5 years + $40M = Mass Effect Andromeda

A mix of masterpieces of animation and technical issues. Andromeda already got a 24% price cut less than a week after release.
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[@yoseppi]

15:16 "Back up. LITERALLY!" Who fucking wrote this?

[@theawkwardskeleton6608]

The Programmers

[@iancollins9960]

Only thing programmers do is write, it's code language but they write. I bet the most boring and dull among them could have done better... it's like they set their children to write while everyone else handled technical stuff...

[@cannedcoochiebread]

WolfPhysiKs Leafy himself... LITERALLY!

[@NCRRanger7753]

Dezzigner Back up... Licherally

[@kazukoohashi7171]

diversity hires

[@noahtheeditor8650]

$40mil that could've gone to cancer...oh wait

[@Haloslayer46]

clever

[@popcornfilms1]

+Palaash Atri don't ruin it bro

[@wispy9859]

wow

[@OfficialFatherBeat]

LMFAO

[@themaverick7514]

I don't get it

[@emackenzie]

Using Frostbite was the worst thing they could have done with Andromeda and Inquisition. It makes it nearly impossible for even the modding community to try and salvage their mistakes.

[@notyourbusiness8475]

It runs pretty well though.

[@emackenzie]

@@notyourbusiness8475 without mods it runs pretty damn good, but if you get greedy it's too slow to even survive loll. I think I installed a texture and a bug fix mod for Andromeda and I couldn't snipe anymore

[@mep15067]

Honestly I feel like the death knell for this project was their focus on procedurally generated open worlds. Every time I've seen that be a focus in development in games this size its been a disaster. The fact that they had to swap script writers and basically come up with a story only halfway through was where it became clear that this was gonna suck

[@OldieWan]

@@mep15067 That and putting to much focus on pandering to social justice ideology instead of just writing a solid story line. It was a cringe inducing story line that wanted to virtue signal instead of just doing what a video game is suppose to do, like entertain and give you an escape from the world. Not draw you back into real world politics and pandering.

[@mep15067]

@Oldie Wan I think that's mainly a you problem. You can criticize the writing for lacking the intruige and bite the older games had by having morally complex characters and realistic feeling and even dark world building despite the sci-fi setting. But the fact that you're saying social justice ideology and virtue signaling instead of any deeper critiques about the mechanics of the writing that ended in it feeling flat or underwhelming inspires zero faith in me that you actually looked at the story and tried to engage with it beyond recoiling like you got stung by a bee the moment you saw something that wasn't the fps space military game you got attached too in the first place.

[@OrifielM]

Legion, who didn't even have a face, had 100x better facial expressions than anyone in Andromeda.

[@kwc0435]

"Sir, they have flashlight heads"

[@perrytran9504]

I love how you could see he was confused when Shepard asked why he bothered to wear part of the N7 armor. Robot being more human than it gave itself credit for.

[@polishrocker93]

Your comment would be better written as “Legion was 100x more expressive than anyone in Andromeda” Since Legion doesn’t have a face, saying he has facial expressions is redundant.

[@richardsavings6690]

And now you've got what happens when Legion's son spends too much time on the internet during bible study. A.K.A, V1 from Ultrakill. When robots with glowing circles for heads have more personality than living breathing characters, that should be considered an issue.

[@reavercity568]

@@polishrocker93 oh but he did

[@lawson4094]

*Mass defect

[@BurnoutRevengeForThePs2]

underated

[@elusorymonk1941]

Mess Deffect

[@classxero4442]

Savagery

[@nicefat5370]

187Um killa Mess effect

[@menace5802]

187Um killa xD

[@97cheeselover]

Honestly it looks like the entire game was animated using Garry's Mod ragdoll tools.

[@PressRao]

97cheeselover This shit was done in Microsoft paint.

[@selingermann5599]

Ahahaha! So true! XD

[@Zelousmarineinspace]

97cheeselover BULLSHIT. Comparing this to Gmod is an INSULT to Gmod!

[@tinyknott]

Depends. You do actually have to be skilled to make Gmod this uncanny. I'd rather say it's praising Gmod for its incredible powers that can produce uncannyness at this level. You just can't do this by chance.

[@theonlyplain]

97cheeselover Nah this is made by Microsoft Power Point

[@shoelace.16]

8:05 inexplicably makes me laugh so hard. the mom's dead eyes and dead voice, how Sara looks like she's trying not to laugh, Scott vacantly staring at his mother, completely unimpressed lmao

[@mr.shin.5138]

Hilarious 😂

[@Cowabungacards]

lol

[@EvilPumpkin]

It looks like they poisoned their ritch mom (she doesn't know that) to get the inheritance and are trying to appear sad on her death bed, but are failing miserably.

