We knew this was bound to happen, so sad we might never see another ME game. But to be honest it’s probably for the best. They would never live up to the original trilogy. At least we got the LE for its final send off.
This isn’t true in my opinion. If you handle an IP right and open it up to other creatives to try to tell the story you can get some gems. Look at XCOM handling Star Wars, Total War creating games for War Hammer, and maybe even Lord of the Rings across the decades. Game IPs don’t need to languish in one studios hands and other universes have managed to handle the risk and opportunities in both gaming media and in other media forms.
The corporations who own these amazing game IPs suck because they take down the franchises with them rather than find a way to license it to make interesting stories at different levels of investment. Not every game needs to be AAA.
Or Fallout. No matter whether you might believe that Bethesda ruined Fallout, you have to admit the franchise has actual momentum today because of what Bethesda was able to do with it.
Yep I just responded to someone else about Xbox games making moves with who can work on the IPs they own. It’s gone full circle and now and some of the original talent who worked on Fallout and then New Vegas have a shot to work on the remaster of New Vegas.
Yeah, I think it was really nice that 3 could just focus on being a good game but also stayed on the East Coast and didn't mess with the Fallout lore, which then allowed NV to continue the story on the West Coast, and then 4 once again stayed on the East Coast, then a TV show gets made that really gives faithful fan service of the West Coast lore and is seemingly going off into the Rockies now, which now gives the TV show a whole new region that hasn't really been explored yet and now they can carve out their own lore.
I feel like ME tried to do that with Andromeda and they did make a very fun well-playing game, but kind of failed to make everything feel equally as important because for all the new lore that Fallout 3 and 4 created, at least they felt connected to the rest of the games. I am an Andromeda defender and think it would have been a fun series if it was fleshed out, but I'll be the first to admit that Andromeda just didn't capture the same spark as the trilogy and it just felt like it didn't matter what you did in it because it would never affect the original world we fell in love with.
No matter how you feel about their story, which I do actually agree is lacking, Fallout 3 and 4 really nailed the atmosphere and feeling of living and adventuring in the Fallout wasteland. And the TV show is doing such a fantastic job of feeling like Fallout, too. I don't have the same faith that Mass Effect could be done like that by anyone else, though, considering even Bioware seemed to have started to lose the sauce by ME3, which, lest we forget, at launch was not universally well-received.
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u/paperclipboi 9h ago
We knew this was bound to happen, so sad we might never see another ME game. But to be honest it’s probably for the best. They would never live up to the original trilogy. At least we got the LE for its final send off.