Game’s not even out yet and the damage control is already in full effect.>”I swear our team isn’t gonna fuck up Mass Effect like those idiots fucked up Dragon Age!”
>>693316020>"as long as I'm running it"Well, we can be sure he won't be running it shortly
mass effect was never good
>>693316842I bought the first one after everyone saying it was Bioware back on their KOTOR greatness and I remember being so disappointed. I slogged though to the end and had no interest in playing anything else in the series or replaying it
Will you ever apologize?
>>693316020What makes a Turian more photorealistic than a Qunari?
>>693317481The ME3 ending is terrible. Doesn't even matter what you think of the rest of the game, it sucks
No intelligent person said >It needs to have bland and generic photo realism They just don’t want mobile game art direction.
>>693316020They shot themselves on the foot by focusing too much on Shepard, it's not ME without him but his story has also already been told. Let this be a lesson.
>>693317481So how's that ME killer going?
Dragon Age: Origins also had a realistic style. It only got le cartoon art style with the dogshit sequel
>as long as I'm running ituh-ohdeath flag raised
>>693316842
>>693316020Of course it won't, it won't ever release after bioware gets disbanded
What are the chances bioware will exist a year from now?
>>693316020Honestly speaking, if they don't turn things around, they're on the chopping block.Veilguard will sell around a couple million max, but if they don't reflow the popular opinion on their studio, giving people hope for mass effect, they most probably won't even finish developing it.
>>693316020"photoreaqlistic" means unreal slop filters stacked on top of each other. The textures are trash and look like they are from 2011 without all the filters and slop added to itGod even piss&bloom was not this bad.
>>693318590HighEven with all this drama it will still sell copies and outperform concord.
>>693318538Hope so, no way Me4 will be good, there is no way. It will be a miracle if it releases and actually good.
>>693316020Yeah, it's the "aesthetics" that are the problem
Nobody will care about Mass Effect 4 if Shepard isnt back.
>>693318701>outperform concord
>>693318782Nobody will care about Mass Effect 4 if Shepard isnt black.*Here, fixed it for you buddy.
>>693316020>the next game
>>693318791
>>693318701Literally anything can outperform concord it's the biggest flop in the history of the business
>>693316020>shit talking veilguard as if it doesn't decide ME future
>>693318927What about that space movie with Eddie Murphy from the 90s?
>>693316020>I swear our team isn’t gonna fuck up Mass EffectAndromeda
>>693318919Returned so hard. Truly a return to form!!!
>>693317481I won't ever apologize for ruining entire trilogy with that bullshit ending.
>>693316020Mass Effect of Halo Infinite
>>693316020Fool me once shame on youfool me twice.....uh you foll me once you cant fool me again!
>>693318590I gotta wonder at what point does the 'Bioware' brand goes from prestigious boon to a detriment trash you don't want to touch? I feel like we've reached that point or are at least close to reaching it.
>>693317481>Speculations for everyone!No. Fuck you.
I don't care, there's no way it'll be good.
>>693319482Using ubisoft lingo isnt going to stop your asshole from prolapsing bioware
I am replaying mass effect and it's insane how much better it is than the modern slopIt's weird how much attention to detail in characters and world building there is Kaidan, Ashley and the crew act like actual soldiers and none of the quirk chungus shit from the newer bioware games.
>>693316020There's no more story left for Mass Effect. Unless they prequel it and we see Shepherd's back story, but no one really gives a shit.Andromeda was an attempt at a spin-off and it failed.
ME3 ending literally ruined the entire trilogy, No matter how good ME1 was no matter how (i hated ME2 mostly) good ME2 lore drops were. Nothing matters because the ending is so massively shitty that is KILLS the games as a whole.That is all.
>>693316020Liara(She/They)
>>6933168423 had fun combat
>>693316020It’s still gonna be dogshit who cares
I know I'm gonna try it anyway because I love Mass Effect so I will compulsively try any new instalment, but I just know the angara will be back and that fills me with disgust. There has never been a gayer and lamer alien species in all of fiction.
