I'm going to make this easy: the only people left at Bioware NOW, are those who came up after Anthem, and Mass Effect: Andromeda. Bioware...is...no...more. Play the old games, and enjoy the memories....they are all we have.
More than any other gaming studio BioWare was its writers. The fact is I can name Drew Karpyshyn and David Gaider when I couldn’t tell you any other game writer even on my favourite franchises. Mass Effect 3 floundered when Karpyshyn left and Veil Guard suffered because Gaider left and without those two BioWare is nothing but a shadow of what it used to be
Yes, to all of the Mass Effect. Absolutely no problem with Shepard returning and it being set after ME3. Fixing the relays could easily be a major part of the story - attempting to reconnect the galaxy in the face of some new, perhaps internal threat. Maybe a crusade of Reaper worshipers, a new political alliance from the breaking of the Citadel Council and/or looking for revenge against Shepard/Earth for dragging away manpower for the finale of ME3. Missions to help recolonise Rannoch for the Quarians, re-establish the Geth, find a new home for what is left of the Batarians, maybe to save the Andromeda mission when someone else tries to destroy it as it leaves our galaxy. Maybe someone you lost along the way - Ashley/Kaiden? - returns as a villain... So much could be done with the ME galaxy post-ME3
Square Enix, Bioware, Ubisoft... just three of the biggest names of game companies that have been scrambling for survival in the slump following the lockdown years, and that's not even counting the studios that have been shut down. The AAA side of the industry is in need of a major shakeup to readjust corporate expectations for development costs and what's considered 'acceptable sales'. Gamers are finally starting to show that we're not willing to put up with shoddy first-day releases and ridiculous levels of predatory microtransactions, that we're unwilling to fund their ever-growing greed for greater profit at the expense of quality, and that's a good thing. If it leads to another crash? Fine! The industry that emerges afterward will be more careful about their approach, that if they want to sell a product it has to be a product that people actually want to buy.
Things aren't always great down in the A and AA levels, but you still have studios like Paradox and smaller genres of games that may not have multi-billion dollar 12K graphics but are still exceptionally well-written and developed stories. The whole industry consolidated and got "too big to fail", the deadwood needs to fall so the much healthier, more consistent studios can get some sunlight.
Yes and no. Some gamers have shown this, mostly to the single-player focused developers and studios. And that’s great. But now that means studios more and more just move to live-service, mmo, pvp games that sell thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars of microtransactions that people constantly pay for. Look at what’s happened to Bethesda who put out Skyrim and Fallout 4 just to pivot and focus 90% of their attention to ESO and Fallout 76, basically making new elder scrolls and fallouts impossible. Skyrim came out 14 years ago for fuck’s sake.
@@Aldragon Live service has been losing out overall as well, just look at all the attempts that have died within a year or two of launch and Sony doing a major backpedal on all the crap games greenlit under the old CEO. But then all it takes is for enough 'whales' to support them, like D4, to make companies try and try again. More slop for the trough. Hopefully with enough failures, enough massive losses like Avengers, Suicide Squad, Anthem, Concord, Babylon's Fall, Evolve, et al, the live service money sink will be a wakeup call.
@@TheBahamaat At least in the 'lower leagues' there's a glimmer of hope that you find a gem that is fun to play and doesn't sacrifice everything in favor of gouging for more cash. You can have games that don't model every nose hair and reflection on 10 pixel wide eyeballs but are incredibly fun to play and, to borrow a phrase and mock Todd Howard in the same breath, that just work. Reasonable budgets, reasonable expectations, games that are fun and aren't broken, that's the dream.
When Dragon Age Veilguard is going for a price that is lower than what you can find a copy of a GOTY Edition of Dragon Age: Inquisition you know something is wrong.
Nope, gaming is fine, its just the AAA sector that is dying and thats because ppl are fed up being fed slop for 70 dollars. There are so many great games coming out, its just they aren't from the AAA sector. AA, Indie, ( Nintendo which I count as their own thing ) and VR are still releasing some brilliant games. There are still some outliers in AAA - games like "Doom: The Dark Ages" for example looks like something made with passion and love from proper Developers, but hopefully the shift we are seeing will mean games like Dark Ages survive and we see an end to the rubbish we have been fed for too many years.
