Peebee's Loyalty Mission - First 17 min. (IGN) [SPOILERS]

Mass Effect Andromeda may or may not have some weird faces, but it shan't stop me from enjoying it!
Even if they end up looking like this:

Or shooting a flying enemy with a Falcon, hah, good luck with that. Personally, I hated that gun from ME3 MP.

Yes and Not, CDPR currently holds a market cap around 1.6 Billion USD due the global success of witcher 3. Such achievement is amazing considering their DRM free policy and also most do give a damn attitude towards pirated copy of their game.  However, this is also the company has to license Aurora engine from Bioware to finish TW1 and almost bankrupted themselves during TW2 development. On the other hand, Bioware became a division of EA and losing its way in delivering RPG masterpiece ever since. Given their similar target audience and market margin, I think the comparison is valid and needed. 

All these violent delights have violent ends. If MEA is another hit and miss just like DAI, EA will be merciless towards future BW project. BW really needs to put their shit together and catch up with CDPR otherwise the market would make its choice. 

Well, since DA: O development started in something like 2002 (if not earlier) it was only released under the EA umbrella. ME2 has significant critical and commercial success, but even for that game there were people on the old BSN boards saying it was a drop in quality for Bioware, specifically with regard to the main plot.

I'm not sure what I said to make you so angry but you can take your sarcasm elsewhere because I am not interested in arguing with anyone online. I wrote what I wrote because that is how I feel, I am concerned that I won't have a say in anything that is happening, like in ME2 where I was forced to join cerberus, or the end of ME3 which was like whos line is it anyway because the points don't matter and neither do your choices. Fine killing a squadmate is tough to build a story around, but then why would you make me want to kill them. If you don't agree that's fine because I'm not asking you to. But apparently if I don't agree with you I'm not allowed to play your game and I have to go make my own. Maybe MEA has limitless possibilities, I don't know, I am just voicing my concern from a 15 second clip at the beginning of a gameplay video.

edit: the post you quoted was also more of a joke... I was serious in my intent, but I wrote that in the early morning while I was tired and just had some poor sense of humor in me at the time, if that caused your anger then my apologies.

edit2: I don't want to derail the thread too much so I upvoted your comment and hope you see this, thanks for clarifying I think both our sides have been made well, no hard feelings.

I'm sure huge chunks of dialogue and story were ripped out of the video for this. I can't remember a loyalty mission in ME:2, including cutscenes taking only 17 minutes.

And to echo other posters here, my God, the person playing the mission must play chess rather than video games in his/her spare time. I've never watched a demo of a game where I was internally screaming, "Oh, will you just shoot it already!?"

Reading through this thread, I wonder if anyone is ever happy with their video games. Geez Louise! No game anyone has ever played has been perfect. Not ME1, ME2, ME3, Witcher 3, Ocarina of Time, or your favorite game ever. Every game has flaws. I'm not telling people to not care if they get a quality product but we're nitpicking Sara Ryder's face in a cutscene that's not even on the screen for an entire second. If you temper your expectations, to something reasonable, you'll get a lot more enjoyment out of the game, flaws and all.

Also, this bears repeating, this guy played as an Engineer most of the time and carried FOUR big guns! Is he insane? His cool downs must've be -100% and you can tell because he barely used his powers. And the weapon that seemed to be the most effective (the assault rifle), he switched out to shoot shields with a 1-shot sniper rifle (face palm) and an inaccurate grenade launcher. Not to mention using Incinerate on a shielded enemy. He was the poster child for doing it wrong.

Also, it appears that Drack is like Vega in ME3. Give him a good weapon and you can just watch him kill all the things by himself while you make a sandwich.

I see the thread you referenced.  The guy was a good sport about it.  I would have just hidden under a pile of coats until the laughter died down. 

Well, technically, EA could do that for a couple of lines. Let Bio take a chance, and cover them with FIFA profits or some such if they strike out.

EA actually doing that is pretty much inconceivable, though. 

Except, CDPR isn't most studios. Yes, everybody has a "wall of crazy" and not everything gets into the game. But again, CDPR is the exception, not the rule. They take as much time as they want developing games and they put as much content into the game as they want. I guarantee you they make far less compromises than any other developer in the industry.

There was no compromise with regard to Triss, actually. The reason she had less "attention" is because her romance was entirely optional in TW3. In case you forgot, if you did not pursue Triss to make her stay, she would leave Novigrad. Yennefer, on the other hand, was part of the main plot of the story. She wasn't optional, thus, it made more sense to invest more time and effort into her character.

I wasn't defending CDPR. I was just merely stating that they do what they want regardless of industry standards. They've always been good to their fans going back to TW1 in 2007. All I was suggesting is their "good will" is nothing new for PC gamers. They just have an entirely different culture and approach to gaming than other studios, because they view themselves as gamers first and as a business second. No other studio does that.

Their DRM-free policy is actually incredibly recent. TW2, when it first released only on PC in May of 2011, had DRM and it was an absolute disaster. The game was cracked almost immediately and all CDPR did was make it harder for their actual dedicated, paying fans to get the game. They did a complete 180 on their approach to DRM and stripped it away completely with TW2. After that they shortly announced GOG a few years later and continued their commitment to a DRM-free service. It cost them a lot of money in the short term, but they gained a lot of good will in the process from gamers who are incredibly loyal to them now.

Except, that's exactly how they were able to fund TW3's long development cycle... It was all because of GOG. If not for that service, CDPR would have run out of money and they would have had to release the game early. TW3 was delayed several times and having the luxury of GOG to keep their business afloat helped them through the tough times. GOG is integral to how CDPR functions as a development studio. Steam has nothing to do with anything as GOG largely has only retro games and Steam is a DRM service, so they don't really compete (as of yet).

You forget EA also has dozens of studios all making huge AAA projects simultaneously. EA has three massive Star Wars projects in the works, alone, all happening from at least four different developers. Star Wars Battlefront 2 comes out this year from DICE. Visceral Games' Star Wars game comes out next year. Respawn Entertainment's Star Wars game comes out the following year. That's just one franchise that a few EA studios are working on... CDPR has one studio (technically two since they opened up another branch) and they all predominantly work on one game: Cyberpunk 2077. EA may be larger and may have more money and resources, but they split that amongst their various studios.

BioWare, alone, has a fixed budget that they have to split with Edmonton, Montreal, and Austin. So no, BioWare doesn't even come close to having the funds or flexibility that CDPR has. This is just a fact. BioWare has far more money and resources than they ever did when they were independent, but they are also far more constrained and limited in ways because of being a part of the EA family.

Anyway, this is getting off topic and away from the point of the thread - the Peebee loyalty mission (with the exception of the terrible player) was very fun and engaging. Hopefully IGN's next showing is far more easier to watch.