>>693320423Companies once hired mostly talented white men and sprinkled in some Asian guys, all of whom shared the intention of appealing to their customers, and without the intention to push fringe social issues. It was a glorious time. Pull up a chair and listen.
>>693319197It doesn’t.There’s no overlap between the two Deb teams (Except for people who saw what a shitshow Dragon Age was gonna be and jumped ship to the ME team).When Vielguard flops, that team is absolutely gonna get shuttered but BioWare as a whole won’t die unless they fuck up the next ME.Mass Effect was always the more popular franchise anyway.
>>693317481noim still madmy hatred will burn to the end of timefuck that faggot
the "cartooney" art style isn't on purpose, it is the result of gross incompetence. Low res texturex, wack proportions and stiff animations.
>>693316020Veilguard's gonna be lambasted so badly that EA will force ME4 to be the most gooner-chud space shooter of all time. Can't wait to se the Tali bimbofication questline.
>>693319301Pluto Nash only lost like $150 million. Which is hilariously bad for 2000. But if you weigh it against Eddie Murphy's career it's not too bad, he's drawn almost 4 billion dollars at the box.
>>693316020I'm glad Jade Empire will never get a sequel or remasterthese morons would fuck it up
>>693321569That's a nice thought, but ideologue activists would literally rather burn their place of employment to the ground then ever concede to the "chuds". And considering the corporate side just has to suck off investment firms, don't count on it.
>>693316020mass effect and dragon age had different audiences, this should not be a surprise
>>693321976>dragon age 1+2 ad surgery scars+non binary garbageyep yep!
>>693321569>coomer still think about cumThe west is never going to appeal to your desires without appealing to SJW shit first,give it up and bow to your asian overlords
>>693322048the meme in 2009 was being gay, dragon age was plenty gay
>>693321867best series btw i need to replay it.
>>693316020He'll just be replaced with a DEI hire and even ME4 will go full Slaanesh purple
Do you remember when Bioware made games where you could punch a female report in the face for being a snide whore and kill your entire party if you felt they were ugly or something?
>>693316020Charge your phone.
>>693316020Mass Effect was a turd since day one though.
>>693322560>Do you rememberstopped reading right there, I don't even remember 20 minutes ago. Gonna buy the new Call of duty and FIFA now, see ya later NERD
>>693319482I'm having a bla- I mean return to form.
>>693316020>>>”I swear our team isn’t gonna fuck up Mass Effect like those idiots fucked up Dragon Age!”lol but we had mass effect 3.
>>693317481Has he apologized for that shit ending?
>>693318701Anon with one copy they can already outsold Concord
>>693318902Anon you can make Shepard whatever race you want. Not me because I always use default Shepard as a normal person
>>693323215His voice works better as a old black guy
>>693322947And Andromeda
>>693322947plus andromeda was flop, they were practically giving that game away soon after release
>>693316842I haven't touched a single Bioware game after Jade Empire
Reminder that the Deux Ex Human Revolution, Mankind Devided writer is writting Mass Effect 5. Should be at least decent right?
>>693317481Back in 2012 the whole internet even the people who never played Mass Effect clowned on them
I want a turian bf that is a stick in the mud social and focused military career man, but tries his best to be affectionate when we are together.
>>693316020They have a lot bigger problems than just the art style
>>693317778Agreed. Although allowing a color coded filter for the one ending was pretty neat.
>>693316020who is the director?
>>693317778What was actually wrong with it? Especially after the Citadel DLC .
>>693316842thisis time for you fuckos to just admit, shepard is a weirdo, dragon age origins was peak
>>693323657She wrote Guardians of the Galaxy game and people liked the writing in it apparently, so maybe it'll end up okay.
>>693316020you can go to steam and report the product.
>>693317481no, eat shit
>>693324270The entire point of the trilogy is that your choices matter.me3 completely removes thatAlso the only people that played the citadel dlc are subhuman braindead retards, that actually bought dlc after that completely dogshit fuckyou ending with a buy more dlc post credit scene.
