are you going to buy mass effect andromeda?

[Sassafrass]

Well you can't deny self evident criticisms like the animation and design of the female characters.

Technically, they aren't self-evident criticisms because taste in digital art, like all art, is a highly variable and subjective thing. There might be someone out there who thinks that this [https://twitter.com/RatCasket/status/842424417099649029] is incredibly hot! Who knows?

But, yes, in Andromeda's case it's a little, uh, on-the-nose. [http://i.imgur.com/ZDXbz97.gif]

I can and I will

Oh, come on, she was holding the gun backwards. [https://media.giphy.com/media/11LZQs834JTg5O/giphy.gif]

Spoiler: Backwards!

And I also seen one with someone having an assault rifle attached to their arm.

And in mass effect 3 they held a ship backwards https://i.redd.it/zwa3emoomwky.jpg not imbedding because it's a large jpg

While we're here picking holes in the older ME games, lets not forget the consistent bug I've had where Shepard refuses to hold an assault rifle properly and holds it like a pistol across ME2 and 3.

Also, lets not forget, the cover art for ME2 has a smoking fucking gun sight [http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/masseffect/images/7/73/ME2_Cover_Art.png/revision/latest?cb=20120711195136] on Shepard's weapon.

Plus lets not forget Shepard's obsession with looking down and to the left during ME1 and 2's Normandy sections and enemies moon-walking across the battlefield. Also people clipping through desks/tables, hair clipping through helmets and god knows what. Basically, the TL;DR of this, I don't give a fuck about the animation bugs (I experienced none anyway with a custom FemRyder btw), I almost expect there to be some fuck ups in a ME game.

And I'm OK with this, both in ME and other series.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Her eyes... those eyes. She is peering in to my soul, and stripping away everything that is me!

 

[bastardofmelbourne]

Also, lets not forget, the cover art for ME2 has a smoking fucking gun sight [http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/masseffect/images/7/73/ME2_Cover_Art.png/revision/latest?cb=20120711195136] on Shepard's weapon.

Okay, that is completely different. Firstly, the gun sight looks like a gun barrel. Secondly, the guy doing the cover art probably had little or nothing to do with the animation or graphic design team. He would've been some clueless marketing intern with Photoshop.

"Which one of these barrel-like segments of this future assault rifle do the bullets come out of?...Fuck it, it's both."

Eitherway it's a damn sight more understandable than a pistol being held backwards during a character introduction scene that got a fair amount of press. I mean, it's bizarre. Their PR department is intentionally [http://www.polygon.com/2017/1/4/14165976/mass-effect-andromeda-animation-marketing-tweet-gif] drawing attention to badly animated [https://twitter.com/masseffect/status/816343486685388800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] segments of the game.

It all screams low-quality to me. Like, I'm not going to play an RPG that's 60% talking when the facial animations have all the appeal of a freshly-harvested human face stapled to an animatronic mannequin.

 

[Wrex Brogan]

Ehh, gonna give it a week or two after release, that'll give me a good look at the full reviews and all that. Always enjoyed the ME series and what I've seen (outside the hilarious animation glitches) has been good, but I'm leery enough about pre-orders and day-one editions that I'd rather wait and see what everyone thinks of it after the hype has died down rather than buy it on faith.

That said, even if it's met with luke-warm reactions I'll probably still get it for the Multiplayer, I finally have 3 friends interested in the series to play it with so I won't have to rely on randoms who try sniping with a fucking SMG or who try to melee Brutes to death because they think Nova-Charge Vanguards are unstoppable. Christ, I hate pick-up groups.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

I'm probably never going to purchase another EA product for the rest of my life, so nah.

Hope people enjoy it. No longer my cup of tea.

 

[SlumlordThanatos]

As it stands now...I'm still torn. I certainly won't be buying it on day 1, but I'm still going to keep an eye on the reviews. If the reviews and popular opinion don't drive me away, and maybe if Bioware decides to give the face and conversation animations another once-over, I may get it a little further down the road.

But from where I'm standing, it looks like the Bioware of old is dead, and isn't coming back.

 

[Jandau]

No, I will not, at least not anytime soon.

Having read a number of articles from various sources, both positive and negative, I feel I've gotten a reasonably decent picture of what the game is like and what I could get out of it.

It boils down to it being a solid space opera shooter, with writing that varies between mediocre and laughably bad. It's got tonnes of content, but also a truckload of bugs. It's not a terrible game, but it's hardly a standout for the series, the genre or the recent months. While I'm sure I'd have fun shooting at generic rubber forehead aliens with my space magic and whatnot, there is just too much good stuff to play that Andromeda will get pushed aside, maybe to be picked up on sale with all its DLC or something...

 

[Darth Rosenberg]

Absolutely. I may take against it (especially if it repeats the BS filler nonsense and 'exploration' DA:I pulled), but what other character focused triple-A production SP A/RPG sci-fi epic is there to buy instead? There are none. BioWare are still doing things no one else does--- *pause for variously moronic 'witticisms'/snark* ---and so as long as that's the case they'll have my cash.

If a company offered them direct competition, then great. But, again, there isn't any. You can't blame BioWare for that, you blame the rest of the oftentimes dumbass industry.

