Mass Effect: Andromeda stats?

[Joelbanks5]

How much did mass effect andromeda cost to produce?

 

How much money has mass effect andromeda made so far?

 

What is the general response to the game so far? Are most people saying it's good, bad, mixed?

[GDRRiley]

most people would say that the animations were done by a 3 year old. 

[Techicolors]

estimations put it to be roughly 40 million dollars

 

not idea. if those numbers were released it'll probably be estimates

 

very mixed. not just the whole controversy with the animations 

[tp95112]

18 minutes ago, Technicolors said:

estimations put it to be roughly 40 million dollars

 

not idea. if those numbers were released it'll probably be estimates

 

very mixed. not just the whole controversy with the animations 

 

I havent seen the animations yet cause I dont want to spoil any part of the game for me. Non of that stuff has turned me off from the game yet. Hope its not just people trying to find something to hate

[Techicolors]

3 minutes ago, tp95112 said:

I havent seen the animations yet cause I dont want to spoil any part of the game for me. Non of that stuff has turned me off from the game yet. Hope its not just people trying to find something to hate

well i've tried the 10-hour trial via Origin and the animations aren't that great. the facial features are questionable as well.. already met a fair share of odd faces, plus wonky animations. 

 

note i picked male Ryder 

 

but this scene takes the cake

 

[tp95112]

1 minute ago, Technicolors said:

 

 

 

Um I dont get it, maybe im to use to the other mass effects that this didnt faze me as much

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, tp95112 said:

Um I dont get it, maybe im to use to the other mass effects that this didnt faze me as much

It's a good game according to my wife. I won't be playing it as the choice system left a sour taste in my mouth.

[tp95112]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

It's a good game according to my wife. I won't be playing it as the choice system left a sour taste in my mouth.

haha, As long as the story lives up to the original trilogy im I will love the game. Whats with the choice system? Iv seen like 5 minutes of just the beggining and choice seems normal. Renegade/Paragon and then two other usually choices

[ARikozuM]

Just now, tp95112 said:

haha, As long as the story lives up to the original trilogy im I will love the game. Whats with the choice system? Iv seen like 5 minutes of just the beggining and choice seems normal. Renegade/Paragon and then two other usually choices

I meant the choice system from the trilogy. I hate being forced to play as just a bad or good guy when the choice affects nothing in the overall scheme. She said this one has nothing to do with Commander Shepard (or however you spell it) and that you play as some newbie. 

[2FA]

3 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

I meant the choice system from the trilogy. I hate being forced to play as just a bad or good guy when the choice affects nothing in the overall scheme. She said this one has nothing to do with Commander Shepard (or however you spell it) and that you play as some newbie. 

 

It's pretty much like DA: Inquisition when it comes to choices. In fact it's pretty much Inquisition in space.

[tp95112]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

I meant the choice system from the trilogy. I hate being forced to play as just a bad or good guy when the choice affects nothing in the overall scheme. She said this one has nothing to do with Commander Shepard (or however you spell it) and that you play as some newbie. 

 

I was actually kind of meh about how you arent someone skill like Shepard, but slowly thought it could slowly grow to something good. It has nothing to do with her cause it takes place 200 years after the original trilogy. You werent forced to be good or bad most of the time. You had good or bad choices along with the normal dialogue.In Andromeda I heard they removed those options

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, tp95112 said:

I was actually kind of meh about how you arent someone skill like Shepard, but slowly thought it could slowly grow to something good. It has nothing to do with her cause it takes place 200 years after the original trilogy. You werent forced to be good or bad most of the time. You had good or bad choices along with the normal dialogue.In Andromeda I heard they removed those options

Did they? In ME2, you needed to perform a certain amount of either to get good reports with all squad members which is why I hated having to play it strictly. 

 

5 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

It's pretty much like DA: Inquisition when it comes to choices. In fact it's pretty much Inquisition in space.

Probably why I hated that game too.

[tp95112]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Did they? In ME2, you needed to perform a certain amount of either to get good reports with all squad members which is why I hated having to play it strictly. 

 

Probably why I hated that game too.

 

What good reports are you talking about?

