Exodus: Mass Effect's True Successor Made By Bioware's Old Guard 

I remember getting excited for former Looking Glass studios upcoming game. Lol.

Remember when I was hyped for Nightingale... not anymore.

And it being financed by WotC makes me even less optimistic.

Yeah, this is giving Star Citizen levels of hype-vibe.

@@janosd4nuke The concept is really good but it needs a lot more time to cook and shouldn't have released in EA yet.

Some of them have realised this, yes.

If only ... it sure seems like the only way you do this is to avoid shareholders, and corporate overlords.

Or you can remove risk by not even selling milk, but get paid ESG money to peddle soy to the goy.

as long as blackrock and vanguard finance studios, they will not give a shit because with the financing theyre able to break even. turning a profit doesnt matter right now, all that matters is "the message"

the overlords are only making money off the writer drew. thats the only reason anybody plays those games. the actual gameplay of bioware games are bad. people suffer through them for the story and characters.

Baldur's Gate 3 is the first game since Mass Effect 2 that has really felt like old-school BioWare. In some ways it's even better. Far more choices, and tons of things to discover.

@@jonathanhibberd9983 I have a dissenting view on choices and diverging paths, where I feel less choices, but more meaningful ones, are preferable to a ton of less impactful ones.

@@Rapunzel879 I don't think you have to sacrifice one for the other. You can have choices that don't impact anything except that moment. And you can have choices that drastically alter the entire arc of the story. My favorites are choices that you don't expect to go anywhere, that actually do come up later in the story. BG3 does all 3 well.

Guardians of the Galaxy game is the closest thing to a Mass Effect game since ME3 but unfortunately it didn't sell too well and it's not getting a sequel. Exodus is the only hope.

@@jonathanhibberd9983 to be honest the story in Baldur's gate felt weaker compared to mass effect, the banter is also better in mass effect 3. Felt somewhat more disconnected with your companions since you can't speak and the companions doesn't interact with one another making it unnatural. but other than that Baldur's gate is better in everything else. You can interact with companions for affections, and many different reactions for way more situations compared to mass effect. and yes, the freedom is what makes the game THE standard rpg. Though I wish the flow of conversations are as natural as Mass effect. Even in Baldur's gate no companion could make me think they're better than Garrus and Tali. I am just waiting for a game that has both of these aspect

Its very strange that we focus a lot on the companies that we devalue the actual people that make said games. The moment the talents are replaced by amateurs or different talents with different video game philosophy you can easily tell something doesn't seems right.

@@Deliveredmean42 Tell that to people who support football teams..... personally, I can't understand why people don't follow the players. Sort of the same with political parties too.

@@elmhurstenglish5938 Because the local team is part of the local culture. That should make sense.

@@user-pc5qj2ix2c No one I know supports their local team though... lol. Whereas, supporting players from your town would make sense to me. *shrugs* different way of thinking, I guess

@@user-pc5qj2ix2ca “team” is also a dynamic _and_ enduring entity. There are so many moving pieces in a team, so many different _kinds_ of things to think about, to be interested in, to invest in. A team’s story is very big.

Apparently the head of the dev team said he would only work for wotc if he had total and complete control over the games he makes. I think n7 Kate was the one who did the vid on that.

@@xyr3s Source? After the bullshit WOTC has pulled over the years, I want confirmation on this, because WOTC is a bunch of greedy assholes now.

Would be the smartest move they ever made if its true

@@xyr3s I literally stated it in the video.

@spellandshield yea I saw it after the comment lol.

Sounds great, though I still wish they would be working on the next Witcher at CDPR. I fear quality will suffer without them.

Not piggy-backing off of someone's work is what I like to hear and CDPR needed to do, but will not subvert. I hope it turns out good.

@@derelyeSan CDPR sold they integrity for money. Expect they new games to "check all boxes" as shareholders demands. They main asset till CP2077 was they reputation. Sadly they don't have it anymore.

