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8-Bit Scholar posted:Sounds like it was smart of me not to get this game It's a good game
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Fojar38 posted:check out this guy Yeah going back 10 years in game design is always a solid choice
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Norns posted:Yeah going back 10 years in game design is always a solid choice an open world RPG that feels a lot like another open world RPG set in the same universe?
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Why are you sepia
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Hey why don't you go play the loving game you enjoy so much?
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Fojar38 posted:check out this guy It also is like ME1 in that I can launch dudes into orbit constantly as an adept. It is extremely satisfying.
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I went with the default male Ryder but I immediately regretted it because he has the thinnest, most juvenile facial hair. It's so ridiculous looking.
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ThomasPaine posted:you guys in the states have played this properly now so someone just tell me whether it's as bad as I'm worried it is because I don't get to play it till the end of the week. After about 5 hours in with relatively low expectations and having no impulse control because I similarly have had an itch for a space game and will buy anything branded mass effect, I'm relatively enjoying it. There are plenty of valid criticisms, but after the first hour or so of terrible dialogue and animations, I got over that part. The environments themselves so far are quite cool and the combat is enjoyable. I also have Horizon and Zelda, and even with those games clearly eclipsing this one in terms of innovation and polish, I don't regret my purchase. It's not what it could have been, but for what it is, it's decent. I think you'll enjoy it.
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1stGear posted:I think the main reason the combat in this game is okay is that Vanguard is still the best goddamn thing and there's no other game that replicates that playstyle. You could make a case for Borderlands The Prequel's Athena.
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ThomasPaine posted:you guys in the states have played this properly now so someone just tell me whether it's as bad as I'm worried it is because I don't get to play it till the end of the week. im legit having fun. all of the complaints about animations, va and tone are overstated, complaints about the UI and annoyance experienced when travelling from planet to planet to scan are understated, imo
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The difference of animation between each individual character creator setting is interesting, much less between the two genders. Here's my OG BroRyder looking like he's about to cry, as we know: And yet here's the FemRyder I just made in the same exact shot, doing her best impression of a Vanguard about to Charge.  (which is inappropriate, young lady, because you're an Infiltrator!) Incidentally...unless there's greater variation between the dialogue you get as male or female Ryder than I'd thought, some of the individual dialogue choices you make in the game do actually affect the dialogue options you get later on. In my first game I'd chosen to tell the Hyperion captain that I didn't know DadRyder very well growing up, and so the only real "mourning" option thirty minutes later was to wax poetic about how he's a hero who made a great sacrifice and yada yada. In the second game though, I'd implied that he and I were closer, and that same dialogue option was replaced with one where I was in more shock and disbelief. It was interesting. Makes me wonder if this sort of thing dies down the further you get into the game, or maybe just gets more and more unnoticeable as your Ryder gets more and more defined.
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Fallen Hamprince posted:The Tempest is I think the worst designed spaceship I've ever seen in a space opera. The captain's stateroom is bigger than the living quarters for the entire rest of the crew, there's a meeting room as big as the stateroom and there's giant windows everywhere. I feel like the Tempest has some interesting design ideas but compromises with the camera and playability hurt it. The worst thing is these compromises don't seem necessary. At heart the Tempest is a civilian exploration vessel, so its large windows and large common area make sense in that context. There's a lot of lab space tucked away throughout the ship and that makes sense too, even if the botany lab Cora talks about has a grand total of two potted plants. The stateroom and tiny crew quarters are that way for a simple reason; the player is going to spend time in the stateroom but not the crew quarters. But the stateroom is unnecessarily huge to accommodate a camera that's unnecessarily high. The cavernous space in the rear that's arranged around the drive core in a tiered setup with the skylight is a neat idea but there's nothing plausible in it. There's like two consoles and a meeting space on the upper deck. They could have used that space more intelligently. An open-plan space like that with a huge sensor window would be pretty appealing on a civilian survey ship with all kinds of specialized sensors that you could set up on a benchtop and point out the window instead of trying to integrate into the ship's sensor package. The exterior is cool but the artist clearly stuck on a bunch of fins late in the concept because somebody thought it was too phallic or not aggressive enough. The 747 tailfins kitbashed onto the engine section are a travesty.
