about that "too much material for motion captioning" excuse

Seconded. I've been playing Watch Dogs 2 a lot recently, and every cut scene is mo-capped, and by the VAs themselves which definitely resulted in better overall quality.

"I just played a Warner Bros-funded fighting game with a five-hour story campaign featuring characters that have been famous world-wide for almost a century, and I'm confused as to why an open-world RPG with exponentially more story content, characters, and dialogue has trouble meeting the same standard of animation quality???"

Angryjoes review on injustice 2 takes another jab at Andromeda's facial animations again lol.

Lol.

Completely this.

Like, what the hell are you on about OP?! People like you have unrealistic standard for video games.

Makes him a fucking bandwagon cunt in my eyes.

I don't like comparing with other games, but it's true. There is really no excuse for the shoddy quality. If deadlines can't be changed because of advertising buy-ins, then you need to work to meet those deadlines.

There is no excuse, but the reason is simple, budget. People say "Oh they had 5 years and 40 million dollars" Yeah that sum is nothing compared to other triple A blockbusters currently on the market. So instead of giving additional funding to fix the issues they just outsourced a lot of the animation work to Romania(?) because cheaper. All in all it didn't seem like EA was even Interested in this game succeeding and Bioware leadership didn't know how to properly helm this project, resulting in this. Let me just say that i find a lot of enjoyment in the game, but it should never have released in its state, and it has plenty of issues outside of its obvious rushed development and lack of polish.