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A Compilation of Hilarious Animations in Mass Effect Andromeda
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Soul of the Beast
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Amazing
Mysterious Stranger
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AAA games have finally found a way to survive the VA strike without having to pay them better.
NaDannMaGoGo
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That slurping sound lmao
That's stating pretty much nothing at all besides the most obvious? Game development is hard and a lot can go wrong, sure, but that this game is getting released in this sort of state is still quite something.
The ENTIRE video is cringe city.
That Sara/Suvi scene is actually good awkward kids stumbling around romance dialogue. It's fun, and better than the dialogue in the original trilogy romance stuff. The animations really ruin the delivery of basically every line though, especially those eyes, man...
The youtube comments on that video are cancerous as fuck.
The youtube comments on that video are cancerous as fuck.
Crayon
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omg lol
To be honest, that is perhaps the most 'Mass Effect' conversation I have yet seen. Puts me in mind of Shepherd talking to Wrex.
This is what it would look like if a half-finished AI had created the entire game without having the emotion chip turned on.
Soul of the Beast
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzZWeqtm8UE
Watch this video from beginning to end, it's fucking amazing. It's an unedited footage of the game's opening, the best part is there's a gamebreaking bug stopping him from progress further in the end too. Which is why the video is called ''The Mass Effect Andromeda Experience'' because it only lasts 8 minute for him.
I'm with you on this, the line before it seemed like a normal thing to say by a normal person who has affection for another and then suddenly Ryder just runs through two lines of dialog that feel completely out of tone and style with how she was just talking. It goes from "I appreciate having you here a lot..." to "Ireallylikeyouandyouraccentisnice" in about a second with no real reason for why she suddenly why she needed to just blurt out and Sprint through the dialogue.
The whole thing just sounds and feels like contrived awkwardness and the line after just brings attention to how bad and lazy it was.
Best passed out drunk animations ever:
WTF is he choking?
Audioboxer
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Best passed out drunk animations ever:
LOL. I often... do not pass out drunk like that. Drunk? More like poisoned.
Or depressing as he splices in the earlier games doing a much better job. Like his Dead Rising video.
The first mission has her/him taking down many battle-hardened aliens, going toe-to-toe with more experienced squadmates, I can't get around that fact when the story reminds you that "oh, they're inexperienced!" I know "ludonarrative dissonance" is a bad word here but the things you're doing in gameplay are a far cry from what the story says you are. Personally the game would have been better if you just played as the dad/mom with the whole "chosen one" thing coming from the fact that every other Pathfinder is dead.
NaDannMaGoGo
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Mysterious Stranger
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Mass Effect The Fan Fiction
Ryzaki009
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Being able to shoot =/= being a military commander. Like that should go without saying. And they flat out tell you where they got their combat experience from during that segment.
STILLethal
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lmao, y is he so angry when he said that?
Soul of the Beast
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Mysterious Stranger
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s_mirage
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Bad animation aside, is it terrible of me to actually quite like that scene?
She commands squadmates in the prologue before she's given the Pathfinder role, that literally makes her a military commander. Being able to shoot with pin-point accuracy and practically overpower those with many years of military experience isn't exactly a casual go at the firing range. I just can't buy the whole "Ryder's an awkward kid way out of their depth" when gameplay has them play the same role as Shepherd in previous games.
joecanada
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I actually put more on bioware . I hear people praise ME all the time but I wasn't aware of those games years ago. I only experienced bioware through dragons age series and I always felt their games were fairly lazy and " b movie " style writing . Even da 1 although a pretty cool game was very short and only slightly above average. Obvious and massive downgrade in quality in sequel.
In short I don't really view bioware as a top studio
That already happened, it was called Mass Effect 3
Seriously, every single mission in this giant galaxy conveniently involves you running into an old companion from previous games just so you can see all your old favourites again. It's the most fan fiction feeling thing ever.
Soul of the Beast
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That's how I imagine old people flirt.
Other than the jankified animations and weird looking Ryder, that is not so bad.
Soul of the Beast
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I've been full circle. I love Fem Ryder.
Video gaming icon of the 8th console generation.
Ryzaki009
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What? I didn't get that impression whatsoever. (Unless you count that stay here and go back to the ship as commands in which case you really count that as being commanding?) Also what many years of military experience people are they defeating? You mean the Kett? (Since in the trial you're not fighting anyone that's not them or an animal (or a machine).) Not to mention again they already mentioned having seen combat. (FemRyder traveled around with a Prothean research team and most likely had to deal with the same crap Liara did). I think the male guarded a relay or something. They both were with the alliance meaning they should be able to do basic combat. That does not equal being a military commander.
I've been full circle. I love Fem Ryder.
Hell yeah, she's so goddamn goofy it's great. I was planning on creating a custom monstrosity, but I think default FemRyder will be more fun.
Mysterious Stranger
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Sorry Ryder your not my type!
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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Are there any spoilers in those videos?
LOL, seriously. That is no more cringe-worthy than flirting in the trilogy.
I'm right there with both of you. I'm starting to really like FemRyder. Even if they clean them up a bit, I hope they keep some of her awkward expressions.
What are all those stains on the couch?
Exactly. The Sovereign conversation was truly remarkable, this being a Mass Effect 1 redux in a sense gave me hope to expect an event of of similar impact. What I've seen so far is beyond disappointing.
Ryzaki009
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You didn't find Shep's you want this super smooth flirting.
(Seriously that's the one flirt in the whole trilogy I'm just like no too)I'm not getting this game any time remotely close to launch because I lack faith in bioware, so don't take this as some ardent fan boy defense, but come on man. If this game had an equivalent of the Sovereign conversation do you think it would be shown in preview footage? Was anything about Sovereign shown in preview footage?
That's a fair point.
When you're defending the dad against the Kett you have to command your two squadmates to the two flanks, and it's pretty clear throughout that you're the one in charge.
As for those with military experience I was talking about both the Kett and your squadmates. You've got Cora who, as I said above, you're literally commanding; you at the very least go toe-to-toe with her in general combat as well. The Kett are clearly a militarized race, yet because the game needed to introduce them and because Ryder & Co so easily dispatched of them they don't feel like a threat at all.
You agreed with Ralemont that she hadn't seen military combat yet she actually has? That's just contradictory, and essentially makes Ryder's character "they're young and also the Chosen One."
But even then, I think Bioware made a wrong decision in saying you're an inexperienced beginner out of your depth but not actually changing the core gameplay loop to accomodate that. The Prologue is essentially 1-to-1 like Mass Effect 1's prologue.
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