/v/ - Video Games

They won't give up until they die, hopefully these two and anthem flop because if all do shit then bioware is fucked

>bioshit

>learn

oh boy, am i laffen

>>15251676

No anon…

you ARE the millenials!

Just fucking die already

Why won't EA shoot bioshit in the back of the head? Other devs have been shot for much much less.

>At E3, Anthem won over 30 awards including Best Action Game and Best PC Game, which was an incredible achievement for the team and a great sign of things to come.

>30 awards at E3

Im having flashbacks of another game.

>>15251716

anyone got the spanish trailer? about expressions getting stolen?

They just can't leave well enough alone.

>>15251736

>anthem getting 30 awards

please tell me thats a joke

>>15251759

I didn't know that this could be made even funnier. This is great!

>>15251759

thanks, anon.

>>15251775

GOTY soon, anon.

>>15251736

>awards for unreleased games

I cannot comprehend this.

>>15251759

Kek

>>15251736

>pre-ordering your awards

AHAHAHAHAH

>>15251800

well, I guess they would stay afloat by getting new investors if they purchased all 30 awards at E3

its not like normalfags know any better

for all I know, normalfags are gonna see this as the next game thats supposed to be cool and then play it because they think that their friends are gonna think that its supposed to be cool, and then, therefore, play it because their friends are gonna be playing it and talking about it

and not because of any actual entertainment value that it attributable to the game itself

Day of the rake can't come soon enough.

Bioware games are always an entertaining trainwreck to watch from the sidelines. Let them keep going.

>>15251866

Don't forget NGOs. NGOs are how (((they))) fund most societal cancer so in this case it's likely the same.

>>15251855

when anthem falls, ea gives them axe, thus they delayed release

>>15251855

some fool probably used a monkey paw to wished that they would make a new DA or ME game before they died.

>>15252247

The EA sports games don't sell, they're always bargin bin. They use the games as humoungous ad revenue and that's how they make money off of it.

Yakuza 3 and up did this to turn an independant game with little budget into a crazy hugely budgeted street brawler with HD graphics. As long as they keep making them they get cash.

if you want to take them down, target their ads, and show how little their ad sports games sell. It'll eventually cause a divide between their sponsers and games.

You want to kill EA? It's not about buying their games, it's about targeting their sponsors.

>>15251632

>Not looking forward to future train wrecks and shit storms

Anon seriously.

>>15252247

>EA will only keep a dead company alive for legitimately evil reasons

Eerily accurate to be honest.

>>15251716

LOL at everything in that SJW trainwreck.

>>15252247

How the fuck are they making money? Even the guys I knew in college who loved sports games don't buy them anymore, since they're exactly the same game every year now.

>>15251632

>Fellow Humans

I don't consider you human and you barely fit into the category of sub human.

This is just desparation to present the illusion that they have a long term prospect and thus Electronic Arts is economically healthy. Owe no it isn't that that FIFA through exploiting people with addictions is the only division making EA money and the EU is cracking down on them. No Bioware is healthy. Trust us.

Dragon Age 4 has already lost several top level personnel and Mass Effect 4 (cause stupid faggots Andromeda was a spin off, damn sjws can't even math right) is in preproduction at best and will be axed if Anthem fails. Hell all of Bioware is dead if Anthem fails and Dragon Age 4 will be their final game.

>>15251759

This is great.

>>15251723

I'd say EA is keeping them alive because they realize they don't have a lot of studios making games for them.

At this point, they have to make do with the cards that they have left.

>>15251632

If there's an award for the two least wanted sequels in modern times…Bioware just won.

>>15252298

The economy is apparently so good now that companies on the verge of bankruptcy not even 18 months ago are now being traded at historic levels. We're living in the single most blatant bubble in human history and nobody is saying anything about it.

>>15252338

How is it a bubble? Shouldn't economists be atleast talking about it, especially since you could easily blame Trump on it?

>>15252328

How hard is it to make a game studio these days. As long as you have the capital and some IPs on in cold storage it seems fairly easy. There will always be some vaguely respected developer willing to slap their name to a project and dozens of college grads that will work for peanuts. If they don't care about quality there is little in the way of stopping them.

>>15252354

You can best profit off a bubble when everyone else is still gambling on improvement. Once everything has fallen apart you can start blaming people.

I hope DA4 will be about shoah'ing the gay knife-ears.

>>15252338

I am not sure it's an actual bubble. It's self-contained to the companies themselves, with little chain reactions due to the nature of the market itself.

You can thank indy devs for it, as well as smaller studios.

If EA or Bioware or even Activision fall down, it really doesn't shake the market that much, considering the metric fuckton of people still making videogames that have nothing to do with them and wouldn't be affected negatively.

Now if Steam went down for instance, that'be a whole different thing.

However if you're talking specifically about Bioware and how it doesn't make sense to invest in them… Brand recognition is a thing and Andromeda still sold quite a bit, I guess. Plus, they have EA backing them up so every invester takes that as a garantee that it can't fail that badly.

