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Rinkles posted:I think this just means they don't normally release games during this quarter. the article is almost bizarrely, obliviously optimistic - me:a was still a franchise low on a game with like 5 years of overhead in development costs that also tanked more than one reputation with its poor reception, but yes on the quarter it was actually released it will still increase company revenues because ~3 million customers buying a game at varying discounts (with EA later gutting the bioware team that made it) is still more profitable to EA than what the situation was like on the financial report the year before, with me:a then still stuck in development hell and consuming money rather than producing it, and that's the difference you notice comparing year to year reports without context
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Clawtopsy posted:tbf if you couldnt see the writing on the wall with dragon age inquisition, i dont know what to tell you The open world stuff was not a good sign. Bioware's made their name on engaging stories and characters, not freeform exploration and activity.
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Cythereal posted:The open world stuff was not a good sign. Bioware's made their name on engaging stories and characters, not freeform exploration and activity. At very least, Inquisition had some interesting lore and worldbuilding to keep you engaged in the open world Andromeda basically did not even try
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Pattonesque posted:At very least, Inquisition had some interesting lore and worldbuilding to keep you engaged in the open world Not really
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Inquisition had you explore a world with history, landmarks, ruins, statues, hidden castles, etc. Andromeda had you explore a series of worlds with nothing on them except, "ah, bad guys live here/there are some robot pillars here identical to the robot pillars in all the other places". The textural storytelling that made tooling around in an open world fun (or for some, just bearable) wasn't there because that's a terrible foundation to build it on. Also maybe why Kadara is probably the best open world planet, in that it has some fingerprint of habitation and history on it and isn't filled with a bunch of empty sprawl.
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Clawtopsy posted:tbf if you couldnt see the writing on the wall with dragon age inquisition, i dont know what to tell you Dainq wasn't too bad except for *picks herb*  as well as massive maps that were thinly populated with important poo poo.
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Yeah Inquisition had enough good that a lot of folks could tolerate its issues (mostly that it had way too much filler and fetch quests) while Andromeda was 70% filler and the rest wasn't good enough to sustain it.
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exquisite tea posted:The bottom line is that EA doesn't care if Andromeda tarnished the Mass Effect franchise, for their shareholders it was a profit, even moreso because then they had cause to shutter Bioware Montreal for good. They'll try the same thing again in a few years and everyone will probably forget as soon as they see that $200 collector's edition with the krogan plushie. Was it a profit ? What was the production and marketing budget ?
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DAINQ was like... 80% gametime spent collecting bear asses for what were basically radiant quests. Unlike Skyrim, where I can safely ignore idiot villager's pleas, BioWare keep doing that thing where they punish you in later games if you miss a particular side quest. Seriously, the memorable parts of DA:I don't make up a huge amount. The gameplay was dull, and the character stuff was pretty much bad-VN tier. Blackwall was good. That's about it.
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Oct 15, 2017 21:33
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Inquisition was fun despite all the open world stuff, it didn't make anything better
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Oct 15, 2017 21:34
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Oct 16, 2017 12:51
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After pre-ordering both Fallout 4 and Andromeda, I shall never pre-order a game ever again
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Rinkles posted:Woah, thread rating no longer poop brown People still rate threads? Mind blown. Moola posted:Dragon Age Inquisition was dainq AF Pronounced "Daynk-aff." Those wacky Millennials! They are extra fire.
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Bitter fly posted:After pre-ordering both Fallout 4 and Andromeda, I shall never pre-order a game ever again Its always fun to see people's "Don't touch the Stove" moment. I got sucked into a Alien Colonel Marines even at a dirt cheap price. After that......never again.
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why did the Quarian cross the road? to get away from Mass Effect Andromeda
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All the Quarians in the galaxy being canonically dead thanks to a catastrophic badgame malfunction is my favorite outcome of Mass Effect Andromeda.
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exquisite tea posted:All the Quarians in the galaxy being canonically dead thanks to a catastrophic badgame malfunction is my favorite outcome of Mass Effect Andromeda. Also the volus, drell, hanar, and elcor which were coming on the quarian ark. You can get the hanar and drell rendered extinct in the Milky Way in a sidequest in 3.
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Bitter fly posted:After pre-ordering both Fallout 4 and Andromeda, I shall never pre-order a game ever again My last two pre-orders were XCOM 2: WotC, and Shadow of War, I have no regerts. On the other hand my last two impulse buys were Andromeda and Revolution: Homefront, so I should just not impuse buy games ever again.
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Knock knock
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Moola posted:Knock knock Due to poor critical reception, no further content updates to this joke are planned at this time
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drat that's better than what I had
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Clawtopsy posted:tbf if you couldnt see the writing on the wall with dragon age inquisition, i dont know what to tell you Lol that Bioware started chasing the MMO dragon years after the getting was good, and with a couple of single player RPG franchises no less. In 2023 when we get mass effect 5, we’ll be grinding for party member shards.
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im cute posted:Lol that Bioware started chasing the MMO dragon years after the getting was good, and with a couple of single player RPG franchises no less. In 2023 when we get mass effect 5, we’ll be grinding for party member shards. I don't even think we will get Mass Effect 5 in 2023. Just a remake of Mass Effect 1 with some how a stupider story and less interesting characters.
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Mokinokaro posted:Yeah Inquisition had enough good that a lot of folks could tolerate its issues (mostly that it had way too much filler and fetch quests) while Andromeda was 70% filler and the rest wasn't good enough to sustain it. DA:I was alright. I stopped playing once I killed the demon army because it turned out reading the lore on the wiki page was a lot easier than dragging my group's whiny rear end to fight Lameass McFuckWizard a fifth time. DA:I is also the first game that I purposely ignored some of the companions or didn't recruit them my second playthrough (Vivian and greasy elf face). The major failing of that game was that Corypheus just kinda. . . sucked? Like I kicked his rear end over and over after Haven to the point that it was just silly.
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BexGu posted:I don't even think we will get Mass Effect 5 in 2023. Just a remake of Mass Effect 1 with some how a stupider story and less interesting characters. Don't forget the half assed graphics!
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It’s worth it to play Inquisition now that you know none of the decisions you make have any future payoff/penalty. And also because it’s cheap now.
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Iron Crowned posted:Don't forget the half assed graphics! Mass Effect 1 is another in a long line of really good games with bullshit grafics
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I guess Bioware is pretty much The Anthem Developer now and if that performs below expectations then it's hella RIP for everything else.
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Admiral Ray posted:DA:I is also the first game that I purposely ignored some of the companions or didn't recruit them my second playthrough (Vivian and greasy elf face). Same. Navigating Skyhold to find them every time didn't help. Cole is the only BW character I gave up on after the first conversation.
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Rinkles posted:Same. Navigating Skyhold to find them every time didn't help. I think after finding out her quest sucks and she won’t get her tits out, I gave up on redundant mage/knight enchanter lady. Her “slavery is actually cool” stance did not help.
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exquisite tea posted:I guess Bioware is pretty much The Anthem Developer now and if that performs below expectations then it's hella RIP for everything else. What an excellent use of a developer known for its existing beloved franchises with rabid fanbases
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Casey "FRANCHISE KILLER" Hudson
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Kurtofan posted:visceral games is loving dead That Star Wars game was probably going to be a decent romp. Poor Amy Henning,
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Kurtofan posted:visceral games is loving dead Time to update the cartoon
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Does EA know that they actually have to make games to get people interested in their monthly game subscription service?
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