Mass Effect Andromeda Hype thread ("Very Soon"!!)

That's true, though physical copy pre-orders are 'placeholders' that are as we know, (usually) easily canceled.

Amazon posted its physical Xbox/PS4 pre-order in June 2014.

www.ibtimes.co.in/mass-effect-4-amazon-price-pre-order-release-date-details-pc-version-be-delayed-603209

Lmao are some of you trying to justify the crap animation on Ryder's face in that disarming footage? It's just a poorly done animation or facial capture. I wouldn't be suprised if it's BioWare not getting facial capture right. Their motion capture was never stunning in terms of detail or acting-direction but really, what sucks in the footage is her eyes. If you smile without your eyes you'll look like this:



The problem with this is that it makes a character look lifeless. Try covering up the mouth-region on the pictures with your hand and see for yourself how the eyes look neutral.

Looked pretty good to me, but your mileage may vary, and that's fine.

Yeah, all those things have me thinking in the back of my mind there's no way Bio is fixing all the issues by March 31st.  The combat physics and facial animation/lipsyncing looked particularly bad...which essentially is the entire game needing to be "tweaked."  I'd personally feel better about Bio's ability to deliver if they'd just delay the game 3-6 months.  Holiday 2017 might be a better release in terms of sales anyways.  Of course, the EA overlords might not permit it.

And Suicide Squad was a success in the box office, and "Dragon Age: Inquisition is the most successful launch in BioWare history based on units sold". So even if you have people bitching about it it's a sound strategy.  The Last of Us is another example, and so many others. 

My issue is not seeing little of the game, it is the feeling that they are positevely afraid to show it because the game is not the way it should be. If the VGA trailer delivered, I would believe I was wrong, but it only reinforced this idea. 

Agreed it's make or break time now really isn't it? Given that they'er starting t oreveal things relatively quickly in the past couple of months I'm leaning towards make rather than break.

I am now in the process of replaying the original trilogy and I preordered this one. Also, I am wasting more and more of my time on these forums partaking in copious amounts of baseless but sanctimonious guessing.

Which is entirely understandable! While it doesn't bother me personally (like I said, easy to please - I'm kind of adaptable in this regard. Like, I'd prefer more open-ended RPing but at the same time I see things like this as a chance to try something different and see how creative I can get with it), I understand why others are very wary about it.

I will say I was one of the people not happy about 8 slot limit in DAI, but after a few replays I didn't think about it much.
Passion's definitely something the BioWare fandom is known for. I'm more of a lurker most of the time except in the months before a big release, but I replay BioWare games obsessively (I lost track of my ME1 replays after 13-14 full runs), Mass Effect is a banned quiz topic at home because no one can compete with me fairly, I draw fan art, wear an N7 hoodie in cold weather, etc. That's generally how I express my passion, others do it through being hyper critical and analyzing every detail. However we express it, we are a passionate lot in general, even for gamers who tend to run on the passionate side of things in general.
Again, fair! I don't see it as a regression personally, but rather a different way of trying things but I definitely understand how it can be seen as a step back/more limiting. We'll have to wait and see, to be sure. Also, can't speak for anyone else but the anxiety/hyper analysis/pessimissm is part and parcel of a BioWare game hype release, so I expect it and it can actually be a lot of fun reading and debating along.
Great, now I feel old. Five years isn't as much for me, I've been a BioWare fan a bit over half my life now and I was a few years out of college five years ago. ... I probably made some other people on here feel even older, aha.

It's okay.  I have other stuff to play.  Also, I work full time so it takes me a long time to beat games actually.  I'm doing femshep now and I may do a dudeshep run if I'm not burned out and still have time.  

Yeah this is what I'm doing as well atm doing a few more runs of the trilogy. Started my latest run of ME3 last night with my engineer Emily Shepard was thinking of doing a male Soldier next.

yeah I don't touch MP but I love playing single player. Creating new Shepards and going through these games.