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Post by Ascend on Jan 27, 2021 12:10:34 GMT
Mass Effect never took any "risks" and was never "adult". Please, please, read a book. How is it that so many people here claim to love Science Fiction when they've clearly never even looked at anything besides this one mediocre trilogy? Which books do you recommend? Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't think anything can capture the first experience I had with ME1, be it in a book, movie or game.
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Post by jadebaby88 on Jan 27, 2021 14:02:48 GMT
For so long I have been a hopeful BioWare and ME fan, through all the critically praised (DAO, KOTOR) and the critically condemned (DA2, ME3, Anthem). However, despite my initial feeling of giddy excitement (like a 12 year old school girl) about the prospect of returning to the Milky Way galaxy to "fix" the state of the original Mass Effect setting after the Mac Walters and Casey Hudson "burn the franchise and run" ending. I am now instead filled with dread. Although for me, taking the ending at face value, it was the worst ending to a movie or game I've ever had the displeasure of experiencing. And any idea that entertains the possibility of returning to the setting to continue the story excites me tremendously. I also fear that this will be a "force awakens trilogy" re-imagining, a more light-hearted and fun story to usher in a new demographic of Mass Effect fans, overcoming the enemy with a "safe" narrative that doesn't take risks, the absence of mostly or all adult sci-fi tropes and worst of all, the abolishment of lore in favour of "rule-of-cool". I fear our once great relatively in-depth talky & techy sci-fi space opera is going to turn into a Disney movie where nothing is sacred if it prevents things from being fun or cool. I am so scared that instead of being able to say "I love Mass Effect again" we will be left saying "I loved the old Mass Effect's, when they were good". Do you guys feel the same? And more importantly, which is worse? Opening up the Mass Effect franchise to continue in the Milky Way galaxy at the risk of it being a Star Wars reboot, or having it never happen at all and leaving things where they lie?
I want it to continue in Andromeda, because that would move the franchise FORWARD since every sci-fi franchise that goes backwards trying to please bad faith internet shit gargling "critical fans" fuck wits and then it generally sucks and will cost the owners more money in the long run if they had stuck to their guns and not gave into these bad faith internet shit gargling "critical fans" fuck wits who will hate regardless of quality because the want money from clicks, views, and etc.
Whose opinions are basically: "SJWs ruin BioWare's new space game because there are gay, people of color, trans, and it has politics even though every BioWare game made has had those elements. All I want my safe space because I'm insecure straight cis-genered white guy who can't stand when any new media isn't made for me!" And it's these morons that are ruining media not the so-called "SJWs" or whatever these useless shit heads call them this day of week.
That escalated quickly, geeeeeeeez...
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Post by pessimistpanda on Jan 27, 2021 14:10:59 GMT
Mass Effect never took any "risks" and was never "adult". Please, please, read a book. How is it that so many people here claim to love Science Fiction when they've clearly never even looked at anything besides this one mediocre trilogy? Which books do you recommend? Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't think anything can capture the first experience I had with ME1, be it in a book, movie or game. Well nothing is ever going to replace ME1 in your memory, that's just how nostalgia works. You're probably always going to think it's amazing, no matter what. No book is going to replicate your experience of Mass Effect. But to say that ME (or any BioWare games at all, for that matter) are "risky" or particularly "adult" is simply factually incorrect. They don't offer any new ideas or perspectives to the genre of Science-Fiction, and while Fox News tried to drum up moral outrage about supposed "alien sodomy" in the first game , they aren't doing anything really controversial or "adult", either. Science-Fiction as a genre was already exploring themes of sexuality, gender, and interspecies relationships since at least the 1970s. Brave New World was written in 1932 and it features full-on orgies, for crying out loud (although you are supposed to think that the orgies are bad). As for what you should read or watch, well personally I would recommend Embassytown, by China Mieville, but it really depends, because different sci-fi does different things. If, for instance you want a sweeping, space-fantasy epic with a lot of action and also Game-of-Thrones style politics, then I'd suggest Dune. If you want to pulpy adventure stories, then H.G Wells is your guy. If you like crime thrillers set in future dystopias, then you want Phillip K. Dick. If you want a Mass Effect-style space marine story about going to war with an alien threat, you have a mountain of options.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jan 27, 2021 14:21:13 GMT
That escalated quickly, geeeeeeeez... Someone is not ready to have that conversation, it seems.
