Game Awards 2016: Mass Effect Andromeda shows off extensive gameplay
The Game Awards finished tonight with an extensive look at Mass Effect Andromeda's gameplay systems.
The Game Awards tonight ended with a long-teased look at Mass Effect Andromeda in action. The extended look showed glimpses at exploring a spaceport, the dialogue system, navigating terrain in the Nomad, crafting, and the combat system.
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Visuals look good, I hope they learned something from Witcher about world building and quest design though. Mass effect always seemed on the rails and felt small for a "galaxy" of content, and will especially after Witcher. Combat seems fine. But why are the same races around if it's a whole new galaxy?
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I think they had the equivalent of racial arks sent out to the new galaxy.
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Agreed. When I finally played Mass Effect 1 and 2 I felt that the series started strong but turned into cover-shooter-sci-fi instead of sci-fi-RPG and I dropped off really hard after 2 concluded. I'd love to see Bioware make a compelling RPG again.
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Is it wrong to want one of these Mass Effect N7 hoodies?
http://www.biowarestore.com/brands/mass-effect/black-n7-elite-armour-stripe-hoody-
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Embroidered logo with some nice finishing touches. It's actually better than a lot expensive hoodies I've seen.
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I actually really like the women's ANGL one.
http://www.biowarestore.com/brands/mass-effect/ladies-n7-armour-stripe-angl-hoody
The oversized hood is maybe a little sillier, but the diagonal zipper is neat extra asymmetry on a jacket that is by design already asymmetrical. -
Nope the N7 gear looks great.
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Looks promising.
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She looks partially modeled after Sara from DA:I. Might be the same character artist. Looks fine to me.
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Gimme awesome characters, an epic story and combat that doesn't feel like a chore and I will cum buckets all over this.
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Huh. I'm not sure how I feel about this.
On the one hand, it's Mass Effect and the visuals are great.
On the other, everything else was...mediocre looking. The scanning thing was straight out of Arkham; been there done that. Resource gathering had a No Man's Sky vibe. Been there, done that, too. Powers looked good in action, but the enemies were bullet sponges. And the meeting with the shady bad guy character was cliché in all the worst ways.
And wtf was with those facial animations?
Am I weird for feeling slightly less enthused after seeing that video than before?-
Yeah, it doesn't look like an improvement. Are we no longer rolling out as a squad? I didn't see any pause in the action to command a squadmate to use an ability.
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doesn't feel like a generational leap but they have bigger problems to fix I suppose
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Really? The graphics look stunning to me. Also a lot more verticality to the movement. Limitations of the engine for the early games meant a lot of flat level designs. Now we get jet packs and biotic leap powers.
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The needful has been done.
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how dare you call me a soft target. The pool was cold!
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That looked fucking fantastic! The stuff with the biotic powers was awesome. The visuals are stunning. The only thing that worried me was the lack of a party mechanic. All the combat was featured just the lead character.
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The party control stuff is there in the middle, underneath the shield/health arcs. You can see their portraits, and then additional cards/slots/whatever stacked underneath them. Odds are it's going to be more or less the same as the last two: point at target, hit modifier to select party or members, "attack my target" or "go there" or "use power" or etc.
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Awesome! I only watched it once before I headed into work and missed that detail. More of the same is fine by me.
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I rewatched in slow motion and I could see the sidekicks in action. I'm going to have to put some armor on them that will help them stand out against the background.
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Looks fantastic!
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Looks really good. I have to admit I finished 1 and 2 and got to the end for 3 and just quit. I got bored of the storyline and of it generally.
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They went on a 300 year long journey to a new galaxy. And when they get there its full of humans, krogans and turains to shoot?
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Maybe more than one ship was sent in the past? Or maybe some people woke up before others. The dialogue did seem to indicate that human woman knew what a pathfinder was. There may have been more in the past.
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Maybe Ryder's ark got lost along the way and arrived years later?
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That's another possibility. There is a lot of room for different plot devices with that concept. Ryder's ship might have been one of many sent by various organizations hoping to flee the Reapers.
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You guys are fucking crazy. ME combat is good and got significantly better with each iteration. If you don't like it, then you've never played a Vanguard in ME2 or ME3, and if you still don't like it you're broken they straight-up have a "kid gloves easy-peasy RPG mode FOR BABIES" difficulty.
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Woah woah woah, I enjoy the combat in Mass Effect, I wasn't saying that's bad. i just think they're so good at dialogue and characters that they could base a game entirely on that and it would still be brilliant. games have so much more potential than just being guns + other stuff like so many are.
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Vanguard really was the shit. Get that top notch shotgun, dash in, blow off some heads.
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the game gives you a bunch of classes, a bunch of them play like that, that's on the designers
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I don't think anyone in this subthread is talking about pro ME3 multiplayer techniques. 'You're playing it wrong' can alternatively be described as 'the game is designed to encourage unfun playstyles.'
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the combat is fine it's simply not what made the franchise big/great and shouldn't be its standout feature today either
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If they can take ME3 gameplay with ME1 questing I'd be in love.
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I assume there will be more than one.
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That explains why Jester never left his seat.
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