Original Mass Effect cinematic designer and Mass Effect 2 lead cinematic designer Armando Troisi has insisted the current BioWare team doesn't need outside advice on developing the next installment because so many of the people who built the original trilogy are still at the studio.
Asked what guidance they'd offer developers working on the new game, Troisi didn't think they had anything to add.
"It's hard for me to say because a lot of people that are on that project were there [during the originals]," Troisi told FRVR. "They know. Preston [Watamaniuk] is there, and Derek [Watts] is there, and Parish [Ley] is there, and they're the OGs, you know? I don't think there's anything that I could tell them that they don't know what to do."
The next Mass Effect game is in development at BioWare.
Troisi left the studio after Mass Effect 2, but has confident in the team that remains behind.
"When I was leaving, everybody wrote on a card… he [Preston] said, 'passion and craft is excellence'… I think they've got both of those so I don't think that I can give them any more advice than they already have. They know this stuff," Troisi said.
Troisi believes the team's instincts are sound, but pushed into unfamiliar territory - the kind of late pivot some have pointed to around Veilguard's development - the results can suffer.
"It's one of those things where, if people get out of the way and let game creators just do their thing, you never know the magic that they can create," Troisi added.
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