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Post by dgcatanisiri on May 23, 2022 9:26:11 GMT
Yeah, having just finished ME1 again this time with the remaster, Shepard is too much of a veteran at this point to keep stretching his story. We are due Ryder's story of growing continue or a new character all together. Honestly wouldn't surprise me if they go with a new one that is just another Shepard but in the Andromeda Galaxy. I will also say they really should have avoided the whole endings thing with Mass Effect 3, the story in 1 is very clear on what your goal and issue is to stop the cycle, and no one ends up in a good place indoctrinated. Mainly the issue being Synthesis, as is a huge change for the galaxy, where as control and destroy you can get away with just avoiding much use of robots and more use of aliens or something, but Synthesis just makes it hard to put on a story forward unless they find a way to retcon it anyway, saying the peace was temporary and the effects wore off or something. That was always my thing with the endings - it was never a problem surrounding the "pick a color" ending, my problem was how it was an endgame attempt at rewriting what the central core of the series was, that I saw choice as the central question of the trilogy, and that the whole business of the endings tried to argue that the central idea of "organics versus synthetics." That idea existed in the trilogy, but it was never the central point that you'd hinge the climax and finale of the game on.
And it's both why I tend to favor Destroy (and don't particularly care one way or the other about that whole breathe thing, since there's really not much of a way that, even if Shepard IS alive at that point, they could survive alone until help came) and don't much care for the Happy Ending mod - it cuts out the actual CHOICE that the endings do provide for the sake of an ending that I don't feel is at all earned, considering that every choice in ME3 is at SOMEONE'S expense, even when you do them "right" - even if you cure the genophage, Mordin dies, even if you make peace with the quarians and geth, Legion dies...
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Post by Scottphoto on Jun 17, 2022 2:13:24 GMT
Mass Effect LE will be free on Amazon Prime, for those that don't want to directly buy it or can't, is an alternative: kotaku.com/mass-effect-legendary-edition-bioware-amazon-prime-day-1849072201I just started playing through ME2, I will say the upgrades are more nicely noticeable when playing, much more smooth, Normandy loading is practically instant, and the character models do look a lot better. I think it does better at retaining its atmosphere while still upgrading a few touches. Where as ME1 sometimes feels it changes more but I still think it felt good overall. One thing that was off was the character import though, tried to import my custom Shepard from me1 but it look lighter his hair and beard so I just recreated him to darken a few elements. I might just end up restarting it though cuz I kinda messed up a few things XD. |
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Post by Scottphoto on Jul 4, 2022 20:44:04 GMT
The next Mass Effect has now a new and very great experienced Senior Narrative Director, Mary DeMarle, who worked on the last two Deus Ex games and the recently very well received Guardians of the Galaxy. In a lot of ways Guardians felt like a light version of Mass Effect, so I think this is great news in terms of great focus on the narrative of characters, as Guardians did really well to spotlight each character with an arc.
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Post by Scottphoto on Nov 7, 2022 21:42:35 GMT
N7 Announcements and tweets compilation: TL:DR The mass relays are being rebuilt by humans, Liara notes the council can’t stop humans, placing quite the timeline in a potentially further future. Liara also has a new 3rd teased role now in this new game.
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Nov 8, 2022 4:02:16 GMT
And my interest in ME5 dwindles rapidly with YET. ANOTHER. use of Liara in the advertising...
Do I recognize that they likely have nothing fully set in stone and so can't tease anything about new characters at this point? Yes. Am I sick and tired of BioWare ALWAYS going straight to Liara, EVERY. TIME. they want to tease something relating to Mass Effect? GOD yes.
If they want me to be invested in this next game, if they want me to buy it, GIVE ME SOMETHING THAT IS NOT LIARA.
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Post by disgustednoise on Nov 8, 2022 15:15:45 GMT
Yawn.
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Nov 8, 2022 15:27:37 GMT
I have to admit I have no problem with Liara. It makes sense to have her as a connection since she can live well over a thousand years and she can't die in the trilogy (excluding a VERY specific scenario that 99% of players would never see). But I get it. She's not for everyone and to me, it's the equivalent of having Varric in EVERY Dragon Age media for no reason...(although Liara has more of a reasonable excuse/resources...)
