Peebee's Loyalty Mission - First 17 min. (IGN) [SPOILERS]

I, for one, actually really like the scanner and this new explorative mechanic.

Even if it feels quite on-rails in this quest, I think it's done really well and will no doubt become good for actual puzzle solving later on in the game (as Mr Frazer stated, this is early on introducing new elements in the game).

I don't want to be 'that guy', but it has the potential to be done much better than The Witcher 3 did Witcher vision, and that game turned out pretty fucking great one must say.  Shit, we even have softcore porn this time round, Space Unicorns ahoy!

I thought the ENEMIES EVERYWHERE stuff was bad obviosuly, as was the reused environments but they were all full of atmosphere with that awesome music, and sense of it all happening isolated on some uncharted planet or freighter in the middle of space. I loved that and the narrative context for pretty much any side quest that wasn't "find minerals" or similar collectathons was enthralling to me.

As for Loyalty missions, yep, that's pretty basic and pretty forgettable. Guess what's gonna happen in ME:A but only slightly better? I don't think every Loyalty mission in MEA will actually feel on par with those in ME2. It's going to be DA:I "Loyalty" quests all over again which is nothing but a slightly more realized form of ME1's companion missions.

I do like the idea of the scanner, but I also worry that it could become the new search.

The reason my DAI playthrough took so long for me is that I can get a bit obsessive compulsive about completionism, and as a result, I need to make sure that my search hit every inch of every map. It took some time.

I liked what I saw in the gameplay. Obviously the guy playing wasn't that good, but I can see myself enjoying it. Still not sure about Peebee I need to see more. The only thing that really bothered me was seeing that the guns still seem change in cutscenes.



However I still think I'll enjoy the game though.

Ok now I'm seriously worried and here's why:

Scanning takes too long. Remember DA:I's overly long herb picking animation> it's that all over again, I don't need to stand for 5 secs in front of a rock in order for the game to tell me that it's a rock.Why are we just standing around for nothing?

Peebee is an idiot, i mean who the fuck would strand themselves on a volcanic planet with no extraction plan?

AI is stupid. I think has been elaborated upon but the AI is dumb as hell, on multiple occasions do we see peebee vault over cover then turn around and go back the way she came. Then get shot and die. Enemy AI is sluggish to say the least and offer no tactics than to wander around in a big stupid mob,

Speaking of which enemies often do not react when it. They neither try to take over, nor flinch, nor even act as if physics affects them. They just stand there whilst a grenade goes off in their face before realising oh I'm dead.

DA2 teleporting enemies are back.

Dialogue is awful and belongs to a 9am children's cartoon.

The mission is terribly paced, like I've skipped past parts of it because nothing is happening besides waiting for doors to open or for the player slowly jog towards a console

Also, ironically, in spite of the jetpack, combat looks even more sluggish than ME3 though perhaps that's cuz i play on insanity.

There's no real "puzzle you are just told to press this button and that all the way through. They're just chores there's no fun in it.

The guy from IGN really screwed this gameplay video. If it was the BW guys playing it I think it would be more well received by the fans.

Would've had more jumpcut editing for sure.

I couldn't bring myself to read all 20+ pages, but with all the complaining, has anyone brought up the fact that it was a pre-release build? Shouldn't we take this cautiously in regards to gameplay, AI, etc? I don't know anything about producing a game so this is an honest question; perhaps "pre-release" is only 3 weeks "pre-release"...?

I get it ME1 was full of this awe and mystery. Thats why the tonal shift in ME2 was so noticable, we went from Alien to Transformers pretty much, big butted women and huge explosions. At least the gameplay got better and the environments actually looked finished this time.

Yup, the pre release build of DAI is the best version of DAI. So the irony is overflowing.

Maybe it's just blind optimism on my part. 

Well, at least it doesn't look headache inducing like that goddamn witcher sense.