Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

No, you shouldn't just accept trash, and I'd really love for you or the other guy to tell me exactly where I said that's what you should do, because it's actually really annoying how you seem to put that statement in my mouth every chance you get.

The restaurant, in this analogy, has a rickety chair/table. You haven't tasted the food yet. Will that lower the review scores? Certainly. Should it? Of course. 

Paragon and Renegade is an arbitrary number system that really doesn't mean anything to the overall game, so I don't really see how that's a core mechanic. The logos are iconic, but the system itself is literally pointless. Pretty sure the only benefit it serves is to open up charm and intimidate options, and other games have been doing that by more effective means for quite awhile.

Combat looks more fluid, to me. Not sure what you mean there. Power usage is in the game, albeit consolized, and you're allowed to dislike that. Same with squad control. AI has never been good, that's a flat out lie. 

Lol, no, no it did not. Origins looked like ass, and most people said so at the time. Especially in the animations department. Those are definitely worse than Andromeda. Hell, 90% of the time, there weren't any. 

Strange though, you're saying the gameplay was good, and that made the mediocre looking game good? Huh... 

I've finished the trial. The game doesn't play good like it should. Cooldowns are long as hell. Your squaddies are useless. The new dialogue is lame because you're basically saying "yeah", "yes", "Agreed", "Ya" in terms of variation. 

When you spend so much time walking around and talking, the animation issues really stand out.

The CC might be more tacked on that DAIMP.

Paragon/Renegade was fun and added flavour. I liked that. But according to you that doesn't matter. This dialogue system is boring in the same way DAI's was essentially 4 paragon options in all conversations. You can't play as an asshole or jerk or anything less than "Hey buddy, of course I'll totally help you out with everything. Lets be best friends"

MP has more issues than it should. 

• Throw should not have a 10 second cool down. 
• The enemy AI cannot handle being indoors. 
• The enemy AI has no self preservation, they're just zombies and largely just run into your powers and bullets.
• Yay for making enemies just have a ton of health instead of a brain
• They shortened the bleedout time significantly once you're on a higher level. You basically bleed out instantly on higher levels. 
• Face hugger melee enemies get on you and the game says "Press the button to shake the enemy off" but doesn't say which button. By the 4th enemy I finally found out it was the "interact with object" button, not melee or any movement or attack or something that made sense. 
• Heavy melee is only after a jetpack, that's cumbersome AF.
• The freedom of movement doesn't jive with how limited your DPS is whether it is powers or guns. Even enemies on Bronze and Silver can soak up insane damage from your pea shooters called basic weapons, when you could usually get by with certain common guns on the lower difficulties before. 
• It encourages you to run and gun because you have XYZ axis, but you can't dish DPS well enough without hiding behind cover for 2 years. 
• Changing the level up system with character cards unlocking points plus the prestige means you're gated behind RNG cards and not player skill in terms of improvement to your builds.
• Your cool downs are so long. I don't get it. You can't detonate your own powers on early builds for the most part. The only character that could was the human adept. Every other character was left waiting for someone else to do it. That isn't fun.

Almost like the limited marketing materials and heavily edited promotional videos were for a reason.

Alright here's some legitimate critique for you. The writing is a steaming pile of dogshit. I can do a better job, I mean that literally, I have written tons of better stuff (which is still pretty bad but not to that standard of drivel), and I'm just a university student. I've worked in the entertainment industry, theatre, publication, screenwriting for years and I've seen all sorts. Hell I've seen better written fanfiction at this point. I mean seriously, the majority of your dialogue choices are two ways of saying the same thing, with barely distinguishable "tones" that all sound like a fifteen year old coked out on tumblr and bad saturday morning cartoons. It's like the result of a child after, having attended their first creative writing class, decided to try to write a marvel script in crayon. What happened to the talent? I use the term loosely since ME3 and DAI also had some spectacularly bad moments but there where gems there too, Mordin, Sten Alistair, Morrigan and Leliana (ok so it's mostly DAO). I mean, I'm not even going to compare this to the titans of writing out there like TW3, POE or TTON since your average biodrone would cry foul. But why is the writing so bad compared to previous games? If you still need convincing, just watch that clip where Sara and Cora meet Tann and the "my face is tired" woman it's not just the facial animations, the writing is so stilted it's actually quite sickening. At this point, even a procedurally generated orc in Shadow of War is more compelling than any of the characters in ME:A.

I'm actually not going to read all of this, I need to start preparing for finals, but I'll assume this wall of not-indented text is actually coherent, and just say the same thing I said in my last reply:

I don't care if you have problems with the game. I'm just sick of the fucking animations discussion. It's just about the only conversation we ever have in this thread. It's annoying. 

Putting aside Bioware, it's the reviewers that say the situation is different after the early access. How much, and in what areas, is anyone's guess. 
Why did you have two preorders of the games (I do agree that if you're so dissatisfied by what you tried it's better to cancel them and wait if it actually gets better in reviews/trusted opinions)?

If you don't like it, don't read it and don't attempt to silence discussions about it.

So what expression is she trying to convey?

when you stub your tow but have difficulties showing real emotions and feelings because you weren't modeled well

Seriously thought, the CC is an embarrassment. Games a decade older than this have a better one. Pale skin, blond hair, and good eyes don't exist. Your eyes are so white with strict lines its unnerving. You can't change the shape of your mouth, eyes, nose, or any feature really

I have my hesitation about purchasing Andromeda, and I think I'm going to wait.

I loved the original trilogy. I got the Insanity achievement for Mass Effect 2 and 3, got almost all of the achievements in 1, and loved so many of the characters and dialogue that I still remember most of Mordin's hilarity. So much of the story was well written, the combat was improved in 2 (and especially 3).

I had my issues with the ending, but I made peace with it. I accepted it as a flaw and BioWARE seemed to as well. So I could forgive.

But then, the writing staff seemed to filibuster. I loved Inquisition, even when others didn't, but we had writers like Patrick Weekes just come out with all of this SJW nonsense. I couldn't "be hateful" to Krem (whatever that meant), I suffered through cliche after cliche with Dorian's gay plotline, and the writers just seemed to think it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. As much as I was annoyed by Sera, the presentation of her sexuality (in so much as it was utterly irrelevant to her characterization) was refreshing to me.

But the writers never seemed to pick up on it. And I'm worried they'll do more of it in Andromeda. More poorly written filibusters, more sexuality as everything, propaganda masquerading as entertainment. I don't play games to be preached too, and if I can tell you're preaching, you've failed.

I just want to play games. There's a reason why "lecture" and "preach" have negative connotations. I don't want it in something I do for fun.

That's why I'm worried about BioWARE games. I hope I'm just being paranoid, but that's why I can't pre-order.

You only had the opportunity to raise questions, agree, or ignore when it came up in context. I couldn't say something on the line of "No, you're a woman with a towel in your codpiece. Women can fight, we're not Tevinter with their sex-segregated units or the damn Qun." 

Huh? The "Women can fight" part of that makes no sense. Krem isn't a man because he fights. Krem's a man because he's a man.

But yeah, the PC should be given the option to say stupid stuff too.

Yeah, DAI could have used more emotional range for the PC. But this is a general failing that has nothing to do with the Krem and Dorian scenes in particular.