Mass Effect: Andromeda

And if you're looking for it, it's on our Steam library because I've got the one that Steam did where they've got them all together and slightly remastered.

But I really liked Mass Effect Andromeda, which was like a newer one they did.

And it got really canned by everyone because it was full of glitches and stuff.

right okay but

anthem kind of crashed and burned that was them right

Yeah, Anthem, Mass Effect Andromeda.

What was the latest Dragon Age game that just came out? The Veil Guard?

Veil Guard, yeah, which people were very disappointed in.

yeah we went to archetype entertainment um this is a this is their debut game exodus and it's a studio that's founded by a lot of veterans of other triple a developers um they have a lot of posters in there of like games their team has worked on and then also stuff that inspired them so like uh there's a lot of star wars merch in there there's a big yoda uh figure uh because chad robertson who's one of the co-founders he was he worked on star wars the old republic for a while at bioware um And a lot of the heads there are ex-Bioware specifically.

Chris King, he worked on Mass Effect Andromeda, but he also before that was at Halo Studios, and he was working on the Saints Row games before that.

And then we got Drew Karpyshyn, who was there, who was like a lead writer on Mass Effect 1 and 2, I believe was his title.

Eric is nodding.

Grenades worked off an ammunition system, while powers were strictly cooldown-based.

In Anthem slash Mass Effect Andromeda style, you could also combo moves together for extra damage.

Movement overall was pretty basic, with an emphasis on using cover and just dodging enemy attacks.

In the final fight, I took on a giant Awoken bear.

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Th- this was also a Mass Effect Andromeda.

This is exactly what happened-

Mm

... with Mass Effect Andromeda, where the people running that game had, had explicit no interference from EA at all, and ran that game into the ground.

And that also happened with Anthem.

Where the, the, the Patrick Soderlund played Anthem and was like, "The flying's really cool, but the rest is, uh..." And, like, the flying was supposed to be, like, the tutorial only.

No.

I mean, it even feels... like i mean it's not necessarily tacked on but i guess i guess it does feel good because like yeah you know you load in and you run around but that's literally all you do like you run around to a flashing point you press a and have a conversation you run up to another point and then bam now i'm in a fight like it's it really doesn't necessarily add anything and i don't know if you've noticed this because i don't know if you played it but the run and walk animation for your character is very reminiscent of the launch of Mass Effect Andromeda.

When your character would run around, it's like bow-legged.

Yes! That's how they move! And I'm like, what are we doing? It's

Um-

Um-Chris King, uh, he worked on Mass Effect Andromeda, but he also before that was at, uh, Halo Studios.

Um, and he was working on, uh, the Saints Row games before that.

Um, and then we got Drew Karpyshyn who was there, who, uh, was like a lead writer on Mass Effect One and Two, I believe was his title.

Yes, you don't want to tell me anything about that?

Andromeda.

We don't talk about that.

Andromeda wasn't as bad as what people think.

Well, they fixed it a lot of fixed it now.

Andromeda was better than Veilguard.

Freak.

I don't know.