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[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 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.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 22 points 7 months ago

Yeah, we'll see.

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 14 points 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.

[–] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 11 points 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.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 points 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.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] kawa@reddeet.com 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

iirc andromeda is set in like, a whole other timeline no?

[–] shani66@ani.social 4 points 7 months ago

Galaxy, actually. But it did feel like a particularly bad spin off.

[–] YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Sure, but it was called 'Mass Effect: Andromeda' so the numbering makes sense.

[–] kawa@reddeet.com 1 points 7 months ago

I think of it a bit like Fast and furious Tokyo Drift which is a spin-off but is consideresd as Fast 3

[–] Muscar@discuss.online 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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.

Well, I’m guessing you’re playing the patched and updated version, not the buggy mess that it launched as.

[–] Shalakushka@kbin.social 4 points 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.

[–] frontporchtreat@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think people were too hard on Andromeda. It was pretty good!

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Murvel@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Truly, if ever there was a face of stupid...

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 2 points 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.

[–] YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 1 points 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.

[–] Shalakushka@kbin.social 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 points 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.

[–] shani66@ani.social 4 points 7 months ago

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