Dragon Age vs. Mass Effect: Which Series Fell Harder?

[Sid]

ME3's ending destroyed the franchise, Andromeda disgraced its remains—will Veilguard top this as last installment of DA franchise?

[Elazul]

Andromeda almost killed the ME franchise. BioWare themselves know it because they quite abruptly discontinued all development of planned DLC. I suspect this game will be the Andromeda of DA.

[Sid]

Originally posted by Elazul:

Andromeda almost killed the ME franchise. BioWare themselves know it because they quite abruptly discontinued all development of planned DLC. I suspect this game will be the Andromeda of DA.

But at least they are still planning to make another Mass Effect, there is no way that Dragon Age gets next game.

[Inuakurei]

On top of being a travesty to the franchise in all facets other than combat, MEA was riddled with bugs and meme potential. I don't think Veilguard will be quite that level of bad. So long as it's a competently put together game, it'll be fine.

[DoDonPachi]

I would argue that me3's ending wasnt really all that important, the journey and the friends we made along the way was the important bit, to paraphrase a meme.

On teh other hand you could rightfully say the dragon age has already had one passable game and one bad game, i think this game also being bad (as all signs point to) will hammer the final nail in the coffin

mass effect still has a chance with the new one

[Gismono]

Originally posted by Elazul:

Andromeda almost killed the ME franchise. BioWare themselves know it because they quite abruptly discontinued all development of planned DLC. I suspect this game will be the Andromeda of DA.

Your not wrong. and might be the final nail for Bioware.

[Deroldsen]

Originally posted by DoDonPachi:

I would argue that me3's ending wasnt really all that important, the journey and the friends we made along the way was the important bit, to paraphrase a meme.

On teh other hand you could rightfully say the dragon age has already had one passable game and one bad game, i think this game also being bad (as all signs point to) will hammer the final nail in the coffin

mass effect still has a chance with the new one

Found the ME3 ending to be rather a punch in the gut, but indeed most of the rest of it was decent. Dragon age... has struggled for years, its unlikely to come back.

[Pure3ify]

Inquistion was the literal definition of MID. Wasn't definitively good or bad. Andromeda on the other hand was not good. Why is quality control a thing if no one steps up during the testing process.

[McM2000]

Well, if we won't see another Mass Effect, then it is Dragon Age. Veilguard butchered the IP. If there will be another game in the series, Dragon Age has to be hard rebooted by any other studio but Bioware!

[Sid]

Originally posted by McM2000:

Well, if we won't see another Mass Effect, then it is Dragon Age. Veilguard butchered the IP. If there will be another game in the series, Dragon Age has to be hard rebooted by any other studio but Bioware!

Its interesting, will they quietly pull the plug and close all of bioware or decide to let them make one last flop?
Their last succesful NOT controversial game was mass effect 2.
Their last succesful, controversial game was Inquisition.
That 10+ years of nothing but failures.

[Crissie]

Andromeda was a good game, you lot killed the franchise.

[God Queen 158]

Mass Effects' endings were patched to a better state. Forgivable.

Andromeda completely changed and is what ruined the tone of the Mass Effect series. I still have time on the demo that came out years ago. I stopped being a Bioware fan then.

Since both ME and DA are Bioware IPs, they are both equal falls since Veilguard looks to be going the Andromeda route. But because VG has had more time to bake its "reboot" of the tone of the DA series, its going to feel worse. The bizarre comedy moments are here to stay.

[uzurpatorex]

Andromeda was a fine game, but needed ~6 extra months in the oven to smooth out some rough edges. The problem with it was it front-loaded cringe at the start of the game.

[uzurpatorex]

Originally posted by God Queen 158:

Mass Effects' endings were patched to a better state. Forgivable.

No. ME3 endings were an utter trash.

[Mysti_Fogg]

ME3's ending was always meant to end the franchise, and as much as it has problems, it does tie up the story reasonably well.

So I'm going to go with DA:V looks worse.

[King of Evil]

Andromeda was made by Bioware Montreal & was overall a fun game with some technical issues & bad animations. I'm still kinda sad the DLC got canceled cause I enjoyed it. DAV was made in house & looks boring & political, but I haven't played it so I'm not going to judge it yet. I'll play it on Game Pass next year, probably. Definitely not buying it.