FingerBang
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I'm at work and I had to do my best not to laugh too loudly. Pure genius!
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Mass Effect: Andromeda 90's sitcom?
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I'm at work and I had to do my best not to laugh too loudly. Pure genius!
xZoneHunter
Member
To be fair, the friends theme works with damn near every trailer. Still funny though
kobe(beast)
Member
How can these animations be so bad? Like are they even trying to make a good game or this is a cash grab?
new studio, new engine. 5 years of development. weird and non-transparent marketing. various employee departures throughout the project. horrible animation bugs in high profile marketing trailers. signs (tales from my ass) point to troubled development.
LastMinuteHero
Member
Haha
Peroroncino
Member
Dammit, I laughed so hard because of this and the downgrade thread that I'll probably have a hard time falling asleep now.
cleveridea
Member
I've been looking forward to a new Mass Effect for years. I never expected to be laughing so much - not just at these gifs but when I started playing it
And none of the laughs were intended
I think its clear the team just had massive problems in the transition to the new engine
And none of the laughs were intended
I think its clear the team just had massive problems in the transition to the new engine
TetraGenesis
Member
Jesus fucking Christ.
Well, I guess one AAA release this spring had to be a disappointment.
Why did it have to be Mass Effect.
I've been dying for a good sci-fi RPG in the well, the vein of Mass Effect.
Maybe this is the reason the game takes place in Andromeda. In the off chance the original team wants to make ME4, they can do so by canonizing one of the endings of 3 and just ignore Andromeda all together.
Jesus.
Vital Tundra
Member
Literally looks like an oblivion character speaking.
Halo 4 writer, huh?
For all it's faults, the dialogue in Halo 4 was actually pretty good. Nothing like in that clip.
Are those, like, 8 different takes stitched together?
Mac Walter, huh?
Mac Walters?
At least with Chris Schlerf it would be interesting to see how much of his original Andromeda script is still there. From what I could tell he left Bioware in 2015 and went to Bungie where he worked on Rise of Iron which while limited in it's dialogue, was actually pretty decent as well.
So it's possible from 2015 to 2017 there were changes to original script. Maybe.
What the fuck ?
He's the lead creative director.
Ok. This is terrible.
That does not mean that the rest of the game is like that. At least i hope that those bad moments will be few.
Whoa, this is pretty baaad.
Oh. I see. That might be it.
sounds like the very first script reading
KyanMehwulfe
Member
reminds me of the MGS V sitcom edit
The D-Dogs 1980's TV Intro
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfOJtmjRtY
Even fits the gameplay and cutscene style: random Mother Base cutscenes feel more like sitcom episodes than a 'movie' story arc.
The D-Dogs 1980's TV Intro
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfOJtmjRtY
Even fits the gameplay and cutscene style: random Mother Base cutscenes feel more like sitcom episodes than a 'movie' story arc.
That was a big step up from STAR RHAPSODY 1 though.
where they had two people read lines for a cast of 64
Yes.
The dog barking in the background was a bit of a distraction from the main story as well.
UberTag
Member
Is mostly positively received by game reviewers... or mostly positively received by everyone else?
Because I agree with you on the first part.
Sanctuary
Member
Yeah, its like the voice actors were given no context whatsoever on the lines they were delivering.... and only had one take to do them.
i dont get how a development team as large as the one working on Mass Effect could have repeatedly played through these scenes and not made a note about how bad this was.
I mean frankly, it's disastrous. This is also on the head of the voice director. Who is the credit for that on Andromeda? Because they are/should be getting fired. I'm not trying to be mean but anybody would be fired for failing at their job this hard.
Helscream
Banned
How has this not been posted?
"Holy Jesus. What is that? What the fuck is that?!"
SilentRacoon
Member
I feel Bioware montreal are going to get (justifiable) sacked if this games does poorly, how in the fuck do you spend five years developing a game and release a game that feels to be in alpha state, this shit is unacceptable.
Yeah, I was thinking that earlier. With a small project people can get too close to their work, but this how is it possible?
"the gravity on these alien planets do some fucked up shit to our physiology!"
Username1198
Member
Just skip the dialogue I always smash buttons so no read all good
*canned applause
*canned applause
The bizarre advertising for this game was such a massive red flag that EA did not believe in their product at all. Im just glad there are so many other fantastic games out right now to play instead.
PS: Good to see you posting on gaming side again Ami
GodParticle
Member
Is the plot of this game that they sent robots to explore andromeda and there was a major, system-wide malfunctioning? That's all I could gather based on the weird animations and dialogue
My face is tired, lol wut (and like as if she looks like she is tired anyway LOL).
Hi.Ok that was funny.