I'm fine with a new IP that isn't Plagiarised Polish Elric.

It's a shame they are limiting the hours of the game People crying 'stoppppp why you giving us so much value for our moneyyyy' Wanting to be done in 10 hours then next fix.. If the content is good the more hours the better.. that's just common sense .. just because you can play 100+ hours doesn't mean you get less value per hour That being said will check those Devs out , if they keep to a good story rather than turning political it could be good

Really? Thanks for the info!

WotC/Hasbro signing the cheques made me worry, but Hamilton's involvement is worrying me more. He's taken the ticket.

I liked the ME books, much joy between the different game episodes.

Wow! Now that is some news. His chapter in pandoras star about the aliens was one of the greatest bits of sci fi imagination I have ever had the privilege of reading.

@@1_2_die2 Me too. Glad to hear Drew is involved at this studio. I'll be watching this game.

At the moment they are fully focused on Exodus and Sci-Fi but it might be possible.

Usually it's I who will write this comment. Couldn't agree more. Have you tried TRON btw? Looks like the current server to be on

WotC's involvement makes me nervous, but if they're truly going to be hands off, that could be ok. Assuming they survive long enough to complete the game. Their recent issues over the last year put that in question.

@@jonathanhibberd9983 Which issues specifically?

@@spellandshield The OGL debacle, the Pinkertons scandal, firing over 1000 people right before Christmas, using AI art in MTG - last year was a bad year for WotC.

Sweet Baby Inc....... Yes or No........... DEI........... Yes or No ESG....... Yes or No SDG............ Yes or No BlackRock.......... Yes or No If so hell no ..... If not it's depends if it's a good game or not .....

Exactly this. Their studio apparently focuses on "safety" and "empowerment" (as opposed to simply making games), so they seem to be walking the same path to doom as so many today. Especially with Hasbro and WTC being their owners. Personally I couldn't care less when a new studio begins by listing all the has-beens on its roster, if anything it raises suspicion. They can promise all they want in their vacuous mission statements and hype videos. The question these days will always be who is behind them, who is footing the bill and what's their track record.

Yah, that's a RED FLAG!

And you think they should care about your dumb opinion because?

Anyway, let's see it fail miserably.

Technically two successors. One for the callisto protocol and the other for the remake for the OG Dead Space. We know which did better of the two.

The simple fact is, making good games is hard. There are never any guarantees, but I certainly wish this team the best.

Callisto Protocol was directed by only the DS series creator, one man doesn't make a game. This has golden age bioware's senior creative director, technical director, and senior writer. Key positions for a game's outcome. If this fails, I'll probably lose faith that any semblance of what was can ever be again.

Ultimately, it is stupid to anticipate anything too much. When it comes out, it comes out. No point in hyping yourself up.

Dead Space was pleb-tier slop from the start. I'll never understand what people liked about the game with the most predictable jumpscares in horror game history.

Revelation Space also inspired a lot of Mass Effect story down to even the Reapers themselves, hell even the supposed dark energy ending that got scrapped was a Revelation Space rip off.

And Iain M. Banks's culture books were a big influence. The TV shows Babylon 5 and Farscape. The whole Asari race is ripped off of a character in Farscape. Lead character of Stargate:Atlantis was named John Sheppard. Doesn't bother me at all. ME was never pretending to be original, its eclectic, like a Tarantino film. I haven't read Heechee, but I might, because all ME influences were all very enjoyable, but the others I knew before ME existed.

Sovereign is space Cthulhu

Frederik Pol ist a great Autor i remember an old Textbased Game called Frederik Pol's Gateway and IT Had an awesome Story

⁠@@vandalfinnicus1507 Mass Effect’s protagonist is known as being inspired and named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and who commanded Apollo 14. He was not named for Stargate Atlantis lol but I do agree that the many inspirations don’t detract from the series, for me.

to be fair its difficult to make a horror game and i suspect others told this devs to give it a little action which ruined it

Spoken like a true moron

Same here. I do like Matthew McConaughey but I would notice the game better if they invested into setting up a Steam page (instead). Oh well, I hope I won't forget about the game before they get to it.

