WTF Is... - Mass Effect: Andromeda (Single Player) ?

alexmbrennan · 1日前

Re FOV: Increasing FOV will break the scanner and make at least one mission impossible to complete.

nswizdum · 1日前

What struck me as odd, is a lot of the big "problems" with the voice acting, facial animations, and models, are very early in the game. You would think if anything would be polished, it would be the first 2 hours of gameplay.

The longer I play, the better it seems to get.

FireballSam · 1日前

I don't know why, but I found it so funny around 35:50 when TB is talking about how his character's personal motto is "I got this!" which he can't avoid. The image of Ryder's forced optimism alongside TB's normal demeanor is so jarring it's hilarious.

Onomatopesha · 1日前

It's funny, any other than a calm, cold and assuring answer (which would be my usual go-to answers were it not for the fact that none of those show any semblance of personality), I found most of the answers to have some sort of cringe-worthy lines.

And that sucks! I wish I could choose different answers as I do depending on how I want to approach a situation and not feel cringy or roll my eyes. As for the facial animations, while most of them were.....hideous at most, some were really nice to see (i'd have to look for the Asari one shrudding).

As for the tone, I totally agree. It feels as if there is no real conflict, not only from the Kett but also from the interactions with your mates. I felt I couldn't "connect" with any of them, and in one way or another, they were all attempts at creating personalities similar to the ones in previous MEs. That threw me off.

Scyths · 1日前

I honestly didn't play the 3rd game, I was interested in a brand new mass effect with a new story from scratch, but after seeing all the shit that's going on with the game I honestly lost all my interest in it, I was then thinking that maybe I buy it for the multiplayer to play with a friend or friends and do the story like that, but then I also lost all my interest when I saw that the multiplayer was just Killing Floor set in a distant future, nothing story related, so yeah, here I am having wanted this game to be good expecially on multiplayer but being disappointed on multiple fronts, this is just my opinion. Also what the fuck is wrong with all the faces holy shit, are they all constipated in the galaxy andromeda ?

Nospaz · 1日前

Tl;dw:

"If there is 7/10 game, ME:A is one. Good game but it has flaws."

Lone_Sword · 1日前

I'm sorry, but what type of No Man's Sky bullshit line is that at 1:34:25.

"I don't know if you can ever be done with this game, there's so much to do."

The game takes 50-70 hours to 100% complete. Unless you treat procedural generated fetch quests like Skyrim's Radiant Quests system as "never being done with the game", then there's clearly an end to meaningful content. Considering TB has lambasted those meaningless quest systems before, him throwing out that line that you can never be done with the game is bullshit.

Gatecrasher53 · 1日前

Of course TB finds expansion/exploration and building colonies a more relatable goal, hes british.

1LegendaryWombat · 1日前

I tend to not agree with the whole 'journey is more important that the destination' argument, as does most of humanity. You can have a good experience, but studies have actually proven that having something bad at the end of a good experience significantly reduces our opinion of it, compared to say a bad bit in the middle or beginning(aka the peak-end rule).

The end is REALLY important, its why many people(myself included) still dislike mass effect 3 because the ending is so awful.

For now, i'm going to give Andromeda a miss until they sort out the technical stuff and the people are less weird. The UI stuff and all that, possibly can be fixed by modders and stuff, maybe. But for now, its not worth my money, i'd rather not support the 'release-a-buggy-as-fuck-game-and-then-fix-it-afterward' business practice, its getting real old.

TooFewOtters · 1日前

I get the feeling he's purposefully being a bit contrarian on this one. I don't know. It sounds like he's trying too hard to hype up certain parts. He touches on the criticisms the game has gotten, like the animation and the dialogue, but just kind of brushes it off. A lot of it seems to praise the combat and weapons augmentations.

And the line at the end, the remark he made about "not caring about how compelling the writing of the story is", but says that he "cares about the journey, not the ending" makes no sense to me.

Alagorn · 2日前

Is this longer than the Revenge of the Sith review?

kuddlesworth9419 · 1日前

Facial animations and character animations are pretty important. They are game breaking in a game like this because they rely on a certain amount of immersion. A game that got it right in 3rd person that I have played recently would be the new Hitman game. It's also a much better looking game in general. And probably more fun from what I have seen of Andromeda so far.

