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Eej posted:Mac Walters is the guy who locked himself in a room huffing his own farts until he came up with the ME3 original ending right. I believe Mac Walters wrote the beginning, end, and Kai Leng. Guess what the three worst parts of ME3 are! I was tentatively excited about Andromeda until I heard that Walters was in charge. Now its firmly dropped into "Wait for reviews and probably a sale, if at all."
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2016 22:30 |
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# ¿ May 2, 2024 22:12 |
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Torrannor posted:So I'm just hoping that they bring some of the good things from the Dragon Age games over to Andromeda. If you had told me in 2011 that I would one day be hoping they would bring the good things from Dragon Age over to a Mass Effect game, I would have called you an idiot hell fucker. And yet here we are.
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2016 10:02 |
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Cowcaster posted:utanyan's whole schtick is popping into threads about stuff he has no personal investment in and throwing around negative press to rile up the natives so pay him no mind Oh thank god you posted this, I didn't check the username and was about to faintly agree with him. That said, John Walker is a contrarian rear end in a top hat who gets in fights in the comment section so yeah take everything he writes with a grain of salt.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 15:16 |
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I really wish we lived in the timeline where Karpyshyn stayed with the trilogy to the end instead of leaving for SWTOR.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2017 02:06 |
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You posted the wrong version, let me fix that for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVeNwzpFIak Comparing ME2's intro to Andromeda isn't wholly fair because a lot of the strength of ME2's opening is that these are characters and a setting that we're already invested in. While it would still be cool and interesting without that element, knowing who Shepard and Joker are and why losing the Normandy is painful makes it that much more impactful. Andromeda doesn't have that advantage due to the soft reboot. But like another poster said, ME1 was in the same boat as Andromeda and still had a really cool and epic feeling opening, despite a lot of the story beats being vaguely similar to Andromeda's first hour or so. Spikeguy posted:Hell I would have loved a scene like this to show Shepard just how much of her body wasn't her anymore. I was always disappointed that ME3 never played with the implication that Shepard's body had been partially rebuilt using Reaper tech. Having Harbinger ASSUME CONTROL of her eyes or whatever to cause visual hallucinations like in Overlord or TIM shutting off your abilities at random during his boss fight (lol) would have been neat. Could have had a subplot where people start questioning Shepard's stability as her body keeps betraying her.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2017 16:04 |
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Avalerion posted:I didn't like the mako at all, the plot planets were kind of decent since you had a mostly straight road to travel on but the random planet exploration was the worst. Here all the planets are hand crafted though, right? That wasn't the Mako's fault, it was Bioware half-baking the sidequest planets. The Mako is Perfect and Blameless.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2017 18:04 |
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Fojar38 posted:thanks for posting a gif with endgame plot details visible at the top of the screen, fucker Its literally just a name, are you so incredibly sensitive and insanely defensive of this game that the word "Meridian" triggers you?
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 03:35 |
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Fojar38 posted:much like how nobody is using the word "bad" correctly You don't have the will to take Meridian!
