Code Red: IGN Preview

They lack i don't know what, but they are not right, disturbing even: imgur.com/a/6IA9c

Good.  Sloan Kelly looks like a Cabbage Patch Kid

I do believe motion capture and facial expression are part of the early stage of game development. The animation database must be done before detailed character design and texturing etc. So it could be shared by all downstream/outsourced developers. Given MEA has gone gold already, the day one patch is more likely an adjustment for existing build rather than a significant overhaul. In the department of "realistic characters expression" BW really need to catch up. Cause the current bar is freaking high ATM.

As good as that looks, there's almost no animation to speak of in this instance. I think Bioware can do "character with a smirk" just as good.

Also we are cherry picking the best things out of one game and usually people that have an axe to grind chose the worst scenes out of MEA, from that little we saw yet.

Oh look, a bunch of Witcher 3 GIFs that aren't even anything special animation-wise.

Now that Bioware has allowed a more in-depth look at the first few hours of the game, previews are starting to come in.

After being almost universally ridiculed for having atrocious facial animations in one of the earlier trailers, Bioware promised to improve them.

Well, it seems like that was an empty promise.

According to IGN, it's still bad:
"I couldn’t shake the feeling that the Ryders, and some of the supporting human characters, look a whole lot more like they walked out of The Sims 3, rather than walking out of a game releasing in 2017. Their eyes, eyelashes, and mouths specifically look particularly cartoony, with some awkward dialogue animations."

Ok, now watch the trailer for Horizon Zero Dawn:


Check out those facial animations. Pretty impressive, huh? Well according to Kotaku's review, that game was criticized for having "poor facial animations". If *that's* what is considered "poor" by game reviewers, imagine how badly received Andromeda will be...

More importantly, the cutscenes will be cringeworthy. Every time we have to sit through Sara's creepy, plastic-y grimace of a smile, we will feel let down because it breaks immersion.

I had hoped Bioware would fix it before launch, but, according to the previews, it doesn't seem to be the case.

Is anyone else concerned?

I'll end on a positive note: IGN also said there were some "unconventional and bizarre" hairstyle in the CC, which is exciting because Bioware normally gives us bland, ugly hairstyles