>>15252382

I'm not talking about game companies specifically.

>>15251654

What I find interesting is not that people are fucking up franchises so hard, but that recently people are fucking up franchises so hard they actually kill interest in them, like with TLJ.

>>15252298

>>15252261

The reason those sports games are in the bargain in is due to people trading them in to get the next one. There's also the microtransactions. FIFA alone made a billion dollars with that, guess who is the target audience and how smart they are?

>>15252368

I just think it's a bit unusual, especially because it's a western game.

There is nothing wrong with loving your sister lewdly.

>>15252358

Bioware has a "tradition."

It's a big name that people easily recognize and that is more valuable than a studio capable of making an actually good game.

Dissolving Bioware would make no sense, at worst (best?) they'd fire everyone and get new people in there.

hahaha

imagine being so brainwashed that you will happily accept wait of 10yrs or never as Bioware and Bethesda drain you dry with Nostalgia

they are milking you in the most direct way possible

making the games you like into online only services with zero story

>>15252433

I have a hard time believing anyone who pretends to like those companies today even knew about them 10 years ago.

>>15251716

my god.

>>15251775

Just some of those prestigious accolades:

>Desperate Waste of Time Award

>MMO Trash Plaque

>Best Pandering

>Best Stealth Marketing

>Most Faggotry

>Least FUCKING WHITE MEN

>Most Soy

>Most Beta Beta Testers

>Least Competency

>Most Street Shitters

>Most Niggers

>Most Jewish

>Least Wanted

>The coveted 'Huh What?' Medallion

>I Can't Believe It's Not Overwatch Statuette

>International 'Shouldn't Have Bothered' tiara

Bioware is long dead. Just a corpse with EA's hand shoved up their ass to puppeteer it. I have no hope for any future products from that lifeless husk.

>>15252414

I'm not suggesting dissolving bioware as that would take time and effort, along with destroying a name you could in the very least sell off. But what's stopping them from doing something like things:

1. Firing most everyone and hiring new competent people. Or just make it so bad people quit, I know that would hurt the reputation but you can't go down from here.

2. Buying a successful enough small video game company and replacing most of Bioware with the new company.

3. Attaching a new company to the Bioware games as 'support' for Bioware and then having the new company take full control a little down the line.

>>15252379

your time will come soon enough human.

>>15252399

>fucking up the Asari this much

For all the bullshit Bioware pulled with ME, the worst of all is how they completely fuck up when it comes to alien races.

Loads of oportunities to put you working with or against beings with severely different biology and psychology, their needs and goals easily conflicting with your own most of the time.

So what do they do? Colored humans, wew.

Asari could be space squids, fugly beyond all we've ever known and no race ever knew since they project what we want to see onto our brains. This is pretty much cannon. So what are we gonna do? A race of parasitic gene-stealers that set out across the galaxy to cross-breed their species and absorb the best qualities of every other they find, using seduction and subterfuge to accomplish this?

Yeah, nah, let's just make space trannys. They are just humans like you but gender-fluid. Isn't that cool lore for a sci-fi game?

Let's also forget about all the cool races that we showed you in the first game and give you more humanoid-shaped races only because animating them for combat would be weird, you know?

What, you want one of those gorilla types that can't communicate their emotions to join you in battle with a huge cannon on his back? Fuck you, here's another green dude that can wield the same weapons and powers than you.

There was plenty of content in the canon already to work with, plenty of "diverging interests" and "weird biology" that they could hook up and make for interesting gameplay, there isn't even a requirement that your companions work the same way the player character does either.

It was just laziness and ignoring the true purpose of alien races in sci-fi: to be actually fucking alien.

>>15252844

An elcor squadmate would have been awesome, as opposed to bug-man. They wouldn't even have to program a way for him to take cover. If anything, he could *be* cover.

hopefully these combined with anthem will be enough to finally do them in.

>>15252844

>You will never get a Volus soldier in MMX style Ridearmor as a heavy assault class

>>15252335

He wasn't apologizing for farting.

>>15252866

I doubt something like that would even get past the idea phase considering how half busted the static cover in those games were.

>>15252916

[With a wistful sigh]: Agreed.

Now it's just starting to piss me off again, i really liked the first games of both series to the point i'd list them on my top 5 or 10 favorite games of all time the very least had the sequels not soured it up big time.

Say what you say about DA:O but it had tons of potential to become a great series but they really fucked it up.

>>15252866

I'd expect them to be more like artillery. Huge cannon on their back with slow fire rate but a lot of damage in AoE and range.

They'd be tough, but you'd still need to cover for them and deploy them tactically. They'd be great to break defenses but vulnerable to flanking.

>>15252897

Or maybe they wouldn't show up in photos or video, not in the same way at least.

Maybe they'd show up always blurry or with a glow that prevents seeing what they look like.

