Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

There are a lot of posters like that whose advocacy really does the series no favors. Geralt isn't written with any warmth or humor until TW3, but he ends up being a great character. And it's a really good game. I'd recommend it to anyone.The first two games are pretty skippable, though.

Never claimed to be a well-read connoisseur of great writing. Just know that DAI has shit writing and some easily impressed individuals here still think it's near perfect.

PS: Coryphish is trash and is more ridiculous than eredin

The biggest enemy in DA:I? Shards.

The Witcher games (I've only played the first one and part of the second) are certainly well-crafted.  But I dislike the crapsack setting and Geralt personally (he never felt like "my" character.

Still, I can appreciate the workmanship of the game, and hope their Cyberpunk game is more to my liking.

I like 'em all too. I still think Witcher 3 is the one that is universally the best even though some things were better in 2. When DA2 was a mediocre and kiddy attempt at a gritty RPG Witcher 2 was a genuniely gritty and nuanced take on similar RPG elements and a political plot. When DA:I failed at being amazing Witcher 3 became Game of the Generation (thus far) to many including mainstream gamers and almost every friend I can think of IRL (half of which wouldn't even touch DA). So yeah, I'm excited for Cyberpunk but I've come to confess that I find there's different qualities for different tastes between BioWare and CDPR.

I always liked the bigger emphasis on player-agency in BioWare because if anything I always get to create my own face or play as a female if I want to do that.

I just wish BioWare had better storytellers. All they have right now is Patrick Weekes and John Dombrow and Luke Kristjanson. I haven't really seen anything decent come from the others, not even Sylvia Feketekuty who is decent. If I try listing what I know has been written by whom then I find that a lot of the newer writers just write for characters or individual missions but not necessarily full arcs or "stories". There was a painful lack of actual arcs in DA:I for the companions and that bothered me a lot. 

Hell. I always come to this thread to complain about BioWare/MEA and every damn time I see people comparing TW to ME, to DA, to Skyrim, to FO, to the stars and the moon.

I'm tired of reading this over and over and wish people would just go play it if they love it so much.



Anyway, I'm especially worried about combat. They improved it so much with ME3. It's unbelievable they haven't show us it yet; has any dev done a marketing similar to what BW is currently doing with this title? With 30+/- less to release, I don't care about their excuses, they are insecure about it otherwise they'd have flaunt it to hell and back; just like they did PB, until she was mocked by all, and sorta do with their ~shiny graphics.

MP, especially, was what saved ME3 to a lot of people, and EA made good money of it for sure. So there's no reason whatsoever to hide it, the "surprise" argument is asinine and I won't ever consider it valid.

I'm worried about the combat because it looked like the enemies will be bullet sponges in the TGA footage and the movement looks really fuckin' unpolished in that video as well. It looks kinda like ME1 actually in how janky it is. When Ryder dodges and charges there's no impact and the gun also lacks some kind of sound I thought.

DA:I had huge trouble with audio streaming as well. Sometimes the audio wouldn't stream in time so in the middle of attacking audio would disappear for a while and then suddenly play all the missing sound files boomingly loud atop each other. I just hope they've fixed those Frostbite related streaming issues.

Their games can be great and they'll still not have good modding tools, let alone on the level of Skyrim/Bethesda games.

I'm saying that in general not just the modding. They have potential but they're just squandering it and wasted it.

The Flags of Fuck-ups.

Detlaff was kind of dumb, I thought. O'Dimm was wonderful, though.

And do you mean Olgierd Von Everec? Because yes. Bury my heart with Olgierd.

Hearts of Stone was just a damn fine piece of work altogether.

Sad and pathetic of BW can't get facial features and all that new-gen tech......