• spacegoat@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I usually prefer creating female characters but for whatever reason femshep never did it for me. The default male shep is just so perfect.

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    15 hours ago

    Alternative title: EA cancelled the only game they were working on that I was interested in playing

    How are they still in business? I guess there’s a lot of sports fans players?

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      5 hours ago

      Being a successful business does not mean being beloved. Another example: Oracle

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      21 hours ago

      EA needs resources for the next FIFA guys, try to understand, we need to make sacrifices for fifa.

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        Does it? It looks completely generic to me, replace the characters and the alien species and you could have any other franchise in there.

        The trailer goes like: boringly obvious convo > spy movie flash cuts > obvious convo > obvious reveal > Liara! > boring fight scene where MC has no challenge (oh look, they used one ability!). There’s nothing that could indicate this being a good successor to the trilogy, enough to warrant a 5. At least with Andromeda it was clearly a spin off. I don’t see how this trailer gives any indication aside from Liara that this matters at all for the Mass Effect mainline story and universe.

        Fans are just desperate, and on denial. Mass Effect is a trilogy, it ended with ME3. There are no further stories to tell on the main timeline.

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          I watched it again on my pc just to see if I had missed anything. The only thing is that they were apparently calling it Mass Effect Universe, not ME5, so it seems this was also supposed to be a spin off. It could’ve been fun, but I doubt it would’ve been more than just an okay game.

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      21 hours ago

      I don’t care if this was a trailer 5 years out from the game. I absolutely loved Mass Effect and this closure is pretty close to the top of the list of my most anticipated games that has been shuttered.

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    23 hours ago

    Does this mean ME5 was close to completion, or that a trailer can be cobbled together early in production? I suspect it’s the latter seeing how many trailers precede the game by several years.

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      They started working on art assets, sound and animations at the very least for this WIP trailer but even then the ingame trailer isnt complete (lots of reused assets). My guess is its all paperwork with maybe a few blockouts to prototype new gameplay ideas while the art team worked on the trailer

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          19 hours ago

          Or do you mean the picture of mountains that they showed back when there was a baby in my life?

          Baby gonna be in high school by the time TES:VI comes out

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            Baby gonna be in high school by the time TES:VI comes out

            That;s pretty optimistic. I was thinking the heat death of the universe when TES: VI comes out.

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      23 hours ago

      It would most likely have been a cinematic trailer, created by a VFX company hired for the job. ME5 was in early production, likely no game to speak of at this point, just storylines and concept art mostly. Maybe a vertical slice demo, but I doubt it.

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah and they repeatedly said it was in “early stages” of production.

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      23 hours ago

      From what everyone was able to cobble together with rumors and hearsay is that they had a core idea ready, but waited till after Veilguard to commit more resources to the project. I guess we can assume it got a bit further along before it was canned.

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    Ok ¯\(ツ)/¯

    A trailer means nothing, and I don’t understand how everyone are so mad about this when most people hated mass effect andromeda and have hated everything else they’ve done since even more. (I actually enjoyed it, but it’s definitely not as good as ME1 and 2, about as good as ME3).

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      Launch gameplay wasn’t exactly unplayable but the scene and lighting design of the introduction does still give me nightmares, and they somehow made the multiplayer mode less fun and more grindy so… I get it.

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      15 hours ago

      It does mean the company behind the leveraged buyout can write off the canceled game as a loss, so they can walk away with boatloads more cash at the end of the day.

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    That ship of Thesius sailed off a long of time ago. Rest in piss BioWare.

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    Fuuuuuuuuck EA argh. I didn’t even know they owned BioWare. Why the fuck do the shit companies own everything nice.

    Well at least there is indie games…but fuck EA

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      Then you having not been paying attention. No one not owned by EA would do shit as stupid as switching to the frostbite engine, putting loot boxes in ME3, or making Anthem.

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        They could just make their fucking fifa and battlefield and what not garbage and leave the good stuff alone :'(