>>693316020Even ME director hates this shit, what a wonderfull day.
>>693317481
>>693316020>Veilguard looks so bad that another team from the company has to step up and say "yeah we're not going to fuck up like that"How embarrassing.
>>693325824Guardians was an actually good movie game. The different choices you could make, and branching level design, showed that it was the deus ex team making it.
can they please use this aesthetic for the next game?
>>693325824I was surprised by how much I liked that game. It's usually the exact kind of game I fucking hate but against all odds it won me over.
>>693327269femine penis status?
>>693327269So you want MORE trannys?
>>693327352>>693327389as long as it's cute and fun i'm all for it
>>693327504Grown men using the word cute is cringealso no fat chicks allowed
>>693322931lol!do these shills all get a script or is it AI generated?
>>693320679the ending is like 1% of the games content you retarded niggerseethe more, 3 was kino
>>693327660I agree unless it's with regard to girls
>>693327389As long as they are hot and still have their cocks and balls, I don't see anything wrong with it.
>>693316020> We won't be making the same critical error that Veilguard made in changing our graphical styleOf course, because that was the main failing of Veilguard.Not the writing, and characters, and gameplay, and the obnoxious progressive politics, and the abysmal degree of player agency, and the overall game structure.No, the real problem is that the game didn't look realistic enough.
>>693328282Script, billion dollar corporation will kill you so obey
Dragon Age is for weirdosMass Effect is for normal people
The hope is that DA:V finally closes Bioware before they can do further damage to the ME franchise. Not sure how much longer they can continue to have their HR department make games.
Mass Effect at least has had a consistent aesthetic mostly. Dragon Age is genuinely a lost puppy of a franchise that has changed art style/direction with every single entry.
never bought 3, but I do remember spending a bunch of time in the ME3 multiplayer demo/beta with a friend and having a bunch of fun. It felt like a good balance of gun play and active use skills with low cooldowns that most shooters with abilities never matched. They way same with the inquisition multiplayer.
>>693316842The main trilogy is literally the greatest sci-fi series in gaming. Not even 3's lacklustre ending changes this fact. Cope.
Mass Effect is a more respectable franchise.
>>693329320Yeah but if he said all that he’d be out of a job.This is the best he can do to convey to audiences, “I’m not literally a retarded tranny like that guy over there.”
>>693330291ME3 multiplayer had no right being as good as it was.
Mass Effect 3 irredeemably killed the franchise. Just start a different space adventure franchise at this point.
>>693316020It reached Elon Musk so of course they're going maximum damage control.
>>693328327No it wasn't you mouth-breathing retard
>>693324270>Your choices matter!>also this was all just a bed time story a grandfather is telling his grandson
>>693316020a lot of the original team are back so there's at least a glimmer of hope for the next Mass Effect
>>693328327idiot
>>693330343Nah, Halo is better.So is Armored Core
>>693333018>>693334221seethe. i'm due for a replay :)
>>693316020Mass effect use to have a retro aesthetic.
>>693323469I bought it for a dollar at my local library years ago and still haven't played it. Probably never will.
>>693316020They will remove liara's tits and ass and make her troon out somehow, also if you romanced her she will cuck you with another person. There mass effect 4.
>>693316020Their last Mass Effect game is literally known more for the bugs, glitches and memes than the actual game.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igxLpVN50Ro
>>693323469I have Andromeda, TLOU2, No Man's Sky, Cyber Punk 2077, Fallout 76, and Concord, all on PS4, still wrapped. Gamestop near me just gives them out, if you buy something at the time. I don't even have a PS4/5. lol
>>693325824Guardians was pretty good, even had some very soulful moments towards the end.
>>693317481I'll apologize when he makes a proper Mass Effect 3
>>693332287What did the space man say?
>>693324270What's GOOD about it?It's the fucking laziest shit ever
>>693316020Awfully optimistic, I expect BioWare to be completely shutdown early in 2025.