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 03:42 |
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Wait gently caress the actual quote is You lack the will to take Meridian! MAJOR ENDGAME SPOILERS FOR GOTY MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA GUYS FOJAR38 SAID SO
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 03:44 |
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Rookersh posted:even the things they used to further explain the ME3 ending How fuckin mad do you think Mac Walters was when no one liked his piece of poo poo ending
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 03:54 |
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I'm gonna be generous and say that the ending is better with context. Cause drat, that was pretty bland. Better than ME3's ending tho.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 04:15 |
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marshmallow creep posted:As someone who really liked where the Dragon Age story is going, I hope the bad writing we're seeing in this Mass Effect doesn't make the DA team worse. Patrick Weeks is in charge of DA now, so I have high hopes personally.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 04:18 |
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ChuckDeNomolos posted:i'm just hoping I can wipe out Cerberus and throw Miranda and Jacob into open space before this ends. You can sorta do all of these things because ME2 is a Good Game.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 04:57 |
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ChuckDeNomolos posted:oh, and sending someone to their death as an incorrect choice for an ending isn't quite "throwing these people who think working for the Illusive Man is a good idea into space." Murder is only as incorrect as you want it to be, friend
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 05:14 |
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poisonpill posted:No he's joking. BLACKED.com presents the Liam romance.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 05:17 |
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So if this game does turn out to be undeniably poo poo are you going to try to roll with the punches, use the puppetmaster defense, or just vanish
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 05:22 |
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OctaMurk posted:They're only human, they did what they can. Dont put the blame on them. Oh gently caress you cracked the code. The launch trailer wasn't them just cramming in a popular song regardless of appropriateness. Bioware animators, blink three times if you are being coerced. And "Oh they're new" isn't an excuse. ME1 was Bioware's first attempt at making an action RPG set in a new IP and they made a good game. The Andromeda team doesn't get to use that excuse when they're building off the systems and the setting that came before.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 05:59 |
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SgtSteel91 posted:I asked before if I was seeing what happened with DA2, but now I'm wondering if I'm seeing something worse DA2 got hosed because EA gave them about a year to make it. That doesn't absolve it from being a bad game but it has an excuse. Unless information comes that EA starved the team of resources or whatever, Andromeda does not have that excuse. Jesus Christ you babies all the ending spoilers have been behind tags maybe don't roll your mouse over the giant black bars gently caress
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 06:13 |
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Minrad posted:
mmmmm a nice refreshing cup of jam
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 15:32 |
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:i cancelled my mass effect preorder and bought horizon zero dawn last thursday and let me tell you my life is in shambles because it's been nothing but robot dinosaurs for days Its good that there are studios that still do things that are kind of cool and imaginative, like making a game about robot dinosaurs, instead of just retreading well-worn ground even when it doesn't really make sense.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 17:21 |
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Arglebargle III posted:I dunno people endlessly rip on Witcher 3 for its chauvinism when it in fact has probably the most human romantic relationships I've seen in a game so I'm kind of leery of people who've never played a game judging how it handles gender and romance. I think people are still leery of the series because of how poorly the first game handled those issues. Second game was an improvement, but literally one of the first things you see is titties so it was still a bit ehhhhhhhhhh
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 17:44 |
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Nazzadan posted:Haha look at this guy, he rejected Triss in the fountain scene and slept with Yen on Skellige. I backed the gently caress off of Triss on account of the whole manipulating Geralt's amnesia to get him to sleep with her thing. Like drat girl you got a crackin bod and natural redhead sure but that's pretty hosed up.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 17:56 |
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euphronius posted:I do not have sex in video games Fair
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 18:02 |
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WMain00 posted:They'll probably rake money from Mass Effect also because the generation before us don't give it a gently caress about reviews, listen to the likes of PewDiePie and are a slave to commerce. Its probably going to be the same as DA2, where there's a high spike of preorders and day 1 buys from die-hard fans/people who don't pay attention to game news but there's no follow-up from people who didn't pre-order and read reviews.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 20:04 |
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Ash1138 posted:i chose team triss just for continuity from w2 It was loving cruel as poo poo for CDPR to let her go first and be all "Oh Geralt I still love you!" Only way to get off Team Yen is to get beat out. 1stGear fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Mar 20, 2017 |
# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 20:18 |
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Two giant Polish people loom over Shorty Ryder, laughing as they toss Ryder's biotic ball back and forth. Ryder strains and jumps to reach it but the nefarious Poles keep it just out of reach of his stubby arms and shorty legs.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 20:36 |
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2house2fly posted:I want to be Ryder, I'm fed up of being a decorated war veteran and ultimate badass right from the start. I want to earn my ultimate badass status over the course of the game. Friend, let me tell you about a little video game called Dragon Age 2 Rise to Power: King-Queen of poo poo Mountain
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 21:28 |
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Ahahahaha I just realized why the Codex makes such a big deal of SAM being a "new type" of AI based on human experience and a "symbiotic relationship". Mac Walters still wants his loving green ending goddammit. And the first dad memory just makes it more explicit. They're literally attempting to justify the ending of ME3, jfc. 1stGear fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Mar 21, 2017 |
# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 21:05 |
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Milky Moor posted:who the gently caress cares? the game is fun and that's the only thing that matters, christ Is this a bit you're doing or have you actually converted to the Good Game camp. I can't keep up with all these plot twists in Days of Our Mass Effects.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 23:05 |
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There's the infected Batarian during Mordin's recruitment mission that you can torture for info then leave to die. The Asari scientist during Grunt's recruitment mission that, if you let her live in ME1, you can fix that mistake. And of course the guy who gets defenstrated and that Blue Suns merc that you can give a break from working too hard. But gosh guys Ryder can be a rude boi on the rare occasions the game lets you!!!!!!
