Good point. I highly doubt they're jumping with joy over at Bioware/EA right now.If the devs bonus are tied to metacritic score (which does happen)
No, I dont think they'd be happy.
Good point. I highly doubt they're jumping with joy over at Bioware/EA right now.If the devs bonus are tied to metacritic score (which does happen)
No, I dont think they'd be happy.
Well, from what I read, it's the same 10 seconds of sex and pillow talk after. Just this time apparently you actually see some thrusting!!
Hardcore
Just saw one of the sex scenes. Guess I'm going to buy this game after all.
Edmonton was doing Inquisition and then moved onto Casey Hudson's new IP.Why did they change Mass Effect developers in the first place? And why bring such a huge game over to a studio who has never developed something this huge before?
:lol you should just start buying those lewd VN games.
The bar has been raised, while BioWare has continued stripping out features and content out of their games.
PM for lewd websites with good narrativeIt might be cheaper and um, quicker too.And the quality of the writing doesn't seem too different.
One person is not responsible for this game. The comparison is crazy. Studying for a test is straightforward. Getting hundreds of people to work together over the course of years of bad management and grueling work? Not so straightforward. The people who worked in an environment like that, put in the hours, and produced a game that millions of people are going to enjoy have every right to be proud, lowish Metascore or not.
reading the reviews make it sound like the game is DA:I... collectathon without much meat. I'm really not that interested in endless, meaningless side content.
How reliable is that site ? Most of the "cons" sounds likely given the state of the game. I sure as hell wouldn't want to be at Bioware Montreal right now, heads will roll (and probably the wrong as it often the case)
What bar?
Well before Dragon Age II and any subsequent releases, there exists games such as Baldur's Gate II, Gothic, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Although a popular sentiment, you never needed The Witcher 3 to see through Dragon Age: Inquisition or Fallout 4.
I think you'll think the game is 'ok' but nothing great. The real question is whether you'll feel like you've wasted your money or not. If money isn't an issue and you buy every game you want, then you'll be fine. If on the other hand you pass on some other highly rated game, good, or service to buy Andromeda, I think you'll feel cheated.I really liked Mass Effect 2, and to a lesser extent, Mass Effect 3.
Will I like Andromeda or is the game a borefest?
So far I'm enjoying it.
Saw this on twitter
Ummm, Hello Games made tons of cash off knowingly lying and working to decieve people regarding their product. It's one of the best sellers from the period it launched. They made so much money they're opening their own publishing arm. Lying definitely fucking pays. Long-term it might be a negative, maybe, but it's terrific in the short-term.
Not saying that's the case with Bioware, just pointing out that honest marketing isn't the game changer you'd hope it would be.
Mac Walters needs to go. I can excuse the other staff but he needs to go. He along with Chris Schlerf had almost near complete freedom to shape the writing however they wanted. This is the best they can come up with after 3-4 years? There can be a whole assortment of reasons as to why there might be bugs/glitches/bad animations however there is zero excuse for the writing, especially the dialogue, being garbage.
Saw this on twitter
I played the EA access mission, and I honestly cant understand what all the moaning is about, It was never gonna live up to the Shepard series but it seems awesome to me, I would give it 9/10
Man, the Gamespot review worries me. Might have to wait for it to go on sale.
How many hours in are you?The animations have been discussed to death, rebirth, and then death again so I won't bother with them. Until I eventually play the game proper I just can't hide my disappointment at how such an amazing premise was ruined.
Essentially, Andromeda's basic elevator pitch is "you are head of a group colonizing a far-flung galaxy." That sounds amazing and practically writes itself. Internal politics, mutinies, harsh alien environments, natives you need to negotiate with and understand or kill and conquer. Instead, the game decides to focus on the most generic "chosen one must fight big bad" storyline out there and, as I've explained in other threads, doesn't even accomplish it all that well. Playing through the opening I got no sense of things being alien, or new, I was fighting a race of identical-looking dudes with an evil leader, I was still fighting the Reapers/Geth/Cerberus. Then when I got back to the not-Citadel I just became Shepherd: Slightly Awkward Edition, a guy/girl who has to defeat a faceless alien threat in order to save everyone, I wanted to be Picard: Slightly Awkward Edition instead. The game even sets up a potential power struggle in Cora yet brushes it aside almost immediately.
