Do you still believe we'll get a Sequel to Andromeda? Or a Reboot like Tomb Raider/Mirror's Edge?

It's not that ME:A is beyond saving.  I think that when they abandoned the original concept they made a massive mistake.  It left them with too little time to present a cohesive game.  The game plays fine but it's just so boring.  It's like DAI imo but just nowhere near as good.  And the bugs.... I mustn't mention the bugs.

The story is just poorly thought out. In the mass effect trilogy a vast percentage of the milky way remains unexplored, and yet we're off to Andromeda? Seriously? Why? Wouldn't those resources be better invested in the approaching reaper threat?



This then renders everything that happened after mass effect 1 almost pointless. Why didn't we just jump to Andromeda where we'd sent this motly bunch of rubberfaces?

I also think they deffo made a massive mistake using Frostbite.  They have I believe admitted themselves that  they almost didn't know how to use it, and had to almost improvise to get it to do what they needed it to do.  The result being bugs galore, and facial animations that are quite frankly terrible by todays standards - indeed terrible by 2010's standards.

IDK...wasn't Inquisition made with Frostbite? I feel like maybe borrowing some artists from that team could have improved the end result for ME:A.

My thoughts on the OT: It depends on the DLC. As long as they turn a profit, they're going to keep making whatever they want and likely without care or regard for what you want. BioWare likes to be all about service until release day. Then they convert to "We're sorry, here's a patch to fix..."

A neat trick: INSTEAD of buying games upon release, wait. If the price drops in a month; the game is not good. If the price doesn't drop or drops $5, then they did alright. Personally, I bought this game used and...I'm not upset about the money I paid for it. It was bad, but when you pay a third of the price for it, it doesn't bother you as much when it's broken.

Yes it was but then it's quite possible they may have done as they did transfer some of DAI's personnel to work on the game towards the later end of it.

Back to that same old war...  You want a rewrite of ME3, you'll accept nothing less, and you'll kill everything Bioware does to get that.  Ain't happening... after 5 years of being told by Bioware that it isn't happening, you'd think you guys would give up... instead of telling us to give up on a mere DLC after only 3 months and not actually being told anything directly by Bioware.  ME:A is a flawed, but fine game that people other than you enjoy... people who are not motivated solely by trying to force a company to rewrite an earlier work.

We've explored 100% of the imaginary Milky Way as created by Bioware.  They don't want to create any more of a Milky Way for us... They wanted to create a vision of the Andromeda Galaxy. instead.  They had a different story they wanted to tell us... but you guys keeping wanting to drag Bioware... and everyone else... back to the same old same old.

... BTW, you can also tell your buddy up there that if he wants to stop reading my passive, aggressive comments, he's the one who's going to have to press the ignore button.  I'm going to ignore him... which means I'm not replying to him at all.  I don't need to press a button to do that, but if I do press that button, it just means I won't be reading his comments anymore.  It doesn't mean I'm going to stop posting my thoughts whenever I feel it appropriate and to respond to other people here... such as yourself.

Technically, Bioware COULD reboot the entire OT by visiting the first contact war. Which, IMO, would be a far better story than anything we've had so far.
In the same vein as my previous post, they will choose to do as they please. It's possible they're leaving that as an ace in the hole to try to save themselves when their new IP is also a flop.


That said; given that it topped sales charts on release, I have no doubt that the BioWare cash machine is going to steamroll forward with an equally unpolished sequel.

A First Contact War game would lack the multitude of alien species that ME is known for and be linear as all hell. You can't make a branching game in prequel format.

It's never going to work nor will it be interesting. Maybe it could work as a short spinoff game, but not a mainstay entry in the series. No thanks.

That would be cool, but as a full-fledged game, it would be a waste.

Thing is, it's not obvious that the original concept was workable in the first place. If anything, ME:A's design history suggests that it was not.



You haven't thought this through. Even if the planners believe in the Reaper threat, that just makes the AI more useful as a contingency plan. There are three possible cases for the effects of the resource expenditure. In case 1 you have the resources to win anyway. In case 2 you're going to lose anyway. In case 3 the AI resources would make the difference between victory and defeat. Case 3 is the least probable situation, given the relatively small proportion of galactic resources directed to the AI. In case 1 it doesn't matter what you choose. Case 2 is the important case, since in that case the AI is the only hope for avoiding extermination. (Note that the actual ME3 situation can best be described as an edge case of case 1; it's not possible for the war to be lost because of a lack of resources, but more WA points might make the postwar situation somewhat better if the game-world is otherwise in a low-EMS state; in high-EMS states, of course, the AI resources are completely irrelevant.)




Huh? I have no idea what your point is here. In what sense is what happens to the MW pointless?



The DAI team did fine with it.

I'll have to disagree on that. I remember the heat sink discussion, the face masks, Vorcha etc but I don't consider them plot holes. It's the same as with movies and tv they add things year to year sequel to sequel. Now a good example of a plot hole is Luke's Lightsaber in Return of the Jedi. It's a plot hole because they cut the scene with him building it.

I'm pretty sure vonuber's talking about stuff like the impossible time sequence for Tali's voice recording (whose existence is pretty stupid in the first place), Saren searching for something he already had, the non-rational premise of Shepard's overall mission in ME2, the idiocy of a human-dominated Council, and so forth.

I don't see how Luke's lightsaber counts as a plot hole; even with the cut scene, we have Vader remarking on Luke constructing it.

It was fun and enjoyable but yeah, the entire trilogy had more than a few plot holes and inconsistencies of differing proportions and that's without taking the jumbled narrative into consideration.