Mass Effect: Andromeda Pre-Release Thread

[yes plz]

The sibling you don't pick is gonna be a romance option. BioWare is trying to cater to the incest fetish crowd.

 

[NorthLurker]

tempting

 

[norolim]

Yeah, I think that male and female Ryders are going to be siblings and both will be present in a plot somehow, one as a npc.
Incest would be cool too.

I'm ready to bet, the sibling you don't select as your main character is somehow going to go MIA, and this will be one of your motivations to explore the galaxy and dig out information that could help you discover their whereabouts.

I thought the plot was more focused on how you're the invading race this time around.

I don't see how that affects what I said.

 

[Modron]

The sibling you don't pick is gonna be a romance option. BioWare is trying to cater to the incest fetish crowd.

I don't know, EA is trying to shed that crowd by closing the Bioware forums so who knows if they will pander to them after it failed to translate to sales in Inquisition.

 

[donkeymong]

While Mass Effect 1 had some interesting powers alright the cooldown on them was extremely prohibitive.

But the powers didnt gave a global cooldown and good tools or bioamps, in combination with the right specialisations, reduced them later to enough to use them quick
one after another.

 

[oldmanpaco]

While Mass Effect 1 had some interesting powers alright the cooldown on them was extremely prohibitive.

But the powers didnt gave a global cooldown and good tools or bioamps, in combination with the right specialisations, reduced them later to enough to use them quick
one after another.

Besides the cool downs made you diversify your character instead of dumping all points into one or two skills.

Bio fixed this in ME2 by eliminating 2/3 of the skills.

 

[Jack]

We are BSN 2.0 now. U no rike glorious deveroper? Dingdongbannu. The days when you could discuss Gaider and the other tards at Bioware in the appropriate section of the forums is now long gone it would seem. Everything is either removed or moved to the GG ghetto where it can be ignored whether it is even vaguely related to GG or not.

 

[Coma White]

I don't know, EA is trying to shed that crowd by closing the Bioware forums so who knows if they will pander to them after it failed to translate to sales in Inquisition.

Didn't Inquisition sell quite well?

 

[Wayward Son]

I don't know, EA is trying to shed that crowd by closing the Bioware forums so who knows if they will pander to them after it failed to translate to sales in Inquisition.

Didn't Inquisition sell quite well?

Yes, but not to Bioware fans iirc.

 

[imweasel]

DA:I actually sold decently despite the bad user reviews because the game is utter crap.

DA:O is still the number one seller of the franchise. I wonder how many copies they would be selling if they would have stuck to the original formula and not gone full retard for casual fags.

 

[Castozor]

DA:I actually sold decently despite the bad user reviews because the game is utter crap.

DA:O is still the number one seller of the franchise. I wonder how many copies they would be selling if they would have stuck to the original formula and not gone full retard for casual fags.

I didn't know that DA:O still outsold Inquisition. You'd think Bioware would actually take the hint sometime but that seems unlikely to happen.

 

[Lambach]

I don't know, EA is trying to shed that crowd by closing the Bioware forums so who knows if they will pander to them after it failed to translate to sales in Inquisition.

Didn't Inquisition sell quite well?

As far as I know, it sold decently. Just barely enough to warrant DLCs and such, but nowhere near what the EA corporate overlods were expecting. I think there was talk of 5-6 million copies sold, whereas EA was going for the Skyrim-killer numbers of 20+ million.

 

[racofer]

DA:I actually sold decently despite the bad user reviews because the game is utter crap.

DA:O is still the number one seller of the franchise. I wonder how many copies they would be selling if they would have stuck to the original formula and not gone full retard for casual fags.

I didn't know that DA:O still outsold Inquisition. You'd think Bioware would actually take the hint sometime but that seems unlikely to happen.

The fault, in Biowhore's eyes, lies on homophobic customers and 4chan trolls that refuse to appreciate their work of progressive art.

 

[Spectacle]

I didn't know that DA:O still outsold Inquisition. You'd think Bioware would actually take the hint sometime but that seems unlikely to happen.

EA isn't interested in an RPG that merely sells 'well', they want sales like skyrim and will experiment until they get it. So I expect they will ditch the DAI formula and try something entirely different instead.

 

[Castozor]

EA isn't interested in an RPG that merely sells 'well', they want sales like skyrim and will experiment until they get it. So I expect they will ditch the DAI formula and try something entirely different instead.

Surely they know they won't get Skyrim numbers as long as they keep the party based setup their RPG's have been using. Bioware RPG's are just not the open do-as-you want sandboxes that Bethesda's games are. I wish they would realize that themselves and just make me another DA:O.

 

[Spectacle]

EA isn't interested in an RPG that merely sells 'well', they want sales like skyrim and will experiment until they get it. So I expect they will ditch the DAI formula and try something entirely different instead.

