After what seemed to be a rather engaging prologue, we have to say that Mass Effect: Andromeda is not making us want to keep playing. The beginning of the first real mission we played during the French livestream was pretty boring, and worse, pretty poor in terms of atmosphere. To that, you need to add the problems with the facial animations and the animations in general, not to mention the horrible character models, which is a lot to take for someone who has purchased a AAA game. Maybe what comes next gets better, maybe the story will make it worth our while, but for now, we don't really have the motivation to push further. We'll wait until the reviews come out to find out if we should play it or not.
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Though to be fair, that does not sound like a game worth investing your time and money right now, specially one with all the bugs and technical issues. And more importantly, when one stops to consider all the great games that were just released and are significantly better.
This is the type of situation where it's better to wait for a complete edition down the line with many improvements, bugs fixed and all DLCs. Or better yet, after so many great games that came out in late 2016 and early 2017, just spend your hard earned money elsewhere.
Poor DICE guys, Bioware proved that Frostbite engine could look bad. Look at BF1 or Battlefront, what a difference
i'm another that dont want this anymore just because of this
totally awfull
Then you board the Nexus and things start to fall apart. The characters and animations feels off. Especially the eyes are way to white to feel natural. I don't care that much about facial animations, they are what they are but FIX THE EYES!!
On the other hand, gameplay out on mission is where the game truly shines. Gone are the days of the extremely stiff gameplay from the original trilogy. It's fast and fluid even though the game is poorly optimized on Xbox One and have plenty of hiccups.
But let me just say this, compare this to the original Mass Effect 1 and it's alot better. They had to build the game from the ground up on an new engine so a comparison to ME3 is unfair. However, i just watched some dialogue scenes from ME3 and it's not any better or worse, just more of the same but on a different engine!
In comparison to Witcher 3 i really struggled the first 10 hours...at least. After that i was totally hooked. I thought the beginning of Witcher 3 was boring as hell.
But they have already worked on Frostbite with the last Dragon Age and the engine should have improved since then, in just over 6 months time, PS4 and Xb1 are 4 years out.
@mbalazs No, Frostbite DOES do some things right but character models is not one of them. Lol even the FIFA 2017 trailers last year looked like a Battlefield game because all the character models have this insane genericness to them across most of the game engine's games.
Battlefield Bad Company and its sequel's stories were amazing on Frostbite 1 and 1.5 respectively. It all went downhill with Frostbite 2.
I never made a statement about the graphics at all. I was being facetious about the state of the faces, which look hilariously deformed. Or do you need your eyes checked?
Now take your face for a shite, son.
I never made a statement about the graphics at all. I was being facetious about the state of the faces, which look hilariously deformed. Or do you need your eyes checked?
Now take your face for a shite, son.
wow take my face for shite... really? is that it? i will be correcting you everytime you go on about graphics from now on, as GRAPHICS DO NOT MATTTER RIGHT?
have nice day
2) I doubt it.