Mass Effect: Andromeda 90's sitcom?

[Omeganex9999]

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I just cant resist. Its just too hilarious and I love the 90's sitcom dearly.

Credit to whoever made it.

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I'm at work and I had to do my best not to laugh too loudly. Pure genius!

 

[xZoneHunter]

Inspired by the OP heres a rushed edit of the Mass Effect trailer with the friends theme song. http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/58c9f63a2e68f-friends-in-andromeda-mass-effect.php

To be fair, the friends theme works with damn near every trailer. Still funny though

 

[kobe(beast)]

How can these animations be so bad? Like are they even trying to make a good game or this is a cash grab?

 

[Lime]

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]

Haha

 

[Peroroncino]

Dammit, I laughed so hard because of this and the downgrade thread that I'll probably have a hard time falling asleep now.

 

[cleveridea]

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

 

[Hyun Sai]

Wow, after finding Mass Effect 3 so bad I did not finish it and spent all my time in Multiplayer, will history repeat itself ?

 

[Lime]

This works well without a laugh track: https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz

actual dialogue

NPC: All right, what happened?
Ryder: To who?
NPC: To whom! And your goddamn father! [awkward change in tonation] I'm sorry, my face is tired of dealing with everything and right now I just want to know what happened to Alec. Not how he died...I pulled those logs. What happened with...Pathfinda?

 

[TetraGenesis]

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Jesus fucking Christ.


Well, I guess one AAA release this spring had to be a disappointment.

 

[Kalentan]

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.

 

[kirblar]

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Jesus.

 

[Vital Tundra]

Jesus fucking Christ.


Well, I guess one AAA release this spring had to be a disappointment.

Literally looks like an oblivion character speaking.

 

[CrazyDude]

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Halo 4 writer, huh?

 

[Kalentan]

Halo 4 writer, huh?

For all it's faults, the dialogue in Halo 4 was actually pretty good. Nothing like in that clip.

 

[Drewton]

I hope I could play it like this

 

[kadotsu]

This works well without a laugh track: https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz

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Are those, like, 8 different takes stitched together?

 

[CrazyDude]

For all it's faults, the dialogue in Halo 4 was actually pretty good. Nothing like in that clip.

Mac Walter, huh?

 

[Kalentan]

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.

 

[Opa-Pa]

... Why does this look worse than the original games?

And why do they look like, uh, real life actors who forgot their lines.

 

[Hyun Sai]

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What the fuck ?

 

[CrazyDude]

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.

He's the lead creative director.

 

[m_dorian]

This works well without a laugh track: https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz

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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.

 

[DTKT]

This works well without a laugh track: https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz

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Whoa, this is pretty baaad.

 

[Kalentan]

He's the lead creative director.

Oh. I see. That might be it.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

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sounds like the very first script reading

 

[KyanMehwulfe]

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.

 

[JayEH]

goodness what the hell is going on

 

[Amir0x]

oh man well i knew our streak of great games had to end somewhere.

these line readings are straight out of an indie game you'd find called STAR RHAPSODY II: THE AWAKENING where they get their friends and family to record lines

 

[Dante]

Yikes, this looks really bad.

 

[DECK'ARD]

oh man well i knew our streak of great games had to end somewhere.

these line readings are straight out of an indie game you'd find called STAR RHAPSODY II: THE AWAKENING where they get their friends and family to record lines

That was a big step up from STAR RHAPSODY 1 though.

 

[Amir0x]

That was a big step up from STAR RHAPSODY 1 though.

where they had two people read lines for a cast of 64

 

[DECK'ARD]

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.

 

[Luminaire]

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look at those eyes

thats some five nights at freddys shit

 

[UberTag]

I keep getting this feeling that this will be a game, much like DAI, that GAF hates but is mostly positively received

Is mostly positively received by game reviewers... or mostly positively received by everyone else?

Because I agree with you on the first part.

 

[Sanctuary]

Cant wait for the game to come out. Great gifs ahoy.

 

[Niks]

oh man well i knew our streak of great games had to end somewhere.

these line readings are straight out of an indie game you'd find called STAR RHAPSODY II: THE AWAKENING where they get their friends and family to record lines

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.

 

[Amir0x]

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]

How has this not been posted?

"Holy Jesus. What is that? What the fuck is that?!"

 

[SilentRacoon]

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.

 

[kadotsu]

My guess is that this wasn't intended to be the final script and these are placeholders. That's the only way this makes sense for a company the size of Bioware. I have seen machine translation that flows better than this.

 

[DECK'ARD]

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.

Yeah, I was thinking that earlier. With a small project people can get too close to their work, but this how is it possible?

 

[Lime]

Is mostly positively received by game reviewers... or mostly positively received by everyone else?

Because I agree with you on the first part.

Gamespot had a lot of harsh things to say about it, e.g. "the experience is intolerable so far"

Giant Bomb were pretty lukewarm and skeptical of the game in their stream

PC Gamer had some negative feelings of it as well.

Reviews are on Monday.

 

[Amir0x]

"Holy Jesus. What is that? What the fuck is that?!"

"the gravity on these alien planets do some fucked up shit to our physiology!"

 

[Username1198]

Just skip the dialogue I always smash buttons so no read all good

*canned applause

 

[Xeteh]

After how poorly ME3 ran on the PS3 I was going to wait before ordering a PS4 version but from what I've seen so far I'm going to wait for a bit because of other reasons entirely.

 

[RexNovis]

oh man well i knew our streak of great games had to end somewhere.

these line readings are straight out of an indie game you'd find called STAR RHAPSODY II: THE AWAKENING where they get their friends and family to record lines

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]

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

 

[Wanderer5]

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My face is tired, lol wut (and like as if she looks like she is tired anyway LOL).

 

[balohna]

Ok that was funny.

Hi.