[ARikozuM]

Just now, tp95112 said:

What good reports are you talking about?

Having good friendship when everyone is having their crises in ME2.

[tp95112]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Having good friendship when everyone is having their crises in ME2.

Loyalty missions, those are not related to being renegade or paragon and those affected the suicide missions by giving them a chance of survival

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, tp95112 said:

Loyalty missions, those are not related to being renegade or paragon and those affected the suicide missions by giving them a chance of survival

Oh. I remember not being able to talk to some characters due to low renegade, namely Jack(? I think that's her name).

[tp95112]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Oh. I remember not being able to talk to some characters due to low renegade, namely Jack(? I think that's her name).

I played paragon fem shep playthrough and I did loyalty missions for everyone,I also did my play through along with wiki just so I didnt miss anything for my run. But for renegade, im guessing if you were a dick to everyone loyalty must suffer. 

[Joelbanks5]

I have over 60 hours in the game so far with 82% of the entire game complete, I've also dabbled a bit in the multiplayer. My personal opinion is that animations are good but for a few scenes later in the game the face animations are weird, the running, as I said before, feels like assassins creed minus the stopping when turning and bumping into NPCs. The choice system is no longer paragon or renegade, both sides can be either both bad or both good or just however you view them, each with their pros and cons. And it's still the same on how squadmates and random NPCs have their own opinions on matters, which I think is great. I've got to say they've made many improvements to the dialogue, giving you more options to choose from sometimes and you can talk more often (though I'd like to see more in depth conversations as well, not just more conversations or comments). So you can walk into the nexus and talk to a team mate, or any social hub really, and once the conversation is over you can sometimes immediately start a new conversation or you have to leave and come back, whereas in the previous games you'd have to complete missions of any sort(still another thing you can do to get new conversations or comments, finish a mission, doesn't have to be a story one) to get a new conversation or comment or sometimes you wouldn't be able to talk at all at those places or just very little. The combat has always been greatly improved, it's far more entertaining and energetic feeling (I love the charge ability, dashing from one enemy on this side of the room to another enemy on the other side) though one thing I don't like is how almost every enemy is designed (their AI and abilities are designed like that) to keep you out of cover. The almost deal breaker for me was the romances, they screwed up, big time. They made some things better like friends with benefits kind of stuff, but they ruined the romantic relationships, half the game you're just flirting with people you like and the other half is you having 1 or 2 meaningful interactions with the NPC you're in a relationship with. Now I have only done 2 relationships so far, but that's what happened with those 2. I think this is like that because they added so many NPCs that can be romanced, this is a great example of quality over quantity imo. That nearly just made me drop the entire series. Also as far as just your teammates in general it builds those  characters pretty well but you just don't feel as attached to them, also some loyalty missions just aren't very good, other are great. I'm kinda so so on the character building and bonding moments, but as far as relationships go they did pretty poorly. The multiplayer is a bit dull, it's the same thing over and over again, it's pretty much grinding to get a higher status to show off how much you grinded playing multiplayer.

 

The story has been pretty decent, but it is really short. If I played only the story missions I'd probably be done in a day or 2. But other than that it was kinda average, it did take a lot of stuff from the original trilogy and just call it something different. An example would be in the milky way we have the Protheans to advance our technology and in Helius their tech and science was advanced by the remnant, same idea just named something different and given a different look. Overall looking at the entire game I would call it average and give it a 7.5/10. Don't expect too much going into mass effect andromeda it's just an average game. except for the combat it is pretty dang good honestly.

@tp95112

@ARikozuM

 

Sorry I didn't put much thought and effort into making this, just thought I would give you my 2 cents on a few things.

[Joelbanks5]

11 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Oh. I remember not being able to talk to some characters due to low renegade, namely Jack(? I think that's her name).

I went full paragon and I was always able to talk to jack.

 

[ARikozuM]

Wall of text is informative. I might give it a try once the wife finishes the game. 

1 minute ago, Joelbanks5 said:

I went full paragon and I was always able to talk to jack.

 

I didn't. I only got my bars about 1/3 of the way up since I played exactly how I would actually react IRL.

[Joelbanks5]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Wall of text is informative. I might give it a try once the wife finishes the game. 