Or maybe they always show up with something covering their head, an article of clothing they actually use all the time but nobody notices in person.

Or maybe they evolved beyond the squid-ugly faces but you can still find a few of their fugly ancestors on their homeplanet, hidden away from everyone else.

Maybe their matriarchs are hidden because they'd show up really ugly in videos and photographs so they just send their spawns out in the galaxy.

But you do raise a good point, how the fuck did the Asari lived before meeting other species? Because it sounds a lot like soft-inbreeding.

Call me a pleb, but I bought DA:I on a whim shen I saw it in a bargain bin for 5 bucks and thought it was alright. The bullshit /v/ laughed about is definitely in there, but it's not really being pushed into your face and some of the characters are legitimately pretty interesting.

As for ME5, I might give it a pirate if they drop the Andromeda bullshit and go back to the Milky Way since I really liked the universe. So I'm not too bothered about this.

And if any of these games are spectacularly bad at least it'll give us something new to laugh at.

>>15252932

The second picture is a video feed of Matriarch Aethyta looking at a photograph of Liara. It proves my point twice at once.

The asari can breed with each other obviously. They can produce genetically distinct offspring, like all the asari we meet whose parents we also meet, like Liara, Falere, and Rila. They can also produce a clone, like with Morinth. There's only a small chance a Pureblood pairing will produce an Ardat-Yakshi.

>>15252935

> characters are interesting

I don't know how you got past all the terrible game design in order to explore any characters.

>>15252935

Obviously, not even 20% of the game will be that bullshit since even Bioware would be hard pressed to make enough content about fake genders and gay faggots to bloat their game.

The problem is that they advertize the game entirely on those aspects, as if every encounter with an NPC will be a variant of "Bull & Me".

Yes, it's ironic that the very thing that kills a lot of sales is what they believe to be a good marketing strategy, or that what they advertize as core components of the game are mostly just side stuff.

It's like a restaraunt advertizing itself based on the wallpaper of their bathrooms, but that's Bioware.

>>15252977

I think the gameplay was alright, bu then again, I compared it directly to the travesty that was DA2. Also, I'm willing to cut the game some slack because I really enjoyed the parts about running the Wardens in Awakening, and the game expanded upon those elements. Also, I just have a soft spot for Dragon Age, because Origins is one of my favorite games.

>>15252350

It's a model swap.

>>15252844

Asari are humanoid, the reason every race finds them attractive is because they incorporate features from at least the three other council races and probably more (human body shape, head fringes that have similarities to both turian and salarian features, etc). This still seems like it was a major plot point that got dropped, where Asari would have been a species engineered by the reapers to ensure that galactic civilization developed along the path they wanted. The Ardat-Yakshi would have tied into this, and Morinth hints at it.

The real reason the gendered pronouns discussion was a fuckup is that the writers forgot everyone uses translators. Asari language wouldn't have masculine and feminine pronouns, it would just have one set or have multiple sets based on an entirely different system.

>>15253248

>the reason every race finds them attractive is because they incorporate features from at least the three other council races and probably more (human body shape, head fringes that have similarities to both turian and salarian features, etc).

And/or because asari are extremely economically and culturally influential, meaning other species would be exposed to their cultural standards of beauty and attractiveness

This still seems like it was a major plot point that got dropped, where Asari would have been a species engineered by the reapers to ensure that galactic civilization developed along the path they wanted. The Ardat-Yakshi would have tied into this, and Morinth hints at it.

I find this doubtful. On the suicide mission Harbinger has lines for each non-human species Shepard can bring with him that states why that species wasn't chosen for ascension. He states that the asari were rejected because they're dependent on other species for reproduction (which is mostly false, and if it were the case the Reapers engineered the asari, you'd think the Reapers wouldn't state something mostly false as true)

>>15253287

>>15253248

“Quarian; considered due to cybernetic augmentation, weakened immune system too debilitating.”

“Drell; useless, insufficient numbers.”

“Human; viable possibility, aggression factor useful if controlled.”

“Asari; reliance upon alien species for reproduction shows genetic weakness.”

“Salarian; insufficient lifespan, fragile genetic structure.”

“Human; viable possibility, impressive genetic malleability.”

“Geth; an annoyance, limited utility.”

“Human; viable possibility, impressive technical potential.”

“Human; viable possibility, if emotional drives are subjugated.”

“Human; viable possibility, great biotic potential.”

“Krogan; sterilised race, potential wasted.”

“Turian; you are considered…too primitive.”

>>15252990

The quality of writing, quests, and game design is bad all around because of incompetent diversity hire committees who aren't very good or experienced at their jobs but have the right politics, gender, and skin tone. They don't advertise anything but the 'inclusive' aspects because there is nothing else to them, people unable to see that must have very bad taste in video games.

>>15253248

Actually, you can find 3 guys drinking at a table talking about the same Asari, each claiming she has mostly the characteristics of their own species.

