The Story Behind Mass Effect: Andromeda's Troubled Five-Year Development
For people interested, there is a follow up to the famous Kotaku article: https://kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mass-effect-andromedas-troubled-five-1795886428
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@Gilcrist wrote:It was a really insightful article. I still think that MEA is a good game. Looks like it could have been an amazing game if a few things happened differently during the development period.
I'm so glad they abandoned the procedurally-generated worlds thing. That doesn't sound fun at all.
Of all games to do this to, it has to be Mass Effect... Sigh... Anyway there's a fairly good youtube presentation of this article, saves me the time reading it.
The second I saw the "procedurally generated worlds" in that article it all made sense. They spent damn near ALL their time dicking with that instead of the actual game going into it, looking at what happened with No Man's Sky, you'd THINK they would not be * enough to try something like that.
Anyway, BW Montreal was up for the task but is the LOWEST form of BW and it's been shown in this game, and the article basically states that they had to have their game rescued by the other sections of BW and then complained about it saying "they messed the game up not us, we were on task." blah blah..like a bunch of fkn high school kids.
EA literally just needs to purge Montreal and cut it off like a diseased finger.
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