> Mass Effect Andromeda > $40 M flop that bankrupted the

>>136033526
post the bestiality sex scene m8, otherwise what good are you to me?

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But its sooo progresssssiiiiiveeeeeee reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>136033526
people protested with their wallets

SJWs are a dying breed

#MAGA

>>136033526
Real good idea to shrig off 3 games of story telling to go do this spin off. Fuck bioware EA for giving this IP to an inexperienced team

>>136033526
> on day 1 they release a patch changing main characters face from the right to the left
This didn't happen.

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>>136033700
Agreed. If the developers are THAT out of touch with reality that they believe thats shit people are craving to see. "Omg he's so progressive making passionate love to that cute little animal"

Is there an article anywhere that details precisely how many copies were sold, and how much, if any, money they lost?

>>136033526
Also,
>>one normal (available for male character only, shows nothing)
Dude, it's maybe the only actually lewd scene.
Shows the ass and tits of the girl you bang.

>>136033526
>> on day 1 they release a patch changing main characters face from the right to the left

didnt happen. release face was always the same

>>136033526
Bunch of idiots... Shepard had become a pop culture icon and they throw it all away.

>>136034101
>he thinks I was joking
POST THE SCENE, YOU NIGGER.
>>136034211
>tits
gay
>ass
hm okay

>>136033985
Mass Effect has always been a completely creatively bankrupt Star Trek clone that went to shit with ME2, and buried the franchise with 3.
Andromeda was just the last nail in the coffin.

>>136034254
Because he fucking died.
And no, Superman is a pop culture icon, Super Mario is a pop culture icon, Iron Man is a pop culture icon, Shepard was a fucking nobody that no one who didn't play Mass Effect knew who he was.

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>>136033526
I'll stick to my blond haired blue eyed male defeating a literal shitskin (inb4 cartoony crossdressing in TFH and BOTW).

>>136034468
Or you could play actual decent videogames, let me give you a hint, nothing that has been released after 2005.

>>136034163
40m for development, 600m earned. fuck op

>>136033526

I understand you people have your panties in a bunch over this game, but I personally enjoyed it, a lot.

>>136034447
>Because he fucking died.

Like that matters... You literally die in the first 5 minutes of ME2 and get resurrected.

>>136034615
It was Ubisoft open world game #128904715098731098731
There's nothing to it.

>>136034642
So what, resurrect him a second time?

>>136034615
are you telling me i wear panties or are you asking me too

>>136034605
Source on the copies sold?

>>136034548
Yep. Been slowly weening myself off vidya for this reason. I play Dota 2 or Niggerfield 1 when I need my "fix", but Battlefield 1 gets old fast and I suck at mobas in general. I have a few friends who play console every night spamming me with invites. Whats the fucking point anymore?

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>>136034776
>So what, resurrect him a second time?

>>136035320
Thank god this worthless franchise is dead.

>>136034615
The combat/Multiplayer and guns are on point with Andromeda. Everything else is crap. If they had these graphics and gameplay with the original development team the game would have been amazing.

>>136034090
>>136034605

wrong

I refuse to pay for new games any more.

I'll always be happy pirating what I can, and playing what is available (hard copy) when the prices have plummeted.

>>136034909
It was an article from Forbes....EA did about 700 million in business during first quarter.....100 million from Mass Effect.

Games don't have to be that good to generate sales. PUBG can be pretty fun, but the graphics, animations, menu UI, all of it is terrible but it still sells a lot because it is pretty fun.

It would be extremely rare for a studio to not make its money back on a AAA title. It doesn't matter how bad a game is in the reviews. A large percentage of people who play video games have no other hobbies so they buy everything regardless of what the reviews say....otherwise, what are they going to do all day?

>>136035480
>the original development team the game would have been amazing.
Oh yeah, that team that produces pieces of shit like Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition would have been great.
Bioware is fucking dead and nobody will miss them.
Either them, or Mass Effect.

>>136035567
meant to say they did not earn 600 million on ME alone.

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>>136033975
>>136033526

That is what I do not understand: Everybody with two functioning brain cells knows that the SJWs are a small group and that they have no money.
So, why on earth would you pander to them?

>>136033700
>>136034101
>>136034429

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP--LcEwmoI

>>136033526
>the fact they made the female main character uglier after releasing the game on day one
No, they did this because the mocap/facial animations were fucking horrible
https://youtu.be/7KWkao73HuU?t=79

>>136033985
giving the game to bioware montreal was a mistake. they had only done mass effect DLC before, not a complete game, and splitting the game between edmonton and montreal was a mistake. also a lot of the good people left leaving inexperienced people on the project.

>>136034163
EA won't cite exact copies sold. the game budget is reported to be $40M, but the estimates are that EA spent a little bit over twice that ($80 to $100M). they won't give out exact sales figures other than that they sold 1.07M copies in the first week and hoped to hit 3M copies sold within a month (which they never confirmed later) .

most telling is that they neglected to mention andromeda at all in the earnings report/stock filings in the quarter after the game came out. because it was a disappointment. they basically gutted what remained of bioware montreal and cancelled all the DLC right off the bat which is a sign on how badly the game flopped.

>>136034605
there is ZERO chance that the game is profitable. you don't start discounting a game by 20%+ within the release week and selling it digitally for 33% off a month after release if the game is a success, and you don't cancel all of the planned DLC and gut the responsible studio if it made money.

>>136035743
The same reason you don't come out with your own real politicial views irl. Once shitlib sjwism takes over a workplace its like a terminal cancer. People who oppose it get fired or at best, shunned from any decision making processes. Good cuckbois get lavished praise.

>>136034447
>Star Trek clone
???
It's a star control 2 clone

>>136035743
the broad strokes of that line of thinking are that by being "inclusive" you're buying social capital to leverage into business deals in the future, like larger angel investors into making a specific propaganda-type title. You embezzle a big chunk of the initial cash yourself to the people at the top, and your worker bees shit out a low-quality product later on, but who cares you got paid and seemed like a great bunch doing it. Apparently this goes on in Hollywood movies alot more than games, but it seems to be starting here and there. I hear Uwe Bolle or Del Toro are famous schemesters in this way you'd have to google it further

>>136034548
You didn't like Dark Souls, Demon's Souls, Dead Rising, Assassin's Creed 2 or Battlefield Bad Company 2? I can't relate with you at all.

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>>136033526

>>136035567
no, you're misreading the article.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/mass-effect-andromeda/mass-effect-andromeda-sales-numbers

>"Year-on-year growth was driven by the Mass Effect: Andromeda sales, captured in the quarter and by FIFA,” CFO Blake Jorgensen explains. “Digital net sales were $681 million, a new record for the first quarter, and up $113 million on the year-ago period. The increase reflects strength in live services, together with our mobile business. In addition, Mass Effect: Andromeda was a significant contributor. Full game PC and console downloads generated net sales of $111 million, 32% higher than last year. This was driven by Mass Effect: Andromeda sales captured in the quarter.”

they never qualify the percentages. "digital sales" includes phone games and DLC/in app purchases on all platforms.
full game sales on PC and consoles was $111M across every full game they sold on console or PC. They don't break this out into percentages other than saying it was "driven" by andromeda sales. "Driven" could be 5% or 10% or 20%.

sales don't also account for the margin sony/microsoft take on console sales (30% average, probably 20% cut for console maker on EA games due to their size) or the cost of credit card processing/running the origin storefront on PC.

by all visible accounts, EA considers it a flop. they expected to sell 6 to 9 million copies total and 3M opening week:
https://gamerant.com/mass-effect-andromeda-sales-300/

then there's some NPD data which suggests that andromeda only sold between 3-3.5M copies, which wouldn't allow it to break the $80-$100M budget.

