I think VO is the main bottleneck here. In BG3, the player character is silent. In ME, the PC is completely voiced. Players will expect a Turian to sound different from a Krogan, which means including those as playable species would require multiple VOs for every line.

Must that word be used for the video game storyline? Really? I know you’re making a hyperbolic point but maybe ease off the sexual assault metaphor since it’s, you know, not fucking applicable.

This is an insane misreading of SO MUCH of the text of these games. The Geth and EDI are *absolutely* living beings. Their whole *narrative purpose* is to drive the player to consider their rights as a species and individuals.

Lol they’re fully sapient.

The Geth and EDI are not living beings. They are machines built by living beings to serve a purpose and as such, their creators can choose to decommission them when they are outdated or unnecessary. Therefore, it is not genocide to destroy them.

As a counterpoint, I thought Andromeda had the worst gameplay of the series because they inexplicably removed the ability to actually cast your squadmates’ powers and instead just changed them to be in like, aggressive or defensive modes. It completely eliminated the ability to do things like 3's fancy timed biotic…

I really don’t wanna rehash ME3 ending shit this much later, but skipping over the literal genocide induced by the Destroy ending as one of the “downsides” is so wild lol

as it was confirmed in Andromeda she was in contact with the Initiative after their departure from the Milky Way.

I really hope it’s not Shepard in any form.

Just let us play as Niftu Cal you cowards.

I’m not sure if it would be great for ME to turn Shepherd in some kind of larger than life Master Chief figure that gets out of hand and ridiculous.

I’d be okay in Andromeda as long as it’s within a better game. 

Timely news, especially after the exodus from The Escapist the other day.

The thing about Epic’s strategy is it’s basically just applying the brick and mortar ‘get people in the door and try to catch their eye with an impulse buy’ tactic but applied to the digital space, but without consideration that customers don’t behave the same way in digital space as they do irl.

If you worked as a tradesman for example (e.g. electrician or plumber) and your employer brought you on board because Wal-Mart made a contract with your employer.

LOL,  there is a good chance their response to your eval was written with ChatGPT so it seems fair

Remedy might be the Bureau of Control, and this game might be an OOP.  

or if we can use it as a tool to help inspire more creation

100% endorse. Remedy doesn’t feel like they should exist, and the fact that they do and keep getting to make weirder and braver stuff makes me endlessly happy.