Mass Effect: Andromeda Update Arrives, As BioWare Considers Animation Improvements

Bioware released a sub-standard game. Not only does it not do justice to the title, but it's painful to listen to anyone speak in the game. Really painful. It's hard to play the first few hours talking to Tann, Cora or Peebee about anything. It all sounds like the first read of an audition script. The actors clearly had no idea what the content of their lines were. And, god, the characters are ugly. This stuff interferes with the progress of the game. Gamespot was right about this one.

#1 complaint - animation.

fix it.

People nitpick at the most stupidest things. There is nothing game breaking here. I guess spoiled children must have their own way. I personally am enjoying the game a lot. It is fun and having a blast.

I actually really enjoy the game allot. Even though it got bad reviews this is probably the most fun I have had playing a ME game. This game pretty much reminds me of every Mass effect game out there. I played all three of them before Andromeda like 3 times each. Some people just hate bioware and no matter what they release they will always talk crap about their games. I am a true gamer I will play anything once just for the experience. Which is why my library is worth over $2000+. I don't care who makes it, I will play it just to say I have and Mass effect is actually one I enjoy a lot!

Sorry. Late to the party. Is it the lip animations during fellatio that are the issue?

If it was only the animation quality that was wrong with ME:A then I would be happy, because I can forgive that. But to me there are a lot of issues and some of those issues aren't technical ones, but issues I have with the direction of the game.

It seems to me, that Bioware likes to take franchises that was originally very story focused and then make them more combat oriented than what they originally were. They did this with Dragon age, and now they are doing it with Mass Effect. For all of ME:A faults, the heaviest (for me) are the fact that the story isn't good, it feels bland and average. From the way that the family's emotional relationship is forced down our throats with "aww it's so sad that your sister is in coma, or the fact that we're supposed to care about a death in the family that we have no attachment to, and yet we are still expected to shed a tear. Bioware seems to have used a Tell don't show aproach instead of the opposite, which is usually the preffered. It's clear to me that the writers of ME:A have no clue what they are doing, and so much of the dialogue is so cringy that a novice writer could have done a better job.

The characters themselves also seems incredible bland, and while I do like a few of them (vetra fx) the fact is, that there this time around seems to be too many characters I simply don't give a shit about, because of how they are portrayed (peebee) or written (Cora) or just general cringiness (Liam), where's the previous titles I care about every single one of them, and I was in constant paranoia about losing them (except Kaiten, die!)

The same thing with the main antagonist. The first time we meet him, I was laughing so hard because he was so pouty when he couldn't do the same thing as Ryder Sr. I just couldn't take him serious. Compare this to how we meet Saren the first few times. He's much more menacing and you can feel his hatred of humans. The new antagonist, seems like a child with a temper compared to Saren.

There also doesn't seem to be that many choices that affect anything, and that has probably something to do with the fact, that you a lot of the time only have access to two dialogue options, instead of the 4 or more that was in the previous games.

The enviroments looks stunning, but they don't feel worthwhile exploring because they don't have anything meaningful in them, except resources etc. At no point did I actually feel like I was in a living breathing world. There also seems to be a lot of busywork in the game, I gotta say I am not a fan of that. I was once considering rerolling in DA:I but when I remembered all the gathering and horrible sidequests i had to do a again, I frankly just forgot about it. Spending 20 hours gathering elfroot is not my idea of fun. The same thing in ME:A, having to use that godforsaken scanner all the time gets old fast. Most of the time there's no point in reading in wtf you're scanning and it becomes just another thing you have to do to get resources.

While combat is fun, it just becomes a grind because you aren't rewarded with a good story or anything of the sort, so you just have to tredge on. It becomes routine too fast.

So for me the animation quality is not the worst of the game, but instead they're a symbol to what is wrong with the game and Bioware in general. For me, the game is simply mediocre or below.

Remember Witcher 1 when it first came out, it was average? Then they worked hard on it and released it again in as an awesome title? I hope that happens with ME:A.

Good work Bioware standing behind the game. Now get the facial animations fixed and open up modding so the community can beautify the characters where you apparently didn't know "sex sells" and made them unattractive (I.E. Make the girls hawt. Awwww yeah. That's what daddeh wants.). Then I'll buy this.

this game was dead on arrival. good luck trying to change that with tiny patches

The game was probably designed the way it was (in part) to allow the introduction of some sort of new modding tool. If the game was perfect, there would be no way for you to add your content to the galaxy of Andromeda.

This from a Naughty Dog animator in regards to some of the Mass Effect Andromeda character animations..

Another example of EA releasing an unfinished game and then promising to fix it over time. This sounds like the mass effect version of the Sims 4.

Witness the death of bioware.

I would recommend people to hold off playing this game after a few patches are out to fix this game. I remember how awesome the character animations were in the first game. Man has Andromeda fallen off the cliff. I guess most of the good people at Bioware left the studio, quality is definitely not on par with what their games are known for.