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Mass Effect: Andromeda - Cinematic trailer
- Thread starter Tovarisc
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I don't think thats a problem at all. I think it suffers from the same problems as RE: they value the industry trend more than the actual feedback.
You don't need to make it less space opera to make it more corridor shooter. I also think the writers are just not good enough. They should've brought back some of ME1 writers for Andromeda
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I thought Pink Scouter Dude looked awesome, haters be damned.
Durrzerker
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elrechazado
Banned
And the best score of the last gen
Well they brought a Halo 4 writer...
Can any GAFer tell us if Halo 4's story was good?
As you said it has a lot to cover, many alien races, cultures, political and economical status etc. Without info dumps it would leave stuff behind. In other games that would be ok but it's sci, space opera even. Info dump is a core tenet in this case
Lol
AntraxSuicide
Banned
I don't really get this. An undercut is an insanely popular haircut these days. I teach sorority girls who get this cut. Being out of touch with what's hip is not the same thing as recognizing over-the-top edge.
Your additions there are even a description of a popular caster for League of Legends:
Outrun
Member
Aint that the fucking truth.
Halo has been pretty trash post bungie
ROUGE_BLOCK
Member
It's a fuck ton better than whatever the hell Halo 5's was
I thought the questing in ME1 was great. Encountering that giant worm (forgot the name) in your Mako and fighting it was one of the best moment in gaming.
John Petrucci
Member
Happy with mostly everything I saw in the Initiative video. Definitely day 1 for me. Liking Cora the most out of all the humans easily. Great voice and look.
Overall I'd say I love the look and vibe of the game, maybe just initially not quite as much as the older titles or DAI. Looking forward to seeing exactly how it looks on my One
Overall I'd say I love the look and vibe of the game, maybe just initially not quite as much as the older titles or DAI. Looking forward to seeing exactly how it looks on my One
AntraxSuicide
Banned
I enjoyed it, but it really depends on reading outside material (there are still kinks with that too, but nothing massive).
Eh, no, not really. Great sci-fi material finds a way to just show off everything you need. If something is so.... dry (for lack of a better word) that you can't get it to come up naturally, then just dump it in a codex and get it out of the way. And in ME, this is especially egregious since a codex exists in the game already. There's no reason for dialogue to exist with Tali where you ask her basic shit about the Flotilla; Shep is a character that should know this already, and so that info should be out of the way in a codex entry.
There aren't really any genres that should ever use info dumps (maybe something going for a historical thing like Battlefield 1 where you might fall back on dry narration, but that's a stretch).
See BioWare, this guy right here:
Looks really cool - new & different things are awesome. I was just really hoping they'd have a whole bevy of new alien races for this game. What's the point of going to a new universe/galaxy if it's going to remain mostly the same? I can understand wanting carry over some of the series mainstays, but this is also a chance for the ME Universe to go into uncharted territory & craft its own identity. So far this game feels more like an extension or sequel to ME3 than breaking away & being its own thing.
I could be wrong about all this as of course the game isn't out & we've only seen a small bit of it, but I'm not super excited like I've been in the past for this franchise.
Looks really cool - new & different things are awesome. I was just really hoping they'd have a whole bevy of new alien races for this game. What's the point of going to a new universe/galaxy if it's going to remain mostly the same? I can understand wanting carry over some of the series mainstays, but this is also a chance for the ME Universe to go into uncharted territory & craft its own identity. So far this game feels more like an extension or sequel to ME3 than breaking away & being its own thing.
I could be wrong about all this as of course the game isn't out & we've only seen a small bit of it, but I'm not super excited like I've been in the past for this franchise.
With the exception of the collector base sequence... yea.
John Petrucci
Member
He really is bad ass. Awesome design. I love the female behind him as well.
DeadlyParasite
Member
See BioWare, this guy right here:
Looks really cool - new & different things are awesome. I was just really hoping they'd have a whole bevy of new alien races for this game. What's the point of going to a new universe/galaxy if it's going to remain mostly the same? I can understand wanting carry over some of the series mainstays, but this is also a chance for the ME Universe to go into uncharted territory & craft its own identity. So far this game feels more like an extension or sequel to ME3 than breaking away & being its own thing.
I could be wrong about all this as of course the game isn't out & we've only seen a small bit of it, but I'm not super excited like I've been in the past for this franchise.
Why would there be an overwhelming amount of new species in a tiny star cluster of Andromeda? People seem to be oblivious to the fact the game takes place in one tiny ass Helius star cluster. AKA equivalent to a singular star cluster in Mass Effect 1-3 without a Mass Relay. They have literally 99% of the galaxy to explore after this game.
