trash person posted:

I sure as poo poo hope this sells well enough to get a sequel.

Who the gently caress am I kidding it'll get a sequel regardless, name has too much recognition

exquisite tea posted:

I'm about 12 hours into not playing Mass Effect: Andromeda and it's been pretty fun so far.

RatHat posted:

How exactly how Power Recharge scale to power cooldowns? You can get 110% for Biotic Charge just from the upgrade tree so it can't be 1:1.

CottonWolf posted:

I think you might be surprised. Mac Walters might finally have succeeded in his deep cover mission to kill Mass Effect dead.

He was shocked to see it survive the bullet he put in the back of its skull with the ME3 ending, but like the pro he is, he doesn't leave a hit unfinished.

Arglebargle III posted:

JawKnee posted:

they aren't the same?

Number Ten Cocks posted:

Candy floss is what your mom's underwear are made of when she's working.

Number Ten Cocks posted:

Candy floss is what your mom's underwear are made of when she's working.

JawKnee posted:

this game sounds like the equivalent of a constant diet of candy floss

exquisite tea posted:

Mass Effect: Andromeda was all one long con designed to make us all better appreciate the thought-provoking storyline of ME3.

exquisite tea posted:

I'm about 12 hours into not playing Mass Effect: Andromeda and it's been pretty fun so far.

YA BOY ETHAN COUCH posted:

"not being able to control my AI players every single movement is absolutely ridiculous and I'm real mad" exclaims insufferable guy who wants to micromanage everything

exquisite tea posted:

I'm about 12 hours into not playing Mass Effect: Andromeda and it's been pretty fun so far.

Gyshall posted:

should have made a shepard clone or ~~~~ alternate space timeline string theory~~~~, so far Ryder is underwhelming as a protagonist and the dialogue system is somehow a major step back from the Paragon/Renegade system

SubponticatePoster posted:

How are the graphics?

exquisite tea posted:

I can definitely understand people's gripes with the character creator, after playing around with some modifiers in the mirror for 30 minutes I still couldn't make myself look like anything other than a poorly animated, pasty loser.

LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:

According to this thread, yes. Keep in mind, it looks like the majority of the people posting here haven't actually played it themselves, so at this point MEA to this thread is like some kind of mythological hydra or something, when it was really just an iguana a thousand pages ago.

The game to them is just to shitpost, so godspeed I guess. I'd recommend Nier instead, and I heard botw is good, but if shitposting is your need then who are we to stop you?

YA BOY ETHAN COUCH posted:

"not being able to control my AI players every single movement is absolutely ridiculous and I'm real mad" exclaims insufferable guy who wants to micromanage everything

exquisite tea posted:

I'm about 12 hours into not playing Mass Effect: Andromeda and it's been pretty fun so far.

exquisite tea posted:

I can definitely understand people's gripes with the character creator, after playing around with some modifiers in the mirror for 30 minutes I still couldn't make myself look like anything other than a poorly animated, pasty loser.

YA BOY ETHAN COUCH posted:

"not being able to control my AI players every single movement is absolutely ridiculous and I'm real mad" exclaims insufferable guy who wants to micromanage everything

Clawtopsy posted:

my favorite SJWS!!!!!!!!!! complaint ive seen so far is "SJW agenda, why would you send a TRANS on a COLONY MISSION because they CAN'T BREED!!!!!!!!!"

in a game setting with asari

Rinkles posted:

Turn on your monitor. (Had to)

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.

TEENAGE WITCH posted:

so who the voice actor from the originl series that giant bomb said was coming back 4 this mass effect game?

Lumpy the Cook posted:

Number Ten Cocks posted:

How much awkward sex have you had.

JawKnee posted:

nah, that opinion is based on the reviews I've read or watched - most common theme is 'world looks pretty and well designed, characters are not up to scratch and neither is the plot'

LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:

My dude, my only point is that the circlejerking in this thread makes people truly believe that this game is Hitler in video game form. Whether the game is good or not is a side issue when it comes to this thread.

DoctorGonzo posted:

you and the other retard cam are the only ones circle jerking around here, pal

Lumpy the Cook posted:

LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:

My dude, my only point is that the circlejerking in this thread makes people truly believe that this game is Hitler in video game form. Whether the game is good or not is a side issue when it comes to this thread.