Nostremitus
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Oh, I know. That's why I use console commands to play ME1 on PC instead of just using the comic.
I also use controller mods.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda - Cinematic trailer
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I also use controller mods.
Shambalakan
Member
Is it only me who thinks head to body ratio is somehow off in ME: Andromeda?!
activatethesmile
Member
Come on Bioware, I dare you to break new grounds!
Allow us to romance a Krogan this time! >
Allow us to romance a Krogan this time! >
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Come on Bioware, I dare you to break new grounds!
Allow us to romance a Krogan this time! >
It was partial-sarcasm. I know it's popular and considered a good look these days, I was more having a go at the generic character design. ie "How do we make a badass female? Just give her an undercut bro!"
Agreed. The main characters heads look massive!
A female (I heard there's an engineer on board that's a Krogan girl?) and and a male Krogan romance, please. To make up for the lack of the option in the previous games.Come on Bioware, I dare you to break new grounds!
Allow us to romance a Krogan this time! >
masterkajo
Member
OléGunner;229183620 said:
If it is anything like Dragon Age 2 where you create your character and your mother and siblings change appearance depending on your looks. So that could very well be possible.
Whatever happened to putting female Ryder on point in the marketing this time around?
Anyways, I don't know, but I'm not feeling this 100%. Maybe it's because I finally got around to watching MrBTongue's videos on Mass Effect 3, but in the trailers there is very little about the interesting bits of the premise (such as the fact that you are one of a small handful of humans who are, as far as you know, the last human beings in the universe, that the homeworld and all of galactic civilization as you knew it might have been wiped out in the 600 years that you have been in cryosleep) but lots about a thoroughly uninteresting part of the premise.
Do we really need another ambiguously uberpowerful villain with an ominous name?
Also, I love how the female human party member is introduced as a sexy lady love interest while the male human party member is introduced shooting a gun and doing action things.
Anyways, I don't know, but I'm not feeling this 100%. Maybe it's because I finally got around to watching MrBTongue's videos on Mass Effect 3, but in the trailers there is very little about the interesting bits of the premise (such as the fact that you are one of a small handful of humans who are, as far as you know, the last human beings in the universe, that the homeworld and all of galactic civilization as you knew it might have been wiped out in the 600 years that you have been in cryosleep) but lots about a thoroughly uninteresting part of the premise.
Do we really need another ambiguously uberpowerful villain with an ominous name?
Also, I love how the female human party member is introduced as a sexy lady love interest while the male human party member is introduced shooting a gun and doing action things.
masterkajo
Member
They said they will alternate between female and male Ryder with each trailer of promotional footage they release. Last time where we got some gameplay we had female Ryder
#neverforget
Darkstorne
Member
Not that this should inspire much confidence. I played as a black Hawke and the rest of my family were still white =P
masterkajo
Member
Uh... haha... I just assumed. I never tried to create a black Hawke myself. Seems Hawke's mother wasn't always that faithful.
lucebuce12
Member
Family is still family.
bobnowhere
Member
Is that Claudia Black playing the Twilek/Space Cobra female companion?
If he's anything like past Bioware male love intrests FemRyder probably isnt interested. Looking at you Carth "I dont trust anyone" Onassi, Kaiden "Im Secretly Gay" Alenko, Jacob "I got another woman pregnant while we were on a break" Taylor, James "GTL Bruh" Vega.
Sure sounds like it, kinda disappointed as her voice is so distinguished it's pulls you out a bit as immediately I think of one of her many other characters.
I've played all 3 Mass Effect games 9 to 16 times depending on which game we're talking about, and I've modified and tweaked those games to make them more tweaked to what I think is fun for them, I love those games.
(Starting with level 7 guns and armor in ME1, with level 10 armors for the squad so I don't have to focus on anything other than their slots unless I want to change their look, btw the 8 unused armors all look great on liara, and one of them is what she wears at the start of me2, and what alot of asari in that game wear.)
(In ME2 I tweaked the squad weapon loadouts so Jacob and jack can have a missile ir grenade launcher to make them as useful as Samara or Tali, and setting Grunt to just a shotgun so he doesn't keep switching off of it.)