Surely they know they won't get Skyrim numbers as long as they keep the party based setup their RPG's have been using. Bioware RPG's are just not the open do-as-you want sandboxes that Bethesda's games are. I wish they would realize that themselves and just make me another DA:O.

If they do, they will probably kill the Dragon Age franchise and make a new first person single player fantasy (((RPG))). Dragon Age has too much baggage for such a radical change, the biodrones would go livid if they could no longer have gay sex with their subordinates.

 

[oldmanpaco]

I wonder how much of PC skyrims sales is due to mods. God knows it helps its longevity.

 

[Jaesun]

If they do, they will probably kill the Dragon Age franchise and make a new first person single player fantasy (((RPG))).

They are already working on some new "open world RPG" that is similar in form to Skyrim. They have been working on it for a few years.

 

[imweasel]

Check Vgchartz (brick & mortar) + Steamspy, you stupid casual fag.

 

[oldmanpaco]

and Inq wasnt released on steam

And because of that its almost a certainty that DA:O has sold more copies. Now which one was more profitable might be still up for debate.

 

[imweasel]

Check Vgchartz (brick & mortar) + Steamspy, you stupid casual fag.

vgchartz is an unreliable website that literally just makes shit up all of the time, and Inq wasnt released on steam, you fucking dumb asshole

VGchartz is pretty reliable for copies sold in stores, but not for digital copies.

As I said, DA:O is still the best selling Dragon Age game. No need to get butthurt about that because you are retarded casual fag that likes to "ride the bull".

 

[imweasel]

Now that is a lot of butthurt. Do supercasual Biowhores always get this mad when somebody mentions that DA:O outsold DA:I?

Must suck to not be able to prove that I am wrong.

 

[Stainless Veteran]

Now that is a lot of butthurt. Do supercasual Biowhores always get this mad when somebody mentions that DA:O outsold DA:I?

Must suck to not be able to prove that I am wrong.

Dude's probably off his meds, like a half of this place are.

Also, erm, if we're going by total sales, then DA:O sold for a longer period and there were quite a few discounts, sales and whatnot. If we're going by initial week sales or something, I'm interested in what sites have the stats (no irony, never could find reliable sources, except for SteamSpy, and it's unreliable for "older" games).

 

[imweasel]

Also, erm, if we're going by total sales, then DA:O sold for a longer period and there were quite a few discounts, sales and whatnot. If we're going by initial week sales or something, I'm interested in what sites have the stats (no irony, never could find reliable sources, except for SteamSpy, and it's unreliable for "older" games).

Chart data (brick & mortar) from different countires around the world is posted regularly on NeoGAF and elsewhere. There were a lot of "LOL, DA:I is selling like shit" threads back then too, which was amusing.

IIRC DA:I sold better than DA:O in the first two or three weeks, but then it dropped off the charts rather quickly. DA:O sold something like 6+ million copies. I have failed to find any info that DA:I sold better. DA:O did sell more copies than DA:I in brick & mortar stores, so it is safe to say that it also sold more digital copies. No idea if DA:I could eventually outsell DA:O or if the margin of that game is much smaller as speculated. DA:I was a allegedly a very expensive game to make, EA poured money into it hoping that Bioware could churn out a Skyrim killer that sells 20+ million copies, but that obviously never happened.

 

[Stainless Veteran]

Also, erm, if we're going by total sales, then DA:O sold for a longer period and there were quite a few discounts, sales and whatnot. If we're going by initial week sales or something, I'm interested in what sites have the stats (no irony, never could find reliable sources, except for SteamSpy, and it's unreliable for "older" games).

Chart data (brick & mortar) from different countires around the world is posted regularly on NeoGAF and elsewhere. There were a lot of "LOL, DA:I is selling like shit" threads back then too, which was amusing.

IIRC DA:I sold better than DA:O in the first two or three weeks, but then it dropped off the charts rather quickly. DA:O sold something like 6+ million copies. I have failed to find any info that DA:I sold better. DA:O did sell more copies than DA:I in brick & mortar stores, so it is safe to say that it also sold more digital copies. No idea if DA:I could eventually outsell DA:O or if the margin of that game is much smaller as speculated. DA:I was a allegedly a very expensive game to make, EA poured money into it hoping that Bioware could churn out a Skyrim killer that sells 20+ million copies, but that obviously never happened.

Well, after DA2, DA:I, ME3, their forums and new SocJus "devs" I hope that EA will devour them sooner than later.

Also I know that EA execs think like suits, not gamers, which isn't surprising, but anyone with a half-a-brain could've predicted that Bioware would fail at making a Skyrim-like. I mean, they could've done it in the time of BG1, as it was the most free-form of their games. But to do that they would've needed to dial down companion drama and Bioware Plot Chart. Heck, they could've made it even after BG2, but after NWN they haven't ever made freeform RPGs, and that's a long period of time. Why have EA execs thought that they could pull it off at %current_year% is a mystery for ages.