Johannsson
Member
Origin Access redeemed
Mass Effect: Andromeda - EA/Origin Access trial coming March 16th - 10 hour trial
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Judging by the size of the first planet you will easily get 60+ hours out of this game.
Tenacious-D
Member
Can someone tell me what she's actually trying to say? She wants to know what happened, but she pulled the logs so she should already know?
https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz
I don't understand. The dialogue sounds like it was written in a different language and then poorly translated into English.
https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz
I don't understand. The dialogue sounds like it was written in a different language and then poorly translated into English.
amiablepercy
Banned
Well Super Mario Odyssey if it actually releases this year. Hah.
amiablepercy
Banned
Wow. I missed that. That is bad.
Hollywood Hitman
Gold Member
Ha yea.. And yea we got alot this year, I'm pumped. Even if we didn't get anything else having berseria, horizon, Zelda, nioh, Nier, ME all in a few month swoop is amazing. Really pumped for Mario, I personally wish that was releasing over Mario kart
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
why not let anything sway them?
Take myself as an example. I loved ME 1,2 and 3. But after DA:I I am approaching this with caution. I have read these impressions and will watch a few more videos and I can easily make my desicion on what I will do based on that:
• Looks amazing then I will buy as soon as I finish Horizon
• Looks kinda iffy (possibly boring side quests and various issues) Then I will buy it down the line at a cheaper price
• Looks terrible (universily panned) either skip it or buy super cheap if I am ever bored.
The idea of paying full price for any big budget IP no matter how it seems to be quality wise does nothing but waste your money and reward the creator of the game buy having everyone purchase it regardless of its quality.
In this day and age where we have so much access to see how a game is before we buy it, its not that hard to make an informed decision on if you think you will like it or not.
Personally I can live with things like janky animations. I tend to find it funny more than anything. My real concern is mission and planet structure. I just really dont want sci-fi DA:I. To me Mass Effect is about a big sci-fi epic with interesting characters and side stories (loyalty missions and stuff). If its full of "hay pathfinder I lost my ring, I think its 200 meters over there but I cant be bothered to get it myself" crap where you walk to point B and your done then I will be waiting for it to be pretty cheap to see for myself.
I'm seeing a lot of people here running an i7 and a GTX 1080 and getting 80+ FPS @ 1440p. For some reason I only get 60 FPS with some minor drops to 55 FPS.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, just selected Ultra on everything (the Ultra quality preset leave some things at high), deactivated Film Grain, increased a bit the FOV and left the rendering preset at off (no downsampling).
My specs are: i7 7700K @ 5Ghz, MSI Gaming X GTX 1080 and 16 GB DDR4 and the game is installed on a Crucial MX300.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, just selected Ultra on everything (the Ultra quality preset leave some things at high), deactivated Film Grain, increased a bit the FOV and left the rendering preset at off (no downsampling).
My specs are: i7 7700K @ 5Ghz, MSI Gaming X GTX 1080 and 16 GB DDR4 and the game is installed on a Crucial MX300.
Aja
Neo Member
You have to understand. Her face is tired. It's not easy to explain things in that state. Poor thing. I hope her face gets some sleep soon.
cripterion
Member
Well whatever you do don't change the language of the game in the Origin parameters. It somehow deletes the previous data and starts redownloading new one and even if you're past the 42%, doesn't let you play anymore. I was at 61%, switched from French to English went to 58%, downloaded up to 68% and switched from English to French cause I wanted to take screens of my character and it went back to 58%. Just idiotic how they cannot let you have different language tracks in your folder, I have the space on the hard drive.
Also means with my slow ass download speeds I cannot switch audio on the fly to check if the script is better during that infamous tired face scene.
HelloNewman
Member
God damn the multiplayer is disconnect online.
She wants to understand why the kid was chosen as Pathfinder (she explains a bit after the clip cuts off), it's meant to have gone to Cora, one of the squadmates, not the player.
It's almost like they should have had a beta for it or something.
Agent_ShortBus
Member
Ha my characters name is ShortBus Ryder. Game is ok, will be picking it up day 1. Character creator is as crappy as fallouts and the stupid looks on characters faces when they talk is pretty funny.
Hollywood Hitman
Gold Member
I'm not saying people need to spend full price, wait til whenever... But I believe there is no true determination of a games worth until one plays it.. Even tho we live in a time where people take reviews and run, I fully believe there would be a hell of a lot of great games id of missed if I followed the crowd.
There's nothing like actual hands on experience. And my point is big titles people need to at some point if they had interest try it for themselves, if they fire it up and they absolutely hate it but only spent 15 or 20 then no love lost.
I personally have committed to the hobby and if it's a game I want I'll pay full price, if say it's pure shit I might wait a bit but I'll still try it if I was intrigued enough from the get go. But I typically don't judge games til I play them.
