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.
@VladVonCastein wrote:
@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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYDJNf4LyBs
It is a shame but you gotta figure that basically the game was made in the last 1.5 years of the process. Thinking about it some more I just am mostly amazed I guess at how little vision they had to go forward. Just some lose ideas that didn't really connect. It's like they were brainstorming for 3 years and then realised they actually had to make a plan.
It also seems more like a BioWare than EA issue at that point.
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