[@sansdormno2428]

"bruh when will she stop and die already? Like just shut up already" (him probably)

[@aa-pj4vz]

They really didn't gaf about the it mom dying lolllllll

[@MeursaultWithFactor50]

11:41 will never not be funny. That lifeless fight & blank expressions followed up by a KROGAN speaking like a gay from San Francisco.

[@pyrelight9794]

"There's more to life than this" *snaps own neck*

[@pyrelight9794]

16:04

[@jimbo_0774]

lol

[@BioHazard4234]

"I'm Only Human After All"

[@arcticridge]

tell that to Zod

[@1mSeraph]

this one got me good

[@gabenewell3955]

Mom passing away Protagonist: -_-

[@king.savagekingdom9929]

I want half life 3 bitch

[@juanisaias8308]

@@king.savagekingdom9929 At this pace we will get Half Life 4 before 3 smh

[@teal_m_101]

**children dying** Protagonist: -_-

[@Bloodletter8]

Thorazine for everyone!

[@alexlun4464]

Undertale Style

[@flairhayden]

9:53 gets me everytime. It looks so deliberate One of the biggest issues with the faces is that it seems like the faces keep defaulting to some general expression that completely ruins whatever it is they were trying to do with the qctive expressions

[@rebellyanmagic6409]

I've played previous Bioware games (Dragon Age series, KOTOR and SWTOR) and it's so prevalent in newer games that it's a meme. Once a character finishes talking or emoting their face defaults into 0-0 once their dialogue is done, it's so weird.

[@ConfusedGeriatric]

The NPC became self aware and yeeted themself out of existence rather than living in a shit game.

[@rykehuss3435]

@@rebellyanmagic6409 RDR2 really has no equal in facial animation

[@cro-magnoncarol4017]

"I have to go now, my planet needs me."

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

what's the iq of anyone who bought this game after seeing all the bugs and bad reviews?

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Coming back 5 years later, i still can't stop laughing. At 40 million $ this is one heck of a expensive comedy but the memes this game generated are still comedy gold.

[@lifecamerakaran]

Cost to make Mass Effect: Andromeda? 40 million. Comedic value? Priceless.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

@@lifecamerakaran Pretty much 😂

[@darkgather2808]

it wwas worth every penny

[@rensis1621]

I tried to play this abomination recently, and I assure you, anything comedy-worthy element of this trainwreck is in this 20 min video. The rest of it as bland as eating unflawoured porridge.

[@RazorsharpLT]

Come back to this, and this game was better than Starfield with 10x less the budget now.

[@Penitbuder]

Ironically the alien faces look more natural than the humans. How the fuck.

[@LSSTmusic]

it's easier to tell when human faces look unnatural because we know what they're supposed to look like

[@nathanaelrose4485]

Anonymous Thank you for the proper use of irony.

[@spacejunk2186]

The textures for the male Turians are shit.

[@wizzzer1337]

the alien faces were hand crafted, the human faces used a software to automate the facian animations.

[@gennoble6363]

>buys the game >plays the game for 4 hours >finds 120 bugs and glitches in that time >refunds

[@mattrmsf]

"Kill...me...now."-Most Self Aware Salarian

[@elliotlemon8402]

MatthewTreadstone wouldnt it been hilarious if someone at bioware sneaked that in at the last minute.

[@tecnoconsumes2170]

The best character

[@EinFelsbrocken]

I think the team didnt give a shit about the game anyway by the end..

[@wilhelmhakansson3105]

Kill...me...now, what the devs are saying right now.

[@MikeWewerkaLive]

That made me laugh out loud, no joke. Wow, it's just a freaking mess. This is a game that needed more time, like 6 months or even another year.

[@hypno-scream5652]

11:41 I love that little run so much

[@EsteemedReptile]

I can just hear it with Zach Hadels distressed little wheeze.

[@Noxlion28]

When this got a 72 average score on metacritic, that is when I stopped trusting mainstream gaming media to review games.

[@USSR96]

Mass Defect.

[@HeyItsFreeman427]

Even the faces in that gmod video are better than these

[@user-zz4xs6bz7b]

kitty0706s video with the same name had better facial animations.

[@chasechute1491]

USSR96 "This weapon doesn't have a thermal clip."

[@lovepeace9727]

20!8

[@lovepeace9727]

if you know what i mean )

[@Violent2aShadow]

9:21 "Kill. Me. Now." Apparently, the game has achieved self-awareness.

[@vegaobscurax23]

Violent2aShadow Rolfmao

[@John_shepard]

Violent2aShadow 🤣

[@ronaldsit7418]

Thats the "Next gen" part

[@garrettscott827]

I was waiting to see a comment like this😂😂😂

[@RandomBeardGuy]

The AI is screaming in agony

[@DevenPowerswafflesdot]

That scene where the monsters fight and the dudes are just laughing is the best.

[@thewhompingwampa2671]

That's one way to describe Krogans...

[@DevenPowerswafflesdot]

@@thewhompingwampa2671 Llo what’s a krogan?

