Dissing Mass Effect Andromeda because it has diversity and equality

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RiseOfTheWhiteWolf said:
http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplayer-with-no-video-game-experience-was-the-lead-facial-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

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Ok, is there any reason he's so hung up on her being a cosplayer? Any reason why that's such a big no no?

Oh, implying she slept with someone to get her position. Class-y.

Oh...and there's...you know. This.

https://twitter.com/bioware/status/843190432033005568

There's accusations of lying all over the fucking place, I have no idea what the fuck is going on, I just know that everyone is acting like cunts, your source included.
No matter if she really was the Lead Facial Animator or not, sending her abusive messages is not ok. And with abusive I mean insults and threats, not harsh criticism.

This whole story is quite confusing, why would she claim to be the Lead Facial Animator, while Bioware denies it and she isn't even appearing in the game's credits? Something is fishy.
I don't freaking know...I already said I don't know what's going on. This whole situation just reminds me that my favorite game series has been reduced to nothing but bitterness and hatred whenever you try and talk about the games. I'll just stick to my fanfiction.
 

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Something that BioWare did was enough for the internet to throw a shitfit again?

I mean geez I thought Andromeda was a great chance for me to harp on people that still defend Dragon Age: Inquisition for finally getting it even more abruptly than last time but this has steered off in to the usual stupid crap. I can even see the comment wars in a day or two continuing the current trend of:

"You're a racist" "You're sexist" "SJWs" "Alt-Right", etc. etc.
 

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From blaming it all on a female developer and claiming she was hired just for minority quota (as if animations are made by a single person),
i think you are blowing this way out of proportion, infant the whole media did because i see the cabal of usual suspects crying gamergate but i have heard of this controversy long before it blew up so i think i could piece my way though it.

A while ago i say something claiming the head animator was an unskilled cosplayer that some how was given the job and way before that i've had comments from people in the industry speaking about how bioware had become insufferable and incestuous. A game studio were the emperor wears the best pants.
But that's not enough to really produce a game, hell if I'm not mistaken they had a smaller budget then witcher and were expected to do more with it. the game was poorly marketed, so much so i didn't even know when it was coming out this year compared to ME3 that's a miles difference.
All together it seems to be the death throes of 3rd rate incompetents and a dying company.

which is why I'm mildly interested into how much the shock there is a focus on some rando on the youtubes and you have the usual suspects screaming GAMERGATE, CYBER BULLIES.

It's bollocks

Either way she is clearly shit at her job
to mocking the characters because they aren't supersexy,
I will mock who ever I will damn well feel like and there isn't a thing you can do about it.
And i think that goes for everyone else.
Don't whine to me and say people are pointing to a motion capture they based on another person, that looks wholly different from that persons looks and say it's about super sexiness.
with the asari, her features are weird and remind me of a middle aged women(some people say shrek but i don't see it). holding aside the fact that asari don't look like or age like humans I'd say it's another example of the animation department/modeling's failures.

to calling Bioware "anti-white", and so on and on and on. Almost all of the comments are about that, and they hardly discuss the actual game.
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I will continue to call it that while a man who shares my soil and city continues to say such outrageous and frankly demeaning stuff from a position of authority within the company.
He says this, on his public twitter, the company cannot unaware of it or until he suitably says something about this. He doesn't have to loose his damn job but he could stop being a dick.
fucker probably spits on lower caste/class people too.

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Ah gaming, still the hobby of choice for mature, well-adjusted adults I see.
I agree, those loud ordinary people who smell bad, who talk dirty, don't really think things through and think with their baser organs; they should stay out of my hobbies.

No, I'm not making this up. People have been grumbling about it since the very first WIP demo reel which showed the Asari squadmate's face and she was promptly deemed insufficiently attractive.
I mean if you like shrek in your game fine by me, don't quite get it because the species is confirmed to be manipulating the minds of the species around them to appear attractive because mating with other species is evolutionary desirable seems odd.

