From @Dandics, who worked at the writer's room in Mass Effect Universe:>The game was in late development and would likely have been released in 2028>Story takes place 600 years in the future>All Mass Relays were repaired after Reaper War.>Everybody is now part synthetic (somewhat like in Cyberpunk 2077)>The Geth and The Other galaxy species are in a cold war. Geth far outclasses the other species in industrial capabilities, but Humans, turns etc outclass Geth in invention and creativity due to their synthetic parts. >Someone is trying to start a war between the Geth and the other species in the galaxy and kill everyone.>There's currently a massive Mass Relay to reach Andromeda being built>There's still pockets of Hostile Reapers and Husk around. >Protagonist from the trailer is a genetically engineered super soldier N7 by Liara and Humanity Government>Liara is now 700 and the most powerful Matriarch from her species, she's your "genetical mother".>Harbinger is rumored to be alive during the story, it's discovered to be the one trying to start a war between the Geth and The Galaxy. He shows up as a final boss in an organic form that far surpassed his OG ship form in power. Gameplay:>Very adult oriented, with full nudity, same sex relationships. You could even romance Liara, despite her being essentially your "mom".>Quest Design is a mix between Mass Effect 1,2 and 3. They were divided between short quests and long quests. Long quests could take multiple hours to complete and involved unlocking new parts of the Galaxy to complete.>You started the game with a Krogan and Quarian companion. >There's two types of weapons in the game: Organic Weapons and Regular Weapons. Regular Weapons worked like in original ME but Organic weapons are gimmicky, like the Neddler in Halo and much more powerful in specific combat encounters.Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWrTNazZxM
>>750218119>>The game was in late development and would likely have been released in 2028One line in and I already see an immense amount of bullshitNot reading anything elseFuck Bioware, glad they're dead
>Merge ending is canon
>>750218119Extremely gay if true
>>750218119Should have made that last dragon age good then lol
>>750218119how the fuck is the synthesis ending canon if their bodies didnt glow green in the traileralso the synthesis ending was the gayest shit ass fuck thing ever
>>750218471>also the synthesis ending was the gayest shit ass fuck thing ever>same sex relationshipsExactly why they picked it
>>750218119>an epic conflict is coming, but you are the HERO choosen one who is going to stop it allholy yawnEvery single fucking bioware game
Very cool, but now it's time for you to join the 41%
>>750218119the only ending they'd go with would be destroy
>>750218119Still no.
>>750218119If you had hope in current Bioware to deliver a good game you are hopeless retard.
>>750218119This looks like the exact same plot as Veilguard. Was Bioware really creatively bankrupt?Also legion sacrificied himself so the geth go to a fucking war again? Also shepard sacrificed himself to let harbinger going havoc again?Feels like a piss in the OG series
>>750218119>There's currently a massive Mass Relay to reach Andromeda being builtthis makes no sense, you need a relay on both sides to travel, its established in the lore>Everybody is now part synthetic (somewhat like in Cyberpunk 2077)so sythesis is canon or everyone is just augmented? cause everyone is augmented already in ME1>There's still pockets of Hostile Reapers and Husk aroundhow?
>>750218119>Geths are the bad guys AGAIN>Harbinger is rumored to be alive during the storyLmao I'm glad Bioware died it would have been so shit, it sounds incredibly boring and rehashed
I'm sure even them saying "We checked out Baldur's Gate 3" doesn't mean they understood how to make it work.>Walk up to NPC>They start talking>You can't do much and there's no cinematic>Maybe there's a dialogue wheel but the characters barely move>You can rotate the camera while listening to the voice actors drone on>You didn't say yes to the quest, simply talking at all put it in your log>You're asked to go to a random place or the Galaxy Map and scan something>The quest auto-completes itselfOkay, that's a simple quest. Let's try a long one>You click on a character>Cinematic starts, where you do meaningless dialogue options>The quest is added no matter what>You scan something like Witcher 3>You go back to talk about it and get another objective>You kill an enemy or scan a thing or pick something up>The quest completes and the NPC is over radio going like "THANKS!"And there's no real RPG design to any of it. At most it's like the "good" Citadel quests in ME3 where within minutes of meeting a character, you talk to them again for 1 of those Charm/Intelligence checks where the wheel glows red or blue if you have enough points, and then you pick that option and all resolves itself automatically.ME1 had quests. I remember to this day playing the game in 2009, and driving the Mako up to Bunker #12 which should be forgettable but it wasn't. a guy in the door phone saying "Father Kyle doesn't wanna talk to the Alliance" and I fail the Charm test, so everyone inside lock me out. In another playthrough, I succeeded and you're let inside and there's nothing but loot in there. In the neighbouring bunker you go in and find "Father Kyle". I hear his story, and decide to arrest him, shoot him, or let him turn himself in. I wanted to arrest him, so he doesn't let me and turns into an enemy. On the ship Hackett calls me and says "what a shame" etc.Now that's really simple but that is a QUEST.
