Mass Effect: Andromeda Official Cinematic Trailer #2!

I will remain skeptical of anything Bioware puts out until I see actual GP footage from your every day player. Which means after it releases. I hope they didn't take the DAI route with choices and consequences where your choices had no consequences and it was the same ending no matter what you do throughout the game even though it was hyped all along that they would matter.

There's a difference between criticism and vitriol.  Calling what typically occurred there, "criticism," is wildly misleading.  That being said, I will agree with that it was poorly moderated.

I'm sure they like this forum just fine now that they're not paying for it.  That being said, it was shut down for multiple reasons.  Again, I misspoke or mistyped -- I chose my words poorly.  The toxicity was one of them, albeit I doubt that any dev would just outright say.  Few people with any pride would willingly and publicly admit that they stopped doing something because they were bullied.  It also had to do with other platforms for discussions being more prevalent now, with Reddit handling discussion and Twitter facilitating dev interaction better.  

I'm with you on that.  Too much of Inquisition was shown before its release and that led to its share of issues.  One of those would be the fact that the story, with a few exceptions, was largely spoiled by what they did show.  Seeing Bioware be a bit more selective with their marketing material seems good to me, but I can't speak for everyone.

To be honest I am not a fan of this "trickle" marketing. I have no idea what this game is going to be like at all. I haven't gotten the "this is like ME1 & 2 mashed together feel" that some devs have been shooting for based on their tweets. I won't go down my pro and con list because I'm certain we all have different ideas of what we would like to see. No matter what, the next trailer will make some happy and some dive deeper into their criticism. Both are entirely valid. Unfortunately, because of the way marketing (and likely some development issues along the way) has been handled there is literally no "I win with everyone" button for Bioware at this point.

That said, I will gladly take any new information or trailer at this point. I buy maybe 1-2 games a year because my gaming time is a premium at this point in my life (wife, 3 kids, work 8-5, teach group ex). ME:A is on my short list of potential buys. I'm hoping we get enough information in the next few weeks for it to stay there.

yeah I agree after last week being somewhat empty on info we need something this week to look at and talk about. I just hope it's good whatever it is.

I always kinda assumed that the negative ending was designed to get a negative reaction of sorts, but they just misjudged the scale of the reaction.

I would say that's a fair assumption.  Not all stories have a happy ending and some people couldn't handle their Shepard ending in the way he/she did.  Apparently, these people have never played D&D.

Er... yeah, I'd have to disagree with this too. Kasumi was a pretty cool character, but unfortunately she and Zaeed felt like they lacked depth on account of being DLC companions - not having cinematic and quest related dialogue on the Normandy and such. I don't really see how she was 'anime-ish' unless you refer to her being Japanese and having that bit of geisha makeup - but geisha pre-dates anime, so...  Also, I've watched enough quality anime to say there's some pretty awesome female characters out there - arguably they have a better track record of this than gaming did until relatively recently - taking inspiration from some of them wouldn't be so terrible. But I don't want to get off topic...

Anyway my original post was intended as a joke. There's quite a few of us chomping at the bit for more squadmate info, particularly for Liam and Cora and the mysterious Jaal. I was also taking a minor dig at the people who seem to believe there's some 'they're hiding it because it sucks!' conspiracy in regards to the marketing so far... Personally, I like that they haven't majorly spoiled parts of the story like they did with DAI. I don't want to have entire side missions given way before I have a chance to play the game.

Doubtful on all, even if they might spoil less about squadmates then Inquisition. We're going to know more about them though.

I'm bored with seeing the combat over and over. I wanna know about Cora dammit. lol

Why? I'd love more info about ANY of these things (especially squadmates), since we've gotten little info about any.