[@thewhompingwampa2671]

@@DevenPowerswafflesdot The lizard guys punching each other.

[@DevenPowerswafflesdot]

@@thewhompingwampa2671 I got you

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

11:41 _timestamp_

[@thelastcrow5660]

Fun fact: These aren't bugs, the laws of physics are just different in Andromeda.

[@cursedhazards3330]

'My Face Is Tired'

[@benjaminborkowski12]

Yep. I can tell. Maybe her Brain(if she even has one) is tired too?

[@weebsharpie6975]

Benington does an animated model need a brain?

[@jamesmedina3297]

from fucking laughing

[@NotoriusBenjamin]

kompaye k

[@NotoriusBenjamin]

James Medina ,

[@MinatureMinotaur3223]

Shepard died for this...

[@Devvitc]

No he didnt!

[@Gabriel25472]

sooo sad...

[@jeanv2246]

MancunianRedcoat Different universe for whatever reason, in this one Sheppard lost

[@thisnewfeatureisdum]

too soon

[@zeta3665]

Says who?

[@Mike23443]

This, ladies and gentlemen, is an example of why an older but mastered engine is almost always better than a new one but without any idea how to use it.

[@rixille]

I imagine a lot of the original Bioware team was gone by the time this trash came out.

[@ChickenJoe-tq6xd]

@@rixilleyep replaced by a diversity hire team, the old team was “too white” for esg ratings

[@arrontheprotogen9276]

GoldSrc Source Need I say more??

[@Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches]

@@arrontheprotogen9276 The facial animations in Valve's Source games are so stupidly good. Heck, the facial expressions in the Wind Waker are stupidly good and those are just textures.

[@arrontheprotogen9276]

@@Skeletons_Riding_Ostrichestrue dat

[@Mugetsu1212]

Funny part is that the actual budget was almost $150m. Brutal.

[@user-gg3yj5yj1y]

11:46 oh no

[@cawdaddy]

12:32 that worked too well.

[@Pictoh]

Mikah Crawford I think they actually used the "just do it" animation to do that animation

[@krispydonuts6344]

Mikah Crawford if

[@Mrfailstandstil]

That clap was like 100% spot on, I lmaoed so hard

[@joseph7972]

The only redeemable part of the game right there

[@AtlanticSpamHammer]

9:53 "I must go now, my planet needs me."

[@Safouan0]

XDDDD

[@valynekrinuz313]

The Citadel called him.

[@croixmeridies6856]

AtlanticSpamHammer No, it was a Xenomorph in disguise-

[@metrosanessss]

AtlanticSpamHammer This animation was like Buzz Lightyear: "To infinity and beyond!"

[@Abi-chanFictionFan]

"Beam me up, Scotty !" Woops, sorry...wrong franchise XD

[@charliestewart3082]

Just wanted to say, the side missions where you had to search random outposts, kill everyone, someone would drop a datapad (MAYBE), you then scan the pad which would give you another location to kill a bunch of people was the worst thing ever and I hope everyone involved in that design choice are still struggling to find work.

[@Betasatan631]

If they have problems understanding which sex they are and put a lot of time into political twitter discussions, they are hired, professional treats ---- not needed. not anymore

[@luka9967]

@@Betasatan631 what are you talking about

[@amraphensantiago6699]

Well, that's actually terrifyingly similar to real world special operations. We know of bad guys at location A, we send team 1 to kill those bad guys and send back anything of note. The military intelligence guys decipher the recieved input(computers, phones, maps, contacts, equipment etc.) And identify a new target. Sometimes the Intel turn around is so fast that a second or third team must be dispatched because the first team is still cleaning up thier first location.

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

@@Betasatan631, The f*** does that have to do with anything? Andromeda was made by the F team of a dying company, their political beliefs have no bearing on the fact that there was no budget for hiring qualified staff.

[@auquitaine9201]

@@Jaydee-wd7wr The actual budget was about $150 million... No budget for hiring qualified staff?? What the fuck are you smoking

[@cytorakdemon]

They modeled Scott Ryder's face off an actor, and while they did the same with Sara Ryder they also altered her in-game face to "be less attractive and more realistic". Bad enough the writing was full of what I call "purple Hawke" moments. Scenes that try so hard to be funny and almost every line of dialogue had to be "snappy" and "quippy". Not to mention the devs raised questions only to reveal after the fact they had no intention of answering them because they didn't plan that far ahead. A patch can't fix this game, it needs to be called non-canon and or rebuilt from scratch to even have a chance of standing in the same league as the trilogy.

[@thewhompingwampa2671]

That last paragraph is spot on. People need to realise that some games are just too fundamentally fucked from the start to save with updates.

[@Killgore-ip2yq]

That might be partially true, but I'm pretty sure default Sara Ryder didn't become such a meme because of a design note like that. What is more likely is that between the original design from one studio and animation development from another, in an overseas studio, Bioware simply was too big a gaming studio to see that fixing faces be a priority. It didn't look right, and they knew it.

