Mass Effect

Caldwin

Eorzean Idiot
Citizen
I mean...I would've say that's a good point, but then Baldur's Gate III and Cyberpunk 2077 exist.
 

The Mighty Mollusk

Scream all you like, 'cause we're all mad here
Citizen
They didn't have some crank journalist complaining about the game being a "sex simulator" without actually playing it.
 

GodSentinelOmega

The Terror that Posts in the Night!
Staff member
Council of Elders
Citizen
Oh yeah, that whole “Journolistic” meltdown was as fun to watch as it was migraines-inducing. Some people just see an image ir a snapshot and knee-jerk into ‘yep, it’s crusadin‘ time’.
 

Caldwin

Eorzean Idiot
Citizen
Probably didn't help that some side-boob and a butt shot somehow equated to full frontal nudity for these people.
 

Caldwin

Eorzean Idiot
Citizen
Well, that may be how Vailguard happened. I don't know. I didn't keep up with it. But I'm pretty sure Andromeda happened because there were too many cooks in the kitchen and they were all forced to use the wrong utensils. And they were also in different timezones...so the more time critical ingredients just weren't making it into the mix right.

And that's about as far as I can take that particular metaphor, but yeah.
 

GodSentinelOmega

The Terror that Posts in the Night!
Staff member
Council of Elders
Citizen
I agree on that one. Too many cooks, changing priorities, changing builds, changing staff. Plus, having to find some hook that could possibly continue the story after 3. Or, in Andromedas case, dodging the issue entirely.

i remember watching the old video about an ’alpha build’ of a scene from Andromeda that looks graphically far, far superior to what the eventual game ended up as. Story and characters did feel very… odd. And the looks of many characters did not end up great.

While Veilguard does feel very much hampered by people who didn’t necessarily want to follow the dark fantasy roots of the series, in favour of a flashy, stylistic, but kindof hollow imitation of Dragon Age. On top of apparently being restarted from scratch several times. Since it was originally Dreadwolf.

Andromeda and Ceilguard were death by a thousand cuts, but in many ways and for many different reasons.
 


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