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

Compared to other studios, CDPR essentially does make "zero compromises." If you don't like staple franchises, don't buy sequel games, especially annual releases like Call of Duty and formerly Assassin's Creed. I think everybody would agree what they care about most is the actual game, not how it's made.

Most of the animations in MEA look great. The combat looks fun. The visuals are great. The voice acting was top notch. I really don't see a lot to criticize about the game, other than wonky facial animations which isn't a deal breaker. I'd say getting rid of classes, the addition of the jump jet, and cover virtually everywhere are rather "revolutionary" changes for the series.

Kind of hard to judge Peebee when you didn't even seen most of the loyalty mission, nor was any actual context provided. I won't judge the story until I actually see it in its entirety, but it looks promising to me. I didn't find the banter cringe-worthy and I certainly don't believe Peebee's rival looks like a man either. The floating rifle was amusing, but something I honestly didn't even notice immediately.

I'm less worried about the particular uniqueness of an enemy and more interested in how they will work together to try and defeat me. I'll be playing on Insanity, myself, so my experience will hopefully be very different from what IGN was experiencing on Normal. Reasonable minds may differ, but nothing about that loyalty mission was alarming or concerning for me, personally.

Not about being "loyal to a corporation." It's about the constraints of game development and the limits that some businesses have compared to others. It's simply fact that some businesses are more consumer-friendly than others. Regardless, what I care about are the games these developers make beyond everything else. EA doesn't exactly have a great track record when it comes to releasing games. But, BioWare is one of the best RPG developers in the industry. I'm not worried about MEA and I except it will be a good game at the very least. EA will get its microtransactions shoved into the MP and everybody wins. Oddly enough, a season pass is something I would buy for a BioWare game. For whatever reason, BioWare still refuses to do season passes.

I've been following CDPR for 10 years. It's frivolous to try and compare their unique situation to anybody else. It's also pointless to try and hold other studios to the same standards of CDPR when those studios physically are not capable of making the same decisions. Other than perhaps Rockstar Games, there simply isn't any other studio that has as much freedom as CDPR does when it comes to game development.

I haven't played a COD game since CoD: BO1 and I doubt I ever will play another one. I prefer games that have at least a three year development cycle. I guess that's why I tend to gravitate towards RPGs, as they tend to evolve with each title more so than other genres. Regardless of how one may feel about MEA, no one can deny that BioWare has changed a lot from ME3 in these past years. Whether it works or not remains to be seen, but MEA is not simply ME4 with prettier graphics.

Agree, MEA is looking more like a GoW and Halo 4 hybrid for me rather than a ARPG. I could only hope EA would not put a DLC fiasco like Activition did for Destiny. But who am I kidding:(

Got a good feeling about this one, just like Sera.   :ulikeit:

"game looks like total shit" pretty much sums up every negative YouTube comment, and I'm being generous. 

Hopefully she's not as chipper in conversation.

It will quickly become grating if she's always so upbeat. 

Reasonable criticism, yes.  People saying "PeeBee looks like Shrek" are trolling, because she absolutely doesn't in this video.  They are just quoting the meme from last year's E3.  Saying that everything about it is crap, terrible, etc, is not reasonable.  The action looks good, the setting looks great, there are many things to be praised in this video.  There are some faults, sure.  Some things need improvement (especially the skill of the player).  But to be on a hate-train saying there are no redeeming qualities of the game shown in the video?  That's wrong, trolling, hatred.  And we should be able to defend against baseless hatred of a game we are looking forward to and a company we support and who has given us games we enjoyed.  It doesn't have to be "fanboy"ism every time someone says something good about the game or goes against baseless criticisms.  Could the facial animations be better?  Sure.  Could some of the banter be less hand-holdy?  Sure, but that was explained by the devs.  There are assuredly criticisms to be had.  But to say that this game looks awful, terrible, worst game ever, etc based on this gameplay footage is wrong.  People have their opinions, sure, but that's just wrong.

Finally someone who gets it. 

Maybe I'm a bit of a curmudgeon, but I find people who are actually like that in real life to be grating. There is a time and place to be happy. People that are happy all the time, no matter the circumstances, make me suspicious. 

I can tell you don't get it, because a bunch of pretty screenshots have absolutely nothing to do with Sera as a character.