A game so bad it killed a studio. ITT: We laugh at the peop

contents of page so you don't need to load it


We had plenty of signs, but now it’s official: BioWare Montreal is no more.

The Canadian division of BioWare will soon be absorbed into Jade Raymond’s EA Motive Studios, the company that is currently working on Star Wars: Battlefront II as well as an unnamed new action-adventure project.

“With multiple major projects in development at Montreal, we are merging BioWare Montreal with Motive Studios,” reads a press statement from EA (via Destructoid). “This is an ongoing process, but there are many exciting roles and opportunities for everyone on the team.”

BioWare Montreal’s future has been rocky ever since the launch of Mass Effect: Andromeda. The company was forced to shelf plans for a sequel. That was followed by the entire series being put on hiatus, and it finally emerged that the company had no plans to support Andromeda itself with single-player DLC.

As for BioWare’s other studios, BioWare Edmonton is currently working on Anthem, while BioWare Austin continues to support Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Source: Destructoid

>>385866816
Shame it killed the IP, too. Now we'll never get a pre-ME3 sidequel.

>>385866816
At least some Shrek and autistic porn memes came out of it.

Did Andromeda end on a sequel hook? I have it in my backlog but if it's just a setup for a trilogy that won't ever happen I don't think I'll ever get around to playing it.

>>385867220
have you ever played a bioware game with an ending you enjoyed?

File: asstomass.jpg (16KB, 276x308px) Image search: [Google]

16KB, 276x308px

>Mfw we will never know why her face is tired

>>385867220
yes

>>385867083
>Shame it killed the IP, too

No it isn't. The IP deserved death after 2.

>>385866816
fake

>>385867071
I loaded it from 3 different ips because of this post

>>385867220
Yes. You kill the regional commander of the Kett but his second gets screentime and development as the next foil from the Kett empire. In addition to the stuff with the Kett, the stuff about the Jaarden and Angaran seems like it was being built up to potentially have some conflict between the milky way races and the natives. There are hooks for the missing quarian/assorted races ark dlc that's never coming too.

File: Lair_front.jpg (81KB, 345x400px) Image search: [Google]

81KB, 345x400px

>>385866816
>have an impeccable track record of great games
>release ONE bad game
>our studio goes bankrupt

At least bioware deserved it for pandering to SJWs and alienating their audience for the sake of virtue signaling.

Factor 5 on the other hand did nothing wrong but an honest mistake with lair.

>>385867071
thanks guy

>>385867364
If games that old count, Shadows of Amn had a good ending though Throne of Bhaal was meh

>>385867459
>le ebin jaded gamer meme
No. ME2 was great for worldbuilding.

only a matter of time before bioware as a whole officially follows the fate of every other studio ea has subsumed into the void of shattered dreams.

>>385867071
>not just using pastebin
https://pastebin.com/YBfdUt15

It's amazing how they didn't bother to check the animations on this million dollars game.

>>385867827
ME2 was split heavily on /v/ at the time. Most saw it as a downgrade from 1 but the waifufags kept the generals going so long that it was 1/3 responsible for /vg/'s existence.

>>385867527
You do realise that only one of the three (?) BioWare branches is being absorbed, right?

Mass effect was never good. It was forced memed by bioware fans aka sjw

>>385867861
How many studios are left besides DICE and whoever makes the sports games?

>>385866816
if only we could ensure the same thing happens to DICE or Bioware's main studio.

though preferably it wouldn't come to that, and EA would realize bethesda and valve are on to something when it comes to workshop/community-content.

File: 1501454879418.jpg (152KB, 775x895px) Image search: [Google]

152KB, 775x895px

>>385867071
>fuck up a game so hard your place gets closed
>Jade becomes your boss

How is this fair

Reminder that it's just the Montreal studio, which only did Andromeda and the DLC for the main series. The Edmonton and Austin studios are still active.

>>385868270
Who's Jade? I haven't been following who this person is or what they have done in the past? Mind telling me anon

File: JUST fuck my portfolio up, fam.jpg (15KB, 400x400px) Image search: [Google]

15KB, 400x400px

>>385868270
>A studio filled with middle-aged, white, Canadian, males now get to work under a certified hot MILF
Clearly, that was their plan all along.

>>385868570
I'll play your game Jade!

File: feels ss man.jpg (16KB, 330x357px) Image search: [Google]

16KB, 330x357px

>>385866816
>>385867071

Top kek. Couldn't happen to a more useless bunch of cunts. I hope the studio they join goes under too.

>>385868270
>programmed 2 shitty shovelware games
>skyrockets to producer and heading an entire studio
Diversity quotas at its best

>an entire studio thought they could get away with the sheer amount of bugs, bad writing, shit animations that limitless free time the internet has

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG4r4kovg2k

seriously

how could they think they could out autism people that would make 40 minute videos, or even two hour criticism videos over this shit pile

File: 6ee307d0c9bf13f166775a531cacc8cb.jpg (391KB, 1600x1200px) Image search: [Google]

391KB, 1600x1200px

>>385868570
A producer who got really popular around 2007

>>385868103
one down two to go, EA will deliver for sure.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/6ob22l/somebody_found_multiple_copies_of_mass_effect/

>>385866816

Well the Mass Effect series is pretty much either dead or in a coma until people forget about Andromeda.

What about Dragon Age?
I can't imagine people getting some kind of hype, especially with it's association with Bioware and Andromeda. They should really just change Bioware's name or something, people arn't really associating good shit with it.

