Mass Effect: Andromeda

Mitch Connor

Kirby wrote: »

Mass effect is part of the back catalogue backwards compatibility.

You can play it on your xbox one. Framerate isn't great but it works.

Mass Effect 2 and 3 are not backwards compatible though, so doesn't help me play through the trilogy again.

Zillah

Console problems ITT.

Zillah

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Even upping the frame rate to 60 fps

According to Google ME1 is capped at 60.

K.O.Kiki

Zillah wrote: »

I seriously doubt that ME 2 or 3 are in any need of a HD remake. Maybe ME1, but even then it hardly looks ancient.

ME1 with ME3-style gunplay would be nice... but tbh I'm just waiting on Andromeda now.

Retr0gamer

Zillah wrote: »

According to Google ME1 is capped at 60.

Maybe on PC. On console it definitely wasn't 60 fps and if 60 fps was the cap it never it it. There was loads of tearing as well.

Edit: Digital Foundry says they all run at 30 FPS with V-sync engaged with drops to 20 and 15 fps common.

Zillah

I find it hard to believe given that I go nuts at low FPS and don't remember ME being particularly bad.

EDIT: Or do you mean just on consoles? I was PC. Always PC. *master race jpg*

Retr0gamer

Zillah wrote: »

I find it hard to believe given that I go nuts at low FPS and don't remember ME being particularly bad.

EDIT: Or do you mean just on consoles? I was PC. Always PC. *master race jpg*

Yup, on console. Fecking game fried my first 360 as well

Mitch Connor

EA CFO has said we can expect Mass Effect Andromeda to release between October 2016 and March 2017.

“You should assume that a Battlefield will come typically in the third quarter, when we normally have it,” he said. “We’re not yet announcing when Titanfall or Mass Effect Andromeda will come, but you should assume that’s in the back half of the year as well because the second quarter [July-September] is so dominated by our sports titles.”

I expect a big E3 reveal.

Will EA still announce games at E3, even though they've pulled out of it?

www.gamesradar.com/ea-pulls-out-e3-2016-plans-fan-events-la-and-london-instead/

Captain Chaos

Deleted User wrote: »

Will EA still announce games at E3, even though they've pulled out of it?

www.gamesradar.com/ea-pulls-out-e3-2016-plans-fan-events-la-and-london-instead/

They'll just announce them a week earlier instead.

Like last year, Bethesda held their show a day before E3 started to show off Doom and Fallout 4.

MS and Sony generally show the same games again in their shows as they don't have enough exclusives to fill 90mins.

Wasn't Bethesda's still a part of E3 or did I misunderstand that?

Captain Chaos

Deleted User wrote: »

Wasn't Bethesda's still a part of E3 or did I misunderstand that?

Their show itself wasn't but they were parts of other shows within E3 later. Like Howard appearing at the MS show at E3 the next day.

Bethesda jumped to get ahead of everyone by a day, now EA are doing it by a week.

Retr0gamer

Deleted User wrote: »

Will EA still announce games at E3, even though they've pulled out of it?

www.gamesradar.com/ea-pulls-out-e3-2016-plans-fan-events-la-and-london-instead/

Interesting, could see most publishers following Nintendo's lead with pulling out of E3 and holding their own conference to save money.

Captain Chaos

This game is now as I expected gone back to mid 2017 at least. I knew there was no hope of seeing it this year.

degrassinoel

degrassinoel wrote: »

I cant imagine bioware saying much til summertime at least - they've lost some senior staff too, so their "holidays 2016" release may not be this year at all.

Hope it is, but i'm doubting it

Captain Chaos wrote: »

This game is now as I expected gone back to mid 2017 at least. I knew there was no hope of seeing it this year.

