Article: Mass Effect fans feel abandoned by BIoWare after Anthem reveal

That space-lemming who dropped no loot after walking face first into an explosion isn't worth my ammunition or attention.
Crawl back into the dark space of fading brand recognition, squid.

To expect so called AAA developers to take risks is probably not well founded. But there's quite a few indie developers out there, not yet bought by the industry, who develop kickstarter projects. That's where one has to look if one wants to see something original.

except racing and sports, because f that. 

But let's not pretend that the pixelated graphics back in the day weren't state of the art. Trying to look good and impress with visuals is about as old as the games industry.

The only new trend I am witnessing is that distinction between the production values and the writing. It's like a new rule that AAA games have shitty stories while the ones with decent writing have to look retro or simply be too indie to look good. That's a trend I would like to see reverse again. Can't we have both?

That's where we differ. I don't need my game to have top notch graphics whatever that means. One of my most memorable games was Pillars of Enternity with isometric views. Nice ones but not everyone's cup of tea. I also loved my companions in DAI, but I didn't give a single shit over the ones in MEA. Apart from Drack, but he's the only one out for me.

The bigger question is why you feel you're representative of everyone who happens to have hated ME:A?  Just because you say you didn't set out to hate doesn't mean that someone else could not possibly have set out to hate it.  Are you saying that the hate others dumped on this game in no way affected your opinion of it? Or, in no way caused you any apprehension that would not have been there if the game had been positively received?  Were you blissfully uninfluenced at all by all the memes as you sat down to play the game for the first time?  Is your "opinion" of the game formed in some sort completely objective vacuum... because I was influenced.  I was made far more apprehensive about buying the game and,as I sat down to play it the first time, I was not really anticipating loving it the way I had anticipated loving TW3 (which had such positive reviews from a whole lot of people).  For me, as it turned out, I wound up hating TW3 and enjoying ME:A... because different people can like different things about a game.  I'm glad I put my apprehensions aside and bought ME:A in spite of everything I had been reading here.

Could Bioware have produced a better game if they had applied even more resources to it... probably yes.  Would the public have received it well and gone wow?  I don't think so... not even if they game they had of delivered was damned near perfect.  Why do I say that... because most of them couldn't find anything good to say about ME:A despite it being not so bad a game and it does have many positives to it.  While you may not enjoy it as much as I do... It's still a better game than it was made out to be by many of the previews, the metascores, and many of the reviews.

I am in my early 30s and even if I were 20 I would not want to play MMOs or MP-only bc introversion. This MMO trend was maybe just starting when I was in college, and I wasn't interested then (at 20) either, but had a college housemate who got sucked into WoW -- we sometimes lost him for days -- luckily he eventually realized he needed to at least temporarily de-install if he was ever going to get into med school.

That space-lemming who dropped no loot after walking face first into an explosion isn't worth my ammunition or attention.
Crawl back into the dark space of fading brand recognition, squid.