it's so fashy

I've played these games so much so I have no illusions that they are mostly insane liberal propaganda but this always stood out as particularly vile

I occasionally look up the like full dialogue trees of conversations on youtube and anything remotely involving Batarians have like 75% just straight up fascist comments (like literally you see slightly modified quotes of actual fascists)

idk just kinda disheartening to see so many ppl just go fully along with it and have basically nobody be like "hey maybe don't"

  • Stoatmilk [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    There is so much worldbuilding baggage in those games that feels extremely 2005, I am amazed they are still making Mass Effect 5 instead of just coming up with another franchise

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      Bioware created Dragon Age and Mass Effect to be able to create games like Baldur's Gate and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic without licensing a popular franchise. At this point, I'm pretty sure most of the people who made the 00s Bioware games fun or interesting are working at other places and all that is left is a husk of late 00s/early 10s extremely mid IP.

        • itappearsthat
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          8 months ago

          jade empire 2: will our racist made-up pastiche of how asian languages sound to white people fly this time?

          • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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            8 months ago

            It was already kinda racist in KotOR with all the aliens sharing the same three or four voices lines. I was shocked when they reused that idea in Jade Empire

            The idea of a Wuxia inspired RPG is cool, but jesus-christ Bioware.

            • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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              8 months ago

              The idea of a Wuxia inspired RPG is cool, but Bioware.

              I wish a Chinese company made one instead of a bunch of Canadian nerds

              • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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                8 months ago

                I keep eyeing those Sword and Fairy games, but I think they're made by a Taiwanese team. Might still be cool, but I'd fully expect some brainworms

          • newmou [he/him]
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            8 months ago

            Every character voiced like Splinter from TMNT

    • bunnygirl [she/her]
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      8 months ago

      Yeahhh

      sucks that Andromeda was pretty eh cause I think it could've been a pretty decent clean slate for the franchise otherwise

      • Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com
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        8 months ago

        Honestly, Andromeda didn’t deserve the hate it got. It wasn’t awful. It had some issues, sure. But many of the complaints about the story basically boiled down to “it wasn’t larger than the entire first three games combined.” It was trying to start a new story, but instead of being seen as a new start it was compared to the entirety of the original trilogy.

        It completely misses that the entire first Mass Effect game was basically just an intro to the Reapers. Like the entire first Mass Effect game is basically just “oh hey here’s a new villain.” And by that metric, Andromeda did a lot more than the first Mass Effect did. But it wasn’t larger than the entire trilogy, so it got panned by the players who were too impatient to wait for a sequel.

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          8 months ago

          Same goes for the Mass Effect 3 ending freeze-gamer drama. Like, Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 also had the "bring your save over from the previous game" thing but someone has to make the endings - of course they're going to be just a few of them. What made Mass Effect interesting at the time is that you got little emails and encyclopedia entries that were effected by stuff you did in the previous games. The ending of 3 was never going to be remarkably different.

        • bunnygirl [she/her]
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          8 months ago

          Definitely do agree, it's still a game I enjoy a lot and replay regularly