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AngryBooch
Sep 26, 2009
Trial crashes consistently during the very long series of cutscenes after habitat 7 but before the nexus on me. Ask me about unskippable cutscenes in the game I won't be purchasing.

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Hedrigall
Mar 27, 2008

by vyelkin


Now where's Cat'ptain Anderson, Murranda Pawson, Jacob Tail-lor, Conrad Purrner, Urd-knot Rex, or Commander German Shepherd?

Professor Beetus
Apr 12, 2007

They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus
Mass Effect Andromeda and Marvel's Iron Fist, a week of critically panned and aggressively mediocre entertainment. What a time to be alive.

monster on a stick
Apr 29, 2013


N7 Furry :allbuttons:

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

Belated Bear Witness
Soiled Meat

Clawtopsy posted:

perfect opportunity for german shepherd but YA BLEW IT

I didn't blow it, I just didn't post it because it wasn't necessary to the joke.


Hedrigall posted:

Now where's Cat'ptain Anderson, Murranda Pawson, Jacob Tail-lor, Conrad Purrner, Urd-knot Rex, or Commander German Shepherd?

They're where they've always been. In your hopes and dreams, Hed.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

Seditious Jerk posted:

Nvidia 980M card, latest drivers - game is fully patched, re-verified the game files. Black screen.

I want to punch someone at EA in the face right now. I'm assuming their tech support is closed until tomorrow...

Do you have a fancy keyboard with corsair software for it installed?

Slim Killington
Nov 16, 2007

I SAID GOOD DAY SIR

DrNutt posted:

Mass Effect Andromeda and Marvel's Iron Fist, a week of critically panned and aggressively mediocre entertainment. What a time to be alive.

I was sitting around thinking this exact thing on Sunday. This was not a great weekend for creative storytelling in media.

Hedrigall
Mar 27, 2008

by vyelkin
Much like Ryder taking on the Pathfinder mantle, this thread has finally become what it was always destined to be

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line
this is all really hosed up and gross, I'm going to bed

widespread
Aug 5, 2013

I believe I am now no longer in the presence of nice people.


Hedrigall posted:

Much like Ryder taking on the Pathfinder mantle, this thread has finally become what it was always destined to be

Mass Effect: Andromeda - maybe the real mass effect was the yiffs we made along the way

monster on a stick
Apr 29, 2013

widespread posted:

Mass Effect: Andromeda - maybe the real mass effect was the yiffs we made along the way

New thread title right here

Morbleu
Jun 13, 2006
When do you pick your class profile stuff in the beginning? I hit "quick start" and just finished the psuedo tutorial beginning area. I assume I hosed up and should not have done that?

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

https://twitter.com/spoilerina/status/843930934235881472

Porpoise With A Purpose
Feb 28, 2006

Nigulus Rex posted:

When do you pick your class profile stuff in the beginning? I hit "quick start" and just finished the psuedo tutorial beginning area. I assume I hosed up and should not have done that?

That's just what skills you start with, it doesn't really matter in the long run. There are no real classes anymore you can take any skill you like.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

Belated Bear Witness
Soiled Meat

JawKnee posted:

this is all really hosed up and gross, I'm going to bed

Don't be sad now that the game officially released. We're all a little upset.



Hedrigall:

Hedrigall
Mar 27, 2008

by vyelkin

JawKnee posted:

this is all really hosed up and gross, I'm going to bed

We'll be here for you when you wake up, fam :glomp:

Knifegrab
Jul 30, 2014

Gadzooks! I'm terrified of this little child who is going to stab me with a knife. I must wrest the knife away from his control and therefore gain the upperhand.
I learned today that Origin's refund process is simple and fast and cool and good. The exact opposite of ME:A.

hexal
Sep 7, 2011

GMG posted:

Mass Effect Andromeda will officially release in North America on the 21st of March and 23rd of March in Europe. Green Man Gaming will only be distributing the game keys on the European release date (23 March), however, we are aiming to do our best to release the keys to customers as soon as we can. Please note that we are only able to guarantee that you will have your key within 48 hours of the European release as mentioned on the product page to set expectations.

Please be aware that there is currently a 10 hour trial pre-load available through “Origin Access” which is a pay monthly service which has no connection to Green Man Gaming’s distribution of game keys.

