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Nazzadan
Jun 22, 2016



At this rate the day 0 patches will be 10gb

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monster on a stick
Apr 29, 2013

Fojar38 posted:

Well that answers that (if he isn't lying but ehhh)

Or it's as simple as "he thought it was fixed in the day one patch, it isn't actually fixed in the day one patch, but the day one patch has been released."

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Okay so I've finished up my ten hours. Some thoughts:

1) a lot of the facial animations still suck. They're definitely improved from the December trailer, but PeeBee in particular is having issues.
2) a lot of the voice actors are phoning it in. Kumail Nanjiani is absolutely not phoning it in, and nor is anybody playing a Salarian. I don't know why the Salarian voice actors are knocking it outta the park, but they really are.
3) combat is fuckin rad. Best of any Bioware game I've played. I know we don't buy RPGs for the fight scenes, but everything about the combat is super fun. Biotic Charge really didn't need jetpack support but I appreciate it nonetheless.
4) Eos is empty as gently caress. I don't know why game developers think we want these big empty sandboxes to tool around in but it's just not that interesting.
5) I really hope there are more squadmate options. Right now it looks like we're saddled with the two boring humans whose personalities are "is a soldier" and "is a cop" respectively. Liam's dialogue is particularly cringey: it's like he's spitting out half-remembered Firefly quotes.
6) exploration (of actual stuff, not empty desert) is pretty fun. I like how the scanning mechanic turns you into a space detective.

3 and 6 sound cool. i assume the starter squad mates suck(the starting squad mates always suck in mass effect)

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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lol yeah that lady definitely has some problems

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters

Fojar38 posted:

Well that answers that (if he isn't lying but ehhh)

There was never any realistic hope of a day 1 patch fixing wantonly lovely animations.

It's time to just accept this game for what it is. A lot of the complaints are overblown, many of the meme-y gifs are of hard to reproduce bugs, but that doesn't change the fact that this game has bad animations (yes, even for Mass Effect) and is merely serviceable in a lot of other areas. Combat and MP are what stick out as legitimately good.

Doesn't mean people aren't going to have fun with this game, but don't expect to be wowed. This is a game you play because it does well enough to justify being the only space opera shooter/RPG game in town. Wait for it to go on sale, probably.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009


David Lynchian

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule
Man I bet the people at BioWare who experienced the ME3 endings backlash are getting hardcore flashbacks now. that can't be fun.

Ages
Feb 20, 2005

Its just half the puffin juice and the puffin lives and doesnt mind. I promise!
Fun Shoe

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

5) I really hope there are more squadmate options. Right now it looks like we're saddled with the two boring humans whose personalities are "is a soldier" and "is a cop" respectively. Liam's dialogue is particularly cringey: it's like he's spitting out half-remembered Firefly quotes.

You can switch one of them out for Vetra the friendly Turian arms dealer as soon as you get to the pre-Eos loadout screen.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

GreenBuckanneer posted:

Anyone with an i5 3570k oc'd and 8gb of ram and a 750ti play this yet? what kind of settings could you play it at?

Those specs are fine for medium to high settings at 1080p. As long as your CPU isn't about to catch fire.


Fojar38 posted:

Can I see some? You'd think that if there was anything else that notoriously bad it'd be being as trumpeted as that mp4

I don't want to search around all the smaller interactions but this conversation with a pretty major character has better but still stilted and weird dialogue. Like I said, quality is all over the place.

Big Bowie Bonanza
Dec 30, 2007

please tell me where i can date this cute boy

Pattonesque posted:

Man I bet the people at BioWare who experienced the ME3 endings backlash are getting hardcore flashbacks now. that can't be fun.

it's like the me3 ending but the whole game

BULBASAUR
Apr 6, 2009




Soiled Meat

Utnayan posted:

Haven't you heard? It was my uncle.

who worked in the gayme industry

Axetrain
Sep 14, 2007

Wow glad I didn't pre-order this, looks awful.

Big Bowie Bonanza
Dec 30, 2007

please tell me where i can date this cute boy
anyhow after putting in about 5 hours today i just canceled my preorder. i'll probably buy it when it's on sale to play multiplayer. glad they let us try before we buy.

GreenBuckanneer
Sep 15, 2007

Funky See Funky Do posted:

Those specs are fine for medium to high settings at 1080p. As long as your CPU isn't about to catch fire.

If I want to play it on High settings though, do you think I should play it on my PS4 instead?

I probably wont be able to upgrade my gfx card for another 6 months...

Can I just get Origin access for :5bux: then play for 10 hours?

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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I've watched a bunch more of that giant bomb playthrough and I still think that lady is an outlier in terms of bizarrely bad animations

the dialogue is really standard for bioware in that its mostly utilitarian with some sarcasm thrown in

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

here's a list of rpgs that come out this year to play instead of this game:

tales of berseria
nier automata
super robot wars v
persona 5

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



Tirranek posted:

- Sara Ryder constantly looks like she's done a prank off-screen and it waiting for the others to find out.