It'll be a win when the AAA bubble bursts, cos it'll give rise to the smaller and more original ideas, for the business ro grow again. Like any industry
I think the writing is on the wall when it comes to Mass Effect and BioWare. It's heartbreaking and there's no one to blame but EA as they continue to bow at the altar of its shareholders.
It’s just a shame. BioWare has made my favorite games of all time. To see what they’ve become is just depressing. Hoping they pull it together, but not sure it will happen.
When we look back at the downfall of BioWare it’s all going to point back to Anthem, however not necessarily because of the quality of that game. BioWare/EA were tripling down on the live service approach so much so that dreadwolf was also originally supposed to be a live service game. Then when Anthem ultimately failed and live service games failed in the market overall they were forced to pivot. However, Dreadwolf was to far along and I’m assuming that live service mass effect game also was further along than people realize. Leading to BioWare praying they don’t now become the next Ubisoft after back to back flops.
ME:3 actually does have an ending where Shepard survives (sometimes called the "Shepard breathes" ending) but it's very difficult to get and most people don't even seem to know about it.
Seems to me that the biggest issue is these gaming companies now having a clear vision and plan sale with their overlords. I mean to announce a game and only really start half a decade later is just confusing. I mean look at Star Wars eclipse where it was announced in 2021 and won’t come till what end of this decade? These long development cycles are killing games in terms of not just hype but expectations by these companies to make up for the huge cost to make them
I agree that BioWare took a wrong turn when they prioritized gameplay over good writing. (in my opinion right after DA:I) That's just not what people wanted from them.. or at least they did not want good gameplay AT THE COST of exceptional writing. I can not fathom how so much time has passed since ME3 released and ME:A didn't really fly and they are still (apparently) at square 1 with where to go with the Mass Effect franchise. The lack of planning is extremely puzzling. There must be a reason they haven't progressed at all, but hell if I know what it is. Asking fans to wait ANOTHER 5 to 10 years is really asking a lot.
The sad fact is that the Bioware from the original trilogy, Jade Empire, etc, is no longer there. Tbh, i would rather let ME alone and see of the people who are making Exodus can take the mantle.
Man. Publishers are strangling the video games industry to death, and the ones that are publicly traded companies are the worst offenders. The minute you start developing games with the primary goal of making money instead of making something that people will enjoy playing is the minute you start your death march as a studio. And I would love to say that people will eventually get wise to this and the market will speak, but unfortunately that doesn’t matter anymore - when a game fails the studio is the one that suffers the most, and not the publisher.
The only thing that can save is EA is to bring back old Bioware team and make a continuation of the ME Original Trilogy, without any multiplayer aspects.
I find it very hard to believe that the same studio that thought Veilguard was anything but dog sh*t; can make a GREAT Mass Effect game on par with the original trilogy
Personally, I think EA doesn't want to be "the company that closed Bioware" yes, they closed very good studios like Visceral and Origin but with all due respect to these studios Bioware had such a pedigree that closing that studio can bring unintended consequences The problem is that Bioware can no longer live in the past because with each bad release it loses the prestige that keeps it alive and there are already 3 in a row, damn, I would even understand if the studio closed now, surely Mass Effect is the last chance and it needs to be an economic or critical success because after Veilguard the studio no longer has a legacy that keeps it afloat
It's definitely looking more and more likely. Even if they do finish Mass Effect 5 and it finally gets solid reviews, it could be too late. But that's just just me being optimistic.
Bioware hasn’t made a bonafide classic rpg since Mass Effect 2. I like Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2 but they are flawed games. Inquisition is a mixed bag though I know people like it. Bioware hasn’t made a great game in over a decade.
BioWare really should have done a FF 7 like remake of 1 with an attempt to make it closer to the original vision of the what the game could have been. Maybe even alter some events of the original story like FF 7 also did. Then a few years later do the same for 2, and finally 3. That would have given them time to flush out a story for a new mass effect.
this looks bad from a corporate stand: betting all or nothing on a safe nostalgia series. what would have been just a corporate thing playing it safe and repeating a know bankable success is now their only option to possibly just be able to continue as a dev studio. that's dire.
