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Game officially dead: https://www.masseffect.com/news/mass-effect-andromeda-update-from-the-studio
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That Quarian ark DLC hook hanging there is now even sadder, because before it was clumsy and cheap, but now it's clumsy, cheap, and somehow overambitious.
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Aug 19, 2017 23:22
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Aug 19, 2017 23:27
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It would have bee brilliant, like Trespasser. Oh well. 
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Aug 19, 2017 23:27
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Oh well. I feel Andromeda is at worst a merely average game with a godawful UI, certainly not worthy of seemingly killing the franchise until EA reboots it in ten or fifteen years.
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Aug 19, 2017 23:43
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Not unlike gaming food, MEA ends its time with us a runny pile of regrets and disappointment.
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Aug 19, 2017 23:45
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:It would have bee brilliant, like Trespasser. I was going to make a Jurassic Park: Trespasser joke, but then I realized even that was more effort than Andromeda deserved. At least Trespasser was interesting in its utter failure.
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Aug 19, 2017 23:46
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It's a shame. Andromeda had a laundry list of problems and wasn't that great a game, but they set some seeds for the future that I was interested to see if they could turn it around with a sequel or some really good DLC, but the gaming world is harsh, and with how bad the launch was, it never had a shot. Now I guess all that remains is to see what the resurrection of the franchise will inevitably be.
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Aug 20, 2017 00:00
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but they never gave the Asari more than one face model, did they?
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Aug 20, 2017 00:01
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Rinkles posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but they never gave the Asari more than one face model, did they? Nope. There's Peebee and then every other asari has the same face.
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Aug 20, 2017 00:04
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Pretty proud, yeah. My list of achievements now reads:
Rinkles posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but they never gave the Asari more than one face model, did they? Nope.
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Aug 20, 2017 00:05
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We did it, everyone.
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Aug 20, 2017 00:06
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Cythereal posted:Nope. There's Peebee and then every other asari has the same face. Matriarch Aethyta in ME2 changes face models the drunker you get, so she has as many face models as every asari in MEA
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Aug 20, 2017 00:19
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people harp on prerelease gifs of lovely animations killing Andromeda but what really killed it is that it is a boring game devoid of any interesting ideas or consequences they saw fans liked being best friends with their squadmates in previous ME and DA games so now you have to be best friends with your MEA squadmates (at worst you're a best friend who goes "oh, you!" sometimes), and none of them can die
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Aug 20, 2017 00:22
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Compare Horizon which was the laughing stock du jour when preview footage of its dialog hit the web. Made a lot of people skeptical, but the game proved itself worthy.
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Aug 20, 2017 00:29
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Rinkles posted:Compare Horizon which was the laughing stock du jour when preview footage of its dialog hit the web. Made a lot of people skeptical, but the game proved itself worthy. That was like, half a dozen goons for a day before early reviews came out. Everything else about Horizon suggested it was going to be a mega hit.
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Aug 20, 2017 00:34
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It was never to the scale of Andromeda, but no it wasn't relegated to SA.
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Aug 20, 2017 00:36
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mass effect Andromeda is gonna have a bigger impact on the industry than the original trilogy since big game companies are gonna hire people to make sure they get hype memes for the aesthetic of upcoming games for forever now, tbh
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Aug 20, 2017 00:43
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Montreal is becoming the place where they send franchises to die. First Mankind Divided and now this.
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TEENAGE WITCH posted:mass effect Andromeda is gonna have a bigger impact on the industry than the original trilogy since big game companies are gonna hire people to make sure they get hype memes for the aesthetic of upcoming games for forever now, tbh 1. Develop and release game in desperately amateurish state. 2. Invent $90 and $120 super hype deluxe preorders for increasingly nervous fanboys to spent their money on. 3. Convince them that throwing more money at Andromeda will really piss off the haters pointing out totally rational facts, such as "the game looks bad." 4. Reap day one profits before reviews and word of mouth can slow its roll, shutter studio and flee the scene of the crime. It's a game development model for the 21st century.
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Aug 20, 2017 00:49
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Pattonesque posted:people harp on prerelease gifs of lovely animations killing Andromeda but what really killed it is that it is a boring game devoid of any interesting ideas or consequences This is it. Andromeda is cargo cult Mass Effect set in a boring setting with empty open worlds and copy/paste dungeons. It's all tedious busywork strung together with half-assed writing on every level.
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Aug 20, 2017 00:50
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It's interesting to see the people who laughed at the bad game being blamed for the death of the franchise, instead of the studio that made the bad game in the first place.
