10 Video Game Sequels That Pointlessly Took Away Things Fans Loved
5. The Quarians - Mass Effect: Andromeda
The Quarians are arguably the most interesting race in the series, and through Tali have one of the franchise’s poster girls in their roster. They’re mentioned in passing in Andromeda, but that’s quite simply not good enough. Many players expected their arc to be found in an early mission, because surely they went going to cut completely. Surely?!
It’s abundantly clear that they were being saved for DLC, which given the poor sales and BioWare focussing on Anthem (with Dragon Age 4 on the horizon), will now never materialise.
If Andromeda had been a huge success and the DLC released on time with an engaging story, this criticism might have been forgotten. With or without it though, the point stands that such a key part of the universe should never have been chopped off to charge extra for later.
Previous Mass Effect DLCs have dug into lesser explored side stories; they never paywalled plot. There’s a lot of nitpicking you can make about Andromeda, and whether it deserves the criticism it gets is a debate for another day. Leaving the Quarians out was a shameless cash grab to get people to buy the DLC, and it backfired spectacularly.