Different Genres I know but one game is mediocre and unpolished the other is really quite great and one of the most polished games I've ever played.

Cobraninja97 · 1日前

Around 42:30, he is wrong the weaponry goes further than 5 levels, they can reach up to 10 if you level up enough.

nathanpinard · 1日前

Augs are great, but they also suffer from massive lack of info. I had to craft and re-load 5 times to find out the following:

Electric augs just makes you shoot electricity, which is great, but reduces the range quite a bit.

The "bounce" aug reduces your range by what feels like 80%. Don't put it in a sniper rifle.

The "health drain for reload" aug drains your health after each empty clip, even if you STILL have ammo. It'll actually kill you if you use it too much.

The grenades aug makes your ammo heavy and it bounces. I though it would've been more like an RPG.

Anyway, research, weapons and augs would've benefited from a preview system like the abilities/skill menu. Because I couldn't see how weapons really worked and whether if I even wanted them.

Sydrek · 1日前

I caught myself writing a huge comment but decided it's best not to post it as not only would many not had bothered to read it but mostly as it could had been viewed as a "personal attack" by TB.

So the bottom line is this, i don't know why but it does feel like he's holding ME:A to another standard then he does for other games, especially two titles comes to mind: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

As that popped in my mind for multiple reason but mostly when he talked about how there's a lot of content and the exploration is great.... yet at the same time never gave that chance nor the credits to the two above mentioned games, and personally i find they both (yes even 2011's Skyrim) blow it out the water compared to ME:A.

Or how he goes on about how the planets are looking beautiful, yet i can think of another sci-fi game that has as good if not better looking and interesting vistas, you know... Star Wars the Old Republic (also a 2011 title).

So having played the above mentioned games, i don't see the justification of trying to use those aspects of the game as borderline selling points / desperately trying to find the good in the game.

He gave it a 7/10, i think a more suited "score" would be at it's best a 6/10 once it's patched AND with a discount. Which is another point i want to briefly touch upon, i feel TB often forgets that the price is very if not the most important part of a game as that set's the stage for the level of criticism.

He either buys his game for which in return he make's money off thanks to his job and if not he receives them for free. But your average gamer can't afford to buy a game every week at release, hence why 7/10 is really too generous.

ME:A is a average game, not a horrible game and not a great game so nothing to write home about how you found the love of your life... but one might think so if it was your first.

KingofSparrows · 1日前

People play Mass Effect because of the story, the setting, the writing. Personally, I'm glad this game, that has bad story, bad setting, bad writing, is getting hammered, even if its for the wrong reasons.

If this game is a 7 out of ten then what the other Mass Effects??? And be aware, those are games which aren't completely perfect either.

This review seems to me to be a knee-jerk reaction, defending a studio that has slowly been lowering its standards. If he wants to defend the animations, so be it. But defending the entire game... That's just completely irrational.

deadbulky · 1日前

TB been drinking the koolaid a bit much here, its really kind of shocking how much of a positive light hes trying to put on this turd.

Cobraninja97 · 1日前

I feel they were going for an original series star trek feel to the atmosphere of the game in terms of tone and theme (boldly going where no human has gone before and exploring) rather than the gritty Battlestar Galactica theme you mentioned. So I much prefer this kind of feel over a dark and gritty one.

JDLENL · 20時間前

I actually wouldn't mind the planetary transitions if not for the fact that they look so jarring and forced. They aren't smooth at all, and it feels like you're in some sort of motion simulator at an amusement park going from planet to planet.

EatYoVegetablez · 1日前

I love seeing people in the comments complaining about a game they haven't played. TB is right about this game, I've played 45 hours now and what he says really rings true.

imicca · 1日前

This video is so short. Disappointed. You failed us TB. I expected at least 4 hours of Settings menu rant and 2 hour montage of glitches/funny animations. (p.s. no,just kidding, I love this video :)

Obrusnine · 1日前

It's always good to see more FAIR coverage of this game. There's so much BS floating around it's hard to determine what the actual quality of the game is for the average person.