>>385868103
The Austin studio is mostly just a skeleton crew running support. After SWTOR ramped down and ShadowRealms got shitcanned they pared down the staff quite a bit. Edmonton is the only full development studio left and they're on Anthem with a smaller crew doing the early DA4 production shit.

>>385869825
DA4 is in production but you won't hear anything more until Anthem is out the door.

>>385868749
same here

>>385866816
I'm still mad that this game got rightfully criticized for its terrible faces and animations, yet Horizon Zero Dawn never had gaming "journalists" point out how awful HZD is either. I guess a big part is that ass effect is a much bigger IP, but still.

File: Deluxe Edition for $12.99.jpg (905KB, 3226x2419px) Image search: [Google]

905KB, 3226x2419px

>>385869802
Anon, you are doing it all wrong. You are supposed to post the image, while claiming full credit as original content.

Check out what I found while shopping among commoners!

>>385870046
mass effect 1 is objectively the best rpg of all time
horizon dawn is literally who.

>>385869889
When Anthem goes to shit in think Bioware will be done and lie with Bullfrog and Westwood.
And the signs are bad because thier lead designer just died today.
http://www.gamestar.de/artikel/corey-gaspur-lead-designer-von-anthem-verstorben,3317752.html

>>385869889
I forgot about ShadowRealms getting trashed. Let's hope Anthem is shit then, so that we vidya finally be free of this blight.

Bioware as a Canadian RPG developer died over five years ago, quietly, during the production of ME3. The studios designated Bioware now, have almost no Bioware employees from pre-2012. There is a handful of pre-2010 Bioware employees left. The development studios labeled Bioware are done so entirely for marketing purposes.

You've all been had. This isn't Bioware closing. This is a corpse wearing a long-decayed face of a very long dead of Bioware saying that it's now dead.

>>385869408
Let this be a warning to any other company that tries this shit.

File: 1381288383014.png (14KB, 376x260px) Image search: [Google]

14KB, 376x260px

>>385869419
>tfw she aged like milk
>tfw I no longer want to play Jade's game

>>385869889
the austin studio will probably die a quiet death, getting renamed after Edmonton closes, or shutdown with Edmonton


For this to happen though we'd need Anthem to fail. this presents a bit of a problem, since EA is really good (as are ubisoft and activision) at marketing mediocre or "meh" games.

so we'll probably see Dragon Age 4 regardless of how good Anthem is.

>>385867364
Dragon Age: Origins I thought ended fine. No blatant sequel hooks (not until Awakening, at least), all the main story threads tied up based on the player's choices, and a feeling of "the adventure's not over", which is always nice.

What world class intellect decided it was a good idea to put a flagship title in the hands of the C team

>>385870297
I think they really fucked themselves with that Anthem reveal at E3. It gave them a lot of hype right off the bat but that canned footage is selling a game that doesn't really exist. The visuals are close but the drop off is roughly equivalent to what you saw from the initial footage of ME:A to the first real gameplay video. I can't wait until people find out that there's no free flying in the game and all that shit is just on rails to shuttle you between zones.

File: 1480636985267.jpg (100KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

100KB, 1024x768px

>tfw I actually enjoyed my playthrough of Andromeda

File: Ck-BpNuWEAAzDPY.jpg large.jpg (126KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

126KB, 1024x768px

>>385870593
Looks fine desu senpai

>>385870613
Austin studio will keep running for as long as SWTOR is live.

File: Bethesda_Logo.png (6KB, 540x108px) Image search: [Google]

6KB, 540x108px

>>385869408
>>385870504
You mean like the one behind the two highest selling RPGs of all time?

>>385867827
>ME2 was great for worldbuilding.
how can something that directly contradicts itself and the original game be great for worldbuilding?

>>385866816

JUST

File: 1466240968825.jpg (231KB, 1021x768px) Image search: [Google]

231KB, 1021x768px

>>385870830
you JUST know

>>385870981
>make a janky GTA clone in a fantasy / post-apoc setting without vehicles
>call it an RPG

>profit

The Saint's Rows guys really fucked up.

>>385868597
Anon Bioware is filled with middle-aged, "white", Canadian """"females"""" now

>>385871046
>No todd's name and 6'7

>>385871046
is the toddler wearing heels here?

>>385867527
>Factor 5
>an impeccable track record of great games
Rogue Squadron is their only good game.

>>385870991
Because individual instances were well-written and fleshed out previously-unseen parts of the setting.

>>385870194
>Employee's Only

Triggered.

>>385870676
I don't think they will go that far but i'm sure the zones will be enclosed and you will have loading screens between them.
Also the Free flight seems to be such an overpowered feature that it really fits into modern game design. It makes the game easy and let the players feel powerful.

>>385870194t
>nobody at good will even wants it
JUST

>>385871046
Either Jade's got really big hands or Todd is even smaller than I would have imagined.

File: 1326489627399.png (268KB, 532x705px) Image search: [Google]

268KB, 532x705px

>>385871375
can you name me a few well written instances? nothing really stood out to me besides the renegade Shepard being so cringy he made me go paragon

It's weird, you know
I've played ME1 and 2, but have no will whatsoever to play ME3
not even to pirate
it just seems to have been so mishandled from the outside that I can't even get myself to finish the story, so to speak

>>385871680
>Tali's loyalty mission
>Jack' recruitment mission
>Legion's loyalty mission
>Grunt's/Mordin's loyalty missions
From a worldbuilding standpoint.

>>385871046
What if she's wearing heels on that pic?

>>385871993
Just get hammered drunk and play it

>Bioware might die before I ever experience/suffer DA4
One part is happy to see them die after the shit they've pulled over the last few years, but another part will be sad remembering how they used to be.

