Exodus

No, go ahead.

I was going to say, and I don't want to crap on the graves of a great, great studio, but if you are looking for something that is Mass Effect-like, Fran and I have been talking about Exodus, which should be on your radar.

That game looks badass.

And the other game is The Expanse, Osiris Reborn, which looks really cool too.

Both of those should scratch that Mass Effect itch if you've got it.

Yeah, and Archetype Entertainment, and that's what's really interesting in this story, Archetype Entertainment is the studio that is doing Exodus, and they got funding from like Wizards of the Coast to basically do, I call it a Mass Effect-like, and...

You know, it's got one of the previous head of techs from BioWare and studio managers, Chris Robertson is running it.

And then you've actually got the original, like, Old Republic and Mass Effect 1 and 2 writer.

Anything life-changing? Have you had any experiences? Like, have you gotten any review codes or any considerations or like the red carpet rolled out? Anything like that? Have you been to any events? Yes.

Oh, yeah, I I've just recently been playing Exodus.

I don't know if you guys have really followed that at all.

But Exodus is like right now is very much like the spiritual successor to Mass Effect.

And it's coming out in April.

of next year so I've been I just was out in September playing it their latest demo and it was it was really good I'm really excited to see how that is and I think that with everything going on with Bioware and Mass Effect If people are looking for another sci-fi RPG to kind of latch onto that choices, consequences, romance, and it's, it features like a concept called time dilation.

I think people will be excited for Exodus.

So I'm really excited for that to come out next year.

Like that's made by some of the mass effect people.

Exodus.

Yeah, Exodus.

Yes.

Exodus is going to have everyone default by as well, which is to say if you pick an either character gender, you're like you can get with any party member.

And I think that's fucking stupid.

And that's the thing that they've only recently they started with Veil Guard because it wasn't that way in Inquisition.

Right after 1313.

Jade Empire 3, never happening.

Vanessa, I know that you're bummed out about this, and I'll just remind you, just to bring maybe a spark of joy back in your life, the lead writer of Mass Effect 1 and 2, along with many of the developers that left BioWare after EA purchased it, are working on a new Mass Effect-like game called Exodus.

And it does have an amazing octopus friend.

That does bring a little spark of joy into my life.

Exactly.

Well, and we do have Exodus, which is a Mass Effect-alike game.

Oh, true.

That's being done by Wizards of the Coast.

Oh yeah, I've heard of them.

They're the people making Exodus.

Yes, I do know them.

Yes, that's the former Bioware developer James Olin and Chad Robertson.

That game...

i kind of want to get now because i've seen that like i was watching a trailer uh recently and like generally there's like that fucking squid octopus guy in it that's like a companion that shit looks so cool and interesting i kind of want to because of the mass effect vibes too i also downloaded the mass effect uh legendary edition i will casually play through that in my own time uh because i kind of want to feel for a mass effect game and i know oh well you could you know waited for Mass Effect, whatchamacallit, Universe, but we ain't getting that anymore, so this'll have to do.

And I feel like even if Universe released, I would have more hope in Exodus, because at the end of the day, Bioware, three for three on bad games.

Anthem was good when it came to the gameplay, but lacked in the

And essentially what they did was they made, a few years ago, Final Fantasy X...

Exodus.

X...

X... something.

But as you said, like the Bioware that people are mourning is the Bioware from 15 years ago, 10, 20 years ago.

And all the people that made a lot of the the the key people that made the original trilogy or the old Dragon Age games have left the studio.

um and they are now making other games that i really hope people go and support yeah you know you've got um casey hudson who is the director of mass effect he's now off making a brand new star wars rpg in the same light as kotor like he he also made kotor and he's making a new star wars rpg that was announced at tgas last year so hopefully that's going to be fucking cool A load of other people who made Mass Effect are now making Exodus, which is from Archetype Entertainment, debut game from a new studio, which is funded by Wizards of the Coast, so D&D people.

and they are making exodus which i played at gamescom this year it is absolutely a spiritual successor to mass effect um you're playing as like a space human going and seeing with space magic and and recruiting aliens to go and explore the galaxy like it is mass effect in all but name i loved it i had a really good time playing the demo it's out next year i really hope people go and play that Yeah, I

And as I was telling Adnan, there's other Bioware devs that I grew up with that are now doing their own thing.

We look at Exodus.

That studio has filled the ex-Bioware devs, including written by Drew Karpyshyn.

And then you have Casey Hudson, who's creating his own Fate of the Old Republic in his own studio.