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Audio bugs out almost all the time. Nomad engine goes silent and comes back (IF it comes back) for unknown reasons.
You almost never can hear the crew members talk when talking to NPC-s. Not talking about cutscenes, thats fine. Im talking about those when you get zommed at from behind and one of your crew members comment something. If subtitles are disabled you cannot hear anything. Tried taking off helmets, no joy.
Sometimes when shooting enemies the guns get silenced (you cannot hear the shooting) for a second then everything works fine after. It can happen multiple times each encounter. Its totally random when and how many times and does not matter what kind of weapon you use.
Audio is seriously my worst enemy in this game.
As a point of interest for some perhaps I thought I would do a summary of what I think about the characters. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts.
Alec - Easily the most interesting character and by far the best voice acted that would of made ME:A a far, far better game had he been the main character. Well done on killing the character I think everybody would of happily played as in minutes Bioware. (add a sarcastic clap here if you wish)
Male / FemRyder - Not as bad as some people may make out, can't hold a candle to daddy-ryder though and a lot of the dialog is cringe worthy. I feel truly sorry for the people that had to try and make something of that woeful script for these characters.
Liam - Kill him.
Cora - What is her point? Feels like she is meant to be the biotic version of Ashley and just flat out fails. Poor writing again.
Jaal - Hes alright, pretty generic. He needs to be harbouring some kind of dark secret to really make him come in to his own and be a memorable character. Not sure why he has a Garrus-esc vibe / appearance though thats just weird.
Vetra - Blatantly female Garrus, does ok. Why did someone think we needed both Jaal and Vetra to be Garrus-esc? Writing so poor you literally had to have two characters to try and fill the place of one Garrus? Get your acts together.
Suvi - Easily the best voice acted character with decent dialog (make her a party member like a discussion between her and Ryder eludes to) next to daddy-ryder. See Bioware, this is the standard you need for ALL of the characters, you know, like the original ME games did.
Kallo - He needs to be involved more especially with flight related things like planets that are dangerous to land on, once again he needs better dialog and make him interesting by giving him a science black-ops background (not STG Bioware use some creativity will you?) and thats why he was chosen.
Lexi - Kill her, dialog so bad sounded like she was phoning it in all the time. The actress is good, you gave her * to work with Bioware.
Peebee - Kill her.
Drack - Very good. He may stay.
Addison - Once again atrocious dialog made all the worse by the character being horrendously badly animated.
SAM - Christ this character is * can't hold a candle to EDI.
Gil - Just kill him, there is literally no point in him except to argue with Kallo. That is as shallow as shallow comes.
Archon - One of the better characters but heavily, HEAVILY, under used.
Notice a pattern here? Alec, Suvi, Drack, Archon, all really good characters I'd put money on a totally different person writing them as opposed to all the other characters. Lets hope the remnant are actually little reaper bots and the reapers are hiding somewhere to swoop down and kill everyone (would explain why the Archon sounds exactly like Sovereign) because as far as the rest of the characters and story goes it could not be any more bland or cookie cutter if it tried.
- Anonymous8 years ago@ketxxx "What we have been lied to about...We were told we'd have to really dig to find out what happened to the Quarian Ark, only to have alarms going off & smacked in the face with a trout after tripping over the NPC to spoonfeed you the info postgame." I guess we will have to dig to find out what happend to the Quarian Ark... In a 30$/30€ DLC...
- Anonymous8 years ago@ketxxx "As a point of interest for some perhaps I thought I would do a summary of what I think about the characters. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts." There's not really much to add. You got very good points on every single character. In ME123, the characters were likeable. Yeah, somehow it was easy to fall in love with them. Garrus, Tali, Kasumi... They were all great written characters, but the MEA characters are ALL meh, INCLUDING Fem/Male Ryder. I MISS SHEPARD! Well, I play the game in German, so I don't really know what Alec Ryder sounds like in English, but in German he's also one of the better voice acting works and you are right, he's the most interesting character, even if I think he's not very likeable. 🙂 But of course much better than, boring Jaal. The Angara as a species are boring as hell and their design is... I don't have words for them... Cora... I think she should be a substitute for Miranda with a bit of a mix of Ashley, but again, her character isn't very well written. Same goes for Peebee. She is more than stressful. Liam, I have to say, I like the most of all the squad members. He has a cool voice (in german) and I don't know, I like him. And Drack is somehow very cool and this means a lot, because I usually dislike Krogans. Oh and another prove of BioWares laziness is how Ryder's dancing. Exactly the same damn animation as Shepards animation?! Really, BioWare? You didn't had the time to create a new animation for the dance? I can't say enough how massively dissapointed I am by this game!
- Anonymous8 years agoBioWare, PLEASE get rid of SAM! This nerve wrecking voice is TERROR for my ears. Bring back EDI, or create something like EDIs sister or whatever, but kill off SAM.
- 8 years ago
@JeRabo81, Sadly, I think you are right.. despite Bioware and EA doing absolutely nothing to deserve even a penny more from anyone who has bought MEA. Any DLC for MEA should straight up be a "We're Sorry". Go to youtube if you can't hear English Liam in your game you will soon see why I simply left it at "kill him". He is the most whiny incompetent fool with a irritating voice to boot. I REALLY didn't like Jacob because of his kind of whiny nature but he was nowhere near as bad as Liam. I don't like how you are put in the position of Bioware trying to force Liam on to the player as their "best bud" either. I was seriously hoping Liam would get spaced during "that mission". :D
SAM is also the most dull character I have ever had to endure in a game, if Bioware wanted SAM to kind of resemble Alec ok I get that, but to get it to work and be organic Alec needed to be kept around I can even imagine some quite funny moments between SAM and Alec as SAM becomes more "organic" working on his humor by trying to tell Alec a joke. Without Alec SAM is just a irritating voice you can't mute.
@nerdsrus45, If you happen to see Bioware respond to what you posted with this link on twitter let us know it would be interesting to see what they say.
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