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

I hate the “too cool for school” protagonists. It gets old.

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

I mean half of them look woke af so I can imagine the writers being just sjw trash, replaying Mass Effect 1-3 rn with the legendary edition. A buggy mess even with the community patch but playable and damn fun being renegade - You can punch woman for asking you a question and its fine, thats the stuff im looking for and not someone that tells me "oh thats wrong" - If I wanna play as a ruthless asshole that punches everyone in the face then thats what im gonna do

[@kipter]

The snappy and funny lines every 10 seconds thing is such an annoying cliche of poopy tier media nowadays. writers think people want everything to be a marvel movie.

[@Quicksilver_Cookie]

The gun pointing backwards is game's code getting sentient, and making an attempt at suicide.

[@mhaddy9123]

Quicksilver_Cookie 🤣🤣🤣

[@sandrobot809]

similar to 9:21 when the NPC becomes self aware

[@xxxfaze_cumshotxxx7946]

*Ah, crap*

[@scooble_]

Can’t blame it?

[@SubjectE57]

Fantastic comment

[@grit1]

Why does every single line of dialogue feel like it was written ironically? They don't talk like people having a conversation, they talk like they're aware they're in bad fiction.

[@Havaria1]

So true!

[@plumperinoblunterino564]

Havaria1 maybe that's why the characters in the game don't take anything seriously and they are laughing all the time . problem solved , the face expressions are not glitches they are intended to be like that :O

[@silver23768]

Even Oblivion has better facial expressions

[@NightlifeSux]

because the writers love marvel movies

[@Sophia-vk5bq]

So that is what Peter Molyneux has been working on...

[@jacobbrown3781]

5:15 the council has decided your fate. Eternal socialization in the spontaneous person prison

[@thomasjones6413]

Looking back, I know everyone focused the visual bugs, facial animations, glitches and whatnot, but I'm shocked at how truly garbage the dialogue was

[@xXSilentAgent47Xx]

"Sorry, my face is tired from dealing with... everything." How ironic.

[@Studio-IV]

It's just the game begging for mercy.

[@aleksd286]

I had a hard time hitting the like button while laughing

[@Barrobroadcastmaster]

Hers and everyone else's.

[@CrossFire10100]

Somehow I think the developers just didn't care they gave up maybe they didn't agreed to what the guys in the office wanted or something must have gone wrong.

[@SunnyTacos]

Other than the animation....well the lack of..what's with that line itself? never heard anyone say that in my life, the writting in this game is on par with the technical issues, I have a feeling this game was originally written in a foreign language and then translated to English using Google translator.

[@EpicCoolGuy21]

3D porn ads look better than Andromeda

[@yiaboi2287]

@@GrindyVine what

[@anonimo_20_19]

@@GrindyVine what????

[@ryanc5572]

They really do

[@rioajipangestu776]

@@GrindyVine whot

[@dodohead147147]

@KS Rule 34 my friend

[@insaniam_convertunt_scientiam]

Six years later, this video might be one of the better things Andromeda gave us.

[@dmj271095]

remember when I bought this game, I excitedly walked out of the store, immediately tripped over my own shoelaces and scraped up my arms, hands and the case for the game. I think that was an omen.

[@Kendow20]

Kallo - "Kill. Me. Now." Pretty much sums up this game.

[@redzone1438]

which minute?

[@lunaticllama3220]

Every Mass Effect fan after seeing the trailer for this. Also, it's at 9:20

[@SecksyMan]

have you played the game very much if at all?

[@LyConstantine]

-Are things back to normal? -Not even close

[@Kendow20]

Yea, played right through it. Fun Mass Effect as usual (Story/Combat/Character Building) but everything in this video pretty much nails everything that's wrong with it. Felt incomplete and a let down for the amount of time we've waited since the last game.

[@joelhaggis5054]

"There's more to life than this." *Twists neck* *Walks off*

[@cryptonaut1435]

Somebody gazed into the eyes of Cthulhu for too long....

[@internetjuror4438]

**Self-aware NPCs**

[@petrusion2827]

She's trying to end her miserable existence as a shitty NPC with bad writing.

[@PixXx31]

She learned that from shepard :D i.imgur.com/VqEj1Pl.gif

[@RGR29]

😂😂😂 I'm recording this game but so far I don't have any of those glitches

[@Noxlion28]

It’s so pathetic how hard the IGN reviewers tried to say positive things about the game despite it being obviously garbage. They did the same for Cyberpunk and that’s when I decided their opinions are worth less than a grain of salt.

[@epicosexio]

Im only human after all

[@theunknown1685]

IT'S NOT A MOVIE WHY DO THEY TRHOW FAKE PUNCHES

[@Lazyanimator23]

himinn mocap

[@theunknown1685]

Yeah, it's even funnier if you think about it

[@noisyheretic215]

And why does one of the krogans sound like a lispy gay person? Who knows.

