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Anyone playing the new Mass Effect: Andromeda? Is it as bad as reviews say?
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:03 PM Author: Provocative Psychic Hissy Fit HALP ME DECIDE whether to get this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3563447&forum_id=2#32910496) |
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:06 PM Author: peach cheese-eating church building http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-19/mass-effect-andromeda-sucky-animations-bigoted-designer-and-fugly-females-lead-cance
Zerohedge comes through with the credited mass effect analysis. |
Date: March 24th, 2017 8:10 PM Author: Floppy black tanning salon i've been enjoying it.
the facial animations aren't a big deal. not great, but whatever. |
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:12 PM Author: Provocative Psychic Hissy Fit what about the writing? heard it's cringeworthy. the gameplay? i heard it's like DA:I but worse. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3563447&forum_id=2#32910539) |
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:14 PM Author: Floppy black tanning salon game play is great. the combat is one of me:a's strengths.
writing is good, not hilariously cringeworthy as some out of context clips would have you believe.
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:44 PM Author: ivory splenetic becky school cafeteria Lol? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3563447&forum_id=2#32910754) |
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:16 PM Author: Burgundy resort stock car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MEKM2amQ2E (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3563447&forum_id=2#32910557) |
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:27 PM Author: unholy point Neo nazi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3563447&forum_id=2#32910632) |
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:24 PM Author: Impressive site It has a 76 on metacritic.
Animation and face complaints are overblown. They aren't as good as other games like Witcher 3 but they're fine outside 1 or 2 characters.
Combat is punchy and fun. Most dynamic combat of any ME game by far.
Writing has moments of millenialism but is overall good with a few particularly good characters. Natalie Dormer is great as the ship doctor. The krogan companion is great; he sends you an email after a sad thing happens to you to cheer you up and it's a bunch of pics of big guns. |
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:32 PM Author: Burgundy resort stock car But 4.4 user score. By comparison, Titanfall 2 has 86 metacritic and a user score of 8.1. Battlefield 1 is 88 and 7.5. For one of the most anticipated games of the year those are awful numbers.
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:33 PM Author: Floppy black tanning salon due to all the negative publicity it's probably being rated by people who probably havent even played the game. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3563447&forum_id=2#32910662) |
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:35 PM Author: Burgundy resort stock car My experience is that if a ton of people rate a game poorly there's a good reason. Even if some people did that, we're talking about a 4.4 rating, not a 6.7 or something that might be explained away by a few people voting without playing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3563447&forum_id=2#32910676) |
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:38 PM Author: Floppy black tanning salon it's flame. look at the reviews. lots of 0s and 1s. there is no way the game is objectively a 0. graphics are great, little in the way of technical glitches, fun combat, solid voice acting, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3563447&forum_id=2#32910703) |
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Date: March 24th, 2017 8:43 PM Author: Burgundy resort stock car Well, if it is a AAA title that is hotly anticipated and it just sucks then a 0 or 1 is merited. Kind of how the last Star Wars just was a mediocre movie and I think someone saying "holy shit, we waited for years and got a shittier version of 'A New Hope'!" and votes a 0 or 1 is fair.
Yes, you should expect that high budget, hotly anticipated shit is graded more harshly. But that is also true for the likes of Battlefield 1. |
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Date: April 1st, 2017 1:18 PM Author: peach cheese-eating church building The reviews went soft on it if anything. I own the game because I preordered it at a heavy discount a long time ago and wasn't aware of the controversy with it. I went in blind and immediately perceived major issues.
The first was "why in the FUCK can't I make a white character?" I fucked around in the character creator with my GF for about 45 minutes, and nothing we could do would make the character look "not azn." I went online to research and learned that one of the devs was racist and didn't want white people in the game.
The facial animations are completely lolworthy. It's not just a few cutscenes taken out of context. Every scene has characters either with vacant, dead eyes, or eyes manically flitting around like autistic crackheads. Facial expressions get twisted into bizzare grimaces. The walking animations are truly hilarious. They tried to add weight/momentum/physics to simple walking and direction changes, which was much more complex than a game like this needs, and it has absurd results. The animation somehow makes it look like legs are about a foot too short, although this may not be noticed unless the FOV is zoomed out (although the default is too zoomed in so you will probably do this).
The characters are ugly as fuck, in fact the females were made intentionally so to appease womyn. However in addition to being unattractive, they are also very low quality. The hair on some NPCs looks like it was pulled from the worst morrowind NPCs circa 2002.
The writing is truly terrible. This writing, combined with very lengthy dialogue trees, is completely insufferable. I just can't do it. My girlfriend has been handling these 10 minute dialogue wheels and just giving me the cliffs. The voice acting doesn't help. Some of the characters sound like small staff indy games where the developers double as voice actors.
The only nice thing I can say is that the graphics out on the planets are good, especially maxed out and running in 4K on an OLED with HDR. The catch? I have two GTX 1080 ti's, with solid overclocks on them, and the game still dips below 60FPS. That's $1400 of just-released GPU. |
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Date: April 1st, 2017 3:52 PM Author: Flushed property cumskin Professional reviews have been bought and paid for by developers for about 15 years. It's rare that a AAA label game gets below an 8, so GameSpot giving it a 6 is pretty damning. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3563447&forum_id=2#32970299) |
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Date: April 1st, 2017 3:54 PM Author: Maize fragrant keepsake machete I have a friend who LOVED the original ME series (I never played it), and he really wanted to like this game, yet he is lukewarm about it.
He said that if you never played the original series, you wouldn't like this game.
Seems like a pretty shitty game then. |
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