Hype seems less than Inquisition?

Marketing aside, with DAI we had plenty of things to be attached to. Returning characters, familiar locations revived in a new engine, and 2 good novels to warm up the waiting process (I love Asunder more, but ME was good too). MEA? We have zero attachments with plenty of forced references and substitudes. Not-Normandy with not-MAKO, not-Wrex, Arcon speaking not-Harbinger's lines and N7 slapped on all the covers and promos etc. I'd rather see them making the new installment...well, new, really. And with no 'hero to save humanity' BS, because Shep already got that one covered.

Fair enough, and I guess you're right, it is the waiting game.

I suppose I guess with Inquisition the scope just seemed bigger. You were the Inquisitor hell bent on stopping the Elder One and you really felt the rush! It was all building up to it.

With Andromeda, it's a lot of different because it's new-ish but supposed to be a callback to the original trilogy, so the hype will be a bit different. It seems smaller and more personal, though that's not necessarily a bad thing

ME3 taught us not to hype. DA:I trailers made me think BioWare was going back to roots.

DA:I taught me not to hype :/

Then I played The Witcher 3 and can't go into modern BioWare games without being a little overbearing

Andromeda barely have a marketing, of course people in general are not very hyped.

Hype is always a bad thing with upcoming games. I think No Mans Sky has pretty much destroyed all hope for video games.

That was Mike Laidlaw, I believe.

He had me convinced that the tactical camera was not going to be garbage in DAI. Silly me

Personally I'm more hyped for this than I was for DAI because at that time I was struggling to understand DA's mechanics and wasn't sure I was going to get that game. But I'd seen enough of Frostbite to think that ME will look great on this engine I thought even before all that while playing Battlefield 3 and all. Everything I've seen in the trailers and whatever has proven my point so far to me. TBH I've always considered DA to be the secondary series of the 2 anyway I've always preferred ME so it's easier for me to get hyped up for this game. Especially as I like everything we've seen so far.

That's probably their intention. Build the hype train for too long and the game has no chance of living up to expectations. I wouldn't be surprised if they go into a blitz in March, though.

Nope. I'm hyped as hell for Andromeda and I couldn't have cared less about Inquisition leading up to the release. DA2 left a bad taste in my mouth. I bought it just because I had played the others and it was still a Bioware game.

Not to mention Sci-fi > fantasy in terms of genres for me.

Exactly!

Witcher 3 is the new benchmark (measuring stick if you prefer) for what an RPG should be like these days, especially a 3D third person action RPG

I do have certain gripes with "The Witcher 3" (like the fact that you don't have any long range attacks (except for that puny one handed crossbow -.-) or magics (sure, Geralt was never supposed to have those, but sometimes I would have loved to have them nontheless) or that you couldn't outright bitch back at Yennefer (damned I dislike her so much...I am not your fucking dog, so treat me with respect fucking bitchy sorceress...no wounder I ditched her and hooked up with Triss (Hell, Triss even said that she was fucking sorry for taking advantage of Geralt's amnesia in the first two games and that shows that she's a much greater person than Yennefer who is never sorry (not even for performing dark rituals in other peoples sacred places or stealing their artifacts for her own use -.-))...tossing her off a tower would have been nice (she teleported me above the fucking river after all!))

So yeah, ME:A has a lot to live up to!

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Not "run by SJWs" but influenced by them? Yeah, you bet (they never outright defend Manveer Heir (and that GTA Virtual Rape Girl/Woman), but they don't tell them to shut the fuck up either!)

Also yeah, ME3 (the whole game - at least for me - not just the ending(s)...it was linear (RPGs should not be linear!), it didn't have choices, it treated choices made in the old games like they were worthless (remember the Rachnii? They should be DEAD/NOT EXIST ANYMORE if you killed the Queen...not that I did, but some people did), it didn't offer you different starting points (a full on Renegade Sheppard would never go to prison - no time, there's a war to prepare for! Hell, even my Shepards (Paragades!) would have probably stayed away from Alliance space (with my SPECTRE-Status reinstated the Alliance doesn't even have the jurisdiction to prosecute me, unless the whole council agrees to press charges!) and especially from Earth!), you couldn't even join Cerberus (extreme option, but why not?), it turned TIM (a level headed but a bit cold man) into a total idiot (ME2 TIM would probably shoot ME3 TIM because he threatens humanity's survival for an idea that might not even work!) etc. etc....over all this game was NOT good (it had decent gameplay, but the story was bad!)

So stop sighing just because not everybody agrees with you (I am not attacking you because you liked ME3 - I would love to be you in fact! I ENVY YOU!)

Operating with the "discover it yourself" theme doesn't work well if players have been burned in the past (ME3, DA2 and Inquisition (damned SP-MMO!))...they'll hold off on buying (and if youtubers etc. don't tell them it's good they will wait till it's on sale!)

So showing stuff and not lying to us (marketing lied about the ME3 endings and player choices - no two ways about it, they outright LIED (ok: They might not have known that some stuff hadn't made it into the final game, but with these two statements they lied to us!)) would be a great way to start making us like them more again!

Bioware once was my number one game developer (!) - it's still pretty high up (number 3), but Obsidian and CDProject-RED have it beat (Fallout: New Vegas and Witcher 3 are better than Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition!)

I want them to be that again (or at least to compete for the number 1 spot again with Obsidian!), they can do this and they should (it's not good for them either if they make mediocre games and are a pale shadow of a once great game-developer!)

greetings LAX