Unlikely.
Certainly it won't have any official mod-support, don't think any Frostbite 2 games have.
Wait, what. DA:I has mods on PC?
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IGN: The First 13 Minutes of Mass Effect: Andromeda
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Unlikely.
Certainly it won't have any official mod-support, don't think any Frostbite 2 games have.
Wait, what. DA:I has mods on PC?
AWizardDidIt
Member
Not "mod friendly" per se, but like life, they find a way.
Sad Affleck
Member
Yeah, seriously. I'm extremely disappointed, dialogue is a big part of the game and these animations are just bad. The faces show almost zero emotion most of the time and they are completely incapable of showing even remotely realistic reactions. The voices don't fit their characters at all due to that fact.
family_guy
Member
I'm hoping there can be something done to make the characters look like they fit in the world. The characters look a bit too cartoony compared to the environments.
Yes, there were plenty. Mods were often finicky with patches, but it was possible to mod and people created modding tools.
Well. That's a surprise.
I assume there are no extensive content mods though, like new places?
shinobi602
Member
I'm a little baffled at some comments on the facial animations. They're perfectly in line with other huge RPGs of similar caliber. Heck I'd say they're better some of the time. Feels like I watched a different video.
They do look kinda terrible on most gifs people have made.
Which is on par for BioWare as usual... That is, all the odd ones and bad ones tend to get noticed.
For most part i'd imagine things look good, which naturally won't draw eye on them, because they work like people expect.
No, no new places. Many of the mods were texture mods, hair, script changes, things like that.
Sad Affleck
Member
Your post makes me think I watched a different video as well. Don't you see how utterly frozen and expressionless even Ryder's face is during the whole sequence? His voice actor expresses a variety of emotions that the animations utterly fail to capture.
AWizardDidIt
Member
It did and Origins does have a pretty good number of mods.
There's plenty of facial expression shown in that video, some of it fairly good even. If we're comparing it to its peers, Horizon just released this week and looks worse (imo) despite having a predefined MC that doesn't have to account for custom features.
shinobi602
Member
I agree they could be better but it's nothing out of the ordinary from other RPGs I've played. The Witcher, Horizon...it looked fine for a game with so much dialogue.
And I think characters like Dr. Lexi, Cora and especially Alec Ryder looked good.
I think these people should watch/play the old Mass Effects again. The ones in ME:A are leagues above those, even if they're not amazing in their own right.
It's essentially self perpetuating now. Someone makes an out of context GIF that looks a bit odd, then that confirms to a lot of people that this is because "Bioware can't do animation". And then onto the next video, and it repeats.......
Camarasketch
Member
The animation in this game is just terrible. Probably you watched a different video because it is something that is quite clear. Game can be great...but the animations are just awful.
Man Called Aerodynamics
Member
Dude you can take freeze frames of actual people talking and find single frames that look bizarre.
Some intense reaching here to prop up this narrative that MEA's character animations are substantially worse than Horizon or The Witcher or whatever.
AWizardDidIt
Member
Nope, the animations are pretty alright in most spots with occasional jankiness.
Durrzerker
Banned
Still waiting for this other huge open world game with tons of dialogue and characters with better animation that supposedly exists to invite these useless comparisons.
Funny how people bashing ME:A's so conveniently forget to include it in their posts.
ME:A's animation is competitive with Witcher 3's, which is impressive considering customizable protagonists. It's an improvement over ME3, DA:I, Fallout 4, MMOs, Saints Row, and every other game I can think of with this extent of facial customization.
So is someone PLEASE gonna give me this apparent gigantic game with dozens of hours of dialogue on a custom face that looks better, or do I get to continue under the impression that it's unreasonable comparisons to games with a fraction of things to be animated on set protagonists who have thousands fewer lines of dialogue?
Please enlighten me because this mystery ceased to be entertaining months ago.
Funny how people bashing ME:A's so conveniently forget to include it in their posts.
ME:A's animation is competitive with Witcher 3's, which is impressive considering customizable protagonists. It's an improvement over ME3, DA:I, Fallout 4, MMOs, Saints Row, and every other game I can think of with this extent of facial customization.
