Will Mass Effect Legendary fix the ME3 male / female run animation?

In ME2, the player's run animation looks just fine. But, curiously, in ME3, the animation is an abomination not fit to exist in any game, let alone a supposed AAA title from one of the, at the time, most popular developers.

https://youtu.be/Ye0Rl16elKo

So, will it be fixed in the remaster?

That a third-person, supposed AAA game released for a most anticipated series made by a then top-tier developer looked like that is inexplicable, and also inexcusable.

It blows my mind that that main player-character run animation made it into a AAA game that likely hundreds of people worked on for years, and that people involved in the project didn't think it wouldn't be OK to have people staring at that 30+ hours, like a stink that never leaves and so characterizes the experience. I think it defies all logic that it was possible to happen, even as a concept.

Is ME3 supposed to be a comedy? Because that's what it feels like with that run animation. It's like the devs are playing a joke and going 'you thought this was a serious game, right? Well, we got you good!'. So, I need to know if the ME3 run animation still looks like Benny Hill music is supposed to be playing whenever it shows.

https://youtu.be/MK6TXMsvgQg

Personally, I liked the ending of ME3. But you know what? I think it's likely that people wouldn't have complained about the ending of ME3 nearly as much if they hadn't just spent 40 hours looking at that run animation. There is only so much offence that a person can take before they stop excusing things.

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13 Replies

mcsupersport
Hero+
5 years ago
I HOPE they fixed the run animation.

But, the original ending before the update to it, was pretty horrible, and even after it is bad on many levels. So no, the run animation wouldn't have saved the ending hubbub if it was better, but it didn't help either.

And no, I really don't want to get into all the reasons it was bad....but to me, yeah, bad.
Turbo_Nozomix
Seasoned Scout
5 years ago
And it wasn't fixed.
EA, this needs to be fixed. It's atrocious and it is the proverbial "* in the punchbowl". Please address it in a patch.
Getting to play ME3 with a sane run animation that didn't destroy the ability to enjoy the game was something I was really looking forward to. And how could that abomination of a run-animation not be fixed in the remaster? It's a no-brainer.
So, how is it conceivable that it wasn't fixed in the remaster?
holger1405
Hero+
5 years ago
@Turbo_Nozomix

Turbo_Nozomix wrote:

So, how is it conceivable that it wasn't fixed in the remaster?

Because it is a Remaster and not a Remake.
Turbo_Nozomix
Seasoned Scout
5 years ago
@holger1405
That doesn't do much to explain it. Textures are replaced, lighting is redone, effects have been added, UIs have been redone, some parts of maps have been adjusted (if I recall correctly), some models are redone... replacing an abysmal animation with one that isn't abysmal would fit right in with the other changes of the remaster, and would be more effective at improving the quality and experience of the product than most of the other changes.
holger1405
Hero+
5 years ago
@Turbo_Nozomix

I don't find the animation pretty, but it never bothered me in the slightest and I doubt that many other people are really bothered by it.

The point is that Bioware made very clear that it would be a Remaster, not a Remake.

Changing an animation is something that would require additional testing. It is not something you just do and hope that it works in every part of the game, other things are influenced by it.

So Remaster = upgrading the quality of the the imaging, not changing the content.
Turbo_Nozomix
Seasoned Scout
5 years ago
@holger1405 An animation is matter of visual quality, too. And as I noted in my previous comment, other such content was changed in this remaster: Models, some map layouts... also, changing how the Mako controls, and other stuff, I'm sure.
This remaster has addressed things at the level of what I've mentioned. And it would not at all be out of place for the horrible ME3 run animation to also be addressed among the other things that were changed.
holger1405
Hero+
5 years ago
@Turbo_Nozomix

Be that as it may, Bioware decided not to change that and because they did not changed it in the original release I think the chances that they will patch it are pretty much zero.
Turbo_Nozomix
Seasoned Scout
5 years ago
@holger1405 Well, I'm not betting on what they will or won't do. I'm just pointing-out that it's really bad and it should've been addressed in the remaster, and I ask them to address it in a patch.
N7NYj
5 years ago
The run animation has always been bad since ME1. In 1, it looks like you’ve just pooped your pants.
Fred_vdp
Hero+
5 years ago
@holger1405 wrote:

@Turbo_Nozomix

I don't find the animation pretty, but it never bothered me in the slightest and I doubt that many other people are really bothered by it.

The animation quality was a major cause of drama on the BioWare forums back when the ME3 demo released. There were meme videos that rivaled the Andromeda backlash (the first video in the OP being one of them). This thread is giving me Vietnam flashbacks to that time.

People did kind of forget about all that very quickly when the full game came out and they got to play the subsequent missions. Then it became clear that the running animation was made with full armor in mind, and it doesn't look as silly after that first mission (even if the animations overall are kinda not great).