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Mass Effect Andromeda singlehandedly killed a very promising scifi IP
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Date: May 2nd, 2022 9:05 PM Author: big parlor double fault Brutal mismanagement of something that potentially had a lot of cultural staying power (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44442949) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2022 9:18 PM Author: big parlor double fault https://youtu.be/5b6qH48bslA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44443103) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 10:28 PM Author: big parlor double fault (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44451202) |
Date: May 2nd, 2022 9:06 PM Author: heady walnut cruise ship ape Huge hype leading up to it, nearly unprecedented for a video game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44442959) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2022 9:07 PM Author: big parlor double fault Which is insane given that EA was keenly aware of the development hell that the game was stuck in Iirc Bioware pulled dev responsibilities away from their primary studio (to have them work on Dragon Age) while dumping this half finished over-promised pile of shit onto Bioware Montreal, which was a reorganized "finisher" studio known primarily for shovelware at that time |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 10:31 PM Author: fragrant menage EA makes shitty games exclusively ime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44451228) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 10:33 PM Author: big parlor double fault We're talking about EA as publisher, not as an EA-created studio Bioware was purchased by EA shortly before the ME2 release iirc |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 10:35 PM Author: fragrant menage That’s even worse. They just crack the whip on Nerds. I’m surprised “BioWare” ever made anything decent if EA owned them. I’ve always stayed away from their games just bc they’re similar to Other Games that already exist (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44451263) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 10:43 PM Author: big parlor double fault Well the games got pretty bad after the release of 2 but up until then it was still largely (at that time) the studio that brought us Baldur's Gate and KOTOR. The writing for ME was typically interesting and occasionally thought provoking at certain points The main plot is an enjoyable Space Bond (Craig bond) trek through interesting alien environments that often broach on good executions of high quality high concept scifi. They were pretty good games all in all |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 10:56 PM Author: fragrant menage But ME1 was exclusive to 360. It MUST be intellectually vacant imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44451398) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 10:58 PM Author: big parlor double fault You put too much stock in the power of a console over the media put into it Unless it physically can't render the text necessary for it, good storytelling and writing can be found on most consoles |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 11:03 PM Author: fragrant menage Have you played Earthworm Jim or Mortal Kombat on SNES? Or mega man 64? It just feels wrong. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44451429) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 11:20 PM Author: big parlor double fault I got a copy of MM64 from the bargain bin at goodwill a few months back and ended up playing it late one night Extremely intense game, almost veers into a Glover or Nights into Dreams dreamscape experience at times |
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Date: May 4th, 2022 1:29 AM Author: big parlor double fault What console were the Oddworld games on? Those are the Earthworm Jims of whatever that box was (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44452198) |
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Date: May 4th, 2022 6:17 AM Author: fragrant menage PS1, shamefully. it became Xbox-exclusive after that haha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44452610) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2022 9:08 PM Author: Snowy confused gas station pistol ME3 actually (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44442984) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2022 9:11 PM Author: big parlor double fault Rightly or wrongly the shitty release got blamed on other factors and a series as popular and involved as ME gets a mulligan, for better or for worse. I also heard that the multiplayer in 3 was a lot of fun Andromeda was the point of no return; people basically stopped talking about the franchise entirely after that |
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Date: May 2nd, 2022 9:12 PM Author: frisky slimy mood nursing home the moment-to-moment gameplay in ME3 is the best in the series by a long shot, and still holds up well today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44443032) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2022 9:15 PM Author: big parlor double fault This is what I've heard. Supposedly the level of playstyle customization in 3's MP was good Unfortunately the gameplay in these is Gears of War c. 2008 derivative stuff imo and a franchise like this lives or dies on the strength of its storytelling, which Andromeda completely failed on every level from world building down to basic dialogue |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 10:37 PM Author: Self-centered Love Of Her Life Heaven ME3 was fantastic until literally like the final twenty minutes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44451277) |
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Date: May 4th, 2022 1:02 AM Author: frisky slimy mood nursing home the DLC is so good too (except Omega which is kind of lame). I love the mining asteroid mission so much, incredible atmosphere (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44452111) |
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Date: May 4th, 2022 1:13 AM Author: big parlor double fault I read about the fan service party mission thing and found the dialogue in it cringe enough to not want to give it a shot There was a yuge drop in writing quality between two and three---EA supposedly stuffed some unqualified women in somewhere and Bioware hired a few cowgog AVGN fat guys of their own to muck things up Iirc this was around the time we started seeing the stuff we now know (and still don't understand) as Gamergate |
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Date: May 4th, 2022 1:22 AM Author: frisky slimy mood nursing home the writing in 3 isn't much worse (if at all) than the writing in 2. the loyalty missions in 2 seem good at first but it's incredibly stupid that nearly all of them boil down to "fix this guy's daddy issues". 2 is the worst game in the trilogy overall on a mechanical level too, just an absolute slog on higher difficulties (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44452181) |
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Date: May 4th, 2022 1:27 AM Author: big parlor double fault The overarching plot writing in 2 was worse than 1 for sure but I thought that the dialogue much better than 1s. Lol I know what you mean, I think they used that 2-3 times throughout (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44452192) |
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Date: May 4th, 2022 9:21 AM Author: Snowy confused gas station pistol Which killed the franchise
They literally had to apologize for how bad the ending was and release a DLC to try and fix it and the creative director stepped down |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 11:04 PM Author: territorial coral useless brakes psychic games like that get worse as the in-universe stakes get higher (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44451435) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 11:18 PM Author: big parlor double fault 2's ending was cool but I'd have liked the main villains to be something other than the robot harvesters and instead focus on character development more throughout instead of spending so much time hyping an already revealed threat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44451526) |
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 11:10 PM Author: Maniacal cyan field libs, women, skin suits etc
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/6067ku/bioware_statement_on_mass_effect_andromeda_lead/
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Date: May 3rd, 2022 11:14 PM Author: big parlor double fault Female game developers are occasionally very talented and creative tbf Jason Schreier did a very good article for Kotaku that laid out where the different elements of this game all went wrong: https://kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mass-effect-andromedas-troubled-five-1795886428/amp His politics are spotty but he's still a 174 journalist |
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Date: May 4th, 2022 1:54 AM Author: 180 navy rehab shitlib andromeda didn't deserve the hate it got (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44452259) |
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Date: May 4th, 2022 1:59 AM Author: Concupiscible Ticket Booth Wrinkle it's definitely not a bad game, just not as good as ME1-3. reasonably enjoyable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44452269) |
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Date: May 4th, 2022 2:04 AM Author: big parlor double fault What (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44452279) |
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Date: May 4th, 2022 2:04 AM Author: big parlor double fault I enjoy bad games but I couldn't get more than a third through this one Obtuse, poorly designed crafting, atrocious dialogue, poorly conceived and written main characters, obnoxious quests and quest systems, etc. Company members leaking stuff to the press or forums that showed that so and so was aware of the state of the game pre-launch |
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Date: May 4th, 2022 6:18 AM Author: fragrant menage Did you enjoy Quest 64 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#44452611) |
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Date: March 8th, 2026 8:26 PM Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike: (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5099534&forum_id=2#49726959) |