VG247 Article - How Bioware is losing its heart

It's ugly - looks like she's chewing tobacco... So neither 1, 5 or 9.

Fair enough. Let's just agree to disagree on that subject.

The fact that 40 people liked this post is mind boggling.

Good face modeling was typically an issue that I found more on the Mass Effect side, whereas DA generally had nicer and/or more interesting looking characters across their games. In the trilogy, a lot of the male presets fell into the beady-eyed neanderthal trap. I do agree that the CC is severely limited as it doesn't give a lot of users enough room to really get what they had in mind, but just the same, good ones are in there. I guess the real problem is that good or no, they're probably not what you truly wanted. The problem, as I see it, is that characters can have nice structures but no way to truly tweak some details you might want to adjust, like under/overbite and so on. I was not impressed with 5, but I saw promise. I didn't even do a whole lot to get what I had sort of planned initially. 



I'm hoping however that Bio gets its act together and actually makes the presets more malleable, so regardless of what they look like, we can mold them however we want, in whatever tone and complexion equally across all presets, though I do hope that there's also better consistency in any carry-over, assuming Ryder returns. I like my ME3 Shep, but she lost something between that game and 2. 

Because he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about and it shows how many others don't either.

First, there is no focus on multiplayer, it's like dead last on the priority list and basically just recycled assets from sp anyway. So not like there's any drain on sp development from mp. I mean, if BioWare would show comparisons on how much time and effort got put into sp and mp, you'd find it's galaxies apart.

And if you don't want game play, go read a book. I hear BioWare has a couple of them. But I'll tell you this, I didn't replay Mass Effect Trilogy at least 8x because it had no gameplay. Not 3000hrs into ME3mp because it had no gameplay. But sadly Andromeda bombs in the gameplay department too, so not like much effort was put there either. So wrong again. Most of the wasted time went into creating these massive boring worlds that no way BioWare could of made work or interesting if they had another 5 years of game development. Not to mention that galaxy map, what a total waste of development effort. This game was just overly ambitious and very poorly development managed.


When people complained that BioWare dropped the exploration in ME2, I right away seen from a development perspective that they wanted to focus their efforts more by dropping the MAKO, and it showed. But seems like I'm the only one who seen this. Just like how all you guys think it's realistic that BioWare can fix Andromeda with patches.

Well have fun replaying Andromeda then. Because this is the most unreplayable Mass Effect game yet. Story and characters are total balls too.

Disagreed. The CC's biggest problem is the lack of options per set. We have basic stuff like hair and colors with some ability to warp the contours, but lack of mouth, eye and nose shapes, the ability to adjust over/underbite and even neck thickness all make a humongous difference. Ryder returning does not preclude adding these abilities and even another preset or 2. Also, this doesn't take into account the possibility of a complete overhaul that makes slight changes to everything, including our customs. It wouldn't be the first time Mass Effect's done it.

Yeah, great result. No doubt I as well as most of us wants a CC that lets us mold our Ryders more to our liking. I do get a good underbite with preset three.

Just look at it this way: if BioWare was going to make major improvements to the character creator, they'd do it regardless of the character or defaults. Even if our custom characters are noticeably different, they'd probably consider it an acceptable compromise, as will players if the CC is good enough. Otherwise it'd be more of the same with a new hero. 

Yeah, it is a paradox. Personally I very much like ME2 but would have preferred if they had tried expanding on ME1 instead of forcing the game into full corridor mode.

I'd be thrilled to be surprised and proven wrong but I haven't seen any indication they want to make 'major improvements'.  The only thing BW said in their announcement was:

• More options and variety in the character creator.
  
• Improvements to hair and general appearance for characters.

That doesn't really sound like a plan to make 'major improvements'.  If they are carrying the same face scan models into a new installment is it even going to be possible to do a major overhaul?  I dunno, but I'm not terribly optimistic. 

Anyway, this is just depressing me.  I'm gonna go find a thread to post meme's in.