Mass Effect Andromeda: Shitstorm Edition - RIP Biowear

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Absolutego said:
They're about due for another hands-off period, and if EA got rid of the clique that currently manages Bioware Montreal and attracted some industry veterans
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Not gonna happen. Any veteran who knows their shit knows to avoid a sinking ship. Why do you think the people who got bioware as well know as it was bailed? Big names. Gaider was the only one who could write a dialogue decently without making it sound like a subpar b-movie trying to sound hip to the jig. There's others but I forget them at the moment. Basically anyone with talent has ditched bio ware and left a vacuum full of talentless dangerhairs and idiots.

They've shown that even under the pressure of supervision they can't put out a halfway polished product. Going hands off won't yield any better results.

The horse is dying, put it out of its misery.
 
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I've been telling people interested in ME:A's "strong female leads" (fucking lol) to get NieR Automata instead. 2B is a much better lead than Sara, Cora, or PeeBee and the game isn't autistic as all fuck. I'm just waiting to see how industry shills like Game Informer rate ME: A, despite its glaring faults.
 
ADN_VIII said:
I've been telling people interested in ME:A's "strong female leads" (fucking lol) to get NieR Automata instead. 2B is a much better lead than Sara, Cora, or PeeBee and the game isn't autistic as all fuck. I'm just waiting to see how industry shills like Game Informer rate ME: A, despite its glaring faults.
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Well Sara is strongly autistic. So much so, I can't wait for a torrent to get full autistic playthrough and hopefully a lego or sonichu mod. Propably won't happen for a year or two.
 
Male Idiot said:
Well Sara is strongly autistic. So much so, I can't wait for a torrent to get full autistic playthrough and hopefully a lego or sonichu mod. Propably won't happen for a year or two.
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Don't hold your breath for mods. EA is really shitty about them.
 
ADN_VIII said:
I'm just waiting to see how industry shills like Game Informer rate ME: A, despite its glaring faults.
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If you want a strong female lead, check out Iji by Daniel Remar. It's a free game that was initially released in 2008, and it features a very strong female protagonist who faces an alien invasion of Earth alone, and there's no SJW bullshit either.

That's just one example. There are tons of games where it's possible to choose a female protagonist, and some even have female protagonists by default like Iji does. There is nothing new or unique about female protagonists. It is simply ignorant to say otherwise. Of course, it's not surprising that virtue signaling morons with zero passion for the industry wouldn't know that.
 
ADN_VIII said:
Don't hold your breath for mods. EA is really shitty about them.
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The previous games had some, but yeah. For mods a game needs to be popular. I doubt a lot of people will bother modding this one.

FataBataRang said:
If you want a strong female lead, check out Iji by Daniel Remar. It's a free game that was initially released in 2008, and it features a very strong female protagonist who faces an alien invasion of Earth alone, and there's no SJW bullshit either.

That's just one example. There are tons of games where it's possible to choose a female protagonist, and some even have female protagonists by default like Iji does. There is nothing new or unique about female protagonists. It is simply ignorant to say otherwise. Of course, it's not surprising that virtue signaling morons with zero passion for the industry wouldn't know that.
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For them it is not a proper female protagonist unless its a feminist one. I mean, Lara Croft was always a popular girl protagonist, and SJWs never liked her much because she (used to) look very hot, before she got hit with the mediocre stick.
 
Lackadaisy said:
I thought it was the "Mass Effect Drives" in their spaceships :S
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:autism: incoming:

The relays got a very good tech that is akin to SW hyper drive. The ships' own drives are much slower, like old TOS/ENT era warpdrives and they are usually only good for travelling between clusters. That is why the relays blowing up in ME3 matters a lot.

The ships also use Mass Effect fields to lower their mass, thus making themselves easier to move, a trick that was used by the Imperium in the 1999 novel Eye of Terror, though there for only smaller ships during planetary landings in order to keep the spaceport unburned by their plasma engines.
 