Still...even though we've been treated poorly by Mass Effect, I can't deny my excitement to revisit a world that meant so much to me all those years ago. I want to hope they'll do better. There's still a few years yet before we get some concrete information, so we'll see....
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Post by Lee on Nov 8, 2022 17:11:20 GMT
I took the time to think on this a while and my first gut feeling still stands out that Liara being used is a red flag for me, but like mentioned it makes sense sort of...but still I'd of rather hear from Grunt or someone else that could probably still be alive. Even if they can die in game-didn't stop them from continuing to use Leliana in Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition.  |
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Post by Scottphoto on Nov 8, 2022 22:53:19 GMT
You can now hear a clean sound version, is quite interesting as I am seeing people speculating Liara might be reacting to finding out about the Andromeda Initiative, would explain why she is so shocked the council would miss this and the whole human defiance aspect. But it could also just be humans building relays I guess, either way, I can see perhaps Andromeda tech/connections in some form helping rebuild the galaxy. At the same time though, I shouldn't get too excited about possible Andromeda follows ups just in case.
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Nov 9, 2022 5:28:22 GMT
What I'm hoping is that this next game serves as a "bridge" between the Milky Way and Andromeda and we CAN see a continuation of Andromeda's story to some extent, even if it isn't what we wanted (continuing Ryder 's story specifically).
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Post by Scottphoto on Sept 11, 2023 15:44:39 GMT
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Sept 11, 2023 19:26:53 GMT
Dude I hope thats true, like who got time for open worlds like??? Bethesda are somehow manageable cause doing the main quests usually doesnt keep you from doing sidequests later if you want so if you miss your character you just can return to the point you were before, but Bioware? it doesnt work like that, doing a completionist run in DAI is torture lol and you miss lots of quests if you keep doing the main campaign.
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Post by Lee on Sept 12, 2023 5:36:43 GMT
I hope so too. Open worlds are so overrated.
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Sept 12, 2023 21:22:56 GMT
Yeah, I don't dislike open world games, but at this point, I kinda feel one) the oversaturation and two) that the really big thing about them is that they need to be balanced with narrative cohesion, something that I don't feel ANYONE doing them has really managed to strike that right balance of - either the main plot's urgency dies because of the million sidequests you can do instead and take forever on while the plot treats everything as still an emergency, even as you take forty hours IRL to get to the next plot mission, or you feel narrative pressure to push through everything right away, and don't take the time to enjoy all the other work in the game.
So moving away from that format honestly seems like a net positive for whatever comes next.
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Post by Scottphoto on Sept 14, 2023 20:20:22 GMT
Dude I hope thats true, like who got time for open worlds like??? Bethesda are somehow manageable cause doing the main quests usually doesnt keep you from doing sidequests later if you want so if you miss your character you just can return to the point you were before, but Bioware? it doesnt work like that, doing a completionist run in DAI is torture lol and you miss lots of quests if you keep doing the main campaign. LOL that's fair, I started DAI and the number of quests in that game in just the hinterlands is overwhelming, how many damn notes of dead husbands and wives are in this game XD. I'm only partial to it because as a sci-fi fan I do love planet exploration, and at least with mass effect there's quite a lot of narrative on it and I liked it on Andromeda but at the same time if we are going back to galaxies we already know, it wouldn't make sense to go open world on the milky way or Heleus for that matter. |
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Sept 16, 2023 0:06:01 GMT
Dude I hope thats true, like who got time for open worlds like??? Bethesda are somehow manageable cause doing the main quests usually doesnt keep you from doing sidequests later if you want so if you miss your character you just can return to the point you were before, but Bioware? it doesnt work like that, doing a completionist run in DAI is torture lol and you miss lots of quests if you keep doing the main campaign. LOL that's fair, I started DAI and the number of quests in that game in just the hinterlands is overwhelming, how many damn notes of dead husbands and wives are in this game XD. I'm only partial to it because as a sci-fi fan I do love planet exploration, and at least with mass effect there's quite a lot of narrative on it and I liked it on Andromeda but at the same time if we are going back to galaxies we already know, it wouldn't make sense to go open world on the milky way or Heleus for that matter. Yeah, the numerous little fetchquests made sense for Ryder - they're the Pathfinder, they're supposed to be out exploring, which leads to running down leads and looking at X, Y, and Z as a potential source of resources and other necessities. It made much more sense than the Inquisitor seeking out thirty bundles of elfroot - I always compared that to the four star general going to polish the weapons, while the recruits were out interacting with foreign dignitaries.
