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BioWare co-founder and Star Wars KOTOR director say they’re interested in reuniting to try and save BioWare’s IP (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[+] -11 points 1 day ago* (6 children)

Bioware's IP is not worth as much as they think. Mass Effect 1 was a great game, not because of the story but despite of it. And then it was ruined after the first one. Remember thermal clips? The giant skeleton shit ending? That's a franchise killer and ME3 was a zombie, never played it after the second one ended in that travesty. Then they diluted it further and made absolutely plain there's nothing to yearn for with Andromeda (did try that one, it manages to make a scifi RPG in a great engine that's so boring they'd have to pay me to finish it. Dragon's Age was completely wrecked and unappealing even before they dropped the abysmal Veilguard. Bioware hasn't made anything good in about 20 years (since the original Mass Effect). I didn't play their Sonic Chronicles from 2008, but everything I touched after that was safe slop with all the modern-console-rpg irritants and no soul.

Practically the only franchise they haven't thoroughly fucked & compromised is MDK. MDK2 was a good game.

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  • [–] 12 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

    Mass Effect 2 frequently ends up in lists of the greatest games of all time. The value of Mass Effect to the market or to Canada doesn't have much to do with your opinion on it.

    Also, yes, I remember thermal clips. They made the combat much better than the cooldowns in the first game.

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  • [–] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    ME2 is the most ageless of the trilogy. A tight story with fun characters and cool combat. My biggest complaint is scanning for minerals. The suicide mission is a great plot gimmick that I’m glad they didn’t reuse.

    By contrast ME1 is so sprawling and ambitious that replaying it is a letdown; because most of the choices don’t actually matter. The combat is fine but not as good as ME2. The first play through was amazing though.

    ME3 suffers from the worst of both games that came before it. The story is a disjointed WW2 homage that never sticks the landing and kinda insults you. Instead of scanning for minerals I was grinding online battles to earn “war score” or something for the reaper war I’m ultimately scripted to lose.

    That being said they are all still fun games, but to me ME2 is the best of the 3.

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  • [–] 1 point 20 hours ago (2 children)

    Mass Effect 2 frequently ends up in lists of the greatest games of all time.

    I played it; was disappointed with how the gameplay was streamlined to where you don't need to TRY AT ALL in the last 1/3rd no matter the difficulty, but wanted to see it through for the story and then - bam - giant skellington.

    They made the combat much better

    I don't care whether shit looks cool when there's no challenge.

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  • [–] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    The change they made to combat didn't have much to do with challenge but with making it feel better to play. Mass Effect 2 is my least favorite of the series, but that does not matter to the value of the brand and BioWare, because it's a whole lot of people's favorite. Alanah Pearce just did a video on what BioWare meant to people in the industry, and there was one testimonial of a developer that stuck out to me who brought up just how important that suicide mission design in ME2 was to what he does in his own work.

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