Figured as much, where did ye read that btw? Their blog says feck all

Captain Chaos

degrassinoel wrote: »

Figured as much, where did ye read that btw? Their blog says feck all

It was in an EA investor meeting summary. It's on a few game sites.

degrassinoel

yeah i checked around but there's nowt from bioware themselves

Mitch Connor

Captain Chaos wrote: »

This game is now as I expected gone back to mid 2017 at least. I knew there was no hope of seeing it this year.

The cfo of ea said second half of the financial year 2016, which ends March 2017. What has been said in the last few days that adds an additional 3 months to that?

degrassinoel

It's just speculation on the release atm, but it really wouldn't surprise me at all if it were summer next year, or even cancelled

They'd only got a vague "holidays 2016" as the release before that, what is disturbing is that they've said next to nothing since the release trailer and lost some high-up staff including writers since then.

Captain Chaos

degrassinoel wrote: »

and lost some high-up staff including writers since then.

That's what happened to the end of Mass Effect 3, they lost the writers before it was finished so they went and made up an ending over a lunch break around the coffee machine.

Retr0gamer

When I do play this game I'm going to make myself ignore all the codices. They are poorly written and add nothing to Bioware Games. Playing DA Origins at the moment and it's amazing how much you enjoy the game more once you ignore them and the pace of the game improves substantial. It's not like the worlds and stories Bioware create are all that interesting anyway.

Zillah

Captain Chaos wrote: »

That's what happened to the end of Mass Effect 3, they lost the writers before it was finished so they went and made up an ending over a lunch break around the coffee machine.

What I've read suggests it was Casey Hudson in a room with the lead writer with no input, feedback, or review from the rest of the writing staff. They didn't get stuck doing it themselves, those chose to.

Captain Chaos

Zillah wrote: »

What I've read suggests it was Casey Hudson in a room with the lead writer with no input, feedback, or review from the rest of the writing staff. They didn't get stuck doing it themselves, those chose to.

Basically yeah, Casey Hudson just destroyed a trilogy. I'll never believe a word for him again after that, all the waffle he spewed about the story line of the years and then he goes and clubs it to death.

degrassinoel

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Basically yeah, Casey Hudson just destroyed a trilogy. I'll never believe a word for him again after that, all the waffle he spewed about the story line of the years and then he goes and clubs it to death.

He left in august 2014, so ye dont have to worry about him

works for Microsoft now i think

noodler

I still can't get over how brilliant the indoctrination theory is.

Clevernoobs videos are long but jesus so much of it makes sense.

I know EA decided shot it out of the water with the ending DLC but I'd rather ignore that.

Retr0gamer

I wouldn't call it brilliant but it would have been a lot more satisfying than what we got. There's a whole lot of evidence pointing to it being the original intention but for me the biggest one is that (spoiler for old Bioware RPG)

it's pretty much the same plot twist from KotOR

and Bioware love to tell the exact same story every time.

noodler

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I wouldn't call it brilliant but it would have been a lot more satisfying than what we got. There's a whole lot of evidence pointing to it being the original intention but for me the biggest one is that (spoiler for old Bioware RPG)

it's pretty much the same plot twist from KotOR

and Bioware love to tell the exact same story every time.

If you've watched the three hours or so of videos I dunno how you wouldn't call it brilliant but you are contrary by nature!

Hoping the next series learns from some of the weaknesses of ME1 which I found to be overrated when I eventually got a chance to play it.

Where did you find evidence it was the original intention?

Captain Chaos

noodler wrote: »

Where did you find evidence it was the original intention?

Because of KOTOR, ME follows the same story structure formula, it's classic Bioware by the numbers but in a different setting, but it's done well. Well the first one was with the sound track and all.

Zillah

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Basically yeah, Casey Hudson just destroyed a trilogy. I'll never believe a word for him again after that, all the waffle he spewed about the story line of the years and then he goes and clubs it to death.

I haven't trusted him since the day he stated outright in a preview that Skyrim was "an entirely new engine".

Fup off Casey you talentless, lying pile of pretension.

degrassinoel

ye sure that wasnt Todd Howard?