Still no official schedule? goddamn the event it's tomorrow! I must know if I'm gonna be able to watch the thing in the first place. Unless they plan on tossing another trailer and call it a day. But I'm assuming there will be a stream like previous N7s or some sort of event, especially this year.
I just hope it's not another crappy trailer that shows nothing, like at E3. That would seriously just piss people off.
Still no official schedule? goddamn the event it's tomorrow! I must know if I'm gonna be able to watch the thing in the first place. Unless they plan on tossing another trailer and call it a day. But I'm assuming there will be a stream like previous N7s or some sort of event, especially this year.
I just hope it's not another crappy trailer that shows nothing, like at E3. That would seriously just piss people off.
Eh, I was more than happy with the 2016 trailer at E3 and thought it showed plenty.
Still no official schedule? goddamn the event it's tomorrow! I must know if I'm gonna be able to watch the thing in the first place. Unless they plan on tossing another trailer and call it a day. But I'm assuming there will be a stream like previous N7s or some sort of event, especially this year.
I just hope it's not another crappy trailer that shows nothing, like at E3. That would seriously just piss people off.
Especially with all this build up the past week/months. The way the developers have been talking you'd think the game is coming out tomorrow...
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Seeing Battlefront and Battlefield 1 weapons getting muddy/dirty/snow covered makes me wish MEA was FPS, guns in those DICE games look amazing. Hope they implement visible environmental changes on armor.
Those are cool details, but I'd rather have detailed character models than guns in my view. I find them more impressive and immersive. I always did prefer TP perspective. Personal taste.
As you said, applying those effects to our character model would be impressive. I'll not get my expectations too high, in that regard. There is a lot more going on "on-screen" with a character model versus a gun-model, so the effects might be correspondingly less impressing. Resources aren't limitless and all that.
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I just hope it's not another crappy trailer that shows nothing, like at E3. That would seriously just piss people off.
Eh, I was more than happy with the 2016 trailer at E3 and thought it showed plenty.
It was the final E3 Andromeda was going to attend, and all they showed was a 2 minute video with like a grand total of 10 seconds of gameplay. Sorry, but that wasn't "plenty." You can't hype up showing the game off, then show next to nothing. Bioware has been hyping up this N7 day for months, and now it's time to put their money where their mouth is. Another 1-2 minute trailer (or God help us a cinematic trailer) isn't what people want to see. They want to see the actual game. No teasing, no behind the scenes stuff, no vague looking alien structures......Show us the game in all its glory.
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It's a beautiful glimpse into the nearby future...such teases.
Thinking the father is gonna play a huge role, whether he's alive or not.
I think they implied as much long ago, though that could just be how I interpreted Mac's words at the time.
When we got the "Ghost Riders (Ryders?)" trailer, we were told that the N7 is a "not the protagonist, but is very significant to the story". Then, we saw leaked assets that seemed to show him dropping the stink-bombed dude off a building. Admittedly, anyone could be inside that armor, but how many N7s are there in Andromeda that will also intersect so significantly with our story? Then, they finally confirmed he's dad, as expected.
I don't know how directly involved the character will be, but I'm sure his character is going to be "a presence" throughout, in some fashion, considering he's Ryder's father. If he dies, that's huge and lasting. If he's missing, the same. If he's alive, he can become actively involved at any time.
Eh, I was more than happy with the 2016 trailer at E3 and thought it showed plenty.
It was the final E3 Andromeda was going to attend, and all they showed was a 2 minute video with like a grand total of 10 seconds of gameplay. Sorry, but that wasn't "plenty."
So you were mainly interested in gameplay? Then I can better understand the disappointment. I was more interested in the rest so I was happy and thought it plenty.
It was the final E3 Andromeda was going to attend, and all they showed was a 2 minute video with like a grand total of 10 seconds of gameplay. Sorry, but that wasn't "plenty."
So you were mainly interested in gameplay? Then I can better understand the disappointment. I was more interested in the rest so I was happy and thought it plenty.
Generally speaking, most people are dying to see gameplay. I mean Bioware has shown next to nothing of it, so people are curious to actually see it. Pretty sure Gameplay won the poll here for what fans want to see most on N7 day.
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If DadRyder is a potential squadmate, I think he's going to be my favorite one. The armor detail and texture in that brief animated image is sick... so cool!!
I think I must be in the minority around here in that I would not want to go adventuring with my dad, no matter how cool. The dad and sibling can be cool background presences. (In the dad's case, a significant presence.)
It might be cool to serve on dad's ship, or something, in the prologue section of the game. (That could be a logical way to introduce it, perhaps; though the family in the chain-of-command issue irks me.) Even that arrangement would need to change quickly, though. It's hard to build your legend with N7 dad looming.
Ah, good old ME2. Telling what a blight humans are. To a human crowd. On topic: I do hope they'll show something new today on their count. They'll have to, if they want to rise galactic hypeness to maximum.
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If DadRyder is a potential squadmate, I think he's going to be my favorite one. The armor detail and texture in that brief animated image is sick... so cool!!
I think I must be in the minority around here in that I would not want to go adventuring with my dad, no matter how cool. The dad and sibling can be cool background presences. (In the dad's case, a significant presence.)
It might be cool to serve on dad's ship, or something, in the prologue section of the game. (That could be a logical way to introduce it, perhaps; though the family in the chain-of-command issue irks me.) Even that arrangement would need to change quickly, though. It's hard to build your legend with N7 dad looming.
I believe you can rest assured, don't think bioware will do that for the same reason you pointed out.
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I was thinking, did anyone else think that maybe the old Pathfinder Initiative is still a thing and it wasn't replaced by the new Andromeda Initiative?
Andromeda Initiative may be the initiative to travel to Andromeda, but there could potentially be one for each possible galaxy they want/wish to travel. The Pathfinder Initiative would then be about the idea of travelling to distant galaxies.
Probably no new theory, but since lots of people were thinking that the AI replaced the PI, I was thinking maybe that's not the case.
The concepts need not be mutually exclusive in-game, as the various fan questions and theories have alluded. From a marketing perspective, though, you have to pick a single*, simple identifying look. "Ai" is the choice they made. It clearly seems to have supplanted the old "Pathfinder" marketing.
* Some might point to N7 as a second marketing icon, and that's definitely true, in this special case. You might say that N7=Mass Effect IP and Ai=MEAndromeda game, in terms of marketing.
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It was the final E3 Andromeda was going to attend, and all they showed was a 2 minute video with like a grand total of 10 seconds of gameplay. Sorry, but that wasn't "plenty."
So you were mainly interested in gameplay? Then I can better understand the disappointment. I was more interested in the rest so I was happy and thought it plenty.
We want to see it all, because we've seen next to nothing. You'll recall that there were "concerns", though, that development might not be going smoothly, and questions around why we've seen absolutely zero gameplay. Since we've seen nothing new since June, that hasn't changed.
It's not that everyone doesn't want to know about the setting, the new lore, and all the other cool stuff. This is a game, though, and games are played. We really need to see this one in action, a bit, so close to release. It's a bit irregular that we haven't, and people are getting edgy.
Edit: I did a weird thing with tense in this post, speaking about now, when you were talking about then. Still, it should make perfect sense.
Last Edit: Nov 6, 2016 17:01:28 GMT by Element Zero