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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 19, 2017 3:59:28 GMT
Wasn't this the Ralph Retort responsible for singling her out? I'm pretty sure he isn't on good terms with KIA.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 19, 2017 3:09:59 GMT
Didn't agree with his views at all but I am not fond of call out culture or trying to get people fired over tweets.
Also funny that people are blaming him for the issues this game had when he would only have worked on the maps and combat which aren't being criticised at all (in fact the combat is being praised).
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 19, 2017 2:21:30 GMT
Very few people believe that, by itself LGBT content ruins a game. However, the addition of it doesn't make the game good, either. A lot of writers do not have the skill to pull it off. I think a lot of the time the issue is that sexuality and gender identity is a personal thing that doesn't necessarily come up. If it's there there has to be a reason for it being there in the first place, a romance arc is one of those reasons. Tho something like Krem being trans I felt was not addressed well, the conversation just came off as cringey. The character was great but that conversation was just appalling. If they couldn't think of a good way of bringing it up they shouldn't have brought it up at all.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 19, 2017 2:16:13 GMT
It was interesting til it started to get ranty and over the top, as an early comment pointed out you can throw just as much criticism at DA. I never cared that certain things are aimed at straight people, they are the vast majority of the planet. I just want people to see that LGBT+ content does not ruin a game and it doesn't mean "straight male players" won't buy it too. If you are looking at western sales then yeah, if you are looking at international sales then it actually might. There is a huge Overwatch fanbase in Russia and they have some pro-teams in the scene, but Blizzard had to censor their comics that had gay characters in them because of laws in Russia. That's just one example. True and that's depressing but the same could be said for a lot of features in western video games that are seen as unacceptable in other countries, like sexual content for example.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 19, 2017 2:08:31 GMT
It was interesting til it started to get ranty and over the top, as an early comment pointed out you can throw just as much criticism at DA. I never cared that certain things are aimed at straight people, they are the vast majority of the planet. I just want people to see that LGBT+ content does not ruin a game and it doesn't mean "straight male players" won't buy it too.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 19, 2017 1:34:27 GMT
Cora and Liam win for me but only because I hated Ashley and Jacob was just a world of meh.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 19, 2017 0:53:03 GMT
Yes, I enjoyed what I played even if it wasn't as good as I want it to be.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 19, 2017 0:16:52 GMT
Not trying to say "Liam is hot" (he is tho) but he definitely is the most realistic/well designed character I have seen in the game. Like it's kind of a shame the rest of the characters don't look as good other than maybe the default Ryders. He has A LOT of banter too.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 18, 2017 15:39:53 GMT
It didn't make sense to me, gene therapy in stasis? I guess having it cured would just mean they would eventually take over Andromeda or something tho. Still it's another reminder that all your previous choices mean nothing now. I mean, I don't understand how dark energy can be a cloud with mass, but there it is. As for choices, I'm not sure how a decision Shepard made after the Arks left would affect the Krogan in the Arks. I'm fairly sure it follows along with what Mordin tells you in ME3, too. The Krogan were already adapting and the genophage was no longer working or no longer as potent, and the Krogan used their time in the Arks to further the mutation. Sure of course, but that's why they left so early in the first place, So Bioware didn't have to deal with the choices players had made. That doesn't make sense either, so many characters saying they just randomly decided to go on a one way trip to an unknown galaxy, to leave their families and friends forever. Like they didn't even know if they would be able to settle on those planets.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 18, 2017 15:14:01 GMT
It didn't make sense to me, gene therapy in stasis? I guess having it cured would just mean they would eventually take over Andromeda or something tho. Still it's another reminder that all your previous choices mean nothing now.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 18, 2017 15:05:02 GMT
I enjoyed it, so I guess that's closer to yes than no even if I wished a lot was different.
