Code Red: IGN Preview

Those eyes give me the creeps:



The pictures are from the MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA – Voicing Dr Lexi T'Perro video. There are more: imgur.com/a/6IA9c

Edit: Some old ME1 Shepard pictures: imgur.com/a/hMHxY

I hope they make everybody more lively in MEA, because right now they are drunk and/or dead and/or cross eyed.

The lights also wrongly falls on the eyes, or gleaming poorly.

Im not that worried about the animations, but i hope they crush all the bugs, i mean almost all, and improve performance on pc.

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I really don't care about facial animations that much, or if default Ryder looks odd (I personally think both defaults we have seen look great). I understand that awful facial animations can be distracting, but from what I have seen it does not seem they would be distracting to me. I know other people have other tolerances, so some might actually be totally distracted from a less-than-perfectly animated face. I was watching some videos from ME3 recently and realized that the lip sync is really off, but I never really noticed it in game. I guess maybe growing up playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Ocarina of Time has made me less sensitive to those kinds things.

Is anyone else not worried about facial animations? Like if they looked exactly the same in the finished game as they have in the promotional material, would you be ok with that? I would.

You jest, but they did a superb job animating Master Chief's body language to convey emotion. It's subtle, but very effective.

All I can honestly say is "Duh!"

Of course Aaryn was making a PR move when he said "We'll fix those bugs". It ain't no bug. It's just bad animation and you can't just fix it if your animation tech, procedure, your animator, whatever aren't up to snuff in the first place.

The thing that people seem to not be getting which is really puzzling me, is that we aren't complaining because the animations don't look improved, we aren't complaining because everything looks so good now that "the old animations" look bad.

No, no and no. It's complaint-worthy because it looks worse than ever. ME1, 2 and 3 did not look even close to this bad when it came to fully hand-animated facial expressions in special scenes or the moment-to-moment algorithmically based dialogue system. There's a sign here that Montreal is not quite as competent or something. They've attempted to upgrade their animation pipeline or rework it from scratch but made it worse than ever before.

Red Sand minigame confirmed.

Pocahontas Vs Dinosaurs, LMAO!!!

I don't think BW wanted Ryder to be this kind of character, or maybe he just got really thirsty after the 600 years long journey

The funny part is that Mass Effect has always been an action shooter with a few RPG elements and a lot of dialogue and story.

Arguably even the first one was that, except with bad action shooting mechanics.

Yeah. I was about to say that ME1 was an action shooter, just a really BAD one. Thankfully, BioWare actually brought on some talent that salvaged that horrific gameplay. You'd think folks would be happy so much of the RPG progression from ME1 is coming back into MEA. I guess not... I just suspect they are either trolls hungry for attention or they are delusional.

Using still shots that are from an active animation really isn't a fair representation of the quality. Take a series of snapshots of your own face while in the process of smiling or frowning or laughing and you will find some very homely looking faces that could creep anybody out, which is why people take a bazillion photos to get the "good one".

I don't get all the hate, it's not that bad, and it's definitely not as bad as ME:3. That's not to say that I thought ME:3 was particularly bad, but the characters do have a plastic feel about them, especially around the mouth and eyes. I don't go into Bioware games expecting to be blown away by the facial expressions. I mean, I know they have limitations when it comes to the scope they're trying to cover while still maintaining quality graphics.

It may not be a huge improvement, but it certainly isn't cause for losing our proverbial **** over the game and whether it's worth buying. I loved the original trilogy despite the fact that they couldn't figure out how to properly render triceps. It's not that big of a deal and I find I like their attempt to put more emotion into the characters. Yeah, it still has an awkwardness to it, but it's an improved awkwardness. Instead of lifeless characters they're expressive and while it might not always capture what they're going for, I can interpret it just fine and that makes me happier than if they hadn't tried at all.