>>136035743
because they can get you fired

>>136033848
My face is tired from reading these posts

>>136035552
this is the way to do it, why pay full price for something half finished that is probably going to be shit anyway, I mean, I have no way of telling if it's going to be good or bad, most games don't do demos anymore and for some reason I can't really bring myself to listen to all those "fair and unbiased" reviewers. In any case, even if it's going to be a great game, there will be at least one or two DLC's + a bunch of patches, there is no reason to buy a single player game full prices at release, when you can get twice as much for half the price a reasonable time later. Multiplayer is another story, but I can only pity you if you are one of the addicts trapped in some MMORPG treadmill or a faggot stupid enough to buy the every years Battelfield/FIFA or whatever. Fuck video games to be honest, applied memetics and politics is way more fun nowadays.

>>136033848
bear in mind everyone who views the post I linked to here, the game on the left is from 2017 on a $40M development budget (plus advertising), while the game on the right had a development budget under $3M in fucking 2007.

>>136033526
BioWare Montreal merged with Motive Studios and Visceral Games to create a new Star Wars game.

all I see when looking at the thumbnail is 4 pajeets

>>136035751
>Stop it boner-NO.jpg.

>>136035751
bestiality, one goal of zionism

>>136036504
>Leaf division
Makes sense now

>>136034615

It's a free country, you are welcome to enjoy garbage.

The best thing about MEA was all the comparisons to Witcher 3, which made me try that game.

I used to think Bioware was good, and maybe they were...once. However, DAI and MEA are mediocre games more concerned with virtue signaling than actual content. Sucks, but thats the case.

Also, how can you enjoy that shitty game?
>blonde chick apologizes to blue chick for cultural appropriation. That shit happened.
>Krogan and girl-varrus talking about being a single parent
>same 3 robots, mean aliens, blue rebels every where you go
>thank goodness an ancient alien species built a magic planet fixer
>can't change out squad weapons
>willy nilly spec system, because you can have it all!!
>meet the trans npc!
>time to shoot giant space robot squid legs...again

I guess it was better than watching paint dry

>>136035743
niches are a thing
The problem is they're pandering to a niche in a medium the niche doesn't actually partake in

>>136037655
And to take it a step further, the niche they are trying to appeal to doesn't really play video games in general. (except the redditors that play MA)

>>136037655
and when you pander to niches, you have to do it in a way that's either inoffensive for the masses, or make sure the game's development budget is contained enough that you make money in the end.

make undertale and want to pander to a niche? doesn't take that many copies to break even. spend tens of millions on a game, almost (or perhaps) 9 digit sums? then you have to make it generally acceptable to a larger population.

that didn't happen with ME:A, which gamers were already cautious about after ME3 being a disappointment.

>>136037277
Bioware is originally from Edmonton, they just went full-overboard PC for their Montreal studio

>>136033526
>remove quality story/gameplay and replace it with progressive bullshiterry
>wonder why 90% of players disliked it
Wwwweeeewwww lladddy

I got it on sale because i like the multiplayer. It's quite seriously the worst animation I have ever seen in a video game period.
Yes the talking is as bad as we all know, but the environment clips, all the npcs look like shit especially the aliens.
The only option to make a white female is a day walking ginger with freckles. All others are of colour.
The only straight relationship for males is with the one character who looks most like a lesbian and even hung out with the lesbian race but for some reason isn't a lesbian. Meanwhile the character who believes in God is a lesbian.
I didn't even have a romantic interest in the story. First bioware game that's ever happened in. Dragon age inquisition came really close but the one girl saved it.
And don't even get me started on the story or how seriously they fucked up exploring a "new" galaxy.
The gameplay like weapons and movement is pretty good so I enjoy multiplayer, but single player is probably the worst game I have ever played.

Anyone ever consider that it's just a fucking terrible game with poor animations?

>>136035743
Vocal minority

>>136036080

I watched that same video. Yeah, clearly Derpy is so much better now with the facial animations.

>>136033526
END OF RINE
RINE END HERE

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>>136035751

>>136038436
"Just" is where you failed.

Thanks for posting.

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>go to a store
>see it for only 12 dollars

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>>136033526
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igxLpVN50Ro
Don't forget the literally gay Krogan

Who remembers the next-gen call of duty with fish AI getting fucked without lube by 1996 super mario.

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>>136039061
Some say her tits grew 3 sizes that day

>>136033526
>Target demographic overtly young white/asian males
>Main character is a lesbian woman who fucks black dudes
>Pushes other SJW bullshit instead of core gameplay mechanics
>Wonders why the went under

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>are the animations really that bad?

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>>136039399

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Has nothing to do with jewish meddling and everything to do with letting your company get overran by nu-male beta cucks who open the door for feminists to take over.

It's not a conspiracy or jewish trick.
They intentionally made all the dudes insanely perfect and good looking and made the females dog shit ugly because everyone there working on this turd was a female.

Once you learn women were involved with most of the game all your questions are answered.
This is a male character
>required no day one patch to make him uglier or prettier

Along with all the other male cast.
It was intentionally made by whores who didn't like the idea of all these beautiful women running around in their lame fantasy so they squandered it purposely so the virgin nerds who loved this series would find absolutely nothing likable about it.

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>>136035751
>those comments

>>136039006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO_-ezQBaZ8

>>136039451
This.
Look at Witcher 3. There was a feminist and a transgender in the game but it was a natural part of the story and didn't feel forced. American culture wars are forcing their bullshit into popular culture.

>>136039451
>nu-male beta cucks who open the door for feminists to take over
>Has nothing to do with jewish meddling
Anon....

Will the real Bioware team handle the sequel or is this spinoff series kill?
Honestly they should get Obsidian to make the next ME instead

>>136038216
yeah. i think the problem is that EA's involvement with bioware became fucking toxic.

ME1 is developed on a shoestring budget of under $3M and is published by microsoft game studios. a month before the game comes out, EA agrees to purchase bioware. EA essentially had nothing to do with the quality or success of Mass Effect 1.

so EA is at the helm and decides to finance a sequel. they decide to build it on the same engine as the original (Unreal Engine 3). bigger budget, a way bigger voice crew, removing annoying shit from 1 (guns having to cool down/the Mako), etc., makes it all more appealing. rehauling means polish. a much larger side cast with individual stories and relationships. the ending has a lot more consequence depending on how well you bonded with your crew. ME2 comes out and despite some complaints of "dumbing it down" it's well received and fans like it, sells like hotcakes. bioware sells the hype that your choices in three will matter like they did in two.

okay, so enter ME3. big budget game, big expectations. it turns out collecting the consequences of your decisions from the first two games in a way that is meaningful is fucking hard. development is behind by march of 2011 (for a holiday 2011 release). they ask and are granted a delay by EA to March of 2012, but still have to get the game out. massive amounts of content are cut

>>136039653
Yeah very funny hahahah you fucking got me let's rant and rave about russians subverting out colleges a million decades ago fucking marxists right ahaaha.
There, I sated your fucking autism, now spare me your shit and fuck off.

