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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 19:07:24 GMT
I think they will be so bad that nothing short of a formal apology issued by the Canadian and US governments on behalf of EA & Bioware, apologising to the gaming community for having the temerity to release something that doesn't meet their exacting and unrealistic expectations, will suffice. This will go hand in hand with a day one hot fix that will sex up all female characters to meet specific poster's beauty standards. Oh and also fix a few minor bugs in quests, but who gives a shit about those these days. People will complain about quest bugs when they see them, trust me. And I know it was a joke, but i hope bioware doesn't "sex up" any of the females. At this point they look good imo. If they modify their appearances hope it won't be for the sake of "sexing them up."
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Post by _Wolf Rider_ on Mar 8, 2017 19:10:20 GMT
Right now to me there passable but the facial animations may turn out a lot better after the game is
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Post by armass81 on Mar 8, 2017 19:21:52 GMT
As long as the main characters and crew look ok, i dont really care that much of some of the more minor npcs, like Foster.
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Post by Pokemario on Mar 8, 2017 19:39:18 GMT
I might be weird but I'm liking them so far
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 19:45:47 GMT
I don't usually play bioware games for the animations, but for the story and gameplay. Don´t think they looked that bad and who knows, we might be surprised by the finished product. Either way I´m not going to be bothered by it.
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Post by tomb85 on Mar 8, 2017 19:46:08 GMT
Doesn't bother me at all it's not something that will affect my enjoyment of the game.
The captains lips were really weird in the video of the start of the game that was probably the worst one I've seen. But Shepard used to pull some terrible faces and it never bothered me.
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Post by stealthfox94 on Mar 8, 2017 19:48:24 GMT
I was honestly not worried at all about the facial animations until that "Tour of the Nexus" IGN video. It won't really bother me in-game or diminish my enjoyment of Andromeda, but... yeah... some of those animations were perplexing. Same here, that creepy stare will forever scare me.
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Post by lieb38 on Mar 8, 2017 19:53:48 GMT
Undecided: The animations could be better but I am more concerned by the 'empty' eyes.
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Post by smilesja on Mar 8, 2017 20:00:16 GMT
Quite frankly I do enjoy people's overreactions to the animations
There's more but threre are some people out there saying that the game will be bad because of the animation
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 20:01:57 GMT
Quite frankly I do enjoy people's overreactions to the animations There's more but threre are some people out there saying that the game will be bad because of the animation Not going that far. Will repeat what I said in another thread: All I'm hoping is that they are improved to satisfaction. This being a very large game pretty much says it won't have the best animations. I can respect that, but a person who looks lifeless while they or someone they care about is injured or excited takes away immersion.
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Post by stealthfox94 on Mar 8, 2017 20:04:29 GMT
Quite frankly I do enjoy people's overreactions to the animations There's more but threre are some people out there saying that the game will be bad because of the animation Not going that far. Will repeat what I said in another thread: I also think the stellar environments this game has make the facial animations stand out.
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Post by smilesja on Mar 8, 2017 20:06:31 GMT
Not going that far. Will repeat what I said in another thread: I also think the stellar environments this game has make the facial animations stand out. I have not heard anyone outside the bsn praise the environments. All I ever hear is the animations. In fact I've read very little praise for the game by other gamers outside reviewers.
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Post by dis_Op2399 on Mar 8, 2017 20:27:32 GMT
From the looks of things it'll be a mix of amazing and just plain creepy, with the human characters suffering the worst of it. Generally though things look much better than DA:I, which definitely suffered in character conversations, despite the wonderful environment work. My main concern is that the texture resolution of character assets is too low for the cinematics. That was my biggest beef with the last gen character stuff. DA:I had this problem, as well as dreadful static hair. So far Andromeda looks like an improvement.
People talk about the uncanny valley and I think it's definitely a part of the raised eyebrows over Ryder animations - perhaps as a result of other improvements. Personally I'll be happy if alien races are top tier and humans (Ryder especially) end up in comedy gamer poop videos on Youtube.
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Post by stealthfox94 on Mar 8, 2017 21:57:54 GMT
I also think the stellar environments this game has make the facial animations stand out. I have not heard anyone outside the bsn praise the environments. All I ever hear is the animations. In fact I've read very little praise for the game by other gamers outside reviewers. Really? A lot of the YouTube previews have talked about how good the environments are. They use the same engine as Star Wars Battlefront which also had stellar environments.
