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Reading this I can't say I'm surprised, just that I'm very sad
Mass Effect Andromeda: Shitstorm Edition - RIP Biowear
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Reading this I can't say I'm surprised, just that I'm very sad
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I just can't wait for the massive bitch fit there will be when Andromeda flops.
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I don't think Krogans are eligible to join earth military.
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Oh yes. We may need to buy every crystallisation dish that Sigma Aldrich has in stock to handle the sheer volume and saltiness of the tears it will engender.
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Let's go over a pre-emptive damage report:
So right out the pram, we have the ME fans alienated by ME3 and its shit ending. I don't know a single ME fan who thought the series could even try to recover from ME3's autistic clusterfuck and the extended cut DLC only rubbed salt in the wounds. Anyone who really cared about the story of the previous games is going to inherently want nothing to do with this.
Next up, you have the people who liked ME3's multiplayer, but were pissed off with how bad the game fucked the players over, time and time again. No one familiar with the original and how it quickly turned into a clusterfuck as Bioware repeatedly nerfed farming methodologies as opposed to fixing ongoing issues is going to willingly sign up for more of the same. So that's two branches of fans gone.
Third you have the people who liked ME3's ending. These were rare but they liked the potential it offered. Andromeda's response? 634 years in the future. Forget every possibility ME3's ending could have offered narratively. Make the entire initial trilogy irrelevant for the sake of gameplay. Well, there's a third branch of fans alienated.
Next up you have people who might not have been that interested in the game, but may have by reputation. Since less than 3% of people buy their games based on the word of mainstream critics, any legit criticism is going to be heard. What's the first thing about Andromeda everyone knows? That it has no reason for fucking existing, for one, and that it's obviously trying to get blood from a dead franchise. But right after that, it's a slapdash ugly game made by complete maniacs who don't understand the series as well as the fans that you already chased off in the first three areas.
With these in mind one questions who the fuck this game is made for. It's very clear that fucking nobody was asking for this.
So right out the pram, we have the ME fans alienated by ME3 and its shit ending. I don't know a single ME fan who thought the series could even try to recover from ME3's autistic clusterfuck and the extended cut DLC only rubbed salt in the wounds. Anyone who really cared about the story of the previous games is going to inherently want nothing to do with this.
Next up, you have the people who liked ME3's multiplayer, but were pissed off with how bad the game fucked the players over, time and time again. No one familiar with the original and how it quickly turned into a clusterfuck as Bioware repeatedly nerfed farming methodologies as opposed to fixing ongoing issues is going to willingly sign up for more of the same. So that's two branches of fans gone.
Third you have the people who liked ME3's ending. These were rare but they liked the potential it offered. Andromeda's response? 634 years in the future. Forget every possibility ME3's ending could have offered narratively. Make the entire initial trilogy irrelevant for the sake of gameplay. Well, there's a third branch of fans alienated.
Next up you have people who might not have been that interested in the game, but may have by reputation. Since less than 3% of people buy their games based on the word of mainstream critics, any legit criticism is going to be heard. What's the first thing about Andromeda everyone knows? That it has no reason for fucking existing, for one, and that it's obviously trying to get blood from a dead franchise. But right after that, it's a slapdash ugly game made by complete maniacs who don't understand the series as well as the fans that you already chased off in the first three areas.
With these in mind one questions who the fuck this game is made for. It's very clear that fucking nobody was asking for this.
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For the Biodrones who will suck up every turd Bioware will fling at them. I know these people and I have seen many excited for the game.
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I bet they follow the 'David Lynch' principle of game making: 'I only make games for ME' Well, that works for David Lynch because he actually knows how to make movies. And even then, his movies are for a small amount of people.
The thing is that game companies can't exactly fuck their fans over like the journalists do. The journalists get away with it because most people who click on their articles are either: 1) People who agree or 2) Angry/jaded gamers who come to make fun of them. Nobody is actually directly paying them. If you hate them and click on them, its the same as if you liked and clicked on them. They don't care either way.
