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Mass Effect


Kpnut

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Just a regular old text blog from me this time yes I know it's boring but I haven't got any images to add and wanted to post this before I forgot what I wanted to say. Sorry to those who came for my images.

 

Anyway with the Steam summer sale going on right now I decided to pick up Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 for PC (combined ME1 and ME2 digital deluxe in the bundle cost me £5.47) and got to thinking about Mass Effect Andromeda. Now when ME:A was announced I stated that I hoped it crashed and burned so that ME as a series could die before they fucked it up and to be honest that kind of cooled down over the years between me stating that opinion and ME:A releasing however I was inadvertently correct in my statement since the game did crash and burn with all the fuck ups with that game and that's what I'm posting about today.

 

So as we all know the game was left to Bioware's Montreal studio, a small studio that had not really handled any big games (to my knowledge) which was a mistake and, in my opinion, MASSIVELY disrespectful to the IP that pretty much MADE Bioware a household name when it comes to gaming. That was fuck up number 1, fuck up number 2 was them wasting 3 years of the games 5 year development cycle trying to add procedural generation to the planets which is a fucking horrible idea in a game like ME. The third fuck up was their staffing, they had a racist who insulted his customers in charge of PR and had a feminazi (no not a feminist) put in charge of the female character model both of which I won't really comment on as I don't particularly care about due to me not having any interest in the game in the first place but needs mentioned.

 

So those are the problems now I'm going to say what they should have done differently plus some things that would have piqued my interest in the game.

 

First off don't palm it off to an inexperienced second studio that (to my knowledge) has only made parts of games and probably did some QA testing, it's disrespectful to the franchise that made you famous and a studio like that could not have handled it. Secondly don't try fucking about with something you don't have the knowledge and/or talent to pull off especially if you've only got a 5 year dev cycle, rather than wasting time fucking about with something you can't pull off actually use the time to develop the stuff you can (fucking animations for example) and finally don't hire a PR guy who has nothing but contempt for your customers or put someone who clearly has a fucking agenda in charge of something they can affect with said agenda.

 

As for the stuff I would have liked to see, it's literally just one thing, they could have given us the ability to choose our fucking race. You're on a mission to explore the Andromeda galaxy with various other races (Turians, Krogans, Salarians and Asari) why limit us to using a fucking human character? I would have loved to play as a Turian and this game would have been the perfect opportunity to do so. Why have some many diverse races when we're limited to just regular old humans? I would have loved to be able to play as a Turian (and no the multiplayer in ME3 doesn't fucking count!)

 

So yeah that's my thoughts on ME:A, some of this is mostly stuff I've heard second hand from youtubers so it might not be 100% correct but overall those are the fuck ups I felt they made as well as how to possibly fix them as well as something that would have actually caused me to even contemplating buying it at full price and was a massive missed opportunity.

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I agree 100% Mass Effect has always been tied first as my favourite game series and even with the backlash of 3 I didnt care but as more and more information came out about why ME: A Sucked so bad, because it seems it scrapped like a year and a half ago and they had to built it from the ground and when they were told the game wasnt ready Biowere still launched it, broken buggy and unfinished. Now I played on Xb 1 and it was ok, the game didnt crash to much and stuff worked sorta. Now I traded in ME: A (Something I never do) to get Injustice 2 and I gotta say I had more fun in 3 hours of that with the 100's I spent in ME:A I'm glad its back in the Vault and we need to wait a while till Biowere is done with DA 4 and other games. Leave Mass Effect till its needed and wanted. Heck thats why we havent got a Halo 6 yet, because 343 are listening to the fans and building the game they want not what they think we want.

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