• RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      Talk for yourself. For example, I’m forever grateful to the suckers trusting souls that effectively paid to alpha test Cyberpunk 2077 and gave enough money to CD Project Red to fix it before I played it.

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    7 months ago

    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.

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    7 months ago

    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.

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    7 months ago

    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.

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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

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    7 months ago

    Idk, i think having literally no one that has ever worked at bioware would be much more reassuring.