>How did we go from this... to THIS?
OP wants to fuck blue alien women
>>746047890The writer trooned out.
>>746047890I didn't know 'this' existed and now I'm between laughing and laughing but differently. Thanks OP.
>>74604789014 years and swapping out almost every developer in the company
I don't get what everyone has against Taash. They were, cool, interesting and cute. Sure they are also annoying but that's just how people are sometimes. They had shit to work through.
my choices? they're nonbinary.
>>746048256Both characters were written by the same tranny writer.
>how did we go from shit to shit?dunno what you expected
>>746047890I genuinely, truly hope that the next Mass Effect game gets cancelled. I really don't want to see the world and characters I was so attached to back in the day get dragged through the mud by the worst writers imaginable.
>>746050124but anon did they even tap the phone market yet?
>>746048256>>746049591Honestly, it's hard not to get the impression that everyone with talent left and Weekes just sort of ended up failing upwards because he was the most senior writer left on the team. It's like when a sports team does a rebuild and trades away all their good players, suddenly the new team captain is a guy who was a benchwarmer just last week.
>>746049716>Mass Effect>shitDid Kai Lang filter you?
>>746047890Foids, faggots and faggots pretending to be foids.
>>746050124I understand your concern but we're not at the height of woke madness anymore. The zeitgeist is shifting and investors are slowly realizing that troon games aren't selling.
>>746050664Veilguard's writing was absolute horrendous dogshit even outside of the woke nonsense.
>>746050124I want to see it, no matter how atrocious it is.If it's good, I'll be extremely happy. and if it's more Failguard, I'll at least be fucking entertained and crying while laughing at a video game for the first time in several years. I am a depressed man starved for personal attachment, and I desperately need something to make me feel alive.
>>746050124Good news: most of them were fired and a former EA manager said in an interview that "I'll belive it when I see it" regarding a new mass effect.
>>746050664Yeah, but you'll just get sanitized corporate shit like Starfield where space pirates are just a harmless fraternity etc.
>>746050864Everything about Veilguard just feels like they didn't want to be making the game, or like they're all really senior and "experts" but they're only really doing it for their increasingly junior team and corporate culture.Weekes also said he doesn't talk about the game on his Bluesky because it was a "traumatic" project. I don't even think he's talking about the ways it got fucked around 4 times over. I think he's referring to the last years of making it under the new studio management. They got this Gary McKay guy who is literally just a "CEO guy" after the older guy, and Casey Hudson quit, and I think he took a normal look at the studio and went "What the FUCK is happening in this company?" and got mean with people like Patrick.I've seen this happen in a company. New boss comes in, and starts yelling at seniors and they go from feeling confident in their 17 years at the company to feeling insecure and sad, and then quit or got laid off, because the new boss actually confronted all the ways that they didn't know what they were doing on the company's money, and gave horrid advice to the people in the studio that looked up to them, and got away with it when their previous boss were on good terms with them.
>>746047890Death by thousand cuts because of EA and Bioware's own shitty management>EA buys Bioware>makes them rush out Dragon Age 2 because of swtor>tortanic>Makes them rush out Mass Effect 3>Heavily encourages them to use Frostbite engine which was made for Battlefield and not for rpgs. This decision made the development hell for Dragon Age Inquisition and future projects but dai sells well despite this>good will immediately gone because Andromeda is given to smaller retarded studio in Montreal, they fuck around wasting dev time on stupid shit and have to rush to finish the game, leads to my face is tired and so on>Management goes full retard by Anthem, refuse to look at similar games like Destiny, main Bioware studio refuses to take advice from Austin studio that has experience making online game even if it is swtor, had no concrete vision for game like the only reason the game had flying was ceo liked it, and along with engine issues it comes out as dog shit and is quickly abandoned>try to make Dreadwolf like Inquisition, EA comes in high off the idea of all future of gaming be GAAS makes them turn it into a live service game, EA realizes this was a retarded decision after remembering how Anthem turns out and makes Bioware make it a single player game again, game starts over as Veilguard but they have to scrounge it together with the live service version assets and by this point most of the good people at Bioware have left and the few old writers they got somehow went retard when writing Veilguard or trooned out and had to incorporate it into the games writing because fuck you>Somehow Saudi's haven't killed Bioware yet, last thing keeping them alive is the Mass Effect show being in development and EA always liking the Mass effect series out of all of Bioware's IP so now they got one more shot to stay alive
>>746050664You're delusional if you don't think the writers aren't true believers. They're going down with the ship.
>>746051168That's a lotta word salad. If I understand your argument, it's that:New boss came in, yelled at staff and made them feel bad and that's why Veilguard happened.I'm not buying it. If I'm reading your argument incorrectly, let me know. No fucking way the staff who made the game didn't know what they were making.
>>746047890Newflash: Mass effect was never goodIt had 4 games and all of them had glaring issues that stopped them from being anything more than "Ok" at best>ME1Great setup and world building with the plot, ruined by janky gameplay, the limited nature of the fact that its first in the series, and the fact that it serves as a setup for a series story that ends incredibly poorly, making the story pointless in the end>ME2Ruined by devs trying to ape gears of war. Entire game is a recruitment mission. Ends up being a filler episode with no real impact on the story. Some glaring plot holes and continuity errors and Shepherd dies at the start of the game, but then is immediately brought back to life, and all this serves in the story is an excuse for a time jump? Really??>ME3Ruined by a terrible ending. Admittedly best gameplay in the series but writing takes a nosedive from 2, which is ironic given its right when an actual story picks up again. Really stupid decisions from the writers like focusing on that random kid, not even bothering to use more than a stock image for Tali's face reveal, killing off and writing out certain characters for no reason etc. and finally culiminating the entire trilogy in >Btw, we know you said your decisions matter, but they really didnt>Every single player regardless of their choices ends up in exactly this position and chooses between 4 arbitrary endings>"Continue the adventure with DLC!"There is more bad than good to say about the series at this point in its lifespan