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Post by pessimistpanda on Jan 27, 2021 14:45:25 GMT
Cause the MET fanatics who've come here to cry about Andromeda every single day for the last five years are so open to opposing opinions.
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Post by Ascend on Jan 27, 2021 14:52:35 GMT
Which books do you recommend? Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't think anything can capture the first experience I had with ME1, be it in a book, movie or game. Well nothing is ever going to replace ME1 in your memory, that's just how nostalgia works. You're probably always going to think it's amazing, no matter what. No book is going to replicate your experience of Mass Effect. But to say that ME (or any BioWare games at all, for that matter) are "risky" or particularly "adult" is simply factually incorrect. They don't offer any new ideas or perspectives to the genre of Science-Fiction, and while Fox News tried to drum up moral outrage about supposed "alien sodomy" in the first game , they aren't doing anything really controversial or "adult", either. Science-Fiction as a genre was already exploring themes of sexuality, gender, and interspecies relationships since at least the 1970s. Brave New World was written in 1932 and it features full-on orgies, for crying out loud (although you are supposed to think that the orgies are bad). As for what you should read or watch, well personally I would recommend Embassytown, by China Mieville, but it really depends, because different sci-fi does different things. If, for instance you want a sweeping, space-fantasy epic with a lot of action and also Game-of-Thrones style politics, then I'd suggest Dune. If you want to pulpy adventure stories, then H.G Wells is your guy. If you like crime thrillers set in future dystopias, then you want Phillip K. Dick. If you want a Mass Effect-style space marine story about going to war with an alien threat, you have a mountain of options. To give you an idea, Sci-fi that I like in media other than books (primarily movies in random order) are; Battlestar Galactica Bladerunner The Matrix Arrival (this one needs additional emphasis. I LOVED this) The Maze Runner Ready Player One Ex Machina Planet of the Apes Alita: Battle Angel Sunshine Contact Avatar The Hunger Games (I did read the books for this one) V for Vendetta Firefly Contact
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jan 27, 2021 14:53:57 GMT
Cause the MET fanatics who've come here to cry about Andromeda every single day for the last five years are so open to opposing opinions. I was. I said that Andromeda should get a sequel for those fans. But a Bioware made Andromeda sequel, I expect, will get as much traction as the first one did, if it gets made now. Which I consider a mistake. Andromeda should either be made by a different studio, or after Bioware fixes its image. And unfortunately, as Andromeda was part of the reason why that image was broken, although it was merely the confirmation of what people knew of Bioware, even if it was Montreal, Andromeda 2 won't fix Bioware's image to the public, because it has a very small chance of attracting the public. I think the Liara teaser proves that and when the Ryder reveal happens, that it is all happening in his timeline, the goodwill the teaser garnered will evaporate. It's not that Andromeda 2 will be a de facto bad game, it's just that even if it is the best game ever made, it will be the best game 1.5 million people bought. And that is proven unsustainable for the triple A segment.
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Post by ahglock on Jan 27, 2021 15:39:43 GMT
I want it to continue in Andromeda, because that would move the franchise FORWARD since every sci-fi franchise that goes backwards trying to please bad faith internet shit gargling "critical fans" fuck wits and then it generally sucks and will cost the owners more money in the long run if they had stuck to their guns and not gave into these bad faith internet shit gargling "critical fans" fuck wits who will hate regardless of quality because the want money from clicks, views, and etc.
Whose opinions are basically: "SJWs ruin BioWare's new space game because there are gay, people of color, trans, and it has politics even though every BioWare game made has had those elements. All I want my safe space because I'm insecure straight cis-genered white guy who can't stand when any new media isn't made for me!" And it's these morons that are ruining media not the so-called "SJWs" or whatever these useless shit heads call them this day of week.
That escalated quickly, geeeeeeeez... Team everyone who disagrees with me is a racist. But since we don't call out a specific person its okay.
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Post by Cyberstrike on Jan 27, 2021 18:38:26 GMT
Cause the MET fanatics who've come here to cry about Andromeda every single day for the last five years are so open to opposing opinions.
This is how this will work: New Mass Effect will be released and everyone of those bad faith shit gargling fuck wits will say "It's not as good as MEA was and should be more like MEA!" even the ones that have hated MEA since it was announced will say that. Just like those same useless fuck wits said that "ME2 isn't as good as ME1 was." or that "ME3 wasn't as good as ME1 and ME2 were." Rince and repeat.