Then again i think it only worried the people who were going to be buying it, I gave it a confused look and sauntered off. but the people who are going to sink full price on this trainwreck
oh boy.
Those poor folks who wanted a decent looking models in their AAA game, perhaps those folks with a higher libido who like their team mates to appear attractive facially. Who were against all logical sense invested in this game and hoping it turns out all right. I'd be salty too.
 

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Something that BioWare did was enough for the internet to throw a shitfit again?

I mean geez I thought Andromeda was a great chance for me to harp on people that still defend Dragon Age: Inquisition for finally getting it even more abruptly than last time but this has steered off in to the usual stupid crap. I can even see the comment wars in a day or two continuing the current trend of:

"You're a racist" "You're sexist" "SJWs" "Alt-Right", etc. etc.
I'd still be interested.
The game has left me sour since I picked it up. Being unable to read the memory that is on the damn console and having to go to a central server is beyond stupid.
I was absolutely bloody livid
 

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RiseOfTheWhiteWolf said:
http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplayer-with-no-video-game-experience-was-the-lead-facial-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

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You know man, when you post "evidence" about something that even r/kotakuinaction largely thinks is bullshit, then I dunno.

I mean, and? She got hired, she lead a team on facial animations...and all of that work got signed off on on at least two/levels. It's not like she didn't have anybody checking her work, it's not like she had no experience in animation.

I mean, Christ, she doesn't even work there anymore. She was a low level team leader that wasn't part of the development team that got cut after the game went gold. Just like dozens of other freelancers or interns. And she rates an attack article on the internet because she's a womz, and something she worked on is wonky as shit, ignoring that bioware's always been wonky as shit in this area.
 

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... Why do you need to be attracted to your squadmates to save the people?
Personally I'd rather not have the animation glitches drag me out of the game.

but i haven't bought the game.
So fuck it.
Anyway if people like being attracted to people they are going to converse with all game then well that's their prerogative.
bioware games have always been about team mates and character driven stories, the gameplay, the main story itself are usually lacking in comparison as far as i've seen.
 

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Shallow dickheads gonna shallow dickhead. Am honestly getting a little fedup of these double standards constantly pronounced online. It's time to take a bit of a break methinks. This ain't the hobby community for me it would seem.
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RiseOfTheWhiteWolf said:
altnameJag said:
RiseOfTheWhiteWolf said:
http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplayer-with-no-video-game-experience-was-the-lead-facial-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

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You know man, when you post "evidence" about something that even r/kotakuinaction largely thinks is bullshit, then I dunno.

I mean, and? She got hired, she lead a team on facial animations...and all of that work got signed off on on at least two/levels. It's not like she didn't have anybody checking her work, it's not like she had no experience in animation.

I mean, Christ, she doesn't even work there anymore. She was a low level team leader that wasn't part of the development team that got cut after the game went gold. Just like dozens of other freelancers or interns. And she rates an attack article on the internet because she's a womz, and something she worked on is wonky as shit, ignoring that bioware's always been wonky as shit in this area.
I don't know why you think its evidence. Evidence of what? I'm not trying to prove anything, I just thought the story fit into the topic of the thread.
So, what, you're spreading what amounts to propaganda for lols?
 

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ObsidianJones said:
... Why do you need to be attracted to your squadmates to save the people?

I'm very curious about this. The mission is to save humanity. Are we going to refuse because not enough characters spur our genitals?
It is a BioWare game. People want to fuck everything in it.

The late BioWare forums had so many romance threads it broke the forum engine.
 
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ObsidianJones said:
... Why do you need to be attracted to your squadmates to save the people?

I'm very curious about this. The mission is to save humanity. Are we going to refuse because not enough characters spur our genitals?
Welcome to Mass Effect, world's #1 war-themed alien dating simulator.
 

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ObsidianJones said:
... Why do you need to be attracted to your squadmates to save the people?

I'm very curious about this. The mission is to save humanity. Are we going to refuse because not enough characters spur our genitals?
Because.

And...yes?

Did you miss the tizzy media and fans flew into at a developer mentioning that sex scenes amount to what is essentially a softcore space porn? People get attached to these characters and, believe it or not, physical attraction is part of it.

