The Mass Effect Blues...

THIS like a 100 x times!

It is so daunting/depressing for me everytime I open up my Origin... and I see that "Spring 2017" at the bottom...

This is the only series I'd wish I had early access to...

And here I am playing gears 4.....and trying to pull up the goddamn radial many


ARRRRRRGGGGHHHH

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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Mass Effect Andromeda

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LOL... you asked for it

hah! True. I could easily rectify it, though, by making it a hidden icon. I won't, of course, but I could.

As always, I'm completely the opposite to this vibe....my hype has intensified to Azure levels of blue: there is no release in site.

That's just it... there are indeed a lot of great games out to there to play, but... I just don't have capability to check them out myself... because they are not Mass Effect

I know this sounds silly, but it is true. I lost interest in all other titles.

Nah. I played the Witcher Blood and Wine DLC for about ten hours straight yesterday now that I have a new GPU at last. Damn, how can this game be so perfect, I still don't understand how they did it.
Truth be hold, I'm scared to replay DAI because it will play like ass in comparison. So maybe Witcher 3 will be that game that ruined me.

I'm still playing the trilogy though from time to time and nothing will ever surpass it no matter how dated it now looks on my Xbox. So yes, Mass Effect is my one true love and that will never change, and Andromeda will feel like a mediocre rehash, no doubt. Regardless, super hyped anyway!

But no, I can enjoy other games just fine in the meantime. In fact, I have a whole list of stuff I'm dying to play over the winter months.

I definitely know the feeling, even if I managed to get into DAI for the last week or so...but it's just delaying the inevitable (and the feeling is at its strongest for the last few weeks leading to the release, at least for me).

I'm not feeling it yet but once they announce an official release date that we can begin closing in on I might.Until then I've stil got plenty of other stuff keeping me busy

Not yet, but the holidays are helping distract me. Come Jan/Feb when there is nothing to do and it's freezing outside, I'm going to have trouble not thinking (obsessing) about it.

That's how I feel.  Beyond that it's the new standard for which I'll compare coming releases.  TW3 is the new minimum for excellence for games, particularly among RPG's.  I have a feeling I'm screwed moving forward, since I can already tell MEA is going to fall far short of that standard (baring some remarkable changes prior to release).  It's gonna suck if all I'm left with is CDPR and Naughty Dog for story driven games.  I really hope I end up being completely wrong about MEA.  Damn, now I'm depressed.   I've got to stop dwelling on it.

I don't really feel Witcher 3 ruined anything. I gush over it because it's the best game of Next gen or at least one of them and it's the best BioWare game not made by BioWare since they derailed themselves starting with ME2 and so on. I actually feel Witcher 3 has more in common with Mass Effect 1 than Dragon Age Inquisition, and that's why I fucking love it. On the flipside, I much prefer the scope and focus of ME1 over Witcher and mostly the sidequests. Why? Becuase ME1 was full of great ideas, and while Witcher is too, most quests boil down to the same lame structure of looking for footprints with senses, listening to Geralt's monotonous voice as he monologues until you stumble upon a conversation and then some combat perhaps. There's choice and occasionally really good consequence, but for the most part I felt ME1 had a way less linear quest system because it had less and focused well on those.

For example, I have played ME1 about 7 or 8 times in total and I still find new ways to go through the whole port Hangshan part which includes optional parts and it also took two or three playthroughs before I had seen various outcomes of the more striking side-quests like the Father Kyle one or Garrus' companion quest, not to mention all the cool non-quest details like talking to Udina after each main plot mission on the Citadel to hear some of his angry ranting.

I guess I'm also more of a sci-fi nut than a fantasy nut, but needless to say, Witcher 3 is amazing; it combined BioWare design with Skyrim and succeeded, but in all honesty I prefer ME1 a lot to Witcher 3 and to me Witcher 3 hasn't ruined anything.