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A Compilation of Hilarious Animations in Mass Effect Andromeda

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mollipen

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HeelPower said:
Am...I..crazy for liking this ?

I think its very old school gamey.love it.
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No way. I love the idea of Ryder being an awkward dork when it comes to those kinds of situations. Like I said above, seeing this makes me have to play the game now. It's fun and silly, and that's totally fine for a scene like this.
 
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Jocund

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There's youtube footage of all the Cora romance scenes out there and uhh...I think I know where the animation budget went
 
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Ushay

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fluffydelusions said:
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Bwahahaha, nothing from Andromeda will top this beauty.
 
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Pixieking said:
It takes a lot of skill. And I don't mean that as a slight towards ME:A's writer, but as an actual argument - you have to specifically set-out to write something that is outside of the time-period it's written. The writers of Frasier said that they wanted as few references to contemporary events as possible, so that it didn't date - and if you watch the whole series (11 seasons/240 odd episodes), you'll note there's maybe a dozen times where the script feels dated, and it's almost always a phrase or word.

So it's definitely possible without parody, and with interesting dialogue. But it's also something that has to be actively sought, and that requires a good editor to "sweep" the script and pick-out the parts that will date. And ME:A fairly obviously did not have a good editor.
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Oh wow, I never knew that about Frasier. But it totally fits! A very good observation on their part.

Gosh, Frasier is such a god-tier comedy.


The bits I've heard of Andromeda do make it feel very rooted in pop culture. In a word, I'd describe it as Sera: the game. (This is keeping in mind that I haven't played it at all, however.) And with no bard songs to back it up. I don't like it.
 
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Fredrik

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Is it just female Ryder who's this bad or is the dialogue with male Ryder equally bad? I never play as a female anyway but if it's as bad when you play as a male I'll honestly just ignore this game even though the I loved the previous games. That romance dialogue video posted a while back totally destroyed any interest to go down that route, so awkward. :/
 
CassidyIzABeast

CassidyIzABeast

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Jocund said:
There's youtube footage of all the Cora romance scenes out there and uhh...I think I know where the animation budget went
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A quick youtube search later. Uh, yeah. By far the best emoting I've seen in the game. Its funny because everything leading up to it still has that stiffness to it.

Bioware is out here skimping on animation and saving for the sex scenes.
 
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Kuro

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CassidyIzABeast said:
A quick youtube search later. Uh, yeah. By far the best emoting I've seen in the game. Its funny because everything leading up to it still has that stiffness to it.

Bioware is out here skimping on animation and saving for the sex scenes.
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I made a joke about SFM porn having better animation than this game so maybe they hired those people for the sex scenes.
 
Ritzboof

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am i wrong to feel like some of these animations are unacceptable fora game with such high production value and standards? i know nothing about ME, but i know that its relatively liked for its cinematic quality. that comparison between andromeda and ME1 is shocking to me, the faces in this game are inhuman in comparison

its a shame, too, cuz from what i can tell, it seems like this alone has taken a huge toll on its publicity. im sure the game itself could be fine, but i cant help but be taken aback by what im seeing. youd think for a game thats story intensive this stuff wouldve been a higher priority, even to the publisher figure thats just trying to make money. its a bad impression

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pretty funny, though. this definitely made my night
 
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Giftofgab24

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Ritzboof said:
am i wrong to feel like some of these animations are unacceptable fora game with such high production value and standards? i know nothing about ME, but i know that its relatively liked for its cinematic quality. that comparison between andromeda and ME1 is shocking to me, the faces in this game are inhuman in comparison

its a shame, too, cuz from what i can tell, it seems like this alone has taken a huge toll on its publicity. im sure the game itself could be fine, but i cant help but be taken aback by what im seeing. youd think for a game thats story intensive this stuff wouldve been a higher priority, even to the publisher figure thats just trying to make money. its a bad impression



pretty funny, though. this definitely made my night
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Nah, from the 10 hours I played they completely ruined the story as well.
 
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laxu

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Ritzboof said:
am i wrong to feel like some of these animations are unacceptable fora game with such high production value and standards? i know nothing about ME, but i know that its relatively liked for its cinematic quality. that comparison between andromeda and ME1 is shocking to me, the faces in this game are inhuman in comparison

its a shame, too, cuz from what i can tell, it seems like this alone has taken a huge toll on its publicity. im sure the game itself could be fine, but i cant help but be taken aback by what im seeing. youd think for a game thats story intensive this stuff wouldve been a higher priority, even to the publisher figure thats just trying to make money. its a bad impression
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You're not wrong at all. I am willing to accept things like ragdoll glitches and the occasional rig pose character, even having talking heads in a dialog-heavy game. But the animation is really amateur hour level in many places and the way characters have that blank 1000 yard stare... I had to look at what ME 2 and 3 looked like and they had far more natural movement and looked fine given the limitations of technology at the time.

While I don't expect Andromeda dialogue scenes to reach the level set by games like Uncharted 4 (where I feel like watching a movie), Witcher 3 (talking heads but the correct expressions and reactions as well as some body movement) or Horizon (again talking heads but good looking characters), I'd expect it to be at least at Deus Ex Mankind Divided level, aka "this does not look great but it's ok" considering how much dialogue there is in the game. Just fixing the eyes and having them actually look at the right things would do a lot.
 
TheRedSnifit

TheRedSnifit

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Pixieking said:
It takes a lot of skill. And I don't mean that as a slight towards ME:A's writer, but as an actual argument - you have to specifically set-out to write something that is outside of the time-period it's written. The writers of Frasier said that they wanted as few references to contemporary events as possible, so that it didn't date - and if you watch the whole series (11 seasons/240 odd episodes), you'll note there's maybe a dozen times where the script feels dated, and it's almost always a phrase or word.

So it's definitely possible without parody, and with interesting dialogue. But it's also something that has to be actively sought, and that requires a good editor to "sweep" the script and pick-out the parts that will date. And ME:A fairly obviously did not have a good editor.
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That's why Frasier is the GOAT comedy.

It reminds me of that one Batman TAS episode where they make an OJ Simpson joke. The writers acknowledged that it would date the episode but couldn't resist.
 
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Slaythe

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d9b said:
I know, but to have balls to release the game in this state... Beyond belief tbh.
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Don't blame them for the release.

EA waited literally the absolute limit for the new fiscal year to release the game no matter what, and they most likely froze the budget of the game several months ago (there is no way they wouldn't have fixed the most obvious bugs by now otherwise), waiting for release, and avoiding it to be a bigger money sink.
 
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Jb

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Lime said:
The arm animations here and the romance dialogue here are just :/
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There's such a weird dissonance between the seriousness of the overarching narrative and most of the side quests and the way the characters act like horny teens trying out some terrible pick up lines when they want to bone.

I should say that's something that I also felt in some of Bioware's earlier games but here it's particularly striking. It's like there's two games coexisting: the (more or less) hard sci fi action game and the romance visual novel. I don't feel like they gel at all.
 
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Lime

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d9b said:
I know, but to have balls to release the game in this state... Beyond belief tbh.
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After 5 years, I guess EA had enough and had already given them plenty of delays. It was either releasing it like this as 'good enough' or take it to rest in peace with Jesus Bynum. The sudden announcement of a precise release date also speaks to how undetermined EA and/or Bioware have been in struggling whether to release it or delay it.

Maybe other publishers would've been less forgiving and simply dumped the project.
 
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