re: EA CEO Veilguard would be successful, if it had been live service

I'm not saying one thing or another about this game, but you still need to learn what a fact is.

What would the game need to be/have done to not be an undeniable failure in your esteemed opinion. Because from where I’m standing there’s literally nothing justifiable saying it wasn’t a complete failure in all ways. Artistically, financially, resulted in the studio being cut down to the literal bone for a mass effect 5 skeleton crew where as far as I can see everyone who worked on dragon age at a senior level was fired, and very likely murdering the IP for all time.

Sounds like undeniable failure to me.

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we're on the verge of a 1980s type crash with the video game industry. these AAA companies just do not get it.

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I’m fine with more boutique games getting run over a number of the AAA messes we’ve seen.

For every AAA disaster like Cyberpunk and No Man’s Sky which get redeemed, we get many more which are almost instantly cut off at the knees with the publisher blaming the public for why it failed.

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Legendary drops

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Love that guys takes. He came up really fast over the last year out of like no where. I think it’s because he comes across as just a regular dude without some overly produced show and you can tell he speaks his mind,

I think the animation looking like fantasy fortnite would have gone over better if they had made fantasy fortnite.

People defending it were calling it a choice

It was a progression.

It is similar to the god awful toon art of Andromeda.

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It is similar to the god awful toon art of Andromeda.

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It’s admittedly been a few years, but I would disagree here. The animations are bad and the repetition (fricking asari faces…) was annoying, but I don’t recall having any issue with the art style, and I say that as a huge fan of the original trilogy.

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Cannot make ME5

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Idk. I definitely am not optimistic but the guy who is in charge of it, can’t remember his name, distanced himself and ME as far away from veilguard as he possibly could multiple times before that game launched. So if you’re hoping for a good ME (I’m neutral here mostly as I’ve only played the remasters and tbh just found them good I don’t get the elite praise) you could have some hope in that.

What are the odds of a gender ideology storyline in Mass Effect?

I'd bet significantly lower after Veilguard

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What are the odds of a gender ideology storyline in Mass Effect? I'd bet significantly lower after Veilguard

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As stupid as that was in DA, it would be flat out nonsensical in ME. In the OT, there was honestly very little overt gendering. Other than the Krogan being split into camps by sex in response to the kidnapping post-genophage, I can’t think of a single instance, no matter the species, in which sex or gender really mattered. The Asari basically choose their own “gender expression” at will, and the Krogan and Salarians basically never mention it outside of the context of breeding. The ME universe is a giant clusterfrick of gender, sex, and, well, sex. Pretty much anyone can be what they want, frick who they want, whatever.

Now, that’s not to say there won’t be transgender characters, as that would be perfectly fine within universe. But the moment anyone mentions the fact that the person is trans, basically every ME fan would screech at the suspension of disbelief breaking absurdity of it. To say nothing of the ridiculousness that was Taash, if they were to attempt such a thing.