations I'm surprised it's this sloppy. Game definitely needed a little more time.
 
Yeah, considering the amount of dialogue ME1's animation variety was practically peerless when it launched. Keep in mind Oblivion was only a year before it.

Yeah, some guy tried to revise history and say "Mass Effect was never a graphically impressive series" so I was digging through old reviews from back then and consistently their animation was noted for being very good and the graphics overall were impressive as I remembered too. Really the fps was the only knock against the graphics back then lol

It really gets under my skin when people try to make up things to change how they actually were? idk
 
This is a travesty, EA has sent Mass Effect off to die and we're all just sitting here laughing and cancelling our preorders.

Im laughing but its the kind of sad laughter you express at a friend's wake while reminiscing about the good times. I know that's blowing it out of proportion, but even with its less-than-stellar ending, the OG Mass Effect Trilogy was one of my favorite game experiences ever and Bioware was one of my favorite developers ever. It's sad to see greatness fall.
 
Yeah, some guy tried to revise history and say "Mass Effect was never a graphically impressive series" so I was digging through old reviews from back then and consistently their animation was noted for being very good and the graphics overall were impressive as I remembered too. Really the fps was the only knock against the graphics back then lol

It really gets under my skin when people try to make up things to change how they actually were? idk

Revisionist history to try and obfuscate reality. Sometimes it's just forgetting how things were, other times it's not wanting a newer addition to a series to be torn to shreds. A big one that still stands in my mind is just how the first Mafia game holds up against the sequels for a lot of the little touches in it. Or the original Dead Rising game.

Same goes here, especially when some of the facial animation in ME1 is giving what is technically the 4th a run for its money.
 
I would consider myself a pretty big fan of the first two games and it saddens me to see the situation of Andromeda. I love the universe and I'm going to play it eventually just for sheer curiosity. But the game seems in dire need of patches, and a lot of them. I'd never have imagined to skip a Mass Effect game like this but with the sheer amount of great games in the last months I don't see any reason to buy full prince to play the beta tester.
 
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