The Feels Meter for Andromeda and beyond

I'm very sad re: Andromeda. I only bought the game a couple of months ago, after getting the trial and enjoying it enough to continue. I had my problems with the game, but I absolutely loved the characters and the companion missions and was looking forward to more. I wanted to actually experience more interactive story, not find answers via reading a book, so it looks like my Andromeda adventures are over, and that makes me sad.

I hope DA4 will be released and will succeed. I've enjoyed the DA games (all of them, even the ones that frustrated me) and I want to keep enjoying them.

Those were my votes in this poll. Re: Anthem, I could honestly not care less about it, but it worries me. I have zero interest in that kind of game. The last time I was interested in playing a singleplayer Bio game multiplayer-style was the NWN games. I've no interest in playing with other people to do nothing more than fight other people/NPCs. So while I don't wish it to fail, I also kinda don't wish it to succeed either, because I don't want them to decide that this is the way to move forward.

As for loving Bio/hating Bio... shit. I was a raging BioWare fangirl for decades, jokingly talking about my altar to BioWare, praised be! but I honestly can't claim that any longer. I've suffered too many gut punches. Still eternally hopeful, though, even if no longer an abject fan!

I enjoyed MEA and am disappointed there won't be any further SP content but that said, Dragon Age has always been my first love. So I'll still be hopeful about Dragon Age 4.

This is what I hope too. That despite it being an online MP game I don't usually care for, it will be something refreshing that switches up the genre and contributes something new.
I mean, I was never into sci-fi, hated shooters and had to be convinced HARD by a friend to buy ME1 because "it's actually an RPG". And what followed was the biggest gaming love affair of my life.

I was never into the dragons and orcs fantasy setting either and only bought DAO because I loved ME1. I thought the trailer was super unappealing.
Well, I found out a second time that Bioware can get me interested in anything.

I want Bioware to surprise me again. So even if Anthem is not an RPG, bring on the magic one more time, please!

I also hope DA4 gets made and succeeds. Completely indifferent about MEA. Wouldn't buy DLC anyway.

Sad about the choices made in Andromeda's development

Very sad about Mass Effect in general, it could've been a much bigger franchise with more other media products

Won't play Anthem because it's a microtransaction crack dealer scam like similar games in that genre

Don't care about Dragon Age. Don't like fantasy in general and DA's lore specifically

Damn right I'm sad re: Andromeda DLC. Damn sad, but hopeful for DA4.

It's a difficult poll for me.

At the one hand I am sad/angry about what happened with Andromeda. Sad because the storylines will not be resolved in an SP, and angry because abandoning a game after only 5 months is a slap in the face for the consumers.

Secondly - I would love to see DA4 succeed, because I like that series. However, I have some uneasy feelings about that, and I will explain below.

Third - I do not care one bit about Anthem. If it really turns out to be multiplayer (and all signs point in that direction) or, even worse, an MMO, then it is something that won't interest me at all. Now the question is - Would I like it to fail? The answer to that is a bit difficult. You see - If it is a succeeds and sells good, than Bioware/EA would get the signal that SP (Andromeda) is bad and multiplayer/MMO (Anthem) is good. This could very well set the future development direction in stone, and Bioware could stop developing SP games all together. They would concentrate on multiplayer/MMO and maybe slap a little tiny bit (very short and not very meaningful) SP to it as an small afterthought (that means if we are very, very lucky). No need to say it would be the last direction I personally would like to see them go.

At the other hand - If Anthem fails, it could be very well the end of (the remaining parts) of Bioware. I am not sure if I would like that either. But if Bioware becomes a multiplayer/MMO developer only, they are already dead for me. So - Difficult one this.

This brings me to the last point. If Anthem will succeed, what does that mean for DA4? Will DA4 stay SP, or will it take the same direction as Anthem and will it turn into an multiplayer/MMO? If that is the case then DA4 is dead for me too. And if that's the case I very much doubt if I would like to see DA4 succeed (because that would give another "trigger" to the development direction).

So - the coming time will be interesting. Will Bioware keep producing SP games, or will they be infected by the multiplayer/MMO virus, that signs the death warrant of all (meaningful) SP content. I must say I am very worried about that.

YES WARRICK! YES! YES! YES!

