Have Bioware's recent actions changed your mind?

This, so hard. I can't believe more people didn't perceive a drop in immersive quality in Inquisition.

It is not his opinion, it is the opinion of JRR Tolkien himself:

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From the forward of The Fellowship of the RIng

You totally ignored my post?

"Despite his quotes and protestations otherwise" I believe is what I said, and offered evidence of his letters saying otherwise, and having read the books thoroughly. I did not include that I studied Religion as a minor for my Phil undergrad.

His correspondence with CS Lewis is a direct contradiction of his later words on this matter.

Whether his work is allegorical or not is wholly a matter of opinion, and nobody is right with certainty. Just because an author says his work isn't allegorical doesn't mean it isn't.

The authors of the ending of ME3 maintain it is good.

I certainly won't preorder unless having seen some excellent gameplay demos for the multiplayer side of things. And then most likely just the standard edition.

If no decent demos exist before release, I'll wait till after for buying.

The forum shutdown has not affected my decision making process at all.

That's 100% wrong. Sci-fi is about exploring plausible technologies and futures with at least some degree of scientific accuracy. Regardless, a work being set in a speculative genre, whether sci-fi or fantasy, is not a free pass for that work to ignore its own rules - that's what you seem to forget... or ignore... that is, people like Iakus and myself aren't inventing new rules to limit BioWare, we're asking them to respect THEIR OWN rules, which they themselves decided upon long ago.

In this case, BioWare decided to tell us, through the codex in Mass Effect 1, that intragalactic travel is super-prohibitive without the Mass Relays (which is one of the reasons no one bothered to find Ilos until Shepard did). Using the power of logic, if intragalactic travel - which is much, much easier than intergalactic travel - is already borderline impossible without the Mass Relays, intergalactic travel is DEFINITELY impossible.

I want to reiterate once again, this isn't me or Iakus or anyone else making this up, this is BioWare's own rule that they established 8 years ago when they made the first game. If they wanted intergalactic travel to be possible, they wouldn't have included that bit in ME1's codex. That's because the original writers never intended for the galactic species to make a journey to Andromeda in the same time period the original trilogy takes place.

BioWare breaking their own rules and sending Milky Wayians to Andromeda despite the internal rules of the story telling us it's impossible is the video game equivalent of football players ignoring the rules of football. Football is only football BECAUSE of the rules, not in spite of them - otherwise you could, for example, pick up the ball with your hands, which would make the name football completely meaningless.

That's like saying the antagonist of every story ever created is lucifer is some form. No, just no.

OK so I managed to read up to page 8 before deciding enough was enough. I was a regular on the old BSN and have been lurking here the last couple of weeks to see if it would be a good fit.

Turns out this will be both my first and last post here. The vast majority of posters just seem to hold views that are so diametrically opposed to my own that we can't exist in the same space. We might have overcome our differences if we had a shared love of Mass Effect or other BW games but we don't even have that as the general consensus seems to be that BW and their games are shit and the next one will be too.

So I guess I'll take my SJW, Mass-Effect-loving arse and bugger off somewhere to wait for the game in solitude.

I'm sure you'll miss me 

P.S. - If you want to see what real racism looks like, try reading the Shoutbox.

Take it easy,

J 

Sorry to see you go.

It would be nice if you posted what you found objectionable in the first 8 pages so we can compare.

Myself and many others said that we would wait and see how the game turns out and i see nothing wrong with that.

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And that's another reason why I'm unimpressed with DA:I.  The rich Dragon Age world was turned into a SJW platform.

I fear that ME:A may be more of the same. Andromeda and the Helius cluster races can be such a rich environment to explore.

Well, there is that mabari that basically runs that little shop in the hissing wastes, so if we're going to do smart dog counts, it's just about even with both DA:O and DA2, since there's only ever 1 smart mabari in any of these games. 

I'll grant Sylvans, golems and werewolves, but I don't know if they really add nuance per se. 

Doesn't Corypheus count? I mean, he's still a darkspawn. 

Dragons have always been just wild animals with wings and a breath weapon. Some other character would just say that they're really intelligent, but never has a high dragon ever actually exhibited this trait in any game. 

I don't think the demon criticism counts if there's actual demons that manipulate people in the game. Envy certainly isn't human-like once its form is revealed (granted you have to do Champions of the Just to see it).