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Post by Phantom on May 2, 2019 16:36:51 GMT
Never watched an episode after the one with Fry's dog. That was a pretty good episode. If I ever watch that episode again, I will go and get a lot of tissues.
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Post by Iakus on May 2, 2019 16:40:22 GMT
Never watched an episode after the one with Fry's dog. That was a pretty good episode. As a lifelong dog owner, I despised how it turned out.
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Post by garrusfan1 on May 2, 2019 20:13:50 GMT
I see no one here is a futurama fan. I named the title after the proffesor's line "good new everyone"! Never watched an episode after the one with Fry's dog. Aw that one freaking broke me for a while. I hate when bad things happen to dogs even in cartoon shows. I could watch horrible things happen to people on TV and movies and not blink an eye. See a dog get shot and I get pissed and wish death upon whoever did it.
That said the last two episodes of futurama were AWESOME! Seriously worth the watch
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2019 20:57:57 GMT
Are there still people who honestly believe there will be another Mass Effect after Anthem has Bioware teetering on the edge of being disbanded and absorbed into other EA studios like Montreal? Wait it's on the edge on being disbanded? Link? I don't think anyone at this stage can say that it's looking rosy for Bioware though. Anthem leads were recently shifted over to DA4, so it does look like they are not going to pursue Anthem's long-term development plan (which was to go one for 10 years). If Schrier's article is accurate, then staff morale at Bioware is quite low. I would think they really have to nail it with DA4 or it's unlikely EA will keep giving them more chances to pull a proverbial rabbit out of their hat.
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Post by smilesja on May 2, 2019 21:02:18 GMT
I don't deny that, but It was pretty much the plan for some leads to work on DA4 regardless of Anthem's reception.
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Post by roivas on May 2, 2019 21:47:06 GMT
IMO the fact that the next Star Wars is going to use EU4 is due to the Battlefront 2 debacle. Pretty sure Disney gave a last chance to EA before removing the licence. And with all the known issues that Frostbite have with game other than FPS & especially RPG, EA will not take that risk. Bioware will still have to deal with the horror that is Frostbite for DA4 & the next ME (if it ever happen) since those games are EA's property.
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Post by griffith82 on May 16, 2019 2:43:36 GMT
Are there still people who honestly believe there will be another Mass Effect after Anthem has Bioware teetering on the edge of being disbanded and absorbed into other EA studios like Montreal? Bioware went from throwing everything they got at Anthem to save themselves to now throwing everyone at DA4 and praying for success once again. I'm not even convinced DA4 will be released if they can't sort out their management issues and EA notices. If I were EA and DA4's development seemed even remotely like a repeat of the aimless development of their previous 2 games, I'd shut them down at last, mid-development. EA has done this before too with that other Star Wars game. Bioware imo is in no position to think about another MAss Effect game. Another engine won't save them if DA4, which WILL be developed with Frostbite, isn't a smashing hit. Bioware seems too proud to abandon Frostbite and admit they can't get a handle on it anyway. They were too proud to ask Austin for help when Anthem was on fire. Uh there's nothing to point to that just guesswork. As if now everything is still on track. Now if they get absorbed it doesn't mean we'll never see another ME but just not under Bioware. I dont see that happening unless DA4 fails. Then maybe.
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Post by ArabianIGoggles on May 30, 2019 0:46:49 GMT
Did all the work the Andromeda team put in towards procedurally generated worlds just get scrapped?(I know it was thrown out for use in MEA, but perhaps a future title could benefit) Surely, there is something of value in the 3+ years they spent on it. At least, I would hope so, as the alternative is that they completely wasted everyone's time.
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Post by AnDromedary on May 30, 2019 15:44:57 GMT
Surely, there is something of value in the 3+ years they spent on it. At least, I would hope so, as the alternative is that they completely wasted everyone's time. I actually think the latter is the case. There must be a reason it was all scrapped and that may very well be that the system fundamentally didn't work well with the engine. As sad as it is, these things do happen in development.
AFAIK, procedural generation is especially vulnerable to fundamental problems that will basically make the entire system useless in the end. It's something that has a lot of moving parts which need to be thought through from start to finish and need to work together in the end. Think of it this way, if you build a couple of levels by hand and you figure out something doesn't work well or uses up too many hardware resources or something, you can always change things, throw out a part or even scrap one level and keep the rest. But if you try and write an algorithm that generates all that content for you and it turns out that algorithm has some fundamental issues, you really would have to start from scratch.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jun 4, 2019 11:58:42 GMT
Did all the work the Andromeda team put in towards procedurally generated worlds just get scrapped?(I know it was thrown out for use in MEA, but perhaps a future title could benefit) Surely, there is something of value in the 3+ years they spent on it. At least, I would hope so, as the alternative is that they completely wasted everyone's time. It was thrown out exactly because the results it produced were undesirable, as the procedural generated planets came out too randomized and without tweaking those designs by hand, did not produce a viable product. Basically, the end result would require so much work, that it was less intensive to just work on a handful of planets, by hand, than randomly generating them and modifying them to a desirable state. Basically, as I understand it, the algorithm they came up with, is unusable in its current state and cannot be salvaged unless a major reworking is done to it, something that they were unable to complete in the first 3-4 years of the game's development. At this point, I think it is safe to say that, with Bioware's current staff, returning to it and fixing it to a viable state, is not something that can be done within a dependably reasonable timeframe, so as to base your next game around planetary exploration, but perhaps as a feature for a future roadmap, or have a dedicated team working on it as an investment for future games.
Which is why I proposed my ideal scenario for a next game, that addresses a multitude of problems that the community had with ME3, without invalidating it, but just adding a few more options and expanding on characterization plots that were left hanging, dangling, in front of the fanbase and then, promptly, swept under the proverbial rug.
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Post by ALTBOULI on Jun 6, 2019 20:49:04 GMT
If its built by Bioware it isn't good news..
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