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They really should just turn Mass Effect into a hardcore sex RPG

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>>136039430
what in 7 hecks is this?

>>136039399
Worst I've ever seen in any game of any generation.
I stuck helmets on everyone at all times just so I didn't have to look at their mouths.
Movement is fucked up beyond all reason. The way textures expand and contract is super unnatural and makes everyone look like they're made of dough.
Anything that moves in the environment like machinery or something just clips through the world around it.

>>136036598
Lmao, more or less how its going down.

>>136039689
forgot how they fucked up the ending of the previous title? devs said, they wanted the player to feel bad with their shit.

>>136036598
this

>>136034447
>he

Femshep was best shep, this is undeniable.

>>136033526
As for the content, it's made by committee.

It looks considerably better after the subsequent patches, but they basically shipped an incomplete game and beta-tested it on their users. Probably EA is to blame.

>>136033526
right was an improvement. She doesn't look like she's a stoned autist

>>136039765
You're right, all of this shit with feminists and nu-males popped up out of no where and is being shoved down our throats for no real reason. Thank god we have such intelligent people like you here to show us the light.
Whatever, I never played these games so it doesn't effect me. Enjoy.

>>136034548
2005 was a shit year for vidya but you are setting the bar too early. 2010 is the hard stop.

>>136040005
I was a huge critic of mass effect 3.
But going back to it after playing this shit is amazing.
It's so much better in every way. Even the terrible parts like the space ninja and the ending are fantastic compared to this piece of shit.

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>>136039451

Good theory, but one fatal flaw.. What could a woman possibly be doing at a tech company? How did they make these characters uglier? Made the men do it?

>>136039746 here, continued
>javik is cut and was originally central to the plot of the game
>originally javik would be a mandatory encounter earlier in the game, and Javik would say the citadel itself was the catalyst, which the Illusive man would then discover, and then invade the citadel to gain control of it. instead, in the shipped game, Cerberus invades the citadel for no real reason.
>original ending feature the Illusive man basically mirroring saren from ME1 and being a reaper boss on the citadel, but they say it is too "videogame like" and instead the final ending is cookie cutter with the starchild and color coded push button ending choices with no real consequence
>originally a dark end where the beam rush killed basically all of your squadmates with a reaper laser (dependent on certain game choices). instead they all just end up on the normandy at the end. the extended cut solves this crappily.

anyhow ME3 is released, fans are suckered into buying it, and the shitty ending ruins the emotional investment in the franchise. the backlash makes EA realize they need to rehabilitate the IP even though 3 was a success, so they put it to the backburner for five years to give the reputation time to heal and convince fans that it's worth it.

so we hibernate the IP for a few years. they start brainstorming on how to make the game unique in late 2012 over criticisms in the stale formula. they say, OK, Mass Effect 1 promised exploration, but the Mako sucked and the exploration was fucking boring. let's make exploration work. they setttle on a no man's sky procedural generation. they decide on a sequel to the ME trilogy instead of a prequel (which makes sense, it's hard to write prequels without getting trapped in your past choices).

so they spend 2 years on this NMS style game, but they hand it off primarily to bioware montreal. Edmonton is the original studio with far more experience.

>>136035751
>Those shitty plant meshes

>>136033526
Having actually played the game I haven't even found any of the romances in 40h, but once you got to the last planet it has become quite clear that the whole development team was switched at some point when maybe 1/4 or less of the game was done, and it included a complete change in focus as well including extremely badly done writing and animation. There are certain elements in the background or at places which seem to have been done before the development team switch and then a lot including the main enemy and a great deal of the writing which was done by the incredibly incompetent second team.

>>136033526
Just read isekai light novels anon.

>>136036965
I can already tell that it will incredibly bad if its developed by the same team that did most the work on ME.

>>136037353
>Witcher 3
Great game. Lots of things SJW's would love but it wasn't about ideology it was an intrinsic part of the story
>Abortion
>Trans
>Feminist girl with superpowers who's bisexual

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>thousands of fans: "We like <game>. Please make another one."
>tiny minority: "<Game> is fucking horrible and offends us! Change it next time!"
>*panders to tiny minority*
What ever could go wrong with this brilliant plan?

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how did we go from THIS

>>136040399
to cut a long story short, the procedural generation doesn't work and bioware realizes this. unlike ME2 and ME3 where development fell behind, they now have dumped a ton of shit onto something that is essentially unusable.

on top of this bioware has been a better studio with lore and script design than technically, and they're forced to use a new engine (DICE's frostbite) on the project, which is far harder to work with than unreal engine.

since montreal doesn't have the resources edmonton has to help. edmonton thought montreal was fucking it up and didn't know what they wanted, montreal thought that edmonton was trying to sink them, steal ideas, etc... and the game development becomes miserable. many leave by the end of 2014, including casey hudson. Mac walters (writer for earlier games) replaces casey as the creative director.

they basically realize that the current concept doesn't work and they basically have to scrap the entire game. production is so far behind that the tools to properly use the game don't exist as the game leaves preproduction. by mid-2015 they realize that most of their concepts will not be polished enough to make it in the game. the decision to abandon the prior concepts comes only at the end of 2015, basically leaving Bioware a year to salvage a workable game.

they start the content cutting. many planets generated procedural to a couple dozen to just seven. the development and writing teams have to deal with the scope cuts. it leaves the stories, quality of the levels, and the animations/cinematics in shambles.

EA also farms out some of the work due to the development studios, including facial animation. the entire game is essentially developed in about 15 months (far from the typical 2-3 year development cycle). frostbite continues to cause regressions as a game engine (e.g. something works, and later in development falls apart).

>>136041118
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4LPhG7L1qM
Do you think this change happened because of the Engine switch?

>>136041334

What the fuck is this

>>136041485

Well you're not supposed to switch an engine during development

>>136041334
>comparing cinematic gameplay footage from bioware to modded, visibly broken content from bethesda in a 10 year old engine.

What did you mean by this?

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>>136033526
>muh /v/ideogames

Who the fuck cares?

>>136035743
Because they were loud enough to trick people into thinking they had power.

>>136035743
They can kick, scream and shout loud enough to affect more sales than they could impact by themselves.

>>136041118 here
the work done by outsourced resources (e.g. facial animation) is subpar. they ask and get a delay to early 2017 and then later EA punishes them for it (cut bonuses, benefits, etc. as a message the game could not be delayed again).

in the interim EA/bioware send mock builds to reviewers for NDA paid mock reviews, asks them to be honest. they of course say the game is good because they like money. EA/Bioware thinks it will be critically fine.

they release the game early on PC to EA Early Access users and the memes start once everyone sees how fucking horrible the game is. EA realizes the bloodbath and halts all DLC, the sequel to Andromeda is halted, and most people at Bioware montreal are moved to Motive to support other games. Montreal is a skeleton until bioware formally merges the studios on August 1st, ending bioware montreal.

tl;dr
ME1 was an ambitious game that EA had nothing to do with other than buying bioware right before. technically great for the price and looked good at the time, some gameplay issues.
ME2 uses the same engine and has 13x the engine thus much more polish and content, awkward game mechanics are cut, much love by players for this.
ME3 says fuck you to everyone who loved the ME universe. the game is not foundationally bad but story cuts hurt the sensibility of the plot and the ending is a huge fuck you.
Andromeda is a trainwreck caused by an overly ambitious and mismanaged project cycle that couldn't get a handle on the new rendering engine and decided to abandon a failing concept far too late.

