Submitted 4 hours ago by popcar2@piefed.ca to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3ieef0mpE
This is confirmed to be real according to Jason Schrier. They were going to use this trailer to reveal the game soon if Bioware hadn’t closed. It’s obviously a little unpolished (especially in the fake gameplay section) but it did look promising.
In case anyone is wondering, the song is Quartz by French 79
Yeah. I wouldn’t count on post-EA acquired Bioware to have actually delivered.
Salt in the wound. That “gameplay” was obviously not legit, but the entire concept is solid. Man… Might have to do a replay of the trilogy now.
What gameplay?
I said “gameplay” for a reason. But certain sections were obviously meant to evoke player interaction.
The last 3 games didn’t sell well, and this was at least years down the line. This is clearly very early in production. I can’t say I am surprised this was cancelled in that context.
Even if it was the best game ever made, it was years away from a studio that had just had 3 financial failures in a row. Maybe it would have been approved if it was already like, 90% complete, but this looks like it’s maybe 10%.
This reminds me of that time when DA division was shuttered and one of the employees said the ME division had been looking down on them for some years and weren’t enthusiastic about bringing them in.
Well, I guess none of them have to worry about that anymore…
Didn’t they treat the SWTOR division the same? Well guess who’s the only one still around
It’s a decent trailer.
My instant headcanon is playing as a spectre turned shadow broker agent. That could have been done well.
But also, Liara looking visibly old, is so odd.
She looks older here than ANY matriarch we’ve seen except for maybe Benezia.
Meaning this would have been set at least 600, probably more like 800 years after the original trilogy.
I goyr me thinking of a bounty hunting. You’re hired by Liara to track down targets. You put together your crew of specialists and have to switch out party members depending on the bounty.
One can dream.
eh I’m happy to just let it go. Bioware hadn’t made a good game since 2014. every release after Inquisition was awful. Sure we can look at a pre-rendered video and think “oh man, sucks I won’t be able to play it” but lets be real here…the chances of it even being good with their recent track record? i’m doubtful.
generaldenmark@programming.dev 4 hours ago
I mean, it would’ve probably come up flat… just like the previous ME…
scops@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
I played it well after launch, but I enjoyed Andromeda. I would have preferred less combat and more focus on a “man” vs nature scenario, but it was a solid experience after they smoothed over the bad launch.
It was a shock and disappointment at the time when they announced they were dropping the Quarian DLC and any plans for a sequel. I felt like the franchise deserved a bit more faith than that, but, well, EA gonna EA.
Hegar@fedia.io 1 hour ago
I enjoyed andromeda quite a bit. It lacked the scope and feel of 1 and 2, the aliens should've been more alien, but gameplay was fun, jetpacks were fun. It was very worthwhile (sale) purchase.