Mass Effect: Andromeda’s Side Content Takes Inspiration from the Witcher 3

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Addressing concerns that the new Mass Effect would borrow heavily from the company’s last outing, Dragon Age: Inquisition, BioWare has gone on record claiming that portions of Andromeda will actually play more like CD Projekt RED’s Witcher 3. As someone who is still barely 30 minutes into Inquisition and haven’t even touched the third Witcher installment yet, I can’t tell you exactly what that means or even why Inquisition is despised, but if I had to take a guess, I will assume that most of Mass Effect’s side missions will actually correlate with each other narratively and try to tie in with the main storyline, making them more meaningful than stuff like fetch quests.

…a regrettably uncredited BioWare staffer said the developer is “approaching the completionist aspect very differently, because we’ve done and learned a lot from Inquisition”. “But we’ve also observed what other games have been doing, like The Witcher. And it was very important for us that the quantity of scope doesn’t downgrade the quality of whatever you are doing there,” they said. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt had stacks of side content, and a lot of it is great, with linking plot threads, interesting stories and proper cutscenes. Witcher Contracts might have less story but offered greater challenges and detective sequences; collection quests were tied to dungeons; and the smaller filler things like Monster Nests could be ticked off really quickly.
 
Finished both Inquisition and TW3; I can say I'm more impressed with The Witcher 3, in the end, a lot of love (and good planning!) went into that game.

Really can't say much more to get me more excited about Andromeda at this point.
 
After ME3 and Inquisition? Gonna wait for the reviews. And maybe a sale.
 
It wasn't that Inquisition was bad but by the time you got to the end most fights were a joke because your characters were crazy strong. In the 1st Dragon Age it took me nearly a dozen tries to beat the final boss due to the chaos going on.
 
MrSteel74 said:
It wasn't that Inquisition was bad but by the time you got to the end most fights were a joke because your characters were crazy strong. In the 1st Dragon Age it took me nearly a dozen tries to beat the final boss due to the chaos going on.
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the bonus dragons were decently hard
 
I really thought that Inquisition was a solid game; I'd like to hear why it was panned.

And yeah, those extra dragons forced you to level up and kit right, or you were toast (or frozen or...).
 
Agreed the dragons were a bitch even leveled up; the 1st dragon I fought took about 30 minutes for me to take down.
 
Inquisition got a lot of crap which I felt was largely unjustified. It's a fun game, and I actually enjoyed the semi-tactical party combat.

Yes, a lot of the side missions felt VERY side mission-y, if you care about the story while you Go To A and Kill X. Witcher did a considerably better job of making it seem like something that needed to be done, and that you were helping someone (possibly just yourself, if you play as Bastard Geralt).
Hell, sometimes I got value just from a look Geralt made as he was being asked to do something. You spend 40 hours in the dude's skin, and you get a bit of a feel for him and his world.
 
Inquisition was a great game and IIRC was GOTY a year before W3 was GOTY. I Played over 100 hours in both and while DAI was more of your evolved western RPG, W3 was an adult themed masterpiece that had been perfected over a decade of developing the series into a peerless spectacle of love. Variety is the key to enjoying life and gaming, and not every game needs to be a reskinned W3 Clone that seems to be the flavor of the week. I still want more games like ff7 with the atb and materia type system but alas everything is an action rpg these days. . .
 
IdiotInCharge said:
I really thought that Inquisition was a solid game; I'd like to hear why it was panned.

And yeah, those extra dragons forced you to level up and kit right, or you were toast (or frozen or...).
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Yeah inquisition was amazing. I think my wife, who isn't even a gamer, played it through 3 times. Altho to be fair she played through DAO:1 probably 5-6 times. Guess we can just chalk it up to she likes the lore.
 
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It is news to me that DA:I was a bad I game. I loved it. Too much filler maybe? Though Witcher 3 was better, so I will be happy for more of that, but in space.
 
Shmee said:
It is news to me that DA:I was a bad I game. I loved it. Too much filler maybe? Though Witcher 3 was better, so I will be happy for more of that, but in space.
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People want to hate on it because you can have sex with EVERYONE. Therefore regardless if you are male or female you can play the truffle shuffle regardless of your sex and their sex. People 'hate' the fact that bioware put in options for you to do because they claim "OMG SOCIAL JUSTIZ WARRIORZ WINNING!" and hate on the game.

This mantra has been repeated for ME:A as well as the early issues they had with lip sync'n (protip: ITS FIXED) so now people are hating the game to hate the game.

I love the genre, I love the single player, I played 100s+ hrs of ME3 multiplayer. This game is going to give me more of what I like and then some? SOLD AMERICAN.
 
…a regrettably uncredited BioWare staffer said the developer is “approaching the completionist aspect very differently, because we’ve done and learned a lot from Inquisition”. “But we’ve also observed what other games have been doing, like The Witcher. And it was very important for us that the quantity of scope doesn’t downgrade the quality of whatever you are doing there,” they said. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt had stacks of side content, and a lot of it is great, with linking plot threads, interesting stories and proper cutscenes. Witcher Contracts might have less story but offered greater challenges and detective sequences; collection quests were tied to dungeons; and the smaller filler things like Monster Nests could be ticked off really quickly.
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Developers approaching games like a corporate project manager really instills the feeling that I'm going to get a high quality, authentic experience with an engaging story and gameplay. :rolleyes:;)
 
Bigdady92 said:
People want to hate on it because you can have sex with EVERYONE. Therefore regardless if you are male or female you can play the truffle shuffle regardless of your sex and their sex. People 'hate' the fact that bioware put in options for you to do because they claim "OMG SOCIAL JUSTIZ WARRIORZ WINNING!" and hate on the game.

This mantra has been repeated for ME:A as well as the early issues they had with lip sync'n (protip: ITS FIXED) so now people are hating the game to hate the game.

I love the genre, I love the single player, I played 100s+ hrs of ME3 multiplayer. This game is going to give me more of what I like and then some? SOLD AMERICAN.
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I never understood why people get upset about options. More options the better. It allows for more varied role-playing opportunity. You don't want to play the game as gay, or as a woman, then don't. There was more than enough to do as a straight male in DA:I.
 
Bigdady92 said:
People want to hate on it because you can have sex with EVERYONE. Therefore regardless if you are male or female you can play the truffle shuffle regardless of your sex and their sex. People 'hate' the fact that bioware put in options for you to do because they claim "OMG SOCIAL JUSTIZ WARRIORZ WINNING!" and hate on the game.

This mantra has been repeated for ME:A as well as the early issues they had with lip sync'n (protip: ITS FIXED) so now people are hating the game to hate the game.

I love the genre, I love the single player, I played 100s+ hrs of ME3 multiplayer. This game is going to give me more of what I like and then some? SOLD AMERICAN.
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Eh? No you could not. In DA2, yes, everybody was a nymphomaniac bisexual hitting on you the first chance they got. Very awkward and frankly unrealistic feeling. DAI on the other hand majority were straight, just two gay people. Much more accurate representation of minority and in the case of Dorian (the gay mage) it even had an excellent sidestory of the shit he had to endure just because he swings his magic wand in that direction.

DAI has a lot of flaws but character relationships /sexuality were definetly not one. That was DA2's flaw.
 
Dragon Age Origins was the only good game in the whole series. I am not sure if they fired the first team or what, but Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition were a major let down from the first game. I have played through the first game 5 times but have yet to finish either DA2 or Inquisition 1 time. The same holds true for Mass Effect. I have played through the first one a couple times, but have yet to even play through 2 and 3 one time.

That seems to hold true for most games when the sequels come out. The only game series that I have played through the sequels is the Assassin Creed series, even though the controls went terrible for a little while there.
 
health system was really bizarre in inquisition. stories also were not as engaging. DA:O still has the best and most engaging stories of any game.
 
Those (*&$#@( shards. If I wanted to play Tomb Raider I would...DA I shouldn't be ledge hopping around with 4 people, ugh.
 
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