Mass Effect News Thread

Seems like a Initiative team got lost in some unknow planet and now they have to fend for themselves against the local wildlife.

The press conference was boring. Star wars battlefront 2 looked good though and a way out looked interesting.

I pretty much only watched it for Battlefront 2. I'm glad I wasn't disappointed in that part of the conference. 

What happened to the poor Angara's head?

The size is okay, just the neck-flap-thingies aren't where they are supposed to be.
Worn a too tight helmet for too long?

I'd love one too .Doubt we'll get one but you never kno would love one based on the TNG era o rsomething or maybe one that covers all 3 era's Enterprise TOS and TNG  but I don't know if we'd get one though.

yeah the graphics in it look nice but yeah it does seem t ostruggle on the RPG fromt hopefully they can learn to make it better eventually. Because it seems we're stuck with it.

IF that article in Kotaku tells us how things really were, then - while Frostbite was still unwieldy - it wasn't really the thing that "killed productivity". The article mentions more than once for example, that animation division was chronically understaffed, and that the whole team waited too long with even locking down the vision for the game.

Besides, from what I understand, switching on Frostbite has long-term gains, not short-term and not just for one studio. The more devs use Frostbite for myriad of games, the more engine's power and versatility is supposed to grow, allowing games made on it to use more varied tools.

The story modes in multiple EA-published games? Most of them happened thanks to Bioware making tools that let them create them. Fun combat in MEA? Pretty sure this is not just Bioware's work.

Now, I know that as the only EA studio that is making big RPGs this puts Bioware in disadvantage, because the bulk of work of creating or adjusting tools for RPGs falls on them, but with a great deal of EA studios working on stories and adding dialogue, scenes and animations in their games, means that the shared effort - AND tools and experience from both DAI, MEA and Anthem - likely will result with continuous improvements.

And if anything, I'm fairly sure EA is listening - as much as they like to be portrayed as evil corporate overlords, they do have to listen in order to make money. People didn't like many things in 1st Battlefront, and hype for Battlefront 2 seems to exist only because a ton of issues seem to have been addressed. People were not digging what they were doing with Battlefield series, so they changed direction and Battlefield 1 turned out to be very popular. Heck, Dragon Age suffered after DA2 and they gave them more time for DAI.

So let's keep calm and carry on. The gameplay from Anthem will be presented today - let's see what they've got.

Haha Oh, if only. But I try, so thx

I agree with that for me personally I'll wait till they do  confirm or deny whether it has singleplayre or not before I make up my mind. Especially as they haven't confirmed one way or another yet. I have to admit it looks interesting so if it does have single player it might reel me in. But if it's just asn MMO then it won't have a chance.

I don't think most folks (who aren't just your standard grumps and trolls) believe it's the end of anything. At best, MEA got postponed - although what "postponed" means, when it takes more than a few years to make Bioware RPG, remains to be seen.