Her dumb perma-smirk may be the best part of this whole game.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Maybe all this is because I played ME2 religiously on Xbox 360 and so I had to get used to bizarre jagged aliased face textures early

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

GreenBuckanneer posted:

If I want to play it on High settings though, do you think I should play it on my PS4 instead?

I probably wont be able to upgrade my gfx card for another 6 months...

Can I just get Origin access for :5bux: then play for 10 hours?

Yeah you can test how it will play on your system with Origin Access.

neonbregna
Aug 20, 2007
I got a sniper rifle called the lanat and it seems cool and good

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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I'm at the part where they meet the Krogan exile down on the planet and it actually looks fine. I might even go so far as to say good. Even the dialogue. #wow #whoa

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

Funky See Funky Do posted:

It's the worst offender I've come across but it's not unique. A lot of the dialogue comes across sounding like a text to speech programme is speaking it. Some of it is fine, bordering on good, but the quality is all over the place.

I knew an English major who was hired by Microsoft, years ago, to do emergency editing on the Mass Effect script. She made it sound like it was a total disaster, which is not surprising for a sprawling script.

If 2006 Bioware/Microsoft barely got the script edited in time for VA work I imagine 2016 Bioware/EA may have just run out of time.

Big Bowie Bonanza
Dec 30, 2007

please tell me where i can date this cute boy
i had to oc my i5 2500k to be able to play multiplayer properly so that was cool

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Big Bowie Bonanza posted:

i had to oc my i5 2500k to be able to play multiplayer properly so that was cool

i has to uninstall corsair keyboard software or it wouldnt even load

lmao

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters

Endorph posted:

here's a list of rpgs that come out this year to play instead of this game:

tales of berseria
nier automata
super robot wars v
persona 5

Nier Automata is cool and all but to include it in a list of RPGs without qualification ehhhh I dunno about that. It's not really an RPG in the sense that the Andromeda disappointed would plausibly be looking for.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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I unironically chuckled when he said "Nah do you know how many humans I've watched die? You guys are meat." when you ask him to join you so I guess I'm a huge retard

No Mods No Masters
Oct 3, 2004

Fojar38 posted:

I unironically chuckled when he said "Nah do you know how many humans I've watched die? You guys are meat." when you ask him to join you so I guess I'm a huge retard

:yeah:

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Captain Oblivious posted:

Nier Automata is cool and all but to include it in a list of RPGs without qualification ehhhh I dunno about that. It's not really an RPG in the sense that the Andromeda disappointed would plausibly be looking for.

It's got lots of sexy robot rear end and that's about the last cheap thrill the Bioware faithful are still clinging onto in Andromeda so.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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I'm actually more excited for the game watching the giantbomb stream than I was before

Fojar38 posted:

so I guess I'm a huge retard

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters

exquisite tea posted:

It's got lots of sexy robot rear end and that's about the last cheap thrill the Bioware faithful are still clinging onto in Andromeda so.

I concede the point entirely.

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
i think the game is bad and doesn tlook good at all but you arent a retard for being excited for a game

if you like it and are excited about it and will enjoy it then you should play and enjoy it

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->

eonwe posted:

i think the game is bad and doesn tlook good at all but you arent a retard for being excited for a game

if you like it and are excited about it and will enjoy it then you should play and enjoy it

I'm going to captain kirk my way through this new galaxy and it'll own

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Fojar38 posted:

I'm going to captain kirk my way through this new galaxy and it'll own

good on you buddy, i hope you have fun

AlternateAccount
Apr 25, 2005
FYGM
Really I am more concerned that the plot beats revealed in the trailer seem trite and lame as hell.

Heavy Metal
Sep 1, 2014

America's $1 Funnyman

eonwe posted:

good on you buddy, i hope you have fun

You have equipped three slots of positive vibes!

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->

eonwe posted:

good on you buddy, i hope you have fun

thank you friend and i respect your decision that this game isnt for you and i hope you find another game that you will enjoy more

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Fojar38 posted:

I'm going to captain kirk my way through this new galaxy and it'll own

yeah nobody is saying you can't enjoy the game, they're just venting their own criticisms relax

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
im playing the critically acclaimed shooter battlefield 1 right now

nerdz
Oct 12, 2004


Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Grimey Drawer

Big Bowie Bonanza posted:

it's like the me3 ending but the whole game

Well for a lot of people, myself included it really was the whole game

I never finished that dumpster fire

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Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Pattonesque posted:

Man I bet the people at BioWare who experienced the ME3 endings backlash are getting hardcore flashbacks now. that can't be fun.

I dunno, the mass effect subreddit is kinda mixed but a bunch of peeps are like "this game is sweet and I love it"

I mean maybe they are :10bux: shills :10bux: but I doubt it.

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