The Character Romance thread (Official)

3.5 is what they reached I think? It's still much better than how some people are making it out to be. Right now it's up to EA to decide if DLC is worth it, or just focus on Anthem, which is delayed until Fall next year.

I still want my Kandros romance DLC.

It's your world Nick, the rest of us are just living in it Wolfies for DA4 woo!!!!  

Just as a heads up, I know that dev who tweeted that image... he's not on the Mass Effect team, so don't read anything into that bit.

DLC doesn't require the same amount of team size as a major game release, so I think Montreal is fully capable of handling it on their own - they did Omega and (I believe) Arrival with no problem, for example. And we had a tweet from Cora's VA indicating she was back in the studio, while no patch so far has involved anything of Cora's dialogue. So DLC is almost definitely coming.

I mean, I'm not exactly looking at Anthem favorably, mostly because I feel like EA pushed an MMO on BioWare because their name means money, rather than because the game suited their strengths as a company, and that decision led to Andromeda getting less of the focus it deserved from BioWare as a whole, but Mass Effect is still a pretty big franchise and the name still draws people in. The DLC is coming, I can all but guarantee it, since it is still something that they can explicitly make money off of. The sales may have been hit by the negative press, but I just don't see that being enough to pull the plug on the franchise entirely.

I don't see it being 'shelved' for forever, just that Anthem and Dragon Age were already next on the docket and BioWare isn't going to juggle three games in active development at once. Like, Anthem is sure to draw time and energy for a longer period, since it's Edmonton producing it and an MMO has a different life cycle than an RPG, being focused on co-op more than finishing out a story, but I highly expect that, by the time DA4 comes out, we'll start hearing rumblings of a new Mass Effect.

Listen, Nancy...     :srs:

I'm incredibly emotionally invested, so I'll be devastated if there's no DLC. There are so many questions I need answers to- it can't just be left there.

Personally, I think Andromeda as a setting and a story has potential, but I am not interested in the way that potential was tapped in ME:A and really want them to re-think how they did ME:A. I think very large issues hamstrung ME:A being as good as it could be from a design and execution perspective, and BioWare really should do some soul searching to realize that what ever happened creatively and adminstratively with ME:A, it did a diservice to the ME franchise, the Andromeda story, the characters in the game, BioWare as a company and most importantly BW/ME fans. 

It would be a shame for ME:A to not continue, because there is a lot of potential to tell an interesting story and give us interesting characters, with a little creativity the MEA franchise is not at a point where it is shoe horned but instead could go many directions, and potential is a good thing. Plus others have pointed out this is the first opportunity for gay players to have their male protag's male romance to carry forward into another game, like other players had in the trilogy. Unless we do play the Inquisitor in DA4, which is possible.

In my opinion, DA:I felt a lot like this to me before Trespasser came out, granted to a lesser extent. I was not enthused by the open world design of DAI and the light touch approach to story telling. Trespasser (and to a lesser extent Jaws of Hakkon) gave me the story experience with emotion, character connection and choice/consequence I wanted from the base game. It was not perfect (my videogame boyfriend gave me a skype crystal in like the worst way possible, for fuck's sake, while other Inquis were getting married), but it felt better.

ME:A could do something kind of similar, hypothetically, with DLC.

But hopefully BW will get over this "if I eat it I can gain its power" approach to videogame design it has stumbled into with ME:A and to a lesser extent DA:I. Though Anthem, to me, indicates BW is not over that approach. But hey, third time's the charm. Maybe their blood magic ritual approach to game design they've settled upon will finally pay off for them.

That's the hasthag I came up with haha also BW will be at the Montreal Comic Con this Sat and talking to fans about MEA!

So it appears that Reyes/Scott animation is still not fixed in this patch:

Bioware dev has replied on Reyes thread