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The more I play the more I glaze over the animations. Now it mostly just jars me when I'm introduced to a new character and go "gently caress that is not right at all". It's...very ME1 layered on DA:I. I'm okay with that. I also actually like the limited scope of story so far. We're just trying to save this awful colonization plan from itself! I have to assume the colonization efforts are meant to look really dumb, at least. I get this weird feeling the whole expedition was funded by the Weyland-Yutani of the Mass Effect universe, or Vault-Tec. I mean, the guy they recruited to be the lead scout for the thing was a deranged AI researcher who abandoned his family, there is something sinister going on. Double secret speculation based on spoilers: Yeah SAM is almost definitely Ryder's mom or a simulation thereof, 'his' voice actor is a woman old enough to be Ryder's mother and Ryder dad went crazy after she died and started loving with AI even more so. Also it's the most DRAMATIC possible twist, so of course that's what they'd do with it. Mark my words.
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Not enough gifs the past 50 pages, imho. alien_doomguy.gif  My apologies if it's a repost, my face is tired from all the equivocating 
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Verviticus posted:im legit having fun. all of the complaints about animations, va and tone are overstated, complaints about the UI and annoyance experienced when travelling from planet to planet to scan are understated, imo Yeah I find a great deal of things in this game annoying, but I'm enjoying it in spite of all that. The game really seems to fight me at all times. When it most closely emulates ME2/3, i.e. during story missions on a set map, the game is really great. The open world stuff is less impressive, even though the idea of it on paper fits ME way more than it does Dragon Age.
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Tiny Deer posted:Double secret speculation based on spoilers: Yeah SAM is almost definitely Ryder's mom or a simulation thereof, 'his' voice actor is a woman old enough to be Ryder's mother and Ryder dad went crazy after she died and started loving with AI even more so. Actual Spoiler: During a major mission, he actually kills Ryder and then brings them back again; it's not a climactic moment, but it does happen. There's a method to his madness, but I don't think the game is going for the "it's actually your mom" trip Serf posted:Yeah I find a great deal of things in this game annoying, but I'm enjoying it in spite of all that. The game really seems to fight me at all times. When it most closely emulates ME2/3, i.e. during story missions on a set map, the game is really great. The open world stuff is less impressive, even though the idea of it on paper fits ME way more than it does Dragon Age. It's because they added So Much Padding. There was no need to make the worlds as big as they made them outside of "we think the Nomad is kinda fun to drive, go flip it off dunes or something". Problem being, the Nomad is not really that fun to drive and the whole idea behind the 4WD/6WD is an absolute joke. I'm enjoying the game, and I'll go back to playing it in a bit. But it's deeply flawed and you have to be wearing some thick rose tinted glasses not to see that.
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One thing I'm digging so far is the much smaller scope of the game. It feels like I'm making a tangible difference to the world because there's a total of what, 100k people or so from the Milky Way who made the trip. Shepard blew up three times that man people, in a 90 minute dlc. I also like how the game is giving attention to the fact the Ryder is inexperienced. He's not the saviour and had to prove himself to everyone. Remember that epic speech Shepard gives every one on the Normandy when he first gets the ship from Anderson? Yes Ryder does NOT command that level of respect and it's noticeable. Some characters look like they actually pity Ryder. So far I'm loving the world design. Just got to Havarl and this place is gorgeous! The Angaran resistance enclave you first visit looks beautiful as well. I dig how the characters are understated. Except maybe Pee Bee. But the rest seem a little more like normal people than the grand cast of heroes from the previous games. That might not be to some people's liking but I'm feeling it. One thing Bioware had never really been is understated, it's neat to seem them try here. I'm playing in 2560*1080 on a 35" ultra wide monitor with graphics on ultra, and game runs smooth as butter. Lastly I love how multiplayer is integrated into the game. I like that it affects single player but doesn't take away from it this time if you don't play. Being able to jump into strike team missions from the Tempest is also the tits. That's all for now.