Really hope we get Mass Effect 5. Just replayed the original trilogy (Through the legendary edition) and it just reminded me how great they were. I even enjoyed Andromeda so a 5th installment would be amazing.
Should keep in mind a lot of these high budget high Developer games flop it’s been usually the small concentrated Groups of devs that have put out some of the best games in the last Years
No, I'm more interested in the Exodus property - it seems like it is a good fusion of the themes in both the original trilogy and the ideas that just weren't implementable in Andromeda. Bioware has been dead and gone for a long time, and while the golden age was indeed good, it was a horribly harmful and toxic way to get those games out (unbelieveable crunch, constant throwing out and restarting, etc).
Veilguars only met 50% of expectation after changing expectations from 10 million to 3 million. So technically, they only saw 15% players from the real expected 10 million
bioware dying wouldn't really surprise me. none of the games they've released in the past 10 years have really been homeruns and most of them have sucked. So, if they're not making a profit and they're not making the same quality of games that they used to then it may be time to gut the studio and move on.
@@DiamondDead You do realize spinoffs can exist right? And that’s what Andromeda was? And they don’t necessarily have to be a part of the numbered main series?
Yes. I want another Mass Effect game. Please... More Mass Effect. More Shepard. And let me romance Wrex. (I know technically Wrex is taken and making Krogan babies.)
I enjoyed Veilguard & Andromeda and DA2 back in the day even though that was hated. No, they weren't the 9 or 10/10 games of old Bioware, but they were still good & my gaming preference are single player, third person rpgs. Since apparently I'm in the minority, I'm sad about this news as the single player games, including Mass Effect, will be the first on the chopping block by EA if things need cut in the future or we hit a recession etc.
EA is most definitaly to blame for Biowares decline but at this point, yeah, just let it sink. Veilguard was horrible, a massive inslut to DA fans, current day Bioware is an afront to what the old Bioware was.
4 yrs ago the announced they were at the beginning stage.... and they're still at the beginning stage without "expected" release till 2030, 10 fucking yrs later N publishers still think AAA is in a good place 🤣 We were told game development was taking too long with 5 yrs yet we're slowly discovering they've secretly been taking more like 10 🤦♂️😭
I didn't hate the ME3 ending or andromeda, please fix your vocabulary not to include everyone. I love this channel, but when it's a scott story, it really does stretch my desire to stay subscribed.
If you’ve never played one, play Andramada first but just don’t tell anyone you like it because you’ll get 2 answers. 1) I never played any of those trash garbage visual novels 2) you monster the first 3 were all master pieces. Except 3 at first…. And one you can skip…… but yeah like I said those 1.3 total games are better
Well, might as well close Bioware, it isn't the studio who gave us Mass Effect 1-3, Kotor, Dragon Age 1-3 and so on. The bashing they have gotten in game media with their latest games because it havent liven up to old Bioware have probably helped the sale not going to well, because what would have been good games from almost everyone else is a bad Bioware game somehow...
Dragon Age: Veilguard felt like something they shat out with the purpose of propping up the release schedule, revenue, and BioWare's reputation so they could move as quickly as possible on to Mass Effect.
Funny how giving us a lecture about pronouns didn’t sell the latest dragon age game If I’m an optimist maybe this means that they fired all the nitwits who want to put message above storytelling and immersion
Seeing as Microsoft has now been named as the biggest publisher in the world, maybe they should acquire Bioware and related IP's. Maybe they would allow Bioware to go back to their roots and make quality games without the toxic gameplay elements forced into Bioware games by EA.
Veilguard was ok at best. Game play was more action based than I wanted. The story had good bones. We should have done more with each companions story and Tash' should have focused more on the Qun group than on their identity on being none binary (maybe only when at the tower and its being triggered by what that Qun diserter group is doing hunting them)
Being bought by EA was the worst thing that happened to BioWare.
Tbh, almost true for every dev bought by EA.
And Origin, Bullfrog, Westwood, Maxis...
@@OddballEddie You're going to run out of oxygen before you run out of names on THAT list 😀
@@Khasym oh those were just the ones off the top of my head.
Preach.
I'm going to make this easy: the only people left at Bioware NOW, are those who came up after Anthem, and Mass Effect: Andromeda. Bioware...is...no...more. Play the old games, and enjoy the memories....they are all we have.