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Post by Croatsky on Mar 8, 2017 22:06:22 GMT
They'll be alright.
People have too damn high expectations for them because like 3 games done it amazingly well out of dozens of AAA titles in past couple of years.
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Post by squidney2k1 on Mar 8, 2017 22:11:11 GMT
Honestly, it is better than the earlier trailers (specifically from December 2016), but the random movements of the eyes and jaw still look bad. I get that Bioware was trying to make characters look more lively--compared to games like Fallout/The Elder Scrolls where characters look like they've had their brains ceased by Professor X--but the end result is too spazzy.
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Post by rahavan on Mar 8, 2017 22:22:25 GMT
I don't normally care about animations but these seriously look like they phoned them in. I do believe they'll be better when we get our hands on the current build but not by much.
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Post by stysiaq on Mar 8, 2017 22:31:48 GMT
It's not just facial animations, it's animations overall.
You cannot unironically say that the asari bartender from the recent video wasn't awful to the point of breaking the immersion.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 23:08:06 GMT
What we've seen is what we'll get.
Not so great.
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Post by malanek on Mar 8, 2017 23:18:43 GMT
I don't think they will be great but I don't think they will be bad enough to annoy me. Its not something I am worrying about.
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Post by ATR16 on Mar 8, 2017 23:38:46 GMT
I know the previous games haven't had great animations but those moments were more one offs than recurrent. Some of the people in the videos look PS2 ish or like rushed movie time in games. They're just missing aimlessly waiving their hands all over so you know they're talking.
For all the gripes I had about DAI, the facial animations, eyes and lip syncs were all excellent. Now, there's a lot of dead eyes and cheap animatronic looking mouths from what we've seen. Sure, maybe they patch it, but the more I hear is going to be "fixed obviously" in the day 1 patch the more I'm dreading and doubting it.
Is it stuff you can get over? Sure, once you're far enough into the game you might not notice. But it'd also be nice that in 2017 we were getting a game that pushed things forward or at least met the modern standard, instead of being handwaved away as "whining" or being told "that isn't what the game is about so who cares". You'd expect them to be able to improve.
It also kinda sucks if you want the game to be successful, because this is the sort of thing that can turn casual fans off. You'll have some people that will look at it and go "Wow, they can't even make the faces work. The rest is probably bad too." And that isn't unreasonable. Little stuff can be indicative of the overall level of care in a lot of cases.
I want the game to be as big and successful as possible so I can get more and better content in the future. So you look at something people are dismissing as minor and I go "yeah, so why can't it work if its so minor?" versus ignoring it. Plus, I don't think it really is minor when they make claims about "infinity+3 more dialogue than any other game ever we've made ever." If that's the case, I don't wanna look at dead eyes and bad lip syncs for 2387923857 lines through the game.
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Post by Garo on Mar 8, 2017 23:52:01 GMT
Face animations actually look worse than in trilogy so yea, there's that. Maybe there's something with this engine or overall graphic style that made them look so plastic and awkward but you can't deny it - it is quite not good. But I'm fine with it, I guess because overall voice acting, graphics and gameplay seem good to me.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 9, 2017 0:06:35 GMT
Yeah DA:I's animations were fine outside of a few specific cases and that could be seen in the trailers and pre released footage. There weren't cut scenes for most minor characters tho and Inquisition had other issues like that everything clipped through everything in cut scenes.
Still I have seen some videos where they look acceptable and others where they look terrible. Like the video of the start of the game, most of the animations were ok, not amazing (Lexi was a bit robotic and pulled some odd faces) but not awful. That tour of the nexus video tho, those npc's looked so lifeless. :/
I'm assuming there will be improvements, the patch may fix stuff like Lexi's funny faces but I do not expect animations to suddenly be amazing.
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Post by themikefest on Mar 9, 2017 0:09:26 GMT
I chose decent enough.
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Post by Gray Jedi on Mar 9, 2017 2:10:07 GMT
The facial animations never bothered me but yeah after seeing foster some work is needed i expect them to be decent but nothing amazing.
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