There's another Asari serving as a bartender who's face changes a bit as you drink.

There's also some hints that what they look like is half physical and half mental projections on you for seduction, which makes sense since their entire purpose is to crossbreed with foreign species.

>ensure that galactic civilization developed along the path they wante

As far as I remenber, Reapers just wanted to exterminate life as soon as they invented synthetic lifeforms and those got out of control, immortalizing the strongest species they could find with a Reaper hybrid. Unless the Asari were supposed to be the ones picking the winning race or they were meant to combine everything good about the other races and become the winning race, I don't see how they'd help.

>Asari language wouldn't have masculine and feminine pronouns

Actually, they could have masculine and feminine pronouns, they'd just have an entirely different meaning. Masculine pronouns would refer to every non-Asari while feminine pronouns would refer strictly to Asari.

It'd be interesting to see Asari talking with women and calling them "he" anyway, confusing some people in the process since they wouldn't make a distintion between the gender of foreing species and thus the Universal Translator would never pick up on it.

>>15253304

>Actually, you can find 3 guys drinking at a table talking about the same Asari, each claiming she has mostly the characteristics of their own species.

This is an Easter Egg reference to an old BSN post made in jest. In-universe it just establishes that asari have features common to those species, which is why they all find asari attractive. Also in that game Mordin speculates that pheromones might be why asari are found universally attractive.

>There's another Asari serving as a bartender who's face changes a bit as you drink.

That's a reference to beer goggles.

>Actually, they could have masculine and feminine pronouns, they'd just have an entirely different meaning. Masculine pronouns would refer to every non-Asari while feminine pronouns would refer strictly to Asari.

We know from Aria in ME2 that asari don't have masculine words. It's why she gives Patriarch that name; it's a word that doesn't exist for her people so it's used diminutively.

>Universal Translator

The universal translator should preclude any kind of gender faux pas in the first place. BioWare just wanted to virtue signal.

>>15253352

Ain't talking about what is, just pointing out what could be.

Asari could have no masculine or feminine pronouns, just pronouns for "us that bear the genes" and "they who donate the genes", which the UT would roughly translate as female and male pronouns because it's the closest meaning they have.

It'd be far more interesting to have these "glitches" and "Faux-pas" with the Universal Translator than just tranny pronouns. I mean, that's one of the appeals for the Elcor as characters for instance.

>>15253385

Some asari don't even like being called by masculine words like "father" which is why Aethyta gets bitchy with Shepard when he says humans would call her and Benezia Liara's "mother."

It's very clear the asari are gender-less and either don't bother with, or even reject, the gender of other species. This is a lot more interesting than BioWare saying fuck the lore and suddenly tumblrizing the entire species.

I'm kind of hyped for DA 4

the story seems to be leading up to a new race war between elves and humans

we might get to visit the golden city too

See how these games are just retards jerking it over their fan theories on some shitty 'lore'? Bioware games are for people who halfway like games and halfway like genre fiction but don't want to partake of anything too challenging.

>>15253431

The counterpart to what Aria says in ME2 is what Liara said in ME1, that asari don't view themselves as women or female. "'Male' and 'female' have no real meaning for us."

Their "mono-gender" is either something indescribable to other species, or they're gender-less, and only called feminine because that's how other species perceive them. Either way they don't view gender the same way others do, and it's why it's so preposterous the asari suddenly care about pronouns in ME:A.

>>15251632

EA is doubling down now because they think that Bioware still has a respectful name, which they don't too many people got burned by Dragon Age cisquisition.

So when they fuck up, it's going to be interesting to see EA firing allot of people and wonder why they failed.

Here's how it works

1. We are making an ultra inclusive game for everyone to enjoy!

2. It didn't sell! This is because of all these evil male gamers

3. Journo friends write coordinated articles talking about how bad male gamers are

4. Bioware gets to make another game because EA has enough money thanks to the sports games they sold to dudebros

That's what happened with cisquisition and Andromeda. And it'll happen again. The most hilarious part about all the SJWs at EA is that they're only able to make games because dudebros and all the people SJWs hate buy sports games.

>>15251855

They have multiple branches, IIRC EA has killed all but the parent branch and they're probably gonna go after these games don't sell well

Why would I care? Real life is better than video games now.

>>15253522

It took me a minute to remember why they chopped off the front of the gun. It's because in the original orientation the front of the gun was clipping into PeeBee's face so the animator cut it off. When they fixed the orientation they never replaced the piece.

I can't imagine the level of incompetence this took to happen.

This also reminds me of another thing. Does anyone have that image of some soyboy saying "people should play as the strong, independant PeeBee as opposed to the under-aged, pedo bait 2B" or something to that effect?

>>15253567

>>15253522

Wait, shit, I just realized they didn't just cut off the front they also shifted the bottom barrel of the gun back. What the fuck.