(In ME3 I tweaked the war assets so that my choices actually effect which ending is possible, and I installed powers mods and costume mods that aid the narrative for past characters, and I even found addresses that let me trigger miranda's letter and date for citadel on playthroughs where I take the "I'm breaking up with you" route)
But yeah I was SO into me1 2 and 3 but this game just doesn't look interesting at all. Maybe it'll be like Jack from ME2 and I'll actually like these squadmates that look more like bloggers than soldiers.
This game's going to have to win me over. I've not been too big on Bioware since a lot of the old guard left. I'm not getting myself excited yet. If this ends up feeling about as much like Mass Effect as the new Star Wars and Star Trek movies compare to the old...I don't know.
If this game isn't good it kind of feels like it might be the last big game Bioware makes. I feel really uneasy about the status of the company for some reason recently.
(Starting with level 7 guns and armor in ME1, with level 10 armors for the squad so I don't have to focus on anything other than their slots unless I want to change their look, btw the 8 unused armors all look great on liara, and one of them is what she wears at the start of me2, and what alot of asari in that game wear.)
(In ME2 I tweaked the squad weapon loadouts so Jacob and jack can have a missile ir grenade launcher to make them as useful as Samara or Tali, and setting Grunt to just a shotgun so he doesn't keep switching off of it.)
(In ME3 I tweaked the war assets so that my choices actually effect which ending is possible, and I installed powers mods and costume mods that aid the narrative for past characters, and I even found addresses that let me trigger miranda's letter and date for citadel on playthroughs where I take the "I'm breaking up with you" route)
But yeah I was SO into me1 2 and 3 but this game just doesn't look interesting at all. Maybe it'll be like Jack from ME2 and I'll actually like these squadmates that look more like bloggers than soldiers.
This game's going to have to win me over. I've not been too big on Bioware since a lot of the old guard left. I'm not getting myself excited yet. If this ends up feeling about as much like Mass Effect as the new Star Wars and Star Trek movies compare to the old...I don't know.
If this game isn't good it kind of feels like it might be the last big game Bioware makes. I feel really uneasy about the status of the company for some reason recently.
Oh dear. I wonder how many characters I'm not going to care about now because that's basically Halo 4; and not good for Mass Effect where characters are what holds it up.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Halo 4's premise was okay, but the actual story was awful. The storytelling was also some of the worse I've ever witnessed, where they hid key plot points (like the villain's motivation) in hidden terminals in every level to hope you would piece it together.
Obviously there are a lot of factors in writing a game's story, but based on what we've seen so far (with the horribly clichéd writing in trailers) I don't have much faith in this.
Dre_G_Writer
Member
OMG. Hhahahaha. Wow.
Blue Ninja
Member
There's more writers than just the Halo 4 guy, though. I'm sure it'll be fine.
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Either marketing for this has been terrible or ME3 did kill all of my emotional attachment to the franchise cause I can't muster up any kind of excitement or hope/idea of what I want this to be for me. It's more like I'm curious and if it's great I'll probably play it but if it's just good or ok I feel like I don't really need to.
I hope it's going to be great.
I hope it's going to be great.
NeloAnjelo
Member
I think it's something to do with the size of their shoulders.... just seem like the shoulders are too small or something...?
Everytime I watch a new ME:A trailer and then the ME2 launch trailer (since everytime someone posts it) it always makes me think: This game/franchise used to be HUGE. I used to be EXTREMELY excited for it.
But nowadays I barely even see these kinds of AAA+ games that I get extremely excited over anymore. The only thing I could think of right now would be Cyberpunk 2077 and maybe TLOU2. Are there less of these kinds of boundary-pushing AAA+ 95+ MC games or do you just get less excited as you grow up?
But nowadays I barely even see these kinds of AAA+ games that I get extremely excited over anymore. The only thing I could think of right now would be Cyberpunk 2077 and maybe TLOU2. Are there less of these kinds of boundary-pushing AAA+ 95+ MC games or do you just get less excited as you grow up?
sandkiller
Member
Well, that trailer already tells me who dies first lol..
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
So....what do we know about this?
Well, if they wanna be topical...
StrongBlackVine
Banned
I loved the original trilogy, but nothing Bioware has shown so far is getting me excited for this game. Hopefully they are just doing a terrible job of marketing.
