Code Red: IGN Preview

I feel like people saying MEA looks godawful have never seen godawful in their lives. Not even close.

It's also a sign of lack of perspective.

Didn't ME1 perform like shit, and in fact STILL performs like shit on the PC? It's graphics weren't that remarkable at the time, the game had bugs, the loot system was a cluttered mess, it had reused side quest maps, and the combat was terrible. Yet people overlooked those flaws, and let's admit those are some heavy flaws, because they enjoyed the rest of the game. I feel like gamers have gotten so much harder to please these days.

Thank god ME1 released at the time that it did. If it came out today, the Mass Effect series wouldn't be a thing.

Not one reviewer from IGN even mentioned anything about the sub-par facial animations in Horizon dawn zero, why is that? I mean if MEA's facials are considered bad, then I don't know what I would call Horizons... funny that.

didn't they play an early build?

Sometimes I'm a bit slow in the head, but as far as I can tell this simply means: wait a little bit after launch to play the game. Which is good advice for every AAA game in the last 5 years.

/shurg

Yeah, I'm a troll for making a post about a legitimate concern brought up during a preview of the game. *rolls eyes*

YOU may not care if the facial animations look goofy/creepy, but SOME people do. That doesn't make them trolls. 

Bioware should release an updated clip of the infamous, cringe-worthy disarm scene to prove to skeptics and concerned fans that they actually HAVE improved the facial animations. 

That would shut me up.

Does anyone actually do pre-release reviews anymore?

Anyway, I hadn't heard about all this, so I took a look. Honestly, doesn't seem that much of a problem to me, and I say that as a backer. It all seems about within the realm of normal changes during development. And if there's missing stuff that they add later, I'll get it for free. The only thing that's a little disappointing is cut companions, but I'm inclined to believe their assertion that their time/word budget was better spent fleshing out 7 instead of 9 companions. I've found this to be true in past games. Previews are all good so far though, so that's a hopeful sign.

A little less optimistic for Andromeda though. Which is annoying, because they were just increasing my hype with the gameplay reveals. They allayed my primary concern about limited active powers, and it looks fun. Likewise encouraged by the changes to the dialogue system. But then there are the previews talking about poor performance and animations, making me remember that this was the same team that made the buggy-as-hell Omega DLC. Also sounds like auto-dialogue is making a raging comeback, so I'm probably going to have to treat this game more like Witcher, with a semi-set protagonist. Which isn't a deal-breaker, since I loved the Witcher, but it's also not what I look for in BioWare games. What has me most tepid though is that it sounds like they are in fact going with the "empty wasteland, devoid of interesting content" approach, like DA:I. Clear bandits. Fetch item. Press button. Gather ore. Can't wait for this current open world craze to die down.

you are right, the gameplay videos look amazing, squadmates, weapons, powers, enemies, maps, all look good, 

i think i  wrote in the wrong thread! my mistake, sorry

 Yup, honestly though as long as the facial animations are acceptable I'm all good. Also Horizon Zero Dawn can't be compared to this game. 

No need to apologize lol, I was just wondering cause you came off like your heart got split into two. Glad to hear you're happy with what you've seen so far.

He asked for an example of "cartoony" and I gave him one. Another example would be Warcraft. Neither of them are bad.

im afraid i dont have a copy of the game to give you yet, you'll have to wait until next year when the game launches