[@ThiccSumoWarDog]

Noisy Heretic Dingus It's actually a female one, but still jarring. They should've gotten a woman with a nice contralto for that one.

[@TheGsGClan]

but you could place the ingame characters closer together so they actually hit each other

[@deaansugee]

"There's more to life than this" kills self by rotating head 360°

[@VinayThakurCool]

XD

[@Lucian_Andries]

No, she accidentally killed herself. It was an accident... In an ironic way.

[@TheMMCchannel]

lol

[@jameswatsonatheistgamer]

Mass effect andromeda. Exorcist edition.

[@leakyboat224]

16:03 I actually recoiled in horror 😂 20:20 What a great lineup of game developers who made great games before, and who I'm sure will be around for a long long time.

[@thesamejackalsniperthatkil117]

Some of them didn't make it unfortunately. Pandemic, Westwood, visceral, etc.

[@xXRand0mDudeXx]

Respect to the voice actors, id be embarrassed i was apart of a game that was this bad

[@spacekrill]

"Are things back to normal?" "Not even close." He's wasn't wrong.

[@InVinoVeratas]

That clip was perfectly timed

[@Superluigi881]

Do we even need to mock this game? It's doing a pretty good job insulting itself.

[@InVinoVeratas]

time to bring this comment back, back from rest, back to rise

[@changeformer6843]

"My face is tired..." best line in Andromeda.

[@callmefox630]

"Yes, I can fucking see that, it it VERY tired, it seems, Yes."

[@Shak2k11]

who even fucking says that anyway? "my face is tired" like WTF, but yes it's fits this game perfectly

[@megamegaO]

"kill...me" is a close second

[@yeetsheet9537]

Best line no doubt but that flamboyant alien was definitely the funniest for me.

[@Oldschool1943]

"back up literally"

[@joshadams5602]

all the characters look and move like low budget animatronics, and the best thing that can be said about the dialogue is that it fits in with that perfectly.

[@youseenednedisdead]

"I don't need an army, I've got a krogan" is actually such a badass in-universe line that was wasted on such a shitty scene

[@thekiss2083]

Maybe if it hadn't been cribbed from The Avengers

[@youseenednedisdead]

@@thekiss2083 didnt know that

[@ToddHoward.]

These guys made Skyrim look 100% polished and bug free.

[@Balnazzardi]

Todd, its still better than Fallout 76.....

[@seangruner1023]

Mmmmmmm McDonald

[@seankim382]

@@Balnazzardi No.

[@Bullevue]

That really pisses me off

[@chancedavis6216]

@@Balnazzardi I disagree

[@bobafettywap3170]

“Simulating the ocean is hard, simulating a face is harder” yeah we noticed

[@hyperbot7901]

Thats an excuse they use when a lot of people said the facial animation was stiff.

[@portalmasterrian]

@@hyperbot7901 That was someone unrelated to Bioware, it was someone from Nvidia showing off a tech demo for facial animations from 2013

[@kamieaston3016]

Bruh, to a novice yeah they're hard. But to Bioware? There are games older than almost 2 decades that have better facial animations than this shit. Story was shit, rushed, and gay as fuck. Concept was the only thing that was good, and the thing about concept is that is a concept...

[@oldneonstudio]

Like 700: Yea.

[@dylanbell268]

Cryer24597 Yeap, and rdr2 still uses its face cap system

[@dr.kennethnoisewater26]

The new mass effect teaser trailer came out and people are already singing its praises and can’t wait to give up their money. How quickly they forget.

[@Artemyst]

6 years later and this is still more enjoyable than the game

[@ultimateempress1739]

8:09 sarah looks like she’s trying not to crack up at her dying mother.

[@Beecanoe]

And scott looks like he notices and is giving her the stink-eye

[@JackatPurchase]

😂

[@TracerX]

XXXDDD

[@xZippy]

Mother: "I'm dying." Sarah: O~O

[@luizguilhermelunardi8270]

To me it’s more like Sarah’s doing a smug face when her mother compliments her while not caring that’s she’s saying that on her deathbed. It’s like she’s going “Yeah, I know I’m pretty great, you don’t have to tell me”.

[@loafboi]

The fact that 3d porn artists can make better facial animation than a multimilionarie company

[@TheTber123]

They're passionate about their work and aren't half-assing it for a quick buck (or on an unreasonable deadline)

[@crimsonstrykr]

@@TheTber123 Hey I would be passionate about my work too if it involved modeling Tifa Lockhart's face making lewd expressions!!

[@CollegeDroputPowerpoints]

@@TheTber123 Well there is a lot of passion in those projects if you know what I mean.

[@larrywilliams4967]

Lmao 😭😭

[@antonysoares670]

As a 3D porn artist, thanks.

