Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

To me it always came across as "we really wanted this to feel genuine, like in a real movie" 
...Just like much of the "Bro" dialogue from Shepard and co. in ME3. It's something I've gotten adjusted to since though and I expect a truckload more in MEA

Yep, but they managed to make something better than cinema in ME1 in my opinion and then even better in ME2 because it had interrupts and a great balance of action-talking-moments-banging, etc. but ME3 starts out by "look at how legit it is now. Look at how much it looks and feels like a movie. Look at how much our characters can speak through choreographed sequences with zero input from the player now"

Recently I was worried about the cover system. I thought it was going to be like Rise of the Tomb Raider, which I didn't care for much. Once I found out it's going to be like ME1, I was relieved. My only concerns now are the worlds (being mostly empty) and the animations. I have confidence in Bioware when it comes to the story and characters.

I just hope the focus on story over OPEN WORLD IS GOOD!!!!!!!!

Ian confirmed when I asked skeptically on Twitter about the story-gating, that there is absolutely none of that for the main quest. Essentially you're never put into the Hinterlands with the objective of "gain X something" for the next main plot. All side-quests are side-quests. The game will probably incentivize us to go to non-main-story planets to help settlements but anytime you get bored, you can literally just quit and continue the main plot if you want.

That said, the average preview stated the city on Kadara (same as we saw in TGA) felt sprawling and alive (tbh it does moreso than Val Royeaux) and that the side quests they stumbled into had conversations and context, which to me sounds like more than what it was on average in DA:I. It also leads me to speculate how much of the side content will actually have dialogue that you pay attention to, like, is there a cinematic camera or is it like DA:I or ME3? I have a slight hope they take the DA:I route with the zoomed in camera but then in this game that camera actually feels nice and feels much better to adjust to create more immersive conversations.

But I also have the fear that previewers were just too lenient.

I guess I am too. I know at the very least I'll enjoy playing the game and I expect the worst reaction I can have is to be bored. I don't expect anything to be broken or offensively bad at least lol. I also have hope it's going to be genuinely good. I just want to play it before I can decide if it's actually a definitive improvement over DA:I or not.

I'd imagine it probably is. They said DA:I is the blueprint of ME:A, but I think DA:I took the fall on what worked and what didn't worked. I enjoyed my time with DA:I and I think it gets more flak than it deserves, but it's probably the best example I can think of, where a single really bad flaw, can ruin a game. If it wasn't for the ratio of Side Content and Main Story being 95/5, the game probably would've been a lot better received. I think more than anything, the game needed to have much more main story quests than it did. At least 3 more. It needed 2 more quests after you move into Skyhold, and then a proper final battle with Cory and his demon army, instead of him just showing up at your front door step.

Lastly main story should not have been locked behind having to do side quests. I do think the complaints about most of the side quest being meaningless is valid, but I'm trying to think of how the game can be vastly improved with as little change as possible.

I also would've liked more scenes like at the Winter Palace. The atrocious side content really overshadows how much I actually liked that mission, I think, because I end up forgetting about it whenever someone asks me what I think of Inquisition.

It was one of the better uses of the dialogue system in any of Bioware's RPGs, though. I really enjoyed that kind of social mechanic. Almost felt like a medieval James Bond. 

I was almost on the way to give Andromeda a try... than the news: no italian dubbing for the new ME game. After the entire old trilogy was dubbed. yeah. Sorry, I had no problem with DAI, since the Dragon Age series was never dubbed in my language. But after an entire trylogy return in a familiar world...without a familiar language, is not positive for me.

No Day One for me.

And probaly, no game at all. Maybe I'll try it when the price have dropped. A lot.

I'm almost sure for Polish, French and German...I'll have to see for other languages.

Frankly, I prefer much more the italian dubbing: more expressive, and no retinal torture with the mini white subtitles. I can appreciate the occasional youtube video in the original language, otherwise, I prefer italian.

Yes, is the spoken English that I is my Achille's heel. And I play a lot of games in English, but most had better subtitles than ME. Plus is mostly the feeling...I was already used to Italian in the ME world, it feel completely a new kind of world in a new langauge.

Is just...is so good to just play without having to read the subs since the accents make many dialogues incomprehensible for me. Expecially a game so action/movie feeling oriented. I'm sure it will be a good trining, but...well...sometimes I just like to play and look the video and not the subs. 

Personal taste. I find English not very expressive as a language, so that can be part of it. I always go with Italian subs whenever I can, expecially with movie and tv series, I try the English version only if I really, really like something. usually, I'm quite disappointed by the original, with very few exceptions.