So spare me the fake outrage of my previous comment in this thread, because 1) I'm NOT sorry for saying it and 2) I'm not playing that tied old stupid disgusting game anymore.
There are legitimate problems with all 4 ME games (the same with every game, movie, TV show, comic, novel, play, song, painting, and every other field of human endeavor) but those problems get drowned out by selfish bad faith critics and so-called fans who don't play the game more than the opening cinematic and/or then only watch trailers and livestreams (and that is NOT the same thing) and never give MEA a fair chance because they were too busy making "hot take" videos and articles so they can make a quick buck and then they do it again and again and again because they act BioWare did something horrible to them personally when they made a game that didn't like or appeal to them. They do this shit so much and so fast that it's impossible to a nuanced and thoughtful discussion about the legitimate problems of BioWare's games.
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Post by Son of Dorn on Jan 27, 2021 18:47:44 GMT
I want it to continue in Andromeda, because that would move the franchise FORWARD since every sci-fi franchise that goes backwards trying to please bad faith internet shit gargling "critical fans" fuck wits and then it generally sucks and will cost the owners more money in the long run if they had stuck to their guns and not gave into these bad faith internet shit gargling "critical fans" fuck wits who will hate regardless of quality because the want money from clicks, views, and etc.
Whose opinions are basically: "SJWs ruin BioWare's new space game because there are gay, people of color, trans, and it has politics even though every BioWare game made has had those elements. All I want my safe space because I'm insecure straight cis-genered white guy who can't stand when any new media isn't made for me!" And it's these morons that are ruining media not the so-called "SJWs" or whatever these useless shit heads call them this day of week.
That escalated quickly, geeeeeeeez... Welcome to the Mass Effect fanbase, were everything is escalated to 11. Enjoy your stay! 😆
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Post by eternalambiguity on Jan 27, 2021 19:22:19 GMT
This is how this will work: New Mass Effect will be released and everyone of those bad faith shit gargling fuck wits will say "It's not as good as MEA was and should be more like MEA!" even the ones that have hated MEA since it was announced will say that. Just like those same useless fuck wits said that " ME2 isn't as good as ME1 was." or that " ME3 wasn't as good as ME1 and ME2 were." Rince and repeat. Pretty much this. The amount of unmitigated bitching I see some do here blows my mind. I can't imagine being bored enough to spend literal years only complaining about a game.
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Post by KaiserShep on Jan 27, 2021 19:38:02 GMT
My mind just went to a horrid place... What if they are planning to make the next game Andromeda in the Milky Way. Spend the game repairing, terra-forming, rebuilding and reconnecting the Milky Way species and planets. Like we had to get ecological scores for the required planets in Andromeda up to certain levels. ME5 is going to turn into a space RTS... I hope not. Would kinda undo the importance of the stargazer scene, too. The Extended Cut already does that, since it shows the galaxy fully rebuilding in any high-EMS ending. That post-credit scene only worked in the original ending, which hinted at more of a long-term dark age. Anyway, the Stargeezer scene is trash. "The Shepard". Get the fuck outta here, dumbass kid.
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Post by Blast Processor on Jan 27, 2021 19:47:44 GMT
I want it to continue in Andromeda, because that would move the franchise FORWARD since every sci-fi franchise that goes backwards trying to please bad faith internet shit gargling "critical fans" fuck wits and then it generally sucks and will cost the owners more money in the long run if they had stuck to their guns and not gave into these bad faith internet shit gargling "critical fans" fuck wits who will hate regardless of quality because the want money from clicks, views, and etc.
Whose opinions are basically: "SJWs ruin BioWare's new space game because there are gay, people of color, trans, and it has politics even though every BioWare game made has had those elements. All I want my safe space because I'm insecure straight cis-genered white guy who can't stand when any new media isn't made for me!" And it's these morons that are ruining media not the so-called "SJWs" or whatever these useless shit heads call them this day of week. Hey??!!! Team everyone who disagrees with me is a racist. But since we don't call out a specific person its okay. Nobody likes me.
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Post by Radec on Jan 27, 2021 19:52:06 GMT
Would kinda undo the importance of the stargazer scene, too. The Extended Cut already does that, since it shows the galaxy fully rebuilding in any high-EMS ending. That post-credit scene only worked in the original ending, which hinted at more of a long-term dark age. Anyway, the Stargeezer scene is trash. "The Shepard". Get the fuck outta here, dumbass kid. Wouldn't be the first time they retconned one of their retcons. Watch them find the Reaper relay that connected to the Citadel. It's in the middle of dark space potentially hundreds of years out, but they'll find it and drag it to Andromeda, somehow. I second that the starkid scene was awful and should've simply been removed with the EC.
