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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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Ravenfood posted:Wait why do we have AI again? I thought they were banned. SAM will have a sexy robot body in ME:A2, mark my words. SAM is even a gender neutral name so it can take on a male or female form depending on the player's preference.
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Number Ten Cocks posted:You weren't inside a turkey, but just think, a turkey is inside you. It's not a cat man, but it's not nothing. Ew don't be gross, I have standards Turbl posted:I gave it a big fat ZERO because I can't find a krogan to gently caress ANYWHERE   
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monster on a stick posted:SAM will have a sexy robot body in ME:A2, mark my words. Prolly your twin's body. They'll die or fuse or someshit.
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Mar 22, 2017 04:04
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Look man, I just wanna gently caress a salarian.
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Admiral Ray posted:Prolly your twin's body. They'll die or fuse or someshit. Maybe they'll fuse with our twin, get all upset about how mistreated AIs are, and blow up the
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monster on a stick posted:Maybe they'll fuse with our twin, get all upset about how mistreated AIs are, and blow up the Oh you can't gently caress the terrorist in this one?
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Serf posted:Look man, I just wanna gently caress a salarian. Put a ache-ah in the cloaca.
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Fallen Hamprince posted:I realized that bioware will probably never make a game i like ever again and that makes me feel very sad inside When God closes a Bioware he opens a CD Projekt Red. Lots of devs have cannibalized their best stuff and learned lots from what they accomplished so they live on, in a way.
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Ravenfood posted:Wait why do we have AI again? I thought they were banned. Humans were working on it secretly to catch up the thousand year head start the Asari and Salarians have on them. When the Alliance wouldn't keep supporting the project Rydad took it with him to Andromeda. That's one good part of writing; sounds exactly like something the humans of Mass Effect would do. Sneaky fuckers.
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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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DrNutt posted:I got to play for a few hours today and went through the first vault, and I have to say, as negative as I've been on the game, so far I'm actually a little impressed by the scope and ambition thus far. I really liked how you come out of the vault and see the clear sky and all that, but what really impressed me was calling down the settlement and building the outpost. Pretty much all the buildings can be explored and you can access a bunch of terminals and talk to a bunch of non-important NPCs. It's not super important in the grand scheme of things but it does make the world feel larger and more alive, and being able to talk to boring nobodies just for the sake of getting to know them is one thing I've always liked about RPGs. Yup yup yup. It's also kind of cool to see the Nexus advancing through a few stages so far, with areas opening up and becoming functional, more NPCs, etc. I'm only maybe 3-4 main missions past the trial now (Met the cat men, helped their scientists), but hopefully that continues. It's one of the few things that MEA is doing better than DAI -- showing some significant changes in the environment and hubs to reflect your progress. DAI did a little of that with Skyhold but it wasn't nearly as noticeable as it is here. I'm coming around a tiny bit on the squad and crew mates, but game is still mostly mediocre as gently caress. There are a few bits and elements here and there that are surprisingly good, and some that are really bad, but the vast majority of it is just... souless. Gonna keep playing because my broken brain is in the mood for an OW RPG right now and the combat is at least fun. But it's pretty obviously a 7 out of 10 at best, for me. It really isn't "No Man's Sky" level of bad but... it ain't good, either. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone new to ME -- if you're going to play a new open world action, go play Horizon because that game owns.
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And hey, what happened to the radio announcer guy who used to read the codex to me? Sometimes it was a little much, yes, but getting rid of it entirely? That's over correcting.
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I dunno if I can shitpost ME1 poo poo but uh, I have an irish Femshep.
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ashpanash posted:And hey, what happened to the radio announcer guy who used to read the codex to me? Sometimes it was a little much, yes, but getting rid of it entirely? That's over correcting. Nah, that sounds liek a good decision. Reading it is fine, I don't need someone slow voicing pages of poo poo.
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widespread posted:I dunno if I can shitpost ME1 poo poo but uh, I have an irish Femshep. Whoa ME:A looks better than I expected.
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1stGear posted: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. 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. The Tempest being such a rip off of the Normandy is kind of appropriate considering how much this game feels like an imitation of the first three mass effect games. It almost feels like it should have been published by Focus Home Interactive or Deep Silver. It's a game made by people who played the Mass Effect trilogy and had some idea of why people enjoyed them but clearly just did not have the competence or resources to do it themselves.