Facts…others are coming
Totally!
Jade empire
Best thing for mass effect is bioware being shutdown and the IP being sold off to a company like WTC
Bioware started dying the moment they became a tendril of EA.
More than any other gaming studio BioWare was its writers. The fact is I can name Drew Karpyshyn and David Gaider when I couldn’t tell you any other game writer even on my favourite franchises. Mass Effect 3 floundered when Karpyshyn left and Veil Guard suffered because Gaider left and without those two BioWare is nothing but a shadow of what it used to be
I wouldn't trust them to tie my shoelaces! How they screwed up Dragon Age has to be criminal
Bioware has died long ago. This here is just a corpse skin filled with EA vermin.
Yes, to all of the Mass Effect.
Absolutely no problem with Shepard returning and it being set after ME3. Fixing the relays could easily be a major part of the story - attempting to reconnect the galaxy in the face of some new, perhaps internal threat. Maybe a crusade of Reaper worshipers, a new political alliance from the breaking of the Citadel Council and/or looking for revenge against Shepard/Earth for dragging away manpower for the finale of ME3. Missions to help recolonise Rannoch for the Quarians, re-establish the Geth, find a new home for what is left of the Batarians, maybe to save the Andromeda mission when someone else tries to destroy it as it leaves our galaxy. Maybe someone you lost along the way - Ashley/Kaiden? - returns as a villain...
So much could be done with the ME galaxy post-ME3
Square Enix, Bioware, Ubisoft... just three of the biggest names of game companies that have been scrambling for survival in the slump following the lockdown years, and that's not even counting the studios that have been shut down.
The AAA side of the industry is in need of a major shakeup to readjust corporate expectations for development costs and what's considered 'acceptable sales'. Gamers are finally starting to show that we're not willing to put up with shoddy first-day releases and ridiculous levels of predatory microtransactions, that we're unwilling to fund their ever-growing greed for greater profit at the expense of quality, and that's a good thing. If it leads to another crash? Fine! The industry that emerges afterward will be more careful about their approach, that if they want to sell a product it has to be a product that people actually want to buy.
well said
Things aren't always great down in the A and AA levels, but you still have studios like Paradox and smaller genres of games that may not have multi-billion dollar 12K graphics but are still exceptionally well-written and developed stories. The whole industry consolidated and got "too big to fail", the deadwood needs to fall so the much healthier, more consistent studios can get some sunlight.
Yes and no. Some gamers have shown this, mostly to the single-player focused developers and studios. And that’s great. But now that means studios more and more just move to live-service, mmo, pvp games that sell thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars of microtransactions that people constantly pay for. Look at what’s happened to Bethesda who put out Skyrim and Fallout 4 just to pivot and focus 90% of their attention to ESO and Fallout 76, basically making new elder scrolls and fallouts impossible. Skyrim came out 14 years ago for fuck’s sake.
@@Aldragon Live service has been losing out overall as well, just look at all the attempts that have died within a year or two of launch and Sony doing a major backpedal on all the crap games greenlit under the old CEO.
But then all it takes is for enough 'whales' to support them, like D4, to make companies try and try again. More slop for the trough.
Hopefully with enough failures, enough massive losses like Avengers, Suicide Squad, Anthem, Concord, Babylon's Fall, Evolve, et al, the live service money sink will be a wakeup call.
@@TheBahamaat At least in the 'lower leagues' there's a glimmer of hope that you find a gem that is fun to play and doesn't sacrifice everything in favor of gouging for more cash.
You can have games that don't model every nose hair and reflection on 10 pixel wide eyeballs but are incredibly fun to play and, to borrow a phrase and mock Todd Howard in the same breath, that just work.
Reasonable budgets, reasonable expectations, games that are fun and aren't broken, that's the dream.
The Disney/Marvel tone that was popular at the start of development has faded long ago, so these games often feel off.
When Dragon Age Veilguard is going for a price that is lower than what you can find a copy of a GOTY Edition of Dragon Age: Inquisition you know something is wrong.
This industry is just completely fucked 😢
Nope, gaming is fine, its just the AAA sector that is dying and thats because ppl are fed up being fed slop for 70 dollars. There are so many great games coming out, its just they aren't from the AAA sector. AA, Indie, ( Nintendo which I count as their own thing ) and VR are still releasing some brilliant games.