[@daniilbendik334]

Basically a standard for AAA gaming now

[@richardmcgowan1651]

Ah, Mass Effect Andromeda. Maybe the first big sign that many people in the AAA gaming industry have no talent.

[@DrGandW]

First? Maybe the seventeenth?

[@b.o.j.1442]

You weren’t around during the colonial marines fiasco, were you?

[@corey9746]

​@@b.o.j.1442That game was just average. It wasn't total trash like this.

[@ChickenJoe-tq6xd]

Well duh, the devs get hired based on diversity and inclusion rather then talent and merit, the old dev teams that made classics were “too white and male” for the current esg standards, we as gamers are supposed to just accept the huge quality drop

[@troypowers750]

I mean, what happend to Duke Nukem Forever?

[@AndreRQL]

*"Sorry, my face is tired from dealing with...everything"* I don't think being tired is the issue here...

[@Gamesfan34260]

The animator was most certainly tired.

[@sixravenx]

Who even says something like that? 'My face is tired' uhh ok then. It sounds like someone who learned English as a 25th language

[@alexissmetje]

I used to be a pathfinder like you, then my face got tired

[@whatisdisshit]

Fuck you Shepard.

[@OverLorD768]

Marauder Shields, why didn't you stoped this?! YOU HAD ONE FUCKING JOB!

[@loneswordsman295]

Commander Shepard why'd you leave mass effect?

[@ryangiang8464]

What is this, 2012?

[@themadgamer6815]

Commander Shepard Nice unoriginal comment.

[@amberhernandez]

As someone who's put over 2000 hours into Dragon Age: Inquisition, when he said "in Frostbite" (the engine for both games), I knew the face/hair animation was going to be dog-water lmao

[@WickedParanoid]

11:08 What hair animations? That ponytail is just stuck in one position, FFS

[@amberhernandez]

@@WickedParanoid Frostbite doesn't have free-form hair and cloth physics, so whatever you do see (in the RARE cutscene among both games) is hand-animated. Don't worry; it looks like trash too.

[@spacejunk2186]

@@amberhernandez Bro that scene in Dragon Age Inquisition when the Inquisition army sets out from the castle, we get a glimpse at some banner bearers and their banners do not move in the wind or from the movements at all, as if they are made of wood. It looks so garbage lmao.

[@Tremere]

You put over 2000 hours in the most putrid game Bioware ever had the indecency of releasing? Jesus christ….

[@amberhernandez]

@@Tremere Did I say Anthem? Did I say Andromeda? Dragon Age 2?? (Fuck, that one hurts lol)

[@XBullitt16X]

Still hilarious coming back years later and to see nothing in the industry has changed.

[@hey9433]

"My dad is dead" "Your dad is dead?" What kind of conversations are these

[@Krcun774]

:)

[@CELLY96]

@@Krcun774 :(

[@therealMrA]

"Yes my dad is dead I said"

[@hey9433]

@V Z Imagine someone doing that to you in real life

[@ciaranmcgrath3273]

The kind people who don't have normal conversations write.

[@icat0753]

"How far will we go" Backwards bioware, backwards

[@derboki88]

maybe he was just asking himself how far backwards? Or maybe they just forgot to run this game through QC...who knows

[@Grasmann]

Maybe it's like in old arcade games where you exit one side and come out the other. They went so far that they went back.

[@animee323]

"I love you, both of you. Live your lives." **proceeds to bite off bottom lip**

[@doescolder24]

It still baffles me to this day that someone actually wrote this "my face is tired" line. Like what were they thinking? Even the lowest budget writing doesn't include nonsense like this.

[@SapiaNt0mata]

when you hire talentless far leftists to fill in diversity quotas this is what you get. Bioware are fans of Anita Sarkeesian and a few years ago she visited Bioware studio for a prep talk.

[@jackobear7147]

I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite comedy on the Citadel.

[@binugicu9827]

Scraps 'N' Scoobs

[@NataliaNeeSama]

I should go.

[@alexwall9332]

I have to go

[@greggers23]

"there's more to life than this" *twists neck in way that would literally end own life*

[@MrJulio632]

Gregory Duggan reminds me of shepard glitch in ME3

[@GuyOnAChair]

Gregory Duggan That one "woman" cant stop memeing.

[@stinkiestman398]

Br Striker 👳🏿🍉🔫🍗🍗🖕🏿🖕🏿👊🏿👊🏿

[@Drawnartist]

This is hilarious!!! Man so many times I've busted out laughing watching this. I'm gonna have to rewatch this while video again. The part with Shia Labuff (whatever the spelling) was the best part. That krogans movements were perfectly in time with the sound and it was just excellent. Very well done 👏

[@project_X_design]

I spent 6 bucks on sale to buy this game. After experiencing the game I now understand with that money I would rather buy a big mac

[@k.cook158]

"We didn't want to make this feel like it was Mass Effect 4" Mission Accomplished.

