About all these " reviews "

Wait, are you serious? You think someone on BSN hasn't made up his mind yet? People here decided whether this game good or bad years ago.

Wait, are you serious? You think someone on BSN hasn't made up his mind yet? People here decided whether this game good or bad months ago.

Regardless of what one might think of Corypheus himself, I thought the actual introduction during the Haven assault was really well done. 

FTFY.

Exactly.

You are literally the only person who has made up your mind based on that singular detail. 

The people who are complaining about facial animation seem to bring up Horizon Zero Dawn and Uncharted a lot in their comparison, but guys...

1st:Those games have preset models on preset characters that we cannot customize the faces of, and have limited armor options to boot. I have little doubt that the monstrosities we will be creating in the CC will interfere a LOT with the facial animations. Only so much to be done there. It links also to the hairstyle issue where there was a link to a gif of Lara Croft in the new set of TR games. I hope you realize just how much work that one... ONE hairstyle took to make it even SEMI-realistic (and some systems couldn't even handle it, leading them to add the option to turn the dynamic ponytail off).

2nd:Sheer length. Uncharted and Horizon are narrative based games, yes, but Nathan Drake spends far less of his time talking to people and giving close-ups than just running or shooting. Horizon is slated to be around 30-50 hours for a completionist, but it still can't match the probable 100+ hours of Andromeda, or even Inquisition before it. Both also have far less character interaction than Bioware fans are used to indulging in, and thus it is far easier to polish every aspect of those shorter games' facial animations to make them all purty.

3rd:Lack of motion capture. Tying into the length issue, motion capture is still WAY too expensive for the amount of conversations and characters that Bioware usually puts into its games, facially at least. The number of rigs you have to compensate for is incredible even for the shorter games, and it can't be applied to customizable characters anyway.

This is not to say Bioware's games can't be improved in this regard: they most certainly can. And they're going to have to up their game in the near future to survive comparisons like I've been hearing to other game franchises. But I'm giving them some wiggle-room here because they genuinely have been improving with every game they've released, and no animation system is perfect especially dealing with a pc whose face and armor can be so drastically different. Experience the game before you raise your pitchforks, at least.

I'm like, 99.9% sure you're trolling. 

Because it's an open forum, and I can?