So is someone PLEASE gonna give me this apparent gigantic game with dozens of hours of dialogue on a custom face that looks better, or do I get to continue under the impression that it's unreasonable comparisons to games with a fraction of things to be animated on set protagonists who have thousands fewer lines of dialogue?
Please enlighten me because this mystery ceased to be entertaining months ago.
Compared to what game of similar scope ? The Witcher 3 as very stiff face most of time and Horizon (which seems to use a facial animation system similar to ME:A) is right in the middle of the uncanny valley from what I've seen. These kind of games can't compete with the thigh focus of games like Uncharted and Tomb Raider
StarlordDial
Member
Cool opening ! Excited for the game 
Also why is everyone overlooking the part that maleryder just ditched femryder lol?!!!
come on !
Also why is everyone overlooking the part that maleryder just ditched femryder lol?!!!
come on !
Man Called Aerodynamics
Member
Tomb Raider I'll give you, but Uncharted's thigh focus was mostly in 2 with Chloe.
Durrzerker
Banned
I dunno man, if Miranda and Tali were any indication, ME games are great at thigh focus.
Camarasketch
Member
Well, you don´t really need to compare with anything to realize that the animation is not good at all. Not only facial animations, but everything in general. The fact that every other game have bad animations doesn´t make it automatically good.
Durrzerker
Banned
Bad and good are relative. Good for an open world game is not the same as good for an Uncharted game.
Managing expectations based on context is a pretty important skill to have.
Man Called Aerodynamics
Member
If you want a more dour Ryder, go with logical/professional.
Yabberwocky
Member
Wow, they certainly didn't waste any time with that opening - as people have said, very ME1. I was pleasantly surprised with the the flow in the cutscenes, I think it's the most genuinely naturalistic we've seen from Bioware. There feel like a very organic back and forth, even when the player is choosing dialogue options. DA:I was often very stilted in natural flow - you'd get 'dialogue' (slightly too long pause) 'dialogue' (slightly too long pause), even when it was non-interactive dialogue. Ryder and Natalie Dormer Asari going back and forth sounded great, as did interacting with Daddy Ryder. Speaking of Daddy Ryder, Clancy Brown sounds fantastic, the character seems very intriguing from the get-go. I hope he plays a decent role in the game. Nice to see the time honored Daddy Issues tradition continuing at Bioware. Ryder might have Hawke beat, by the looks of it.
I did laugh that
didn't seem to bother Ryder that much.
I did laugh that
Sara's pod/Sara getting hurt
cripterion
Member
Can someone gif the sequence at 9:30. Made me laugh my ass off, these guys are pulling dance moves lol
And that captain looked like a generic Jleague face in FIFA.
Anyways, I'm in. Space based exploration action rpg is too good to pass but you could pull so many moments in every vid released that looks goofy or hilarious. Sadly I don't think it's intended that way.
And that captain looked like a generic Jleague face in FIFA.
Anyways, I'm in. Space based exploration action rpg is too good to pass but you could pull so many moments in every vid released that looks goofy or hilarious. Sadly I don't think it's intended that way.
AWizardDidIt
Member
There's a dialogue wheel with different tones so you might have a different experiencing playing it if you choose different dialogue choices. It looks like the IGN guy was going maximum Nathan Drake each time.
Poodlestrike
Banned
No, there is no character customizer. Obviously. This is a Mass Effect game, after all.
digoutyoursoul
Member
All it needs now is Faunts for the end credits
They're in line with other games that have crappy animation, as most WRPGs do.
I don't won't to be so dismissive since I know a ton of work goes into them, but they simply are distractingly ugly despite the technical prowess that goes into them.
All it needs now is Faunts for the end credits
Bioware, pls.
All you'll get is a toggle between default Ryder and Mark Vanderloo.
Even femRyder is Vanderloo in a wig.
It's your daddy goggles bro
GameAddict411
Member
I think the facial animation looks really great considering the scale of the game! It's kinda crazy people are comparing this to Uncharted 4 or TLOU while knowing how tiny they were. People should compare this game to Fallout 4. Facial animation in that game look awful in comparison.
For $1.99 you'll be able to buy the Mark Meer pack. Mark Meer will perform every character, do an acapella rendition of the soundtrack and vocalize the sound effects for the entire game.
...this started out as a joke, but now I kinda want this
prag16
Banned
Oh come on.