I didn't. I only got my bars about 1/3 of the way up since I played exactly how I would actually react IRL.

 

yeah I didn't really like the paragon and renegade system, I felt like it was always influencing my answer because irl I would normally try to be the nice guy.

[Praesi]

Most Reviews say somthing like :

Dumbed down Version of the Original with technical Issues, boring Missions, ridiculous animations, but beautiful Worlds and good Combat. Average Score is 7/10.

 

A friend of mine is 20h in. He say its a better Version of Inquisition in Space. Sometimes very cool, sometimes ridiculous. No match for ME1+2 story and character wise, but fun for exploring and combat.

 

I guess wait for another patch or two cant hurt.

[Joelbanks5]

2 hours ago, Praesi said:

Most Reviews say somthing like :

Dumbed down Version of the Original with technical Issues, boring Missions, ridiculous animations, but beautiful Worlds and good Combat. Average Score is 7/10.

 

A friend of mine is 20h in. He say its a better Version of Inquisition in Space. Sometimes very cool, sometimes ridiculous. No match for ME1+2 story and character wise, but fun for exploring and combat.

 

I guess wait for another patch or two cant hurt.

Yeah I agree with the story being a dumbed down version of the trilogy, it has a lot of the same ideas and concepts just re-skinned for the andromeda galaxy. 

 

I think many of the side missions are great, mainly for me is the role playing perspective which I love how the implemented in this game. I don't normally do side quests but these ones are for the most part fun and they make me feel like I'm actually making the planet more habitable and what my when I complete them, which is the role playing part I like. As far as animations go I've got to say I haven't really seen as many weird animations (or maybe I just can't recall them) as everyone is saying there are. I've got a few weird facial animations towards the end of the story missions (the beginning didn't really have many) and other weird animations I have yet to see if I ever will. The eyes do some weird shit quite a bit though. My favorite improvement made in this installment to the series is the amount of dialogue and comments, only a few times in between story missions did I run into a time when I would talk to a team mate on the nexus or in Kadara port would they start repeating the same thing over and over (I absolutely hate it when that is in games), they had a lot to say about main missions but also because I played a lot of side missions they had small conversations about those or comments which is nice. The part I hate most about andromeda are the relationships, they really fell flat here, half the game you're flirting with them and nothing in their normal dialogue changes to show a growing relationship between you two and the other half you have one kinda meaningful scene with them that just isn't very good. 

 

And your our friend is right about the combat, if you go down the combat tree or the tech tree it might be a little stale but when you play as a biotic going down the biotic tree it's so fun, you can dash all over the place from enemy to enemy with charge, throw people around like rag dolls, or ground pound near a group of enemies and send them all flying. This was a great improvement, though I will miss the shooting from cover for the kind of nostalgic feeling. One thing thy did that I don't like to achieve this is making all the enemies' abilities kit and their tactics to keep you out of cover. That's like the main and only purpose of all the enemies.

[Misanthrope]

12 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

most people would say that the animations were done by a 3 year old. 

Funny you should mention that, a shitlord on Twitter (I forgot who right now) looked at her resume and she had like 3 years of previous experience animating according to her LinkedIn profile which probably means she took an animation course in college and had 0 experience and EA put her in charge as an affirmative hair cause she probably screamed "Vagina!" and got the job that way in modern PC happy EA.

 

http://wccftech.com/mass-effect-andromeda-animator-threatened/

[Joelbanks5]

1 hour ago, Misanthrope said:

Funny you should mention that, a shitlord on Twitter (I forgot who right now) looked at her resume and she had like 3 years of previous experience animating according to her LinkedIn profile which probably means she took an animation course in college and had 0 experience and EA put her in charge as an affirmative hair cause she probably screamed "Vagina!" and got the job that way in modern PC happy EA.

 

http://wccftech.com/mass-effect-andromeda-animator-threatened/

I think a remember watching a video which said that is a bunch of bs made by some angry guy. There was a twitter post by one of the higher up people in the andromeda production stuff saying she wasn't lead in anything and that the people saying that we're pretty much ass holes. And other more established news sites also put that stuff down. I'll see if I can find it along with the evidence he found.