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does anyone believe this shit
even the 'trailer' looked like a desperate attempt to show everyone 'we still got it!', they knew they were getting canned
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>>750560589
They're puffing up about a bunch of nothing.

>>750560943
He's right in a way. There were only 3 endings to Mass Effect 3 and they were all basically the same. It wouldn't be hard to account for ALL choices from the previous games when there are only 3 you need to keep track of and they only differ in whether they were red, green or blue. It still would've been liquid dogshit shit either way considering the state of Bioware's writing post Mass Effect 1 really
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>>750560589
The people who made Andromeda and Veilguard learned their lesson and were ready to make an even better version of the first Mass Effect.
Shame on you for not believing in them, /v/.
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>>750560589
Easy to say when you'll never have to deliver
>Leaks further reveal it would have done your taxes, given you a blowjob and made /v/ good again
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>>750560589
Is AII going to be worse than AI?
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>no game dev company has ever made grand, ambitious claims about an upcoming game, then failed to deliver on them before
OP is a faggot.
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yes i'm sure it was truly amazing just like when mass effect 3 turned all your 'big choices' from the previous games into meaningless war assets
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>>750560589
FOUR TIMES THE DETAIL
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>>750560943
The funniest thing is the source vs reporting.
It's a literal french dude from Montreal talking in french about his work on the game, and he just says things off the cuff to explain it, like
>"Look at this? OK? This would import all choices".

The reporting: "ME5 planned to account for ALL CHOICES!"

Him
>So, dis guy is de Shepard of dis game, OK?

The Mass Effect influencer on YouTube:
>The new protagonist is called "THE SHEPARD"
>Begins Lore/Theory about the "Tell me another story about the Shepard" shit from ME3's ending

