Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

Yes, I'm sure they spent 5 years exclusively on animations. They just skipped the planning phase, they skipped writing scripts, they skipped modeling the characters, etc. You're right. They had 5 years to do animations. 

I agree with the latter part of your response, but I seriously doubt there'll be 10-15-30 minutes long of not cut footage of terrible animations, since the quality of it varies greatly from scenes and characters.
The animations of the game are subpar, but it's not like all the animations are bad, and at that level.

Did you even read what I said? 

I don't think you actually did. 

The trilogy was an entirely different team, on an entirely different engine, with an entirely different dev cycle.

Yes, I can argue that. It's completely irrelevant to everything I've said (much like the last post of yours I replied to), but I can certainly argue it. 

This isn't the original trilogy. The fact that I even have to point that out is embarrassing. 

I didn't care about animations in the trilogy too much because they were okayish especially for that time, I only started caring when the animations started distracting me from the gameplay.

If a game of 2003 quality launched with 2017 expectations, yeah it'd be pretty bad.

And that makes it okay to have subpar animations compared to other AAA RPGs on the same engine?

Just accept mediocrity? No thanks BioDrone.

Yeah man, but TW3 is just silky smooth.

Hell even DA:I didn't have this many awful animations and even characters felt more alive.

I have to say facial animation / body postures, animations do play a part in conveying a char's personality / emotions / reaction to a dialogue / situation. If it is done well, you feel what that char is feeling / thinking. You react to that char; like / dislike / supportive.

I find myself distracted; what are you looking at, Liam, out of the corner of your eyes in such a awkward manner? Shouldn't you be looking at the mystery before you? Be awed / amazed / troubled? Why are you smiling, Cora, when communications is cut off? Shouldn't you be worried?

The most recent Bioware title, DAI, did this a lot better. Chancellor Roderick came across as a **** not because his words conveyed what he's thinking / opinion, his manner / body animation supported / showed it too.

That's what's blowing my mind. I wasn't a huge fan of DAI by the end of the game, but it's the same engine and at no point was I ever pulled out of the scene because "Why the fuck does that human have dog legs" or "why is this persons face moving like a robot from 5 Nights At Freddies"

I never thought I would be applauding DA:I for better animations compared to ME:A, it's always been the other way around.

The tables have turned.