>>385867071
I sincerely hope Jade puts all of them in sanitation management

>>385867827
>great for worldbuilding
>here's a bunch of shit that doesn't actually matter

Right.

>>385870194
At goodwill? damn, Bioware fucked the fuck up.

>>385867364
Jade Empire Good ending with Silk Fox
ME1
ME2 renegade ending with everyone surviving and flipping off TIM what a fool I was, thinking it would matter
DA:O human noble becoming King with Leliana as his mistress

that's kinda it, but there are some

>>385873327
>all worldbuilding has to be story-essential
Fuck off. That sort of utilitarianism in writing is the bane of good dialogue, and makes plots feel hollow.

>>385869419
>>385870593
>>385870830
>>385871046
What the fuck's wrong with her? Is she fucking autistic?

https://twitter.com/ibjade/status/668905796802109440

File: 1401304175521.jpg (153KB, 1190x906px) Image search: [Google]

153KB, 1190x906px

>>385867827
>ME2 was great for worldbuilding.
>When it didn't have 1/10 of the worldbuilding and lore scale of the first one and was overall streamlined to shit and back.
No

>>385873695
She's a woman, which means she's an attention whore by default. Nothing new here.

>>385873695
She's working in videogames even though she looks pretty good, so probably yes

>>385873834
>the first entry in a new series established more of the setting than the sequel
Thanks for that, Commander Obvious.

>>385873902
>>385873937
Not that, the way she posed that selfie it creeped me out

File: 1378830993386.gif (3MB, 347x195px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 347x195px

>Jade

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-04-23-raymond-splinter-cell-popularity-held-back-by-its-complexity

>>385874029
That's the fucking issue you flaming faggot, the second game did fuck all to flesh-out the world instead focusing on single characters and streamlined, insulated narratives. I am sure of course that you have no reference points given that you have played 3 rpgs in your life so you can't tell the difference.

>>385868570
someone post the comic

>>385867364

Shattered Steel is the only Bioware game I've played, and it even SAYS THERE WILL BE A SEQUEL and has awesome teaser images, and then they decided to make dogshit RPGs until the end of time.

>>385867527

you are an idiot

like

what the fuck

bioware montrael is a new bullshit studio tats just a pile of girls with pink hair and nu-males

real bioware is not even touching this shit

no one that worked on ME1 or even 2 or 3 was involved in this travesty

>>385874274
>did fuck all to flesh-out the world
Oh sure, because having more insight into Geth society, Krogan factionalism and the Quarian justice system, as well as finding out what the fuck the Terminus Systems are isn't fleshing out the world.

>>385870981
bethesda almost gets a pass because they leave their games open as a framework for a billion mods
then they tried to monetize them, and we all saw the tragic end to that

>>385874456
>real bioware is not even touching this shit
>real bioware
"Real Bioware" died after ME3 when the doctors left. It's just been EA puppeting its corpse for the last few years.

>People hating ME2

You fucks only hate it because it brought more people into the serious and it was no longer a niche space opera.

>>385873695
>This is what Rob Pardo is doing with his freetime after leaving Blizzard
desu, senpai.

>>385875053
>You fat nerds only hate the game because it was simplified and dumbed down to gain mass appeal, destroying the reason that it was appealing to you in the first place!
No shit, retard.

File: A9205-3.jpg (7KB, 200x173px) Image search: [Google]

7KB, 200x173px

>downloaded the trial just to try the multiplayer
>they fucked even that up
>used to be addicted to ME3 multiplayer so was utterly disappointed

I'm guessing it was a completely different team from before cuz they couldnt have fucked it up that bad.

I played through andromeda recently post patch and I really liked it. Much more than 3 anyway. 70 some hours of fun. Fucking bullshit that the turian best girl gets 0 sex animation but everyone else does.

>>385875540
I will never not be mad over Vetra's butchered character arc.

Supposedly she was meant to be for males only but then Bioware changed her to bi at the last minute. It fucking shows.

>>385875053
After how bad ME3 was, I went back to play 2 and saw some subtle red flags that showed a transition towards where 3 would go.
It was stuff I easily downplayed or outright missed before playing ME3, but stuff I can't ignore anymore.

>>385875981
Like?

Because the gameplay was great in 3 my only strong complaint was the writing.

>>385866816
a game so bad it went to 20 dollars in 3 months.

>>385875540
What kills Andromeda for me more than anything is that for all the talk about this game being about exploration there is not a single interesting mission you can stumble on yourself while out just faffing about in uncharted space. No derelict stations / ships, no outposts under siege. Nothing but +100 ore / codex updates. What the fuck is that? I understand people did not care for the UNC assignments in the first game but FUCK.

>>385870046
The facial animations were nowhere near as bad in HZD as in Andromeda. And for whatever you want to say about the gameplay, at least it wasn't fundamentally broken, either. Like you said, Andromeda shit all over a beloved franchise whereas HZD had absolutely no expectations to live up to.

>>385876232
i got it for $30 at launch.

>>385876230
mass effect 2 was complete horse-shit, it might as well have not happened at all the story was so irrelevant. Extremely repetitive with cliche characters, some of them written well most of them not. Gameplay was better than one but still not very exciting

>>385876230
>my only strong complaint was the writing.
Yeah that's basically it. I contend that for gameplay (purely combat and abilities/build customization) 3 > 2 > 1. In basically every other aspect, 1 > 2 > 3.

>>385867220
Yes.