If you are unhappy with waiting for your game key please contact our Customer Service team who will be able to assist with a refund (as per our refund policy) Of course, if you choose to refund your order, you will be missing out on the amazing savings we offer on our store.

It was originally advertised as realeasing on the 21st. This was posted literally hours before it was meant to happen.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

Belated Bear Witness
Soiled Meat
GMG is a euro storefront, aren't they? They've always been shady when it comes to releases, though. Sometimes their prices are worth that difference.


Knifegrab posted:

I learned today that Origin's refund process is simple and fast and cool and good. The exact opposite of ME:A.

Was it REALLY that bad? Like, would you have played it if you had gotten it for $20?


I don't have other pictures, but I think these ferrets are loving hilarious and hardcore at the same time. Who WOULDN'T want Redwall in space?

Drifter fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Mar 21, 2017

trash person
Apr 5, 2006

Baby Executive is pleased with your performance!
I actually really like this game?? Just finished the first round of Eos stuff, back on the tempest to go back to the Nexus.

I like the characters and poo poo too. Honestly gives me a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe.

Am I just dumb or is everyone else being typically nerd hate filled

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

Belated Bear Witness
Soiled Meat

trash person posted:

I actually really like this game?? Just finished the first round of Eos stuff, back on the tempest to go back to the Nexus.

I like the characters and poo poo too. Honestly gives me a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe.

Am I just dumb or is everyone else being typically nerd hate filled

DId you like the quest-play design of Dragon Age Inq?

Clawtopsy
Dec 17, 2009

What a fascinatingly unusual cock. Now, allow me to show you my collection...

trash person posted:

I actually really like this game?? Just finished the first round of Eos stuff, back on the tempest to go back to the Nexus.

I like the characters and poo poo too. Honestly gives me a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe.

Am I just dumb or is everyone else being typically nerd hate filled

username/post combo

trash person
Apr 5, 2006

Baby Executive is pleased with your performance!

Drifter posted:

DId you like the quest-play design of Dragon Age Inq?

Never played it! I think part of my ability to really enjoy MEA is I honestly haven't played many single player RPGs since KOTOR 2. I usually play multiplayer FPS games, puzzle games, and walking simulators

monster on a stick
Apr 29, 2013

trash person posted:

I actually really like this game?? Just finished the first round of Eos stuff, back on the tempest to go back to the Nexus.

I like the characters and poo poo too. Honestly gives me a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe.

Am I just dumb or is everyone else being typically nerd hate filled
....../


trash person posted:

Never played it! I think part of my ability to really enjoy MEA is I honestly haven't played many single player RPGs since KOTOR 2. I usually play multiplayer FPS games, puzzle games, and walking simulators

Wait, you played the Mass Effect games though right? How about the original Dragon Age?

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)

trash person posted:

I actually really like this game?? Just finished the first round of Eos stuff, back on the tempest to go back to the Nexus.

I like the characters and poo poo too. Honestly gives me a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe.

Am I just dumb or is everyone else being typically nerd hate filled

It's insane nerd hyperbole, most of which comes from people who haven't even played the game - which has become the new standard with Bioware games

You can easily make the argument that this is not a great game but i disagree with anyone who says it's bad. It's been fun so far. The first dungeon on Eos was cool as hell

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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trash person posted:

I actually really like this game?? Just finished the first round of Eos stuff, back on the tempest to go back to the Nexus.

I like the characters and poo poo too. Honestly gives me a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe.

Am I just dumb or is everyone else being typically nerd hate filled

At the moment this thread consists of ~5 people who don't have the game being very mad at the game and the fact that people are having fun with it while people who have it are busy playing it and also me, a big dumb idiot

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
"it's fun" is literally the lowest level positive you can have about any entertainment product

i don't understand how, when faced with objective truths - bad animations, awkward voice acting, lazy design, a story cribbed from halo 4 - that people just go 'who cares, it's fun'

it's good that the game is fun. but a game can still be of poor quality and fun. hitting your balls with a hammer can be fun, and i know this for a fact as i do it every night

Knifegrab
Jul 30, 2014

Gadzooks! I'm terrified of this little child who is going to stab me with a knife. I must wrest the knife away from his control and therefore gain the upperhand.

Drifter posted:

Was it REALLY that bad? Like, would you have played it if you had gotten it for $20?