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Aug 20, 2017 01:02
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Dr. Abysmal posted:It's interesting to see the people who laughed at the bad game being blamed for the death of the franchise, instead of the studio that made the bad game in the first place. I mean you could make an argument that BioWare games have a target on their back due to mad gamer dudes being sad that gay people exist but if the game was any good it wouldn't have mattered
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Pattonesque posted:I mean you could make an argument that BioWare games have a target on their back due to mad gamer dudes being sad that gay people exist but if the game was any good it wouldn't have mattered You could also point out that Andromeda had a target on its back because ME3... Look. I actually like ME3. I think it's a good game, on average, and with the revised ending, it's a decent enough way to close out the series. But there's two things. 1) It still hosed up six ways from Sunday a lot of the time. The opening was terrible, there's a lot of awkward in the middle (Kai Leng is the obvious punching bag, but he's not the only problem) and the original ending was pretty much insulting. 2) And even to the extent ME3 was good and/or satisfying it ended things. The whole series was wrapped up with a bow, every major conflict was dealt with one way or another, and Shepard's story ended in death, apotheosis, or somehow surviving being at ground zero for the citadel exploding. There's not much left to hook players in. And Andromeda did nothing to fix the problem. It's not impossible to make a good sequel to something like that, but it's a drat sight harder. Meant people were more prepared to notice Andromeda's flaws.
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Pattonesque posted:I mean you could make an argument that BioWare games have a target on their back due to mad gamer dudes being sad that gay people exist but if the game was any good it wouldn't have mattered It's important not to overestimate the power or prevalence of these pieces of poo poo. GamerGate and everything like it was a very vocal minority that was openly rejected by anyone of any significance and most "gamers" didn't give a poo poo about it. A certain crowd have been whining about the gays in BW games since...at least Dragon Age 2 so far as I know. But they are hardly a force worth fearing. They deserve all the scorn and contempt in the world but did they sink ME:A? Did the people who actually think BioWare actively tried to make the female characters look ugly amount to anything? Absolutely not. ME:A stank because of its own merits and because of ME3's toxic reputation. (and I agree with chiasaur11 that ME3 was actaully decent. I'd sooner play it again than ME1. Also dat music.)
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Aug 20, 2017 02:01
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Seems like this game was bad.
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Aug 20, 2017 02:17
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NikkolasKing posted:It's important not to overestimate the power or prevalence of these pieces of poo poo. GamerGate and everything like it was a very vocal minority that was openly rejected by anyone of any significance and most "gamers" didn't give a poo poo about it. the gently caress are you talking about? also EA/bioware ballot stuffed their own "we're against homophobia" thing on their site with bots. it was a very good look, for them.
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Aug 20, 2017 02:23
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NikkolasKing posted:It's important not to overestimate the power or prevalence of these pieces of poo poo. GamerGate and everything like it was a very vocal minority that was openly rejected by anyone of any significance and most "gamers" didn't give a poo poo about it. I'm never entirely certain how much influence to ascribe to these folks because while there's not that many of them they're so active that they tend to drive a higher percentage of the discourse than you'd think given their numbers so if you're some normie wondering "hey is X a good game" and X is a game the crazies have decided they don't like (whether correctly or incorrectly) you're gonna see the tanking metacritic fan rating and maybe have some second thoughts
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Aug 20, 2017 02:31
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I'm glad that the quarians got owned one final time by BioWare baking in a bunch of DLC and sequel hooks that will never come to fruition now.
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Pattonesque posted:Game officially dead: Came here to post this. exquisite tea posted:We did it, everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xButjfhZWVU
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Aug 20, 2017 02:47
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Turns out the dish full of mass effect was at the back of the fridge behind a 10 kilogram block of cheese this whole time forgotten about and it's since gone off. I mean you could try to scrape some of the mold off but I'm not sure the meat is good for anything. *takes a sniff* Oh god no. This is terrible. Very bad. Let's throw this out immediately. *tosses franchise into rubbish bin with old coffee grounds*
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Aug 20, 2017 03:16
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I'm Pathfinder Ryder and this is my favorite game in the discount bin.
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Pattonesque posted:people harp on prerelease gifs of lovely animations killing Andromeda but what really killed it is that it is a boring game devoid of any interesting ideas or consequences Beating the prerelease gifs into the ground didn't exactly help, though. Oh well.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Beating the prerelease gifs into the ground didn't exactly help, though. well sure but if the game was a good game it would have been a blip
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Cythereal posted:Oh well. I feel Andromeda is at worst a merely average game with a godawful UI, certainly not worthy of seemingly killing the franchise until EA reboots it in ten or fifteen years. See I thought this too and then I fired up The Witcher 2 and I realized that sinking hours into Andromeda had just hosed up my barometer and I had forgotten what it felt like to play a good game. I never looked back.
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Aug 20, 2017 05:31
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Remember to brush your teeth gamers.
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Aug 20, 2017 05:42
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"They did NOT say that this will be the final game, we need to take that for what we can, I refuse to believe they would explicitly say they are done with the single player updates but not with the games." Thanks random bioware fan living in denial.
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Aug 20, 2017 11:33
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DancingShade posted:"They did NOT say that this will be the final game, we need to take that for what we can, I refuse to believe they would explicitly say they are done with the single player updates but not with the games." Of course they're not done with the games. They have no further plans but at some point in the future someone will say "hey you know what was a really good and popular franchise? Mass Effect! Let's make another one!" Because the Free Market Dictates Things That Were Popular must be driven into the ground at least 5 times before they die for good.
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Sky Shadowing posted:Of course they're not done with the games. Remember when they made a lovely new mirror's edge after that other lovely mirror's edge?
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Arglebargle III posted:Remember to brush your teeth gamers. Yes! Take care of your teeth and mouth-flesh! It is very important!
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