>>136033848
>tfw no qt alliance terra firma gf

>>136041485
>>136041623
they did not switch from frostbite during the development. when you pre-render cinematifcs you can play a lot with the lighting and conditions for a perfect render. Also, all indications on tales from staff on the development team is that regressions after April of 2016 continued to hurt the graphical, lighting, and sound quality of the game, which is why the finished game released in March 2017 looks so much worse than the trailer.

>>136035743
(((Sympathetic))) people at the top

>>136041334
Ummm c-can i h-have the mod s-source i-its for r-research only

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>>136041631
>>muh /v/ideogames
>Who the fuck cares?
this. jesus christ, this. i mean i play them but i dont base my life on it. god

>>136041334
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS

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>>136036598
wow pretty much.

>>136036598
They stole the only hobby where weird white men could get away from the world that hates them.

They created a class of enemies with nothing to lose and no reasom to compromise. All because Zoe Quinn spread her legs for coverage

>>136041118
>the development and writing teams have to deal with the scope cuts. it leaves the stories, quality of the levels, and the animations/cinematics in shambles

This is how I feel it happened as well, and the content they then added is atrociosly bad, up to a point where you have to skip most the conversations due to how badly they are written and how bad the voice-acting is. Some voice-acting like Tann seem to have been done by some lisping assistant and are almost comically bad since they completely lack any kind of punctuation to it and it seems as if the person just reads the line without any effort put in.

>>136042131
>posts unrelated image about circumcision
What did you mean by this?

>>136042235
Is Tann the sassy gay krogan?

>>136041334
Never change Germany...

>>136033526

I liked the Mass effect series. I hated the planet mining bullshit of ME2 and hated the ending of ME3 but the games were solid and some of my favorite. Ubisoft decided to get lazy and handed the reigns of the franchise to a bunch of French Canadian dipshits to save themselves money. Now the series is stained forever with this abomination that they created and any hope for decent sequels is looking unlikely. Fuck Ubisoft and their bullshit.

>>136037933
>you have to do it in a way that's either inoffensive for the masses, or make sure the game's development budget is contained enough that you make money in the end.

The people controlling the story development have gotten so engrossed in their politics that they can't stop shoving it in every place possible.

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>>136033526
I'm of the opinion that commie techies routinely sabotage entire studio projects, especially for larger companies where the teams are so large they can sneak stuff under. Sometimes a game releases, and there are some unexplainable bugs, or blatant technical hiccups that shouldn't even exist - I mean literally impossible to not notice, and sometimes easily fixed by a fan. This is all deliberate sabotage from competitors or ideologically driven lefty freaks.

Always remember, the only stated goal of a marxist/commie lefty puke is to upend, subvert, and/or destroy the natural order of all things. They can and will meddle in, or completely destroy all things small, or large, that they get their hands on - just to make you and yours miserable. They are chaotic discordians, their entire life is dedicated to unraveling order, no matter how destructive, or obscene.

Learn to recognize it.

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>>136042319
there are more important things than vidia?
just try not to remember being in that thing anon

>>136042335
No he's the salarian with completely monotone voice, one of the examples of how bad the voice-acting is from the spoof videos, he says something like 'and this is director addison'. Apart from Drack whose voice-actor is the same as Wrex almost all krogan have terrible squeky voices. Especially bad being one of the female leaders.

>>136036080
>you don't start discounting a game by 20%+ within the release week and selling it digitally for 33% off a month after release if the game is a success
This is the most damning evidence of it being a failure. The discounting begins when you're trying to milk every last drop from the consumer side of the equation. Compare the discount timeline to other notable, successful, moderately-successful, and failed titles, and see which discount curve it most closely matches.

>>136035751
Lol

I wouldnt let my non existant kids play this.

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Reminder that none of this faggotry would happen if cerberus had a strong presence in the arks and TIM wasnt such an indoctrinated faggot.

>>136036598
;_; fucking gamergate.

>>136034447

Exactly this.

If you want to be a pop culture icon they have to sell your merchandise even when you don't have a movie or game in the works at walmart.

>>136034548
This. I play Postal 2, emulators (sega genesis mostly, a little bit of LSD Dream Emulator), modded Vice City and MSDos games (Apogee, 3D Realms, Moonman mod of Doom).

>>136034548

Paladins is good.

Hi-rez is a company known for making mistakes but at least they learn from them.

>>136042478
So go post in another thread.
Read the catalog and find something about baby dicks, which you seem to be obsessed with.

>t. clean non-anteater peenor

>>136042235
Funny. Drack is the only character I liked. I guess that explains why.

>>136035743
Women's studies, ethnic studies etc have produced millions of educated middle-class background people who are skilled at and committed to SJ activism. You have capable people willing to forego financial success, taking care of their health or starting a family so they can work long hours as activists, and they can call upon hordes of people who are more peripherally involved.

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>>136043046
lo, i didnt post it. learn to chan nigger

>>136034447
>Shepard was a fucking nobody that no one who didn't play Mass Effect knew who he was.

Pretty much this. Despite all the money games make, their overall cultural impact is so limited it's almost comical. Non-gamers are only vaguely aware of gaming icons Master Chief through cultural osmosis. There's never been a good movie based on a game.

Because games are wholly dependent on whatever hardware platform they're released on (in order to play a 10 year old game you have to wait for a re-release or a remaster on a modern platform) they don't grow with popularity or nostalgia the way movies do.

>>136042822

>gamergate

The funny part about it is that for the haters of that event, it was the day that both women and games failed to their expectations lel.

>>136043241
>Came to the defense of a poster who wasn't you

Top cuck my friend.

>>136034101
B
B
Bill Nye
The cuckold guy

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>>136043502
>>Came to the defense of a poster who wasn't you
i agreed with him. im not a psychopath

>>136036080
And Bioware deserves every single bit of that.

>>136036504
lel. I wonder what happens when you piss off, name call and shit all over your most loyal fan base? When I heard everything about the game before the launch I said "Fuck you, I'm not buying this racist piece of shit. It may have Mass Effect in title but it's just a repackaged SJW garbage" and I or my friends haven't bought it.

>>136043230
>produced millions of educated
>educated

>>136033526
All the pandering shit comes from muh romance.
DA2 did it right. You could get down with anyone regardless of gender.

>>136035743
Because they're noisy and retards in the publishing industry correlate noise with purchasing power

>>136037353
Bioware were the tits back in the day, then they allowed affirmative action ham beasts into the development process and their franchises went to shit. Watching these fuckers bleed money makes my dick hard. Fuck SJW's and fuck EA.
I have not spent a dime on any media that pushes a progressive narrative in years.

>>136043792
Plus they had sex bombs like Isabela

>>136043344
dude what ? also nice digits

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>>136037933
>and when you pander to niches, you have to do it in a way that's either inoffensive for the masses, or make sure the game's development budget is contained enough that you make money in the end
case in point

>>136043923
>isabela the walking STD petri dish

I wish they had condoms in that universe.