Anons, this is a call to action. We need to end Mass Effect. We can do it. We can make a shitty 5-10 minute flash animation ending the series once and for all.

File: 1427995704118.png (131KB, 241x245px) Image search: [Google]

131KB, 241x245px

>>385871046
You will buy her virginity as well as another copy of Fallout 4 with dlc right guys?

File: 1459649006007.jpg (63KB, 592x492px) Image search: [Google]

63KB, 592x492px

They're only human, after all.

>>385875053
ME2 had some good parts, but overall was the beginning of the end.

>>385875053

I only played 2 and found it to be one of the dullest experiences of my life, so my hatred for it is very much justified. It has jack shit going for it outside of a character or two.

>>385875053
>new IP, galactic soap opera where you play military commander. plot involves space politics, fucked up corporate experiments, ancient inscrutable alien evils.

>sequel: daddy issues, the game. also you fight a giant baby alien at the end.

File: 1490078245218.webm (3MB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 1280x720px

>>385866816
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMX-kn_9-3M

>>385878152
ME1 captured that Star Trek-esque feeling of exploring space so, so much fucking better than any of the others.
Andromeda's premise literally had unspeakable potential to recapture this, but it turned into a shitty quest list set in space.

>>385866816
This is a good move, Jade owns the studio that they are being forced into. She will probably fire anyone that isn't attractive aka all of them

>>385866816
WHAT FEELING IS THIS?

>>385866816
I'm still not sure which happened, or which is worse.
Did a room full of people look at this and not see the problem? Or did a room full of people look at this, saw the problem, but believed nobody would notice or care?
Or did this just not get looked at?

>>385878924
I suspect it was that they saw it, knew it was a problem, and just had no time/resources to fix it adequately before it was time to publish.
Rumors abound of development troubles and things being scrapped/re-done for MEA.

File: boi.jpg (63KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

63KB, 1280x720px

>>385867083
>Shame it killed the IP

The IP died with ME3. Andromeda was an attempt at looting the corpse by a bunch of talentless graverobbers.

File: autismspeaks.jpg (832KB, 1280x1280px) Image search: [Google]

832KB, 1280x1280px

>>385878672

File: ko.jpg (8KB, 300x168px) Image search: [Google]

8KB, 300x168px

MFW my old manager told me this game was great and he loves all ME games and No Man's Sky.

I changed departments real fast.

>>385866816

I DRAG YOU DOWN I USE YOU UP
MR. SELF DESTRUCT

>>385872753
I have no room for sadness after i watched westwood and maxis die in the hands of those monsters.

I have no more tears left.

>>385867071
>BioWare Edmonton is currently working on Anthem, while BioWare Austin continues to support Star Wars: The Old Republic
Aww fucking shit, I thought nu-talentless Bioware was completely dead so the spirit of the talented Bioware of the past and their name can be laid to rest.

>continue to support Star Wars: The Old Republic
If it was up to me I'd fucking perma-ban them from ever creating video games for even suggesting to turn KOTOR3 into an MMO. Why do these people still have jobs in the industry, seriously.

File: 1308379892057.png (13KB, 679x427px) Image search: [Google]

13KB, 679x427px

>>385878409
After all these years, the title of that video lead me to the source of that scream.

God fucking damnit.

File: Untitled.png (42KB, 496x594px) Image search: [Google]

42KB, 496x594px

i have this shit installed and it was a waste of bandwidth. just like dai, its a shitty cooridoored map that wants you to hunt for 10 of this item. bugs even aside, what a waste of a franchise and even worse, what a gigantic piece of shit engine frostbite is.

File: 1489684697725.webm (3MB, 854x480px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 854x480px

I'M ONLY HUMAN AFTER ALL

File: 1477795484250.jpg (39KB, 374x347px) Image search: [Google]

39KB, 374x347px

>>385880030
how?

File: 1362775972857.gif (204KB, 404x416px) Image search: [Google]

204KB, 404x416px

>>385880145

File: ryder.png (45KB, 179x156px) Image search: [Google]

45KB, 179x156px

>>385879312
THIS IS NOT THE FEEL I WAS LOOKING FOR.

File: DELETE.jpg (330KB, 2000x2129px) Image search: [Google]

330KB, 2000x2129px

>>385880145
DON'T PUT THE BLAME ON ME

File: manyfacesofsara.png (889KB, 1000x775px) Image search: [Google]

889KB, 1000x775px

>>385880516
please point to it on the chart

File: 1492913983157.png (521KB, 596x450px) Image search: [Google]

521KB, 596x450px

>>385866816
I unsarcastically liked ME:A and I am sad there won't be any dlcs.

>>385880030
What's the source of the scream?

>>385880145
I like how the release trailer music sounds like the devs are trying to was their hands from what they've done.

File: 13722255_969537869821264_2006958826_a.jpg (9KB, 150x150px) Image search: [Google]

9KB, 150x150px

>>385866816
Protip: five guys and the SJW movement was a deliberate psyop, targeted in large part at breaking up and controlling game developers and their communities, for obvious reasons.

Major game devs have been corrupted in this way not because they're pussies bowing to real public opinion, but because they're being directly manipulated by government agents, who were also responsible for infiltrating "games journalism" to saturation point before the Five Guys plan was triggered.

BioWare made MEA what it was as an act of protest, labouring like golem while they had a gun pointed at their heads. All those hilarious gifs of the game sucking that flooded 4chan before release were recorded and distributed by the devs themselves.

