Panic at BioWare Montreal?

Well then the fault is on whoever gave Montreal that project. The smart thing to do in that situation was handing the new IP to Montreal and let Edmonton do Andromeda.

Nice meme, dawg



Did your buddy tighten up the graphics?

Even if ME:A is a commercial flop it won't be the death of Bioware. 

It may kill the Mass Effect series however, and result to Montreal being relegated again to a support studio that isn't trusted with a full game. 

Well, since they have 2 good studios and 3 IPs the really smart thing would have been to just drop one of the latters

the fact that even IGN, with its notoriously lax standards couldn't bring themselves to give it an 8 is more telling than anything

I played 10 hours and was absolutley gutted when my time ran out. I may be a bioware fan boy and lord knows how many hours I've spent on their games. Hundreds in ME3 multiplayer alone. There were bugs in the game. Animations weren't great (as per every bioware game I've played since KOTOR), Dr Lexi got stuck looking like she'd been crucified for a few cut scenes, however none of these were game breaking and they didn't detract from what I feel will be a fantastic story.

What has concerned me however is a tweet that Michael Gamble retweeted from a chap saying he was 75% complete after 45 or so hours. I was expecting far more content. Also watching TeaWrex on twitch and seeing exactly how many planets were visitable was also very disapointing.

If it's something I have learned by playing mass effect, it is that shooting a "kid" will only lead to total extermination. Not a good idea.

if you are an A to A+ student....isn't a B- a LOW SCORE FOR YOU???

While I kind of feel bad for them I kind of also think they deserve it!

Why?

Because they can do better, we all know! They know, too!

Then there's the fact that they have fucked certain things up:

- like say the female default (looks NOTHING like the face-model!)

- the facial animations (it's an AAA-Game, this looks worse than many indy-games! Not to mention that ME1-3 look better here and all Dragon Age Games, do too!)

- the cutscene avenger/predator (they took equipping squadmates from us by giving them their own favorite weapons but in cutscenes they still use avengers (it looks un-natural especially for DRAK! A damned Krogan should not be using a damned puny (and crappy!) Alliance gun, that he's more likely gonna break than use correctly -.-))

- the character creator (and the fact that we can't edit the default characters (I'd love to play as Scott Ryder, but I won't - not with that beard, it looks unprofessional!))

- parts of the story, not giving us armed vehicles, making the Nomad blow up if you touch water with it (all-terrain may ass!)

- same for our character (swimming should be in the game, same as diving - we have a space suit so even poisonous water should not harm us!)

- Nomad handling (except 6-Wheel-Mode...otherwise: As bad if not worse than the Mako and the Mako at least has a GUN!)

- No more tactical pause and less fleshed out squad commands (no more "use that ability - NOW!" - instead it's only: "attack that target" (and the AI decides upon ability use, which means that Cora for example often charges in and fucking DIES - I can't command her to savety all the time, I am being fired upon as well and have no tactical pause I could use!))

- strange writing (Alec's armor for example - why would he not wear N7 armor and the fact that the A.I. doesn't have backup-plans and that all the scout-ships are on the Nexus (why? The pathfinders need their ships, they should be on the Arks themselves! Same for the equipment, all the important stuff seems on the Nexus, if that's lost the expedition is totally fucked!)...and now we learn that they've dismantled the other scout ships...why? If it's a power thing then they could have connected the drive cores to the Nexus, they would not have had to need to fucking take the ships appart!))

etc. etc. (I have a longer list of things I don't like, but I think this is enough - especially since it would become really really spoilery with more stuff added (despite the fact that I've kept myself very unspoiled (didn't look up the ending for example or the romance stuff!))

Wow: This sounds as if I hate the game - I don't, but yeah I've noticed stuff that could have been done better (!) and I will probably continue to notice (I am thinking about keeping a piece of paper on the desk to write everything negative down (same for extremely positive things, like say cutscenes I especially like etc.) while playing (I have my clipboard ready...just need a pen ))

greetings LAX

That in itself should tell you everything you need to know.....  

uhm I was an agonistic shooter, my average score on the moving target mix discipline was 540/600 which is a very good score for most people in my category and an excellent score for amateurs. If I scored a 525 it would still be a good score for some but for ME and for me trainer and my team mates that would be a LOW SCORE. Bioware is to be held at a certain standard, yes a 7.6 is a discrete score but for a Mass Effect game? No, it's a subpar score and Bioware should not get a pass.