But by the time of any successive game in Heleus, the cluster should be better explored at this point, and I don't expect the Pathfinder to be at the forefront of further in-cluster exploration. So if we are taking on another role, it won't be as likely that they would have a role that lends itself to doing the same stuff as a Pathfinder.
*sigh* I know that the game is probably still in the planning stages right now, but I am frustrated we don't have anything genuinely solid to go on with what it'll be. I mean, DA4 is equally frustrating for being where it's at after a decade, but... For all the teasing they try and do for these games, you really can't get around the fact that we don't really have a lot to go on while they try and build hype for them anyway.
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Post by Scottphoto on Nov 7, 2023 22:20:47 GMT
So our first look at the next protagonist for the next mass effect game has been revealed in a new teaser video today, BUT that is not all, before the full video released they were spread in various teases on a blog with text that among one of the things it does, it establishes andromeda is involved and the timeplace being andromeda years: First one was Epsilon which featured this text: www.ea.com/en-gb/games/mass-effect/epsilon /////SECONDARY ENCRYPTION DETECTED /////VJBSVU-XXXX-XXXXXXXX /////ANDROMEDA DISTRESS SIGNAL DETECTED /////YEAR SENT: [REDACTED] /////AUDIO TRANSCRIPT: ALTHOUGH THEY SHOULD KNOW BY NOW NOT TO UNDERESTIMATE HUMAN [REDACTED] Second Teaser Oculon: www.ea.com/games/mass-effect/oculon-2819-defiance////ACCESS CODE: OCULON-2819-DEFIANCE /////ACCESS CODE ACCEPTED /////TERTIARY ENCRYPTION DETECTED /////CLASSIFIED: REVIEW BRIEFING MATERIALS ON OFFICIAL ALLIANCE COMMS CHANNELS Final Teaser Nebula: www.ea.com/games/mass-effect/post-nebula/////ACCESS CODE ACCEPTED: POST-NEBULA /////WARNING /////SECURITY BREACH DETECTED /////CONTACT SYSTEMS ALLIANCE Poster: (it features an angara in the club!) |
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Nov 8, 2023 1:10:53 GMT
Thanks for sharing all the updates!
So many loose ends from Andromeda that need to be answered...I know I'll probably be disappointed in the end...but I am also really excited to see where they might go.
Also I REALLY hope they don't go for a faceless blank slate protagonist. Leave that to Dragon Age. I prefer my Mass Effect games with "iconic" protagonists. Would also love to see the return of the feature where there is a default first name you can use to be heard in game.
(Have to admit I'm not a fan of the design for the protagonist so far...)
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Post by Lee on Nov 8, 2023 3:15:02 GMT
That new n7 trench coat is giving me space Western vibes. Probably just an odd fashion choice though.
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Nov 10, 2023 8:15:29 GMT
I liked Liara's teaser better that this one haha I really hope this character is not Shepard or anything related to him/her, let that man/woman rest, mine is happy with Kaidan til the grew up old and pacifically passed away, with a lot of adopted dogs and grandchildren playing around! But I love they are linking the game to Andromeda, seeing Andromeda haters spewing venom already is a delight  and seeing the Geth gives me so much joy too, I really hope the red ending is canon'd with geth and EDI surviving somehow, I dont know how different endings would work specially the green space magic one lol |
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and seeing the Geth gives me so much joy too, I really hope the red ending is canon'd with geth and EDI surviving somehow, I dont know how different endings would work specially the green space magic one lol