File: 1490674144275.png (2MB, 1340x1440px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1340x1440px

>>385867201
you rang

>>385880873
>What's the source of the scream?
Some nigga in a porno I don't wanna find it because I don't like watching naked black dudes but I assume some combination of porn, black man and scream would get you there.

>>385866816
Why does everyone seem to believe that Montreal = the entirety of Bioware?

>>385881471
Just google loud nigra

File: 1404617405713.png (560KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

560KB, 1280x720px

>>385881471
I imagined it would be someone having their leg pulled off so the black man busting a nut is a better scenario than what i imagined.

>>385866816
I downloaded the ten hour demo because I wanted to form my own opinion.
I didn't need to. Less than an hour in, and I want absolutely nothing to do with it anymore

File: 15538212_596180120591768_3670442131622723584_n.jpg (118KB, 1080x1080px) Image search: [Google]

118KB, 1080x1080px

>>385880134
Idk how you retards haven't picked up on the subtext of the game story, that the civilisations are basically participating in a giant videogame themselves. Like the Asari (or someone older) arrived at andromeda first and constructed a bunch of shit specifically for everyone else to feel like they were doing something important when they arrived, because otherwise life would be boring.

Also the fact that Andromeda is part of the Kojipro conspiracy network of games by supposedly unconnected devs (even though IRL all these people meet and rub their dicks together at conventions every couple of months).

Like first MEA has a line where the glowing shit is referred to as looking like "coral" even though it looks nothing like that. Then another game comes out with glowing shit that looks exactly the same and is straight up called "coral". That game had a completely pointless JELLIED EELS manufactory in a corner of the map for ~no reason~ and a character who is clearly gaben fucking with your brain. Then another game comes out packed with goddamn jellied eels and one level with a unique time travel gimmick. Then ANOTHER game comes out that is completely unrelated but has the exact same time travel gimmick. All these games have dialog that interconnects them politically.

And they all have uncrackable DRM, yet were released by a scene group literally named CONSPIRACY

>>385880994
OBVIOUSLY

>>385868570
That one producer that made a game everyone wanted to play.

>>385881803
>the black man busting a nut is a better scenario than what i imagined.
You said it. You can't unsaid it.

With Andromeda we learned the upper limit of how unpolished and buggy a game can look before getting torn to shreds.

File: niceboat3.jpg (48KB, 640x480px) Image search: [Google]

48KB, 640x480px

>>385882367
hey anon remind me where half life 3 was meant to take place

some kind of large boat, right?

i guess that game was just some kind of ruse, though

File: 1310672480116.gif (48KB, 600x600px) Image search: [Google]

48KB, 600x600px

>>385880286
The ".nut" made me realize the scream was from a guy cumming, so I typed "hilarious orgasm scream" into google and it was the first hit.

>>385867071
This is unironically sad as fuck. Mass Effect was fantastic. Didn't play this turd tho, so I can't judge it.

>>385882585
HMMMM >>385880994

File: mighty-no-9-concept-spot3.png (2MB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1920x1080px

Killed Comcept. They had to be bought out by Level 5.

File: 1430893246309.jpg (9KB, 179x180px) Image search: [Google]

9KB, 179x180px

>>385880145

File: 1499988008876.jpg (93KB, 1280x1280px) Image search: [Google]

93KB, 1280x1280px

>there will be no Quarian DLC
>no sequel to watch the Kett empire come fuck up the humans
>literally the end of the Mass Effect franchise
>no more Space RPG's

What. The. Fuck.

Why did this have to happen? Andromeda wasn't great by any stretch, but it wasn't the worst game I played.

This shit's seriously depressing....

>>385883683
>no sequel to watch the Kett empire come fuck up the humans
This is what im really upset about, i wanted to see all the deformed kett races they had collected from conquering the galaxy

>>385880030
isnt that big ben?

File: jades game comic.jpg (185KB, 700x900px) Image search: [Google]

185KB, 700x900px

>>385874407
>>385868570

>>385882603
Consider yourself lucky. Nothing beyond the combat really holds up in Andromeda.

>>385883879
>play ME:A2
>finally meet Kett from outside the Heleus cluster
>they are all humanoid
>they all look like the Kett from ME:A1
>Bioware never gives an explanation

If you think this wouldn't happen then you still haven't learned how Bioware changed over the years

File: 1479741588148.png (492KB, 540x663px) Image search: [Google]

492KB, 540x663px

>>385883879

I still wanted an explanation on the Remnant and the Jardaan.

What the fuck were they doing in Andromeda, were they an ancient race escaping the Kett empire? Another thread? Why even create the Angara? They clearly set out to Andromeda for some reason, and Andromeda was clearly inhospitable when they got there hence the terraforming.

It's fucking unfortunate what happened. I was looking forward to them hopefully correcting their mistakes in the sequel.

File: 1487716153409.gif (1MB, 195x229px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 195x229px

>look up what people are saying on twitter
>someone called Vivian James still using #gamergate in 2017

File: 1494189939216.png (173KB, 308x326px) Image search: [Google]

173KB, 308x326px

>>385866816
>playtest this just before release
>it's fucking shit
>give very specific feedback each day on exactly how and why it's shit
>end of the testing week comes
>almost everyone else in the group says they're going to buy it
>never get invited back for another playtest
>the people who liked the game do get invited back

File: 0148492b1385a51b75f9.jpg (249KB, 640x480px) Image search: [Google]

249KB, 640x480px

>>385866816
>A game so bad it killed a studio.

>>385884875
It's been 3 years since then
How is it not dead yet

>>385871046

I want to play Jade's game

>>385866816
post the breast expansion stuff

>>385867071

Great, now they get to shit up Jade's game.

