Any news on ME4?

Hi Dutch.

Yes.

March 21 2022, ME4 will be released. Shepard and crew/squadmates including Miranda, return to make sure the threat of the reapers are completely eradicated after they were destroyed. The game will feature a trip to darkspace, learning more about the Initiative and what role Cerberus had in it and possibly Shepard visiting Leviathan again. The player will also learn the punishment to the asari for not revealing the artifact earlier. The Honorable Mr. Rupert Gardner, the greatest chef in the universe, will return to the Normandy to make his favorite dish, Calamari gumbo, for the Commander.

There will be new discoveries. The opportunity for the player to play as a member of the crew or as a squadmate in the game. Will Shepard get a chance to seek revenge against Sam for losing at chess? Will James get a chance to reclaim his record for chin ups? Will Garrus get back at the Commander for one upping him after shooting bottles? Will the windows break the next time Tali sings? To find out and more, you can preorder the game.

I will admit this is pretty expert trolling from you, well done.

Nah, ME4 will be set centuries after Andromeda, where it's discovered yet another ark found it's way to the Triangulum galaxy, (because Andromeda is so "been there, done that") where our character "Swigert" has to save all of reality from interdimensional bugs.  Fortunately, Swigert is a cybernetically enhanced super-soldier, a perfect melding of organic and synthetic parts, allowing him/her to take on whole armies of them at once thanks to the awesome button.  Unfortunately, there's only one button to bind all your powers to, because pause and play is icky.

Oh, Hi Mark Dutch^TM!

How do you feel about the theory that the bartender from MEA is named after you?

Assuming Anthem and Dragon Age go well,
I'd say 2024 at the earliest.

Just sayin', but that'd be ultimate savagery.

That is pretty much what I am expecting as well.

The other thing in the air right now is what is happening with the new location for BioWare for it could be they need to expand before working on a new Mass Effect game as well.  One thing that teams I have worked with in the past in hardware rollouts is an autopsy to find strengths and weaknesses in what we just need and I would expect EA and BioWare to be doing something over the reported development issues and how to prevent it from happening again.  Just like I expect the same thing to be happening internally at EA with the closure of Visceral for that is a lot of money spent on 3.5 years of development with very little to show.

Too long. I mean I don't even think I'll be into gaming by then.

First dropping a product means they are no longer working on it at all from the areas I work, so if had been saying that they weren't making new content I would have agreed which seems to have been your point.  Mass Effect 3 lasted one year, they stopped MP events in March 2013 and the last DLC was Citadel and it was also March 2013 almost a year after release.  During that time they have one DLC to "fix" the endings that didn't seem to solve anything, one DLC people claimed about being important to the story with Levithian, one DLC that people thought was a waste of money with Omega because it was light on story and they couldn't take existing companions with them, finally Citadel where it was nothing but fanservice which turned some people off.

I have never said Andromeda is a perfect game, in fact I have pointed out what I consider flaws with the game.  Just because I am pointing out they fixed the majority of problems with the game unlike other studios that will drop a product because they are unable or unwilling to continue to fix problems within their game so I think it should be mentioned.  There is no evidence of what your a claiming about the game being a turd, I will always agree that the game didn't do as well as EA probably expected, but its true performance is hidden from us.  The reason for no DLC might have had nothing to do with the game itself either, it might have had more to do with BioWare Montreal and the problems that caused the state the game was released in.  There is no evidence to prove either theory correct so anything is still possible.  My stance is that Andromeda was either almost profitable for EA or just profitable for EA.  It was far from a major hit, but I am curious to know where the NPD charts have it for the year when that is released.

As far as kissing BioWare not sure why you think that I will always agree the game was released too early, they had the wrong people in charge for the majority of the project, and several directions in the game weren't the right way to go.  I was just able to enjoy the majority of the game for what it was while being disappointed in several design choices.  As far as what they are paid for they were paid for the release version of the game regardless of the state, the patches and fixes were pretty much PR showing they were addressing the issues.  Plenty of games in that case don't give us what we pay for, I bought Nier over the Christmas sale and the developer still hasn't fixed the problems with the game and I had to use a third party tool to get it to work.

First I never claimed you were a doomsayer, my point was that if you want to classify one extreme end of the spectrum as apologists then the opposite of the spectrum exists as well.  If you wish to classify yourself as that feel free, but I didn't.

Not exactly sure what you want to know what I was doing prior to Andromeda, but I am pretty sure over six to eight months prior to release I did a full replay of the first three games and some ME3MP matches with friends.  Other then that I was probably also playing other games that were released if they interested me.

2025 actually -If we want a good one.
Anything less than 7 years for a RPG to be made -isn't worth even playing.
NOTE #1: Ideas must not be scratched and the whole thing started over *cough* MEA *cough*.
NOTE #2: DON'T go for a progressive galaxy build -if it is to be sci fi.

Not going to be gaming because a game didn't live to expectation or emotionally scarred you?
Well good for you.
All the more for us.

FINALLY!
Someone finally gets it!
You deserve a win: