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

BioWare proper should have been at the helm of ME:A. They have developed ME and DA games side by side and the games have been great. This time, BioWare proper poured all of their resources into the next DA and Anthem instead of the next DA and ME:A.

See what I'm getting at?

BioWare dropped the ball on a loved franchise so they could go develop a mindless shoot 'n' loot microtransaction pushin' cash cow that no one wants for EA. If Anthem was never even a thing, then BioWare proper would have most certainly developed ME:A and avoided releasing a game that didn't live up to the OT.

Anthem was definitely in the works when ME:A was starting development, at least at a planning stage. There was talk about it before ME:A was even hinted at. BW made the idiotic decision to let Montreal handle ME:A, freeing up BW proper for the next DA and Anthem. They decided the ME wasn't as important as a potential mainstream cashcow.

You are of course free to believe as you like, as am I, but you can't tell me that there wasn't an explicit decision made to relegate ME:A to the noobies. Hence a game that got 7s across the board.

I don't see a point on continuing this debate and clogging up the thread as we go back and forth. You gave your interpretation and I gave mine. Let's leave it at that.

I personally really enjoyed ME:A and don't think it is as flawed as the Internet made it out to be, but it most certainly didn't live up to the reputation that 2 and 3 set up for it. I thought the explanation given to get out from under the baggage of the OT wasn't very good, but it was certainly better than that "Project Lazarus" nonsense.

The baggage of ME3 and the decision to task a support studio with such a critical title in the series might have very well killed one of the greatest franchises in gaming and I for one am melancholy at best.

No, your right, but BioWare has a habit of making dumb decisions with the narratives in their games and I guess we just have to deal...

Besides, If I have to get hit, I'll take it on the nose all day every day. 

More effort wouldn't have helped if the problem was simply insoluble. If there are enough no-canon fans to veto any attempt to proceed in the MW with a set of default choices, and if the canonizers and the no-canon fans would both turn on retconners, and if all three groups don't really like like going to Andromeda.... what's left?

I won't buy Anthem. Andromeda is probably my last non-Blizzard AAA game I'll ever buy, that industry became cancer, I far more trust Larian than Bioware for that matter. Also I expect that when (if) Cyberpunk 2077 will be released I won't have time to play games anyways.

Least-bad solution:  canonize a "non-canon" outcome.  

Obsidian is my master now.

Because when you label a game as "Mass Effect" people have certain expectations.  And when those expectations aren't met, it creates bad word-of-mouth.  As we saw with MEA.

An update, it seems Destiny's fan base is really starting to lose interest in the game, if this is true Anthem could be DOA.

I got screwed over with Destiny 1, thinking it would be a true MMO/RPG combo. Played D2 demo and wasn't impressed. I won't buy it even when it's dirt cheap.

If it has decent SP campaign. If not