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I can't even keep up with the normal comments in this thread much less the origin names. Is there a spreadsheet or something so I can play poorly on multiplayer with goons? My origin name is capita1sm if you want to save me the trouble. I hardcore role play my multiplayer games btw
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Fojar38 posted:an open world RPG that feels a lot like another open world RPG set in the same universe? ME1 was open world? 
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I've been using sniper rifles, first the Black Widow and then the Remnant semi-auto sniper when I got sick of running out of ammo. Anybody have any opinions about shotguns? The Krogan one is an obvious lure but the Reegar shotgun/carbine sounds enticing.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:They've talked about fixing this I think. Have they talked about fixing the dumb rear end travel between scanning planets because it makes me want to not scan planets and unironically that is something that I actually enjoyed in the other mass effects.
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Jesus the over-the-shoulder conversation animation is bad. Gamebryo wasn't even this wooden. Whoever was the animation lead on this should be fired; it'd be like having DICE do their sound design with a foley artist. Does the game have a long list of voiced names like Fallout 4 or are you stuck if you don't choose the default first name for your character?
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rio posted:I can't even keep up with the normal comments in this thread much less the origin names. Is there a spreadsheet or something so I can play poorly on multiplayer with goons? shh everyone I got this new phone who dis
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rio posted:I can't even keep up with the normal comments in this thread much less the origin names. Is there a spreadsheet or something so I can play poorly on multiplayer with goons? My origin name is capita1sm if you want to save me the trouble. I hardcore role play my multiplayer games btw Dedicated multiplayer thread with some names and a discord server: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3814183
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Shumagorath posted:Does the game have a long list of voiced names like Fallout 4 or are you stuck if you don't choose the default first name for your character? It has a very long list: For men: Scott For women: Sara
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Relentless posted:Dedicated multiplayer thread with some names and a discord server: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3814183 Namaste 🙏
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Fojar every day as the sun rises on "ME: Andromeda - maybe the real mass effect was the gifs we made along the way"
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rio posted:Have they talked about fixing the dumb rear end travel between scanning planets because it makes me want to not scan planets and unironically that is something that I actually enjoyed in the other mass effects. Something that hit me when I was scanning planets is that there's no neat histories to read since it's all new. Just planet compositions and the annoying zoom in feature.
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Setzer Gabbiani posted:Why are you sepia It's either a mod or f.lux. f.lux is supposed to make my screen not be blinding at night, as well as some poo poo about "reducing blues to help me get to sleep" or something. monster on a stick posted:It has a very long list:  Miss Orgasmo Ryder.
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monster on a stick posted:It has a very long list: SAM's the only thing to call me by my first name so far, and having him fall so short of Bioware's contemporaries is pretty sad.
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My third stream of this game ended with a cutscene ending suddenly then an infinite loading screen Quality product, only seen one to two broken graphical or animation issue... ... every cutscene
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Fojar38 posted:Hot take from the multiplayer thread: Wha...what happened to the cool ME3MP krogan headbutt? This looks really wooden. The enemy barely even ragdolled. 
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I just met the Angara and currently am stuck on an infinite loading screen. Restarted my PS4 and it's still happening. Was really enjoying the game so far, too.
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Rinkles posted:You could make a case for Borderlands The Prequel's Athena.
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I've got about 9 hours into the game so far. Just picked up the final squad mate. Apparently either I'm leveling myself totally wrong or I'm not ~*exploring*~ enough, because I'm way squishier than anyone else and I don't have the resources to craft anything worth a poo poo. Aside from that, it's an alright game. I haven't encountered any real bugs, just some stutters between cut scenes. Edit: Oh, but gently caress whoever decided those cut scenes needed to be between every planet and system. Shroomie fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Mar 22, 2017 |
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Shroomie posted:Edit: Oh, but gently caress whoever decided those cut scenes needed to be between every planet and system.
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