>>136043889
Story on this? LMAO, did Bioware actually buy into the whole diver s(ion)ity meme?

>>136044176
Absolutely degenerate.
But dem tiddies doe

>>136034468
>nintendo faggotry
keep being 10 years old

>>136033526
That's what happens when you favor propaganda over talent.

>>136035751
kek video game sex is just fucking laughable.
I don't know why, but I just crack up every time I see it.

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>>136036504

>>136040886
> whose bisexual
That's something you can kind of just choose to do. Really having hot lesbians is pandering more to men than anything.

>>136035751
women shouldnt touch game development. ever

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>>136036504
Let that be a lesson to every virtue signaling cuck there is.
Picrelated is how good game should look like.

>>136044222
Google Jennifer Hepler, and then ask yourself what this useless bitch was doing working at a one time prestigious studio responsible for classics like the Baldurs Gate series.
Bioware needs to be put out of its misery and serve as a warning to all other developers out there on the dangers of going full SJW retard.

>>136043344
Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

>>136034605
Next one will struggle. You can't fuck up a series with a shit game because you end up devaluing the IP. The IP will always be more valuable than one cash grab game.

>>136035567
Here's a redpill for you

Most of a game or movie's budget goes into advertising. It might cost $50 million to make a Hollywood movie, but they spend $100 million or more on the marketing budget. Typically 2 or 3 times the actual production budget.

>>136044619
There have been a few good female developers, actually only one comes to mind: Roberta Williams..

>>136036652
Yeah, that they fucked up that bad with an established IP, even after the shitshow that was ME3, which I pirated. I didn't even bother pirating this game though. I may get called Hamburger Hepler for this, but I liked the story and character growth aspects of the series more than muh gameplay, which was mediocre, really.

>>136034548
2004-2008 was the best year of gaming

>>136036920
What happened was all of the animation work was done in Bioware's old system made for the Unreal Engine, and only a few months before release did they realize that it wouldn't be as simple as drag and drop to get them working in the Frostbite editor. All of the animation work had to be scrapped and redone, when most of the experienced animations had already moved on to other projects.

>>136043318
That's true for many cultural icons.

Like how many of us could name a few popular rappers that blacks like?

Or how many of us could seriously name some pop music stars that teenage girls are into?

Or what folk musicians are popular?

Not many figures transcend these cultural divides to become figures everyone can recognize.

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I called it 2 years ago that it would be a massive bomb. Not even becuse nobody cares about mass effect after the failure of Me3, but becuse the signs were all there by E3 2014
>it's said MEA was in development alongside ME3 (forgot where I heard it so I could be wrong here)
>MEA shown at E3 2014
>all that's shown is one peice of landscape concept art and it's talked about briefly
>e3 2015
>all that's shown is the same peice of landscape concept art and it's not talked about
>delayed
>it turns out to be a barley functioning SJW shitshow that is visually inferior to the first game relasesed a decade ago

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>modders manage to make peepee bearable looking in a few months where it took Bioware years to make her shit looking

Too bad she's still so badly written and voiced that I'll avoid her like the plague.

>>136038929
Oh baby! look at those galgoodles on that Tx'oaptl.

>>136034548
1990-2005 is about right, with a few exceptions from 2005-2017 ofc, but they are rare desu senpai

>>136045131
the mass effect games were always decent shooters carried by the plot, the shooting was the interactive part of the plot. me1 did this with technical missteps, ME2 polished most annoying aspects of this, and three did this well (but the plot failed, and absolutely nosedived at the end).

ME:A fucked up gameplay, plot, cinematics, and everything else.

>>136043808
Get it, it makes fun of animal rights activists, protesters and muslims. It's pretty short, the animations aren't the best but it's fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=JSz24wcH_X4 0:33

>>136045308
I really hate how this cunt looks. Even the "fixed" version just looks annoying

>>136045308
In her romance scene option where she goes in the escape pod I thought you would be able to jettison it with a renegade option.
Turns out they really did make her that annoying on purpose.

>>136036311
Bad Compay 2 was good, never played the rest

>>136033526
I remember hearing that the girl that complained about violence and online rape culture because of GTA modders, became a programmer for Bioware.
Is this true? If yes, then there's the fucking reason for the game being terrible.

>>136039746
Dude, you didn't have to write all that to say EA killed yet another studio, but thanks for the analysis.

>>136045454
Gaming has gone mainstream, and as a result is has picked up all the worst Hollywood style cliches imaginable. Most AAA game bore me to tears, in fact the last major release that I thoroughly enjoyed was Doom - a no nonsense shooter filled to the brim with epic action, a smooth as butter game engine, wonderful graphics and enough testosterone to keep the blue haired LGBT freaks at bay.

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>>136045772
I found the picture that confirmed it. It was assistant writer, not a programmer. So even worse.
Jesus..

>>136045993
If I'd cared enough to follow the development cycle I really could have seen this coming.
None of the old good writers, all the old terrible writers, writers quitting, new terrible writers, delays and development nightmares.
I expected it to be bad, but it blew my expectations out if the water by being this bad.

>>136045814
Eh, I do software (non-video games). I often end up in bailing out, and then writing a subsequent post-mortem on why the project was fucked up and who's fault it was (hint: usually as the makers of the software, it isn't our fault).

AAA video games have risky development cycles like other projects. What happened to Andromeda was classic mismanagement. The procedural generation should have been used to prototype worlds that were polished by hand in Andromeda, and the forcible use of Frostbite over other engines should have been tested. But sticking a massive budget RPG/shooter on an engine that was never tested to be used that way by a team that lacked the experience was massively risky.

Bioware SHOULD have called the issues on the project earlier (but didn't). EA as publishers should have granted more time to salvage the game (but didn't). The IP is now damaged, maybe irreparably.

Anyways, hope you enjoyed the analysis, but I do this sort of shit for a living, so I go in way more detail than people care about.

P.S. If not for a non-disclosure agreement, I could tell you about a lot of fuckups among the Fortune 500/Global 1000. Too bad my NDA and common sense prohibits me from trading any stock from the customers that I work with.

>>136039430
Y-y-you don't understand space physics like feminists do

Unless they bring back shepard they can suck my 5 inch something penis

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>>136046923
from other thread like 5 months ago

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>>136040399

I can't really knock ME2 to be honest. Anyone who hears this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsD2FjmLsw

...and says it doesn't still give them chills - combined with being sad that Miranda died because they never fucked her - is lying.

>>136046923
Sad thing is that the gameplay was the only thing that was at least half-decent in this. I bet it was no thanks to this curry smelling poo, in fact I bet he is responsible for doing the shitty movement penalty which doesn't look like a movement penalty at all but look likes the game actually lags on you.

>>136033526
I did not give my shekels, good riddence

>>136046609
is it possible to switch careers to software if in mid 30s?

>>136039451

You're right. The Bioware director arynn Flynn is a massive cuck, thankfully this past month EA sacked him and made Casey Hudson director. Say what you will about Casey but the mass Effect triology and ending is leagues ahead of Andromeda.

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>>136046609
Dude the game's technical problems were merely the loose bits of corn left on what was already a steaming pile of crap. The game could have looked better than the Witcher 3 and it would still be a disgusting piece of progressive shite whose only purpose is to indoctrinate weak minds and pander to the raging leftists at the expense of the game's core audience.