Something irks me bad when people bandwagon hate for a game they never played 5 minutes of
Got the ultra rare sularian operator on first multiplayer pack I used my hard earned credit on. When the guys I was playing with realized I was a shield battery they stayed close to me the entire last three rounds before extraction.
Multiplayer is legit, having to actually cooperate is great and fun.
But the need to tone down the armored units, those things combined with unqiue mechanic units and then tank units is nasty. Like they dodnt even do a multiplayer test to....oh wait they didnt.
Singleplayer quips aside the multiplayer is definitely worth it if you enjoyed ME3 mulitiplayer.
Purchase redeemed.
Multiplayer is legit, having to actually cooperate is great and fun.
But the need to tone down the armored units, those things combined with unqiue mechanic units and then tank units is nasty. Like they dodnt even do a multiplayer test to....oh wait they didnt.
Singleplayer quips aside the multiplayer is definitely worth it if you enjoyed ME3 mulitiplayer.
Purchase redeemed.
HelloNewman
Member
I wonder if they didn't have one cause it's so glitchy I've had it crash at least four times.
texasairhead101
Member
The structure is made clear real fast once you get to the nexus(1hr in I say). You are in a galaxy that you need to settle. Clearing areas allows settlements and the more people you can get the more you can do.
Also a lot of parts are unfinished in the nexus suggesting once you get far enough story wise the focus will shift. Though populating worlds seems like the large majority.
So, lots of quests that could be very menial for a payoff that is already known what it can be.
But, combat seems very strong from what I played. How the relationships you form and other types of quest will determine how much I get into it.
Really shouldn't dish it out if you can't take it in. Art can be good or bad and the fols arguing in either direction can be annoying. *shrug*
amiablepercy
Banned
The humans definitely aren't the tops but the aliens look awesome in IMO
Kesh the female Krogan
Kesh the female Krogan
Tenacious-D
Member
If she's read the logs though, then she'd know that Alec makes bro/sisRyder Pathfinder. The dialogue is unneeded, and strangely written. Something like this at least makes some sense in English.
Addison: Alright, what happened, Ryder? How did you become the next Pathfinder?
Ryder: My Father passed it on to me when he...
Addison: I know, I read the logs. It's not hereditary, Ryder. The 2IC should have..
Ryder: Deal with it.
The hype is real!
https://my.mixtape.moe/meplxn.mp4
Can't wait to play it, looks good despite the linked introduction of Ryder ;´-)
https://my.mixtape.moe/meplxn.mp4
Can't wait to play it, looks good despite the linked introduction of Ryder ;´-)
amiablepercy
Banned
Leave it to Nintendo to make the most entertaining Parental Control video of all time.
Tenacious-D
Member
Oh my...
The reference to reading the logs is that she knows how he died. She knows Alec chose Kid Ryder. She is wanting to know why he chose her, which is, like, a core element/mystery of the plot.
Yes it's goofily written but it's really not nearly as hard to understand as you are making it out to be.
That character's bigger issue is, despite being the tired rule follower, is that she is wearing enough makeup to make a clown blush.
Ivory Samoan
Member
Loving my time in game so far, game is extremely ME1 feels, very minor flaws are here and there but nothing that has detracted from my experience or sense of awe in exploration. Andromeda feels like Mass Effect, and that delicious sense of the unknown and wonder is here in droves.
If I could liken the game to anything so far, I would say it feels like Goonies mixed with Full House mixed with Event Horizon, with the best shooter combat in any RPG ever. It's not without flaws, but many of the things that have been meme'd till death or bickered over aren't ringing true for me...and it's stunning.
I'm playing in 4K upscaled (1080p render) and it's 60FPS 99% of the time on mostly high settings, and it has frakking HDR10 support (which I never knew was in it going in, what a surprise!), that 'An HDR video is playing' came up with 4K upscale options and shit... fidelity heaven right here on my KS8000. The UI was definitely designed for controller play, so that suits me and my Elite controller for sure, I can see how KB+M people would not be digging it, however.
The game is absolutely gorgeous on PC, I can say that much (and lip sync and animations are good: much, much better than Horizon's NPCs, on a par with Aloy for what it's worth). Story and Characters are solid af (albeit a bit of a slow burn), so if you had worries there: don't, it's in good shape. One thing I will say, the overall tone is much lighter than the trilogy, which I personally find refreshing coming fresh out of my millionth Insanity run...ME3 always brings a Vanguard down with that bittersweet sauce.
Detailed thoughts incoming after my 10 hours are up, half-way there: so back to it I go!
If I could liken the game to anything so far, I would say it feels like Goonies mixed with Full House mixed with Event Horizon, with the best shooter combat in any RPG ever. It's not without flaws, but many of the things that have been meme'd till death or bickered over aren't ringing true for me...and it's stunning.