Bannihal_Celter · 1日前

Great Video TB. You hit the spot once again. I am really enjoying it , even though after all the "criticism" everyone was shouting out loud i almost didnt buy it. I like to play a female when the chance is given but the standard Sarah Ryder looks, well, shit. So i made my own Character from stretch and i was really surprised by how not-bad the animations were. Really i think thats the way to go. dont choose a preset but make your own char, male or female. The overall game looks fantastic so thats a plus but yeah there are a couple of annoyances. BUT so far in my experience, when i found something to be asnnoying i just avoided doing it and honestly, the game just lets you do that. (i dont like the crafting system so i just buy my stuff). All in all a 7/10 is definetly the right score for this game. So if you are going to get the game just remember this: Make your own character and you will have a great time :)

hoseja · 1日前

So, shitty Bioware iteration gets 2 hour review and he won't touch Witcher with 10 foot pole because "ethics". So salty about that.

Stevificus · 10時間前

The bulk of Mass Effect: Andromeda actually takes place about 600 years after Mass Effect 3, not trying to be a douche, but figured someone might be interested in it's position on the timeline.

Ryko89 · 9時間前

I like this review of his. My opinion can differ a lot from his opinions at times, but this was hitting the nail on the head. I love this game with a passion, and he is one of the only reviewers that look past the echo-chamber meme machine of the internet. Solid game, but has a lot of flaws. I love playing this game, I am worried that it will be overshadowed by all the negativity surrounding it.

Spearka · 1日前

TL:DW

Wefee11 · 1日前

2 Hours to answer the question "Wtf is this game"

Yukondano2 · 1日前

With the number of comments here I feel like I'm shouting into the void a bit, but TB's video has honestly made me want to get this game. The negative press around it seems sensationalist (which is absolutely normal for the media so I've already adjusted for that) and exaggerates one flawed area without considering everything else. "But it's so expensive and took so long, how are there these errors!" because clearly they focused their attention elsewhere. They should have allocated their resources better, yes, but it's not like those hours and dollars disappeared into the void like people seem to suggest. But anyways, looking past the animation problems and everyone's incredibly puffy faces (seriously, the hell is with that?) this game looks pretty cool. Fluid movement is something I'd love to see, I adore the movement system in Warframe because of how fluid and responsive it feels and I'm happy to see more things like it. I frankly don't give a damn about the pausing and resuming strategy if I can still fight and have fun.

Maceor · 1日前

the pellet spread on this shotgun is a bit weird...

yes TB, that is because that shotgun shoots slugs

AcceptablePariahdom · 1日前

Man I'm looking forward to a breath of fresh air from TB. He's not one of the morons that'll just write off the game because of the animations.

Yes, the facial animations and some of the character model interactions are unforgiveably bad for a full-price, AAA game in 2017. But animations aren't the only fucking thing in a God damn video game.

The story is up to Bioware's usual standard, I daresay better than 3's bullshit. Characters are fleshed out and interesting, their interactions with Ryder and each other are fantastic. The voice acting? I could gush for an hour on how good the voice acting is.

And the combat... I'm sorry. I still consider ME2 the best in the series overall, like most Mass Effect fans, but... Combat in ME:A is the best Mass Effect has ever had. Hands down. It's so fluid, so crunchy, so incredibly satisfying. There are a couple cases where those character model issues make their way into harming gameplay when some enemies will do some crazy "Bethesda style" buggy actions in combat like flying way into the air or getting stuck on top of each other. But it's easily forgiven since that only ever happens in overworld skirmishes, and the combat is otherwise amazing.

Not limiting you to a single class and giving you total control over your powers, weapon loadout, weapon and armor modifications, and even adding a research and development feature for all those things... you can really play how you want, and every style I've tried is immensely satisfying. It was the perfect step for a Mass Effect RPG.

I'm silly and wrote this up after only watching half an hour of the review, but I'm confident that even if TB and I don't agree on all points, the main thing is that I'm quite confident he won't say ME:A is crap because the animations are crap. The reviewers that have been saying so are fucking idiots, and I'll be happy to hear as unbiased a review as possible without that level of stupidity.

zqzqz · 1日前

Feature length TB, hype!

roarquel · 1日前

6 hours later- 1440p still only available as 30fps. Jesus even I can encode faster then that.

shanoftw · 23時間前

Before watching the video there are two things I can say about the game: 1) I can say more negative things about the game than positive 2) I am still very much enjoying the game, and am not at all sorry that I bought it.

Now onto the thoughts of a person who put a lot more...thought into this than me.

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