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pentyne posted:How did they make the Sarah Ryder face so incredible weird and awkward? It's like when in LA Noire they were boasting about their super realistic face mo-cap tech but all it boiled down to was the NPC/actors making over exaggerated facial movements. I assumed LA Noire actors were told to overact to make sure they got the performance, or alternately to make sure all the autistic gaming community was able to tell if they were lying. But the animation itself was fantastic; even the best handmade face animations look partially paralyzed in comparison.
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I got to EOS and I just cant. Struggling. Prob restart with default face because my bottom eyelashes are distanced away from my eyes. Also my squadmates don't wear their helmet outside on the desert planet but I do...? Also can't refund the game even though I preordered on the 14th and only started playing at 11pm. :/ Weird.
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are there any good kett? or neutral kett? bioware said they weren't all uniform bad guys but given that they seem to be basically collectors/borg/darkspawn, i'm not sure they were being honest!!
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Milky Moor posted:are there any good kett? or neutral kett? Why do you care
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I made an asian Ryder family and my dad ended up being Cary Tagawa. Speaking of the dad I was a little happy to see that you aren't forced to be sad when he becomes the mandatory prologue death. Cora: Scott, I'm sorry. This must be hard for you. Ryder (in a completely casual tone): Actually, I barely knew the guy.
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TEENAGE WITCH posted:so who the voice actor from the originl series that giant bomb said was coming back 4 this mass effect game? 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 the junior archaeologist who got stuck in a bubble and then killed her mom at this point. Seems pretty chirpy despite that. Phrosphor fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Mar 22, 2017 |
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Vintersorg posted:Also my squadmates don't wear their helmet outside on the desert planet but I do...? You can change that in the gameplay menu or somewhere. All helmets all the time hell yeah.
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Arglebargle III posted:You can change that in the gameplay menu or somewhere. All helmets all the time hell yeah. I'm going to gently caress the helmets
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Mar 22, 2017 02:28
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tayvaan posted:The writing is only similar on a very superficial level. Compare how your crew gets introduced to you in Andromeda vs mass effect 2. In mass effect 2 you have a very clear idea of who they are the minute they join your team. In Andromeda no one I've recruited so far leaves an impression in the same way, they just show up and suddenly you're working together for some reason, I feel like I have to talk to them just to figure out whether I want to talk to them which wasn't true in ME2. Oh, I dunno. With Gil you learn that he's a hopeless wreck that has no sense of purpose. That was a good first conversation. "Hi I'm your mechanic and chief engineer and I feel like my life is going nowhere. Please, leave me so I can get wasted instead of ensuring your ship runs well." Vintersorg posted:I got to EOS and I just cant. Struggling. Prob restart with default face because my bottom eyelashes are distanced away from my eyes. The helmet thing is a setting under Gameplay settings.
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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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just now landed on eos are there any materials i should be selling or attemping to keep? are there any that are just insta trash or should i just horde until i figure more poo poo out?
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GET MY BELT SON posted:are there any that are just insta trash or should i just horde until i figure more poo poo out? the insta trash is this game, friend
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One thing that bugs me. On a mission, my crew get along When I wander the tempest, they joke and tease each other, but they get along. (Except for Gil and Kallo) When I call a staff meeting, everything turns into a massive shitshow and they make each other and me look like idiots. Beyond that, still fun. The aliens are definately uninspired, but it continues to be good times to explore and fight in.
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Fojar38 posted:I obviously love this game a whole lot but will readily agree that I'm still not sure why this game needed to be in another galaxy rather than just an isolated and unexplored region of the milky way aside from trying to avoid having to canonize the original trilogy Yea I'm having fun and I like the new planets but I'm not really feeling a time jump/galaxy shift, it feels like it'd be the same thing if it was just 'we found a new part of the galaxy to study and get a foothold in!'
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After getting farther in I'm going to shelve this until later. There's the glitches and all that but the game lacks soul and its soullessness is becoming more and more apparent. This game seems to be to the original Mass Effect trilogy what Diablo 3 was to Diablo 1+2. gently caress it, I'm going to try the goldbox games on GOG instead.
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Imagine the gamergate backlash if they'd gone to Gynomeda instead!
