9 Most Controversial Video Game Moments Of 2017

2. Mass Effect: Andromeda's Janky Animations And Laughable Dialogue

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What's to be said that hasn't already been parroted ad nauseam over the last nine months? In its launch state, Mass Effect: Andromeda's animations were bad. Not, 'Oh, these are a slight downgrade on Mass Effect 3's five-year-old efforts' bad, but honestly, truly, bewilderingly awful.

That BioWare's space epic caught so much flak for its putty-faced, googly-eyed NPCs - and the apparent Periodic Limb Movement Disorder plaguing inhabitants of the Milky Way's neighbor - where others perhaps wouldn't, is indicative of the level of quality that's come to be expected of a triple-A developer, not least one befitting the reputation of BioWare.

Had the troubles ended there, maybe, just maybe, BioWare could have escaped scrutiny, but nobody was going to forgive or forget Andromeda's laughable grade-school dialogue, voice acted with the charisma of a B-Movie actor.

In the words of Kallo: Kill. Me. Now.

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Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.