Game companies, however, are directly paid by their audience. And in this day and age, there are PLENTY of other places for them to go to if you fuck your audience over. In the past, game companies could get away with screwing you, because there really wasn't much competition. But now, holy shit. Lets look at the alternatives for No Man's Sky:
1) Elite Dangerous
2) Starbound
3) FTL
4) Empyrion
5) Rebel Galaxy
6) Extralator
7) E.V.E. Online
Even the Stars9) Out There
10) Rodina
And there are many, many others. Even for hardcore fanboys and gamers who buy out of habit, it is getting harder to stick around. And one bad game, one bad word of mouth, your company can fucking die. Look at Gearbox. It published Aliens: Colonial Marines, which lied basically as much as NMS did. What happened to Gearbox? Well, their last game was doing so poorly, Randy Pitchford created and tweeted a Rule 34 Reddit in an overtly pathetic attempt to garner publicity. Which was then promptly filled with Overwatch porn.
I have no doubts that Hello Games is completely fucked. You don't wash the stigma of fucking over that many people in today's gaming world that easily. The only 'award' they should be getting for innovation, is innovatingly fucking the consumer over. Nobody is going to forget what they did, and giving them an award just shows how useless and oblivious these designers are. Even Hello Games itself knows how fucked they are. They didn't even bother showing up to the awards ceremony because they knew how badly they fucked up.
Bioware equally has its head up its ass and for some reason still thinks its the only game in town. Which kind of amazes me. CD Projekt basically killed Dragon Age off because 'The Witcher' was superior in every sense (Story, Gameplay, Graphics). Not to mention its DLC policy wasn't retarded.
Their ideas before were worse. The only 'sequel' they had in mine was a Mass Effect 'prequel' (which would have been even worse, and was another of Mac Walter's brilliant ideas) because they burned the fucker to the ground. I think Bioware thought they were just done with ME after the 3rd (why you'd burn a successful, popular property to the ground when you could do so much with it is beyond me).
So yeah, I don't know who this game is for. I bet there are people willing to give Bioware money though. There's still the fact fanboys will buy anything and gamers never learn.
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Same, accurate comparison to the women in my life as well.
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If you work in a sjw cesspit, drama is unavoidable. No matter what you do - some dangerhair or cuck gets offended
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Tumblr seems to be enjoying Andromeda though
*sob*
How the mighty have fallen. It only seems like yesterday we were shitposting about hamsters and rangers everywhere rejoicing, and now the company behind same is reduced to pandering to Tumblrinas.
It also had actually memorable and well written characters that weren't fucking cardboard cut outs, not to mention choices that mattered other than influencing the colour of the ending cinematic.
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I don't get that comic. Who is this guy? He looks like some lame action figure of a side-lined Star Wars character and you buy it because no one cares at all about him so Hasbro only made like three and they'll be worth hundreds of dollars in a decade.
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Jaal is basically a rip off of 'Avatar' aliens: Catlike, flat nose, blue. Obviously his cat-like appearance appeals to tumblr catladies. I'll be buying Neir: Automata if I want my Scifi RPG fix on PC. I'll take 'problematic' good character design over ugly as shit, derivative character design any day.
Not to mention I won't have to deal with Bioware constantly nerfing every fucking thing the player does in MP while constantly buffing enemies to make the mode virtually unplayable.
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There's already a Funko figurine of him, actually. Guy's a squad mate and Tumblr is all over him.
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Like Mass Effect was any good to begin with. *runs out of the thread before getting killed*
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My love for the series is pretty much dead, so you can call it shitty. Its never coming back, nor do I plan on ever playing it again. And ME 1 gameplay wise was a mess, so that's no dispute from me.
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I think thats kinda the way thing has been across the board in the Western Game Development front. The Division recently did what ME3 Multiplayer did, and people are now leaving the game, on top of banning the word"gamergate" in chat which was just bizarrely hilarious. Except maybe Blizzard, but I think that was due to Overwatch being a big hit for people who yearned for that TF2 feel.
Now it almost seems like a Japanese resurgence, you've got Japanese games and it's spin offs coming to PC, as well as some console ports. Odin Sphere and Dragon's Crown for old school beatem up/RPG style stuff, as well as many others. Hell, even that new Senran Kagura Beach Splash looks interesting, instead of the typical gory blow peoples heads off, you just hit them with super soakers.