thekiddfran
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Nope and the facial animations are excellent.
They are actually the best I have ever seen for side quest NPC
Hozion has set the bar for Open world games in nearly every respect. I feel bad for Mass Effect coming out after it
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Mass Effect: Andromeda | Review Thread
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Nope and the facial animations are excellent.
They are actually the best I have ever seen for side quest NPC
Hozion has set the bar for Open world games in nearly every respect. I feel bad for Mass Effect coming out after it
DomsPlaying
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Mixed as I expected. I'm still optimistic after playing the early parts, but it seems as divisive a title as there's been in recent memory.
Lol while Guerilla games was busy grabbing Fallout and Witcher writers, EA was getting the Halo 4 guy.
So many good writers in the industry, when even risk it.
Now it all makes sense.
captainnapalm
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And apparently there actually is a French idiom that does roughly translate to having a 'tired face'.
Again, this tells you a lot about the game, if they're making mistakes like this. Everything about it points to troubled development and EA saying after five years 'The bank is closed, get this game out now'.
Oh... Well, it is just crappy writing then. :/
Hearing some of the complaints are a bummer. Really wanted to lose myself in a space opera again. I've been replaying mass effect 1 I'm preparation. My copy just shipped today so I'm excited to still dive in. See what's there to appreciate, hoping that's a lot of space exploration.
I'm not sure that "being a fan" means releasing an unfinished and unpolished product that needed at least another 6 months in the oven.
This was a case of bad project management and maybe a lack talent (at least in the writing department).
Ryzaki009
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...well there went that theory.
Also...we should've used the french script clearly. *sigh*
Mysterious Stranger
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I've played all the halos and I only remember the first few.
No it's false
The same scene in french is " Sorry, it's the tiredness "
Unfortunately, the game is just poorly written :/
This is what we call cognitive dissonance.
SuperSonic1305
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It's not nice to make shit up.
Well I have no hope for a good story then if that's who wrote it.
Yautja_Warrior
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Yep, it would need some major work for that to happen, best we can hope for is a lot of bug fixes and maybe DLC with better quests and writing, not that it will help the main game though.
TheExecutive
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Just when I thought nothing could be less inspired than DA:I. I will probably buy the game after it hits 20 bucks but after ME3 and DA:I I think 20 is still too much for me. Looks like Bioware needs a refresh.
Yeah this is also what saddens me - that higher-ups will see this as an indication that the ME1 formula of exploration and wonder isn't marketable when in fact the flaws of the game has more to do with technical aspects, quest design, and shitty writing.
Wildlands has its problems but I don't think it deserves the really low scores given out by Destructoid and some other sites. I have been playing more Wildlands than Zelda and I would not do that if it were an average game.
captainnapalm
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The guy in the other thread said 'J'ai les traits tirés'?
If it's not that, I'm at a loss. I guess it's just inexplicably bad writing.
This is why publishers get away with milking franchises with mediocre games. A true fan should be more critical instead of sucking up everything with the franchise name on it.
Nostremitus
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Overall, the review scores don't look bad. I don't get all the room and gloom.
Playing the trial, it seems fine. No worse than the previous ones with the exception of not having a prior history with any of the characters like 2 and 3 had...
Playing the trial, it seems fine. No worse than the previous ones with the exception of not having a prior history with any of the characters like 2 and 3 had...
So, some of the translators even took it upon themselves to fix the weird writing, lol
Maybe I should play the localized version
everyday math
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In retrospect that pre-release pile on was hilarious.
I know it's good game, I put 70h into on V. Hard and Platted it. I still find it weird how people keep claiming how side quest design is basically best in industry and how there is next to zero flaws in facial animations, when both parts of the game clearly have flaws and issues.
I would give Horizon solid 8.
Seeing MEA score this bad is shame for sure, I expected low to mid 80s. Still will be jumping in hard in 3h and seeing for myself how game is overall.
Yeah. After playing HZ for 70h and seeing it for myself I'm just making shit up.
Piss off
digoutyoursoul
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Too many of the latter on social media for me, unfortunately for some things I care about
I agree. But the mentality that when a game is good the developer is great, when a game is bad the publisher fucked over the developer needs to die.
Not many people are saying it has the best side quests in the industry. The total package however is a different story.
Which Fallout though ?
"Ones" as in all previous ME games? Because nope. Only if you talk about ME3 maybe.That game's writing was already trash.
AnthonypUK
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Not utter garbage, just mediocre.
If the industry could actually use the full 1-10 scale, on a consistent basis, 75 would be a "good" score. But since they don't anything in the 70 range is pretty Average.
With the games out this quarter, Average won't cut it, let alone it being in the series where there was at least one Game of the Year contender.
MegaSackman
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Yeah I'm not making an eco of technical problems, I don't judge games based on that but that's on me.
Primethius
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I don't think many would claim the side quests are the best in the industry. Witcher 3 still has the best side quests in an open world game by far and that probably won't change until CDPRs next game.
Mysterious Stranger
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Accepting a AAA game as average is not good.
Inceptional
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I've never cared about the story of the Mass Effect games so the fact that Andromeda seems to focus more on the moment-to-moment combat and exploring than the overarching narrative is fine by me. I just hope the characters are better than they seem from the stuff I've seen so far.
Also, some of favorite games of this gen got less than favorable reviews so I don't let that shit sway me. I actually want to have the complete experience myself before I give a final verdict.
Also, some of favorite games of this gen got less than favorable reviews so I don't let that shit sway me. I actually want to have the complete experience myself before I give a final verdict.
AnthonypUK
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thekiddfran
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Damn it Bioware. =/
nelsonroyale
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I agree, the reception disappoints me, because I was getting some quite high hopes that the game would push the exploration factor, which it seems to have, but a poor story and writing diminishes my interest. I don't rate the ME series as high as its meta, and if this is getting universally panned in comparison with predecessors, then...I am not sure...I cancelled my preorder anyway...
Mysterious Stranger
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I'm still playing the game but not paying full price. I have to see all the trainwreck myself.
I think the amazing combat is doing wonders for horizon. If it was Witcher 3 level combat I think the sidequests would have been blasted more.
Buddy, I own ME 1-3 on PC and 360, and own ME2 and 3 on PS3, and that's BEFORE I talk about all the multiplayer packs I bought in ME3 with real money somedays. The reviewers, on this occasion, are totally in the right on this game. I am not buying this game, because these issues with the animation, glitches, technical problems, writing and story are a complete deal breaker for me. I've put more than enough money in this franchise to make my own decision on ME:A, and after everything I've seen and read over the last two weeks, I will not support this game, and neither should anyone who feels the same way I do. Am I disappointed about the choice I'll have to make here? Yes, but I stand by my decision.
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