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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Via Eurogamer

Unlike Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which hits shops later this week, Mass Effect 5 will not seek to tweak the sci-fi franchise's established visual style, he said.

"Mass Effect is photorealistic and will be as long as I'm running it," Gamble wrote in a post on X.

"Both are from the studio, but Mass Effect is Mass Effect. How you bring a sci-fi RPG to life is different than other genres or IPs," he continued, "and has to have different kinds of love."

As for Mass Effect 5's tone, Gamble wrote it would "maintain the mature tone of the original Trilogy. This is all I'm going to say for now."​

 

[HeWhoWalks]

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[Darkmakaimura]

I'm looking forward to it.

 

[missiles]

Damage control is starting early.

 

[Arachnid]

I'll believe it when I see it. Too many Ls from Bioware since OG Mass Effect.

 

[Dr Cowley]

Kids not even born yet and it's a fuckin disappointment

 

[Kacho]

Nice damage control

 

[MagiusNecros]

More worried about the writing, if choices matter and put me on Good/Evil alignment and whether or not I can actually play as an Asari, Krogan or any race of my choosing.

If you want to restore faith I'd talk more about everything then just the visuals.

 

[winjer]

That is, if Bioware is still around....

 

[Little Chicken]

dei know what dei doing

 

[Denton]

Gamble has been at Bioware since ME2 and does not seem to be one of the pronoun people, so that's a good sign. Question is, what is his writing team like. Andromeda, that he has been involved with, already had a pretty lame "sitcom in space" script.

 

[hinch7]

Bioware fucked up with Dragon Age and they know it. The game isn't even out yet and they are doing damage control for their next big release.

 

[gothmog]

He's taking quite the gamble even engaging in this conversation right now.

 

[AJUMP23]

It may look the same, but I doubt it will be the same.

 

[ssringo]

The bridge has been burned.

 

[Ammogeddon]

Impeccable timing

 

[Draugoth]

Veilguard not having photo realistic graphics was one of the dumbest decision Bioware ever made

 

[U n i o n 0015]

Damage control is starting early.

100%. Must be looking at those incoming sales numbers and having a code brown moment.

 

[CharmingCharlie]

Yeahhhhhhhh I don't believe a single solitary word out of Gambles gob. That is assuming we even get the next Mass Effect. At this point the way Dragon Age is going I am doubtful it will even break even. I think the future is not Mass Effect 4, the future is EA taking Bioware out back and doing an ole Yeller on it.

 

[Lunarorbit]

The bridge has been burned.

Andromeda was the last game I preordered. I had already decided 2 years before not to preorder but I couldn't help myself.

Horrible horrible launch.

 

[Gonzito]

Lets see first if Bioware survives with the release of Wokeguard

 

[adamsapple]

 

[hyperbertha]

Via Eurogamer



"Both are from the studio, but Mass Effect is Mass Effect. How you bring a sci-fi RPG to life is different than other genres or IPs," he continued, "and has to have different kinds of love."

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How you bring a dark fantasy to life is also different from whatever the fuck Veilguard was. How do these losers live with themselves with the constant drivel they run outta their mouth?

 

[kyussman]

.........also,hire a couple of straight white men as game director and writer.Straight white men are severely underrated IMHO,lol.

 

[Luipadre]

Sure jan. Im done with this Bioware

Also this guy worked on Anthem too so... You had your chance buddy

 

[ungalo]

Honestly, the lead devs and the way they've been talking about the project always made me much more confident about this than DA4.

I know it sounds like damage control and endless undeserved hope but i feel that way since they announced the game, and i always felt like DA4 was going to be garbage.

 

[Fake]

Its so fucking over lmao.

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Bioware won't be getting a dollar from me again.

 

[Kotaro]

Mass Effect is keeping its distance from Veilguard already

 

[Ristifer]

 

[Magic Carpet]

What Galaxy will this be set in? Andromeda was too close to the Milky Way. NIMBY, Not in my backyard.

 

[Roufianos]

Can't wait for Shepherd to stick his tongue out and tell that journalist he doesn't like her. Definitely can't have any slapping in Blue's Clues Mass Effect.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

LOL. Right before Veilguard launches and he says “Don’t worry guys, Mass Effect 5 won’t do to Mass Effect what Veilguard did to Dragon Age”

Way to show some confidence in your creation. This launch is going to be such a shit show.

 

[evanft]

Bioware is getting shut down before then.

 

[Duchess]

Oh man, this is not a good look.

I've already decided I'll be looking forward to Exodus more, since that's being done by the original devs.

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[hemo memo]

Stylized visuals aren't the issue. See Metaphor.

 

[Schmendrick]

My trust that the studio that currently wears the guise of "Bioware" can deliver anything above "mediocre":

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

As long as the game is closer to the original trilogy as opposed to Andromeda, then I'm happy.

 

[mitch1971]

Looking forward to choosing body type A or body type B.

 

[Fbh]

Don't worry guys, it's going to be totally different.
The recently released board game is totally not giving us a nice indication of where things are going

 

[Shubh_C63]

Fuck Off

This is my genuine reaction to this.

 

[clarky]

How mature we talking? Hopefully it takes into consideration just how mature the modern audience actually is.

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[proandrad]

I hope they make Shepard genderless, for the content.

 

[Neolombax]

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

this is damage control

 

[Husky]

I actually just dropped Andromeda after less than six hours. Maybe they'll make a good game next time. It pretty much felt like a reskin of DA Inquisition, which I dropped in a similar amount of time.

 

[Putonahappyface]

To late. BioWare have been infiltrated and there is no turning back now.

 

[The Cockatrice]

I dont think Mass Effect had a mature tone at all, so this just proves they have no idea about their franchises lol. Outside of Dragon Age Origins I dont think Bioware made anything mature.