Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

So, Scavenger armor - "a handful of these suits were given to the initiative by an anonymous turian donor".
Thank you, random turian marauder.

I didn't mean that face animation in particular, but face animations as a whole. 

I do...

ITS A DIFFERENT FRAKING GAME IN A DIFFERENT FRAKING GENRE WHICH WAS MUCH SHORTER AND LESS AMBITIOUS THEN ANDROMEDA.  

My God now I know what its like when people are always complaining about when I am comparing apples to oranges.  Lesson learned for me and myself.  

Also, WTf happened in that cryo pod!

Hmmm.  Maybe the explanation for this falls into the realm of TMI.

With the aumont of animations problems the game has, I thought we could avoid to put things that are either old, fake or that aren't really problems. Guess I was wrong.

A little old, but for the technically minded, this is a brilliant article about how the TW3 team accomplished great animations and cinematics with only a core team of 14 people. I have no idea how the larger and better funded Andromeda team could not match this with the 5 years that they had.

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Coming from the Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread.

Holy shit, irony. 

Not saying the game looks great, but wow, lmao. This very thread is the biggest bubble on this entire site. 

The problem is that it doesn't feel forced.

It's not like peopel are nitpicking a detail and pouring an out of proportion negativity in it. The game just have terrible animations.

Not every animations is like this though, and the terrible part is reached only in certain occasions.
They certainly didn't do a good job (and Bioware should be criticized for that), but some people are implying that the whole time they played the animations are like this, which isn't true.

It's worse than I thought.

I'm sure the Mass Effect team have worked long and hard to deliver a great game, including working on the facial animations and textures. They've produced something that's GOOD, definitely, considering this is a 50+hour long RPG with customisable faces. However, it seems to me though they just don't have the capability for some reason to develop anything as truly exceptional as, say, the Witcher III. If you hadn't played games like Witcher 3 or seen truly impressive facial design, you'd look at ME:A and say "wow that looks amazing!".

I don't think the GIFs and such should be taken that seriously, little bugs like that are to be expected. I just think the general quality is a little disappointing and whilst it shouldn't detract from the game experience, it is a valid critique point.

Still, I'd rather take a game with decent facial animation in a universe which I'm interested in (ME) over amazing facial animation in a setting which I find boring. People need to decide what exactly makes them enjoy a game and decide what to buy based on that, rather than worrying about all the doom and gloom about facial animations if that's not one of your top priorities in a game.