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Post by Son of Dorn on Jan 27, 2021 19:55:23 GMT
The Extended Cut already does that, since it shows the galaxy fully rebuilding in any high-EMS ending. That post-credit scene only worked in the original ending, which hinted at more of a long-term dark age. Anyway, the Stargeezer scene is trash. "The Shepard". Get the fuck outta here, dumbass kid. Wouldn't be the first time they retconned one of their retcons. Watch them find the Reaper relay that connected to the Citadel. It's in the middle of dark space potentially hundreds of years out, but they'll find it and drag it to Andromeda, somehow. I second that the starkid scene was awful and should've simply been removed with the EC. Lol, can actually see that happening. There's alot of things that should have been removed or fixed in the MET...
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Post by KaiserShep on Jan 27, 2021 20:38:34 GMT
Maybe they’ll just send a bomb through the Citadel relay to destroy the dark relay, and then the camera zooms way the hell out to show the entire Milky Way, and you see a tiny flash off to the side with a fart noise effect.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jan 27, 2021 20:47:09 GMT
This is how this will work: New Mass Effect will be released and everyone of those bad faith shit gargling fuck wits will say "It's not as good as MEA was and should be more like MEA!" even the ones that have hated MEA since it was announced will say that. Just like those same useless fuck wits said that " ME2 isn't as good as ME1 was." or that " ME3 wasn't as good as ME1 and ME2 were." Rince and repeat. Oh, absolutely. There will always be contrarians. I'd ... I'd really be hard pressed to find people that would say ME:A2 is worse than ME:A. Simply because, through the sheer technological improvements in the field, even the automation of animation/rigging/modeling would be guaranteed to do away with at least some of the technical problems of ME:A. I doubt we'd get anything better in the writing front and, above all else, this was the part where ME:A hurt the most, I think. At the very least, even the same sentences could be better worded in ME:A. Maybe it was intentional, to better reflect the age of the characters involved, but it was clearly not a hit with the audience. There are legitimate problems with all 4 ME games (the same with every game, movie, TV show, comic, novel, play, song, painting, and every other field of human endeavor) Absolutely. I agree 100%. but those problems get drowned out by selfish bad faith critics and so-called fans who don't play the game more than the opening cinematic and/or then only watch trailers and livestreams (and that is NOT the same thing) and never give MEA a fair chance because they were too busy making "hot take" videos and articles so they can make a quick buck and then they do it again and again and again because they act BioWare did something horrible to them personally when they made a game that didn't like or appeal to them. I think some games have greater problems than others. For example, ME:A and ME2, the latter being my personal favourite, do a lot of things differently. The tone of ME2 is darker, grittier, edgier, the characters personalities are more extreme and ... I don't consider that to be too bad. I mean, most memorable characters aren't known for being mild and average, they all have some traits that are a bit larger than life, which, in turn, make the characters larger than life. And of course you don't need characters like Zaeed in James Joyce's Dubliners, for example, a must read book, IMO, about character writing, but you probably need to in this medium and genre. As an example, see the audience reception to Raiden in MGS2, vs Raiden in MGS4. The re-imagining the character underwent, to garner such sympathy compared to his first iteration, was nothing sort of fundamental. Something that Liara, too, underwent between ME1 and ME2, where she and Tali, more or less, traded personalities. Tali is literally Aeriee 2.0 as of ME2 and while I had no strong feelings toward her, one way or the other, I really disliked her turn in ME2. Something I was more forgiving of Liara in ME1, because she was basically a child. So even in the trilogy, there are some very, uh ... interesting? Let's go with interesting. Some very interesting narrative choices. It worked for others, so I can't necessarily call it a failure. Moreover, yes, there is the issue of ME3. And DA2, to a lesser extent. The gaming audience, largely, rejected these two games. But still sold well, especially for their respective budgets. DA2 specifically is what I'd call a "flip". Worst of all, between the consumer and the company, there is always the issue of trust. The consumer here feels like that trust has been malevolently taken advantage of, solidified by the company's stance toward the consumer, mostly after ME3. You can say it isn't so, but company response and especially media coverage stocked the fire so high that it got downright personal. I know that, internally, Bioware was aflame with the gaming media reaction to the complaints, more