Bioware Montreal downsized and Turned Into Support Studio: Mass Effect On Hiatus

[dakidblu]

Hopefully they dont mess with the austin studio since they posed to be working on a KOTOR reboot/remaster

 

[Lord Beasley]

I say Gotttttdaayumm

 

[hex]

Damn shame if this is true but honestly I can't say I care.

I got "Andromeda"....it's ok. But if this is the best they have to offer for the "Mass Effect" franchise then yeah....it needs a break.

Fred.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

You're to easily Influenced.

What were the odds you were going to use the stock female character and not create your own.

Didn't see anything in those gifs that didn't come from the very beginning of the game anyway.

Hopefully mass effect is dead just to show these nerds overexxagerating criticism has consequeces

I was barely interested in it in the first place since I'm not a bioware fan.


The minute those gifs came out and the reviews were way below the rest of the series I immediately chalked it up to a bargain bin black Friday purchase.

That stuff hurt the sales tremendously.


The game got a permanent price drop of over 40% in Canada in less than a month. That tells you everything you need to know.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

Damn shame if this is true but honestly I can't say I care.

I got "Andromeda"....it's ok. But if this is the best they have to offer for the "Mass Effect" franchise then yeah....it needs a break.

Fred.

I really don't understand what these big studios are thinking continuing to take big IPS with and handing them off to brand new studios for their very first game.


WB did it with batman arkham origins,ea did it with this, take 2 did it with mafia 3.


These newly formed studios should be given their own IP or at best co-developed with a veteran studio helping.

It's just a recipe for disaster. There's very very few studios that can nail it there first try. I can't even think of any off top. It's usually the 2nd or 3rd game where a studio finds their groove.

 

[Mowgli]

I was barely interested in it in the first place since I'm not a bioware fan.


The minute those gifs came out and the reviews were way below the rest of the series I immediately chalked it up to a bargain bin black Friday purchase.

That stuff hurt the sales tremendously.


The game got a permanent price drop of over 40% in Canada in less than a month. That tells you everything you need to know.

The gameplay is excellent. A few missions in the story is engaging.

The amount of side quests can hurt the game because the stories related to side missions aren't all that interesting but the gameplay is still a great backbone for this game. The main missions, loyalty missions, vault missions and some side quests are fun. I feel the lack of cynicism in quests hurts the game for gamers who've become accustomed to witcher but the gameplay in this makes witcher 3 look like Mario 1.

If you consider this a bargain bin game then at least cop on a fire sale because the exxagerated 4/10's and calling the game trash are unwarranted. 7.9 at worst.

 

[hex]

I really don't understand what these big studios are thinking continuing to take big IPS with and handing them off to brand new studios for their very first game.


WB did it with batman arkham origins,ea did it with this, take 2 did it with mafia 3.


These newly formed studios should be given their own IP or at best co-developed with a veteran studio helping.

It's just a recipe for disaster. There's very very few studios that can nail it there first try. I can't even think of any off top. It's usually the 2nd or 3rd game where a studio finds their groove.

The only one off the top of my head was Retro with "Metroid Prime".

I'm guessing other people assume the loyalty of the fan base will insure the game is a success no matter who develops it....and that's never the case.

Fred.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

The only one off the top of my head was Retro with "Metroid Prime".

I'm guessing other people assume the loyalty of the fan base will insure the game is a success no matter who develops it....and that's never the case.

Fred.

And the thing with retro is,nintendo had a huge hand in that.

Nintendo is completely hands on.

I've read behind the scenes stuff and apparently retro was a disaster before nintendo came in and and cleaned them up and guided them.


Hell look at silicon knights. With nintendo guidance they dropped eternal darkness. Amazing game

As soon as they left silicon knights went to complete shyt. And rare went from top 5 to not mentioned at all

I feel bad for bioware Montreal because it's obvious they needed some help.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

The gameplay is excellent. A few missions in the story is engaging.

The amount of side quests can hurt the game because the stories related to side missions aren't all that interesting but the gameplay is still a great backbone for this game. The main missions, loyalty missions, vault missions and some side quests are fun. I feel the lack of cynicism in quests hurts the game for gamers who've become accustomed to witcher but the gameplay in this makes witcher 3 look like Mario 1.

If you consider this a bargain bin game then at least cop on a fire sale because the exxagerated 4/10's and calling the game trash are unwarranted. 7.9 at worst.

As soon I see it for $20 I'm copping.

 

[Mowgli]

Mac walters, the cowriter of the first 2 mass effects and the primary writer of part 3, probably should have threw a bag of money at the dude he cowrote the first 2 games with.

Feeling insecure about the reception of part 3 he became director, and left the writing in the hands of 3 no names, who basically created a safe game.

Drew Karpyshyn - Wikipedia

The credentials of ol boy who cowrote the first 2 mass effects is pretty thorough.

 

[He Who Posts Well]

Even if they never bring the series back, we will always have our memories brehs.

 

[Red Shield]

Mac walters, the cowriter of the first 2 mass effects and the primary writer of part 3, probably should have threw a bag of money at the dude he cowrote the first 2 games with.

Feeling insecure about the reception of part 3 he became director, and left the writing in the hands of 3 no names, who basically created a safe game.

Drew Karpyshyn - Wikipedia

The credentials of ol boy who cowrote the first 2 mass effects is pretty thorough.

# Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic..


Yea this dude not being there is probably why 3 had such a shyt ending.

 

[Mowgli]

# Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic..


Yea this dude not being there is probably why 3 had such a shyt ending.

Yea as a writer dude is light but he probably Would have scored better then these 3 jokers who wrote andromeda

 

[The Plug]

# Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic..


Yea this dude not being there is probably why 3 had such a shyt ending.

the problem with 3 goes all the way back to the beginning of mass effect. Bioware planned to make a trilogy but never wrote a story for all three games. It's why ME2 doesn't have a story that follows ME1, and why ME1 had the most sensible plot.

 

[He Who Posts Well]

the problem with 3 goes all the way back to the beginning of mass effect. Bioware planned to make a trilogy but never wrote a story for all three games. It's why ME2 doesn't have a story that follows ME1, and why ME1 had the most sensible plot.

The biggest problem with 3 was the ending. If they got it right, the ME franchise wouldn't be in the state that it is right now.