>>136047242
Caseys and Mac are the worst things about the original trilogy.
The games were good because of writers like Drew Karpedshsuryrsn, and Patrick Weekes.

>>136033526
Made by
>sjw get-together team
>in Canada
>by a studio EA tried to nurture to greatness like a mother who had a kid a dozen years after having the first batch, giving it all the world's love at the expense of its older siblings and adopted siblings, forgiving them every fuckup
>openly hates the largest portion of its buyers.

It doesn't have to be Jewish meddling at this point, just a bunch of pretenders who took copying a far-left meme to far.

>>136046968
That's ridiculous.
Why not just watch a movie instead.

>>136047118
ME2 was a lot of fun. I understand why some of the hardcore ME1 fans said it was "dumbed down" with a linear combat perspective and lack of gun customization but the story was fucking excellent.
The whole human/reaper thing can be interpreted somewhat as filler (Shepard stops one reaper as they still approach en masse) but that would have been fine if ME3 had a good plot and way to address this. Gameplay wise, ME3 was not that bad (with some obvious cost cuts and story issues detracting, and then the ending being the fuck you).

>>136047231
You can, but it depends on what you do. If you have a strong business foundation you can basically work your way into managing the business side of IT software and then learning it and then working on it. I know many people that started in jobs unrelated to software and ended up in it. I know a guy that was a longshoreman that is now a key point of contact in software support at a large multinational.

>>136047350
ME:A was crap for a majority of reasons but having to mostly relate to the cut development cycle. with all teams cut and the staff changes/reductions they let inexperienced personnel rewrite the plot at their leisure without proper review by a wide group of people

>>136047460

Patrick Weekes is a literal feminist and cuck he's more of a problem and now he's in charge of Dragon Age.

i'm glad they killed this
bought the 2nd one at a discount years ago and was mortified at how shitty these chest-high-wall shooters are. i can hardly imagine the 3rd one being worse

>>136046609
I'm also in software and have been on fucked up projects. Not quite on the level of a AAA game, but still. I appreciated the detail and would like to hear some more, but I understand about your reluctance to go into your own experiences, because I feel the same way.

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>>136034101

Bill Noy the Science Goy

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>>136033526
> straight inter-species sex (multiple)
> gay inter-species sex and lesbian alien sex (shows tits)
> bestiality + cunnilingus (shows tits, female only)

Not surprised coming from the country that brought the world dog brothels and Justin Trudeau.

>>136047879
Yes he is. But the parts he wrote in ME are still great. And they didn't reek of sjw ideology like this entire game does.

I don't really give a shit about dragon age enough to care what he does to it. It always did have superior dialogue though. Hopefully he can maintain that.

>>136041791
>>136041118
>>136039746
>>136040399


Ty anon

>>136047867
>but that would have been fine if ME3 had a good plot and way to address this

The entire problem with ME3 and the ending is they never had the balls from the very beginning to go with the nihilistic, dark, "there's fuck all you can do ending" and stick to it.

The whole obsession with "player choice" ruined the fucking thing; they should have had the courage of their convictions to stick with the naturally depressing outcome. I expect that was the plan from the middle of 2 but some cunt made them put in "hero options" and so we ended up with a nonsensical shitshow.

>>136047867
>ME:A was crap for a majority of reasons but having to mostly relate to the cut development cycle. with all teams cut and the staff changes/reductions they let inexperienced personnel rewrite the plot at their leisure without proper review by a wide group of people
Mass effect was crap because Bioware are fully SJW converged. No amount of time or money could fix that, only mass firings and a start from scratch approach with the developer reconnecting with the broader gaming community.

>>136048194
Oh boy. Where would I start?

>company listed as fortune 500 is really the conglomerate ownership of about 20 companies all doing a similar sort of business and thinking if they run the same software it can unify everyone
>problem is, software does not unify people. common needs and consenting leadership (agreeing that all 20+ companies work in the same way) does
>companies don't adjust
>Costs hundreds of millions in problems

>pharma company hires third party IT outsourcer
>IT outsourcer blames software vendor (my employer) for everything
>as it turns out, they said they could do XYZ to win the bid, but can't really do it
>save their asses without roasting them. explain that to my company leadership and to not tolerate further fuck ups in the area
>they didn't account for ABC as well (I predicted)
>outsourcer tries to blame my company
>utterly rejected by documented proof. kicked out of further work at said customer without lawsuit

>>136033526
This is a win for SJW's. They infiltrate a business that caters to those they dislike, then dismantle it from within and the people they want to get to.

It's not about them making things right, it's about the taking down the establishments their enemies praise.

>>136047118
fuck you now i have to play it again

>>136033526
What are you talking about? This wreck of a game made bank. Instead of being a faggot and keep focusing on the sjw shit, you should say why the game is actually horrible.
I actually played this game
>repetative shit in every planet
>minor quests are boring as fuck
>coded by monkeys
Seriously, I'm playing on a 1070 and this game will freeze for 5 seconds at random times. Then will go down to 20fps ar random times. Finally, this game will shut your sound card at random times prompting you to restart your PC.
>multiplayer is boring too

Serves me right, for buying this game. I thought it would be good since Titanfall 2 was fun.

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They're panicking. Notice that they don't break out the numbers for ME:A, just say that it contributed to a profitable quarter and year. If it actually made a profit on its own, they would have given the numbers.

>>136047256
memes hold the true power in this world
t. you as you're posting a meme

>>136048986
I don't really give a fuck
I may pirate it but I have to finish Witcher 3, Nier:Automata, 2 Deus Exes and some waifu simulator before ME:A
no time for shit games

I bought every bit of Mass Effect DLC in the original three games, I own it all, I would have bought it twice over, they are simply the best sci-fi games I've ever played.

I didn't even pirate the new one, it just looks like junk, and I feel bad saying that cause I loved the originals now fuck off back to /v/ only kids play computer games

good games:
bannerlord
eve online
stalker (or slav games)

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in the quest to weaponize games this is but a small casuality. look at how succesful pokemon go was

>>136048775 here
>pharma company (different one) brings me on for work. i am green as fuck
>starts trying to take shortcuts that are just wrong. imagine opening a door by blasting the lock/handle with a shotgun and then expecting it to be secure afterwards without repair. that wrong.
>tell them its wrong. they start lying and saying I told them to do things
>iron things over as the mistakes they made caused delay but were not irreparable. learn the very valid lesson that you need to document shit in writing and start doing so
>customer ultimately fucks up their upgrade and blames us. threats of lawsuits are tossed
>have all the documentary evidence to refute their claims
>asks when I'll be back to help them. lol fucking nope.
>guy responsible (indian) ends up pulling a coup on management and blaming his boss for it. proceeds to outsource all of IT to a third party so he can blame everything on the business, the software company, or a third party outsourcer

>utility company, doing OK. reluctant for change but has had some outages recently that affect billing and reporting of electricity out
>this means customers can't report when they lose power. regulatory consequences
>brought in to help
>help them, slow but steady, really concentrated initiative
>at the end of three months all is well
>they hire third party resource claiming experience for peanuts. he is claiming more experience with a software than it has ever existed (e.g. 10 years experience with Word 2013)
>they hire him anyways, everything falls to shit. CIO gets ousted and everything goes on emergency mode with present fires

>>136047118
I couldn't get myself to finish ME2. Meanwhile I played ME1 with pleasure.