EA denies BioWare is going anywhere. EA told ita shareholders that ME:A was a financial success. BioWare blamed ME:A’s low scores and questionable sales (which contradicts EA) on competition with Breath of the Wild and sharing a release date with that game. We’re gonna be stuck with BioWare and ME and DA for a while longer now…if EA and BioWare aren’t just bullshitting and saying things to save face.

>>15253590

Yup. Salarians are a short species. They’re not supposed to be physically robust or imposing. They’ll science you dead instead.

>>15253627

People are still making lewds of ME1-3 asari. No one wants porn of the defective asari who went to Andromeda. There’s so little ME:A porn overall.

>>15253590

Oh for fuck's sake, of all the things they could use this to write about, this is what they chose? "How to male" is the main topic they think should be explored by this?

What about having a warrior race suddendly capable of outbreed and outnumber every other species, including the ones they may still have a grudge with?

Has their culture shifted enough that this won't be problem, has the race relations improved to the point they can be trusted not to declare war in a few months, who even considered this a good idea and why? If there were Reapers around they'd have a point, they'd need the numbers. But in Andromeda?

Or maybe let's talk about a meritocratic society where the right to breed comes from proving your worth in battle in an extremely competitive environment.

Except, now there's no large scale conflict to prove your worth and females aren't as scarce anymore so what worth do you bring to society?

This shift alone would be enough to warrant an entire story around it.

But no. It's dumb males that feel entitled to sex. KrogCels in space. Fucking amazing.

>>15253522

I might be a noguns fag but the way

>her

wrist is positioned holding that gun looks godawful

will there be attractive females?

>>15253522

i cant get over the sanfranhomo krogan

>>15252261

>The EA sports games don't sell

But they do, they're the ultimate normalfag shit, at higher normalfag registry than AAA shit. In my poor country where buying consoles and full priced games is impractical due to how long it takes to earn money for them I see tons of people who get a current gen console and then just play the latest FIFA and nothing else because they're not into video games.

>>15252897

Innate Biotic manipulation of photons in images and recordings.

>>15253590

>genophage toned down by scientists while they were all in cryo (Bioware too dumb to understand biology)

I had an idea for this that justified it as such

>Cryo is a seldom used technology thanks to the Mass Effect relays and the general wealth of medical innovations

>The reason for the genophage's difficulty in curing is due to the condition consistently mutating while within krogans sort of like trying to predict the next seasons flu but every person already has the flu and its specific to them

>Some selarians are part of the check in staff that the ships would have to make sure everyone cryo is working right

>Run some standard health tests on the sleepers and find that each krogan has a specific set of symptoms that remain the same

>At one point a krogan needed to be woken up due to a failure in their cyro tube

>Once it was fixed the next time the staff check his health and find that the condition has changed completely

>Rouge salirans try to fix it

>Fixes it

>wake the krogan up

>runs test on sterility

>much more fertile but still hamper by the long term danger caused by the condition

>their kids would be immune

>non rouge slarians find out

>there was a small massacre on the ship while it was in transit

>early missions would be to figure out what happened to all the missing krogan and slarians that were on the ship

>many korgans were worken up and informed creating a strange alliance between most of the slarians and the krogan that would be cool for games plot

>not all krogans were cured

>cured krogan wouldn't be in favor of curing all of them in order for the cured ones to establish a single clan for the galaxy that incorporates population controls inspired by the slairans who ironically; if I made the game, went to Andromeda to get away from the population controls

>the standard moral thing would be to cure all krogans but logicaly the single clan with population controls would be a safer bet for the galxay

Vid related as to why nobody would have tried cyro when looking for a cure to the genophage

>>15253680

Yes, she has her wrist bent. Bad form, especially for a powerful firearm like the Carnifex.

Maybe they'll finally allow a romance with a Geth this time.

>>15253750

See this shit? Some faggot shitposter on a trap-posting imageboard came up with a better conflict story for the Krogan race with explanations for the cure and racial tensions between the same race.

Now imagine being paid to do this and coming with with gay sumo wrestlers that have pet peeves for plot contrivances instead.

>>15253667

>Has their culture shifted enough that this won't be problem, has the race relations improved to the point they can be trusted not to declare war in a few months, who even considered this a good idea and why?

The Andromeda Initiative left the Milky Way during Mass Effect 2 so technically despite the 600-year travel, they were all in cryo so I doubt they could "evolve". Then again, it raises a lot of questions in terms of world building and story. If they were all in cryo, how come some of these people managed to do a coup d'état within the Initiative and establish several outposts throughout Andromeda before Ryder woke up? I know that some arks arrived before the others but how come these outposts are composed of people from the different Council races?

>>15253567

>It's because in the original orientation the front of the gun was clipping into PeeBee's face so the animator cut it off.

Yeah, it's quite crazy that at no point the animator thought that if it's clipping into the character that means that there's a problem with the placement of the object. The guy just decided to edit and cut the model instead.

This situation was unbelievable because it's not a random weapon, it's the default handgun since the first Mass Effect.

