PSA: as I’m sure we all know, but maybe sometimes need a reminder; friends don’t let friends preorder videogames.
It’ll be a lot more fun to play about a month after launch when they’ve fixed the garbage that got rushed in to meet the shareholder deadline. Let some other mark pay them to beta test the launch release.
Talk for yourself. For example, I’m forever grateful to the
suckerstrusting souls that effectively paid to alpha test Cyberpunk 2077 and gave enough money to CD Project Red to fix it before I played it.
Yeah, we’ll see.
I’d have thought that after Andromeda bombed they’d try something else. The reason I like ME in the first place is that there was nothing like it at that scale.
Yeah ok sure 🙄
Dreadwolf is still MIA and if that is the same quality as Anthem, there might be an ME5, but it won’t be BioWare making it.
wait was there a 4?
Andromeda, I guess
iirc andromeda is set in like, a whole other timeline no?
Galaxy, actually. But it did feel like a particularly bad spin off.
Sure, but it was called ‘Mass Effect: Andromeda’ so the numbering makes sense.
I think of it a bit like Fast and furious Tokyo Drift which is a spin-off but is consideresd as Fast 3
What I’d love to see in a new ME is a more loose approach to the player character. Shepherd’s story is over, one way or another. It would be cool to do something more sandboxed like Dragon Age Origins, and in a perfect world they would let you choose your PC’s species from the classic ME races. It would be neat to play as a Salarian or Quarian for a change, and getting to see how that would affect the storytelling.
I played Andromeda about a year ago and absolutely loved it. I went in with low expectations and was thoroughly proven wrong. I’ve loved all the mass effect games but I think I liked Andromeda most, which people seem to get angry about when I say it.
Well, I’m guessing you’re playing the patched and updated version, not the buggy mess that it launched as.
It’s probably the fact that the writing was god awful. The gameplay was OK if repetitive, but Mass Effect with bad writing is just Binary Domain.
I think people were too hard on Andromeda. It was pretty good!
Truly, if ever there was a face of stupid…
Bought it for Xbox One and was disappointed, never got into it. Last year got a new gaming PC and picked it up on sale and playing it in 4k on high and the graphics are sick and now that I’ve figured out the combat I like it a lot. There’s lots to love about the game, but the story just isn’t great, doesn’t really suck me in that much.
Yeah, I like it to. I think they did a good job with the characters for the most part. I’m still hoping we’ll see more of Ryder and the rest of the crew.
Please don’t continue to beat this dead horse. What made Mass Effect great was Drew Karpyshyn’s ideas and world building, a solid cast of characters, along with a lot of superb visual design. Mass Effect had such an interesting, detailed, lived-in universe. The quality of writing in the games after the first is perfectly proportional to the amount of Drew Karpyshyn’s involvement, and it sharply declines after the first. A fifth game made purely out of a corporate desire for profit and not to tell a story is unlikely to yield better results, in my mind - see Mass Effect: Andromeda for evidence on that.
Yep, that’s why I’m looking forward to Drew’s new game Exodus instead of this. But hey, maybe both are good, there’s Room for more than one action sci-fi RPG.
Idk, i think having literally no one that has ever worked at bioware would be much more reassuring.