>>136035743
because (they) will it.

>>136039577

Female supremacists tend to get BTFO in Witcher, and there was a *transvestite*, not a transgender

>>136033526
>one normal (available for male character only, shows nothing
>shows nothing

>>>PROVABLY WRONG<<<

Stop making up shit, nu/pol/.

This game proves gamergate is real.

>>136035743
(((why on earth))) indeed

>>136033526
>proves Jewish meddling
Does your dick prove jewish meddling too?

>>136049573
juden detected

>>136035751
>$40M Game where romance options+sex scenes have always been a major selling point
>Sex scenes are worse than those you can get for free from some literal who working in SFM for $180 a month on his patreon

Christ. 10 year old boys in thongs walking around pride parades are alright but our society is too prudish to channel the funds and skills of highly paid animators into making some of the best 3D smut ever put to screen.

>>136044995
It's funny how the social justice crowd pretend she doesn't exist. Almost like they don't want to acknowledge women who got their jobs through actual merit.

>>136033526
I want to bone a Krogan

>>136049383 here
>company dealing in specialty retail goods uses our software
>they implemented our software in a very bad way. one that an experienced third party firm says is bad. they say "what are we paying you for". with all liability disclaimed they do what they are told
>end result is the customer application barely works. they don't have the hardware or setup for their DB size (more than 10TB by when I left growing by 300GB a month on Oracle DB)
>tries to blame my company
>Trace the misconfigurations and shit customizations they did, summarize and report
>they hire us to try to figure out a path forward rather than sue us because they realize it is not our fault

>large retailer in canada uses software
>poorly implements our software with a partner
>blames us when customers are not able to check out or use online services
>post mortem indicates that they screwed the pooch on the implementation, explicitly using the software in ways/to degrees that were not recommended
>they eventually acknowledge their fuckups and we help fix it.

I could go on, but it would all read the same.
We generally pay for people to analyze *how* things are fucked up, and then distribute blame later.
If the blame is unclear, e.g. it seems pretty clear that it's at least 70% customer blame but not clearly 95% plus, we eat the cost of bailing customers out of their troubles, to make sure that the customer can conduct normal business and does not go into financial straits.

>>136033526
So they removed the uncanny valley eyes and made the characters look even less European. They rediscovered texture, too.

I haven't played video games in over 10 years but it's amusing to watch the industry get colonized by sjw's and subsequently crash and burn. What an ending for a popular franchise.

Why is everything about sex with women? can't they think of more mystic and spiritual shit? That is not "My pussy is like the womb of mother nature connected to all life through roots".

>>136049882
And that rare breed of accomplished female is almost always, and without fail, virulently anti feminist. Funny how that works right?

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>>136050150
Because Anon, a woman is just a vessel for her pussy. Thats why she can't think straight like a normal human.

>>136033526
>proves Jewish meddling
I know /pol/ has always blamed Jews for many things, but now I have noticed a pattern that Jews are being blamed for EVERYTHING.
Paycheck is late? It's the Jews. Flat tire? Jews. Neighbours kids too loud? Again, Jews. Winter too cold/Summer too hot: Jews. Fuck.

>>136048599
I think it's more the fact that after spending two games driving home the point that "your choices matter, what you do makes a differences" it was a kick in the balls at the end to say "nah just kidding".

There needed to be an option to refuse to play the starkid's "pick a color" game. To stand there, look out the window, and watch the chips fall where they may. Maybe you somehow pull off a victory, maybe you eek out a narrow win, but lose most of your forces and friends in the process, maybe you lose but a handful of your forces escape to fight another day, and maybe you all get wiped out then and there... but at least it would have felt like payoff for all your choices and actions. Most people realized this and most people expressed this to EA.

The fact that they DID eventually add a "refuse" option in the DLC that immediately cuts to a game over cutscene was a giant fucking slap in the face to all the people who voiced their concerns.


ME:A's failure was just further proof that EA didn't learn their fucking lesson.

>>136050832
it is like you never read protocols of elders of zion and now you desperately try to not connect the dots
try looking at this:
>game is good
>game includes more diversity
>game is bad
guess who promotes diversity

>>136050560
>>136049882
>Roberta Williams
Even I played King's Quest when I was little, I didn't even know that a woman had designed it.

>>136051018
Amy Hennig is another example of good female in vidya
also a lot girls from Japan and studios based there
and Terri Brosius! her soundtracks are god tier

>>136050832
jews laws

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>>136038929
>>These are tits in the year 2017 gaming

I'm pretty sure dead or alive had better tits in 2003.

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>>136047039
And now to the firing sqad

>>136051189
>Hennig herself claims that she has not encountered sexism in the industry, but that differing perspective from men in the industry has helped on some occasions.[1] The UK video magazine Edge named her one of the 100 most influential women in the game industry.[4]

Interesting how the successful people never blame others for their struggles...

>>136049573

... yeah, it does

>>136048599
this, tho never in my mind directly.

That is why refuse ending felt the most true. (not the refuse it self the, that didn't make seance)

>>136051018
Yeah I loved those old Sierra games when I growing up.

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>>136033526
>>136036598
Modern games are 90% broken shit or propagana,

You're better off playing emulators and ignoring the rest.

>>136051858
I feel lucky that I was a kid during the golden age of video games like Myst/Riven, Ocarina of Time, etc., and I stopped playing before the sjw's took over.

>>136039451

Bioware was old school DnD geeks. Those people were always weird. But at least they were tolerable.

EA bought out BW and put green Jewish hired guns in charge of everything. DA:O and ME:2 were the last BW games at least partly finished before the kikes took over.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XzkCmidjeHc#

Jews came in and put a stop to the complexity. Because they would make more shekels pushing dumber shit to more goyim.

If you don't think they are responsible for the completely insane SJW turn, too, you're fucking stupid.

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>>136047039
>that poo in the loo in the rear

That man looks like he's being held hostage.

>>136048017
Exactly.

ME1 was an RPG that happened to have shooting as it's combat.

ME2 was a shooter that happened to have some RPG (not too bad but still, I wasn't looking for a GearsOfMassEffect).

ME3 well, we all no what happened there. Didn't buy, watched on youtube.

ME:A lol. Didn't even bother watching, nevermind buying.

I REALLY enjoyed the setting etc in Mass Effect, especially the first. Being on the citadel felt like being IN an episode of Star Trex. The codex etc really fleshed out the place too.

Didn't mind the Mako and I liked the exploration, however it did feel a tad under-budgeted / empty, specially with the copy-paste caves and bases. Otherwise though enjoyed it a LOT.

Sad to see a franchise that I was initially VERY invested in get sunk so easily, especially with it now being butchered beyond repair by SJWs. Again didn't even bother to watch the last one, wouldn't be of interest to me.

ME is dead to me now, fuck it. Lots of other games to give my attention to instead.

>>136050862
>I think it's more the fact that after spending two games driving home the point that "your choices matter, what you do makes a differences" it was a kick in the balls at the end to say "nah just kidding".