>>750218236Dude, BG3 took 6 years to make. So yes the last 2 years can be late stages of developement.
>>750218119This guy is a shill so I wouldn't take everything he says as gospel
>>750218119>>750218741>600 year time skip>Mass Relay to Andromeda>Andromeda races in the concept artI see what these fuckers were trying to do. Good fucking riddance.
>>750218819yeah man they were super far into development and all we got was a short vertical slice that showed zero gameplayalso even EA wouldn't be retarded enough to close Bioware down right before they were about to drop a big IP
>>750218119>You could even romance Liara, despite her being essentially your "mom".Now I want this game, Bioware didn't deserve this
Sounds like a true return to form for Bioware that we would have had a blast playing!
>>750218940This is excatly why its true, bioware trannies distributed everything to shills in hopes of some kind of retard buying the rights from saudis and saving this shit.
>>750218119>synthetic ending was canonThe one thing I liked about the destroy ending was killing all Gethniggers, your choices matter lmao
>The game was in late development and would likely have been released in 2028
>>750219116Aww man that suuuuucks
>>750219191nigga there's no way that shit was 2 years out
>>750219116Obvious lie for suits and investors
>>750218119>600 years post reaper warDropped. Glad it was canceled. Sorry for the people who lost their jobs.
>>750219235I believe they could have shat out something resembling a game in 2 years.
>>750218805NIGGA, NIGGA U GAY (AS HELL)
>>750218557What's that?41% of gaymers go trans or something?
>>750218119Is Bioware officially dead or is it just very likely rumors? I'm glad this shit didn't come out
>>750218119details not leaked>Body type A/B>100+ pride flags>Pronouns change quests>uglified female characters>millennial writing>forced side character quest to fight the patriarchy>girl bosses>emascalation>retconing best part of story in 1-2>day one DLC
>>750219325>Sorry for the people who lost their jobs.lame ragebait
>>750219915you forgot>transgender/non-binary in your party and all of their personal quests have to do with being transgender/non-binary
>>750220235thank god they got nuked, let mass effect die with a little dignity it got left after andromeda
>>750219915Pulling a barve mini game?
Assuming it's all true, this is the reverse of learning about the Dark Energy subplot they threw away.
>>750218119>You could even romance Liara, despite her being essentially your "mom".Straight-up bullshit
>>750218119>somehow....Harbinger returned
>>750218119The TL;DR>Hey Cyberpunk is really cool so we're using the flimsiest excuses in Mass Effect lore to rip off that premise.>Ummmm since there isn't much tension lets have (race A) fight humans cause a war started!>Ummm wait one enemy is boring so now there are pockets of other enemies still around.Wait don't leave now we added >EVEN MORE SEX! Sure sex in the other games was barely a minute cut scene that showed any nudity, BUT WE'RE ADDING FULL FRONTAL NUDITY, PENETRATION AND MINIGAMES AND LETTING YOU FUCK YOUR OWN MOM!>We sware quest design is like the games you actually enjoyed >We made a gameplay mechanic around the rip off plot of cyberpunk and Deus Ex.
>>750218119youre a huge faggot dandics and you pulled this out of your smelly faggot ass (where you like to put other mens dicks)
>>750221505there is nothing wrong with being gay
>>750218119>late in development50 people were working on it. That's not even a tenth of what a modern AAA dev team would've been if they'd entered full production.
>autopsy message says early development>dandics dicks lover says late developmentattention seeking mutant whore kys
>>750218119The story would have been about the evil Zonald Blumf and his army of nazi slaves trying to erase trans trans kids and their 90000 genders. It would have been shit.Shit game play, shit story, super shit writing, any dialog choices you make wont effect the outcome of the story in the slightest, the real enemy would have been white identity.. its all so tiresome. Finally, Broward can rest without these faggots using its beloved name as a mask to dance their atrocious, failed, ideology around.
>>750219915After like 15 years of fuck ups this time everything will work out. Trust the plan stupid chud it would've been a blast
>>750218119>control and destroy both ignored for the shitty synthesis ending that nobody understoodWew. Glad that shit's dead.
Yeah it's Perfect Dark all over again. Years of development and all they had to show for was a single Unreal Engine 5 level that is heavily scripted.
