Comment on Mass Effect is one of the greatest games ever and EA makes good games
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As others have noted, EA acquires devs AFTER they’ve started an incredibly successful new IP and then grinds them into action games from whatever they were until the series has nothing left of what made it good in the first place.
Mass Effect 3 was the first major release with loot crates, for fucks sake!
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That was still some of the best multiplayer gaming I’ve ever played. While it was loot crate based, it was far more customer friendly than the modern equivalent.
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agreed, I actually did like the ME3 multiplayer, and played a TON of it. With regard to loot boxes, I was happy that updates were free and progress was achievable without buying in (until I started getting horrible rng on weapon mods and just didn’t get any).
That being said, there’s no arguing it paved the way for the horrible modern equivalent.
For those curious about ME3 multiplayer today, it’s worth noting that purchases are only client side checks, and EA doesn’t care about the property enough to be banning anyone anymore (multiplayer didn’t make it to Legendary Edition), so you can buy all the boxes you want by spoofing your credits with cheat engine with no consequences