Duh, that’s kind of the point of a strike. It’s not a problem until it’s their problem. The point is that the studios could end all this strife tomorrow just by agreeing to negotiate in good faith. As long as they refuse to do that, they deserve every bit of pain the actors and writers can bring to them.

Take the time, fuck the deadlines, balance (as best you can, as developers) your work and life schedules - we (gamers) will still be here when you feel your game is completed and up to snuff. We will pay the money and applaud your efforts.

I’m honestly a little shocked at the straightforward admission that folks don’t care about the human beings who create the things they love.

It’s a very good way to keep yourself misinformed (if you care to know what’s causing the problems you hate in the games industry, listening to game devs is probably a good place…

I hate how much of online gaming discourse revolves around bad takes made by ill-formed idiots looking to make a quick buck off rage-bait videos.

Yeah I think he was clearly talking off the cuff originally and clearly frustrated that he couldn’t work to promote his projects while the strike was on. still dumb but context is key.

He said some dumb shit, but on some level I feel for the guy. Heels is a good show that needs all the publicity it can get, and there won’t be any for it.

Credit where credit is due, this dumb idiot said some stupid shit, but walking it all back (with a little face saving caveat) and joining the picket line is the right conciliatory measure.

in other words “I failed to read the room before I spoke. When the strike is over please everyone don’t refuse to work with me”

Mass Effect Andromeda wasn’t better than Mass Effect 2 by any means. But the efforts to try and write it off as a terrible game are plainly idiotic. It was in fact a fun game that did many things right. The gameplay was fun, the characters on the ship were interesting, the graphics were beautiful, and I enjoyed the…

ME:A was a disappointment overall coming from the trilogy, but the movement and combat was hands down the best of the series.  There were things that changed for better and for worse since the first game came out but those mechanics were only ever improved.

I’ve played the game a lot in single and multiplayer, and yes, the way the dialogue system works is definitely designed around multiplayer. Works great in those circumstances. In single player I just can’t get used to the idea of sending different characters in my party to initiate conversations to pass skill checks…

Also delighted by the game and still in Act 1, but I’ve also noticed those both issues.

Also, the multiplayer was solid.  It was a good evolution of ME3's multiplayer, and didn’t have any glaring problems (at least that I can recall, though I haven’t played it in several years).

You can’t really say an ending is canon when there are three options.  Canon will be whatever Bioware decides for ME5.  Probably the destroy option.  If they’re actually bringing back Shephard, it pretty much has to be the destroy option.

“We simply do not know” is absolutely not the same as “50/50", but sure.

That’s not how statistics work. The larger the universe, the larger the chances of finding intelligent life. It’s like if I ask you find a lost item of some sort in a room vs. on the planet. You technically don’t know for certain there’s even one to find, but your odds of finding it sure as hell go up if you can…

I’ll play devil’s advocate here.

I actually really liked the relationship stuff with Garrus in ME2. It started off very forced and cheesy dialogue exchages and even when he comes to Shepard’s room he’s trying so hard to seem like he’s suave and cool. There’s this sense that he’s not entirely sure why you’re into him…

This is what so heartbreaking to me as I do think that ME:A had a lot of really strong elements at the heart of it and you could feel the development team figuring things out as they pushed on with the main story and established certain elements of the larger story.

And when you get to Tier 3 & 4, only pick up Sacred and Ancestral items. Stop picking up rare items.

One simple solution is to just stop picking up every single item. Like, you really have no need for common or magic items unless you completely run out of the components you get from them, which then means you can just grab them for a while and stop again.