Success of Legendary Edition Convinced Mass Effect Lead Writer to Leave BioWare

Mass effect trilogy was amazing a feat probably never to be repeated in gaming

I have just finished first entry of Legendary edition and i was thrilled. Looking forward to next ones. Truly wonderful series.

I love the Legendary Edition of Mass Effect so good for him to go out on such a high note.

I do hope that EA does a similar thing for Dragon Age before Dragon Age 4 comes out. Dragon Age 1-Inquisition with all DLC would be one amazing collection to play through before Dragon Age 4 and worth the $60-$70.

Good luck Mac.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

He got out before they suggested remastering Andromeda.

This should tell you that the new Mass Effect barely exists in anyway at all.

I doubt we’ll ever get a trilogy where choices extensively carry over like the Mass Effect team pulled off. I only first played it with the Legendary Edition but couldn’t imagine how amazing it would’ve been during the PS3 era.

#johnshep4theWIN 🤔 2 weeks off Massa over Christmas ( I call mass effect trilogy massa cause it's so massive 🤣)
Hmmmm doable yea avatar can wait load this up on me steam with a load of mods off nexus mods , I bled sweat and tears in these games now John is a walking god in me massa stories now. Fair play to this dude i hope he finds something he will be happy with thank you for making mass effect the choice game for the sci-fi junkie in me!

@AgentMantis lol never going to happen. No one asks for it, like with the trilogy. Andromeda is ignored in pretty much every way. On N7 day, you hear from the trilogy cast, get trilogy related art. The store carries only trilogy related merch. I imagine the n7 helmet of Andromeda just not selling and the clearance sale on the tempest pretty much put an end to Andromeda merch.

If they did anything with Andromeda, it would a reimagining that would rework the entire game from the ground up. That's how much the game needed fixes. The story is half assed and not well written, the characters are generally only liked by fans of the panderverse, the music outside of the title screen lacks any soul or presence, and combat and movement was greatly improved, the combat systems and growth systems were not finished. Exploration aspects returned ME to its original design document, but forgot what made mass effect the success that it was. Focusing less on strong branching story elements through carefully planned and crafted missing structures and more on dull empty poorly laid out locations on a map providing no sense of adventure. All to enforce a false sense of discovery that wasn't earned on an open map.

We will probably see a remake of the trilogy before we ever see a remaster of Andromeda.

I only played mass effect after the legendary edition was released, and I really liked it. Although in particular the first and second felt in terms of gameplay (excluding the branching dialog system) a bit dated. Anyway great that this edition was created, but a shame that they did not add a VR mode at the same time. Journey to Foundation showed that mass effect would work very well in VR, and a mass effect VR mode presumably would have been better than Journey to Foundation in every way. But somehow developers have not understood yet how great games can be in VR, and that the extra amount of work is not necessarily huge (e.g. Re4).

Is he project director or lead writer? I mean the writer who deserves all the credit is Karpyshyn who left ME a long time ago (more like forced onto SWTOR to save it).

Ben Hanson at Minnmax is a great interviewer and has a real talent for picking up people who have recently left studios and letting them tell their stories. His interview with Bruce Nesmith, who was creative lead for skyrim and at Bethesda for Fallout 4 and begining of Starfield was great too. Shouts out to independent media, doing the Lords work!

Legendary Edition was great, the games really hold up well.

@JohntheRaptor He is credited as senior writer on the first Mass Effect, with Karpyshyn as the sole lead writer, then went on to be co-lead writer with Karpyshyn on Mass Effect 2 and eventually became sole lead writer on Mass Effect 3.

Considering how the trilogy evolved, I'm sure that will point him in a negative light for some, but he still had significant writing contributions throughout the trilogy.

Unfortunately for him he's also credited as director for Andromeda, though that game went through 2 other directors before him, so he was probably left to pick up the pieces. At least he wasn't involved in the writing process for that game.

It's such a fantastic bundle. I think I'm going to also get a physical copy, which I'm seeing is crazy cheap on Amazon ($20) and Best Buy ($16.50) if anyone else was thinking the same

Andromedas not a bad game its just not a good mass effect game

A bit spineless of him to not want to take the challenge to make a new, better one.

Mmm I can totally understand him but he’s kinda chickening out 😉 and I’m sad we won’t have him for the next (inevitable) Mass Effect game

@R1spam Hanson is great. Seems like a good, likable dude too.

The Mass Effect Trilogy is such a great experience. Will we ever see the likes of it again?

No probably not unless one of the big AAA publishers decides art, story and meaningful mechanics come before profit. Playing it, the only thing I'm sorry for, is having half my crew wiped out in mass effect 2. Even then it blew my mind.

Just bought this for six quid. Kasumi would be proud because that is a steal!

So good I bought it twice, that or my steam deck doesn't accept ps4 discs.... 😂