Every time they pushed out a new engine it was to support a new franchise. Every time it was something going forward. Honestly, Frostbite is a big step forward, but they're still so many steps behind from their own engine creation process. Origins is a masterpiece because it fully utilized that engine. Inquisition and Andromeda are making use of the Frostbite canvas, but since they can't seem to make what the AI and controls from previous games happen, they've taken shortcuts to just get a working model from my perspective. Anthem is a step forward and they're going into Anthem using what they learned from Andromeda and Inquisition. It's going to be awesome despite the crappy marketing (corn fields are awesome. E3 reveal almost sank it because I smelled a con. You know what I'm referring to...) and I can't wait for EA's marketing and PR to decide how much money they're going to milk out of the fan base because you know $12 million a year salary requires a lot of subscriptions and micro transactions. 

I don't know how to spell the CEO's name but I'm calling him Nerd Pimp from now on.

What if Bio pushes forward into something I'm not interested in, though? Right now I don't have any reason to buy Anthem. It's like a Battlefield game -- at $10 or so I'll give it a shot if I've cleared my game backlog and I'm bored that week.

I still hope it succeeds, mind; it's kind of a dick move to hope it fails.

Very sad about Andromeda. It feels so...strange that they would drop support for a Mass Effect title like that. I mean given everything they put into the previous three games, how massive they were for BioWare, to go from that to dropping all support in 5 months is insulting to the consumers. ME:A had tons of issues but to just can it instead of fixing it and getting it right in a sequel or something? As someone who was 100% behind Mass Effect from day 1 (proud owner of ME1 collector's edition), I can't express how disappointed I am in EA and BioWare for giving up on the franchise so fast.

As for Anthem, if it's going to be the co-op mmo shooter that it seems to be. Well, as a Warframe player with 2.5k hours and friends trying to get me into Destiny 2, Anthem would have to be the most legendary perfect game of recent memory to even have a chance of interesting me. I don't hope it fails per say but it would have to impress the hell out of me to even consider it.

DA4...Inquisition redeemed the series for me after DA2 but it also made me judge each DA game on its own merits. I've no trouble sitting out an entry if it's not looking to my liking. So I hope it's good and I hope it's something I can enjoy, but I'm not holding my breath.

In short Mass Effect was the last BioWare franchise that I supported unconditionally. With ME gone the BioWare name has no special meaning to me anymore. They've lost me as a fan that will gladly buy their games, they've got to really work to earn my purchases now. I don't hate them, but I've got no favorable bias for them anymore.

Absolutely. To hope it fails, is a dick or haters move. If you're cautious about committing time and funds, I get that. I totally get that. I'm okay with BioWare branching out and in this case, BioWare is playing up to the strengths of the engine in Frostbite. If BioWare can ever figure out how to implement what worked in Origins into Frostbite, we're in for fun ride for DA4. Anthem is Battlefield with BioWare at the helm. Full disclaimer: Haven't played beyond BF2 and only touched Star Wars Battlefront long enough to say that I hate competitive online gaming. It only takes a few minutes of griefing before I throw in the towel and shove a pacifier in my mouth. I'm telling you from my perspective: I want to play Anthem at launch and I will get it NEAR launch for all my bluster and criticism of EA. However, this time I am armed with a AverMedia 209 video capture card. 

Hmm, I'm not actually sure how to answer this.

I haven't got round to playing any other Bioware games (yet), so I can't say I 'love' Bioware. I keep seeing references to Jade Empire being Bioware's golden age, which I think i'd need to play before I could say whether or not I love the current Bioware studio, compared to their halcyon days. That said, ME1 changed my gaming forever and the trilogy gave me a fantastic ride, which I always play through all these years later.
I don't feel 'sad' that Andromeda has no more support, I'm looking forward to the next game, how Casey will handle the direction of the series, and the fan-fics/ AUs and (some) SIs that will fill the time until then (it's what's been keeping me occupied for the last five years.)

Which kind of leads on to me feeling a little glad there's no more content for Andromeda. Over the last two years I started a university course, got fitter & healthier and was just, generally, doing more than sitting in front of the PC all day. A habit I was slipping back into when MEA released.

Hmm, mixed, maybe?