When Mass Effect 3 came out a lot of people got mad about the ending, but I'm kind of person that wasn't bothered by it. "Personally, I consider it an insult to the original series.
In case you are too busy messaging me about how wrong I am to make the connection yourself, or just happened to miss the bashing Andromeda received post launch, or simply didn't that the game started going on sale before it even launched properly - here are a few selected user reviews off : A mixed review score of 76 on Metacritic coupled with a user score of 4.6 at the time of writing makes it fairly simple to connect some dots. Mixed reviews is a gentle way of saying meh, without stepping on too many toes. Recently, and particularly after the Mass Effect 3 ending controversy, a lot of people couldn't ignore what the company has anymore. BioWare titles were widely praised by critics and gamers, and usually enjoyed review scores upward of 80 per cent. User reviews/comments on Mass Effect: Andromedaīack in the days when BioWare was still alive and kicking it enjoyed a reputation for quality storytelling and mechanical depth or variety in its games. The only thing still keeping the game afloat are hordes of fanboys who are willing to buy special cook books as long as they have a Star Wars logo on them along with the usual MMO Skinner box techniques for micro-scamming players out of their money. Yes, BioWare developed and is still servicing a free-to-play MMO with a user score of 5.9 at the time of writing. Six years after its release The Old Republic has turned into a free-to-play MMORPG with all of the widely praised design and business practises that this implies. Only if you ignore the most important part, great games. If a studio wouldn't conform to the idea of maximised profits, it would soon find itself forcibly altered or in a ditch behind the barn.īrands and memories are all that remains. Most of the studios EA absorbed over the years have been stripped of their identity and made to service the profit driven hivemind of a publisher. The company set out to answer the question "Can a computer make you ?" by making people burst into tears while witnessing their favourite games and studios being taken behind the barn, rifle in hand. Word of mouth has it that Electronic Arts presides over a corral of dead or dying studios. The company is dead and the chief aim of this endeavour is estimating the cause and time of death.īefore we proceed, we have to make sure that this autopsy isn't being performed on a live subject.
New BioWare isn't actually all that new and is barely even BioWare at all. A lot of praise can be directed at, what the internet likes to call, Old BioWare.
Knights of the Old Republic did an amazing job of breathing a bit of much needed vitality into the Star Wars franchise. MDK2 somehow managed to out-weird its Shiny developed predecessor, which is an incredible feat in its own right. David Warner's Jon Irenicus is one of the best examples of quality voice acting in games. Just to dissuade you of the notion that these words are born out of a grudge against the company, I played and loved the hell out of the Baldur's Gate series.