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That's the only "outside the game world" thought which comes to mind when I'm playing ME:A. I'm so drawn into the world, it's so immersive, i can't stop playing.
The game is massive and i couldn't be happier about that. It's that feeling you get when you don't want something to end because you're having such an amazing time. Hearing how long it is in hours (story/side stuff) 120 hours, if that's the case, ME1 is 12hrs, ME2 is (I'll be generous) 22hrs, ME3 only ran through it fully 2 times,so... 20hrs?, ball park the whole thing 50 to 60 hours tops.
So yea, looks like ME Andromeda is 2 Times larger than the entire trilogy combined, and that's perfectly fine because i literally can't get enough of this universe.
That's the only "outside the game world" thought which comes to mind when I'm playing ME:A. I'm so drawn into the world, it's so immersive, i can't stop playing.
The game is massive and i couldn't be happier about that. It's that feeling you get when you don't want something to end because you're having such an amazing time. Hearing how long it is in hours (story/side stuff) 120 hours, if that's the case, ME1 is 12hrs, ME2 is (I'll be generous) 22hrs, ME3 only ran through it fully 2 times,so... 20hrs?, ball park the whole thing 50 to 60 hours tops.
So yea, looks like ME Andromeda is 2 Times larger than the entire trilogy combined, and that's perfectly fine because i literally can't get enough of this universe.
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WHAT.... that's it,that's the ending?Then the credits role.I thought it looked dumb,typical of most CS's i watched,close ups of faces and the guy gives some gay wink.
Then he is like oh wait,this must be it...then he says and i QUOTE "Oh dear fkn god".
More facial close ups with boring dialogue.Then EPILOGUE...no thanks already bored.
Watch a bit more of Cohn's and more of the same crappy CS's,they are way too close making for some pretty boring scenes or i mean facials,
Cohn's words "That's a ship?".
It really seems to me every streamer i watch seems to be not overly impressed by anything in this game.Although Cohn did say his current mission is great because of what he calls "memorable dialogue"but didn't do anything for me.Pretty much EMPTY of action,he fights one mob here and there,nothing tough,nothing exciting.
The mapping/lighting is VERY amateur,example every wall and all lighting in a map i am watching looks blue,so they had to do VERY little,if any optimization that way,very lazy effort.As well the quality drops off extremely fast ,literally 2 feet behind the player the graphics are dropping off,really sad work here.
So watching all that i have,i wouldn't play it for free let alone buy the game.It does not look fun and the graphics are typical low end fog lighting and fast drop off in quality,all Indie type stuff.Usually if i see a game that looks promising,i am immediately into Steam looking for it,this game has done nothing to get me motivated.
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Overall it is now my preferred game of the franchise.
Weird.
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Bioware must have been under immense pressure to release, i've never seen such a poor job from them.
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It would help to know the platform they played in.
Since this is MMORPG, im assuming a PC which might explain the more positive review compared to consoles experiencing all the glitches.
If the glitching is mostly from consoles then I could care less. its still bad for business, but I dont beleive in cross platform and not as a single release. They could have released the game remastered for consoles after it was made for PCs exclusively. Then they dont have to down scale the PC version for the console and the consle version runs badly beuase it was the most they could do to downscale it from the PC version without making it look bad.
A large world that has many objects and detail would not work well on a console.
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Also I don't think the negatives are "exaggerated", there are some truly hideous animations and character models, more like possibly "overblown". This is obviously a massive and epic rpg/journey, the more I read / watch about it the more I'm itching to play it. Total Biscuit's review was really good if you're interested, although its over an hour long.
Can't speak for him, but I did and fullheartedly agree with his conclusion. The poor characters, faces and animations are so annoyingly present and distracting from the story, it kills all immersion.
Add to that the lipsync that is always off, and i'm forced to play in windowed mode because they don't support 1600x1200.
There is a few more, but this was already more than enough to stop me from playing and return it. I'll pick it up on Steam sales for 10 bucks after a year or 2 and 20 patches.
Keep in mind the comparison shot that surfaced compared the pre and post first day patch looks of the female Ryder:
I won't comment on which side is easier in the eyes. I am annoyed that what we play looks like a mannequin, and is animated as such.
If she was in some other game, I don't think there'd be this kind of drama surrounding her
The left one is the post Ryder, whilst the right one is pre patch.
I agree with @YashaX regarding the Total Biscuit's review. I found the review balanced and very formative in its content. Dodgy animations I can live with, I was more concerned with the unskippable cut scenes and the crap menu system and UI. Thankfully they can be easily patched and at some point I'm looking forward to exploring what the game has to offer when the game goes on sale.
Disclaimer: I only buy games when they're on sale due to a big backlog of games in my steam account. I've still got FO4 and W3 and many other great games to play yet.
I'm there to kill stuff, not admire the character models.
But then I am currently playing a DAOC freeshard with 2002 graphics and loving it so you can see graphics don't rate very high on my list.
But I can understand, you paid good money for a quality experience and this is ruining it for you.
I like your helmet idea, in DAOC there's a few races with goofy looking hair and I always turn on helmets for them. (normally I leave them off)
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon