Was it really that bad?
>>729351594Really sloppy, and the dev team seemed to really struggle with the engine, so it was really a canary in the coalmine about upcoming games. We thought it was a one-off fluke. Ever wonder why everyone uses Unreal now as the "industry standard"? Because you can train replaceable workers in a single engine, rather than having skilled staff who are masters of a single engine. It's Patient Zero for the technical development problems in modern AAA games.
>>729351594Yes?
>>729352060To be fair, 1.) BioWare Montreal was staffed by a D-team of nobodies with no prior industry experience, 2.) they had to use Frostbite, which is specifically designed to make multiplayer FPS games like Battlefield and not cinematic RPGs, and 3.) EA poaches anyone that shows a knack for working with Frostbite for whatever studio makes the FIFA games.
>>729351594It’s the videogame equivalent of Disney Star Wars. Soft reboot where everything is lamer/gayer versions of old things you liked before, wrapped up in embarrassing millennial writing that tries too hard to be funny and relatable.
The combat was actually pretty good.
>>729351594Everything except Vetra, yes.
>>729352060The technical stuff was the least of the game’s problems. People just focused on the glitches because they were funny to laugh at.
>>729351594I finished the game. I liked the core combat mechanics and the character ability systems. More or less everything else sucked to a greater or lesser degree though. Just a downgrade from the trilogy on pretty much every level. The companions suck hard. Fem Turian is novel, but she's at best okay. The old aliens are less interesting separated from their cultures. The new aliens, both friendly and antagonists suck and are the least interesting in the series. The plot is lame and is a less interesting version of "ancient aliens" again. The large semi-open world planets end up just sort of padding the whole game with less interesting content. Basically merging the story missions and Mako sections of the first game. Making a lot of the "story" content feel less special. And of course the whole thing is a technical mess.
>>729352581On one hand I like the jet pack and being able to change your class and combat powers on the fly, but I don’t like only being restricted to three powers at a time and not being able to use squadmate powers anymore. Also enemies seem to be more bullet spongey.3’s combat is still the best for me. The black widow and lancer feel so fucking good.
waifufags will say their vapid sexdolls are worth playing it for but really the only good character is the salarian co-pilot. not the finnish glaswegian orange thingGame is utter shit.
>>729352946>the only good character is the salarian co-pilotHe represents the average player.
>>729351594It's terrible.
>>729351594yes, and mass effect 3 was always shit. no matter how hard zoomers try to rewrite history. the series has two good games.
>>729352920i think the enemies were so spongy and abilities were limited because it was an Anthem prototype
>>729353228ME3 is still the most disappointing game of all time to me.
>>729352598>tranny Garrus is the only decent waifuGrim.
>>729351594I like Cora Harper's ass.
>>729353257I thought they were made by different teams but maybe there was some overlap between them.
https://youtu.be/igxLpVN50Ro?si=dVt9-bDSQTvGsea_
>>729352150EVERYONE OUTTA THE WAY I HAVE TO SHIT
>>729351594Gameplay is kindof fun, but the story is a failure, like the dev team didn't understand Mass Effect at all and just made a limp-wristed HR thing but before it decayed into Veilguard levels. If you ignore all the story and characters and just play it purely as a game its actually kinda good though, but I can't imagine that's why people ever would play Mass Effect in the first place, these games were always more about the narrative.
>>729351594Playing through it right now. It's only saving grace is the combat is freeform and fun. The story and the companions minus a few are just terrible to the point of being annoying that it drags the rest of the game down with them.
>>729351594It had a bad launch. Lame and boring story. The gameplay is very linear.And worst of all it's open world slop.
>>729353354Cora is such a hag name, her name make her boring character even more forgettable. Only good thing she has is her ass. At least Miranda was a whore
>>729351594Not that bad, but it wasn't amazing. The combat was good, especially after all the patches that smoothed out the enemies tankiness and kept it more even. On Insanity, it became a real fucking slog. You'd get equipment at level 31, the enemy would keep leveling up every time you did, so by the time you reach level 40, you're still stuck with level 31 weapons, fighting level 40 enemies. It was kinda limiting only having 3 abilities at a time, but ME2 also had universal cooldown with some classes not getting many abilities either. Anything other than combat though was genuinely awful. Story and most characters were awful. Vetra and Drax were the better two, everyone else was forgetable. Except Liam, who is probably the worst faggot in the series. Moreso than Jacob, i'd argue. I would've liked the DLC they teased at the end If I got to be desu.