It's not a terrible game, but it's hardly a standout for the series, the genre or the recent months.

What is the series "standout", though? Some say ME1 for the plot or, apparently, the awful and cluttered RPG 'depth'. Others say ME2, but that's a game that could've only existed after the universe was set up, so comparing ME:A to what amounts to a kind of soft reboot/offshoot isn't very fair.

Personally whilst ME2 is my sentimental ME fave, I think ME3 wipes the floor with 1 and 2 in terms of overall cohesion, quality, polish, gameplay, etc. On those counts I feel it's the best game BioWare have ever made, but, again, it's impossible to directly compare that - which was a game that built a rich continuity over a trilogy - to ME:A, which represents a clean slate. It is, however, fair to compare the core combat (which I don't think's ever been great in ME. ME3 was the most polished and responsive, ergo it 'wins' by default), and I've heard both very good as well as some negative things about it.

And regarding genre; what genre? Triple-A SP A/RPG sci-fi with a focus on character narrative? Did I miss a shedload of other games in that genre?

 

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

So i went and watched about 90 minutes of the game and yeah, the faces arent as weird as the nitpicked gifs/videos show (obviously), but still, 10 years later and it's on the same level?

Anyway, now i have a different problem though. The characters look short, like kids with adult heads. And i didn't see an option to punch npcs during conversations. Sad.

 

[BaronVH]

For those that have played it: Do you fly all the way to another galaxy where the aliens magically speak English, or do we get something a little more intelligent?

 

[hermes]

Eventually.

I have to say what I have seen makes me question it, specially when released in one of the busies march I can remember (Persona 5, Nier, Zelda, Horizon), that makes a mediocre game seem redundant, even when carrying the Mass Effect name.

But I would not deny it once it gets into a more open season, or a more interesting price.

 

[Dalisclock]

First reviews are dropping and so far it's still pretty mixed. Generally postive but one thing that bothers me is that most of them say that a lot of the content seems like filler. Hell, a couple are saying that the main missions are kinda boring. Both of those are making me feel like this isn't something I'm really gonna care for. Maybe once it drops down to like 20 or 30 bucks, I might give it a shot but the "Lots O'Filler" thing is exactly why I don't like to play open world games much these days.

 

[Cold Shiny]

Horizon Zero Dawn? Total bore.

Nier Automata? Puhlease.

Zelda BOTW? As if.

A broken, buggy, ugly sequel to a franchise that should have ended? SIGN ME UP!!!!

 

[Danbo Jambo]

First reviews are dropping and so far it's still pretty mixed. Generally postive but one thing that bothers me is that most of them say that a lot of the content seems like filler. Hell, a couple are saying that the main missions are kinda boring. Both of those are making me feel like this isn't something I'm really gonna care for. Maybe once it drops down to like 20 or 30 bucks, I might give it a shot the "Lots O'Filler" thing is exactly why I don't like to play open world games much these days.

I loved Dragon Age Origins with a passion, detested DA:2 but played a significant amount of hours in the hope it'd get better, and was utterly repulsed by Inquisition so much that I probably played 4-5 hours max.

If I do buy it I'm not planning on buying it until a year or two down the line when it's in the bargain bucket, but even then that will hang on to how similar it is to DA:I. If I hear it's structured & setup the same I won't bother at all.

 

[Majestic Manatee_v1legacy]

I get all AAA sci-fi games on release. Jank notwithstanding.

 

[Jandau]

And regarding genre; what genre? Triple-A SP A/RPG sci-fi with a focus on character narrative? Did I miss a shedload of other games in that genre?

Genre as in either RPG (and it's a pretty bad RPG, by most accounts) or Third Person Shooter (in which case it's solid, but unspectacular).

If you think the game is exactly what you want, go for it, have fun. I'm guessing that you and I have somewhat different tastes, seeing as how you rate ME3 as the best in the series. But again, I hope the game is all you want it to be. I'll be sitting this one out for now.

 

[Catfood220]

On launch. No, I am still playing Horizon and there are other games that I want to play before this. I have read some reviews which give it mediocre marks, plus all the videos out there saying its full of bugs. I'll give it 6 months to a year to pick it up by which time it should be pretty cheap, all patched up and it'll give me something I'll probably enjoy to play.

EA can take the financial hit I'm sure.

 

[Darth Rosenberg]

Genre as in either RPG (and it's a pretty bad RPG, by most accounts) or Third Person Shooter (in which case it's solid, but unspectacular).

But would you agree there isn't actually any direct competition in terms of what ME's offer? It's always been a worse RPG and 3rdP shooter than games dedicated to either.

But again, I hope the game is all you want it to be. I'll be sitting this one out for now.

Cora's apparently straightsville and the Nomad's still probably too much like the Mako, so I doubt it'll be all I want... See also: probably a second rubbish BioWare antagonist in a row.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Eventually I am. No point at the minute because I have neither a PC good enough to play it nor a console to play it on. But I am definitely going to get it at some point. I really fell in love with the Mass Effect games when I finally got the chance to play them so I'm not going to pass up a chance to play some more.