New Mass Effect confirmed.
Years ago, one of my first ever threads was a
lamentation that there are not enough space opera CRPGs. It's the closest to my heart. I know the Codex likes to rag on Mass Effect for not being an RPG, but I fucking loved Mass Effect for what it was, a space opera world detailed unlike any other in gaming. Even in spite of the ending controversy bollocks, it is probably my favoruite game series and game trilogy of all time. Even reading the in-game codex was a pleasure. One of the few times I've ever felt the kind sadness you feel at the end of a great space opera TV series like Star Trek: The Next Generation or Babylon 5; sadness that it was over. BioWare, for whatever else we may accuse them of, did an amazing feat of sci-fi world-building that I felt was on the same order as other great space opera multimedia franchises like Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, etc.
Now that BioWare is the company that it is today, an activist haven, I'm of course dreading this. I've now seen about 4-5 of my most beloved franchises killed.
What these types tend to do, is also retroactively re-write canon, so that the entire history of your favourite show/game is bookended by their shit contribution.
They take a 60-year old franchise, beloved to millions of people, let's say, and prequel it so that everything after is poisoned by their banality; attacking the root of the tree. So what you can expect is that kind of maliciousness, not just say bad writing that effects the present entry, but malicious writing that destroys what others built retroactively. It is obscene. Given this, it probably is better that BioWare is a dead company. Saddens me to say it. But freezing what was heartfelt and good in amber is better than seeing it turned into a monstrosity. People can re-play and discover the original trilogy. It's better that BioWare is destroyed by Dragon Age: The Veilguard.