Mass Effect Andromada: What we know so far

Why do game studios think that famous actors sell games when voice acting?
You can get PROFESSIONAL voice actors for FAR LESS, allowing you to voice far more of your game with the same budget. Or just pay less for the same voice & use the rest of the budget elsewhere.

Ugh, it's all shitty PR. :(
 
SuAside said:
Why do game studios think that famous actors sell games when voice acting?
You can get PROFESSIONAL voice actors for FAR LESS, allowing you to voice far more of your game with the same budget. Or just pay less for the same voice & use the rest of the budget elsewhere.

Ugh, it's all shitty PR. :(
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Pretty much. Of course, the entire VA industry is revolting because of the awful working conditions and with good reason.
 
Didn't really notice it too much...looks a lot like it was in the trilogy. Maybe it's just been a while.
 
CT Phipps said:
It's not just you.

Leliana and Morrigan may not exactly be Triss or Yennefer but they're still gorgeous.

The ones in Inquisition and Andromeda have severe issues.
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AAA Quality right there.

It would make a great plank though, has roughly the same expression.
 
Prone Squanderer said:
If it is then they must be budget biotics. Biotics are meant to have oomph to them.
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Yes, this game increasingly looks like a train wreck. I say this as probably the only person on these boards who was not only a Mass Effect fan but a *HUGE* Mass Effect fan.

One of those, "Oh my God, I love this series as science fiction" types.

I had a religious devotion to the lore and characters.

Andromeda? Andromeda is something I could spend a hundred posts talking about why it just looks like MEINO.
 
Crni Vuk said:
Don't hold back, that's one of the big things you can do on NMA.
Bitching.
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The short version is basically I love Mass Effect for the politics and lived-in universe feel of the place. It's optimistic in the sense that humanity has reached the stars and survived to get most of its shit in order but pessimistic enough that it doesn't have Gene Roddenberry's sanctimonious sugary condescension either. It hits that nice Babylon Five and Deep Space Nine happy medium that makes it feel like humanity has progressed but we're not handwaving away the world is still a complicated dangerous place. At least unless you try to play Pure Paragon and why would you do that?

Going out to the Wild West of Darkest Space Africa to beat up the locals and steal their shit is already a hard sell for me but I'm really more interested in finding out what happened to the existing galaxy than following the trends of the Not-Hawke family.

The Ryder Family also irritates me as that removes more of the roleplaying element as while Shepard was a character with limited choices, at least you had choices. You could be a Spacer, a Groundpounder, a shell-shocked survivor, or a war criminal. I enjoyed Dragon Age 2 but a lot of people really disliked that game for trapping you in the role of a very specific character even if Hawke had 100x the personality of the Sole Survivor, I say that as a man who didn't hate Fallout 4.

And yes, really, it does look butt ugly.

Oh and our enemies are ANOTHER ancient evil race of cybernetics. Really guys?

There's also no Mass Gates here. Which, you know, is WHERE THE TITLE COMES FROM.
 
In that "First 13 minutes" video, why are the PC's first words "We made it!" how the fuck he knows? He just woke up on a dark room. Maybe it was originally meant to be a question? But nobody responds to him based on that. Pretty bad first scene for your game really.


Edit: Also just realized that they fucking ripped off FO4.... way to rip off the worst holy shit. You choose between to in canon man and woman, you got into cryo sleep and then the one you didn't choose dies on the opening cinematic and you eventually respond to a man you call Father who looks like an older version of your character with a grey beard....
 
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CT Phipps said:
Yes, this game increasingly looks like a train wreck. I say this as probably the only person on these boards who was not only a Mass Effect fan but a *HUGE* Mass Effect fan.
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I'm a pretty big Mass Effect fan, to the point where I consider it to be my 3rd favorite game franchise of all time.
I'm a fan to the point I'm writing a Mass Effect PnP RPG campaign.

Heck, the ending didn't bother me as much as it should (it still sucks through).

But yeah, as a big ME fan, I didn't really care for MEA from day one.
The premise is something that should get me really excited, but Bioware will find a way to fuck it up.

With the overbearing light tone, it doesn't interest me.
I understand that the first ME game was very light hearted in places, but there was at least massive tension in the game.

There www backlog with a few of the characters, with one even two dying in the game.

I don't see MEA touching any of that, Bioware just wants to make the game as goofy as possible.

I do plan on picking up the books, comics and DLC for the original mass effect and going through them one day.

I hope MEA is good, I will buy it eventually (hopefully on PC).

But for the time being. I don't really care for it.
 
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