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cheers to mass effect andromeda jeers to liam's cargo pants that i can't change
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Setzer Gabbiani posted:This raises the question as to why Bioware - a dev familiar with the Infinity family and Unreal for almost 20 years - thought they could snap-switch to Frostbite, an engine where labyrinthine complexity is touted as a feature by DICE I am pretty sure that Frostbite was a publisher mandate and not a developer choice.
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Is... is the game somehow reading my wish journal and manifesting my fantasies for me??
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Holy poo poo like half of the memes are from that one Addison conversation She is going to end up an internet celebrity if she isn't already
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Fojar38 posted:*doesnt play the game at all, rushes to forums thread* hell yeah Im great Im Fantastic
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Two krogans to do the dishes! I'm such a lucky guy 
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Any hints on how to fix a black screen? I can hear the menu music but nothing works video-wise. I don't have the Corsair utility thing that Google says to uninstall.
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Elotana posted:Any hints on how to fix a black screen? I can hear the menu music but nothing works video-wise. I don't have the Corsair utility thing that Google says to uninstall. Vidcard Drivers up to date? Start up in windowed mode and then try changing back to fullscreen once in the game. Recheck/initialize your download. You might need to reinstall.
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Elotana posted:Any hints on how to fix a black screen? I can hear the menu music but nothing works video-wise. I don't have the Corsair utility thing that Google says to uninstall. turn on monitor
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tayvaan posted:Compare how your crew gets introduced to you in Andromeda vs mass effect 2. In mass effect 2 you have a very clear idea of who they are the minute they join your team. In Andromeda no one I've recruited so far leaves an impression in the same way, they just show up and suddenly you're working together for some reason, I feel like I have to talk to them just to figure out whether I want to talk to them which wasn't true in ME2. The companion quality of these games really took a poo poo after 2. Even the (non human) companions from ME1 were vastly more interesting than anything in 3 or Andromeda. 2 had a reptile assassin (Thane), A powerful biotic with a dark and mysterious past (Jack), a cool as hell robot (Legion) etc. 3 brought back a bunch of characters from the first game, including the worst characters from the first game (Kaiden/Ashley), James Vega (who?) and a robot with breasts. I'm sure the characters in Andromeda will get somewhat more interesting as I pursue their various loyalty missions and whatnot, but on the surface they are all boring as poo poo so far. I was hoping that they were just front loading the game with the boring companions, but then I found out all I had left to find was the new alien guy which is pretty disappointing. Edit: I like the old man Krogan so far though. Lucid Dream fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Mar 22, 2017 |
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Ainsley McTree posted:jeers to liam's cargo pants that i can't change But you can take off Liam's cargo pants.
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Lucid Dream posted:The companion quality of these games really took a poo poo after 2. Even the (non human) companions from ME1 were vastly more interesting than anything in 3 or Andromeda. 2 had a reptile assassin (Thane), A powerful biotic with a dark and mysterious past (Jack), a cool as hell robot (Legion) etc. 3 brought back a bunch of characters from the first game, including the worst characters from the first game (Kaiden/Ashley), James Vega (who?) and a robot with breasts. I'm sure the characters in Andromeda will get somewhat more interesting as I pursue their various loyalty missions and whatnot, but on the surface they are all boring as poo poo so far. I was hoping that they were just front loading the game with the boring companions, but then I found out all I had left to find was the new alien guy which is pretty disappointing. Javik wasn't interesting? Vega's fine, he's just introduced so late that it's hard to care about him. He's better than the human companions in 1 or either of the Cerberus ones in 2. EDI's problem is that half of her character is unoriginal but decent robot-learning-about-humanity stuff and half of it is Joker wanting to bang her.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Javik wasn't interesting?
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I dunno, PB's intro was fitting for her regardless of how you feel about what her character actually is, and mr badass krogan got a fittingly fun intro including originally being all 'yea man whatever when the sky is clean and the enemies are dead I'll totally join you' and then going to 'oh...well then ok let's gently caress stuff up'. The others, yea, you kinda gotta do their convos and all to get them more fleshed out than 'HELLO RYDER I AM YOUR NEW COMPANION I USE [INSERT COMBAT STYLE HERE]'
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Serf posted:lmao at them not even bothering to put in angaran guns. They just use the kett weapons, and in cutscenes you can spot them using avengers and predators. Just fuckin lmao They're entirely colonized. You didn't see the Apache fighting with Apache guns, did you? The Angarans use Kett and Council weapons now, Quarian and Turian spaceship parts ten years ago. It all makes sense.
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Lucid Dream posted:The companion quality of these games really took a poo poo after 2. Even the (non human) companions from ME1 were vastly more interesting than anything in 3 or Andromeda. 2 had a reptile assassin (Thane), A powerful biotic with a dark and mysterious past (Jack), a cool as hell robot (Legion) etc. 3 brought back a bunch of characters from the first game, including the worst characters from the first game (Kaiden/Ashley), James Vega (who?) and a robot with breasts. I'm sure the characters in Andromeda will get somewhat more interesting as I pursue their various loyalty missions and whatnot, but on the surface they are all boring as poo poo so far. I was hoping that they were just front loading the game with the boring companions, but then I found out all I had left to find was the new alien guy which is pretty disappointing. Eh, I think ME3 and DA:I had solid rosters of characters, Javik is one of my favorite companions in any bioware game. I also think ME1 was pretty weak outside of Wrex though ME2 retroactively makes some of them better. ME2 really stands because its fundamentally a game that focuses on your companions so it manages to have a larger roster and give everyone their due.
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So far, just got to my ship. This game feels like I'm playing through the studio's animatic of a very sloppy first draft script. It's pretty rough going. Definitely feeling like they needed to kill some darlings, here. It's really half-baked.
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Number Ten Cocks posted:They're entirely colonized. You didn't see the Apache fighting with Apache guns, did you? The Angarans use Kett and Council weapons now, Quarian and Turian spaceship parts ten years ago. It all makes sense. See, this would actually be a loving great little bit of worldbuilding if I hadn't met them about five minutes ago and all of a sudden they speak English and use our guns.
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Elotana posted:Any hints on how to fix a black screen? I can hear the menu music but nothing works video-wise. I don't have the Corsair utility thing that Google says to uninstall. What kind of black screen? Can you alt tab out of it and do other stuff, or is your screen completely black, as in, it looks like your monitor is off and not receiving a signal, and even hitting the monitor's power switch doesn't do anything? If it's the latter, try unplugging your monitor from the power outlet, waiting a few seconds, and plugging it back in again. I had that, and that fixed it for me (and now that I'm in borderless mode, I can alt tab without problems). No idea what caused it, and I had the same problem with Battlefield 1, but whatever it's fixed I guess
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Has anyone managed to get this working over steam link? I've tried adding both MEA and Origin as non-steam games but that doesn't work. I've also tried already being logged on to origin on my pc when I start it. Basically most of the suggestions you can find through a Google search.
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Lucid Dream posted:The companion quality of these games really took a poo poo after 2. Even the (non human) companions from ME1 were vastly more interesting than anything in 3 or Andromeda. 2 had a reptile assassin (Thane), A powerful biotic with a dark and mysterious past (Jack), a cool as hell robot (Legion) etc. 3 brought back a bunch of characters from the first game, including the worst characters from the first game (Kaiden/Ashley), James Vega (who?) and a robot with breasts. I'm sure the characters in Andromeda will get somewhat more interesting as I pursue their various loyalty missions and whatnot, but on the surface they are all boring as poo poo so far. I was hoping that they were just front loading the game with the boring companions, but then I found out all I had left to find was the new alien guy which is pretty disappointing. Man, some of this poo poo is straight up revisionism. Jack was AWFUL in ME2 - some Goth Topic chick with anger issues. Dark and Mysterious past  Thane was whatever, I didn't really care for him. I didn't think he was interesting.Legion was dope but there wasn't much to him (but he was still dope, so yeah okay), and EDI was actually pretty dope, too, aside from the subplot about falling in love or whatever. Jack had a solid arc over two games, Miranda was dope, Wrex/Grunt/Mordin was dope, Jacob was like the only normal (not haunted by anything in particular) person in ME2 and then got super uninteresting in ME3, and Vega in 3 was better than Jacob was in 2 but who the gently caress cares about a new vanilla human squaddie coming in at the rear end end of the trilogy?
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tayvaan posted:Javik is one of my favorite companions in any bioware game. tayvaan posted:I also think ME1 was pretty weak outside of Wrex though ME2 retroactively makes some of them better.
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