Okay, so that animations are wonky and some of the developers are insufferable social justice cretins. Manufactured criticism for the most part IMO; I don't really pay attention to the tweets of any developers. Does the game play good as other games in the series? Is the writing good or poor?
 
So far I have heard, the combat is generally praised, the background terrains are good, but the story is usually said to be not so good. Alongside bad animations, that can put a dent in an ME game easily.
 
Enclave Supremacy said:
Okay, so that animations are wonky and some of the developers are insufferable social justice cretins. Manufactured criticism for the most part IMO; I don't really pay attention to the tweets of any developers. Does the game play good as other games in the series? Is the writing good or poor?
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Overall it's extremely unpolished. There's really no excuse for the character animations being as bad as they are, the gameplay is a bit clunky, and most of the characters could stand to be more interesting.

The premise is great and the story so far is interesting. The game's really not the trainwreck some people are saying it is, but it is extremely dissapointing for a Mass Effect game. This should have been much better than it is and if there's a good excuse for why it's not, I haven't heard it.

All that said, it's still enough of a Mass Effect game for me to enjoy it, and the emphasis on exploration is something you'll appreciate if you're into that. So it's a passable sci-fi game, but not necesarilly a passable Mass Effect game. It's gonna come down to what you personally enjoy and what you're willing to put up with, but in the grand scheme of things if this becomes the new norm the Mass Effect franchise is going to fucking die.
 
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Enclave Supremacy said:
Okay, so that animations are wonky and some of the developers are insufferable social justice cretins. Manufactured criticism for the most part IMO; I don't really pay attention to the tweets of any developers. Does the game play good as other games in the series? Is the writing good or poor?
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The writing is terrible in an excellent way. The only part of the writing that made me mad was the reveal that the Council fucking believed Shepard's Reaper claims from the moment he mentioned them. Like literally the moment he mentioned them. And they still did fucking nothing.
There are also moments of good writing which make me sad because this game actually had a lot of potential but they ruined it completely.
The game plays like shit in the beginning, better later on. I'm very annoyed that they limited the amount of powers you could equip to 2. You can kind of counteract this by setting up "favorites", but its still very consolized bullshit.

Only buy this game if you want to laugh.
 
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Turns out, ME:A is actually manlet propaganda
 
The problem with the Council believing Shepard from moment one is...well, pretty much everything. They outright state to his face they don't believe him, not even Udina believes in the Reaper threat.
 
Secret Asshole said:
The problem with the Council believing Shepard from moment one is...well, pretty much everything. They outright state to his face they don't believe him, not even Udina believes in the Reaper threat.
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Imagine being galactic leaders who learn of a threat that will lead to the extinction of your species and every other advanced one in the galaxy. Now imagine somehow not doing anything about it.
Bioware writers are retarded.
 
Secret Asshole said:
The problem with the Council believing Shepard from moment one is...well, pretty much everything. They outright state to his face they don't believe him, not even Udina believes in the Reaper threat.
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There was a small amount of time right after Sovreign's attack that they believed it, but as time went on, study of Sovreign's remains told them nothing, and no new evidence emerged, so they stopped believing. That actually makes sense. They wouldn't be good government officials if they just poured all of their species' resources into preperation for an invasion they had no tangible evidence was coming. So does Andromeda actually retcon it to the Council believing him the whole time? Because that would be pretty dumb.
 
testaclesemaximus said:
There was a small amount of time right after Sovreign's attack that they believed it, but as time went on, study of Sovreign's remains told them nothing, and no new evidence emerged, so they stopped believing. That actually makes sense. They wouldn't be good government officials if they just poured all of their species' resources into preperation for an invasion they had no tangible evidence was coming. So does Andromeda actually retcon it to the Council believing him the whole time? Because that would be pretty dumb.
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Andromeda says that the Council believed him when Shepard first made claims about the Reapers existing. That's pre-Citadel attack.
 
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