>>693336332Funnily enough, but the last mission in Andromeda at least tries to emulate ME2 and acknowledges the shit you've done previously with allies and whatever. I remember reading that some guy had to be brought in from the other team to actually finish that last mission and the game on the whole. At least the gameplay was good.
>>693316020It's all well and good to say this, but it's gonna come out and it will be all sorts of fucked up. That's just how it is in 2024.
>>693318590>>693169578the king hath spoken>imagine DSP falls before trannyware lol
>Nooo do NOT redeem the game!MAGAtard seem the ones trying to go full damage control tbph.
>>693337832I don't even know how they're still alive after Anthem and Andromeda.
>>693329347>>693328282it's a gently worded suggestion from the EA marketing dept
>>693337907it's so odd seeing /pol/ level tinfoil being used by rank and file "leftists"
>>693340391they giggle as they post since they can type all the naughty no-no gamer words here
>>693337907I'm sure it was that damn MAGA people on /v/ that hated TOR and Inquisition.
I wonder how many troon characers it will have.
>>693316020>He thinks Mass Effect will come out before Bioware's closurelel
>>693317481>locks himself in a room away from the actual writers>"I DID IT GUYS. I WROTE THE ENDING.">"Don't you mean endings?">"NOPE."
>>693316020can I get a qrd on ME? from what I've heard>1 is great>2 is great but has a bad ending or something>rest are shitis that basically it
>>6933422593 is the one with bad ending.
>>693316842Being contrarian does not make you interesting.
>>693316020So even they know its that bad. Really makes you wonder why they made it like that in the 1st place
>>6933422591 is clunky and has a lot of shit that is just tedious and no fun (tons of side quests that are just "go there, drive your little vehicle, go inside a building and kill everyone", the general state of loot and upgrades) but setting, story, characters and environments are great.2 just ditches everything that didnt work (no more vehicle, shitty side-quests or item progression in general) and improves combat. It also has more but shorter well narrated and designed "real" quests in general.3 i didnt play after the demo convinced me something is very wrong with barely any dialogue and a strong action-focus.
>>693316842The only people I knew who played it were xbox retards who were bad at Halo
>>693338825They're not.The bioware that made baldur's gate, kotor, mass effect, dragon age: origins, all that good shit, they're dead and gone from the industry.they're working in the craft beer industry or practicing medicine or some shit.This industry chewed them all up and spat them all out, and all that's left are the blue-haired social media fuckwits who feel "soooo privileged to work with the company that made my FAVORITE games (that I read wikis about and never played)."Bioware was founded as a medical software dev. The people who founded it were medical grads from Alberta, and those guys have been gone for over a decade. Right around...huh, 2012...what came out in 2012?>ME3>SW:TORSuch utter shit-shows that the leadership bailed, and then two years later, after a couple cancelled projects, they shit out Inquisition.And from there we see the direction the company is heading in from now on. We go from characters like Leliana as she was in Origins and Merril, to Leliana as she was in Inquisiton, and Sera. Bioware is dead.The thing that jutters and twitches while wearing its skin is just EA going all Buffalo Bill on us.>Would you play me?>I'd play me.
>>6933423503/10 RPG2/10 cover shooter7/10 story 5/10 story (1 and 2) -10/10 storynta but tell me what is so good about mass effect?
>>6933422592 is the only good one. 1 is babby's first precursor sci-fi story with weird shooter gameplay melded with KOTOR. 3 is just a bad version of 2, but with fun multiplayer that you can't play anymore.
>>693323721Based, same
>>693337706its way more funny you actually played that shit.
>>693317481I hate him so much even AIM would be like woah dude back off.
>>693321569They're going to doubledown on the wokeshit.
>>693317481No
>>693317481No.
>>693342259>1Great story, but the gameplay is rough>2Great gameplay, but the story is rough. The crew interactions are the best the series ever had though.>3When the stars themselves die out, entropy reaches its maximum, and nothing can meaningfully happen ever again, he will still be mad.
