@roler42: I think in 2017 we're at the point where no one really is going to attempt to blame acts of Islamic terrorism on violent videogames. Even the dumbest of knee-jerk reactionist morons would find it hard to picture ISIS playing Call of Duty in their desert shit-holes and getting all their ideas from it.

@drake08: That is one of the stupidest comments I've ever read. "Remember this guys are not people they are a company".....hey, genius, what do you think companies are made of? Robots? You think they spring out of the ground? No, genius, they're made up of PEOPLE. Blame the nebulas 'company' concept for all the negative qualities of humanity as much as you want, but the fact is they're HUMAN qualities, whether you like it or not.

As for "they tend to think with their brain not their heart" - what the HELL does that even mean?! People like you actually make me sick - you're actually defending irrational, emotional thinking. The exact kind of thinking that leads to acts of mass murder like this to begin with. Hey, you know who DOES think with their heart instead of their head? ISIS, terrorists and all manner of religious zealots.

The world would be a much better place if more people DID think with their heads instead of their hearts.

@RicanV: But you don't seem to care at all about the many violent movies, TV shows and novels that are released on the same week. Seems utterly pointless to me to delay the release of ONE video game out of 'respect'.

Unless the game's plot was disturbingly similar to the real life tragedy that just happened.

The reason to get a Scorpio even if you've only got a 1080p TV is to finally have a powerful Xbox console for this generation - everyone seems to be missing a huge factor in all this which is that the current Xbox One is incredibly underpowered even for 1080p gaming and has been from Day 1. That's why only a handful of graphically intensive titles run at 1080p 60fps, that's why we STILL have tons of games with a 30fps cap, and it's why a lot of games actually run at 900p. The fact of the matter is the Xbox One is and always has been gimped for this generation right from the start - and we have Don Mattrick to thank for designing the Xbox One to be a TV streaming device with game functionality.

I don't have any plans to get a 4K TV any time soon but I will absolutely be getting a Scorpio as soon as, because I'll finally be able to play 1080p games as they're meant to be played. There'll be no more games locked at 30fps and no more 900p nonsense. Games won't be forced to be nerfed in order to run on Xbox and I'll finally be able to play games to this generation's standard, and developers can use that 4K processing power to do other graphical things at 1080p, not to mention faster load times and all that stuff.

I'm getting really sick of people ignoring this aspect of it and saying "What's the point of getting a Scorpio if you've only got a 1080p TV?" The points are obvious.

Sounds like Mass Effect: Andromeda will be yet another in Bioware's arsenal of games made by theists, for theists, where theistic belief is depicted as being nothing but virtuous and special and deserving of everyone's respect no matter what. Yawn.

I had hoped they might've learned something since Dragon Age: Inquisition, which was almost insulting in its depiction of atheists as a disingenuous, ignorant, tiny minority surrounded by wise and virtuous theists of all shapes and sizes. At the very least I thought Bioware might have actually learned what atheism is since then, but looks like we're just gonna get more of the same.

I'll just have to focus on the colonizing and inter-species warfare aspect of the game when I play it.

The incompatibility with science and faith is not merely 'perceived', it's factual; science is about evaluating evidence to form the most probable conclusions. The definition of 'faith' is 'belief without evidence'. Faith is an almost inverse counterpoint to science, the two are at odds with each other on a fundamental level.

People can believe in and practise both but they do so by compartmentalizing their minds, separating the part of them that thinks scientifically and the part that utilizes faith. No one can approach science from a faith-based standpoint because it's a fundamentally unscientific method of thinking and no one can approach their faith from a scientific perspective because doing so always shines an unwelcome light on faith-based beliefs.

The people who attempt to reconcile the two are at best inconsistent, at worst hypocrites.

I cannot believe everyone is acting like it is normal for the 'Background Music' feature to work primarily through online music streaming services. This is RETARDED from every possible angle. Why the hell would I want to stream music over the internet when I've got 40+GBs of music on a hard drive right in front of me?? MP3's I own myself that I can listen to without ads or paying a sub? Why would anyone prefer the former to the latter?

And before anyone says it, no, the 'Simple Background Music Player' does not count - has a maximum of 200 songs, is incapable of organizing them in ANY way, a completely useless 'app'.

There's a fair amount of nonsense in this article, but I give this journo credit for even knowing Andromeda is a real galaxy. The amount of articles I've read where the journos seem to think that Andromeda is a fictional creation of Bioware is frightening....

@Atzenkiller: "There's not really a point to cryo technology if it would take more than a hundred years or so to get somewhere because in a hundred years technology would probably advance to such a level that a ship sent out then would probably arrive earlier at the destination than the one sent off a hundred years before that."

Well, that's a pretty moronic comment, and an awful lot of "probably's".

First off, it's not pointless if the intention is for YOU yourself to reach the destination. Without cryo, you'd be dead or extremely old by the time you got there.

You seem to be under the assumption that the situation is a group of people in this galaxy want to create some sort of long term back-and-forth transit system between here and Andromeda, in which case - assuming your logic is sound - it would be more sensible to wait 100 years. But the intention is almost certainly not that - it's pretty clear from everything we know about Mass Effect: Andromeda that what's going on is an intergalactic exodus, a one way last ditch attempt of a bunch of people trying to survive by finding a new home (I would imagine they put every last scrap of technology and morsel of energy at their disposal into getting there). In this scenario, cryo is not only sensible, but vital - the alternative is to have the ship's populations living out lives on the ship for that 100 years, consuming oxygen, food, water etc...it also means that those setting out on the journey will not live to see their great-grandchildren's destination.

Your 'logic' is kind of ridiculous in this scenario - a bunch of people running out of time to stay alive, they know they'll die off in a few years if they remain in this location, so they put everything at their disposal into travelling to a new location where they will be safe - and you suggest they wait 100 years so the journey will be "quicker" (which makes no sense whatsoever, by the way), by which point they would have all died anyway. :/

Come on, man, use your brain.

I'm also not convinced that your logic is sound in the first place. How on earth you can be sure that a ship built 100 years later would be capable of arriving before the original ship is beyond me - in fact, wouldn't that mean that the second ship would need to be capable of instantaneous, teleportation-like travel - or even time travel - in order to get there before the cryo ship? Seems like you're engaging in an awful lot of irrational guesswork. An 'ocean' ship built 100 years ago could easily sail around the world within a few months. A jet built today could make the same journey in less than 24 hours - does that mean that the boat builders 100 years ago should have waited 100 years for the jet to be built? Or that if they had they would have made the journey BEFORE boat 100 years ago? 0o See how stupid and nonsensical that logic is?

"And we're talking here about a few hundred years into the future, where the pace at which technology develops will be so much higher than it is now."

Again, this is a pretty stupid comment. You're ignoring the fact that we rely on materials and energy and resources for technological development. When we have more resources at our disposal than is required then yes, the rate of advancement increases as time goes on - but if we start to run out of those resources, you'll see that rate plummet REALLY god damn fast. We could even regress technologically. You can't just take the rate at which it increases now and do the maths to determine where we will definitely be in 100 years, because you're ignoring too many variables.

And we're talking about the Mass Effect universe, where we know that at the end of ME3 the Mass Relays - the foundation of all advanced galactic technology - have been destroyed, and the galaxies inhabitants left in a galactic post-apocalypse situation. The idea that those people will be able to create a ship 100 years later that can arrive at Andromeda BEFORE the one they sent out 100 years previous is pretty ridiculous.