IGN Video: Mass Effect Andromeda: A Tour of the Nexus

Look at the Turian's eyes clip through his lids lol.

Didn't Andromeda have a troubled development process? People leaving the project etc?

Maybe comparable playable area.

It does look... off, sometimes. I wonder if some of it's due to the introduction of mocap for the first time?

That womans face is pretty bad I admit, looks more like a living plastic doll or an android with a synthetic skin than a human. Still better than Deus ex HR, but not by much, and way better than Alan Wake(that game had some of the worst facial animations). Kinda reminded me of some faces from ME1, but that game is 10 years old. Also Foster looks younger in the profiles, but thats to be expected, shes 30 or so years older now, and that age shows.

It seems some people, especially humans, look more artificial than others. Ryders dad for instance looked pretty ok in the 13 min preview, as did the asari doctor(uncounting a few uncanny moments) and Cora. Im guessing they focused more on the more important characters you see alot on your ship and story.

Meh. Its not a game breaker, but I wonder is it really this difficult to get the faces at least somewhat right, its been 5 years.

4 people is a lot????

IIRC means If I Recall Correctly.

Clearly I didn't, but thank you.

I recognized her as the one in the exploration video immediately due to her incredibly overdone makeup... Like... why?

However, I never would have guessed it was Foster Addison. Originally, she looked like this:

Completely different hair colour and eye colour, not to mention the lack of makeup. Also, maybe the eyes would look better if they didn't look so surprised at all times?

Indeed! I actually noticed this back in December, from the gameplay video, but I forgot to mention it. Here:


I'll definitely use that at least for a bit, for the novelty. But I also like that it looks more armoured than most of the MEA armour we've seen, particularly the abdomen.

I hope they do a tour of the Tempest, too!

Whoosh. That was a hot mess of really fine-looking and really crude-looking. That elevator transition... is that an unfinished asset or something? Also, once again, when you can see the camera spinning the nexus that looks so crude and rough in how little smoothing there is I start getting KoA vibes again.

This game is truly starting to appear like some kind of B-Team effort. I still think it's going to be good but the technical aspects look bonkers. I also understand what the IGN gal meant when she said "Sims 3-like animations" now or rather, the generic humans you saw here. Boy do they look boring and plain.

Those are the stories you heard. In the BioWare company reviews on Glassdoor one says Montreal lost 13 leads during this project and Edmonton lost 4. That's a sign that it's not gone well since Montreal was supposed to be the main ppl behind the project but it seems part of the reason why Austin and Edmonton has lend their hand so much is because Montreal was overtasked and understaffed maybe. They also said something recently, I think it was Aaryn Flynn, that Montreal works on this game divided into smaller groups of people. We're talking Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric sized team here, folks.



EDIT: shit, didn't mean to triple-post. I wanted to bundle it together. Oops

Foster is 34 years older than in that profile picture, remember, that the Nexus arrived decades ahead of Hyperion.