There are still some outliers in AAA - games like "Doom: The Dark Ages" for example looks like something made with passion and love from proper Developers, but hopefully the shift we are seeing will mean games like Dark Ages survive and we see an end to the rubbish we have been fed for too many years.
It'll be a win when the AAA bubble bursts, cos it'll give rise to the smaller and more original ideas, for the business ro grow again. Like any industry
I think the writing is on the wall when it comes to Mass Effect and BioWare. It's heartbreaking and there's no one to blame but EA as they continue to bow at the altar of its shareholders.
The Guardians game was such a nice surprise.
BioWare was dead the second EA closed the deal
It’s just a shame. BioWare has made my favorite games of all time. To see what they’ve become is just depressing. Hoping they pull it together, but not sure it will happen.
When we look back at the downfall of BioWare it’s all going to point back to Anthem, however not necessarily because of the quality of that game. BioWare/EA were tripling down on the live service approach so much so that dreadwolf was also originally supposed to be a live service game. Then when Anthem ultimately failed and live service games failed in the market overall they were forced to pivot.
However, Dreadwolf was to far along and I’m assuming that live service mass effect game also was further along than people realize. Leading to BioWare praying they don’t now become the next Ubisoft after back to back flops.
I really want a Like a Dragon minigame where you run a game developer. Maybe we could all learn something.
I’m going to keep commenting that the game Exodus is a spiritual mass effect. There is a novel out right now that I am reading.
So we're definitely never getting a Sonic Chronicles Dark Brotherhood sequel are we.
If they were a competent company, I would be excited for another Mass Effect.. but they've shown what they can do
ME:3 actually does have an ending where Shepard survives (sometimes called the "Shepard breathes" ending) but it's very difficult to get and most people don't even seem to know about it.
Without realising it, I found myself standing up, controller in hand, yelling "What? What?!?" at my screen when ME3 ended.
If they die, then they die.
Seems to me that the biggest issue is these gaming companies now having a clear vision and plan sale with their overlords. I mean to announce a game and only really start half a decade later is just confusing. I mean look at Star Wars eclipse where it was announced in 2021 and won’t come till what end of this decade? These long development cycles are killing games in terms of not just hype but expectations by these companies to make up for the huge cost to make them
I agree that BioWare took a wrong turn when they prioritized gameplay over good writing. (in my opinion right after DA:I) That's just not what people wanted from them.. or at least they did not want good gameplay AT THE COST of exceptional writing.
I can not fathom how so much time has passed since ME3 released and ME:A didn't really fly and they are still (apparently) at square 1 with where to go with the Mass Effect franchise. The lack of planning is extremely puzzling. There must be a reason they haven't progressed at all, but hell if I know what it is. Asking fans to wait ANOTHER 5 to 10 years is really asking a lot.
I think Bioware is done for good after ME4. The company is a husk of its former self
If BioWare closes I EA sells mass effect and dragon age I think both franchises could use some fresh eyes and ideas
EA won't ever do that though. So those franchises will die if Bioware is closed.
Bioware has been dead since they finished mass effect 3 in my eyes.
EA has just reanimated the corpse and is dragging it around at this point
1 2nd the GOTG recommendation. I was one who thought it looked stupid until I played the demo. Amazing game!
The sad fact is that the Bioware from the original trilogy, Jade Empire, etc, is no longer there.
Tbh, i would rather let ME alone and see of the people who are making Exodus can take the mantle.
Bioware is the new Atari. A husk of it's former glory...
Man. Publishers are strangling the video games industry to death, and the ones that are publicly traded companies are the worst offenders. The minute you start developing games with the primary goal of making money instead of making something that people will enjoy playing is the minute you start your death march as a studio. And I would love to say that people will eventually get wise to this and the market will speak, but unfortunately that doesn’t matter anymore - when a game fails the studio is the one that suffers the most, and not the publisher.
I already own Guardians of the Galaxy, now I just need to download the free ps5 upgrade to enjoy it at its peak form.
The only thing that can save is EA is to bring back old Bioware team and make a continuation of the ME Original Trilogy, without any multiplayer aspects.