People are just that fucking stupid.
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veilguards anemic choices really make me think this isn't true
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So even if I
>killed the rachni queen
>didn't cure the genophage
>let the geth destroy the quarians
>destroyed the geth and all synths with the destroy ending
It would have been no different from not having condemned these 4 species to their doom? It deserved getting cancelled then.
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They've said this shit like 5 times now and each time it's been fucking nothing.
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>>750560589
>All choices from previous games
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>>750560589
I like that theyre lying about all the amazing things we're missing out on after killing their studio with horrendous dogshit. Im glad they got fired
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>>750560589
Sure, I believe them
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>>750560589
I chose to stand back and let the reapers win. Will the game start and the end credits roll? Caught them in a lie immediately.
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>>750560589
I can imagine the seethe from filthy Quarian loving retards when your game state had none of them in it because they burned up in atmosphere
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>>750560589
BioWare never made a good game
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>>750560589
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>>750560589
even if this was the plan it sounds like something they would drop during development and give some bullshit reason that all of the game journalist would've just defended
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Why is bioware specifically crying and resisting death? other game dev companies didnt act like this.
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>>750560589
that isn't a positive thing when most of the choices are wrong
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>>750562295
I hated those disgusting space gypsys
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>>750562406
I'd say Bioware if one of the "bigger" and longer lasting studios getting closed and they have a pretty big fanbase that are upset (and a big part of that fanbase are LGBTQ people that are very loud on the social media scene and get a lot of attention from news outlets)
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>>750560589
You mean the colored endings?
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>>750562550
>big fanbase
Crying shame they didnt buy their games lol
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>>750560589
>all choices
>the game hammered the point that the mass effect relays are pretty much the technology no species were able to recreate
>destroy ending gets rid of them along with all other reaper tech, effectively isolating individual star systems
>trailer showed those intact
>not to mention the implications the other two endings would have on the galaxy
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>>750562672
Maybe shep was reaper jesus and maintaining everything?
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>>750560589
WTF HOW COULD THE SAUDIS DO THIS TO US???
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>>750560589
Leaks reveal that BioWare was fucking NEVER going to be able to make the game
wow
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>>750560589
Right after 15+ years of shit games and two failed Mass Effect games in a row this would've been the good one a total return to form MEbros we could've been so back someone unfire these amazing devs right now give them a new studio and buy the IP off EA they need to make this game happen it's gonna be a blast
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>>750560589
Sure it would
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>>750560589
Who the fuck has a savefile from all four of the previous games at the moment
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I remember when I was a kid people talked about how great mass effect and kotor were
I think me3 came out when I was in middle school and people said it was kinda buns
Inquisition came out but I didn’t really know what dragon age was so I skipped it
The first game I was actually waiting for was andromeda when I was 21. I talked about it with people I saw the reviews and people said it sucked
So I said ok I’ll wait for the next game and it was anthem
So I said ok I’ll wait for the next game and it was veilguard
Idk if people realize there’s a whole
Generation of gamers who didn’t know who BioWare was until andromeda and just never saw them put out anything good
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>>750560589
Considering they were reportedly early in the development, this means shit. They could've had ideas that "all" choices would be accounted for, but it sure as fuck didn't mean they had actually done anything substantial and something that would've ended up in the finished game..
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i'm suddenly not sure if i more hate the constant ai threads or the "um askully the next mass effect was going to be the best game ever made pls save it" threads
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They died with ME3, it just took this long for the hit to register.
Tends to happen when you make good stuff in the past but these troon devs definitely sped up the process by going full-corruption on the studio and its IPs. The new game would never have been good, just would've been ME: Veilguard
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>>750560589
It's gonna be real funny when a big retarded company believes all this, buy out Bioware and Mass Effect for billions, and finds out nothing was actually done and this was all just ideas they wrote on a napkin.
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>>750560589
Lol faggots, suddenly remembering how to write a check after the bank already closed the account.
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>>750560943
No. A single line mentioning multiple events or 3 COLOR ENDINGS is not what I call riveting story crafting. Mass Effect 3 reminds me of Deus Ex: Invisible War
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>>750563514
Invisible War at least introduced people to Kidney Thieves, brief as their stint was.
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>>750560589
Including ME3's ending?
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NO REFUNDS
This concerted effort by journos to generate hot air around a corpse is baffling. They don't like videogames, why fakemourn and write shouldwouldacoulda bullshit
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So the troons behind Andromeda and Veilguard were about to deliver the greatest RPG ever?
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>>750561192
kek
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>>750563428
They probably do have plenty of wool on reserve to put over investors' eyes. Hope that noone takes their bait.
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>>750561569
FULL
FRONTAL
NUDITY
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>>750563617
Complete wokeslop circlejerk
I honestly don't know how they could top Veilguard in terms of pozzed bullshit
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>>750563370
It's the circle of fandom. People create something, that something becomes popular, some of those fans (women, troons, degenerates) try to infiltrate that something, then they make it shit and push out the people who created it so they create a new thing and it all starts over again.
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>>750563597
Same as ever, eyeballs and clicks. I should start maintaining a rule list that filters all the clickbait sites, and try to get it bundled in with the swarms of rule lists for ad-blocker addons.
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>>750560589
No one make 3 versions of a game and cram it in one game and sold with 1 game's price. you have to be borderline retarded to even doubt it. Borderline because retard is unlikely to type and use 4chan.
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>>750563812
AI will fix this, just make one game and then make Claude make the other ones
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>>750563848
>"And make no mistakes!"
>AI editions have no same-sex relationships
>"NO NOT LIKE THAT"
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What really bothers me is that they were intending to include an Asari backhead Cloaca blowjob machine as well as a Tali respirator ASMR AI generated regular voice to Tali voice headset. But they just weren't given the chance.
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>>750560589
Wooooooow I really am sad they closed down noooooooow! Fuuuuuuucking chuds!
Niggers.
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>>750560589
Meanwhile EA was accounting for my previous choices to not buy their previous games.
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>here lies bioware 1995-2026
>they WOULD have cured cancer
>they WOULD have invented cold fusion
>they WOULD have made a good ME game
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>>750563220
And this is why I believe everybody younger than me should be homeless and desitute and die of fentanyl overdose in short order.
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>>750560943
>does anyone believe this shit
It's would be either Deus Ex sequel way where it happen at same time, KOTOR 2 way where it's meaningless in end or worst Fallout show way where everything was screwed up badly
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>>750560589
Before or after they missed deadlines and had to streamline it into 1 ending with alternate flavors?
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This is the future we have been denied by child's, Jared Kushner, Saudi Arabia and capitalism. Thank you and fuck you.
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>>750562672
i think anyone who played inquisition would know that nothing you did in the previous games really mattered depending on what bioware wanted
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>ALL CHOICES MATTER
>pew pew color = pronoun purple
Thx Gynoware
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>>750560589
Well no shit.
They made ME3 where all choices funneled into the same thing anyway, so it'd be easy to do in a follow-up accounting for that.
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>>750561192
/thread
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>>750561192
Given me a blowjob AND done my taxes?!
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>>750560589
>would have accounted for all choices
>red choice shepard lives
>blue choice shepard rebuilds his body using reaper tech and transfers the 1.0 build of his human consciousness
>green choice they find shepard's remains and rebuild him like in me2
yeah, ok
this is somehow a groundbreaking narrative plot
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>>750560589
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>>750566013
?
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>>750560589
>YOU HAVE NO FREAKING IDEA CHUDS IT WAS GOING TO BE GREAT
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>>750560589
I really want #savemasseffect to succeed
I want them to get a bunch of money to claw the IP back
I want them to give the former employees a gilded cage within which to build their masterpiece
I want to see the massive fanfare when they finally present the finished result
I want to read the simpering articles praising it as a return to form
I want to witness the hand-wringing and well-actually's when the public finally get their hands on it
Finally, I want to watch the blame games and finger-pointing. Every step will be hilarious.
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That wouldn't have been a good thing. After this many years, you are better off starting fresh. Besides they are lying. They are really going to act like it would matter 600 years later whether Shepard punched the newswoman?
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>>750560589
>All choices mattered
>Oh btw, the Geth were gonna be a super power regardless even though you can wipe them out in two different ways in ME3
Pathetic hacks.
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>>750560589
That's what I'd say if I was a troon out of a job desperate to get it back
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>>750560589
Would have been based. Shame incels got brainwashed into hating good games and rather consume slop these days.
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>>750560589
I'm glad it's dead, fuck modern bioware, they haven't made a good game since like 2012, they should have died a long time ago.
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Really, all choices?
Even when I scanned all keepers and pulled the plug on that guy that was in a coma aboard a derelict ship in ME1
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>>750561192
All of these leaks from defunct studios reminds me of current Disney.

