The only part of Veilguard that received a positive reception, the final act, was mostly made by the Mass Effect team. Once Bioware realized how poorly development was going, they got the Mass Effect team over to Veilguard. The rest of Veilguard, the bad parts, were made by the Dragon Age team.
The Mass Effect team and the Dragon Age team have had a conflict for years. When management brought the ME team in to work on Veilguard, they immediately clocked that it's a bad game and tonally inept. Still, they seized control of the ship, excluded the Dragon Age heads, overhauled the game as much as they could in the final stretch of development, and according to that article Jason Schreier wrote, they were the main reason Veilguard was just mediocre rather than an unplayable catastrophe
This. It was very refreshing, in an environment with so much toxic positivity, to see people not sugarcoat it and actually go "This sucks, do better". That article gave me so much hopium for ME5 it's insane.
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u/SmoulderingAsh 8h ago
Mass Effect 5 being cancelled is a genuine gut-punch to me.