Mass Effect Andromeda: Shitstorm Edition - RIP Biowear

[Male Idiot]

Started playing yesterday, the unpatched version. Facial animations suck and the game really hates pretty people, but overall... eh. Just a mediocre third person shooter with RPG elements. Might as well finish it while waiting for Cyberpunk.

It is not horribad on its own. Just very mediocre. It is just that the previous games were so much better that has people upset.

 

[Mater Lachrymarum]

It is not horribad on its own. Just very mediocre. It is just that the previous games were so much better that has people upset.

Yeah, that's the thing. The game itself also has very little to original trilogy, aside for the races, it could have been it's own thing. But if it was a stand alone new IP, no one would buy it because it's just mediocre and generic.

 

[Overcast]

Seeing all this stuff about Andromeda made me play through the original Mass Effect again after nearly half a decade.

I now remember why I loved this series so much, and it only makes me a bit sad (not completely though) that the series has went in this direction.

 

[Mola Ram]

Seeing all this stuff about Andromeda made me play through the original Mass Effect again after nearly half a decade.

I now remember why I loved this series so much, and it only makes me a bit sad (not completely though) that the series has went in this direction.

Yup, same here. Launched a new playthrough this weekend, and even with the shitty combat and atrocious inventory system, it's still BioWare at its best. It's like looking at old photos of a friend who has since succumbed to cancer.

 

[Ruin]

Bioware fans are like the Swedes of videogame fandoms. No matter how badly Bioware treats them they'll go along with it and ask for more shit in the future.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

"Mediocre" is the worst when it comes to this kinda thing. At least before the patch there was enjoyment to get out of the goofy bugs and everything. Being average means nothing stands out either way. It's meh.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Yeah, it really needed redemption in something good. It really feels like EA lost interest in ME.

 

[ADN_VIII]

I find the progression of faces through the series to be kind of interesting.
Mass Effect had similar doughball faces as Andromeda, but that was a limitation of the technology. The difference though was that the jaw and cheekbones weren't hideously overblown and so it was still immediately identifiable as a face.

Mass Effect 2 did a bit better along every line for faces but they sometimes seemed a little off. Not awful enough to draw the eye, but there nonetheless. They did get facial animations to a nice high point though, and that helped alleviate the underlying facial weirdness.

Mass Effect 3 hit a high point since faces looked like faces with no doughball look and the jaws and cheeks bones were appropriately sized for the build of a special forces operative. Eyes were still a bit funny, but they didn't go weird in the way the first game did. Default Shepherd for both sexes was good looking and didn't have any problems with believability or humanity.

Now we hit Andromeda where we have exploded jaws and cheeks that causes enough problems with our natural pattern recognition to throw up mental red flags. Andromeda doesn't have faces that classically resemble humans. They're overblown and out of proportion so our brains see them as weird and not right.

Bioware can patch all they like, but the only fix is going to be rebuilding facial meshes and skeletons and reworking textures and the creation sliders.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

 

[charmaide]

Originally, I thought on getting the game, but I've made my decision to pass on it. It's an overpriced Early Access game with shitty writing. It really doesn't help that both Ryders feel bland with poor character creation for custom Ryders.

 

[SHITTAHS CLOGGED!]

From the very first page of this thread.

Needless to say, I bet you any money that there'll be at least one character who is all "have I mentioned I am trans today?" and stuff.

I'm surprised they've not arseholed the asari because green skinned space babes are really problematic.

At least one character bitches about pronouns, calling it.

 

[The Great Citracett]

That big pizza roll promotion tie-in?
Turns out Totinos is almost as inept as Bioware.

You don't even have to buy the things, just whip out your phone at the grocery store and snag all the free shit you want.

 

[CWCissey]

That big pizza roll promotion tie-in?
Turns out Totinos is almost as inept as Bioware.
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You don't even have to buy the things, just whip out your phone at the grocery store and snag all the free shit you want.

This is why Pizza rolls are the stereotypical stoner food. They work there!

 

[FataBataRang]

This is why Pizza rolls are the stereotypical stoner food. They work there!

"Aww, duude, wouldn't it be cool if people could get free shit for nothing?"

 

[millais]

I guess Totino's is only human, too.

 

[Staffy]

You know what they say, we're all winners thanks to Totino's pizza rolls. All you have to do is to get near one to get free stuff.

 

[Overcast]

That is one hell of an oversight.

 

[Quijibo69]

Why would you want free stuff for that crappy game in the first place?

 

[Really makes you thunk]

Hardboiled eggs? Is that part of some symptom I never heard of?

I know this was a week ago (:late, but I've only just decided to give this thread a skim. Just thought I'd point out that (I'm pretty sure) it's a reference to this:

Spoiler: :offtopic: