There's plenty to say about the quality of the last 2 single player games but they don't seem to have done much damage to the franchise at all
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Was Mass Effect Andromeda the most damaging entry a Game series has ever had?
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There's plenty to say about the quality of the last 2 single player games but they don't seem to have done much damage to the franchise at all
Tie between Dead Space 3 and Andromeda for me as well. EA has a real talent for destroying their IPs.
Dead Space 3 definitely suffered from being forced into a more action-spectacle direction, but I don't see where the blame lies on EA for Mass Effect. That sounds like Bioware's problem.
Honestly, Sonic has a large contingency of fans thay care far more about what characters show up in the game than whether or not the game is polished or not. Sonic had a ton of games come that would have sunk any other franchises on the spot. It's kind of bullet proof in a way.
Agreed. They also killed Medal of Honor, as other have stated.
No. Mother 3's 12-year development hell made Itoi swear off making games for good and therefore the Mother series died instantly.
If the game had released on SNES/N64 like originally intended there would probably be way more Mother games and it might have taken off like Fire Emblem. Who knows?
If the game had released on SNES/N64 like originally intended there would probably be way more Mother games and it might have taken off like Fire Emblem. Who knows?
At the very least at least EA and Bioware did try to address some of the complaints with the game's visuals after the game released, Marvel/Capcom did essentially nothing after the game got released nor did they even talk about a plan on addressing the issues players had with its presentation.
No. Not even close. The hate that Andromeda got was always ridiculously overblown. The Mass Effect series could easily 'come back' from it.
If I were a betting man, I'd put my house on a sequel with properly polished character animations and less busy-work quests being warmly received and very popular.
If I were a betting man, I'd put my house on a sequel with properly polished character animations and less busy-work quests being warmly received and very popular.
i think Andromeda is definitely one of them. not necessarily due to the quality of the title (it's not amazing, but it's not as horrific as people make it out to be) but it was in terms of how much was spent developing it, and how badly it tanked. like, a medium budget flop may put a series on hold for a long period of time, but you can built back from it. i'd imagine EA look at the losses associated with Andromeda and would find it hard to justify that series ever returning. the fact they flat out canned the planned DLC says it all. even flops like Wolfenstein New Colossus and Dishonored 2 (and soon to be Prey) still managed to get DLC.
my vote goes to strangers wrath though. practically killed the oddworld brand. poor marketing by EA. resulting in poor sales. a complete departure from the games that came previously which alienated the loyal fanbase and exclusive to xbox. killed the series for years. and even now, while it's still managing to cling onto it's relevancy, it's done so so far with remasters and remakes. there's still a bit of a "to be determined" feeling on whether that series is ever REALLY coming back.
my vote goes to strangers wrath though. practically killed the oddworld brand. poor marketing by EA. resulting in poor sales. a complete departure from the games that came previously which alienated the loyal fanbase and exclusive to xbox. killed the series for years. and even now, while it's still managing to cling onto it's relevancy, it's done so so far with remasters and remakes. there's still a bit of a "to be determined" feeling on whether that series is ever REALLY coming back.
Yeah, and it sounds like it's Marvel's fault. My personal pipe dream is that Marvel gives them a chance to rebrand, upgrade, and revive Infinite after the backlash has died down. Though that seems highly unlikely at best.
Yup, this one hurts the most.
I feel like the majority of this thread is "That one EA game where they completely missed the mark as to what people originally liked about the series"
Devil May Cry 2 destroyed any chance I'd touch the series for yeeears.
Fallout Brotherhood of Steel is so godawful it's relegated to an appropriate nonexistence.
Fallout Brotherhood of Steel is so godawful it's relegated to an appropriate nonexistence.
Right? Andromeda was a drop in the bucket compared to this shite upon release.
Seems like a lot of assumptions in here. Do we know it flopped that badly? As far as I recall the sales were actually pretty decent. I think the lack of a follow-up is more a reflection on lack of confidence for Bioware Montreal to learn from the issues and iterate sufficiently on a sequel. With Edmonton being overwhelmed with Anthem (and to a far, far lesser extent DA4), Montreal was the only option for an Andromeda sequel.
In a world without Anthem I can totally see Bioware retooling with a back to basics ME game on the docket within 3 years of Andromeda's release. I seriously doubt they have written off the franchise.
Agreed with ME:A as a franchise killer, but you never know when the EA milking machine will revive it
Instead, Rare is a franchise killer since microsoft bought them
- a decent but poorly executed conker remake. No conker ever since
- a flawed perfect dark, no perfect dark ever since
- a bad banjo-kazooie, no b-k ever since
- lots of kinect games with no secuel or spin offs whatsoever, they killed the kinect.
The killed three great franchises and a periferal. So the streak goes for them in my opinion.
Instead, Rare is a franchise killer since microsoft bought them
- a decent but poorly executed conker remake. No conker ever since
- a flawed perfect dark, no perfect dark ever since
- a bad banjo-kazooie, no b-k ever since
- lots of kinect games with no secuel or spin offs whatsoever, they killed the kinect.
The killed three great franchises and a periferal. So the streak goes for them in my opinion.
... Comparing HZD and ME:A is quite a leap there. Having imperfect facial animation is nowhere near the same as the buggy garbage heap that was Andromeda.
Yeah. I really did not understand why anybody was interested in Andromeda after Mass Effect 3. That was such an apocalyptic destruction of a generally beloved franchise. Remember when 'what color was your ending' was the worst thing to happen to Mass Effect?
