Mass Effect is kill

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They shouldn't be. They took a series that was a well-liked outside of Holla Forums cash cow of a series and destroyed it with a single, grand, spectacular fuck-up. This isn't the first or even the 20th adventure game BioWare put together. There's no excusing how bad this thing turned out to be.

But muh turian romances!

So where there any good companions or romances in andromeda?

And nothing of value was lost.

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Lay it to rest.

It'll be back in five years.

Why do Bioware characters walk like they have a stick up their ass?

They get all of Bethesda's rejects

Old news. We've already had threads for this.

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I enjoyed the first two as well.
2 is viewed somewhat poorly these days, not undeservedly, but lot of the problems have to do with its place as a sequel to ME1, and because it was the first I played in the series those problems weren't necessarily a big deal for me at the time. It definitely still has its share of issues on its own, but the ones you notice coming from ME1 are the most aggravating, and I didn't discover them until I came back to it after playing ME1.

Mass Effect 2 works fine as a 'random space adventure' simulator. If it was a spinoff or something it would've been just fine, the fact that it's a sequel with no actual plot progression makes it's placement in the trilogy fucking moot. Compared to ME3 though, I'd rather just pretend the Reapers never made it to the milky way.

I think Mass Effect should have had new characters and new stories with every sequel, similar to the old sci-fi anthologies. The Reaper arc and Shepard's story could have ended with ME1, sort of like a typical Lovecraft story just ends without explaining the actual source of the monsters or whether they'll come back. ME2 would have worked out great if you were just a Cerberus operative investigating mysterious disappearances of human colonists.

Why

That's pretty much exactly how I've felt since playing 1.
It doesn't help that the one thing from ME2 that actually was plot relevant (when Shepard blew up a Batarian solar system, killing millions and nearly starting a war) was a fucking DLC.

The ending of the first game is self-contained enough to pretend that. Their means of getting here is sealed, and it'll take them millennia of travelling through intergalactic space to get here now, making it Someone Else's Problem. Bioware never actually came up with a reason for how the Reapers got there in 3 IIRC, so it should be a fairly easy thing to pretend that at the ending of 1 the threat was over for the next few thousand years.

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It wasn't a single fuck-up. Mass Effect 3 was the grand, spectacular fuck-up. Andromeda was the nail in the coffin.

I had never felt the same as I did when I was finishing ME3.
I turned off the game, went to my bed, and stared at the wall in the darkness as I tried to understand what feelings I was feeling.
Bioware did me a favor with that game, I never bought a game on release since.

I was about to shit on you for being dumb enough to buy the on-disk DLC, but you're not one of those "only the ending was bad!" people so I'll give you a pass

I ditched the fucking series when I heard about the Prothean retcon, and then a year later i pirated 2 just to see what's up with that bullshit, saved everyone but the bull dyke, uninstalled and never looked back since.

I want Platinum to make a Mass Effect game

Why not something new with the same inspiration?

Don't forget the Dreadnaughts somehow in-atmo on Earth at the beginning of the game when only the Reapers have mass effect drives powerful enough to land ships that big on planets. Those Dreadnaughts should've been breaking apart into a million pieces and scattering themselves all over the city, saving the Reaper capital ship the trouble

And this shit in ME:A

This is exactly how I felt. I felt so hollow and betrayed after beating that game, it was the turning point that made me finally wake-up to how bad the industry was (and still is) and I've had a much more jaded and bitter outlook on all forms of media.

It truly perplexes me that anyone could have gotten excited for a fourth Mass Effect after what happened with 3 (but obviously judging from sales not a lot of people did).

Good riddance to Mass Effect. Let it be forgotten and let Bioware fucking die already.

holy crap. both characters have the same fucking walk animation just their model sizes are different and they are mirrored (one is going left foot first and the other right foot first.)

ME:A was for people who only picked up ME at ME3, or who were entirely new to ME.

I know that feel, user, happened to me with MGSV

No excuse. Obviously even if that was the plan it doesn't seem to have worked out. Even most normalfags didn't like Mass Effect 3 besides the multiplayer.

