Kotaku: The Story Behind ME:A's Troubled Five-Year Development

I really have to play this damn thing but having to buy a Nintendo to do so is problematic.

I don't know if I can say this or should but it's on pc. Just find a WiiU and play instead of wasting money on a Switch. 

A very good read.

But what I take out of this article the most, is that I have the utmost respect for the working people of bioware edmonton. They get shit on a lot in reviews and forums. But it really isn't their fault. They basically had to create all of andromeda ina year and a half. It's fantastic that the game I enjoy was created in only 1.5 years. I'm really hoping they get another chance to shine, with proper leadership this time around.

bravo bioware people, bravo.

There is also the possibility of playing it on PC, some skilled people already had it running on PC a few months ago . . .

This fandom at the moment. Hard to accept it, apparently.

Why not post this in the thread about the Kotaku article?

The article is accurate.

If the article was correct I was actually more surprised that they had to develop the tools for ME:A to develop the game using Frostbite. EA should have had a development team making toolkits for all of their studios when the decision to use Frostbite exclusively was made.

I get what the OP is saying and he isn't entirely wrong, but development problems aren't really my concern as a customer.  The final product is.  Agree with @tzeenchianapostrophe that the final product wasn't great.

It's Dragon Age II all over again...

Even flawed BioWare is still better than most games out there though. 

The article was a very good read. I stated awhile back that part of the problem was likely to be frostbite. Just because it can make some games look really good doesn't mean it's appropriate for every game genre. The Unreal Engine has so many years and game genre baked in that it's ridiculous to think that a new engine can catch up in a short time.

I reinstalled the game and was playing it the last two weeks, and my opinion has changed. It's not only not challenging, but I'm actually very bored with it. My new opinion is the game's multiplayer is not very fun. I've washed my hands of Bioware and EA. I thank them for the existence of ME2 SP and ME3 MP.  ME is now like most game series.  Eventually, you just get bored.  I'm checking out. I've already uninstalled the game. I really like the new Angara Exemplar, but the multiplayer is simply neither fun nor challenging enough for me to play it just for certain characters, powers, and guns.  The only reason I played it this long was to max out my manifest, and I did that a week ago.  I'm not going to even bother trying to get my Exemplar to X.

I built my PC last year anticipating Andromeda. All hype for Bioware games and ME (and maybe gaming) is virtually gone. It's amazing that my favorite game series of all time has, with the release of one overhyped game, actually erased my desire to game for awhile.