That its gameplay seems to be so in line with DA:I in terms of overall structure just further adds to my disappointment, but the main thing I dislike is how such a unique subject matter for a story has been completely mishandled.
Yes it is. It's a fine score, 75 is a fine score, who cares if the other games in the series got 90s? I'll bet you that there were tons of people who worked really hard and achieved a lot in making this game. Sure, it didn't turn out exactly as everyone hoped, but there's no magical cookbook for making a perfect multi-million dollar piece of software. I can see us being disappointed, I'm disappointed, but the people who worked on the game? I see no reason why they should feel bad.
Space PI sounds interesting.Next Mass Effect (assuming they ever make one) should focus on you running around the Citadel solving crimes and shit. Space P.I. with a lower budget and more contained/focused story.
I just want Prey 2
The gameplay looks completely badass:
I know that I am definitely going to have some fun there, at the very least.
I've had a vision and here is what I think is going to happen.
The majority of people that wind up getting this now or in the future are going to play it. They are going to have fun. And then they are going to agree with the score. Loving the game and the time they had with it while at the same time wanting things to get better in the future.
Next Mass Effect (assuming they ever make one) should focus on you running around the Citadel solving crimes and shit. Space P.I. with a lower budget and more contained/focused story.
I just want a game where you play detective miller from the Expanse television series.
The animations have been discussed to death, rebirth, and then death again so I won't bother with them. Until I eventually play the game proper I just can't hide my disappointment at how such an amazing premise was ruined.
Essentially, Andromeda's basic elevator pitch is "you are head of a group colonizing a far-flung galaxy." That sounds amazing and practically writes itself. Internal politics, mutinies, harsh alien environments, natives you need to negotiate with and understand or kill and conquer. Instead, the game decides to focus on the most generic "chosen one must fight big bad" storyline out there and, as I've explained in other threads, doesn't even accomplish it all that well. Playing through the opening I got no sense of things being alien, or new, I was fighting a race of identical-looking dudes with an evil leader, I was still fighting the Reapers/Geth/Cerberus. Then when I got back to the not-Citadel I just became Shepherd: Slightly Awkward Edition, a guy/girl who has to defeat a faceless alien threat in order to save everyone, I wanted to be Picard: Slightly Awkward Edition instead. The game even sets up a potential power struggle in Cora yet brushes it aside almost immediately.
That its gameplay seems to be so in line with DA:I in terms of overall structure just further adds to my disappointment, but the main thing I dislike is how such a unique subject matter for a story has been completely mishandled.
Next Mass Effect (assuming they ever make one) should focus on you running around the Citadel solving crimes and shit. Space P.I. with a lower budget and more contained/focused story.
I just want Prey 2
I have a friend so excited for the release she's on media blackout for this, including review scores. She's got it preordered and shut me down when I tried to at least draw her attention to checking out a review first, oh well. Hopefully she'll enjoy it anyway.
This will always be at the forefront of my issues with the trial. Honestly thought the animation criticism was a bit overblown as during my playthrough it wasn't something I really noticed that much. But the very second you meet the Kett (one of TWO new alien races in a new galaxy, really?) they start shooting at you with what might as well be the same weapons that you have.
So much potential, but the result feels creatively bankrupt.
If its as good as Dragon Age Inquisition then that's good enough for me. Sunk 180 hours into Inquisition.
Space PI sounds interesting.
I've liked that idea ever since I talked to that C-Sec bloke in ME1. I think GiantBomb also mentioned that would be an interesting idea in their Andromeda stream.
FTFY
And so do I. Like real bad.
I have a friend so excited for the release she's on media blackout for this, including review scores. She's got it preordered and shut me down when I tried to at least draw her attention to checking out a review first, oh well. Hopefully she'll enjoy it anyway.