Aesthetics V3

I'm really digging the ambient settings and different colour pallettes of the different worlds, it's going to look amazing on a 4K HDR display for sure.






I'm most hoping for the character models to look better in-game than they have in trailers...apart from Cora, Jaal and Drack, they haven't really done it for me yet (and I really, really want them to do it for me, lol).

One aesthetic detail I did like about the armor in Andromeda is that it seems to wear the effects of the environment. The leaked tech demo footage showed water droplets on the armor of characters in a wet environment, and Ryder is covered in dust when on that desert planet from the trailers.

The uncharted worlds also look beautiful.

I want it to look like


But instead it looks like

I still don't fully understand what she meant by saying the game felt slightly "like a bro game."

I like the design as is...but I'd not mind if the armors, the heavier ones, looked more like this

I enjoy playing all those games you mentioned and mp but I'm not competitive I also enjoy playing games with great characters and story and romance and I'm not a casual gamer either so does that mean I'm some sort bro story hybrid dude ?

She's using an out-of-date reference to Bro-Shooters aka Halo/CoD and their kin.

It's out of date because genres have been fusing for a while now, with most shooters incorporating RPG elements, and RPGs taking on action game and 'Bro-Shooter' mannerisms on the fly.

It's from a bygone era when you were either a Bro-Casual, 'RPG Gamer' or some other pigeon holled type of stereotypical gamer...now, we are just gamers and it's fine to like games from all sorts of genres.  The days of only 'nerds' playing RPGs/MMOs are long gone, and games like Call of Duty, Battlefield and Titanfall can be as deep as a lot of RPGs.

Myself, I'm currently playing the following: 

Nioh (ARPG) / Titanfall 2 (FPS Shooter) / Paragon (MOBA) / Valkyria Chronicles (RTS/RPG hybrid) and Overwatch (FPS MP Only Shooter).

I consider myself a patron of all types of gaming, that previewer is obviously living in a bit of an 'us vs them' type of 2000s style nerd buzz.

A lot of what we see reminds me of Halo 4, I'll post more examples later but I think it's something they definitely looked, too closely, at.

They both looked beautiful!

I personally find this to be the aesthetically weakest game in the series because I find there to be a bunch of clashing styles between UI and 3D visual design and I think frostbite lets the lighting down at times, like when you meet PeeBee... she looks like she's made of plastic. Speaking of PeeBee I find it odd they'd choose to give her a coat that has the same color as her face. It gives off a strange look. The shoulders on Drack look undefined and the same can be said about the rocky textures on the Kett. And for the custom-generated faces that some NPCs had I finally get what IGN was saying in that it looks like Sims 3. It's just not very consistent. I know BioWare's had some guidelines for how to design Mass Effect aesthetics but without saying it's awful or broken or anything they've sorta let themselves down with this game and I think it primarily comes from the shift to Andromeda's lead developers, such as the lead artist Joel Macmillan and other UI designers. It doesn't look too flattering and the 3D world graphics is your average Frostbite visuals. Sand looks like the same sand from Inquisition or even battlefield. Trees are sometimes imported from Battlefield and other environmental assets from Inquisition has carried over directly.

Seriously. It's so frustrating that the aliens almost all look just fine, good even, while the humans look like mannequins with dead fish eyes that occasionally suffer from muscle spasms.