>>15253795

why dont you just kiss a security camera

>>15253567

Imagine being in a contract where you're making $10 an hour and you have some fat SJW slobs telling you they want the scene done this way for their game. I would have half assed it too. Fuck, I probably would have done it just as a giant fuck you to the SJWs breathing down my neck. It's not like they actually know anything about guns, they just want an "artistic angle" and a "nice cinematic shot."

I'd bet some poor 3d modeler intern got stuck doing that shit. And they just didn't give a shit and wanted out. I'm not trying to defend EA, but Bioware is probably, at this point, a bunch of non-coders and non-modelers getting bossed around by a bunch of retarded SJW art and idea guys who can't actually make anything, and only tell people who can do things what to do. It'll be a good thing for those people when Bioware finally takes a shit for good, because they'll be freed from that hell.

I just imagine some poor college intern 3d artists thinkig

>wow I made it big I got an unpaid internship at EA over the summer for 3d modeling!

and then it ends up being stuck making a game you know will be shit for people who hate you and think you're shit.

>>15253834

Forgive me for going full faggot and wirting in the style of a statement that would exist in my vision of Mass Effect but.

While there is some justification to having single species ships for a long term voyage tech wise, you know specific medical requirements for specific races biology, the humans would not allow for it, citing an ancient idiom pertaining to eggs that is lost on most salarians.

>>15253890

That sounds most likely. I don't think even a diversity hire could mistakenly fuck up so badly.

>>15253890

According to a Bioware (Austin?) anon, no one knew what they were supposed to do.

>>15253989

Sounds like a case of a bunch of fish mouth SJWs telling unpaid college interns what to do to me. It's just a guess, but for a game to be this big of a fuck up, that's probably what happened. Unpaid college interns are even cheaper labor than H1Bs.

>>15253682

I mean, unless they find a way to make Turians and Geth unattractive…

>>15252298

>How the fuck are they making money?

They're bankrolled by the yids who own the money printers.

>>15254171

Depends on how much they’ve ramped up the pozz. The first game didn’t have lesbos till the DLC, remember.

>>15254183

They'll ramp the pozz high enough to literally display gentile ritual sacrifice renditions and shove on your face you're powerless to stop them.

>>15253834

>Yeah, it's quite crazy that at no point the animator thought that if it's clipping into the character that means that there's a problem with the placement of the object. The guy just decided to edit and cut the model instead.

They probably wanted that god-awful closeup of blue Shrek's face for cinematic effect. I'm sure it all looked very nice on the storyboard, but couldn't achieve it in perspective with actual 3D models that have bounds. So instead of panning the camera out or shifting focus or any number of other options - they just cut the gun. It just screams to me of some assholish egotistical directorial decision that was impossible to make reality, but they wouldn't accept no for an answer, so they had "make it work somehow".

>new mass effect

Didn't the latest one KILL them off?

>>15253590

In any other environment othere than modern Bioware I would find this pretty funny. But you can smell the soy leaking from the propaganda here. It's disgusting.

>>15254454

They got wired many many millions upon millions of dollars from the half a billion that EA Sports' Generic Soccer #21 raked in.

They're just as good as ever!

>>15253590

>Now I know that some of you got offended by having a young krogan court a human female but since the vid is literally about a krogan male trying to learn appropriate courtship behavior you are all going to shut up and watch it.

So literally: "You must watch my video of an alien monster fucking a (I'm gonna presume, white) human female."

They really pushed the garbage barge out on ME:A didn't they, covered every angle with soylent, poz and bad programming, it's a triumph of failure.

>>15251632

>mass defect androgyny 2: hormone treatments in space

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>15251632

Those are IPs that has earned them millions. Why would they give up? Shit, I want them to make new games. Industry has been devoid of laughs since ME4.

>>15254207

HE

>>15252298

There are younger guys who are now in college who like sports games.

There are countless European/South American/African/ME-an countries obessed with football soccer and are willing to pay yearly for a chance to play with updated rosters(even though they could just mod in those updated rosters no problem in a game like PES or something). I don't know about american sports like Basketball or Baseball or Rugby football but I assume it's the same level of obsession

>>15254773

they already did a mobile Dragon Age game years ago, it looked like a hero turn based action game. seemed very pay to win, but Idk never played it, just looked at the screens hots on the game page in the app store

>>15254729

>>Free use of AI

That's what pissed me off the most. The people on Andromeda used to live in the MW during Mass Effect 2, they know about the Geth and the Council's law against the creation of an AI. How come the Andromeda Initiative has developped several AIs (one per ark) that can't shut up more than 10s and worse: they trust it with their lives (literally) to the point of having a implant in their brain?

There's a side quest about someone who managed to hack into ithe AI server to prove that it's possible and that people should stop using them but the game actually wants you to find these people and stop them. You can't side with these guys despite them being 100% right about the AI issue. Later in the main story, the AI takes over Ryder's body and stops his/her heart for a minute then once onboard the Tempest, the asari doc is angry at Ryder and the AI but she ends up apologizing to the AI.