I'm playing in 4K upscaled (1080p render) and it's 60FPS 99% of the time on mostly high settings, and it has frakking HDR10 support (which I never knew was in it going in, what a surprise!), that 'An HDR video is playing' came up with 4K upscale options and shit... fidelity heaven right here on my KS8000. The UI was definitely designed for controller play, so that suits me and my Elite controller for sure, I can see how KB+M people would not be digging it, however.
The game is absolutely gorgeous on PC, I can say that much (and lip sync and animations are good: much, much better than Horizon's NPCs, on a par with Aloy for what it's worth). Story and Characters are solid af (albeit a bit of a slow burn), so if you had worries there: don't, it's in good shape. One thing I will say, the overall tone is much lighter than the trilogy, which I personally find refreshing coming fresh out of my millionth Insanity run...ME3 always brings a Vanguard down with that bittersweet sauce.
Detailed thoughts incoming after my 10 hours are up, half-way there: so back to it I go!
mercenar1e
Member
wait until you play it. I've never experienced this much lag and disconnection issues in a multiplayer game before.
Alter_Fridge
Member
The humans definitely aren't the tops but the aliens look awesome in IMO
Kesh the female Krogan
Agreed the aliens look insanely good
KingParappa
Neo Member
The CC is piss poor. Can I at least do my eyebrows?!? Hair choices smh I had to go with the cornrows
The humans definitely aren't the tops but the aliens look awesome in IMO
Kesh the female Krogan
That NPC's VA is awful.
oh
I hadn't considered that Kesh could be female. I thought it was a guy with a funny voice
amiablepercy
Banned
Outside Natalie Dormer, Kumail Nanjiani as Director Tann absolutely kills it. Such good delivery. No one will ever match the beloved Mordin Solus but Kumail has really committed to the role. Inspired choice by the VO casting director.
Alter_Fridge
Member
Nah that can't be his voice. Sounded like an IGN voiceover
Obviously. I'm not referring to the first couple seconds.
amiablepercy
Banned
I mean she is a Krogan. Not as good as Wrex but better than Grunt and the Matriarch. Her dialogue is more interesting than the latter two as well.
Alter_Fridge
Member
I know what you were talking about and he (she?) sounded incredibly lame
ShemhazaiX
Member
Question: how are they exploring this galaxy without the prothean gateways? I don't remember there being any standard ships capable of trans-galactic travel at reasonable speed. Is that actually explained at all?
Spoiler tag it please, already had unmarked spoilers on this page.
Spoiler tag it please, already had unmarked spoilers on this page.
KingParappa
Neo Member
Trickster
Member
Honestly sounds fine too me.
xZoneHunter
Member
Sanctuary
Member
The standard 80s makeup job was very forward thinking. They knew that it was going to be memorable enough to warrant a return some century.
She wants a personal account rather than a formal, factual one. I agree its not very good dialogue.
If you are asking how the ark ships got there, it's
because it took them a long time in cryostasis.
If you are asking how the player's ship goes around Andromeda itself once the proper game has begun, I'm not sure if it's explained yet, might be in the codex somewhere.
The character creator is SO bad. I haven't had any problems creating a face I was satisfied with in ME2, ME3 or DAI but with Andromeda, I definitely didn't feel like I could create the kind of character I wanted to create and I had to seriously compromise. Even so, my Ryder doesn't look great, he looks alright. The idea to start with these incredibly limiting base heads (many of which look terrible to begin with) just really isn't working out, especially with how few customisation options they've got. Most of the male hair and beard styles don't look too hot, either. And the scars look so incredibly fake. Whoever designed those must've never seen a real scar in their life. (The beard and eyebrows also grow over the scars which is just plain stupid.) I'm almost considering waiting till they patch in the additional CC features (hopefully those will be some worthwhile additions) before buying the game and then starting over with a new Ryder rather than continuing on from my Origin Acces trial progress. Haven't finished the trial yet, though, so maybe the story will pull me in enough to make me want to continue as soon as possible, we'll see.
As for the rest of the game, I've played for about an hour now and I'm quite enjoying it so far. My main gripe is that the check points seem to be incredibly unfair. I had just completed an optional objective, then got killed like a minute later and now I have to complete that optional objective all over again because the game didn't think it'd be necessary to save that progress. Other than that and the terrible CC, I'm really enjoying myself, though. So far, I haven't been too bothered by the facial animations, either. They don't look great, obviously, but they weren't as bad as I had feared and I haven't found them to be distracting or immersion-breaking so far.
As for the rest of the game, I've played for about an hour now and I'm quite enjoying it so far. My main gripe is that the check points seem to be incredibly unfair. I had just completed an optional objective, then got killed like a minute later and now I have to complete that optional objective all over again because the game didn't think it'd be necessary to save that progress. Other than that and the terrible CC, I'm really enjoying myself, though. So far, I haven't been too bothered by the facial animations, either. They don't look great, obviously, but they weren't as bad as I had feared and I haven't found them to be distracting or immersion-breaking so far.