so than the ending itself. You could see the antagonistic behaviour from there blow things exponentially out of proportion, even as the PR team in the forums was incapable to respond in any way that could placate anyone. Not by their own fault. But also their insistence that there was nothing wrong with ME3, that it merely needed "clarification" and "closure", was also out of touch with the public. It simply wouldn't do and a situation that could have been rectified early on, ended as a catastrophic event for the company's public image. As with all cases, it is not a single event that went wrong, but a cascade of bad calls that escalated into a rift that simply cannot be bridged. There are people out there that feel that, if Bioware did them right, if Bioware rectified the problems the ME3 ending has caused to the setting, they would be back. Personally, I won't be coming back. I will stop giving them shit, if they fix what they broke with ME3, but even getting a harsh critic of their back is a boon in itself. There will be some, I can't fathom them being many, that will still give Bioware crap regardless, but isn't that true for every company? The thing is Bioware needs to turn that image around. And now that Bioware's moved into the same building as EA Edmonton, Mark and Casey left, would you consider it so improbable that the studio could be merged the same way as Montreal was? You can look up the address. 1800-10423 101 St NW, Edmonton AB T5H 0E9, Canada, it's the address for EA Edmonton and Bioware. And just recently, Ghost Games, you may have heard of them from their work on the Nomad in ME:A, got merged and renamed into EA Studios Amsterdam. I hope everyone is doing well, over there. They do this shit so much and so fast that it's impossible to a nuanced and thoughtful discussion about the legitimate problems of BioWare's games. I think that the time of thoughtful discussion ended after ME3. The customer base is going to need actions from Bioware, at this point. The Liara teaser was a great move, but the reality of what that teaser showed, to what the public read it as are vastly different. To put it another way; if the last episode of the second season of the Mandalorian was followed up with an appearance from Rey Palpatine, that would not fly well. Personally, I love Daisy Ridley, I find her charming and ... she's very dedicated to her roles, especially physically, I would love to see her in more movies, but LucasFilms really let her down with the treatment of her character. To put it another way, if LucasFilms and Disney decided to remake the sequel trilogy, with the same cast, Kelly Marie Tran, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley included, but with an actually competent writing team, I would be very much on board with it. Not the one we got, though. 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Post by ahglock on Jan 27, 2021 21:16:18 GMT
Cause the MET fanatics who've come here to cry about Andromeda every single day for the last five years are so open to opposing opinions.
This is how this will work: New Mass Effect will be released and everyone of those bad faith shit gargling fuck wits will say "It's not as good as MEA was and should be more like MEA!" even the ones that have hated MEA since it was announced will say that. Just like those same useless fuck wits said that "ME2 isn't as good as ME1 was." or that "ME3 wasn't as good as ME1 and ME2 were." Rince and repeat.
So spare me the fake outrage of my previous comment in this thread, because 1) I'm NOT sorry for saying it and 2) I'm not playing that tied old stupid disgusting game anymore.
There are legitimate problems with all 4 ME games (the same with every game, movie, TV show, comic, novel, play, song, painting, and every other field of human endeavor) but those problems get drowned out by selfish bad faith critics and so-called fans who don't play the game more than the opening cinematic and/or then only watch trailers and livestreams (and that is NOT the same thing) and never give MEA a fair chance because they were too busy making "hot take" videos and articles so they can make a quick buck and then they do it again and again and again because they act BioWare did something horrible to them personally when they made a game that didn't like or appeal to them. They do this shit so much and so fast that it's impossible to a nuanced and thoughtful discussion about the legitimate problems of BioWare's games.
Lol.
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Post by Cyberstrike on Jan 27, 2021 21:56:05 GMT
This is how this will work: New Mass Effect will be released and everyone of those bad faith shit gargling fuck wits will say "It's not as good as MEA was and should be more like MEA!" even the ones that have hated MEA since it was announced will say that. Just like those same useless fuck wits said that " ME2 isn't as good as ME1 was." or that " ME3 wasn't as good as ME1 and ME2 were." Rince and repeat. Pretty much this. The amount of unmitigated bitching I see some do here blows my mind. I can't imagine being bored enough to spend literal years only complaining about a game.
