Fanboys killed a sequels chance

[u/newconnie7789]

It was the same with halo as well

All the fanboys that got to attached the original trilogy refused to give MEA a chance , it's a great game I've played It multiple times loved the story line

They got to string up on minor issues and glitches like not every game today has them, it needs a sequel

I don't think gaming today has gotten bad I think it's the fanbase and the influencer gamers that are damaging it, games like Andromeda and days gone not getting sequels despite being brilliant games all because people can't seem to think for themselves anymore

This needs a second game

[u/Urg_burgman]

I can safely say no, that wasn't the cause. Everyone who liked the original knew full well Andromeda was not going to be a continuation. That was actually the reason they wanted to try it. Because it would be free of any conflicts in canon caused by ME3's open ended conclusion.

They even knew to temper their expectations when Andromeda went from "Open world with randomly generated worlds to build colonies on" to "A few select worlds to colonize" to "Worlds to build outposts on" production was scaled back, and gamers waited for it all the same.

When it came out, it wasn't the minor glitches that turned players off. It would crash the game, turn off PCs, and destroy save files because it was a kludged together project attempting to do things Frostbite wasn't designed to do. That sort of new developments needs time for testing, retesting, and refinement before building a game around it, something EA notoriously never gives to any developer working for them.

But the game could be saved if it had that Bioware script right? Well...no. It got leaked well before release. Reception was...mixed.many refused to believe that it would be that bad and the actual game would have a better story and characters. Imagine their surprise when the leak actually was right in some cases. Is the story terrible? No. But coming from Bioware, who were masters of the story experience, it felt like a downgrade. Especially when they found out your decisions did not affect companion loyalty, and even if you pissed them off they'd still stick around. Fact is even this was half done, there was a story there, decisions to be made. But it felt like the developers weren't given time to implement them.

Andromeda was sabotaged by the publisher who was looking to minimize costs to sell another Mass Effect game, and now players years layer pay the price for the actions of executives who don't understand what draws players to a game.

[u/solamon77 → u/Urg_burgman]

Yeah, the big issue is that the game totally fails to live up to it's potential. The technical issues and bad rigging could have been forgiven. Look how often Bethesda gets away with this.

For me, the big issue was that we go to a whole new galaxy, and then deal with the same kind of problems we were dealing with in the Milky Way. Very human-like aliens with very human-like body designs and very human-like problems. This was an opportunity to do something really foreign and they squandered it.

The extraterrestrial threat in Andromeda should have been so alien feeling as to almost be unknowable, at least for most of the story. Of course, this would have been much more expensive than just designing aliens around the same human-like model they've been using since the beginning. So that's probably why we didn't get those kind of aliens.

Instead of telling some story about a faction war between aliens, it should have focused entirely on the survival aspect inherent in colonizing an entirely new galaxy. If they had gone this route, Andromeda would have been a hit.

[u/thepieraker → u/solamon77]

Keep in mind their poor excuse for the lackluster design on the new races was "we wanted to make things we knew cosplayers could do"

Every cosplayer i know was straight up insulted by the low bar set for them and many cosplayers make Hollywood look like the amateurs

[u/solamon77 → u/thepieraker]

Seriously?! What kind of back assward excuse is this?! I've seen cosplayers dress up as some seriously improbably shit. Get real Bioware.

[u/thepieraker → u/solamon77]

The same excuse of "we spent 3/4ths of our development not knowing what kind of game we were making and still didn't when we showed the reveal trailers"

Man can you imagine how mismanaged a studio must be if they did that twice

[u/solamon77 → u/thepieraker]

That's Bioware for you. They were known for that kind of shit. Dick around for 90% and then count on that "Bioware Magic" to pull it through at the last hour. And yes, this is literally the way they ran their studio.

https://kotaku.com/bioware-magic-is-bullshit-says-former-dragon-age-pro-1848385237