Why not just make a game wherw a human falls into 2B's world and impregnates her lovingly, he takes responsibility, and the recreate humanity together?

Point is, the people who ME:A was designed for didn't know about the ME3 shitshow, or didn't have the context to understand why some shitshow they don't understand should deter them from buying ME:A. Plus we know Biodrones will always buy whatever BioWare shits on a plate and sells

don't it runs like garbage

You notice the amount of Biodrones that exist has diminished heavily jn the last five hears since Tortanic, ME3, Cisquisition, and Andromeda?

Oh, and Dragin Age 2.

It's like every time they release a new game they loose more and more fans.

Not really, since there seem to be more SJWs by the day. All of tumblr is pretty much a captive audience for BioWare games, so we know where they get it from

ME3 was a huge let down for me too. My story is very similar to yours.
The disappointment I felt from ME3 was what set me on the path to being a bitter Holla Forumsirgin.
There's a reason they waited as long as they did before doing something else with the ME franchise. They wanted people to forget about the ME3 controversy.

Dragon Age 2 should have clued me in to what was going on with BioWare. That game was a steaming pile if ever there was one.
But I naively assumed it was just a fluke. What a fool I was.

The game was in development for 5 years because it was grossly mismanaged by Curry Thunder. Didn't you read the article about how they wanted it to be like No Man's Sky, kept losing team leads, and eventually they had to bring in Mac Walters to whip everyone into shape

Yes I know about that as well, but I still think that wanting to memory hole the shit show that was ME3's reception.

but I still think that wanting to memory hole the shit show that was ME3's reception played a part in why the next ME game took so long*

DA2 sold less than DA1, and DA3 sold so bad that they didnt even released the numbers

Takes a few days to recover from an anal pounding and they do it every day.

And yet, for some inexplicable reason they're making another DA. I'm not even being sarcastic, I have no fucking idea why they're making another when every other DA but the first has failed commercially.

I'm really surprised by this. How far do they think they can milk their shitty tumblr-tier community?

DA:I still got DLCs so I assume it wasn't as bad as this one

Is it really milking it when tumblr isn't even letting them break even? That's what I don't get. All i've heard of all the Dragon Age games past Origins has been of commercial failure, and they're still making more.

Maybe EA kept giving Bioware the benefit of the doubt, until ME:A made them realize the studio was bereft of talent?

It's clear that there's a disconnect between the people who drive content creation and greenlight new projects, and the people actually running the numbers down in the accounting and sales departments. For some reason the higher-ups have been extremely forgiving with Bioware and their fuckups. Maybe EA genuinely thought BW was just having a "bad decade" or something and they'd come around eventually? Maybe EA was tired of being painted as the "studio-killer" publisher and they thought that attempting to rehabilitate BW would help them save face? Maybe there are shadowy figures in suits offering favors and funding to EA or Bioware executives in exchange for creating games that are supportive of certain political ideologies?

I don't give a shit what anyone says, it'll be worth it

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Everyone has been wondering this since EA has killed competent studios for less.
The list goes on. Funny how the one company we want EA to kill is the one they refuse to murder. Maybe they refuse to admit defeat in the RPG market and keep pushing to get their own Skyrim/Witcher 3 killer.

Unless she's pummeling your pelvis with her hydraulic pussy 150kg is not nearly enough to crush you

You goys crack me up. Never ever move independently from the pack amirite?

This, fat people still fuck without the use of cranes.

I haven't actually bought or played a video game for more than 20 hours since that game.

Fuck Konami.

Tell me about the way you enjoyed a game for a hundred hours, but then reading the contrarian opinions made you shamed and regretful.

Not saying Konami is not to blame, but Kojima fucked up that game on purpose too.

Mass Effect was never good.

At least in previous ME you had choices. Here's an example of the "choices" in ME:A. You have 2 or 3 choices based on the tone (professional, Reddit-sarcastic or Whedon-sarcastic), but the answer is the same.
And yes, the "writers" believe that having an AI implanted in your main character's body is ok. At no point during the entire game you get to question this, even after that mission where the AI stops the MC heart for 30 sec.

