Panic at BioWare Montreal?

this might be a little premature

This is nothing like the ME3 debacle in the slightest. You doom sayers are making everything seem worse than it is. All the criticisms (aside from the CC) have been the same thing for the past month or two. So I doubt the devs are overly surprised at the reception this games receiving. Many people are just going into the game salty or wanting to hate it because of the ME3 ending. Honestly just chill and form your own opinions about the game as if it wasn't made by bioware and as if the OT didn't exist. You might surprise yourself.

I'm getting the game this monday, and I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy it. From what I can tell, most player impressions seem good. I would say it's around 75% positive and 25% meh/negative. But if that, and the critic impressions is of any indication, this will be a polarizing game. And really, that's not what Mass Effect needs to be right now.

Zero to none.

I've been trying to keep up on early reviews while also avoiding spoilers. It seems to me that many people have the same complaints (facial animations, limited CC, etc) but apart from one rather scathing review from someone who didn't really like TW3, the reviews seem very positive. It is their job to point out shortfalls, and it is a game that is not perfect, so there are some. However the majority of reviews so far say that it's a good to great game! Many have said the writing is good, story feels great, music is good, combat is excellent, and many other praises. There isn't any consistency on the other complaints either, as some have stated that voice acting isn't good while others state that it's excellent. Some state the writing is cheesy and awful while others say it is a return to form. The only consensus on "bad" things have really been CC and facial animations, and even those are only on humans for the most part.

I think we should wait until closer to the end of the Origin and EA Access trial periods before making huge sweeping announcements about critics and player reviews. Two hours is not enough to really get a feel for the game, but closer to 10 will be. And a number of the people who got to play 18 or so hours at EA, like Minius, Outside XBox, BioFan, My Name is Byf, and Ability Drain, have very positive things to say and say that it is a very good and fun game.

Are there bugs? Sure there are! Every AAA title has launched with bugs. TW3 launched with some game-breaking bugs but is still praised. That's just how games launch, unfortunately, but having games be bigger and bigger with more and more content and needing better graphics and physics and the like, and with Andromeda having 1,200 speaking parts, there'll be issues. They will be patched, and so far I haven't heard of many game-breaking ones, only a few reported their game freezing or quitting out unexpectedly. Is that acceptable? I guess that's up to you. Pretty sure it happens with every game. If you think there should be zero bugs at launch, well, I don't think that's likely or reasonable unless you want games to have a 8-10 year development cycle.

I'm optimistic. What I've seen looks great. Am I a bit more worried than I was two months ago? Sure, but I think people have been focusing too much on the negative and ignoring the vastly positive things the reviewers and players have pointed out.

Loud detractors are overwhelming the quiet happy people. Not to say that people's complaints are not valid, BUT there is more to the game than just the CC and facial animations. I understand people want quality products and are begrudged when a highly anticipated game does not deliver on what they feel should be included. But let us also try to focus on the positive aspects of these reviews and the game.

That's fine and fair but most people went into the game already hating it. My problem is with people who just go some guy I watched a video on this game dislikes it so it must be bad and i should tell LITERALLY everyone its a pile shit. I do hope bioware takes these criticisms to heart and overhaul the CC, fix animations and AI.

Totally agree, people focus so much on the one negative review as many needs to have a nearly 100% consensus aproval and forgot about the majority of the reviews or previews that have been positive. If you had 1000 of critics giving  MEA a 9 out of 10 and then there was one review that gave it a 6, people would focus all their attention on that particular negative reviewer because he would be the "one" that did not gave it a good review, they would completely ignore all of the others that were positive. There was no way it was going to be loved by everybody critics included.

So personaly, I am not worried.

^ Agreed. I've only played a few short hours and so far, it is a really solid game. I just hope people can really give it a decent shot, and kind of let go of the OT a bit. Not forget, but move forward and leave the past. Play for yourself, give it an honest shot. Folks might find themselves surprised.

Played it for a few hours aswell. Better than i expected from what i've read recently. So far so good. Lets see if it sticks!

played this a few hours and besides the noted flaws thought this was a way better than what I expected and seriously there is no cause for panic along with doom and gloom and I doubt that bioware is concerned

I am both of those things, thank you. I just rather wait for the actual reviews and report on sales before jumping to heads will roll. I will agree though that the first impressions from several outlets has me a bit worried for the future of this reboot.

I do not care what the previews have to say at all, I never go with what the previews have to say. I form my own opinion and in my opinion the game is great from what I have seen in a few short hours that I have seen and if that means that I am delusional then so be it because still in the end "I form my own opinion" and I don't need others to tell me what to think about a game at all. So until I see something that I don't agree with besides some few problems I will continue to enjoy this game and I will continue to think that bioware did a good job and I doubt bioware and people are panicking