[@lonelypotato520]

K.Cook15 Yep It feels and looks like fanfiction the game

[@drencrum]

they made Andromeda to get away from the bad ending of 3, now they're going to have to go back to 4 to get away from Andromeda

[@icehell99]

16:05 "There's more to life than this" *Proceeds to snap neck*

[@faizalf119]

Yeah, the AFTERlife.

[@Anex952]

Ice Mango should of put the neck snap sound effect in, that would of been amazing

[@IGRETRO]

I’m still coming back to this masterpiece. Beautiful.

[@crapaudbiscornu7941]

5:08 “My goals are beyond your understanding”

[@prot07ype87]

0:00 "At the heart of Mass Effect: Andromeda... is a question; how far will we go?" *Not far.*

[@user-texgen]

Prot07ype Wrong. They went too far.

[@oz_jones]

Or not far enough, depending how you want to look at it :p

[@Onemanfunnyfarm]

Worse than not far, they went the complete opposite direction. A good thing though, since it means they didn't shit on everything involved in the trilogy itself. Just the brand name and the usage of their species.

[@theimperiumofman102]

They'll go far, they just won't test and check where they're going and have been.

[@cityguard4847]

Onemanfunnyfarm doesn’t that count as going somewhere?

[@bakashinji]

"My father is dead he made me his successor." *:)* "Alec is...dead?" *:)*

[@XFrozenAshX]

:) :) :) :)

[@FallkyrieLynner]

trakstar13 "nah, my dad is having a tea party with mr.Death."

[@freddiefaulig8751]

trakstar13 donkey: you look really broken up about that.

[@richr1917]

Yeah, that's one of the worst, and funniest, culprits. Someone smiling at you, while they confirm through a nod of the head, that you're correct, their father is dead. Who was in charge of the quality control in this game? Did anyone from EA actually play-test it?

[@anasbakhit4303]

trakstar13 "Alec is....dead?" yep! got problems? :)

[@RebecaC12]

'There's more to life than this', proceeds to unalive self by twisting of her own neck 💀😭

[@casualgamer00]

It's already been 5 years. Damn. And not another mass effect game...lol

[@Razgriz_01]

Yep and the only thing they got to show for is a remaster of the original games. Shows just how terrible Andromeda is that Bioware and EA want to actively forget about it.

[@damarkomoore5236]

"I'm only human after all, don't put the blame on me" -bioware

[@musacan00747]

That Nba Fan ea's bioware

[@DzinkyDzink]

Can't listen to this song without sadness now... They ruined it for me!

[@DroBONILLA1]

Sums up the SJWs in bioware

[@mclaarson]

My face is tired of your kind.

[@Imperium83]

The Reapers warned us about this shit.

[@sanghoonlee5171]

Fun fact: in my country Korea, when something goes completely off the rail and insane, we say "It's gone to Andromeda." We've had this saying for a couple of decades.

[@KitsuneFyora]

This game makes so much sense now.

[@mark0183]

Boi :o

[@GabrielCarvalho-fd1iw]

Jesus is the only Savior.

[@royalblanket]

@@GabrielCarvalho-fd1iw What?

[@podskalda]

lol, nice saying

[@darklord9581]

7:55 bruh the expression 🤣🤣 “can we hurry up I have quests to complete” ☠️

[@roberdelss]

The buggy blowing up unprovoked at 6:50 is my favorite. I never beat the first Mass Effect because I got stuck on those rover missions.

[@rykehuss3435]

Git gud, controlling MAKO was not difficult at all. People just didnt bother learning how to use the thrusters. After a bit of practice I was climbing mountains with it or doing huge jumps off of hills. It was a lot of fun

[@roberdelss]

@@rykehuss3435 I was fairly young back then so settle down, buddy.

[@rykehuss3435]

@@roberdelss ligma

[@roberdelss]

@@rykehuss3435 Insufferable, as per the usual.

[@nigeltheoutlaw]

@@rykehuss3435 Yeah I was young too, but controlling the Mako wasn't hard. Jank, yes, but not hard. I think I only accidentally got myself actually stuck once, on some random side planet.

[@Deltarii]

13:26 “Are things back to normal?” “Not even close” Even the NPCs are aware.

[@un-capital3666]

9:20

[@user-sn8tz7kh1p]

I'm dead

[@romannk]

SHIT BLOGGER

[@IDONTKNOW1072]

YOU CANT MAKE THIS SHIT UP F I V E Y E A R S F O R T Y M I L L I O N

[@Lightning_studios437]

Danger-Day Pancakes FACK

[@josej.1042]

Boss Pepe DLC that will be free of course...right?

[@Rigel_6]

Boss Pepe thing is, CDR are gamers who wanted to make a good game because they love them, they started off kinda rough, gotten better. Bioware, on the other hand, is full of diversity hires. When you have people that openly dislike video games making, well, a video game, you know somebody has fucked up big time.