>Leaks show us new film!
>Look how good it looks! It's everything you want!
>Don't forget to see the film only in theaters!
>(it's another quirk chungus ambiguous brown female lead who quips the entire time, males are all dumb and sexist, and some half assed LGBT are valid message)
>It failed because white men voted Trump.
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>zorgap is alive
>my father wants you to have this
>+5 paragon points
>zorgap died
>my father would have wanted you to have this
>+5 renegade points
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Bioware was going to make their next game a masterpiece loved by all
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>>750560589
It's surprisingly easy to make up shit when there's no penalty for lying.
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Context matters. If it it’s true and not bs, does it mean actual worthwhile content or like emails from mass effect 3
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>>750560589
That's a such an asinine bullshit lie, wow.
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>>750560589
No it fucking wouldn't have. Bioware is beyond incompetent.
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People were placing hope in BioWare--in man--instead of God. That's why He is bringing everyone back to Him by showing how fruitless and worthless all these secular franchises and the idols man have made out of them truly are. Repent and turn to Jesus Christ. There is no hope in distractions being the "way' out.
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>>750560943
i don't, pure lies and bullshit.
you have to be super retarded to believe it.
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>>750562606
The actual big bioware fanbase has been praying for the zombie to be put down for over a decade now.
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>>750560589
You people never learn do you
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>>750560589
>we can just lie now so you feel bad about firing us!
yeah i'm sure you were gonna do this nigger
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i don't even remember which color i chose anymore
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>>750560943
I had to fire a man yesterday due his compulsive lying. Even after the process he was lying about the death of his mother (that I had talked to earlier in the day)

Some people just can't let shit go man, that is my final conclusion.
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>>750561083
According to someone worked there, supposedly they were going to solve the "which ending is canon" dilemma was putting the game 600 years in the future, having tech advanced to the point where the Reapers are hilariously outdated, and everyone having become merged with synthetics anyway.
Essentially making the ending you picked completely irrelevant.
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>>750569751
>so far in the future liara is old
>but literally none of the designs have changed
>even the jump relays are the same reaper tech
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>>750569751
They wanted to connect the game to as close to Andromeda as possible because they didn't want to come up with anything original. They have unused assets from an unpopular venture that on its own almost killed Mass Effect and their answer to simply build on top of crumbling foundation which would have collapsed under scrutiny. Everyone in the gaming community dodged a tremendous bullet. BioWare was literally coasting off of copium and hope for all of these years while releasing terrible games. They would have never recovered.