Sweet Baby Inc....... Yes or No........... DEI........... Yes or No ESG....... Yes or No SDG............ Yes or No BlackRock.......... Yes or No If so hell no ..... If not it's depends if it's a good game or not .....

Thanks for letting me know. I’ll avoid at all costs.

Idc if it has dei or not, i just want a great game.

​@Dinkdoo96 Simple, if it has Dei then it won't be. Unless you thought Forspoken had amazing writing, then you do you.

Yip dead on arrival thanks to sweet baby inc

u need to teach your brain to recognize patterns and single out the bad games if the developers start trashing huwhite people and call men sexist for wanting beautiful women in games that is a BIG pattern to avoid, i mean why would you want to buy a game from a bunch of r..cist and sexist people because that is what they are, as a woman myself i never asked to be turned into ugly in games to be protected ffs

Indeed. Even talented veterans can make mistakes and blunders. Ken Levine was part of classics like VtMB and the original Bioshock. He still let the praise cloud his mind and made Bioshock Infinite which was at best an okay game.

Exactly. Outer Worlds was garbage

Or full of malware(denuvo), and don't forget the spyware(kernel level anticheats in your singleplayer game). Then there's the obligatory Epic Exclusive for the first year, maybe throw in console exclusivity for good measure. Oh, and the microtransactions. Can't forget those. Edit: supposedly it's SBI connected, soooooo.... yeah It's already doomed.

Gaider borrowed very liberally from Tolkein and George Martin to write that game, and he was very open about that at the time.

@@synapse913 And that's bad because?

@@AlexIncarnate911 I was just pointing out that DAO wasn't terribly original. And there have certainly been better written video game storylines.

@@synapse913 This modern obsession with originality rather than quality will be our downfall. Originality is not a virtue or a marker of quality. If artists imitate previous artists and do it well, they’re making good art. Shakespeare was literally recycling historical writings from antiquity turning them into plays and he’s considered (rightly so) a literary genius. While yes, the storyline of Dragon Age origins is nothing exceptional, the world building is remarkable and stands out as one of the most well constructed universes in a video game.

@@AlexIncarnate911 Lack of originality *and* quality these days is specifically why AAA gaming studios(and Hollywood) are in the crapper. They're creatively bankrupt and are reliant on memberberries to carry them. If DAO had been released after the GOT HBO show had hit it big, I don't think it would be nearly as fondly remembered. Only a handful of us even knew what ASOIAF was back in 2009.

It’s definitely a little interesting, and this is definitely on the more “real” side I’ve seen this type of animation used. From what I understand it’s to put focus on buttery smooth gameplay. There’s definitely a fine line, and personally it doesn’t bother me too much here, I think only when they are in the helmets it looks a bit odd.

They will. Drew is lead writer

@@KarlKapo Then this is gonna be one hell of a short lived studio. If this game will suck, people will know right away.

@@ripLunarBirdCLH i hope Im wrong, but I still remember ME3. :(

Lol, and ME4 never happened

@@KarlKapodrew is one of the best writers ever so I disagree completely

These developers have done many other things, written novels, DnD modules. I think it is different this time.

@@spellandshield maybe. maybe not. Depending on many things. And even ppl, who have done good in the past can screw up.

I feel the same way about Mass Effect. There is no real time frame yet as they are still building the studio but if I had to guess it would be something like 2026? I posted all the links and I will be covering it more extensively. Go check it out as I think there is not much hope left for Mass Effect.

@@spellandshield I still remember vividly the extreme letdown I felt at both Andromeda and even DA2 and 3. I didn't even buy their live service game, so yeah, Bioware is just an empty shell of disappointment. EA just killed them, and after the 2 doctors who founded it left, it's been a race to the bottom. 2026 sounds about right...the trailer looked like it had been in the oven for at least a little while, and if they had plans to stretch it out past 2026, why even make an announcement? Thanks again, I'll make use of all the links!