I've heard that Casey Hudson wants to go back to the Mass Effect universe. Looks like they fucked up his Anthem when he left Bioware.

They're in the safe space, the nuBSN boards.

Here's the webm about the AI.

Is that supposed to be impressive or something?

Dammit I can't argue with you or your dubs Majima.

Why is cum dripping from her mouth?

I still can't believe she's one of only two asari in the entire game who have distinct faces, because BioWare couldn't be arsed to run the rest through a randomizer. That's some next level laziness

The first one was the only good one so nothing of value was really lost.

which… one?

But the 6th game is said to be a lackluster user. can't wait for kiwami

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Friendly reminder the game was so shit one of the developers actually died after all the cleanup.
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the first is also awful

As long as Boiware is still a thing it doesn't matter, call me when Bioware is dead and buried and those niggers lose their jobs.

The doc's face was used for every asari in the game (excepted Peebee).

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It had mediocre combat, exploration, story telling and RPG elements but the setting had a ton of potential.

You're right. I must've been too distracted by Natalie Dormer's voice to notice.

Agreed. More than anything else the first game was a demo reel for an interesting and well-built new sci-fi universe that was full of potential. Overall the game design was substandard, but it was the starting point in what could have been an awesome series. Unfortunately Bioware is fucking retarded and crashed the whole fucking thing into the ground within a matter of years.

yeah but everything else is shit.

The first game was better, now Bioware's shit!

Jesus fucking Christ, there is no variation whatsoever…

That's not how you use it, Bioware…

Indeed. It's basically one answer and you get to chose the tone. There's no difference between ME:A and a Telltale game.
And the craziest thing was the doctor apologizing to the AI even though she was right to be upset and to not trust it blindly.

Same here, ME3's ending basically destroyed my vidya hobby and launched me straight into gamergate when it came around. That led to Holla Forums, the dark side and now we're battling these same SJW scum that fucked up ME3 in the streets in the great battle for civilization. Crazy how life goes.

In a fair world we would get access to the entire ME1 sourcecode and remake it in Unreal Engine 4, then make our own true sequels in a huge chan-wide effort.

Why do people always say that the ending was bad when in reality it's the entire game that was awful?

Because the ending was that bad. It made people butthurt enough to retrospectively justify the rest of the game. It's a damned good tactic too; you will always get normalfags praising ME3 "except for the ending".

More like the ending was such a supernova of shit that it outshone everything else bad about the game.

At first I too thought the game was alright except for the ending, but after replaying it a few years later I got to view it with a more neutral eye and these are the biggest problems I personally think what made ME3 so horrendous.

Someone at Bioware thought it was a good idea to make saving earth the central story point of the game. Seriously every Planet around the galaxy is up in Flames but somehow shepard the number one snakesoil salesman gets everyone on board to risk everything and everyone to save earth
Sometimes it all felt like a soap opera

There are definitely more problems but these are really the one I personally find the most reaponsible for the shit show that was ME3

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I enjoyed it to some extent but really it was so fucking out of place. Especially considering how there are billions of lifes at stake

Also a lot of people shit on ME2. But ai always enjoyed it as it felt like a darker verison of ME1 where you get to play space cop. It outshines ME3 by far

Reminder that me2 already was cucking the story, me3 was just the big black baby in the delivery room.

The fact they say they're proud of that turn only tells me that they have very low standards set for themselves. It's a fucking shame. If they really cared about their work they would recognize it as a piece of shit and have fixed it. But nope, they just let the garbage fester

This is what comes from growing up in "safe spaces".

Just found a poll ranking the mass effect games and it is pretty infuriating

Your opinion that Yakuza is good and ME is bad might be unique and original on Reddit where you come from, but it's lock-step with Holla Forums.

Who would have thought?

>Q: How can you be so calm about this?!

