Brothels

MEA was a 2/10 as a Mass Effect game and a 6/10 as a scifi game from an inexperienced dev team for me. Not awful by itself, not good. I would be fine if it never existed. It added nothing too interesting to the franchise for me.

DAV still has to finish the overarching story about the elves and old gods and how the titans are connected. So I will take something over nothing here even if it might be a really painful mediocre experience once again. We'll see.
A bland spin off like MEA I'd happily delete from my memory. I know plenty of people enjoyed the game so it wasn't a waste of time for them. But shit, we could have gotten a new DA in the meantime so I am a bit salty BioWare wasted everyone's time with two badly received games leading to a 10 year gap. So I kinda wish I could rewrite history and have BioWare not make MEA/Anthem and instead skip to DAV right away.

Not a voice I remember.

In my experience she made quite an impression. She essentially invented the "we'll bang ok?". Girl is hornier than Shepard and even Morinth, that's quite an achievement.

It isn't mandatory, but if you decide to bang... well, let's say she's got the moves

It's about their overall willingness to not be squeamish overall when it comes to content they are willing to make. Brothels are a diversion, they aren't that important but if they are squeamish about brothels what else will they be squeamish about?

while ME 2 is my favorite ME game we have seen Bioware make strides in this sort of thing with Andromeda. Also Larian and BG IIIs companions also seemed quite integral to the plot.

So I'm hoping that Bioware does learn from this for Veilguard and I get the feeling they're going to.

For Andromeda and BG3, the companions were never the focal point of the game. That was still the main story. Meanwhile so far BioWare has talked more about how the companions are the focus than the main plot, hence the name change. The last time they did this was ME2.

A little? That's putting it mildly. About 90% of ME2 was recruitment and loyalty missions. I figured that out my first playthrough, after Horizon, when you just go back to recruiting more random badasses like nothing happened.

"Welp, I guess this is the game then. Recruit. Loyalty. Recruit. Loyalty. Repeat as needed"

Despite the nudity allowed in the creator, I don't think we've seen enough yet to know whether sex will be handled in a silly way in this game. I won't make up my mind till I see more.

I am with you on that. I still need to see more of the game to really get a feel of what to expect. The CC is the next big thing. Kind of hoping for something at Comicon.

Fingers crossed as they say.

Amd that’s part of the worry. If they focused on them more they would’ve been more complex. Now with the Evanuris, will the focus on the companions just make them Saturday Morning Villians instead of developing them more?