{"id":821,"date":"2025-07-22T01:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/draplenvuxio.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:32:45","slug":"games-inbox-will-there-ever-be-a-new-mass-effect-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draplenvuxio.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/games-inbox-will-there-ever-be-a-new-mass-effect-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Inbox: Will there ever be a new Mass Effect game?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Tuesday letters page worries that younger people are no longer interested in console games, as one reader looks forward to MachineGames\u2019 Quake reboot.<\/p>\n

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BioWare Effect<\/strong>
Considering how badly Dragon Age: The Veilguard<\/a> did I\u2019m honestly surprised that EA<\/a> has not shut down BioWare yet. They\u2019re obviously dead meat if Mass Effect<\/a> 4 isn\u2019t a hit but will they even make it that far? We\u2019ve still not seen any gameplay or got any hint about when there\u2019ll be a reveal or, god forbid, a release date.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t believe that a series that seemed so strong in the Xbox<\/a> 360 era has fallen this far, to the point where younger gamers probably aren\u2019t even going to know what it is. Mass Effect 2<\/a> is hands down one of the best games of that generation, as far as I\u2019m concerned, but it\u2019s all been downhill since then, especially with Andromeda.<\/p>\n

I really hope that BioWare pull it out of the bag and I pity them for the pressure they must be under. The worse thing is I have a feeling EA are only going along with it all in order to get the TV deal with Amazon. Could this be the first example of a game series being saved by its TV show? I guess you could argue Fallout but that was at least always going to get made, just not necessarily this quick.
Igor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Old man\u2019s game<\/strong>
I don\u2019t want to come across as an old man but I\u2019m not surprised to find out that the average age of console gamers<\/a> is so old. In my experience, kids and teenagers just aren\u2019t that interested in traditional games. All they play is mobile games (because they\u2019re free) and PC games (because they\u2019re easy to pirate). From their perspective, there\u2019s no reason to get an expensive console to play mostly the same games.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same with movies, where younger people just aren\u2019t that interested and see going to the cinema as old-fashioned. Whether there\u2019ll get more into both things as they get older I don\u2019t think anyone can say but assuming that most young people will like video games and movies by default just isn\u2019t possible anymore and I suspect it\u2019s only going to get worse.<\/p>\n

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That explains why publishers are obsessed with live service games, although abandoning the people they know will spend money in an attempt to snag new ones that currently don\u2019t seems a flawed concept to me.
Taniss<\/strong><\/p>\n

All or nothing<\/strong>
There\u2019s been a lot of talk recently about EA\u2019s status as the last big independent publisher but I have got a really bad feeling about Battlefield 6. They seem to be putting everything they\u2019ve got into it but what guarantee have they got that it\u2019s going to be any better than Battlefield 2042? They were all in on that when it started and look how quickly that fell apart.<\/p>\n

Not putting all your eggs in one basket is such a basic piece of advice but between this and EA Sports FC, EA just doesn\u2019t seem to care. Battlefield is never going to be as a big as they want, they whiffed that chance a decade ago. At this rate we\u2019re never going to get Star Wars: Battlefront 2.
Limpton<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Machine formula<\/strong>
Seems like MachineGames have been talking about rebooting Quake<\/a> for so long now, but I would love to see it happen. I\u2019m curious to see if it will have the same set-up as all their other games though, where there\u2019s lots of little open world areas where you wander around and speak to people and get side quests.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been doing that since the days of Chronicles Of Riddick and while I\u2019ve always loved their stuff, it feels like they\u2019re still no very well known, not even after Indiana Jones And The Great Circle.<\/p>\n

Quake has never been the same between any of its sequels, so it\u2019s totally possible for them to mould it into something of their own. I\u2019d love to see it but then again, the thought of a Wolfenstein 3 in a post-Trump world makes me very interested to see how far Microsoft would let them go.
Gonch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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