So....what do we know about this?
woh! His daughter?
Not seeing the "Star Trek" people keep mentioning in this really. It's Sci-Fi/Space-Opera, not all Sci-Fi is Star Trek...
Also, regarding the writing, not sure what you can say about it, based of a 2 minute trailer, with cuts every 2 seconds.
You can ofcourse discuss the writing based of previous BioWare games, but not sure if you can put any real weight behind any arguments based on this trailer.
Also, regarding the writing, not sure what you can say about it, based of a 2 minute trailer, with cuts every 2 seconds.
You can ofcourse discuss the writing based of previous BioWare games, but not sure if you can put any real weight behind any arguments based on this trailer.
SJRB
Gold Member
Watched the trailer three times, but I'm not feeling any of it and it's pissing me off because I really, really want to get hyped for this.
We get WAY too few big space-themed games as is, I want to be excited but none of the Andromeda trailers have done the game any favors for me.
It's hard to explain why though.
We get WAY too few big space-themed games as is, I want to be excited but none of the Andromeda trailers have done the game any favors for me.
It's hard to explain why though.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
90% of great sci fi/space opera is only text so it is natural that people associate visual examples with one another, especially if they share things in common, like predominately humanoid species. Plus the trailer made it seem similar to the setup of ST:Beyond.
Disagree Guy
Member
All aboard the hype starship.
I loved the look of it - no doubt I'll love the game
The trailer has been up less than a day and it has over a million views. That's pretty impressive to me although I have no reference point at all.
Day one.
I loved the look of it - no doubt I'll love the game
The trailer has been up less than a day and it has over a million views. That's pretty impressive to me although I have no reference point at all.
Day one.
I'm surprised if Andromeda Initiative wasn't created or majorly funded by Cerberus, would explain SAM too. They created EDI after all.
MegaSackman
Member
I don't think the Mass Effect 2 Launch Trailer was that good, it has the same lame one liners people are complaining about and the epic music is kinda lame too, I prefer the OST over that.
And I consider ME2 one of the greatest.
And I consider ME2 one of the greatest.
Freeman76
Member
Looks great, has the potential to be even better than 2 and 3, which would take some beating as far as I'm concerned. Between this and the 4 minute gameplay trailer I have seen enough to know this will be a classic. Bring on March, 2 copies ordered, one each for me and my wife
Devilinthiscity
Member
Yeah, I don't know what it is, but I find the characters a bit bland? Not feeling the main character or the crew at all. I really hope the game is good, but the hype is just not there for me.
royox
Member
Maybe you are right...but let's remember it's a Bioware game, Bioware's public is aware of this game and it doesn't need a COD like marketing campaign to remember all the casuals "HEY!! HERE'S THE GAME YOU BUY EVERY YEAR!!!"
in isolation, this trailer is pretty good. knowing and seeing what we have done up to this point however makes me think the game is going to absolutely suck!
there just isn't the character draw the previous games had, specifically ME1. and the story doesnt seem as interesting either. it feels more cliched than i wanted it too. there's even a line almost directly lifted from the avengers. i just struggle to get excited by it. which is a shame because i loved ME1 (the other 2 were passable) and big, space opera games akin to star trek are few and fare between.
there just isn't the character draw the previous games had, specifically ME1. and the story doesnt seem as interesting either. it feels more cliched than i wanted it too. there's even a line almost directly lifted from the avengers. i just struggle to get excited by it. which is a shame because i loved ME1 (the other 2 were passable) and big, space opera games akin to star trek are few and fare between.
Langdon Alger
Banned
I can't put my finger on why, but all the character's faces look fucked up to me. There's just something weird about them.
Faces seem to be the one thing Bioware has the most problems with on the otherwise great Frostbite Engine. Inquisition was the same.
And it's a shame because the faces are so important in these games, and they were really good in the Unreal Engine Mass Effects.
ME 2 trailer is just as bland to me. Same overly dramatic music (that sounds nothing like the in game one) and cringe worthy movie trailer one-liner. I was more impressed back then sorely because I had played way less cinematic game and it looked like such a step up from ME1 in terms of presentation.