[@yoshee87]

Danger-Day Pancakes 5 years no wonder it looks like it belongs on Ps3.

[@Ice90001]

it still sucks

[@rachienye]

Loved your editing of the comentary and glitches. I laughed and it kept me entertained throughout. Well done!

[@risefm001]

I always come back to these Crowbcat vids every few months and they're just as great as the first time I watched.

[@Abominationus]

11:38 is the best part... that fucking guy going "Oh no" is the best description of this game.

[@yaelperezrod10]

Abominationus that fight was my 'oh no' cringe reaction And drack's reaction? Priceless!

[@Abominationus]

dude I laughed my ass off so hard

[@canthandlethislol]

Abominationus I like the just do it bit also

[@choppsyche8243]

That was too funny

[@TheLux008]

Fuck that, I almost suffocated from laughter at 15:13

[@ZubnoyPast]

"Kill...me...now" - this must be a tagline for this game)

[@ryanheppel861]

ZubnoyPast The most self aware character in the game!

[@887frodo]

ZubnoyPast the only real face expression in the whole game

[@cum_as_you_are]

3:32 i don't need an army. I got hulk rogan.

[@AJ-po6up]

I still can't comprehend how this turd could cost 40 million dollars. I'm guessing they pocketed 39.99 million and probably only used 10 thousand on the game.

[@ignacio6454]

That is how communist politicians do it in south america. Maybe there is a certain connection you can link together?

[@AJ-po6up]

@@ignacio6454 I know, I have been through that stuff as a Latino. I know how those guys are and the people that defend them.

[@MrSinfold]

all DLC cancelled lmao

[@echodelta2172]

Ahahaha I had to look that up to verify and it's probably true. Oh, that's glorious *wheeze*

[@Balmung35]

No way there's ever another ME game, period. EA killed the franchise.

[@TessaTestarossa]

Well, they've killed BioWare way before, noone could've expected this to be good. Admittedly, noone could've probably expected this level of disaster :D

[@SuperiorGothBun]

Balmung35 Well, at least Anthem looks.... interesting

[@ainuannatar1632]

AESTHETECORP. They said they will come back to the mass effect series after anthem

[@comradecthulhu6052]

9:53 "i must go, my planet needs me"!

[@sparknazo]

Comrade Cthulhu bitch became supeman😂😂😂😂

[@ThatGuyIsACoolGuy]

Alien: Isolation(2014)

[@SamuraiSixT9]

This was the first cyberpunk.

[@Damiardo]

This might be the magnum opus of "Why games released in the modern era usually suck." Art takes time, and honestly, these studios dont give AF. They want a masterpiece every 6 months so their CEO can buy a new yacht and matching custom trailer for the summer in their 6th vacation home, where their uncle is the head of finances and lives rent free. Gotta stay loyal to family, yo.

[@DurkDiggler]

shareholders bud

[@Love-Sensibility]

​@@DurkDigglerthat too. Complete games aren't really a thing nowadays, eh?

[@sportsfan1496]

@@Love-Sensibilityhow's Canada man

[@2shae475]

That Krogan doing the Shia Lebouf impression was just perfect.

[@itaintoveryeti9444]

"How far will we go?" "My face is tired."

[@MrTwoAxes]

Literally everyone's face is tired in Andromeda by the looks of it.

[@Doogle946]

When the devs try to explain why they're shit at their job through narrative reasons.

[@LittleRainGames]

Kekistani Refugee my guess the devs were pissed they had to make a game about andromeda, sick of publishers telling them what to do, so they made the game shit so they dont have to do it again.

[@grimwallace]

The answer to that question seems to be: too far.

[@TheManWhoDestroyedTheWorld]

15:07 Lol, literally GTA:SA moment here

[@zye.]

"Ryder! You sherm head"

[@ImpCom933]

The average exchange rate of the CAD to USD was a 1 to 1 in 2012. In 2014 (estimated time when development really kicked off) Conversion rate was 0.93 on average. Andromeda had a budget of 100m CAD, which would amount to 90m USD, 50 million more than Mass Effect 3's.

[@ChickenJoe-tq6xd]

Now do starfield with 8 years development and being just as bad as this

[@DevastatorsPissed1]

The moment you realize there are more talented poeple making SFM porn then working at Bioware.

[@madman19979]

DevastatorsPissed1 SFM porn is good shit my man

[@ozgurozturk3174]

DevastatorsPissed1 Yeah! Sumthindifrnt is the best among them!

[@zilav18]

The best antipiracy protection I've ever seen.

[@magicfordummiez3382]

Cuz its so shit its not even worth pirating.

[@killer88327]

MagicForDummiez thats what he is telling idiot

[@cum_as_you_are]

8:24 what the fucking hell

[@seancabage1641]

Man, I remember when this video came out and being in awe at how broken the game was. Good times lol.