Welp, I guess we know what's up with the animations now

BF1 has some really nice graphics and done with Frostbite, too. That's great, it shows what can be done with Frostbite. That being said, there are multiple significant differences between the two games. BF1 SP is a short game. That means less time spent on story, more time spent on graphics. MEA has a long SP campaign and much more open world to explore. BF1 is a WW1 game that has explosions and etc, but the effects are not as large and varied as the many visuals you get in MEA. The weapons in BF1 are limited to bang bangs and boom booms and the weapons in MEA go zap, zzzzing, whuum-whuum, ba da BOOM and bang bang too so the visuals can be insanely different and large.

Similarly, when you look up reviews of BF1 (I haven't played it yet- it looks fun and I think I will), you see that it has a lot of bugs too.

Developers will place priorities on different things and it seems some childish gamers just think its all so easy to make the perfect bug free game exactly how THEY want it.  It seems more of the MEA Devs efforts was on the environments and the effects and the open worlds, not on making the most realistic looking faces and an infinite number of details in CC. I am fine with that. I don't play the CC and don't live for the cutscenes. I want good gameplay and environments to play in.

I firmly believe that cyberbullying should be looked at more harshly. Cracking a few jokes is one thing, but when the jokes turn vicious and into to bullying- just plain getting out of hand, action should be taken against these people. It doesn't matter if its a 12 year old kid threatening someones life over something as childish as a game, or a 30 year old doing the same, there should be punishment. There seems to be no punishment for any vile or criminal actions anymore. I am all for proper punishment for the crime committed. I am seeing so many people hiding behind the anonymity of the internet and being as vile and threatening as possible and that its just wrong. I am also seeing the pack mentality of some that will gang up and stalk and repeatedly attack or threaten someone, which is also just wrong. The internet has become no more than a high school with its childish cliques and gangs and bullies and drama. Its really sad how with all of this technology and advancements, the world has become so much LESS civilized.

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I agree with you for the most part (especially this whole part about the internet and the awful scumbags behind it). However, one could argue Bioware's biggest assets have been its characters. Cinematic storytelling, believable characters, digital actors, all that has been high on their list for years. All the more surprising that they didn't invest more in that to keep pace with the times, on their flagship franchise above all. And again, i don't expect Battlefield level animations and assets but still somewhat better than what the game largely offers. Some efforts have been made (a few scenes were made with motion capture as far as i understand) but i feel like it only highlights how subpar some of the other stuff is. That said, it still is not as bad as the internet would want you to believe, it's okay for the most part.

It really is a fucking scene, man.

As a proud GAF poster, it saddens me to see this witch hunt start on the site.  It's had it's share of victims, Shinobi probably has left GAF for good, a shining light of positivity in the Mass Effect community, and this has all snowballed out of everyone's need to pick holes in something we should be celebrating: the release of a new Mass Effect game.



I'm ashamed of us as a group right now, gamers, adventurers....this is some sad shit, and the way we deal with it has to change.

Sounds accurate.

She was subjected to misogynistic harassment and the guy this nonsense originated with was part of GamerGate. 

Which is a damn shame too...

Critic: "So BioWare let us talk about MEA's animations?"

BioWare: "More importantly we need to discuss the harassment, and abuse female devs face, LGBQT, and intersectional feminism."

Critic: 

BioWare: 

So she lists that she is the "Lead Animator" for Mass Effect Andromeda, leaves the company in February of 2016, and doesn't update her twitter info for over a year? How is that "GamerGates" problem exactly? Flynn released a statement stating "A former member of BioWare was MISIDENTIFIED...", which I suppose is true seeing as she is the one that misidentified her in the first place. The fault for this seems to lie entirely with her.

No, no, a thousand times no.

THERE IS NO FAULT WITH HER. AT ALL.

She was an employee. That's it. That does not give anyone - and certainly not a bunch of fucktard neckbeards - any right whatsoever to harass her, especially over a bloody computer game.

I can't believe I even have to write this. What is wrong with you people.

>game is shit
>people want to complain to who they think had a part in making the game shit
>idiot dumbfuck on Twitter has her bio saying she's the one they should complain to
>gets upset when people complain to her

lol