See BioWare, this guy right here:
Looks really cool - new & different things are awesome. I was just really hoping they'd have a whole bevy of new alien races for this game. What's the point of going to a new universe/galaxy if it's going to remain mostly the same? I can understand wanting carry over some of the series mainstays, but this is also a chance for the ME Universe to go into uncharted territory & craft its own identity. So far this game feels more like an extension or sequel to ME3 than breaking away & being its own thing.
I could be wrong about all this as of course the game isn't out & we've only seen a small bit of it, but I'm not super excited like I've been in the past for this franchise.
Haven't we seen 3 or 4 new races?
It looks like an alien, lolOh my god the person on the right lol, what is wrong with their face ?
John Petrucci
Member
Was about to say...um, she's an alien?
Not sure if being trolled or not.
She kind of makes me think of the Zora from Zelda.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
Hot damn this trailer got me hyped again.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
When have we heard this talked about?
Cabbagehead
Member
They look so fucking stiff.
See BioWare, this guy right here:
Looks really cool - new & different things are awesome.
Looks like a Twi'lek.
Rumblebones
Banned
This game is doing nothing for me and I want to get excited.
Space is fucking big. If anything, ME under utilized star clusters. Also, it could be that Andromeda's star clusters have more habitable planets.
And when you consider that Andromeda might not have mass relays, and mere FTL is somewhat slow for traveling anywhere else than within a star cluster...
eighty(one)
Member
See BioWare, this guy right here:
Looks really cool - new & different things are awesome. I was just really hoping they'd have a whole bevy of new alien races for this game. What's the point of going to a new universe/galaxy if it's going to remain mostly the same? I can understand wanting carry over some of the series mainstays, but this is also a chance for the ME Universe to go into uncharted territory & craft its own identity. So far this game feels more like an extension or sequel to ME3 than breaking away & being its own thing.
I could be wrong about all this as of course the game isn't out & we've only seen a small bit of it, but I'm not super excited like I've been in the past for this franchise.
I don't know why, all I see is the white rabbit from alice and Wonderland - cannot unsee it.
WhiskeyKnight
Member
Mass Effect is like one of my favorite things ever and I don't know why I can't get it up for this game..
It's bumming me out.
Feel exactly the same.
WrenchNinja
Member
That quote from what I assume is from a rousing speech was some how even lamer than Shepard's in the entire trilogy
DeadlyParasite
Member
Exactly my point, it wouldn't make sense for BioWare to offload 20 entirely new species in a star cluster that roughly makes up 0.2% of the estimated 500 globular star clusters of the Andromeda Galaxy.
I highly doubt BioWare has the means to waste a Frostbite production budget conceptualizing,modelling and writing for 20 entire new species every game. They barely struggled with around 9 or 10 in Mass Effect 1 on janky-ass Unreal Engine 3 and none of them were fully fleshed out and properly realized until Mass Effect 2 and 3.
So I'll take 3 or 4 new species that are properly built and written from the ground up than a potato sack full of undeveloped, poorly conceptualized races to meet some arbitrary quota a person made up on a web forum.
MegaSackman
Member
Realistic Frieza soldier.
Well, he certainly is going to have to make up for his looks with personality...
#NotMyGarrus
Both have the feline look down so they are both cute in my book. Pink guy still has to prove that he rivals Garrus' skill and rank as king of the bottle shooters however to earn my full attention.
Urgh yes, Jack's so good. Her outfit in 2 was a bit of a mess though tbh.
Voltron64
Member
Yeah, and then they made the covers for both editions of the game be Papa Ryder, and douche Brother Ryder.
I'm glad that the squad mates appear to be wearing proper freaking attire to be running around the galaxy. Unlike taking Jack running around Haestrom like her skin shouldn't be on fire lol.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Like most things about Halo 4, it's pretty difficult to remember what happened. Such a bland game.
Anyways, this trailer does absolutely nothing for me. Im sure it will sell millions of copies, but it just looks like another "Space Jesus must save from the big bad" which is what I thought they were straying away from. The lack of new aliens is also disappointing, then throw the jank gameplay demos they've shown off on the pile and I can muster any excitement.
I was hoping they'd have both of the silblings faces on the cover. Shame.
Anyway, I'm buying this digitally so it's not that big of a deal to me. Still would have been cool to see a girl on a cover for a RPG video game again though.
Divine soundtrack.
Cabbagehead
Member
robertsan21
Member
Did I just watch Star trek?
SchrodingerC
Member
No one, and I mean no one can say ME:A's faces look worse than the first game. Those ME1 character creator faces combined with the horrible skin textures are absolutely worse than your hyperbolic statement.