>>693316020God willing, it will never see the light of day.
>>693316020>as long as im running itah there's that weasel word
>>693321569They'd sooner go out of business
>>693316020>15-minute long cutscenes of photorealistic badly-written characters arguing about pronouns, instead of 15-minute long cutscenes of cartoony badly-written characters arguing about pronouns
>>693316020Doubt there'll be much money to work on another fail project after Failguard.Good preemtive strike though, even he knows the other game is pathetic.
Unless ME4 has one writer named Drew Karpyshyn my interest is 0
>>693347389I've seen to much at this point to expect anything from them that isn't this.
>>693347596It doesn't.Drew is working with a smaller studio on scifi RPG.
EA ruined whatever reputation it had with me years ago. This kind of shit is just the shit cherry on the shit sundae.
>>693347909I'll never forgive them for defacing the SimCity franchise. That was an unforgivable transgression.
>>693316842ME1 was a great though jank game in regards to its combat. Its understandable it was rough around its edges though coming from a company not known for its shooting games and coming from a time when shooters were just starting to break out into a big way with the masses. Its story was top notch as was the lore and exploration despite the use of lots of copy pasting going on. I liked the Mako so fuck you.ME2 was practically like a whole other series. It raped the lore and seemed like it didn't even want to be a direct sequel of ME1. It changed a lot even in regards to gameplay too. However it definitely plays better as a shooting game and it still managed to carve out its own great story with great characters. I can't fault anyone preferring ME2 over ME1 anymore. I see them both as great. Far superior to what the series did end up becoming.
Guys, it's illegal to buy reviews, that clearly isnt happening.
>>693316020Did you see that lore speculation video based on the ME4 trailer? Basically Liara through some science magic travels to a parallel world where something else dealt with the Reapers and recovers that specific Shepard (and runs another Lazarus project on him off-screen) without dooming another timeline by taking their Shepard.And that's their way to keep both the trilogy and Andromeda canon.
>>693318102Mass Effect's main issue is they rushed the Reapers too fast. They could have milked them as an existential threat for five or six games.Then you get to Andromeda and you're supposed to be a Pathfinder but everywhere you go has already been settled by people.
>>693322216>best seriesWdym best series, it's one game.
>>693316020mass effect already did the big head thingthey completely changed the proportions of the charactersdishonest niggerkike
>>693337832DSP is literally a gaming god
>>693327040Imagine being so fucking dumb that you cared about ME after the abomination that was ME2 and "now go online to take the fight to the reapers!" or whatever that retarded shit was.ME1 was a barely passable, average space game. I gave 2 a try because you'd think "hey, maybe they'll improve on what was an early console release before people knew what they were doing". Nope. 2 was worse in every single regard. From the switch to thermal clips, the removal of the Mako, the dumbed down combat and comically bad story, the sequel was a downgrade in every possible way, and the ending sequence was an embarrassment. ME3 was just more of the same. I don't know how you didn't see the downwards trajectory.
>>693316842The first was fucking amazing, anything after that was dogshit
>>693316020Someone made a video of all the Cringe interactions with the "Trash" character, but EA took it down via Copyright strike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYzTNy1y7KUDefinitely don't look at or share any of these ahead of their Big Game Launch tomorrow, EA wouldn't want that.Full 30 minutes (low-res): https://files.catbox.moe/3im089.mp4"Nobody likes being a woman" (Ultra Cringe): https://streamable.com/amyr4e"I can't even be a woman right" Parts 1-3: https://streamable.com/gx8dqk https://streamable.com/t9bnv7 https://streamable.com/25xxxz"Kay Bye" Parts 1-2: https://streamable.com/851l5g https://streamable.com/0bxhw8"Ready to talk to my mother about who I really am" Parts 1-2: https://streamable.com/baey9r https://streamable.com/and3nd"So I'm non-binary" (Top Cringe) Parts 1-2: https://streamable.com/3vux4h https://streamable.com/7xzuvf"The Dragon King" Parts 1-2: https://streamable.com/3s2wso https://streamable.com/4enth1"Pulling a Bharv" (Giga Cringe) Parts 1-3: https://streamable.com/m3b7rv https://streamable.com/4elqwu https://streamable.com/osj0aw"You Smell Good": https://streamable.com/jf8cs5
>>693351870OMG is that MAKO? Makoing on the empty planets, shooting geth tanks but without killing them, because you wouldn't want that exp penalty. I'm gonna cum from that SOVL overload.