I think that would have been the perfect ending, the notion that no matter what you do or did, there was no escaping what was coming. It would have taken real balls to do it, though, but once the screaming died down, you would have been left with something that actually stood up.

>>136050832

Grow up. You're just parroting Jewish mockery of anyone who notices how much the Jews are responsible for.

Are they responsible for "everything"? Of course not. The problem is that they are responsible for so much of it.

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>>136044756
>Jennifer Hepler
for fucks sake

>>136052223
Imagine being a part of a company where 97% of employees are female. What a fucking nightmare. It's no wonder that game was shit

>>136040094
>t. Faggot

>>136052223
Honestly he was probably the hardest working person there. White people are fucking lazy

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>>136052223
hes thinking:
>"fuck these white ((people))"

/pol/ - Politically Videogames

>>136052327
This recent article is sad, too:
>Corey Gaspur, a designer at BioWare whose credits included Mass Effect 2 and 3, Dragon Age: Origins and the upcoming Anthem, has died. The studio announced the loss in a blog post on its website earlier today.
. . .
>He went on to garner acclaim for his work on the Mass Effect series, whose later entries he played a major part in designing combat for. After recently consulting on games like Star Wars Battlefront and Mass Effect: Andromeda, Gaspur moved up to lead designer. His first project under that title was Anthem, which is slated for a 2018 launch.

>>136038929

Those are definitely implants.

>>136052418
There's no other way to do it but there's a way to do it right.
All they had to do was include your choices in the game. Here's an army of krogan to help with X problem. Here's the geth, here's the quarians, here's the rachni, etc etc etc.
Here are the ways you affected the universe.
Then they could have thrown one big final fuck you at us and everyone would have been fine with it.
Even if the reapers won.

>>136052643
Video games reflect our culture. This discussion is about the faggotification of the gaming industry and what it tells us about the state of the West today.

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>>136036504
Oh, Jade.

>>136035751
>the current computer I'm using is too old to watch Youtube
thank fuck for that

>>136033526

So its pretty much if Stephanie Meyer (author of Twilight) delved into sci-fi and wrote a video game?

>>136052841
>reflect
No, you have it ass backwards. This is simply more kike-fueled faux-culture for the goy golems to ape.

The fact that people are no longer aping everything the kikes show us is baffling and scary for them.

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>>136052924
fucking degenerate..

>>136052791

Exactly but that sort of thing takes complete commitment - there's no scope for "well, maybe some people made it out and...".

You have to go all in. Everyone dies. No-one makes it out. Reapers win. Full stop.

People would have thrown a shit-fit but the whole series would have gained an artistic merit it doesn’t have now.

It kinda makes me think of the ending of The Dark Knight - they could have ended the series there on a massively depressing note which people would have complained about but five years later it would have been lauded. It makes sense as a work.

>>136053218
>No, you have it ass backwards. This is simply more kike-fueled faux-culture for the goy golems to ape.

I see your point. Hard for me to gauge what popular culture really is anymore as I reject so much of it. You may be right and mass media is trying to lead us all reluctantly towards the cliff like the pied piper, alternatively our people may be so cucked, and degenerate that the producers are simply selling us the poison we are so desperate to inject into our veins...
I'm going to have to think on that.

>>136053168
I've never read her work but considering how well it sold she's probably a better writer.
This shit won't even appeal to tween girls.

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>>136036598
>>136042184
>>136042822
top kek

>>136035743
It's not an attempt to pander to those already brainwashed, it is an attempt to brainwash the rest of us.

>>136053746

She's a fucking terrible writer. It sold well because it appealed to married women whose husbands have stopped paying attention to them or old cat ladies and made young girls vaginas tingle. It's no better than fan fiction. Pretty sure that's how it all started out.

>>136049835
>smut

Get out of here kike this is your doing. Your kind ruined literally everything I love and enjoy for no good reason.

>>136033700
>post the bestiality sex scene m8
Spot the leaf

>>136038367
Which one girl?

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>>136041791
Good synopsis, much obliged.

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>>136036992
Who was running the project, I bet it is modeled heavily off his pajeet wife.

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>>136035751
>those graphics
>those cringy lines
>those fucking comments

>>136035751
Oh look, another white woman being "enriched."

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You won't fuck with me this time, youn understand overlord? Fuck you and this deja vous, you can suck my did, either you release me or give my life some meaning, or i will fucking kill myself so you don't have anything funny to see anymore in my life, you understand me you little piece of shit overlord kid? fix my matrix or ill find away to ascend into your real and rape your whole family annaly every day 24/7 you disgusting psychopathic piece of shit stop this AT ONCE!

>>136054500
The OG inquisitor from DA2. She has a goofy accent and short hair.

>>136035751
>>136033526

https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/893161945758666752

Pottery.

>>136053749
> that pic

It's true, enthusiast 'gamers' are essentially the SJWs of White Males. They have nothing better to do and they're far better at winning.

Not to hate on 'gamers'. I lost interest in video games years ago. Assume/hope it's because most modern games suck ass. I buy games and play them for an hour but I'd rather shitpost on 4chan; that's pretty damn sad.

As a kid, I'd spend endless hours trying to figure out Zelda Ocarina of Time or building the perfect city in Pharaoh/Sim City/etc.

>>136041791
Planet scanning in ME2 was 10x worse than any annoyances in ME1.

>>136043041
Playing the Dollar Store version of Overwatch
inb4 butthurt Tf2 fags and their irrelevant game

>>136055641

I disagree. Getting 100% with the mako in ME1 fucking sucked ass. Planet scanning was tedious, but it never made me as frustrated as the mako did.

>>136055641
Planet scanning was tedious but not difficult. Getting to completion in the mako was just fucking horrible.

>>136033700
KROGAN CAWCK SOO GUD

>>136039746
>toxic
You have to go back

>>136033526
My respect for bioware ended after kotr2. Despite this you need to take this shit to >>>>/v/

>>136056153
I hate league and didn't mean any
>non-hug speech is not allowed
by that, just that montreal and edmonton couldn't get along

>>136045181
So technical AND artistic incompetence.

>>136037353
>Girl-Garrus

She was the only female that didnt make me want to kill myself

>>136045380

PFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTTT

>>136036080

they're trying to save face. EA is not acting like they lost 40 million.

They banked hard on positive media for their SJW heavy themes. They were expecting 10/10, 5 star reviews.

I think Assassin's Creed costs Ubisoft over 100 million per title and they reuse assets and tech.

40 million is bullshit. They employed a huge team to make this game.

>>136033526
I normally just stick to historical-themed strategy games, but I've heard that Mass Effect: Andromeda is going for very cheap, recently. Is it worth playing through once?

>>136033526
Dragon age Inquisition was like that too. the straight sex scenes sucked. you can probably see them all on YouTube

>>136035751
>those comments
Let it all end

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>>136035751
>all that mentally ill husbando shit in the comments
wew
we Weimar vidya nao

>>136056800
Women love getting fucked by mythological creatures, hence the appeal of Twilight.

>>136055409
das recist

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>>136056876
At least the Twilight guys looked somewhat like men. This thing is literally a raw chicken on top of a humanoid body.

>>136042472
Dont you fucking dare tarnish discordianism with that trash. Sjws are commie/wannabe anarchsists that dont get that the real red pill is ancap. The closest things today to discordians other than actual discordians are the kek fags