So if they iron out most of the bugs maybe, for $20. Definitely not for 60 even with everything working. I realized I was just not having fun, it was completely uncompelling the storytelling fell so flat. The combat system is kind of ok but then you realize that being out of cover (and the cover system is criminally bad) means instant death so really using those sick manuevers is really only viable if you are heavily invested into damage reduction/tanky builds.

Beyond that the game looks great in some places but cartoonishly terrible in others. Any scene that is supposed to be cinematic or compelling is laughably poorly done. The collectathon missions felt really really bland ("Oh my brother died on this planet, go here and leave this pendant"). The voice actors are OK-ish though some are offensively bad.

In almost every way its worse than ME1, which is so confounding.

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
like people tell me that nier game "is fun" but it's still an anime game about lesbian robots what look like little girls with an achievement for playing the game without pants on the robots

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

i think people are allowed to criticize a game without being insanely mad nerds, and i really haven't seen anyone yelling for people to stop having fun, just that they personally think the game is poo poo

trash person
Apr 5, 2006

Baby Executive is pleased with your performance!

Zzulu posted:

The first dungeon on Eos was cool as hell

I really like the world design of the Remnant. Kinda reminds me of the Vex from Destiny tho

Hedrigall
Mar 27, 2008

by vyelkin

Fojar38 posted:

At the moment this thread consists of ~5 people who don't have the game being very mad at the game and the fact that people are having fun with it while people who have it are busy playing it and also me, a big dumb idiot

Get off your loving high horse, some of us can't play it yet because it isn't out where we are, dick

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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Endorph posted:

i think people are allowed to criticize a game without being insanely mad nerds, and i really haven't seen anyone yelling for people to stop having fun, just that they personally think the game is poo poo

At a certain point though you have to wonder why those people are still posting in this thread

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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Hedrigall posted:

Get off your loving high horse, some of us can't play it yet because it isn't out where we are, dick

I am sorry, friend, I didn't mean to offend anyone. For what it's worth I, too, don't have my copy yet.

monster on a stick
Apr 29, 2013

Fojar38 posted:

At the moment this thread consists of ~5 people who don't have the game being very mad at the game and the fact that people are having fun with it while people who have it are busy playing it and also me, a big dumb idiot

There is a kernel of truth to this, people who bought the game are playing it and it will be a few days until we start getting people who have hit the ending and have heard Ryder in labor. That's how ME3 threads were, everybody started out with Tuchanka and said "WTF this is a Good Game" and then a few days later the net exploded.

And some people will enjoy the game because they enjoyed the game.

JBP
Feb 16, 2017

You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.
Fun is a fine review of a video game, but I can get a fun video game for $5 and not have it try to tell me it will redefine X and Y forever.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

Belated Bear Witness
Soiled Meat

trash person posted:

Never played it! I think part of my ability to really enjoy MEA is I honestly haven't played many single player RPGs since KOTOR 2. I usually play multiplayer FPS games, puzzle games, and walking simulators

I could see that. A lot of the frustration from this game seems to be that it hasn't shown itself to be as...fully iterated as its modern open-world counterparts.

Like, I'd rather not play it at all rather than play a game as devoid of fun as Dragon Age Inquistion's gameplay and quest design.

But if this is the first game of its like that you've played then I can see how it'd be great. I mean, even Fallout 3 has its fans.

And Fojar and them all seem to have a lot more invested in having this game somehow be fantastic instead of taking it as it truly is, but we'll need mroe time to see how the rest of the game turns out, and see whether it was front or end loaded, or just kinda sucks in general.

And people like Hedrigall apparently just want to have sex with stuffed animals at museums or whatever.

Drifter fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Mar 21, 2017

Hedrigall
Mar 27, 2008

by vyelkin
That "dick" bit at the end of my last post wasn't directed at you, it was just an additional unrelated thought

Fortuitous Bumble
Jan 5, 2007

I have to admit, after reading this thread the smirking PC woman has become sort of endearing. If this game was way cheaper I would buy it just to see a character who can't even control her own face figure out how to relate to other humanoids and stumble into saving the galaxy

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Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Fojar38 posted:

At a certain point though you have to wonder why those people are still posting in this thread

'cause sometimes it's interesting to talk about ways in which a thing failed

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