>>750218119>Turn geth back into mindless bad guys after 2 and 3 put in so much work to uplift them >Bring back the reapers even though they should all either be destroyed / controlled / merged after 3's ending >H-Hey guys member Harbinger?Glad this died eat shit lol
I dunno there are a few ok ideas in it but it is mostly ass. Why would Harbinger be trying to start a war? He straight up lets Shepard make the decision. Now he is upset about it? I don't like the continuation of centering the story of organic/machine conflict either. It always seemed to me that this conflict point was the easiest to resolve in the series. When you have FTL travel and the mass relays, the galaxy is huge and geth can live almost anywhere. There is no reason to be competing for resources, at least not at that level of population density.
>>750218119>implying synthesis ending is canondamn we dodged a bullet, get that shit away from me
>make the most retarded ending canon>geth are all in a cold war with the rest of the galaxy in spite of legion's sacrifice>there are still hostile reapers even though they helped rebuild the galaxy in the synthetic ending>building a mass relay to andromeda when it obviously wouldn't work when they don't have oneTruth is, the game was shit from the start
>>750218119>Synthesis canonLiterally the only good part of this shit.
>>750218119>Reapers are the bad guys againNuBioware was creatively dead, good riddance
>>750218119>a final boss in an organic form that far surpassed his OG ship form in power.A massive human reaper with his dick out, a cool reference to Mass Effect 2!
>>750219325I'm sorry they didn't lose them sooner
>>750218119Right now the game exists in a nebulous what if stage where everyone can spin whatever bullshit they want about it, and are.Mass Effect 4 was never going to be good because the ingredients that went into the pot were not good, they were more or less the same ingredients that made Veilguard. Even if they were mixed up to try to make something less cringe and bad they were still spoiled ingredients to begin with.
>>750218119>somehow the Reapers have returnedThank god Bioware died
>>750218119Very good thing this didn't happen. I can rest easy knowing the series is sealed in time and will not be tainted with any further shit.
>>750219915>Shepard clone made by an evil corp you have to take out for good >probably dlc
>>750218119Geth are truly the biggest dindu nuthins of the galaxy, curbstomp Geth babies
>>750221449Notice how quickly they aren't against sex in games once the games include faggotry
>>750218119No Debra wilson, no buying.
>>750218119>The game was in late developmentlollmao even
>>750218119It would be shit.
>>750218119>Synthesis Ending canonNah you can keep it, glad they got shitcanned
>>750218119>Merge ending is canonHow is it possible to be let down by something I didn't even expect to ever release?
there were like 50 people working on it they are clearly lying in hopes of tricking Canada into bailing them out
Really kind of gross how they immediately ran to the government and tried to use tax dollars as a means of subsidizing their continued failures. If I was Canadian I would just withhold a portion of my taxes. Not paying for a sunk cost as the reason.
>>750218119God bless Saudis, that sound absolutely retarded
>>750218119Someone needs to buy the rights to this from EA. I don't care who. Just get it finished and released.
>>750227683Elon help
>>750218119You have to pay more attention to what people do than what they say. They may say this Mass Effect was gonna be awesome, but their games have been bad for a decade. Chances are that trend was going to continue.
>>750218119>The game was in late developmentBioware themselves said it was in Early Development.Sorry bitch, I'm gonna believe the company itself rather than one of its employees trying to say everything to justify why him losing his job is a hate crime or some shit.
>>750218119>>Liara is now 700 and the most powerful Matriarch from her species, she's your "genetical mother".>can romance herBASED
>>750218119Pipe dreams written on a napkin and an AI trailer does not make a game. I'm glad you people got canned.
>>750218119>same sex relationshipsinto the trash
>>750218119>andromeda not being retconnedfuck off
there was 0% chance for it to be good if you believe otherwise you are truly lost
>>750218594based, thanks for posting. now I'm even happier they went under
>>750218119>You could even romance LiaraFUCKING WHORE
>>750218119That is a man.
>>750218119>You could even romance Liara, despite her being essentially your "mom".I'm sure that would go over well
>>750218119>The game was in late development and would likely have been released in 2028Their own studio closure message said they were still early production. Now, if studios actually functioned like they used to before all the bloat, then actually, sure, 50 people could get the game done in 2 years, because despite the 5+ year development times, the actual bulk of the work consistently only takes the final 2 years, with all the preceding time being useless meetings and consultations that stall out all the other work. But, who here believes for a moment that somehow Bioware, of all studios, reverted back to pre-2015 development studio size and culture? Of course they didn't, or it would not have already been 6 years since they announced ME4. Nah, this supposed leak, if anything about it is actually true, is a, "This is where the writing room was at, and that's what I mean by 'late in development' even though it was all still subject to change."