If I don't like a video game, movie, TV show, and etc, I tell people that I don't like it and why then I move on to something that I do like and/or maybe like. I don't want to waste more any more time than I have to thinking about media that I don't like. When I do it makes me bitter and hateful and I don't like being like that.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jan 27, 2021 22:12:01 GMT
If I don't like a video game, movie, TV show, and etc, I tell people that I don't like it and why then I move on to something that I do like and/or maybe like. I don't want to waste more any more time than I have to thinking about media that I don't like. When I do it makes me bitter and hateful and I don't like being like that. Maybe you should be, if it means that much to you. Take Star Wars Theory, for example. The dude was in a bad place, battling cancer and saw something in Luke Skywalker that helped him pull through, emotionally. Luke has a special place in his heart and, if you saw his reaction to the Mandalorian season 2 finale, you can see that it means more to him than just a piece of media. I know that feeling, even as I can't put it into words. Maybe, for some of us, it wasn't cancer. Maybe it was depression, a rough patch, some financial trouble etc. We find comfort where we can and we make the most of what there is. It is helpful mentally and the last thing we want to see, is something that ruins it, in our eyes. To some of us, you too, I would presume, these pieces of fiction mean something more than just a video game. And it's no different, if it were a movie, a book, a music band, or a sports team. It's no use bottling it up, man. It's going to kill you.
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Post by alanc9 on Jan 27, 2021 23:49:36 GMT
I want it to continue in Andromeda, because that would move the franchise FORWARD since every sci-fi franchise that goes backwards trying to please bad faith internet shit gargling "critical fans" fuck wits and then it generally sucks and will cost the owners more money in the long run if they had stuck to their guns and not gave into these bad faith internet shit gargling "critical fans" fuck wits who will hate regardless of quality because the want money from clicks, views, and etc.
Whose opinions are basically: "SJWs ruin BioWare's new space game because there are gay, people of color, trans, and it has politics even though every BioWare game made has had those elements. All I want my safe space because I'm insecure straight cis-genered white guy who can't stand when any new media isn't made for me!" And it's these morons that are ruining media not the so-called "SJWs" or whatever these useless shit heads call them this day of week. Hey??!!! Team everyone who disagrees with me is a racist. But since we don't call out a specific person its okay. Nobody likes me. I gotta ask... what's with the new handle? Did you lose a bet or something?
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Post by ahglock on Jan 28, 2021 0:18:48 GMT
Pretty much this. The amount of unmitigated bitching I see some do here blows my mind. I can't imagine being bored enough to spend literal years only complaining about a game.
If I don't like a video game, movie, TV show, and etc, I tell people that I don't like it and why then I move on to something that I do like and/or maybe like. I don't want to waste more any more time than I have to thinking about media that I don't like. When I do it makes me bitter and hateful and I don't like being like that.
And yet, here you are.
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Post by Blast Processor on Jan 28, 2021 1:06:31 GMT
I gotta ask... what's with the new handle? Did you lose a bet or something? Nah. Just a bizarre sense of humour I guess.
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Post by Atemporal Vanguardian-Debugger on Jan 28, 2021 6:17:01 GMT
If I don't like a video game, movie, TV show, and etc, I tell people that I don't like it and why then I move on to something that I do like and/or maybe like. I don't want to waste more any more time than I have to thinking about media that I don't like. When I do it makes me bitter and hateful and I don't like being like that.
And yet, here you are. He just likes a Catch 22
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Post by gothpunkboy89 on Jan 28, 2021 14:56:44 GMT
But they didn't build on anything. Everything in ME2 was pretty common just in space and with ME characters. You really think Omega is actually unique? I liked it better when it was called Mos Esley and ruled by Jabba. That is true and the same can be said about any game that's been made or will ever be made again in the ME franchise. Even if you make a new franchise, in the same vein as Mass Effect, it's going to be something derivative of some other thing. Everything has been done before and probably someone else did it better. But that doesn't mean much. Do you watch anime, for example? If you watched Dragon Ball, how many other franchises follow that pattern? One Punch Man, Naruto, Bleach, My Hero Academia and what's the one that's currently killing it in Japan ... Demon Hunter? Devil Slayer? Devil Hunter? Demon Slayer, that's the one. It's all generic sounding, but it works. Demon Hunter Slayer alone outsold the entire US comic book industry, solidifying the fact that people do buy physical media, it's just that US comic books currently suck and nobody's buying them. It's all about the presentation. And people ate that shit up. Myself included. And yet people praise ME2 as if it was something new. As if it added something that has never been seen before. The person I replied to literally complained about the beam run not hitting you when it was never supposed to. It is cinematic moment the same as any movie set up. And yet they act as if this is a major negative aspect to the game.
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