Lmao, they are not telling it to us. They are telling it to themselves. >"Anthem will bomb but we'll survive! See, we have started projects! Please don't leave"

>>15253667

>What about having a warrior race suddendly capable of outbreed and outnumber every other species, including the ones they may still have a grudge with?

Everyone is just living happily ever after, we just needed to accept them fully :^)

>>15255854

>How come the Andromeda Initiative has developped several AIs (one per ark) that can't shut up more than 10s and worse: they trust it with their lives (literally) to the point of having a implant in their brain?

Everyone is just living happily ever after, we just needed to accept them fully :^)

>>15251632

>Mass Effect 5 and Dragons Age 4.

the only way ME5 could be decent, would be making MEA feverish cryostasis nightmare, and rewriting the whole game with completely new politically neutral people, I have only played DAO, and that was okay generic fantasy RPG, so I don't know about that

I was in a chat with some guy who thought Andromeda and Inquisition were good, was impressed by the former's jet jumping, liked the writing and couldn't fathom why I was pointing out their shoddiness and glitches since the stories were 'epic' before considering me a "Bioware hater". Also asked if he should get the Spiderman PS4 since Red is his favorite color and already has the gold PS4 slim.

Guess that explains the audience for these games; we still have some Biodrones out there. Couldn't tell if he was non-white or SJW-lite. Potentially both

>>15257052

It was on a stream where a different one talked about how he enjoyed Steam Sales. I brought up piracy and one or two also did it but he was scared of viruses and was either scared of getting a warning from the FBI or had one himself already/someone in the family. Another was a girl who used emotes like "O.o" a lot and never pirated a thing because she didn't know how to. Just goes to show you how different people can be.

>>15251632

Killing leftists makes them stop.

>>15251654

Communist governments and jews.

>>15255854

The people on Andromeda are hand picked experts and rich fucks who can afford the ticket. I'm guessing AI sympathizer was among the prerequisites of getting in the arks. Further, the Pathfinders knew what the shit they were getting in with since one of their top brass leaders (the father) invented the damn thing. There's also a good chance the project was bankrolled by Cerberus so you can scrap being ethical out.

The AI Sam in this game is a sort of the "mass effect" of the game. It's the ineffable force persistent in their universe/story/way of life and I thought it was an alright take on the acquired sentient conscience idea. The whole damn thing is filled with these cool broad strokes ideas that their amateur team really didn't have the chops to tell. Shit, I doubt the main Bioware branch could do better.

>>15251654

>Do they visit Nu-Gaf and then think they are the entirety of the internet?

Unironically yes. They go through the internet to find the places that suck their dick the hardest and then exclusively use those to measure how their game is received. They consider them "true fans" and cater to them regardless of how retarded they are while receiving endless pats on the back for whatever shit they pump out. Does it reflect the whole market? No. Does it reflect their core userbase? No. Does it stroke their ego and make them look good to their bosses for interacting with the community? Yes.

>>15257450

I've just noticed… "Vega Bull Jr" is that a reference to Freddie Prinze, Jr. who played Vega in ME3 and Iron Bull in Cisquisition?

>>15260348

I want frogslut's tongue so far up my ass it tickles my tonsils.

>>15262088

It looks like Dark Void mixed with Destiny.

Honestly, if it was essentially just that, it wouldn't be THAT bad, flying around in Dark Void was quite fun, I can see it being really fun in Anthem as well.

But the thing is… It's also Destiny, and made by EA.

So there will be terrible "progression" in the form of a quick sucession in powerups at the start to get you hooked up and a slog of numeric upgrades at a very slow pace for late game to pad it out.

Every class will play mostly the same with very few differences, their visuals being more unique than their gameplay mechanics.

Weapons will be a constant stream of "Here's a Green Weapon with better stats than your Grey Weapon, switch now!", which will be irrelevant late-game since everything will come from raids or the equivalent.

They will also pad it a lot more with guilds that you need to rank in to get good weapons as well, because grinding favor with a guild is gameplay.

Also, the amount of microtransactions will be unreal.

From cosmetic changes to your weapons and your power armor to actual weapons and upgrades, as well as faster leveling and access to new areas\enemies, there will easily be enough that the base game will be less than 1/10 of the total price for the full game.

So you know… The usual.

EA\Bioware shows what looks like a fun idea and you know very well this could have been well done, but in the end it will be optimized to squeeze your wallet and that's it.

>>15262088

I want to fuck some of the suits. Not much else.

>>15262102

I hope they turn the franchise in to a mobile game.

Please.. that would be a fitting end.

>>15254219

>Skyrim: Funko Pop edition!!"

STOP GIVING THEM IDEAS

>>15262405

already did a DA mobile game, so a ME one would not be farfetched

>>15266379

There was already a ME one too. I'm convinced it was made solely to make 3 look better because it came out at the same time.