>>385885761
No.

>tfw I bought
>can't refund it

holy shit, the combat is typical 3rd person so I can forgive that, but the world exploration, the dialogue, everything. It's fucking horrible. Now its just gonna sit in my library forever.

Not even the multiplayer is enough to keep this game fun. At least ME3's multiplayer was fun.

Anthem already sounds like it's doomed to fail with all the things they're revealing for it. Sounds like ME:A mixed with the division.

>>385872142
>Legion's loyalty mission

>The truth is that the armor was a decision imposed on me. The concept artists decided to put a hole in [Legion]. Then, in a moment of whimsy, they spackled a bit Shep's armor over it. Someone who got paid a lot more money than me decided that was really cool and insisted on the hole and the N7 armor. So I said, okay, Legion gets taken down when you meet it, so it can get the hole then, and weld on a piece of Shep's armor when it reactivates to represent its integration with Normandy's crew (when integrating aboard a new geth ship, it would swap memories and runtimes, not physical hardware).

>But Higher Paid decided that it would be cooler if Legion were obsessed with Shepard, and stalking him. That didn't make any sense to me -- to be obsessed, you have to have emotions. The geth's whole schtick is -- to paraphrase Legion -- "We do not experience (emotions), but we understand how (they) affect you." All I could do was downplay the required "obsession" as much as I could.

Yeah, A-tier writing. Right up there with ""heat sinks"".

File: ps4pro-jade-raymond-11.jpg (17KB, 664x383px) Image search: [Google]

17KB, 664x383px

>>385867071

I want to marry Jade!

>>385866816
>A game so bad it killed a studio.
No, you misunderstand. This was always EA's intentions with this studio and Andromeda to begin with. The studio that became Bioware Montreal was always a support studio and they only get the Bioware branding to make some quick cash and fill the a void in their release schedule.

>>385866816
ME3 killed the studio. Andromeda was a cash grab before shuttering the building.

File: PT44rRq.gif (4MB, 448x251px) Image search: [Google]

4MB, 448x251px

>>385870194
>>385873495
Target started a campaign where they give all of their old merchandise to Goodwill.

This is a legit pile of unsold games

>EA stopped winning the golden poo and reddit on 4chan defended them

Activating almonds

File: someone-had-to-investiage-this.png (1B, 486x500px)

1B, 486x500px

>>385885349
>It's been 3 years since then
>How is it not dead yet

Because its funny as shit bro.

File: 1294573-jade_raymond_31b.jpg (50KB, 400x473px) Image search: [Google]

50KB, 400x473px

>>385886874
Jane plays for the other side.

>>385866816
>Publicity so bad it killed the studio
They've fixed most of the bugs and almost all of the negative reviews are extremely emotional. Like little babies crying about "muh N7 legacy" with out actually talking about the game because they probably didn't play it.

>>385867364
I liked the first Mass Effect's ending.

Why is Montreal so bad at programing games?

>Arkham Origins was and still is a bug ridden mess (it has great parts, but hidden in a mountain of crap)
>this abortion

Step your game up, leafs.

>>385886626
Fuck off with heat sinks. It was a purely mechanical change to match other popular games and the "story" even makes fun of it.

Stop treating it like a story flaw.

File: height sliders.jpg (110KB, 900x702px) Image search: [Google]

110KB, 900x702px

>>385871046

>>385887291
Isn't Thief is a mess aswell?

>>385887240
I want to two player Jade's game.

>>385887536
Tryout Blacklist

>>385866816

Why would your company wanna take in the same crew that fucked up the last game?

>>385887493

Haven't played it, i might buy it in a sale, but considering it was made by leaves, i have my doubts.

>>385887291
>Why is Montreal so bad at programing games?
Because they mainly have young studios that works as auxiliary studios. They were only giving Origins and Andromeda because the respective publishers wanted to wring a bit more money out of their IPs.

File: masseffectmocap.webm (928KB, 680x382px) Image search: [Google]

928KB, 680x382px

Leaked behind the scenes footage

Funny how every "Meritocracy is a lie, diversity hires are equally good and if you disagree it's because you're racist!" team ends up immediately combusting upon contact with the free market

We did it /v/!

>>385867364
DA: Awakening and ME2

>The Canadian division of BioWare will soon be absorbed into Jade Raymond’s EA Motive Studios, the company that is currently working on Star Wars: Battlefront II as well as an unnamed new action-adventure project.

So it's just merging with another studio. This is not "killed" you fucking retard.

File: me3.gif (2MB, 384x192px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 384x192px

>>385887880
That tends to happen when you hired all your employees based on diversity instead of actual talent.

>>385887880
EA is a terrible corporation that is infamous for cronyism. All politics aside, they'd still fail.

>>385866816
WHERE IS MY QUARIAN ARK DLC?

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>385888218
WHERE IS MY CERBERUS SHOVE IT UP YOUR OWN ASS DLC?

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

File: CgqMVp-W4AILlOF.jpg (92KB, 600x800px) Image search: [Google]

92KB, 600x800px

>>385870194

>all the plastic and resources wasted in shit games no one will play

File: 23158392405_d3e3b60cb8_o.jpg (536KB, 2048x1365px) Image search: [Google]

536KB, 2048x1365px

>>385887446
>Suffering this hard from Little Man Syndrome

>>385887432
It was a shit explanation that didn't make sense on the face of it. They don't get a pass because in the next game a few characters lampshade it by saying how stupid it is. Why when I pick up one heat sink, why do I get a single magazine for each gun? Why do these *explicitly stated as standardized* heat sinks only work for a particular gun so that I can be out of "ammo" for one weapon but full for another?