But, then, there are girls/dudes who want to get the friction on with Garrus and the Krogan tag-team.

Still, strangely, I think there's a definite physical component there too.
 

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The one thing I want to know is why this man was never called out by his employers for being a racist shitbag.
Honestly, I've no idea. They even let him speak to the Press about the game, and game industry in general.

If it was some random coder, or some modeller who wasn't a public face, I'd understand them not catching that the guy has said racist shit on twitter.

But, he's been the public face in several interviews. It's... Difficult to quite understand why they wouldn't have done something about that.
Maybe because they can deflect the hate by going "they're still butthurt about the ending to 3".
 

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RiseOfTheWhiteWolf said:
altnameJag said:
So, what, you're spreading what amounts to propaganda for lols?
I already answered that question in my reply. Please stop it with the wild accusations, you're making me laugh.
Ahh, yes. It "seemed relevant" although it's filled with lies, hyperbole, and libel and you didn't run any commentary about it at all.

A good post.
 

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I dunno. The animations are surely wonky and the gifs about it are hilarious.

My problem is actually how even a shitty videogame animation is now turning into a SJW/alt-right/feminazi/whiteknight internet war.

What does that even have to do with anything? So if the asari girl had huge boobs and a more perfect face, her animations suddenly wouldn't have been poorly made? So if all the npcs were white males, suddenly all the animations issues would have disappeared?



cleric of the order said:
I will mock who ever I will damn well feel like and there isn't a thing you can do about it.
And i think that goes for everyone else.

Yeah, sure you can do that, and I could do that too. But that's how you degenerate from civilized human beings to screaming apes throwing shit at each other.

It's what a lot of people - most people, sometimes including me - forget.

Then again, we ARE apes.
 

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But, then, there are girls/dudes who want to get the friction on with Garrus and the Krogan tag-team.
What is strange with Garrus ? He is not that far more off human appereance than those Asari and seems to have an agreeable character. There were several romance options in the games that i found far less enticing.

Anyway it is not only about the ugliness of the crew members. It is probably also about the ugliness of the main character. The female version in all those videos looks really off. Like making very strange grimaces all the time. That is totally not what i would want to have my self-insert look like. And considering that the default option usually looks better than custom options because they can test all the animations with it...



Not really interested in all this SJW discussion. WE pretty much only have second hand information what was going on in the development team anyway. Heir seems lik a racist idiot. But i was never in favor of firing peple for opinions, even deprorable opinions. They should have forbidden him from talking to potential customers though.


And if the really took pain to hire developers who are not white males in an industry where most developers are white male that was kind of stupid and it might very well be that quality suffered for it. But so far i have not seen evidence that was the case
 

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Well, as someone who refused to learn from DA2, and bought ME3, and then DA:I (On sale! Baby steps...) And did not buy ME:A, my impression is that the talent left EAWare long ago, and whatever is left of the company is using diversity pandering as a shield to brand any criticisms as racist/sexist/*ist..

My only​ surprise is that people who felt the same still went out and bought the efing game, when all signs pointed to EAWare being a shell of it's former self.
 

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Satinavian said:
LostGryphon said:
But, then, there are girls/dudes who want to get the friction on with Garrus and the Krogan tag-team.
What is strange with Garrus ? He is not that far more off human appereance than those Asari and seems to have an agreeable character. There were several romance options in the games that i found far less enticing.
As a person?

I like 'em.

 

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Finding a scapegoat to blame everything on isn't a difficult thing to do. MEA will do it, like ghostbusters did it, like george lucas did it; but he was slightly ahead of his time.

Also, I reported evilthecat for making a disparaging accusation towards cultural/ethnic groups and or religious organizations by comparing them to a American born and raised, hero* and white supremacist who shot up a buncha wrong looking people in a wrong kind of church.Since, you know, he is creating a narrative where bad things should be contributed to external groups ie. teutons, who were persecuted during the nazi regime on religious grounds

* - Because everyone who serves the US armed forces deserves to be considered a hero.