>>693352640Mako at least gave you a sense you were exploring planets slightly. ME2 and beyond is just about teleporting to hubs.
>>693351870This post answered your concerns preemptively: >>693342350
>>693350908No more multiverse and time travel twist pls, I had enough of those two tropes infecting sci-fi stories nowadays.
>>693352765>noooo ME was my CHILDHOOD you can't tell me it was just a middling 7/10 game with 2 awful sequels, you can't!I feel bad for you. It's up there with Bioshock 1, which is less favorably remembered because people actually remembered System Shock 2.These games aren't terrible, they're just half-finished and missing any depth. People assumed the sequels would improve on this, and instead the sequels were worse in every regard. It's quite a feat to go backwards when you already have a base you can expand on.
>>693316020After Mass Effect Andromeda I don't know how people still even care about this series. Especially when they fucked up the remasters. These people not only cannot make games but they are not allow to either with all these consultation companies like Sweet Baby getting in their way. Western gaming is doomed.
>>693353145Good games are still made in the west, but you'll only find them in the AA and indie scene where the teams are smaller and there's no corporate interest involved. Less funding obviously, so standout shit comes along rarely.
>>693326837it was very obviously clear with ME2 that your choices didnt matter any more
I'm playing through Legendary Edition for the first time, and am at the end of ME2. Why did everyone recommend I let Jacob take the vents? I know he volunteers but he doesn't have the skillset and even Miranda says he shouldn't do it. Am I just getting trolled into getting a squadmate killed?
>>693353449>it was very obviously clear with ME2 that your choices didnt matter any moreExcept that you can lose a massive amount of your team if you fuck up, and even in the last mission if you utilise too many noncombatants in certain roles you lose them as well.
Crazy how long a studio can stay relevant based on the good games they released 15+ years ago. You would think that with their track record from the last decade people would realize they're a different company and stop caring, but the brand power and nostalgia are too strong.I wonder how young zoomies that don't remember KOTOR, NVN, ME1&2, DA:O feel about them.
>>693352513ManWhat the fuck manI knew it was bad, just not that badThose dialogues are so fucking reddit with a pinch of twitter that it's painful and incredibly weird to have them in a medieval fantasy setting when it feels like they've been taken from Life is Strange what the fuckThere's really been a "before" and "after" BG3 right?
>>693316842Dumbest post I've seen in days
>>693350908>Basically Liara through some science magic travels to a parallel world where something else dealt with the Reapers and recovers that specific Shepard
>>693316842Faggot contrarian. Mass effect 1 was and still is one of the best sci fi rpgs ever made. The writing and dialogue is milles ahead of the usual slop we get today. Me2 and me3 are still decent games, mechanically they are superior to 1, but the writing suffered a little.
>>693330343Play more good games.
>>693316020I legitimately thought ME4 got quietly cancelled at some point.
Hol upIs THAT the Trick Weekes writing this shit?
>>693354552Yeah IIRC it's about wormhole travel or somesuch.
>>693317481I cant my face is too tired for that
>>693353890The only decisions that matter in ME2 are decisions made in ME2. They even go as far as killing the Shepard from ME1 and replacing him with a clone before you even take control of that character. Why would you ever possibly think that ME3 would respect ME2 any more than ME2 respected ME1?
>>693352513where are the apology pushups
Mass Effect is that one series that I can't let go. I will try every new entry, and it will hurt every time it's shit.
>>693317481>Will you ever apologize?why would i?