Baldur's Gate 3 was the Dragon Age sequel everyone was looking forward to. They came in and absolutely swept up fans while checking every stupid box BioWare had ruined their franchise with and delivered a story while not being beholden to a ton of censoring and the like. They could have never competed. Games like Expedition 33 are setting a mark for RPGs that BioWare simply lost the magic and the ability to reproduce. Then Veilguard came out and that is BioWare in it's most purified, distilled form. Firing the people who made it after keeping them on the tit for 10 years doesn't fix anything. The entire company had to go and the people who they hired have to litter other companies and then destroy them from the inside with similar practices and politics. This will continue until video games isn't what anyone remembers them to be. Without any identity "gamers" truly will own nothing. The only people who will be happy will be the ones who dropped gaming altogether.
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>>750560589
glad it got cancelled lol
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>>750570330
same, good riddance
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>>750569597
Speaking of lying...
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>cancelled Mass Effect game had infinite quests
>cancelled Mass Effect game could be played with your mind
>cancelled Mass Effect game had revolutionary Asari butthole technology
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>>750560589
>lied in ME3
DUDE THEY'LL DO IT THIS TIME FOR SURE.
GO GET YOUR XBOX 360 HARD DRIVE AND DIG UP THAT SAVE FILE!!!
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>>750570668
based hayley fag

obscure song from yelyah from the band she had before Paramore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73trg05w7Ao
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>>750571981
Meds, this is a Paramore b-side.
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>>750560589
All my choices have been to not buy Bioware. I guess I'm Non-Buywary.
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>>750560589
It affects the ambient light color.
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>>750560589
It's really easy to make big promises like this now that you don't have to keep them.
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>answer questions or load previous save game from ME3
>different codex entries that make no impact on any conversation or story/plot

Sensationalist bullshit.
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>>750572985
fuck you are right.

she has new albums tho
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7XLVG1fbD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA5ls_A4iW8
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>>750560589
The EA manchildren audience is too desperate that they are really going to believe the hundreds of faggots that made DA: I, Andromeda and Veilguard, the same salty faggots that just got fired and want to bring people in their side.
Lol
Lmao
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>>750560589
Didn't none of the choices from 1 and 2 matter in 3?
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>>750561192
Yup, they're unable to walk their talk.
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>>750560589
There are too many large galaxy changing choices in 3 for that to be true. Trying to keep your choices vague like KOTOR 2 or Invisible War did wouldn't work.
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>>750560589
Yeah, all three of them.
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>>750560589
The massive budget overrun this would have required is probably why it was cancelled.
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>>750561101
it was lightning in a bottle
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>>750577572
Not really. You had the marks of their previous games all over it and the flaws of trying something new.
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>>750560589
Bullshit.
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>>750560589
i dont believe this at all.

except if they make it a multiverse which is ew.
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Really easy to say this shit when it will never see the light of day. Fuck off, the leaked trailer looked like shit, the game would have been shit, and Bioware deserved to get shut down 10 years ago.
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>>750565265
Get help
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>>750565265
I wish everyone but me was dead, except maybe anons, it'd be boring otherwise
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>>750561101
~call on meeeeeeeee~
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>>750561101
They did not learn their lesson. They thought their audience were the autists and bronies who show up for BioWare at SDCC and PAX panels, and not the other 6 million people around the world who aren't retards and who don't live in California, who live normal lives, wage-slave and then play BioWare games in their spare time.
https://youtu.be/aQmU2jlJSVc&t=33
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Wait
Couldn't we make our own Mass Effect Gaiden from scratch powered by AI?
I don't even know what the story would be about, anyway
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>>750580438
go for it sis
keep us posted
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>>750560589
Bioware hasn't made a good game since 2009 and all of the talent left before Gamer Gate. Those fags would have reskinned Veilguard and put a Mass Effect logo on it.
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>>750560589
>>750560943
>first three games railroad everyone into the same ending no matter what
>only difference is which specific companions survived
>new game “honors all possible choices” by just including a gay statue with the character models of whatever combination of characters survived in a garden somewhere
Big fucking whoop. The trailer still looked like shit which is probably why the Saudis cancelled it.
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>>750560589
Bullshit. Easy to make these claims now that the game is cancelled and they'll never have to actually deliver on them.
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>NOOOOO WE WOULD HAVE RELEASED A 10/10 GOTY OF THE DECADE THIS TIME FOR SURE AAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!
too late TROONIGGERS
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>>750560589
Who's making these fucking articles?
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>>750560589
>we figured it out after 20 years of shit
>it would have been everything you ever dreamed of
>no no, stop looking at our previous releases
>it took over half a decade just to make an internal trailer, but that just shows how dedicated we are!
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>>750562168
kek
criminally underrated post
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Clearly not great if whatever they showed EA wasnt enough to satisfy them and prevent closure.
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>>750560589
>you chose the red beam ending
shepard is asexual
>you chose the green beam ending
shepard is trans
>you chose the blue beam ending
shepard is a bipoc pansexual demisexual 2soul therian transaroace

