BioWare Never Quite Got it Right: A Pre-Veilguard Retrospective on Mass Effect and Dragon Age

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is actually real and (nearly) out, wow! While waiting, I revisited both the Mass Effect Trilogy and the first three Dragon Age games. They're pretty good but I have notes. Let's talk about them. I swear this video was cursed. Among everything else that started going wrong, Premiere updated itself in the middle of editing and suddenly the project kept ballooning memory to the point where I almost couldn't export. Apologies if you notice any resulting quality issues. No apologies if you think my takes are too hot. And yes, I did make the video immediately dated by releasing it the day before Veilguard drops and therefore not including anything substantial about it, thank you for noticing. Shamus Young's Mass Effect Trilogy Retrospective: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=27792 Footage Sourced from LPs by: https://www.youtube.com/@UCtEuhisvShY2v25v-9kdZlw https://www.youtube.com/@Welonz (I didn't have time to replay six games to get my own footage in time to beat Veilguard's release) Patreon: https://patreon.com/EchoBizarre 0:00 Intro 4:23 Mass Effect 15:25 Mass Effect 2 33:20 Mass Effect 3 46:48 Dragon Age Origins 59:14 Dragon Age II 1:17:27 Dragon Age Inquisition 1:29:46 Conclusion FACT CHECK: When talking about ME3's Destroy ending, I stated that Project Lazarus used Reaper Tech to revive Shepard. I misremembered the videos you can find on Cronos Station and conflated EDI being made with Reaper Tech with Shepard also being revived with it. However, this is not the case, and it's not stated anywhere that Reaper Tech was used in Project Lazarus. Oops.