Your opinion of Dragon Age 4 releasing in late 2022 (possibly early 2023)

Yep, I got those as well.  I think there is multiple reasons for the lack of backlash:

1)  Respawn put out the "Titanfall" series which was critical success with mid-80's ratings.  While the first one sold well, the second one, despite it's very positive reaction in the gaming community, was seen as a sales casualty of it's release schedule between "Battlefield 1" and "Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare" as it was projected by EA to sell between 9 to 10 million copies and it sold around 4 million.  Then, in early 2019, they drop "Apex Legends" out of the blue with no marketing build-up and it caught fire.  So, in regards to Respawn, you have developer that produced a few well received games and was looked upon with some sympathy...maybe even viewed a bit as an "underdog".  Conversely, "Andromeda" was following a beloved trilogy set in the same universe who's last entry ended on such a sour note for some fans that, to this day, they'll tell you the ending of "Mass Effect 3" ruined the entire trilogy for them.  The backlash to the endings were worrisome and borderline insane between "Hold the Line" and "Take Back Mass Effect" and the Penny Arcade charity and multi-colored, same-flavored cupcakes...this does not dissipate easily.  The knives were out for "Andromeda" if what we got was not perfect and, unfortunately, it was just a good, not great, game.  To add to it, EA exposed the game for a solid week, pre day 1 patch, to the 10 hr EA Access trial that allowed "Addison's Tired Face" memes, among others, to plague it pre-release.  BioWare was not viewed as an underdog...they were fair game and pummeled it in articles and on social media leading to the ironic situation where the same people who called the game a piece of crap for months also criticized BioWare for not releasing more of it in the form of SP DLC.  Then, "Anthem" gets announced at E3 2017 soon as after the "Andromeda" debacle and it's not a traditional BioWare RPG, leading to a lot of "no one asked for this game".  Again, it had to perfect to overcome mitigate the doubters and, as we saw, it was far from it with, again, EA committing to the baffling decision of releasing a clearly flawed game to early access before the day one patch.  Not to mention it was released only a few weeks after the enthusiastically embraced "Apex Legends".  

Respawn had the benefit of good will and momentum, BioWare did not.

2)  "Jedi: Fallen Order" is a single player focused game with no microtransactions.  Whether it's imagined or real, there seems to be the very tangible belief that single player/story focused games are in jeopardy of being crushed under the weight of the push for live service games so there is a strong effort to prop up this game and games like it (The Outer Worlds, CONTROL) to show the publishers "Hey, look, single player games generate money and good hype for you", often overlooking very obvious technical and narrative issues in the process.  Games like "Jedi: Fallen Order" absolutely HAVE to succeed...and games like "Anthem" (and "Battllefront II", using the same IP) have to be degraded in the process for not being what "JFO" is.  

3) "Star Wars" is a universally loved IP with 40+ years of developed lore and hype that has such a vanilla main character and simplistic approach that, despite it's Soulsborne style combat, it's immediately accessible and will generate interest by the the IP's name alone.  Anthem?  "What's that" and "who gives a shit?".  

People are going to forgive "JFO's" hiccups because they are just more willing to in this case.

 

I just can't wait for all the retroactive love for Andromeda and Inquisition.

Most of the retroactive love you'll see for Andromeda will be from people who loved the game when released, put it down, picked it up again years later and rediscovered why they loved it. I seem to recall some Dragon Age 2 fans pushing a narrative hard on social media that looking back DA:2 was great.

I've clicked on a random audience reaction google thing for Andromeda and many of the recent reviews (past 6 months) praising the game keep saying "I've been playing this game since launch" "I've played it 5 times" "I am an old player" "Don't listen to the haters" which is basically just long term fans trying to change perceptions, it doesn't by itself indicate there is a lot of new love for the game.

I don't know where the retroactive love for Andromeda will come from. The exploration was lacking when compared with great open world games that do have "long legs" and the characters were far too light hearted for many people's tastes. I myself missed the tension you had with the crew like you had with Jack and Miranda, or Tali and Legion.

I'd still give it a 7 *shrugs*. It's a good game but not great. 8 to me feels like a score for great games that aren't exceptional.

George Lucas is finally feeling the love 

See, I am reading a lot of "just picked this game up on XBox Live at $8.99 for the Deluxe Edition and it's terrific, can't understand the hate" or the equivalent in reaction to BioWare's posts on Twitter or Facebook.  Obviously, some equivalency of cost to what they receive comes into play but it's nowhere near the level of toxicity it used to be.

Ok...because Twitter was a shitshow for "ME:A" until the last, I'd say, year and a half because people who held off on buying the game due to its initial reception finally bought it a year or two later and were either meh about it or they enjoyed it...kind of like most games. No hyperbole or hyperventilating. So the whole "validate my own opinion" thing has not really been my experience on Twitter

Nah...it's a lot more than a few but, whatever, sorry, I haven't been scrawling a line to mark everytime someone had something positive to say. The general feel is there is less accounts with Joker or anime avatars sporting 3 followers screeching at the devs about the game than there was 2 years ago but I'm sure those were all legitimate consumers venting about their disappointing purchase back then.

This thread is about Dragon Age and not Andromeda.

Yeah I was thinking about Andromeda and Twitter and got all pent up about to write a post about how Andromeda is still a disappointment even in retrospect but then someone woke me up and pointed out that this thread is a Dragon Age thread. And I went "...whoa."

Whoa, whoa, everyone here's talking like Inquisition had a bad reception, but when it released that was not the case at all. It became Game of the Year for 2014 and supposedly made more money than any previous Bioware RPG. I fail to see the positive "reevaluation" there. If anything, it's the opposite: people liked the game when it came out, then promptly forgot about it once TW3's ridiculous success overshadowed it.

What I find funny is that, while 2014 was a bad year for certain games (the biggest being the launch of Destiny), there were a number of games that released that year that still did well. These games included:

Dark Souls
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
Divinity: Original Sin
Titanfall
Bayonetta 2

Yeah, I never fully understood that argument that there wasn't any other game that could have won GotY in 2014.  Especially after I would list the other games that were released that year and the response would be that those games weren't very good.