so much choice accounting!
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>G-guys, it was exactly what you wanted! Just trust us, shutting us down the the WRONG DECISION
I don't believe you.
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>>750560589
This is always the case when a project is starting, they time passes and they realize they need to ship soon and they downscale everything.
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>>750560589
This "we think our customers are retarded and will buy anything" mentality is precisely the reason they got canned
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>>750560589
Would this even be possible with such a large years distance
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>>750560589
This would have fucking sucked
At some point a developer has to have some fucking balls and decide for themselves in what direction to write their story and stop trying to cater to every single fan and every retarded decision they could possibly make
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translation: we “worked” on this game for 2 years and had nothing to show but a cgi teaser
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>>750560589
>set game 600 years later to tie it to andromeda
>everyone is dead save for hag liara and maybe wrex and grunt
>alliance teaming up with batarians
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>>750560589
I just don't trust these moron lgbtq developers anymore. I trust Claude a million times more. It would actually make a Goat tier Mass Effect 4.
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>>750560589
And somehow still made it about liara
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>>750560589
>All "choices" lead to gay
Fuck off, BioWare
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>>750560589
HOLY SHIT I DONT BELIEVE IT!
I meant that literally, i dont believe them
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>>750581978
/v/ should just get together and make Mass Effect 4. But instead of Mass Effect 4, just call it Porn Effect 4 so it doesn't get taken down. And put up a coding repo. Then just spam Claude to make a good game. It would probably make more progress than nu Bioware in 2 years
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>>750560589
Yeah I definitely believe that since they did the exact opposite in Veilguard.
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>>750560589
>it was literally every video game ever and a couple more with a asian waifu mouth job while shitting and eating a cake full of cocaine
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>>750560589
>we were making the greatest bestest game ever, please hire us at other studios, we won't shove your games full of tranny flags!
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>>750560589
New leak also came out that you can just lie and make shit up about a game thats never coming out
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>>750560589
>600 years later
>"yeah Shepard passed out in some random bar lmao"
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>>750560589
And Bioware getting shut down accounted for all their choices in all their previous games they made.
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>>750560589
You know that they claimed the same for ME3 ending, right?
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>>750582656
I read the headline as "All 3 choices. Red, Green or Blue".
And I'd be willing to put money down on that being correct.
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/v/ is a piece of shit with a multitude of retards and browns currently, yet i've seen nobody actually mourn bioware on here, It's truly impressive how deeply and thoroughly they fell off
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>>750560589
Even if I'm colorblind?
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>>750560589
Lmao! What a bunch of lies.
Todays devs would never go back to older games and do that for the new game. It is to much work and they want to push their woke agendas.
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>>750560589
Yeah, right. Of course. Bioware would suddenly become a good game dev after 15 years of pure garbage. Yep, I believe that.
Even ME2 couldn't account for all choices madr in ME1, and that was considerably simpler.
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>>750560589
It was also going to cure cancer, and the LIs would reach out of your monitor to personally administer handjobs and suck your dick. Seriously, guys, you have no idea how good it was going to be. This time specifically. For real. We just hired the exact right feminist activists for this.
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>>750567673
Let MEfags cope, anon.
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