I find it very hard to believe that the same studio that thought Veilguard was anything but dog sh*t; can make a GREAT Mass Effect game on par with the original trilogy
Personally, I think EA doesn't want to be "the company that closed Bioware" yes, they closed very good studios like Visceral and Origin but with all due respect to these studios Bioware had such a pedigree that closing that studio can bring unintended consequences
The problem is that Bioware can no longer live in the past because with each bad release it loses the prestige that keeps it alive and there are already 3 in a row, damn, I would even understand if the studio closed now, surely Mass Effect is the last chance and it needs to be an economic or critical success because after Veilguard the studio no longer has a legacy that keeps it afloat
i have no hope for Bioware and Mass effect, the franchise is dead to me as fr as I'm concerned.
Bioware might as well not exist after Anthem, Andromeda, and Dragon Age Veilguard's mixed reception
BioWare have been declining ever since the debacle of mass effect 3’s release and the gaslighting of the fans who didn’t like the games ending
It's definitely looking more and more likely. Even if they do finish Mass Effect 5 and it finally gets solid reviews, it could be too late. But that's just just me being optimistic.
That makes no sense
What I want is Star Control III made by warhorse.
Bioware hasn’t made a bonafide classic rpg since Mass Effect 2. I like Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2 but they are flawed games. Inquisition is a mixed bag though I know people like it. Bioware hasn’t made a great game in over a decade.
I think Mass Effect 3 is a great game, other than the ending.
Poor timing woth the Mass Effect show coming out soonish.
ME is one of the all time great fictional universes.
Just shut it down so everyone can move on, there’s no coming back from veilguard
Bioware and ME might be dead?.................oh no!............what a shame.
all the good staff of bioware have long since left and the dislike of each game that comes out shows it lack of talent
BioWare really should have done a FF 7 like remake of 1 with an attempt to make it closer to the original vision of the what the game could have been. Maybe even alter some events of the original story like FF 7 also did. Then a few years later do the same for 2, and finally 3. That would have given them time to flush out a story for a new mass effect.
i hope they sell dragon age to maybe larian
this looks bad from a corporate stand: betting all or nothing on a safe nostalgia series. what would have been just a corporate thing playing it safe and repeating a know bankable success is now their only option to possibly just be able to continue as a dev studio. that's dire.
Really hope we get Mass Effect 5. Just replayed the original trilogy (Through the legendary edition) and it just reminded me how great they were.
I even enjoyed Andromeda so a 5th installment would be amazing.
Uh? EA comes along and everything goes to hell?... weird. I wonder if this was the only time this has happened?
Should keep in mind a lot of these high budget high Developer games flop it’s been usually the small concentrated Groups of devs that have put out some of the best games in the last Years
I’m not holding my breath for BioWare. That being said the mass effect like game exodus looks very cool
No, I'm more interested in the Exodus property - it seems like it is a good fusion of the themes in both the original trilogy and the ideas that just weren't implementable in Andromeda. Bioware has been dead and gone for a long time, and while the golden age was indeed good, it was a horribly harmful and toxic way to get those games out (unbelieveable crunch, constant throwing out and restarting, etc).
Yeah... no. More interested in Exodus, that's more likely to come out before whatever Bioware comes up with next.
Honestly, about time.
RIP BioWare! You were finally put out of your misery
Veilguars only met 50% of expectation after changing expectations from 10 million to 3 million. So technically, they only saw 15% players from the real expected 10 million
Mass effect was dead when mass effect 3 released. That was the last game and they shouldn't have tried to make more.
I feel for the unsung devs...
bioware dying wouldn't really surprise me. none of the games they've released in the past 10 years have really been homeruns and most of them have sucked. So, if they're not making a profit and they're not making the same quality of games that they used to then it may be time to gut the studio and move on.
I still love Mass Effect, I think Andromeda got a bad rap story wise.
Its unfortunate because i juat started playing the Legendary Edition and was looking forward to a 4th one
Sooo… check back in 5 more years at the earliest.
Holyfuck I thought they were already developing ME. They tease it back in 2021. They are so cooked if they have nothing to show NOW.
If it was gonna be as bad as Veilguard, then maybe it was for the best
Doubt Mass Effect or Bioware survive 2025.
I’d love to see them come back from this. But I think they’re done.