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 00:58 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's not even a disguise loading screen, there is nothing to load. I figure its loading the whole "You can look out the window and see what planet you're orbiting!" thing but A) I didn't realize it took that long to load a .jpg and B) if that's the case, that "feature" should have been cut instead of keeping this staggeringly bad decision. Number Ten Cocks posted:Cams probation has balanced the scales against Utnayan's unjust probation. Let's not go too far here. Utnayan said this was going to be a bad game but so did a lot of people and he is also still a crazy person who thinks every triple-A game is sending a legion of shills to SA. He did the same routine with TW3 when it was coming out.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 01:30 |
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Ignoring any kind of language or cultural barriers is just emblematic of how little imagination the writers of this game actually brought to the table. They could have had a game that was actually about exploring a strange and alien galaxy, trying to learn how to speak with the bizarre inhabitants, figuring out how to fit humanity into a place where we are the newcomers. Pffffft fuckit rock people and cat people and a mysterious ancient civilization epic storyline about rock people trying to become gods or whatever force the player to be a human again SHIP THAT poo poo quote:this is such a standard bioware game with standard bioware characters and plot. there is a [threat]. visit these 4-5 [planets, cities] to secure these [star maps, vaults, allies, crew members, etc.], meet people and do tasks of varying importance along the way. the animation is kinda crappy, but also feels very bioware. there are some real clunkers in the writing, but the series has never really featured an amazing script. i get being disappointed by some of these things, but to pretend it's some massive step down is p disingenuous Its almost like the bar for RPG's has been substantially raised and Bioware vomiting out the same plot and gameplay structure doesn't cut it any more. Especially when this is easily the worst implementation of it yet. 1stGear fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Mar 22, 2017 |
# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 02:09 |
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Phrosphor posted:There are some awkward sounding voicefiles from Liara because RyderDad thought she was such a great archeologist everyone on the project needed to read all of her journals before coming out. Bear in mind that they left shortly after the events of ME1 so she is still tjhe junior archeologist who got stuck in a bubble and then killed her mom at this point. Seems pretty chirpy despite that. Alec mentions in his log that he found her "a few years ago" so she might have sent the datalogs prior to becoming trapped in a bubble and murdering her mom.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 02:30 |
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Ravenfood posted:Wait why do we have AI again? I thought they were banned. Because Mac Walters wanted to justify the Synthesis ending to ME3, to hell with everything else.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 04:02 |
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My framerate goes to poo poo on Eos for no apparent reason and also randomly crashes to desktop and I have no particular desire to fiddle with settings to get it to work, so I'm glad EA did the whole Origin Access so I could personally confirm that ME:A is indeed a mediocre-to-bad game. I think my favorite part, other than the whole SAM nonsense, is the Tempest. When I first saw it, I initially grumbled at the visual Then I read the Codex and found that the Tempest has a stealth system. Despite that being a huge hush-hush project at the time the Initiative would have launched. Yeah, the Codex tries to handwave it away (and again heavily implies Cerberus funded the Initiative) but it means the Tempest is literally just the Normandy. I swear to God, there was not a single original thought brought up in the writers' room.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 04:19 |
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I made a decent Southeast Asian-esque male Ryder with a minimum of fiddling. To me it looks like pretty much all the human faces have too large, too white eyes though. Its actually impressive that the default faces used in all the marketing are the worst-looking ones I've seen.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 04:39 |
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Fojar38 posted:Hot take from the multiplayer thread: 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.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 04:45 |
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# ¿ May 2, 2024 22:12 |
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Waltzing Along posted:How long till this is $20? Titanfall 2 has already been pretty steeply discounted in sales. Probably won't take too long, but the smarter money is waiting a year or so for the edition with all the DLC.
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# ¿ Mar 23, 2017 07:36 |