ME3 multiplayer was created and maintained by BioWare Montreal while Edmonton worked on the main campaign and DLC. Maybe they’d still be around to improve it for the remaster if the mob hadn’t demanded public executions because ME: Andromeda was merely fine.

Sharebros Remember.

Winston Duke, Emma Stone, Dave Bautista, Diego Luna. There you go.

Has Eli Roth somehow convinced Pitchford and Zelnick to make a parody of Borderlands? Because that makes more sense than anything else I’ve heard about this movie.

Mass Effect: Andromeda launched as a buggy mess, before BioWare turned the ship around and transformed the game into, if not the best Mass Effect, a solid series entry.

a relevant exclusive besides Halo, Forza and Gears of War.

There isn’t a single fucking nit you can’t fucking pick over any fucking thing associated with Microsoft. But fucking Sony can fuck everybody over with their fucking exclusivity carve-outs, fucking intimidation tactics over negative reviews of their fucking 1st party titles, and general flashing of fuck-you money…

Now that I’ve a little bit of time to actually put hand to mouse and play the game, open world game version 1.0 jank and all, there are two things that jump out at me, in increasing order of importance:

- Buying a next-gen GPU was also a shitshow. Supplies of Nvidia RTX 3000-series and AMD RX 6000-series cards are just as bad as PS5 and XSx, for all the same sucky reasons.

Whether we wanted it or not, we’ve stepped into a war with the Republicans on Twitter. So let’s get to taking out their accounts, one by one. @realDonaldTrump. From what I can gather, he commands the MAGA Trolls from a golf cart just outside of Mar-A-Lago. He’s well protected, but with the right team, we can punch…

Ash: God grant me the fucking audacity of that guy.

Fallout 76 is another one. An unmitigated catastrophe at launch, the game did almost nothing right. It was a technical mess, but also had fundamental design issues, the kind that naturally stem from trying to cobble together a game that nobody asked for just to cram a square-shaped intellectual property into a…

“Whose D1 guns?”

Yes, thank you for reminding me of what I already read when it was posted. Doesn’t change the fact that gamers threw the mother of all disproportionate hissy fits, a few “respected” gaming “journalists” threw gasoline on the fire, and they got the heads on silver platters they wanted, all for a game that was merely…

If a new company were to release a game as buggy as Fallout 3 was, they would have been destroyed by people online and gone under.

I’ll just say this: BioWare Montreal, and Mass Effect: Andromeda’s DLC, were brigaded out of existence for less. Now somebody go ask Ben Kuchera and Arthur Gies how they feel about that.

It’s probably because I’m a software engineer, so when I hear “Why doesn’t this open world game account for x?”, I start thinking of how much complexity x adds to the game state.

But it’s not silence, it’s noise. It may not purposeful in the main storyline, or perhaps in the main-adjacent side quests Riley has played while rushing to finish a review by Thursday, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t present. I imagine we’ll be hearing more after launch as players find side quests.

By the sound of Riley’s description, I’m tempted to say that CDPR took an enlightened approach to Making A Statement with this game by not making any. They just let the world be big, and messy, and diverse, and everything at once but unevenly distributed. Maybe “enlightened” is optimistic, but maybe allowing the…

Sorry, but as a (non-gaming) software developer myself, I can’t support the “Your last product was a failure, so fuck off and die” school of management.