I'd be more saddened if they hadn't made 3 major flops in a row...
A genuine return to form for Bioware and EA
How has WhatCulture not done ANY content on POE 2?
Bioware amused itself to death.
Good. O.G talent left a long time ago anyway.
*cuts staff and makes shoddy game*
**game does poorly because objectively bad**
Developers: welp...I guess people don't like Mass Effect Anymore
I can’t say that I care about BioWare anymore.
Mass Effect 4 is do or die for BioWare.
Mass Effect: Andromeda was Mass Effect 4
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No, this new game is a sequel to Mass Effect 3, so it’s Mass Effect 4.
@@SmashBrosAssemble Both of you are correct.
@@DiamondDead You do realize spinoffs can exist right? And that’s what Andromeda was? And they don’t necessarily have to be a part of the numbered main series?
@@DiamondDead It wasn't mass effect 4. Just like halo reach wasn't halo 4. Its a spin off mate.
They were doomed once they signed exclusively to X Box when PS5 is home of the single player games
Yes. I want another Mass Effect game. Please... More Mass Effect. More Shepard. And let me romance Wrex. (I know technically Wrex is taken and making Krogan babies.)
I enjoyed Veilguard & Andromeda and DA2 back in the day even though that was hated. No, they weren't the 9 or 10/10 games of old Bioware, but they were still good & my gaming preference are single player, third person rpgs. Since apparently I'm in the minority, I'm sad about this news as the single player games, including Mass Effect, will be the first on the chopping block by EA if things need cut in the future or we hit a recession etc.
Bioware has been dead for years. Stop kicking the corpse.
Guardians of the Galaxy was awesome.
I've never bought there games...but, did t they just have a comeback with dragon age?? And they get laid off?
We have the trilogy. We always have a home to return too
Return to Form!!
EA is most definitaly to blame for Biowares decline but at this point, yeah, just let it sink. Veilguard was horrible, a massive inslut to DA fans, current day Bioware is an afront to what the old Bioware was.
Last chance.
4 yrs ago the announced they were at the beginning stage.... and they're still at the beginning stage without "expected" release till 2030, 10 fucking yrs later
N publishers still think AAA is in a good place 🤣
We were told game development was taking too long with 5 yrs yet we're slowly discovering they've secretly been taking more like 10 🤦♂️😭
Its probably best to let the series die out. If anything, EA will definitely ruin it & plague it with micros, & pay-to-play aspects
Hi.
Whatbias strikes again.
I didn't hate the ME3 ending or andromeda, please fix your vocabulary not to include everyone. I love this channel, but when it's a scott story, it really does stretch my desire to stay subscribed.
If you’ve never played one, play Andramada first but just don’t tell anyone you like it because you’ll get 2 answers. 1) I never played any of those trash garbage visual novels 2) you monster the first 3 were all master pieces. Except 3 at first…. And one you can skip…… but yeah like I said those 1.3 total games are better
Yeah this studio and rocksteady are both dead.
Well, might as well close Bioware, it isn't the studio who gave us Mass Effect 1-3, Kotor, Dragon Age 1-3 and so on. The bashing they have gotten in game media with their latest games because it havent liven up to old Bioware have probably helped the sale not going to well, because what would have been good games from almost everyone else is a bad Bioware game somehow...
Dragon Age: Veilguard felt like something they shat out with the purpose of propping up the release schedule, revenue, and BioWare's reputation so they could move as quickly as possible on to Mass Effect.
Probably for the best
Funny how giving us a lecture about pronouns didn’t sell the latest dragon age game
If I’m an optimist maybe this means that they fired all the nitwits who want to put message above storytelling and immersion
Seeing as Microsoft has now been named as the biggest publisher in the world, maybe they should acquire Bioware and related IP's. Maybe they would allow Bioware to go back to their roots and make quality games without the toxic gameplay elements forced into Bioware games by EA.
Veilguard was ok at best. Game play was more action based than I wanted. The story had good bones. We should have done more with each companions story and Tash' should have focused more on the Qun group than on their identity on being none binary (maybe only when at the tower and its being triggered by what that Qun diserter group is doing hunting them)
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I am the only who like the new dragon age? I mean it wasn’t perfect but I it still enjoyed it