Most Underrated Game: One Year Later

The Day 1 DLC stopped with Inquisition as well.  A lot of people back then took it as EA finally caved to what they were saying about how bad Day 1 DLC was.

BioWare DLC has never felt that planned out to me, its about "this could be cool" more then anything else.  They might have one they are working on, but that is about it.  To me they were planning on doing something, for they kept the majority of staff until about a month after release and if they didn't have any future work for them I would have thought they would have gone long before that.  I would even say they might have had the groundwork for something already, but shifted focus to fixing the problems unlike what WBIE did with Arkham Origins when they focused on making DLC instead of fixing the game.

Aside from the Day 1 DLC they did on a few games, I don't think Bioware ever has specific DLC planned. The extended cut and Leviathan were in direct response to endings and people wanting more information about the reapers. The Citadel was in direct response to the endings and people wanting some kind of sendoff with their crew that they didn't get.

I don't think Bioware had a lot of specific DLC planned, but I think they did have the Quarian Ark DLC planned. I believe that's why they had to push the book's release date back, to add in things that would have been covered in the DLC.

But I still think that the notion that EA, before the game was even released, said, that no matter what happens with this game we're not going to release any DLC is ridiculous. No business is going to make a decision like that without seeing data first. They wouldn't have done the surveys again asking how likely would you be to recommend the game to a friend of family member, re-released the demo, had the Nvidia giveaways, etc if that were the case. They tried to re-brand it after the patches, but after looking over the data they made a business decision. I'm sure they can see things like how many people finished the game, how many finished more than once, when was the last time people played it. Maybe even how many people still have it installed period.

This.

I enjoyed the game. It was definitely overly criticized and overly hated. Still, it had and still has a lot of issues. I wish they hadn't released an unfinished game. Even if its iffy story and characters remained iffy, it could've received its due praise for its great gameplay and other strengths.

As it is, I guess it's not hard for it to be the "most underrated" since it's often rated as "hot garbage". It's certainly better than many allow. Still, it's exactly what I thought it was last year: a solid but buggy game that needed much more work.

Nice to see you projectpatdc. It's been a while. 

Disappointed that story & some characters are ripped from the OT, but not a bad game by itself.

The way you worded your first post pointed me in a different direction you were saying by using BioWare Points which is used to by DLC for the older games.  Andromeda Points are used for microtransactions in the MP which isn't the first thing I think of for I never bought any, but I was frustrated by having to use BioWare Points to buy single player DLC until it ended with Mass Effect 3.  What it looks like is to buy content in the multiplayer part of the game you use Andromeda Points, but for DLC and content purchased outside the game you use cash.  So having a season pass wouldn't impact those point sales because you don't use Andromeda Points to buy things like the upgrade to the normal edition to the deluxe edition.

Hopefully that explains what I was thinking.

What's up! I've been busy with work and living at the beach. Traded my gaming hours for the exercising, kiteboarding, boozing, and chasing after beautiful women, but such is life. Should be on PS4 intermittently if you ever want to chat.


I think after reading all the responses that my love for sci space adventures makes me a little biased. And that is fine. There are parts of the game where I'm in awe as if I am playing in a universe by Ridley Scott (actually just ran into Danny McBride [Alien Covenant] this weekend during St Pattys), but then some of the dialogue does seem more cringeworthy. I thought most of the old games had a decent amount of cringeworthy dialogue so it seemed to fit well.

The point of my original post was that I enjoyed the game a lot more than the reviews and negative outcries portrayed. Ultimately I wish had a sequel.

That had to have started later in the US.  I only started playing Mass Effect two years ago.  I had to purchase all my DLC with BioWare points.  ME1 and ME2 were available on Steam but it was necessary to install and use Origin in order to get the DLC for them.

I’m glad things are going well!

I can agree with that assessment. It is a fun, beautiful game with some cringeworthy moments. It’s still ME, despite the shift in setting and tone. (The tone can vary from game to game, anyway.) I absolutely would like a sequel, to tie up all the great threads mixed among those cringeworthy moments. I think ME works best in and belongs in the Milky Way, but Andromeda needs a sequel. I’m not holding my breath. If we see ME again, I suspect it will be via some “reboot” project— a reimagining that keeps the great stuff, tunes small things and gets back to the thematic roots presented in the first game.

Actually, you don't need them anymore. EA recently released DLC bundles for all Bioware games that used points, so now you can get all the DLC for any Bio game for about...25-30 eur it was? Something like that.

yes 25 for the ME2 DLC bundle and 30 for the ME3 DLC bundle, pretty fucking expensive.

It's still expensive for a six year old game.

This fact especially makes zero sense when they released the trilogy as a collection a couple of years back- with none of ME3’s DLC. Like, I still haven’t played Lair of the Shadowbroker, Arrival, or Omega because of how much it physically pained me to spend full price on Citadel a while back.

Pro tip: apparently if you have an Xbox One, there’s a thing called EA Access- it’s a subscription service that has EA titles and trials of upcoming games for those who pay and I think it’s like 10 bucks a month. I know many people would rather pay that money on anything else, but apparently- the full trilogy is there- as well as DLC. So if you’re quick about it- you could do a full trilogy DLC run for 10 dollars as long as you cancel before the following month.

*raises glass*

I’m probably going to do this soon. I don’t even like Liara, but I feel incomplete without actually playing through LoSB on my playthrough.

Who told Bioware that they could keep important story content behind extra paywalls?