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”
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
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.
Yeahhh
sucks that Andromeda was pretty eh cause I think it could’ve been a pretty decent clean slate for the franchise otherwise
coming up with another franchise
As if
Jade Empire 2 coming 2028
jade empire 2: will our racist made-up pastiche of how asian languages sound to white people fly this time?
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
Bioware.
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
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
I have some bad news for you. Many games are in fact made in the United States
Every character voiced like Splinter from TMNT
coming up with another franchise
They tried, starfield sucks
I think you mean Anthem, which also sucked :V
Uhhh but have you considered the Batarians are the Bad Race? They’re all warlike and militaristic and hate Democracy
Unlike the Turians, who are valorously militant, thoroughly disciplined, and love hierarchy.
Yeah, but they go about it in a exotic but civilised Japanese way (it’s even mentioned in the codex that some Turians have begun practicing Zen Buddhism, lol)
The Batarians are just a stand-in for Russians/Soviets/Arabs
Mass effect 2 especially is a perfect representation of everything wrong with Bioware’s writing and why they get away with it.
The world building is paint by the numbers at best and neo liberal brain worms capitalist realism at worst…but by God they know how to write characters I actually get emotionally invested in and genuinely give a shit about.
Really one of the reasons mass effect 3, the ending in particular, was such a catastrophe is the direct result of this problem. The entire attempt to be deep and profoundly philosophical and hinge the entire emotional weight of the story on saving earth fell completely flat because the themes of the series are fairly pedestrian and they never bothered to give the player a reason to care about earth beyond that you’re human and your psuedo father figure was “born in London”.
Nobody cared about earth. We cared about seeing Urdnot Wrex with hundreds of Krogan babies, Tali getting her home built on Rannoch, et al.
they never bothered to give the player a reason to care about earth beyond that you’re human and your psuedo father figure was “born in London”.
How dare you forget the generic child NPC that got vaporised at the end of the first level? HE HAD A TOY NORMANDY