Keep the technical team, Veilguard was exceptionally polished. Everyone else can be redistributed to other positions at EA. The writing team should probably re-evaluate if writing is really their shtick.
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Bold of you to assume the writing team isn't the secretary of a C-Suite idiot trying to fit editing chatGPT output in-between all the other bs they have to deal with.
Sylvia Feketekuty, Courtney Woods, Brianne Battye, John Dombrow, Mark Kirby, Lukas Kristjanson, Patrick Weekes (lead).
You may be on to something, I'd be very surprised if any of the credited writers produced some of the dogpile trash present in the game or made the decision to remove player agency in the narrative. That said, inquisition sold well but it was already the writing on the wall that the story tellers were mostly gone from bioware.
I quite enjoyed Inquisition, but you're absolutely right.....it was a pale shadow of a DA game. I've not bothered to play Veilguard, pretty sure it'd just be depressing. I'm fucking sick of Corpos bleeding great IPs dry, leaving a dead husk lacking even the fool's gold shine of glory ground beneath the boot heel of the Late Stage Capitalist's need for "Infinite Growth."
Said it before, I'll say it again.... we're definitely in the Biff-Timeline, and we need to fix it Marty!
So we're just going to skip 4?
By their logic you need to play Andromeda to understand the ME5? ME5 is a direct sequel of Andromeda? ME5 doesn't make any sense
Trust me bro, we aint gonna fuck all this labour
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Doubt.
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Hey EA got rid of the writers for the last Dragon Age, so maybe this'll be better.
That gives me a little hope but who hired them and allowed that writing to remain in the game? Are they fired too?
I'd hope so. Also I'd hope Taash's character designer was fired as the writer was also fired.
Perhaps we could get the Hello Games team to push out ME5 in between No Man's Sky updates?
I like NMS but it's just about the opposite of the polished writing that the first 2.75 Mass Effect games delivered.
But it will be cheap and fast. Just what the execs at EA want.
I might be the only one, but I really liked the ending of Mass Effect 3. I appreciated that at the end, there are things that you can't save, all the choices you've made in aggregate sometimes don't make the difference you think they will, and at this grand level, maybe nothing you do will feel like the 'right' thing to do. I thought there was a really unique, deep sort of meta-philosophy about that.
I also played the games back-to-back over the course of a few weeks, not as they were released. Part of me wonders if it would be possible to have an ending to the trilogy that satisfied the sort of player who played the games over the long arc of their release and spent years casting their imaginations toward an ending.
It’s pretty normal to need more people at the start of development than at the end
...I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure it's the opposite
Why do you think that?
As an example, the art should be finished in time for the level designers to add it to their levels
Let games die
Don't care about Mass Effect or EA after how they treat Dragon Age
Oh yeah, dead in the water.
Oh yeah, totally…