Sweet Baby Inc....... Yes or No........... DEI........... Yes or No ESG....... Yes or No SDG............ Yes or No BlackRock.......... Yes or No If so hell no ..... If not it's depends if it's a good game or not .....

About three fiddy

Where is the evidence this has been touched by Sweet Baby? I have tried to find it but failed.

@@spellandshield They claim to work with Wizard's of the Coast on their website. I don't know if that's a "connection", I just don't expect any new games to be good in general.

Alan Wake 2 seems to be doing well

@@Gamez4eveR You mean Alan Woke 2? If sweet baby touches this game, it's DOA. Just like any other game.

Alan Wake 2 literally blackwashed a preexisting European woman from the first game and made her the protagonist of the second, replacing the eponymous Alan Wake for the majority of the game. White man incompetent, saved by strong Black woman. Same tired tropes. The sales numbers are shit, despite reviewer shills pump up the numbers to fan the woke message.

The new squad mate character reveal his avaliable on the YT channel "Kala Elizabeth". She is described as a strong, fearless, brave.... And a bunch of other traits slapped together that actually contradict themselves in nature. Completely gives off the Disney girlboss vibes.

Yeah WoTC is partnered with Sweet Baby Inc so I have little doubt they will be involved in their usual capacity.

Sweet Baby Inc....... Yes or No........... DEI........... Yes or No ESG....... Yes or No SDG............ Yes or No BlackRock.......... Yes or No If so hell no ..... If not it's depends if it's a good game or not .....

Of course they did but they were not universal hits like BG3.

Sweet Baby Inc....... Yes or No........... DEI........... Yes or No ESG....... Yes or No SDG............ Yes or No BlackRock.......... Yes or No If so hell no ..... If not it's depends if it's a good game or not .....

wow they really live rent free in your mind don't they.

wizards of the coast is just as bad its already dead.

​@@Henrik_Holst No they earned their rent by ruining so many good games.

@@asandax6 they haven't ruined any game, you clearly don't even know what they do, they are simply hired by the game devs to get their feedback on the dialog, they have zero power or say over the final product. GG2.0 is even dumber than GG1.0 and that is saying a lot.

A.I. voiceover.

An excellent point Lord Diamond!

If the likes of Sweet Baby Inc doesn't touch this title I'll remain quietly optimistic.

Agreed. This game will bend the knee to the cult. I’d rather play the original mass effect series all over again.

What makes you think it has "DEI written all over it"? Because the characters are kind of brownish and there is a woman in it? IIRC Mass Effect 1 had some lore that suggested that 200 years in the future people had blended enough to where most humans had a kind of greyish hue or whatever. In the actual game this wasn't obvious, and we had examples of NPCs with distinct asian/indian/african features and typical skin colors. I think of the "people blend and we are all mostly the same grayish brown" in these types of stories not as an attempt to remove white people in a DEI way, but instead like an optimistic view of the future à la Star Trek. That's a very "color blind" classically liberal point of view where we have moved past conflicts about race/sex etc. If a game takes place in a contemporary setting, having women be action heroes on a similar level to men (on a large scale) is rather unrealistic and I might think the game has a political agenda it's trying to force on me. But if the game takes place 200 years in the future, or even in a fantasy world, I don't think it needs to be the same thing. In a fantasy setting the sexes might have developed/evolved differently resulting in more similar patterns of behaviour and utility between the sexes. In a sci fi world humanity might be doing genetic modification or medical treatments to smooth over inequities of traits between people. Women as 50% of the combatants on the front lines of a war at that point could be a reality. I think that's a very different thing from black females with prosthetics on the front lines of ww2.

@@Imjustaguy123 Just shut up

Got paid by Bioware 😂