“Early development” on mass effect is wild to say for a game they announced 6 years ago. Absolutely ridiculous that in 6 years they never made progress on the game. Utterly insane.
Ya know what, I’m not even mad. Fuck it. Hopefully ea and its new owners sell off IP to get some cash back and someone who gives a damn can make the next game
Agreed. I think the mass effect IP still has enough weight that they may try getting a more competent studio to take over (nothing against old BioWare, just the iteration of the past few years)
This is just anecdotal evidence. I’m in my 30s and I remember playing ME2 and ME3 during their release periods, and even Andromeda still holds up in my opinion. Through some mutual friends, I’m in a gaming group primarily made up of early to mid 20s people, and none of them really have any knowledge or appreciation of Mass Effect, other than knowing it exists. Unfortunately, I just don’t think it has the long lasting weight that it would need. Going so far between releases certainly does not help
Mass effect was all released within 4 years (2008-2012) which is crazy to think. If they kept that momentum maybe we would still see bioware today, even with the complaints regarding 3.
I love the franchise but I've kinda had to move on myself, it doesn't help that andromeda was pretty mid lol.
I never hated Andromeda. I enjoyed it. If anything, I think the decision to go back to the Milky Way and abandon the set up from Andromeda was the 343 strat where they're too scared to stick with something.
Now that bit doesn't mean it was Bioware, could have been EA.
But my goodness, more than half a decade and it was "early development"?
It's a damn shame because the IP could be something of a Star Wars Lite. Imagine a Mass Effect 4x set during the First Contact War or something like Helldivers II set during the Reaper invasion. A space dogfighting game would be sick. Or a criminal outlaw, heist-oriented kind of game taking place in the Terminus Systems. Hell, if you wanna get risky even an RTS could be compelling.
There's so much to work with. All they have to do is throw the right talent at it.
The success of Space Marine 2 has given me a glimmer of hope for these situations. Fans of Mass Effect still exist and maybe enough get together to make a proper continuation of the franchise.
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u/americansherlock201 8h ago
“Early development” on mass effect is wild to say for a game they announced 6 years ago. Absolutely ridiculous that in 6 years they never made progress on the game. Utterly insane.
Ya know what, I’m not even mad. Fuck it. Hopefully ea and its new owners sell off IP to get some cash back and someone who gives a damn can make the next game