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Post by Renegade1911 on Mar 22, 2017 18:52:51 GMT
So, how are you guys finding the game so far? Success, or disappointment?
I myself have only had the chance to play the trial yet. I'll be delving into the game full time this friday. I was kinda skeptical at first, but after playing the trial, I gotta say, I enjoyed what I got to play thoroughly. So unless the game takes a bad turn after Eos, or generally doesn't continue to build on the promise of the first few hours, I think I'll like the game very much.
I just can't wait to see how the story progresses. So far I don't even know what will it really be about, besides exploring and colonizing. And imagine we get a second game in Andromeda. It would take place at the time or after the Reaper invasion, so if the Remnant stuff is in any way connected to them, or should the Milky Way send more arks that would then brief the colonists and tangle the story, damn that would be awesome. I still cling to the hope that we'll eventually get some sort of continuation of the Milky Way storyline after the Reaper attack. I know BW wants to leave Shepard's story alone, but by now they've had more than enough time to think of a way to side-step ME3's finale. Plus I feel like any story in the Milky Way that would precede the invasion would just be in vain, as you already know how it all ends anyways.
As for the technical issues and weird animations, I am genuinely surprised how upset people are about that shit. Yeah, the animations aren't great, but if you remember the original trilogy was pretty much the same in this regard, sometimes even worse. Same goes not only for facial animations, but for like running or drinking, which I've seen people make fun of the most. Maybe this stuff bothers someone who's about to play a ME game for the first time, but I honestly don't care that much.
What about you? Are you enjoying the game? Waiting to play it when it gets a discount, maybe? Discuss, but please don't forget to hide any potential spoilers.
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Post by clone on Mar 23, 2017 14:33:13 GMT
After the trial I have to say:
No, the animations and the character design were not on such a shit level in the 10 year old Mass Effect 1. The lyps were much more snyc, the characters had used body movements to help their expressions and the general face impressions were neither "extremly over the top" like we have them sometimes in ME:A nor so dead like we have them on the other side of it.
Yes, for example the running animations of squad mates have been terrible in ME, remember the demo release of ME 3, where everyone shitted on Andersons running animations during the prolog? Thats why there were rarely ever missions where squadmates were moving infront of you in ME. But first off all we do not have 2007 anymore and the ME:A has worse conversations and facial animations then ME 1 had in 2007, thats a downgrade to a 10 year old game. And if you want to be harsh to ME 1, its at least not an upgrade... for a AAA title after 10 years this is really bad. You can just expect it to be way better then in the old games, which is not the case, and for example the dead eyes and the horrible character creator (+2 hours to get something good locking only then to have your father look like an abomination) are things, that drive people off.
The next thing, that does not help the game are the conversations... infamous "flirting" I didnt even try when I was 16 years old, sounding like a bad fanfiction (it doesnt help the game, when other ingame figures comment it with "please kill me"), that it is immersion breaking. The conversation between smugface female Rider and Lt. Ellision is so terrible, that you dont know if you want to laugh about the dead face ("my face is tired") of the Lt. or cry about the terrible writing.
Its obvious, that the combat has strong points for itself and could possible drive this game for people who just want to play a single player 3rd person shooter, that the story could develop into something good, but you cant know that after the trial, as you dont know how much Mass Effect Inquistion this game is and how much they have learned from DA:I. But another problem are the enemies: Well, we arrive in a new galaxy... we should be the aliens, evil Kett start shooting without talks just because we need a enemy. Thats also not great writing, its more like please give something to shoot, so the start is not too boring.
For a AAA title, a Bioware title where it was promissed that "they learned" from the mistakes of their last titles, this has flaws, especially when it comes to the immersion, something thats important for me as a player. Thats why this game gets alot of hate and because the expectations for this game were gigantic and it could never live up to all of them, but easy mistakes like the 16 year old tumbler fanfic writing or the (face)animations are no goes that should be worked out after the first alpha review. Then they lied on twitter and said the animations you saw at the first IGN video were to be patched at day one: Nothing was patched at day one for the animations, but people who did not load the day one patch could play with a beautiful female Rider instead of the comic smugface girl we have to deal with now and they got even more hate.
Also one major flaw is the bullshit of the story, that there is no communication with earth. Quantumlink communications are well established in the ME Universe and used for real time communications no matter the distance... but the Andromeda expedition has zero quantumlink communicators with them?
Lets be open and honest: The game is fun, because the comabt mechanics is fun. Lay back, play a 3rd person shooter, have good times. You even can play it with your friends and grind mindless horde A.I. enemies. But if you scanned the 100th thing you found out while driving to the next area, when you are running the nexus and the tempest up and down for the 10th time to not miss any quest or conversation, when you look at your female main character, when your ship A.I. even tells you the smallest steps in every mission one after another or when you have to deal with bad writen characters, then you do not have fun with this game.
But this impression is only a impression after the "trial", as I do not buy this game till either all single player DLCs are released and there is a "goty"-edition (doesnt matter that this game is not a goty candidate) or it is so cheap, that even when buying all single player DLCs, my overall costs will be lower then 60-70€.
End of rambling.
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Post by Tsupernami on Mar 23, 2017 15:16:57 GMT
Thanks for the review, looks like I won't be buying it. But as for your quantum link thing, presumably over such vast distances and due to the processes required to get there it negates their use?
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Post by clone on Mar 23, 2017 15:42:41 GMT
Thanks for the review, looks like I won't be buying it. But as for your quantum link thing, presumably over such vast distances and due to the processes required to get there it negates their use? So if we go full on sci fi theorycraft, the quantum link communicators should work over every possible distance aslong as you seperated them on your way. But man, this is a sci fi universe starting 2183 at the first mass effect and being even 600 more years in the future in ME:A. What do I know. It just does not sound consistent to me, as once seperated, the quantum link communication units should not stop working. Its a minor thing, I dont see it being relevant to 99% of the players, but that one detail just burned into my head.
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Post by clone on Apr 30, 2017 13:22:50 GMT
Update: Found a key that was okay priced and plaed the game:
I can make a more detailed review with its pros and cons and what bugges you the whole game and what minor flaws you dont care anymore, if wished, but I can say in short:
80/100, has certain flaws, but it is still a good game and gives you arround 50 hours single player fun (not grinded every quest) and all quests I did (enough to get 100% settlement rating on every planet) were entertaining, no singleplayer MMO experience.
Just to the animations: The animations get so much better, if you find a decent (female) character model in the ME:A archives instead using smugface Sarah. They changed the female model from the perfect face to smugface Sarah in the day one patch and the old animations just dont fit, if you use a decent looking one, coming close to the pre day one patch Sarah, you get animations that do not turn you down. Only the eyes are then problematic, maybe they get patched.
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