Berious posted:

Remember when RPS said the game wasn't good and the internet wrote paragraphs about how they are wrong and the game will be good? I bet the internet is feeling silly now!

Bardeh posted:

Nazzadan posted:

I would pay good money for the San Andreas crew to replace the Andromeda crew.

cams posted:

remeber when people cared about video game reviews and spent lots of their time talking about whether or not a video game is good on the internet

i bet those people have no self awareness and are human garbage now!

Bossie Lott posted:

Jaal and his whole species are one of the best examples of the lack of talent and skill evident in this game. Like, I'm sure development has been poo poo and rushed and hellish, but there's still a lack of honest talent at work in so much of this game, it's visuals and aesthetics especially. Most of the good stuff is just recycled from the original trilogy but these new alien designs, enemies included, are just so incredibly poor. While you could always criticise Mass Effect for being a little bit unimaginative with their alien designs considering the medium and how it essentially allows you to make whatever you want instead of bipedal humanoid, designs like the Salarians, the Krogan, the Turians especially and even the Volus are all great. There is nothing good or redeeming about Jaal and his species, they look like complete poo poo. The Kett are not much better either.

MadBimber posted:

lmfao jesus christ

DrNutt posted:

So how in the gently caress do you equip weapons and armor? I picked up a couple things but the game refuses to let me change anything I have equipped.

Admiral Ray posted:

All you had to do was find the drat path, Ryder!

Zzulu posted:

Impressions on femryder or boyryder? Which one to pick??

Michaellaneous posted:

Replace the OP with a collection of all the funny gifs and videos and nothing else.

Rookersh posted:

Bioware doesn't exist anymore.

DA:O was a surprise success that took 6ish years to make and almost everyone working at Bioware to put out the door. EA had no faith in it, and suddenly it was one of their top selling franchises. So they did what EA does to highly successful franchises, and asked Bioware to make another one. Except for this new one, they wanted it started and finished in under a year, as they had a dream of an annual RPG franchise. Mind you that's hard enough to pull off for FPS games which are relatively simple to make with multiple teams. Bioware was expected to put together a full length AAA RPG in 6-7 months while also putting out the last of the DA:O DLC.

This killed the company. Huge swathes of people up and quit. They couldn't handle the stress. They couldn't handle what they were expected to do. Every single major program director and creative lead left the company during this year period where they were developing DA2. Go look at LinkedIn profiles for the major people that worked on DA:O, and more then half of them suddenly leave Bioware in 2010. The combat director quit and wasn't replaced for months, so they had no real lead directing what the combat should have been during that period. Major story beats and combat ideas got forced into the game in the final months of 2010 not because they were good, but because the game needed to ship in a few months and it needed to get out the door. To help the DA team actually finish DA2 in a somewhat annual fashion, they drew most of the ME2 team off ME, throwing them into this grinder as well.

By the time DA2 launched, around half if not more of the original "Bioware" was gone. Go through the credits of DA:O, ME1, or ME2 and start LinkedIning people, none of them work for Bioware anymore. Most left between 2010 and 2012.

It's been a pretty steady drain since then. Compare the credits list of Inquisition to the credits list of DA:O or DA2. It's almost an entirely new team, and it's a team that Bioware specifically hired to replace the losses from DA2. It's why so many styles have changed since then, why the gameplay changed so steadily, and why they chose to try so many new things. Because Inquisition wasn't made by the DA:O team trying their hand at open world game design. It was maybe 1/6th of the guys that even touched DA:O/DA2 suddenly getting an influx of new blood, most of it Bioware fans finally getting a chance to work for the company they loved, that had great new ideas for what they wanted out of future Bioware games.

It's the same for the ME team. The brain drain has been bad, and the development of Andromeda has apparently picked off massive chunks of the team. The lead writer of the group was the lead writer for Halo 4, and he apparently clashed with a lot of the senior writers/main writers of previous ME games. A whole bunch of goon favorite ME writers have quit the company, and on various development forums have mentioned it was due to creative differences with the former lead writer. Gameplay leads have been leaving the ME/Bioware teams at a pretty steady pace since the game was developed as well. The story had to be picked up mid completion as the lead writer got forced out/quit and replaced, which likely doesn't mean great things for the narrative ( which we are also seeing here. ). Andromeda has currently had the great slow drip of Bioware talent since the dark days of 2010 when DA2 "killed" the company. They've been forced to cycle talent multiple times during the development of Andromeda, not just in management ( which has seen multiple complete turnovers ), but also among the rank and file people working on the game.

This isn't to say Andromeda can't be great, or that it won't live up to the hype. I'm personally hoping it does because I need something to play right now. But if it's good, it'll be good on it's own merits and it's own merits alone, rather then because "it's a Bioware game, I like Bioware!". Because Bioware doesn't exist anymore, it's a completely new entity and needs to be treated as such. People really need to be viewing this as "EA'S NEW ACQUISITION, BIOWARE VICTORY'S FIRST RPG. HOPE IT'S GOOD." rather then "Bioware always makes quality. I know what I'll get here.". As it is right now, EA is propping up Bioware's corpse with a new studio and hoping people don't notice while they keep using it as their RPG house.

cams posted:

remeber when people cared about video game reviews and spent lots of their time talking about whether or not a video game is good on the internet

i bet those people have no self awareness and are human garbage now!

Nazzadan posted:

UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND
UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND
UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND
THE AN DRO ME DA

Abroham Lincoln posted:

Like this, like that?



I DON'T LIKE IT, NOT AT ALL!

AwkwardKnob posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA07hLF-3tE

I am no longer angry about this game being a hot turd upon release because this poo poo is so loving funny that it's now entirely worth it.

Michaellaneous posted:

This but unironically.

Berious posted:

Bioware are pushing the boundaries with the first AAA anal scene

cams posted:

there is nothing ironic about my thinking people who get in opinion fights about toys on the internet are human garbage

FunkMonkey posted:

PATCH NOTES:

- Fixed glitch: game released for consumer use.

cams posted:

there is nothing ironic about my thinking people who get in opinion fights about toys on the internet are human garbage

Abroham Lincoln posted:

Michaellaneous posted:

Replace the OP with a collection of all the funny gifs and videos and nothing else.

Berious posted:

Bioware are pushing the boundaries with the first AAA anal scene

Zzulu posted:

aint gonna comment on story or characters yet but the bitching about animations has so far been completely ridiculous from what I've seen of the game. They're easily on par with any other Mass Effect and in many cases better.

Teron D Amun posted:

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DoctorGonzo posted:

FunkMonkey posted:

You were making death threats against people who revived teammates in the For Honor thread Cams, come on. You wrote that massive post arguing against the guy who believed gear score wasn't a big deal to him.

Teron D Amun posted:

cams posted:

remeber when people cared about video game reviews and spent lots of their time talking about whether or not a video game is good on the internet

i bet those people have no self awareness and are human garbage now!

Lobok posted:

Can I romance Pingu?