r/memes • u/Dramatic221 • 1d ago

So many of them

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u/jackfreeman 22h ago

Mass Effect universe is toast

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u/Captincorpse 21h ago

Same with Dragon Age, Bioware is dead. Veilguard was an abomination and effectively killed any chance of future projects

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u/Lone-Frequency 21h ago

EA sunk their claws in and the poison fairly quickly started seeping in.

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u/CapableCollar 21h ago

The only decision EA seems to have pushed on Bioware was they wanted everyone to use Frostbite.

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u/jackfreeman 20h ago

And the multiplayer, and the editorial changes, and the staffing, and the unnecessary crunch...

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u/Lone-Frequency 20h ago

Pretty sure EA are also the ones that pushed them to go more action-y.

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u/jackfreeman 19h ago

Yup. They shat on the Mona Lisa

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u/SquareFickle9179 Shitposter 19h ago

Only good thing I remember EA did was with Anthem because Bioware wanted to remove the flying while EA wanted it to stay

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u/CoconutCyclone 18h ago

and the unnecessary crunch...

That was the part they called the "Bioware Magic" and it was there LONG before EA.

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u/arstin 18h ago

Really no one to blame but the owners of Bioware that sold away the company. Even in 2005, we knew what happened when a studio gave up control.

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u/StubbornHick 3h ago

I think it was more The Message ™️ infesting the studio

It stopped being about making good games and being about making The Product ™️ that supports The Message™️

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u/BobTheKekomancer 16h ago

Just hijacking this to prevent a possible shitfest:

NO. failguard isn't trash because its gay. Its trash because its fucking TRASH.

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u/StubbornHick 3h ago

I dunno man, it sure pushes The Message™️ pretty fucking hard sometimes.

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u/GhoullDen 21h ago

I thought the trilogy was pretty complete?

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u/teh_drewski 21h ago

I'm one of like 7 people who'd love an Andromeda sequel lol

But I agree I think a lot of people here are confusing "games I want more of" with "games that were clearly setting up a sequel that never happened".

The ME trilogy, even if you get that one ending, was clearly meant to finish after ME3.

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u/Fakjbf 20h ago

I wouldn’t say I loved it but I definitely think it got more hate than it deserved, especially once they fixed the worst of the bugs. I often wish we could see what kind of game we would have gotten if they didn’t waste the first four years trying to make procedurally generated planets work and then crammed most of the actual game development into the last year.

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u/Hinaloth 12h ago

There arw a dozen of us! A whole ass dozen!

I'll die on the hill of really wanting a sequel to MEA, because I think the setup, story, and cliffhanger is much more interesting than the OG series'.

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u/jackfreeman 20h ago

They announced ME 5 years ago

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u/GhoullDen 20h ago

does suck that it’s probably never coming, but it’s hardly left on a cliffhanger

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u/thatoneguy889 20h ago edited 20h ago

It was put on the back burner to focus on Dragon Age: The Veilguard which bombed spectacularly and led to a bunch of layoffs at the studio. Now, its parent company (EA) is owned by the Saudis who will more than likely look to do further major cuts.

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u/jackfreeman 19h ago

Yup. The day that went through, I cried because my favorite franchises are dead forever