It was a story flaw because the story / in-universe explanation was retarded and nonsensical.

And that's ignoring that the actual mechanic change was garbage too. What did having ammo do? what did it add to the game play experience? As far as I can tell, they just changed an interesting and semi-unique mechanic to the standard shit for chest-high-wall-simulators.

>>385888006
>umm you're going to have to leave your office, drop everything you worked on the past 5 years, change your commute, move to a new city, go through re-orientation and 50% of you are fired.

Spotted the /v/irgin who has never worked in the real world.

File: IMG_2378.jpg (622KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

622KB, 1920x1080px

Pic related

>studio gets taken over by liberal SJW faggots
>quality of games drops dramatically
>meanwhile right wingers like CD Project Red making top RPG of the decade

>>385866816
Why is it portrayed as if the game killed the studio rather than the studio committing suicide by doing terrible work? Is this an attempt to deflect blame from the people responsible or some shit?

>>385888006

Yeah, man, it is.

>>385867364

Baulder's Gate

File: 17e7bymdqhm3fjpg.jpg (176KB, 640x606px) Image search: [Google]

176KB, 640x606px

>>385866816

File: requiem for a dream.jpg (303KB, 2045x1164px) Image search: [Google]

303KB, 2045x1164px

>>385867386
that fucking filename lmao

File: 1434421945817.png (230KB, 400x411px) Image search: [Google]

230KB, 400x411px

>>385887789
lost

>>385889098

As stupid as that answer was, her job was to be one writer on a team of several writers that had to answer to an editor. She did work on DA:O and DA:O turned out fine.

File: 1477760459533.gif (2MB, 320x240px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 320x240px

>>385889651
>DA:O turned out fine

>>385890486
Not him, but it did, faggot.

>>385887291
Because Canada, and especially Quebec in particular, give tons of tax breaks and other benefits to studios. This plus the exchange rate means that big companies open regional studios in Montreal, not so they can make good games, but so they can cut as many corners and pinch and many pennies as possible by abusing the benefits and hiring the cheapest, most incompetent retards they can find so they can churn out some shovelware for profits. Same thing happened with Canadian animation in the 90s.

And nothing of value was lost
Shit studio
Shit series
Shit country

>>385890486
>I don't have an argument so just let me post this shitty reaction picture
Fuck off, faggot.

>>385890486
DA as a franchise ended up sucking. DA:O was one of their last good games.

>>385871395
They only have one employee.

Well, is the gameplay good? I'm willing to ignore everything else if there's good shootin' and space-magic.

File: LVMF;.png (48KB, 214x208px) Image search: [Google]

48KB, 214x208px

>>385879312
I've never even played this series and this picture makes me feel sad.
Why?
Is it sympathy for people with autism?
It makes me as sad as that Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends comic where it turns out Frankie is Autistic.

>>385874180
>women

are you proud of yourself, /v/? you made a lot of people lose their jobs.

>>385890935
please, DA:O is barely passable. Every character is forgettable, there's almost zero meaningful choice in what you can do, the combat is a terrible massively dumbed down interpretation of AD&D and almost every major plot element was incredibly stupid and forced

bioware has NEVER made a good game, and the only decent game they've made is the first mass effect

everything else good that gets attributed to them was 90% obsidian/black isle, bioware is a developer that just got lucky enough to make games big enough at the right time where idiots who knew nothing about games would buy them because of shiny effects and big marketing budgets

File: IMG_1655.jpg (415KB, 1199x673px) Image search: [Google]

415KB, 1199x673px

>>385891606
hopefully

File: Deck the Halls.jpg (480KB, 1680x1050px) Image search: [Google]

480KB, 1680x1050px

>>385891169
Yeah, probably. People that are on the low to moderate function end of the scale are usually pretty pitiable, like most people with 'quiet' developmental disabilities. Like, you look at them from almost any angle and they seem totally normal, and then you look them in the eyes and something is immediately and obviously off. Doesn't help that if they start stimming then they look completely nuts. Most of the Asperger's kids get it worse, though, since they're usually functional enough that they're expected to operate in polite society, and then catch hell when they struggle with all the social cues, mores and folkways that come along with the territory.

File: 1393878440416.jpg (83KB, 762x668px) Image search: [Google]

83KB, 762x668px

>>385891645
>please, DA:O is barely passable.

>>385887291
I work in the games industry in Montreal,

>>385890596

has the absolute right of it, the government here is fucking corrupt as hell to boot.

>>385891645

>bioware has NEVER made a good game

t. RPG Codex

>>385891729
Will he blame the downfall of the game on white people as opposed to the game being shit?

>>385891645
Keep fighting the good fight. First Bioware, next Bethesda.

I think Andromeda is a piece of rancid dogshit that I refuse to acknowledge as canon, but I still believe ME2 and ME3 are genuinely great games that got ruined by lying marketing campaigns. The ME trilogy is still one of my favourite game series.

>>385888802
What the fuck were they thinking?

>>385893013
>ME2&3
>great games
no

Good riddance to such a shitty studio. The decline of Mass Effect makes me very sad.

I would've liked it a lot more if the animations and character creator weren't total dogshit.

The combat was pretty good.

>>385867071
I hope /ourgirl/ whips them into shape.

