I wouldn’t write her off. It’s a long election season. I’m an involuntary transplant to Minnesota (I hate it here), and the loyalty I’ve observed her to inspire in a state both divided politically (red/blue) and geographically (Twin Cities, everywhere else) flat out amazes me. Add to that the glowing national press…

I couldn’t agree more. Mass Effect was the most exciting new gaming IP in years, and the Bioware of yester-decade could have squeezed several more marvelous single-player open-world role-playing adventures from it. But Instead, we got ME:A, a game that essentially said “the marketing team drives development now.”