YongYea's take on Kotaku's Andromeda Development article

"Why the need to show support? I mean, I thought people here are confident that SP DLC is coming? If you're so sure that it is coming, why do you need to start a movement to show support for the game? Is the game's financials not enough support for EA/Bioware?"

bsn.boards.net/post/785355/thread

It's almost hard to believe that your attempts to derail a positive thread by being a dick ended up with your post derailing the thread.

It's clear your only intention was to derail that thread, and then when you succeeded, you tried to take the high road by "bowing out" after getting exactly what you wanted.

Let's dive in then, shall we?


References a video that references an article that talks about problems with Andromeda's development. You didn't even ask a question. I don't how that can be considered "positive" under the most generous of definitions.


Combat is what's most highly praised about Andromeda, and in your post you declare that it's what you're least interested in. What's positive about that?


"I played less than 10 hours and didn't like the dialogue. Who agrees?" Still not seeing anything positive.


Raising the "no DLC" specter despite having no evidence. Still not seeing anything positive.


I don't hate you at all, I'm simply curious. You just claimed to be positive and engaged, but your posts feel a lot like bait.


Oh, don't feel like you have to change anything for me. Please continue to shill your book.

Bothering to respond to someone who wants nothing but to be a brown smear upon the fandom out of nothing but pure sociopathic spite towards people who make and enjoy things that he didn't is a waste of time.

I would recommend against letting such people get what they want.

Don't misquote the Dude, dude.  

Well, here we are again...

I just want to say thanks to YongYea. I know he comes off annoyed and angry at EA and BioWare. He's talking for the disgrunted and aggravated that still love BioWare products. He's taken on the bad cop persona because he's frustrated that EA doesn't openly talk about anything. EA hasn't changed, the fan base hasn't changed, but clearly BioWare changed. They're part of EA now, but they're also still an interactive-art studio. (If no one has called BioWare that, I get the term. I said it first.) However, the only issue that needs to improve is more, detailed communication (Don't ask me, I don't have a solution) because Andromeda is really a great game. It has it's moments just like the original trilogy, but it is far superior as a foundation for future titles. The storytelling, I believe was a symptom of the change in direction and scope, and not so much talent. Anyway, I say embrace YongYea and learn where he's coming from. In the end, when EA is ready to talk, we'll all be listening (and optimistically speculating for good news).

My speculation: DLC and a few more goodies. Schreier's book is going to be an important lesson for developers. We're still in July.

suikoden may be passionately antagonistic but "sociopathic" is more than a little much
(I mean he may be a sociopath but not for this)

Frequency of only two dialogue options.

Forced 'growth' of the protagonist. It's a character arch, but it takes some of the fun out of it when your only option is to grow the heck up. 

As fun as the profiles are, it feels more fulfilling to just focus on one and ignore the feature almost entirely. I'd probably be equally pissed if there were things I couldn't vanguard, so eh.


And to be clear, though I'm not one of the frequent posters, I'm on the "Andromeda is damn fun" bus.

I don't respond well when people bark orders at me, so no. You'll just have to follow along with my posts.


No one is stopping you from believing that.

You know i was about to defend the Benezia dialogue at the end...but it was pretty cheesy wasn't it?  Of course it was good cheese.  Like American or Parmesean, but cheese none the same. 

Well, you just won the BSN today.

I personally don't mind it. People say cheesy/stupid/insane things all the time. So it was an "okay, I wouldn't have said that but..." moment.

I just find it amusing how so many will try to treat it or a "Don't fuck with Aria" line like they are better than the one liners or "my face is tired" dualogue. They are pretty even when you get down to it. Or of course shaming Liam for shooting a dead guy but patting Shepard on the back for headbutting a Krogan (I chose it a lot, but still... admit it isn't that bright).

I'm sure people were too busy staring at Benezia's cleavage to notice her cheesy dialogue.