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A Compilation of Hilarious Animations in Mass Effect Andromeda
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Ultimadrago
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This shit would seriously fit that thread about those Redbox Pixar/Disney ripoffs.
And to think we thought we were overreacting....
Angelus Errare
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The hairline/hair in general gives it all away completely. It's like whoever did the hair didn't understand what a hairline was.
PepsimanVsJoe
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When a 'kick-ass' moment seems cooler in your imagination than in execution.
mercenar1e
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they outsourced it to Bioware Montreal lol
Yes it is slowed down, but even played at full speed it's so absurd.
Spiral Insanity
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Really?
eso76
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There is no end to it.
Which is great
This is the most fun I've ever gotten out of a ME game.
I'm sorry for the fans, i can feel their pain but i just love these threads.
Baroquemantic
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I want to see more comparisons with past Mass Effect games and other RPGs from this gen.
Reapers help us all.
Baroquemantic
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Mass Effect: Andromeda |OT| I'm not a human after all
MisterFalcon
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Those eyes remind me of character animations of nearly 20 years ago. And not in a nostalgic way.
https://youtu.be/NJ-xcgBL1mY?t=49
https://youtu.be/NJ-xcgBL1mY?t=49
Impulsor
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This is hilarious
Alter_Fridge
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Alter_Fridge
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There's still plenty to like about the game
Wait for reviews to see if it feels like Mass Effect despite the flaws. I think that will be the decisive factor.
innervision961
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Why do those human models look so bad? wth
Alter_Fridge
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_/¯Mashin Haters
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the animator just had to make her blink at least once in that scene and it would have been semi okay.
I have too agree lol, might end up getting it.
Alter_Fridge
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Yeah it's not one of the most terrible sequences, but she also needed to look more pissed off right at the end IMO to get the right feels. She just had a gun pointed at her. Unless its a good friend of her's doing it that she doesn't really want to hurt.
Maybe more squinty eyes would do the trick
Ha-cha, street smarts wins again.
Fuuuu~~ theres a blast from the pastShe's trying this tactic I guess:
Doesn't work on Krogan ;P
Triggerhappytel
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It is CGI and while technically very good it's also creepy Uncanny Valley as fuck.
That was one of the realest CG i have seen yet when i saw that years ago, thought it was from a WW 2 or vintage/mafia movie at first lol. Anyway when i found out it was fake i realised it, it always looked kinda off and unatural/spooky.
mikemandey
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New developer. As far as I know this is the first full game developed by Bioware Montreal. Previous games were developed by original Bioware in Edmonton.
Mr Fahrenheit
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Idk about that, I think next to the eyes darting all over the place the blinking is one of the biggest things that throws me off. People blink differently when they're consciously doing it and I feel like every character has that look in this.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Miles ahead.
Sword Of Doom
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Still doesn't make sense to me though. How does one of EA and Bioware's biggest games get released in this state? not just the buggy parts either. All of the footage I've seen the faces lookfucked up
Triggerhappytel
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The thing that gets me the most is that she has this dopey almost-smile after disarming him. It's the same look she has when telling the captain her father is dead. It doesn't help that the dialogue is the most clichéd thing ever "Drop it!" "You first" and the whole cutscene looks lame when they probably thought Ryder would look badass.
It gets released in this state because they don't want to spend anymore money on it, clearly the team behind Andromeda are not capable of delivering a quality product.
EA have decided that it's better to just gobble up that pre-order money before the financial year ends and let nature take it course. It's hardly the first time a big company has shat out a half-baked game. KOTOR2, Sonic 2006, Driver 3, AC Unity, etc. At the end of the day they want your money more than anything else.
Magicpaint
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Sigh. I really wonder what went wrong here with this game's development. Mass Effect was one of my favourite games of the previous generation.
The gifs are hilarious. Holy shit.
The gifs are hilarious. Holy shit.
Son Of Sparda
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The weirdest thing about the faces is the total lack of eye reflection. Even the original trilogy on PS360 got this right; the animation in the old games looks relatively robotic by today's standards, but the eyes still have life in them.
Every single human in Andromeda has these weirdly overdefined eyes with zero lighting interacting with them. You can see everyone's irises and pupils in excruciating detail in a way you just do not see in real life, as if they're wooden orbs with details painted on. Adding better specular effects to the eyes would on its own be a massive improvement for this game, even if the animations stayed just as stiff. It's just so off-putting being able to see everyone's eyes like this.
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This gif going around illustrates this perfectly. Just like how the relative darkness in Ashley's scene on the right sort of hides the distinction between iris and pupil, the bright lighting in the scene on the left should be blowing out some of the detail. The eyes should have shine.
.I quickly/horribly shoved Aloy's larger iris/smaller pupil eyes over the existing pale irises and wandering pupils:
Less wired/more human.
OrbitalBeard
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Going to be interesting to see how much damage this does to the IP and Bioware's reputation. Mass Effect is (was?) a titan of a franchise.
Inviusx
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My thoughts as well. First reveal was some behind the scenes footage at e3 in 2014. Then the first game play reveal was at an Nvidia conferance.
In fact the Nvidia conferance was weird because they were treating it like a tech demo despite it being the first actual gameplay footage.
This game had a strange run up to launch.
Let's not pretend that the franchise wasn't already damaged by Mass Effect 3. That's probably part of the reason why they outsourced Andromeda in the first place while the real BioWare worked on a new IP.
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