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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. for context I loving love mass effect and lap up all sci-fi so the bar is pretty drat low. as long as it's not outright awful I'll probably like it. was a bit worried they've totally stripped out the meaningful choice/RP aspects though
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Mar 22, 2017 04:32
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I went in expecting poo poo but this is poo poo. Animations are awful and you cannot host a multiplayer game. Gotta play with kids on their mom's dsl.
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Games almost been out for 24 hours now so that means time to post your Ryders!  I hosed up and made a normal person instead of a clown freak, but sure beats the default look.
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Evil Canadian posted:I hosed up and made a normal person instead of a clown freak, but sure beats the default look. I guess it beats the Nexus.
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Admiral Ray posted:Prolly your twin's body. They'll die or fuse or someshit. incestous ai fuckbot???  bioware you've done it again!
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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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ShakeZula posted:I'm surprised that critic average score is so high. This thread led me to believe every reviewer was just savaging the game. the mass effect: andromeda thread on forums dot something awful dot com/games is the least useful resource for mass effect andromeda on the internet
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I have been playing and enjoying this game with a Ryder I customized to look fairly normal.
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Has anyone done The Lost Scout sidemission on the snow planet? Seems like you are supposed to fix power to the door but theres nothing to activate.
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Evil Canadian posted:Games almost been out for 24 hours now so that means time to post your Ryders!  I'm sorry, I though you said "post Shepherd's face as Joker is an anus baby".
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Will acknowledge that there is a very obvious quality gap between conversations had in the static game world and actual important story cutscenes.
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Hot take from the multiplayer thread: https://giant.gfycat.com/MarriedDistantEkaltadeta.mp4
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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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Fojar38 posted:Hot take from the multiplayer thread: that looks worse than BattleBorn for fucks sake.
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Fojar38 posted:Will acknowledge that there is a very obvious quality gap between conversations had in the static game world and actual important story cutscenes. Stay strong Fojar, this sort of weakness doesn't suit you.
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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. It's a starship in a videogame. Please don't go all CIG on this. Of course it's a rip-off of the Normandy. The characters are all riffs on or mashups of characters they've done before and you don't even have to think very hard about it. The story has prominent plot points from literally every Mass Effect game (apart from 3, and if you wanna squint hard enough you can make a compelling argument that it also steals from ME3) in it. I don't know if Bioware is capable of being truly imaginative any more but I don't really care. Video game Sci-fi and AAA video game fantasy stopped paying attention to imaginative worlds that aren't absolute garbage after the Lord of the Rings movies. The gun mechanics are fun, even if they probably should have dropped the cover shooting aspect since it wasn't really needed (Bioware's VATS?) - especially not when you think about how before you get too far into the game every enemy group has either a) a tank that will charge you out of cover or b) an enemy that will ignore cover and push you out of it. I really started to enjoy the combat the instant I stopped using cover outside of "okay, the game just spawned 15 enemies in this one room and this is bullshit". It's not the greatest game ever and it's probably not going to be "actual reviewer" GOTY material. I can come up with a laundry list of complaints about this game if I wanted to. It's not even that hard. Hell, the faces for the Asari and Humans are so bad I'm pretty sure Bioware ripped them out of ME1. It's not worth $60, or whatever Origin is charging for it. But it's not nearly as bad as the people questioning a 78 on metacritic. It's a good dumb fun pulp space opera. The design is cool, and if you actually bother to set your graphics manually and have a PC that can run decent graphics, the game is actually really pretty (aside from the Human and Asari faces, 'cos that poo poo is terrible).
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Fojar38 posted:Hot take from the multiplayer thread: Hell yeah that rules.
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DoctorGonzo posted:that looks worse than BattleBorn for fucks sake. check out this guy DrNutt posted:Stay strong Fojar, this sort of weakness doesn't suit you. It actually reminds me a lot of ME1 which isn't surprising since it's pretty clear that's what they were going for. Wandering around the Nexus for the first time picking up minor side quests from folks felt a lot like the Citadel.
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