>>750218119>>The game was in late development and would likely have been released in 2028>started making it in 2019>10 year dev timelol, lmaowhat a piece of shit company, add in 2 delayts and it would be 12 year dev time
>>750218119Fuck man
>>750218119>>The game was in late development and would likely have been released in 2028complete nonsense this game literally never existed beyond a few ideas jotted down on a notepad
>>750218119>Harbinger is rumored to be alive during the story, it's discovered to be the one trying to start a war between the Geth and The Galaxy. He shows up as a final boss in an organic form that far surpassed his OG ship form in power.Sounds incredibly gay and unoriginal. Hope this series stays dead.
>>750218119>>Everybody is now part syntheticewwhow are the geth, krogans and batarians alive?>same sex relationshipsthe yuropean audience
>Liara used her stolen Shepard brain cum to make a baby 600 years later>she groomed her own human shepard baby clone >the game was going to have to canonize ayyyy lmao genetalia
>>750218119>Human-Batarian alliance>Quarians and Humans still underdogsYou have no idea how much these people hate you and everything you like.Racist memes against Batarians? NO! YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT CHUD! YOU WILL RUIN OUR FANBASE, ONLY TUMBLR 2012 MEMES APPROVED GOOD SIR!.Quarian fetishism? guess what, your Quarian companion will be MALE or a DYKE hehehe and we'll do everything so theres no trace of Shepard having a soft spot for them!These people also hate Mark Meer and the "We'll bang OK?" meme and Broshep's popularity, so they were planning on tarnishing the Maleshep legacy too, i just know it.
>>750219773They released a statement two days ago. It's Joever.
>>750218961>>750220325>>750229554>killing off 99% of companions with only Liara and maybe Grunt and/or Wrex as the sole survivors.Initially I was super mad this shit got cancelled, but when that trailer leaked and it got confirmed to basically tailor itself to Andromeda by having a timeskip is when I was super relieved it got cancelled.I couldn't imagine leaving the trilogy with so many unsolved questions and issues regarding perhaps the greatest companions ever to be in an RPG series.Canceling this game is a mercy killing for us OG bioware fans.Hoping the game gets picked up by another studio and just reused the assets to give us a smaller scale ME4 with a small time skip maybe 5-10 years after ME3 dealing with the current dynamics of the galaxy and its issues with it setting up to a true finale of a ME5 finally dealing with Leviathans.Like so many GOATed companions like Wrex, Garrus, Tali, Miranda, Javik, etc. killed off just go to cater to Andromeda troons.Never will an RPG ever have the same amount of amazing companions the way the ME trilogy did and this is coming from someone who is as anti-woke and a RPG stan as they come. DA1 came close as a stand alone game, but didnt deliver over the following games by bringing those companions back like ME trilogy games did , but finessing Morrigan into being Allistair's (your fellow Warden nigga that is literally a loser virgin that jacks off in the bushes) hoe as a means of fulfilling her wish of a demon spawn baby all while RP'ing as a racist vengeful City Elf who wouldnt dare touch human filth like her or Lilliana (humans were the only female romance options in DA1) just to see their eventual bastard child in DA3 being acknowledged was a chef's kiss moment, especially considering Allistair was still childless otherwise meaning a demon spawn would inherit Allistair's kingdom thereby inadvertently doing Morrigan a favor in the long run.
>the batarian are not dead???
>>750218970>even EA wouldn't be retarded enough to close Bioware down right before they were about to drop a big IP400 people averaging annual salary of $100,000 is 40 million dollars, 80 million for two years. You take into account overhead and that realistically not everyone is making six figures and we can still say it costs 80 million dollars to operate Bioware for those two years. Even if you take into account the government rebates for media production, which in some ridiculous cases can cover like 50% of salaries it's still going to cost Bioware 40 million fucking dollars to get Mass Effect out the door.I'm just throwing this shit out there but I think we can safely guess that no Bioware game has even come close to making 40 million dollars in the past decade because that would mean Veilguard selling 600,000 fucking copies at $60, which we all know didn't happen lifetime because Day 1 peak population was 50k. EA has already spent the salaries making the game up to this point, it is not irrational for them to kill it now and not risk the 40 million on what is almost certainly not going to recoup the past year's 40 million dollar operating costs let alone however much money Bioware has spent cooking this turd.The only reason to blame EA was for not shutting down the company sooner. I suppose you can argue that keeping them around meant you can post losses to offset profits and pay less tax but that seems like a real fucking stupid reason to keep an entire shit studio running.
>>750218119>You could even romance Liara, despite her being essentially your "mom".It's actually never been more over
>>750218119A space noir-western is what this series always should have been aiming for. It's shocking that it took them so long to realize that and start working towards it.
