Are you considering buying Anthem? (Mass Effect thread version)

Lol.

You have plenty of time to take screenshots of your Ryder. And to shitpost here. Playing a game might be time better spent.

For the time being, and based on the information provided, I do not intend to purchase Anthem, the Game. My decision has no connection to BioWARE's decision to discontinue MEA. Rather it has to do with Anthem not advertising anything I like in videogames.

However, after observing the development process for Andromeda, DA4 and Cyberpunk, I look for smaller companies that produce "good enough" games rather than dealing with the timelines and BS that goes into producing & selling AAA titles, and the god-awful reception fallouts. I do not need everything and a kitchen sink in my games, and I can live without wading through a messy psychotic drama on the net every time I want to talk to someone else who played & enjoyed a videogame.

What I want from a videogame is a captivating setting, good story, characters, not-really-eyes-sore graphics and a place on the net to meet a few friendly & sane folk on the net to chit-chat with.

Obsidian and Spiders are my current favorites for inspired B-listers, and I pray they can remain in business and sell enough to keep going.

AAA titles... they are really not worth all the complications.

i answered yes but next week could be "no", the week after, perhaps, and next month YES! .. and so on. My wallet is ruled by the uncertainty principle, sadly.

No, I'm not interested it in that kind of games.

Try Larian. Divinity Original Sin 2 rocks and is constantly supported. Agree with the other mentioned companies though. All the more reason to add Larian to the list.

Oh, did I touch a nerve there?

It's been in development for too long with the company producing other games I have no interest in in the meantime. It also tries to put everything and a kitchen sink in the game, half of which I don't need in my games, and makes me pay for it. So, like the other AAA games, if it's already there for a year or two, sure, but I am not following and anticipating them, and I am not paying a perimium for the pricey stuff the other people are demanding, period. Let them do their thing and try to please everyone under the sun. I will search for niche that is addresses my needs satisfactory instead.

That is not what I said. I said that the developers in general who chose the AAA route has lost my interest, and I have answered your question as to why it is so to the best of my ability, after you have requested a clarification of what I thought I already made clear in my original post. You have used that responce to launch a passive-aggressive statement aimed to "prove her wrong". I in no way, shape or form critisized any company's choice to chase AAA titles and profits, it is their choice to do so. most particularly I did NOT use obscenities directed at the developpers personally, or their families. I like video games, but I am not insane. And, yes, as I pointed above, the kind of sentiments you have just expressed in a discussion of a AAA title, at a barely a mention of a game, is one of the reasons I wish to distance myself from a AAA fan communities. It's exactly an example of the psychotic drama and overreaction to "tastes differ" that I do not wish to deal with. The discussion is one thing, but that aggression and anger, drawing the lines based on brand-loyalty is off-putting. The video-games are not worth this sort of reaction. It belongs to serious, impactful events worth fighting over. Not tastes in entertainment.

Finding time for the forums, screenshots and SP games differs a lot from finding time for an MP game, because in an MP game you do not have a luxury to participate whenever and for whatever length of time you have. And your experiences are invariably impacted too much by other people. SP gaming is much like jogging in a park. MP game is like playing soccer. It's much easier to fit in a jog in your life; a match, even impromptu, is way, way more challenging to get into, particularly on a regular basis.

No chance in hell I'm ever touching Anthem. Don't care if it comes out and is called the greatest game ever made, as a Mass Effect fan I simply won't support the game they abadonded ME for. Especially since Anthem is just another loot box/microtransaction heavy game.

MEA doesn't affect my interest in other Bioware games. I enjoyed ME but even if I didn't I don't get angry with a dev for a game I don't like and try to punish them, even in a series I love.

Specifically for Anthem, I'm not a team player, so it'll depend on how good/viable solo playing is. It doesn't look like my kind of game, it's not really aimed at gamers like me, but I might dip my toe into a trial or something. I like to keep an open mind.