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Mass Effect Andromeda Graphical Downgrade

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Looks like she shit herself and is trying to make it to the bathroom without anybody noticing.

aosdfgokpasdjopfkolsdfapkodsfopksdfakos -> translation -> lol

Yeah, this thread is killing me.
 

Agent_4Seven

Tears of Nintendo
Uh, for F sake *epic facepalm* Females don't walk like that!

Goddamn. It's 2017, BioWare! 10 year old approach to cut-scenes and piss-poor animations is not working at all today and looks extremely dated, goofy and not appropriate! Can everyone at the studio who made this shit get out of the tank or crawl out from under the rock?

The Witcher 3 just kills this game hundreds of times and lol at it from a 100000th foot mountain.
 
Uh, for F sake *epic facepalm* Females don't walk like that!

Goddamn. It's 2017, BioWare! 10 year old approach to cut-scenes and piss-poor animations is not working at all today and looks extremely dated, goofy and not appropriate! Can everyone at the studio who made this shit get out of the tank or crawl out from under the rock?

The Witcher 3 just kills this game hundreds of times and lol at it from a 100000th foot mountain.

I want to believe that these are just aberrations in an otherwise great game...but the fact that we can so easily spot this stuff before getting a ton of footage is...concerning.
 
Uh, for F sake *epic facepalm* Females don't walk like that!

Goddamn. It's 2017, BioWare! 10 year old approach to cut-scenes and piss-poor animations is not working at all today and looks extremely dated, goofy and not appropriate! Can everyone at the studio who made this shit get out of the tank or crawl out from under the rock?

The Witcher 3 just kills this game hundreds of times and lol at it from a 100000th foot mountain.

the whole game is filled with terrible animation there is much wrong with things i've seen it's kind of hilarious hopefully the games stories turn out well.


I hope.
 

sneas78

Banned
What is it with this game and underbites? The blue one looks like Shrek, it's hilarious. I mean, they're lovable, sure, but I just can't stop laughing when I see the characters. I'm not going to be able to play this game with a straight face.

Exactly. It's like, are you trying to make me laugh?

Damn it now I can't un-see. Lol.
 

xealo

Member
Well, if the goal was to avoid making her walk with the grace of a runway model, they succeeded.

I feel like there should be a middle ground between walking like a runway model, and looking like you've crapped yourself trying to get to a bathroom kind of walk.

Normal people do not walk like runway models, but they don't walk like that either.
 
It kind of sucks that, arguably, the most important part of mass effect got screwed up. It won't be a good mass effect game, if i can't emotionally invest in the characters.

I really hope it isn't that bad as the latest thread make it seem. Crossing my fingers for tomorrow!
 

aravuus

Member
https://youtu.be/ktjywYQ8QCU?t=1h35m46s

Cora's way of walking sure is ... something.

Hahaha my god

Some of the stuff in this game is seriously comedy gold

This game is going to be so much better if you play the game as if it's a comedy and do stupid shit rather than the super serious space adventure they want it to be.

Oh yeah, I'm totally gonna do this! Gonna make Ryder look dopey as hell and just have fun with it.

All of this is actually making me more excited about the game for some reason lmao. Hope I can more or less finish Nier before ME is out so I can get to it day one too.
 
I feel like there should be a middle ground between walking like a runway model, and looking like you've crapped yourself trying to get to a bathroom kind of walk.

Normal people do not walk like runway models, but they don't walk like that either.

IIRC, I've seen normal people walk. I was just joking about the opposite extreme to this, where it does indeed seem that an unfortunate load is being carried...
 

Zemm

Member
This thread needs to be renamed "the mass effect Andromeda jank/meme" thread where we can post gifs of all the random stuff that's bound to happen. This thread is already top tier and it can only get better
 
I just came off a 93 hour playthrough of Dragon Age Inquisition so everything looks like an improvement over Bioware's last game to me. That game was janky as fuck.
 

Elman

Member
This thread needs to be renamed "the mass effect Andromeda jank/meme" thread where we can post gifs of all the random stuff that's bound to happen. This thread is already top tier and it can only get better

I agree. Embrace the jank. Besides, the whole "downgrade" thing is nonsense, stuff like this will happen during development. The newer videos and screenshots look close enough to the initial reveal footage.

I'm not being sarcastic.

The initial reveal and gameplay footage never looked good or fun to play in the first place 😏
 
The writing and tone shifts from mere sentence to sentence conversations is just...really awkward and borderline terrible imo.

Lines like this:

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source: https://youtu.be/Vss92x8YaF0?t=1h37m56s

I mean...it's a valid thing to say...I guess? I'm sorry, my face is tired from dealing with everything? Huh?

More than the line the problem is with those dead eyes?

I think that tech can only push you that far. In terms of body and facial animations there's barely any jump between this and last gen ME games.
 

AU Tiger

Member
I think the weird looking character models make the downgrade appear worse? Idk, not really a big fan of the design of some of the new alien races and main cast of characters. That being said, I'll probably stick with the default character model. The character creator makes your created character stick out and look like one of the non important NPC's from the game. At least you can have fun with it and make some weird looking characters.


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The Monster Factory episode on this game is going to be DELICIOUS.

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More than the line the problem is with those dead eyes?

I think that tech can only push you that far. In terms of body and facial animations there's barely any jump between this and last gen ME games.

Characters like her need some actual skin folds and lines on her face like a normal human being. She doesn't even have distinguishable eye lids. Her eyes look like flat planes. There is no depth to her eyes. She remains wide eyed all the time (as do other characters).

I'm glad some people can stomach this, but I can't. I'm playing through Horizon Zero Dawn and while it's not perfect, at least a lot of the characters themselves look convincingly human. The lip syncing is just hit and miss, but I can deal with that.
 

Vire

Member
I mean it's easy to say "but but, the game is dozens and dozens of hours long of course there is going to be things like this in here"

I'm watching the stream and there is something horrible like this every ten minutes. It's not an anomaly.
 
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