This meme was a prophecy.
I can still remember that feeling of anticipation when “Westwood” came on the screen. I haven’t felt that in decades 😔
Good lord everything EA touches turns to shit. Mass Effect is one of my all time favorite series and I credit it with breaking me out of just playing JRPGs. I was really looking forward to the next entry in the series, but the trilogy (there is no Andromeda in Ba Sing Se) will always be in my top games of all time and has enough of a conclusion to leave me satisfied
We’ll build our own BioWare! With blackjack! And hookers!
But unfortunately without the IP
Let’s just use AI and say that it’s fair use.
Surely copyright doesn’t last forever plus a day, and they will be released into the public domain in a timely manner.
oh no… what a surprise… ea shuts down a studio they aquired…
Aw man. Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, and OG Dragon Age saw me through some of my formative gaming years and it’s been a shame to watch since. I didn’t even bother with Veilguard.
Larian is our big shining hope for this kind of game now, it seems.
Check out Owlcat’s new Expanse game, Osiris Reborn. It’s an obvious love letter to everything about the Mass Effect series, while also being the best looking video game adaptation of the Expanse yet.
Thanks for the recommendation. I’m not familiar with the Expanse but I’ll keep an eye on the reviews! My windows gaming days are over but if the Xbox version is good I might pick it up.
Strongly recommend reading through the books if you have time. I couldn’t ever get in to the TV show but I’ve gone through the books several times.
The TV show is also great once you get through the first half of the first season, which is sloooow. The rest is amazing though, I actually prefer some aspects of it over the books (like introducing Avasarala earlier and giving Bobbie more to do).
I stopped somewhere in season 2. I kept hearing it gets better and it just kept on being the same.
Miller was also quite a bit more sympathetic than he seems on the page which is… Well it’s a choice.
Ooh another Owlcat game to sink too much time into.
Tomorrow: “EA to acquire Larian in $100B deal”
Sorry, Saudi Arabia don’t like sci-fi. Just football and hacking up journalists.
They’d love to make a game about hacking up journalists, but their lawyers say it would be inadvisable.
Thank God. I was worried a Saudi Kushner Mass Effect would create some kind of paradoxal tear in reality, like the damn pocket universe in Superman.
Wait for an upcoming patch where they don’t change any of the actual content, but if you’re in a gay romance it just continually spawns hostile units every time you enter an area.
At Bioware we’re constantly evolving with the times, and searching for ways to create exciting, dynamic new interactive experiences. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the first new update to Mass Effect’s gameplay in 20 years! The Space Queer Death DLC introduces a brand new law enforcement agency to every visitable planet! Simply engage a same-sex romance to experience ultra detailed brutal new chase and death sequences! Available now.
I play games to escape reality, not relive it.
Give it another 5 years and a different, more inept developer
But we don’t even have a goddamn Mr. Terrific.
My theory is that EA is actually secretly ran by Hollywood in a bid to get people back to watching movies and TV.
It’s ran by Saudis, they don’t like queer things.
The Saudis who bought it don’t care about queer things, religion or morals. They only care about money.
Game companies are reading the tea leaves.
AI bought all the ram
AI bought owns all the GPU
Any Game can be decoded and rewritten in fresh code via AI for the tiniest fraction of a salary. It will eventually be able to do it with performance.
New IP could maybe, possibly be generated by some designer/artist types for the cost of a couple salaries.
The client is in the enemy’s (our) hands.
All games must go back to Gaming as a Service
We won’t pay for gaming as a service.
No new affordable tech is coming to drive the industry, all games will need to shift to online only, AI may get good enough to make games for pennies.
The only part of gaming that survives this is indie developers that push past making shovelware with AI. AAA is cooked.
Saudi Arabia bought it to diversify. They want success.
When Saudi Arabia PIF and Jared Kushner bought EA, I expected something like this to eventually happen. They would want to prop up consumable yearly microtransactioned garbage over games with more moral dilemmas than their respective regimes are willing to tolerate…
Valve please acquire BioWare challenge (seriously, please acquire BioWare, Gaben)
I just wanted one more mass effect. I guess it wasn’t nearly a far along as they’d teased.
Man, I remember being so fuckin stoked for the original release of Nevereinter Nights. You will be missed.
I remember being excited for the original Neverwinter Nights that was made by Stormfront and SSI
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(AOL_game)
It may also have been the first graphical MMO.
Same. It was the first major title I recall with a native linux release. They famously didn’t deliver it on release but got it out eventually. Met a lot of good linux gamers on those forums while we waited.
i wish it was just “EA is shutting down”
I remember saying this when they were acquired and Anthem wasn’t even a sperm in Daddy EA yet.
Capitalism
There should only be one company making video games. That’s the most efficient and cheapest.