This….all while ignoring that some players might have chosen a different origin for their Shepard. If Shepard was born on a colony or in space, why would he/she care about what happens to Earth?
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Yes but fat people tend to be unable to bounce up and down much. Heck most skinnyfat girls cannot bounce up and down much.They usually lie down.
A 150 kg robot is a completely different thing.

It's his heritage, you soulless Hebrew.

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Why are you assuming Shepard's pronouns?

My femShep was ruthless :^)

Echoes of my own experience there, the first thing I noticed was how shitty the running animation was and then the flaws just piled up to that beshitted public lavatory of an ending.

I finished it in a day and returned it to the shop the next morning righteously pissed at the thing. The number of copies already in the second-hand bin foretold its doom, I'm staggered that 4 got green-lit.

Do you remember, Holla Forums?

Because female Shepard doesn't matter.

The pervasive belief among normalfags at the time was that Mass Effect 3 was a great game with a really bad ending. Despite the massive PR disaster it was (unfortunately) still a very successful game.

Get that shit ported to PC and we'll fucking play it, consoles are for 12 year olds.

This was really crazy to me too. They tried to justify it by saying Earth was getting the worst of it. By what fucking measure? Garrus' home world had fires on it big enough to see from orbit.
Remember in ME2 where it was established that reapers look like whatever race was used to create them? The ME3 team didn't. Every reaper looks the same. Lazy bullshit.
The Citadel DLC dialogue was pure cringe. It's like they got an intern to write it.

I liked ME2 as well, but apparently the ME3 team didn't. Not a single original squadmate from ME2 made it into the ME3 squad. ME2's squadmates were its strongest point with how well fleshed out they were, and they didn't use a single fucking one. Most of them had no discernible reason as for why they couldn't join you either.

Oh god it's already so clunky and bad.

Is that semen?

Hang on what is that Asari uniform texture? It looks like a 5 times recompressed zoomed in .jpeg.

Hah it flips to a higher res, twice!.

Squinty left eye

They can't animate hands either

Every time I see more it looks worse, porn modders do better work than this.

AHHHHH

Have any games made with Frostbyte been any good? Is the number above zero?

The multi-story train-wreck that is Andromeda looks like it was made on an engine not out of beta its self, I'm guessing it's a combination of the engine being crappy and monumental ineptitude on the part of the programmers.

True.

It's worse, they started making the game on UE4 then when Casey Hudson left Bioware they switched directors a bunch of times and one of them wanted to use Frostbite. Then at one point someone wanted to change their modeling software so a bunch of devs had to learn how to use it, etc.
Using Frostbite for MEA was a mistake, it can't handle big open world maps, there are times where the game freezes to load a part of the environment, it happens when the player is driving the not-mako (I forgot the name).
I still don't understand how they could ship a game like that. The amount of bugs at launch was huge (like the issue with the shaders that made the characters lifeless). It's like if no one even bothered to play the game before and after it went gold.

It seems that only Dice people know how to use it.
When Bioware used Frostbite for Cisquisition, all their characters had greasy skins and they didn't know how to fix it.
Danger Close used it for MoH: Warfighter but I haven't played that game so I don't know if they took advantage of the engine.

It was written by Bioware. Diversity is different colored humans having the exact same opinions and you're surprised all the responses are exactly the same?

At this point Frostbyte is just a giant marketing meme that gets pushed by EA

From what I understand the engine was not built for RPGs at all, especially not open-world ones, so I'm not surprised that DA:I and ME:A felt like unpolished shit

Why do we always have the same fucking threads?
80% of the userbase here is braindead.

my face is too tired

rip

mass effect was never good

I avoided the last piss ripping thread cos I was oversaturated but now my hump has shrunken a little so I need a hate re-fill.

True but at times it was better than nothing.

Your bitching and moaning sure is constructive.

Biocuck Infinite was the game which made me jaded and wary of all AAA garbage. We can jump to our deaths together.

it's still shit

it pretends to be an RPG while it's just a soporific, slow action game, really more of a shitty western 3D dating sim in space that wants to be a very poor rip-off of the original KOTOR and dont even succeed at that