Panic at BioWare Montreal?

While previous Bioware games haven't exactly been free of janky facial animations, the criticism of ME:A's animations isn't overreaction.

I just recently finished a playthrough of the original trilogy and there is far less jank than we've seen in ME:A promotional materials. That wonky animations are even showing up in advertising for ME:A likely points to it being a problem throughout the entire game, as that is the sort of thing marketing wouldn't show off in pre-release advertising. We had to wait until ME2 released to get Sheploo & Miranda's meme-fuel animations, for instance. Bad animations existed in the original trilogy but they weren't quite as widespread.

I don't know if it is that Bioware is having greater problems with Frostbite than Unreal, or if they just tried to be more ambitious with Andromeda (most of the facial animations in ME3 are subtle), but something isn't working. The eyes of characters in ME:A also look dead, something that was not a problem in ME3.

For a game series whose popularity rests largely on character interaction, it is a fairly major issue. Not necessarily a game-breaking one to be sure, but the criticism the animations have been getting is deserved. It is subpar not just for a Bioware game, but for any game released in 2017. 

Shepard is dead.

After six hundred years, I'd hope so!

Unless he/she discovered immortality by bathing in the blood of asari or something...

The poetry of traffic lights...

Ah yes, lets post some memes instead of actually argueing the point.

I think most people were expecting DAI levels of animation at least, for MEA to look worse than a game released two and a half years ago is bizarre.

None of the criticisms seem like valid criticisms for a long time Mass Effect fan like myself. Facial/animation bugs? Check. Most uninspired CC in the business? Actually, no, that would be the Division. Still very lackluster, as to be expected. No companion customization? Who gives a shit? It's clear that they allocated those resources to double down on player customization. It is the deepest it has ever been. I'll take more shit for me over a companion getting a black version of their outfit.

Another thing people are failing to understand is that the progress has been gated. It would be like judging ME1 before you could do Noveria/Feros/Library. None of the characters were detailed enough to be complex or compelling. Wrex was just a bounty hunter, Tali was on Rumspringa, Ashley had just made her first racist comment, Kaiden was just an L3 which was an issue for some reason, and Garrus was just an ex-cop that couldn't live up to his fathers expectations. None of them were the great characters we grew to love yet, if we could at all.

The only great plot point at that time was Saren blasting Nihlus. Becoming a Specter was cool but not like meeting Sovereign. If people judged ME1 on that slice of gameplay it would have been outcry over uninteresting squads with a story that had a loose "find this guy" objective and way too much time in an elevator. These are games you have to judge as a full package, and not against how you felt at the end of a trilogy. That isn't fair.

I'm worried based on the cc. Not sure what percentage of bioware customers care about this but i'm one of them. Da2 had a lot of replayability based on this/same with DAI. Cant imagine how they could lower the bar but they did.
I also dont believe promise that the cc will be improved. Dai on ultra pc still had crap hair, floating hair based on face shape (sideburns and beards became detached). Once the cake is baked its baked. You can add candy/scrape off frosting but the cake is done
Bioware is not stupid. There was a good reason we didnt see it

I was really hoping to jump into this franchise based on exploring ruins but after watching gameplay at paxeast i was stunned on how it resembled gears of war with jetpacks.
Da4/the secret ip (dumb marketing strategy) better blow the doors off as i dont see ea backing mediocre. Cd project/bethesda have to be
Laughing at this game/engine

I thought this was the place to argue the odds of a panic happening at Bioware Montreal?

My argument:  unclear:  come back in 7-10 days and ask again.

we're never getting Shepard back, even if we go back to the Milky Way