The first few hours of ME1 and ME3 were worse anyway and I loved both of those games. (minus the ME3 ending ofc)
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 18, 2017 3:54:44 GMT
yeah middle mouse alone to boost forward or with a directional key (a,d) for left or right. I didn't work that out for ages tho so either it doesn't tell u or it's easy to miss.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 18, 2017 2:50:12 GMT
I don't know if something as big as animations could be fixed in a patch. Would probably need a full blown update. Depends what is causing the issue. I'd say some of the problems could be fixed with a patch like the cross eyes and the lip thing maybe but the stiff janky animations I am not so sure about. They got criticism for these months ago and it wasn't in the day one patch. So I think it would probably be time consuming and costly to fix these problems, so either they aren't doing it or they are working on it now and it will be fixed at some time after launch. Tho by then it probably wouldn't make a difference to sales so I am more inclined to believe it's never being fixed. At least not unless it becomes an ME3 ending type deal with the bad PR and they do it as a sort of apology.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 17, 2017 22:11:05 GMT
Haters will bring it down. They always show up to vote their hate. Professional reviewers are usually pretty forgiving with Bioware games, just look at DAI. With MEA they seem more critical. They could make an example of this one to try and win credibility back, but then that would piss off EA so i'm not sure they will. Wouldn't it be nice if they were just honest and objective.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 17, 2017 21:47:16 GMT
Yeah far more people are gonna care about his video than some article by Patricia Hernandez on kotaku. It's a shame because his opinion isn't any more valuable but that's just how it is.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 17, 2017 20:20:00 GMT
hmm, well it worked for me and I assumed that it was just missing a button that most of the menus have that says to press enter to confirm changes. Sure u pressed it after every colour change? To be fair the pallet was also slow to respond to my attempts to move it around so maybe the entire thing is completely bugged and I just got lucky? It was the casual attire tho and I did manage to change it after many tries, sorry you couldn't. Pressing enter didn't make a noise or anything, so I gave up and plugged in my 360 controller to my PC to change the colours. It worked, which is great but... also bad I shouldn't have to change my control scheme to get basic functionality to work. Oh gawd what am I talking about I meant space not enter. Sorry. I'm so dumb. Anyway i'm glad u got it to work, it needs fixing tho.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 17, 2017 20:13:17 GMT
They did improve them, some of them are noticeably better than in older footage, but then a lot of them are still awful and non of them are that good. I don't think any patch is gonna fix these issues, this is what you get. Let's hope the bulk of this is just at the beginning of the game. Please show me a side by side example of a facial animation that actually improved. One reason I think they gated us where they did is because they didn't want anyone making it to Kadara to see how the infamous disarm scene plays out and compare it to the trailer... I remember one of the devs said they fixed the "exploding mouths" glitch and bragging about it in Twitter but there are SO MANY SCENES where the character's lips 'explode' outwards 2-4 inches from their face when they talk - they end up looking like a goofy baboon doing a mating call. Totally unnatural. Don't have a side by side example but the video with Natalie Dormer shows the early scene with her character and it looks less buggy in the actual game. Watching it again tho the difference is minor and it's still quite buggy. I highly doubt that's why they gated the trial.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 17, 2017 20:00:35 GMT
You wont be disappointed its very challaging and you have to think about it i played vanguard and it was awsome they are really shining with the combat and the jet pack is really good the enemy ai are clever and try flank you. Its a challange preapare to die a lot lol I'm hoping it stays hard and doesn't get easy once you have a lot of upgraded abilities, but yeah what I played as great and I didn't like the combat from the trilogy much.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 17, 2017 19:56:43 GMT
They did improve them, some of them are noticeably better than in older footage, but then a lot of them are still awful and non of them are that good. I don't think any patch is gonna fix these issues, this is what you get. Let's hope the bulk of this is just at the beginning of the game.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 17, 2017 19:52:05 GMT
oh god yeah took me forever but I managed it. Press enter when you are done with each colour option then escape when u have them all the way u want to leave the screen and it keeps the changes but there is nothing that says to do that. Needs a patch. I tried this and it still doesn't work! I think changing the colour of the casual attire is so bugged on my version that it's not even possible. hmm, well it worked for me and I assumed that it was just missing a button that most of the menus have that says to press enter to confirm changes. Sure u pressed it after every colour change? To be fair the pallet was also slow to respond to my attempts to move it around so maybe the entire thing is completely bugged and I just got lucky? It was the casual attire tho and I did manage to change it after many tries, sorry you couldn't.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 17, 2017 18:49:16 GMT
I don't think we will know if this is "Dragon Age Inquisition in space" until the full game comes out. The exploration in the trial is restricted but we will apparently be able to explore a lot more later in the game on that planet and others, plus i've read that other planets are far more interesting. The side quests I can already tell will be more interesting than Inquisition, but the ones I played still seemed quite bare bones. Bioware needs to think about what made their side quests in the past better than what was in Inquisition. The actual quests themselves were often simple as hell but you would meet interesting characters, learn more about the world and the various different cultures, factions ect. Can't do that when you are wondering around a planet with nobody on it. Still there are a few quests that were kind of interesting and hopefully there will be more/better ones later.