File: andromeda_r34.png (15KB, 275x222px) Image search: [Google]

15KB, 275x222px

I think this pic is more telling than anything else

>>385893161
It had some pretty serious flaws from the start. I mean, the devs actually made a race of lipstick lesbians straight from their fap fantasies and just stuck it in the game(though the way the game takes this retarded concept and plays it dead-ass serious was amusing). And the gameplay in the first one was horribly unpolished. Bad inventory system, bad combat, etc.

It had a lot of good stuff too, mainly the atmosphere, soundtrack and visual design. ME2 made such a huge change in tone and atmosphere that it hardly felt like the same universe. It was as big of a shift as the one between the first and second Alien movies. This, not the focus on small personal stories that everyone likes to bitch about, was what really killed the series. The gameplay just wasn't good enough to survive the shift in setting from atmospheric retro sci-fi to generic action shooter sci-fi

>>385891645
>everything else good that gets attributed to them was 90% obsidian/black isle
This explains everything about you

>>385866816
I hope Anthem flops so ME died for nothing.

The multiplayer and facial animations were the worst things about the Andromeda. Game itself is 8/10

Andromeda isn't even one of those games that deserves the "so bad it killed a studio" title.

I can think of far worse games than a 6-7/10 game with AAA production values.

>>385893808
>race of lipstick lesbians
>serious flaws

They were always callback to Trek style hot alien chicks.

Making them ugly in Andromeda was the flaw; it ran directly against why they existed in the first place.

>>385891645

>bioware has NEVER made a good game

I liked Jade Empire, it's one of the two RPG's i've liked, the other one being Bloodborne.

>>385893013
2 was good, I was able to stomach 3 with the destroy ending as a paragon shep (and ignoring the retarded destroy all ai shoe horn) but I would like to shoot whoever came up with Kai Leng, only time in all 3 games I picked a renegade option to stab his ass.That and whoever got rid of Emily Wong. They really fucked over renegade sheps though.

>>385871046
If you look "carefully" at all the portrait paintings of historic old-timey dudes in Fallout 4, you'll notice that they are all actually edits of pictures of the lead developers.

The biggest portrait, with the fanciest border, is a direct likeness of the famous painting of Napoleon Bonaparte riding his horse as it rears. Looking at the head/face of the rider, this is the portrait that blatantly resembles Todd Howard.

Todd as Napoleon - a man almost just as notorious for his war-fueled attempts to unify Europe as his particularly short physical stature.

Even if his own game, he can't escape his manlet reality.

>>385867827
In the past I thought strange to dislike someone because of different tastes, even if I thought those tastes were terrible, but in part thanks to your post I can understand better how someone can despise someone based on his colossal terrible taste.

File: laughingpuffs.png (160KB, 612x438px) Image search: [Google]

160KB, 612x438px

>>385895907

>>385893141
They had a few good points, but I mostly agree. ME2 assassinated the aspects of ME1 that truly made it great in favor of samey 3rd person shooter garbage with a sci-fi seasoning, and 3 was just a shitty continuation and abortion of the second..

File: 1489908593746.jpg (114KB, 787x1181px) Image search: [Google]

114KB, 787x1181px

>>385866816
You throw shitty product on the market - you get fucked.
Capitalism, baby

File: image.jpg (32KB, 245x213px) Image search: [Google]

32KB, 245x213px

>>385887240
>You will never be asked to inseminate both of them as part of their pregnancy plans by railing them both at once while they lay on top of each other and pretend your cock is the other girls

>>385894894
This.

It actually would have been a really cool design choice to make "Peebee" about as attractive as an average female human in her prime. This would have been a great point to explore Asari genetics and culture when it comes to the individual in society, by making it so that even an Asari as attractive as a pretty human is seen as "ugly", "deformed", and "pitiful" compared to her on-average 10/10 psychic sex goddess peers.

Instead, they made PB look like a cross between a 15-year-old boy and Shrek, so that even Vetra, the completely non-feminine, non-sexual (even toned down from female Turians in ME:2) robotic stick-insect-lady Turian is more feminine and sexual than Peanut Butter.

But no, women just cannot put the social sphere behind them for one fucking second to not get all triggered and competitive with even fictional characters and creatures that appear more attractive and desirable than them.

File: 1472729315385.png (1MB, 800x799px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 800x799px

Obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdBAdBfvMKY

File: 0002_Title2.jpg (336KB, 640x480px) Image search: [Google]

336KB, 640x480px

>>385885290
I am still so angry about this.

Why couldn't Elf just make games like AV King 2? Why do they have to keep making NTR games till the end of their studio?

File: 1500729265960.jpg (36KB, 600x480px) Image search: [Google]

36KB, 600x480px

>>385894893
>7/10 game with AAA production values

>>385891756
Which mod was this again

>>385879227
I agree with this guy.

>>385898303


came here to post this.

>>385871046
C'mon guys hes clearly kneeling in this picture

>>385867459

I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite truth spouting based anon on /v/.

File: 1501651989985.png (687KB, 870x640px) Image search: [Google]

687KB, 870x640px

>>385868082

ME2 had one of the best sequences/set pieces ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR7-nrUtIOM

File: 11250234_485154104976665_96117432_n.jpg (74KB, 640x640px) Image search: [Google]

74KB, 640x640px

>>385884875

File: c79.jpg (86KB, 292x257px) Image search: [Google]

86KB, 292x257px

>>385887102

File: 1499684404794.jpg (131KB, 548x634px) Image search: [Google]

131KB, 548x634px

>>385887102
>Glorious Winged Faggot Extraordinare

>>385887446
>>385871046
Tod Howard is 5'5
Poor guy.

>>385891729
>The legend known as curry thunder
I bet the entire office smells like runny shits and cheap cologne.