>>15262110

where is the tenga with force feedback?

0/10 would not purchase

>>15266463

ASS EFFECT: MESS

>>15252440

Fallout 3 released in 2008 and Mass Effect released in 2007. They were the beginning of the Dark Decade.

>>15252460

Underrated post.

>>15267068

ignore the flag

>>15267068

And here is the first game, keep in mind it was made in 2009 for ios.

Alternative link

https://invidio.us/watch?v=v_hRTPcnu1U

Now that I think about it. I would actually play an XCOM style game in the Mass Effect universe.

>>15251855

How is Electronic Arts not dead yet? BioWare is just an EA division at this point.

>>15251866

Source or gtfo.

>>15252247

Actually it's the garbage freemium cellphone games where EA makes its bank nowadays. Freemium may be a dirty word in PC and even console gaming (despite repeated attempts at inroads), but in cellphone games it's business as usual and people will waste major cash on that shit.

The reason they keep BioWare alive is because it has a (shrinking and disillusioned) fandom and established IPs and they keep hoping they can milk it for AAA value. They have the cash burning to keep trying, but they lack the vision and competence to make it succeed. If Anthem fails that will be the death of BioWare though. They will probably still make a downscaled DA4 (since it's already in production) but after that they will fully shutter the studio unless it becomes a surprise hit. If Anthem flops hard enough, DA4 might not even see the light of day. If you want BioWare to die, get ready to make a laughing stock out of Anthem like Andromeda was and then repeat it for DA4. After that the brand will be fully dead.

>>15252328

It also helps that EA really doesn't like their well-deserved reputation of running studios into the ground, so adding BioWare to their list of high-profile failures is not something they are willing to do if it is at all avoidable. It's one of the major reasons why they keep it on life support instead of putting it out of its misery. EA has trouble enough buying up studios that having BioWare die on them would fuck up future acquisitions/buyouts/partnerships/etc even more.

If an EA buyout of a company is followed by everyone quitting their jobs for greener pastures before their careers and resumes can be ruined by adding EA failures to their work experience, it's going to be a painful acquisition for them.

>>15262102

They would have to do with Andromeda what Capcom did with DmC and just pretend that it never existed in continuity. But even if they did that ME3's ending - no matter which color you picked - sort of ended the story in a way that it can't really be continued. Really they should just be done with it and move on or close BioWare

>>15267007

<"How can you say that this game is shit if you haven't played it yet? first buy it, then you can judge it.

<I haven't played it myself but i can already tell that this gaem is gonna be EPIC1!1!1!1! i have already preordered 10 copies!"

<t. not a paid shill.

You forgot

<WHY DID YOU PLAY IT IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT ?

>>15275770

There's also the popular double bind logic of "If you didn't buy it your complaints don't count because you're not a customer" and "if you did buy it your complaints don't count because they clearly didn't stop you from buying the game." Fucking fanwhores seriously argue like this.

>>15274279

What I don't understand is how they can have all the budget they need for a proper ending that doesn't kill the franchise but then do one ending in different colors that does instead. Was it some 12 dimensional chess move to not only get paid for doing a shit job but also to give EA the finger?

>>15278549

You only get anywhere as a game developer, let alone a suit at some publishing house, if you harbor seething hatred for your fans.

>>15278351

Well, in the latter case they tend to argue "Your complaints don't matter because you bought the game and they already have your money." Fans these days are frequently some unreasonable scum. There have always been shitty fans, but I feel like today's fandom culture has started fetishizing being a loyal, mindless consumer whore towards the brand whereas old fandom was more focused on why they thought the good parts were the best shit ever (and they would be less fond if you started wrecking that). There's a definite uptick in not just shallow consumerism but blind faith and enforced groupthink.

>>15281627

The isolation of people by technology has made everyone more dependent on the tertiary facets of social structures, peer pressure and the like, as opposed to things that actually matter. Sincerity has been made obsolete.

What if new Mass Effect was a reboot? Or a remake of Mass Effect 1? What if it'll be a multiplayer-only FPS like they originally planned with a separate spin-off? What if they'll actually go with their original plan for 4th game and make a prequel set during First Contact War? What if they just fucking made a ""remastered"" trilogy for eighth generation?

So many great and amazing ideas, I can't wait to purchase a Collector's Edition™ of a new project from my favourite critically-acclaimed science fiction video game series, Mass Effect™, developed by BioWare™ and published by Electronic Arts™!

>>15278549

ME1 was in development for 3 years, same with ME2, while ME3 was rushed to be made in 2 years, because new consoles were on the horizon, and EA really wanted to sell as much copies as they could.

>>15251632

SJW journos will still give it 10/10.

>>15251719

Most of us are millennials unless you're underage.

I look forward to the laughs. They keep getting worse and worse.

>>15251632

That pose reminds me of a certain serial killer