The problem with Inquisition was not that there were huge areas, it was that it seemed to be there at the expense of side quests. Even the main quest was quite short. So we ended up with massive beautiful areas full of nothing and only a handful of the side quests were at all memorable.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 17, 2017 15:37:50 GMT
It doesn't even have much of an impact either because the player hasn't met her and potentially hasn't even heard of her before if they hadn't followed the marketing or interacted with that wall.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 17, 2017 1:48:34 GMT
Did anybody manage to change the colour of their casual outfit successfully? I tried five times but it just kept changing back to white, so I gave up. oh god yeah took me forever but I managed it. Press enter when you are done with each colour option then escape when u have them all the way u want to leave the screen and it keeps the changes but there is nothing that says to do that. Needs a patch.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 16, 2017 23:30:27 GMT
Finished my trial now
PROS: - Combat and movement in general, it's just really really good. Better than any of the trilogy - The jetpack. I was dreading having to do so much platforming but it's fine, easy to use and it is really useful in combat once u get used to it. - Not much in the way of bugs if you don't count like graphical bugs and glitches, no crashes, nothing that broke or crashed anything not for me anyway. - Seemed to perform great at 4k with my 1080. - The sound. Soundtrack, music and voice acting is all perfect. Also I almost always have to turn dialogue volume to max and music volume down to like 80% or lower in games so I can hear it all but I didn't have to change a thing for this one. It was all set perfectly - The squad mates have A LOT to say about everything. - The nomad/ exploration was pretty good from what I saw
CONS: - Character creation. We all know it's terrible but like even the few options we have are bad. My Ryder looks good most of the time but sometimes when he smiles he gets all these lines on his face like some middle aged man only really fake looking. Some cut scenes this doesn't happen in but occasionally it does and I've tried a different preset. His hair also clips into the back of his own neck sometimes so I'll have to change that too. - Facial animations. Most are acceptable but still not great but then the rest are just awful. Seems like SisRyder and that woman on the Nexus are the worst cases but they aren't the only bad ones. There are also tons of minor graphical glitches and mistakes that are just annoying. This game wouyld have been received better if it had been polished up a lot more than it has been, probably too late now. - The premise/ some of the plot. While some of it is compelling the premise of this game is silly. So many characters saying stuff like they went to Andromeda on a whim just leaving their families behind forever. Why wasn't this like an escape from the reapers right before the end of ME3? Like it could still have been in the works forever and the reapers just made them leave early causing all these problems. - The dialogue is quite cheesy and the pacing isn't that good either but this is just the start so it could easily get better. - So far the side quests are not massively interesting, nowhere near as bad as Inquisition but I hope we get at least some good ones. - the tutorial is a bit bare bones - the scanner, it's hard to tell what is scannable so u end up scanning everything which is tedious.
I still enjoyed it and have not cancelled my pre order but in my opinion it needs polish and could have done with more thought going into the writing.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 16, 2017 13:48:57 GMT
I'll go for 70% lots of issues but for the most part i'm enjoying it anyway. I seriously hope it gets some big patches soon tho.
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