I say no - do another IP instead.
ME was great, peaked with ME2, ended with ME3, Andromeda was a mistake, just leave this one be.
ME was great it peaked with ME1, started going downhill with ME2, ended with ME3.
Fixed that for you.
Now that I think of it, didn't they get acquired by EA between Inquisition and whatever they'd released prior?
Mystery solved.
Yeah like it was already said in the thread. The development of SFX (which was renamed to Mass Effect) and Dragon Age were dragging on and their burn rate was pretty high. They were running out of money fast. Jade Empire was the game that was going to save them and fuel further development of ME and DA. But it didn't meet the financial requirements they needed. So the doctors really had no choice at that point. They had to agree to the EA buyout or close the company in the near future. Thing is most of ME and DAO were already done when EA bought them so EAs meddling in those games were limited. But it really started to show with ME2 and DA2. ME2 turning into shooter with RPG flavouring and DA2 which was going to be a spin off game - was forced to be change into a sequel a rushed out the door in 19 months.
Andromeda was made by Bioware Montreal which was a different studio and it was folded once the game flopped.
Bioware at some point had four studious.
Bioware Edmonton - A-Team
Bioware Montreal - which handled things like ME3 mulitplayer or DLCs.
Bioware Austin - The Old Republic
Bioware Victory - This one was going to make that C&C reboot.
But now it's just Edmonton and what is left of Austin still standing (though Austin probably won't be here for long).
If DA4 flops there are probably going to shut the whole thing down and let some other EA studio finish the development of ME. Like Motive or something.
Inquisishun, but definitely Andromederp
It's funny though how the two games fail in diametrically opposed ways. Gameplay in Inquisition is so bad it puts you off the entire idea of gameplay, but story, writing, lore, dialogue, companions etc are quite good really, as is voice acting, animation, facial expressions and so on. Whereas Andromeda has quite decent gameplay really but everything remotely writing-related is just godawful, oh and my face is tired.
If their next effort has gameplay on par with Andromeda and writing/voice acting/etc on par with Inquisition it could be quite good.
Most likely it'll be the other way around tho
I know you're a Vatnik but lay off the vodka for once.
Inquisition was a mess when to the story and lore. Especially the lore. They retconned so much of to hell it's barely the same universe anymore.
Like the Qunari - in DA1 and DA2 they are as conservative as you can get, even Sten asks you why would anybody want to be something different than they are. But somehow in DA3 they have a word for transgendered people and accept them without question.
The entire main quest which had only like 12-13 quests were a total mess. And felt really disjointed. Not to mention the presentation of it was piss poor. Like the whole siege of Warden stronghold - it was supposed to be this big battle but was presented as a small skirmish.
DAO did this 50x better. And the character of Sera was just fanfic level writing.
I'd like a Deus Ex like game in the setting, the universe is big enough and has many interesting locations that a agent could travel through.
So much potential for this kind of thing, but the "OMG IT'S NOT LIKE THE LAST ONE I LOVED!!!" types throwing hissy fits stop us from having nice things.
Or they could go XCOM Chimera Squad route. Make a smaller game about C-Sec. Play as a policeman on the station, pick a species, create a character, solve crimes, fuck aliens and go to planets that are close to the Citadel like the human colony Bekenstein, Where you would pursue further cases you started on the Citadel.
I'd like a Deus Ex like game in the setting, the universe is big enough and has many interesting locations that a agent could travel through. It has enough aspects that would work great for such a game, like mega cities, mega corporations, biotech, etc. On a second thought, i simply want another Deus Ex like game, i don't care for the setting but i think the Mass Effect setting could work well. No saving the whole galaxy anymore please.
Sadly mondern Deus Ex games don't live up to the potential of the original either.
