Mass Effect 4 studio director heading to E3 for the first time in 8 years
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"Mass Effect: The Next Generation"
Why would EA limit their profit like that?
Andodalf
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this is a little OT, but can we talk about how in ME1 femshep had some moves, but lost them all in 2? she did the male dance in 2.
figadapaura
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The first mission/prologue should be during the final mission in ME3 to take back Earth, fuck all this talk of ignoring the ending to 3. Bioware claims they were "proud" of it, well then lets see it from a different perspective.
The problem is choosing which one, not the ending itself.
KOTOR worked. And that's the only type of prequel I would want to see, one set thousands of years before Shep
What usually happens in these cases is they pick all of them and combine them. That's what Deus Ex: Invisible War did.
"All synthetics are dead... but they're not!"
"Everyone's merged with synthetics... but not really!"
"Shepard helped rebuild the Galaxy... but someone stopped him halfway through! Oh no!"
"Everyone's merged with synthetics... but not really!"
"Shepard helped rebuild the Galaxy... but someone stopped him halfway through! Oh no!"
Yes, yes - I know - and I guess the poeple who haven't finished the first 3 will have to be careful when entering ME 4 related threads. That being said, I'm pretty sure a lot of the people working their way through the first trilogy as we speak might be interested in a discussion about the ME 4 studio director heading to E3 without neccessarily expecting spoilers about ME3. Someone is bound to be spoiled, just felt a bit off to me...
Anyway, lets just move on, I guess...
figadapaura
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Yeah, I'd rather they just ignore them.
Melchiah
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I'd prefer the former.
There wouldn't be humans in space though, not that it would bother me.
Why would time have anything to do with when spoiling something is ok? I'm in the middle of playing ME3 for the first time.
Rei no Otaku
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Problem with that is there'd be no humans. While I wouldn't mind that at all, there's no way EA is going to publish a game with no humans for mainstream audiences to relate to.
I'm okay with it being a prequel in the sense that it takes place before the events of the trilogy, but I want a completely new story. I'm over Shepard, the reapers, the protheans, and all that business. There's an entire universe there to work with. Maybe instead of being about space Jesus, savior of the galaxy, it could focus on more smaller scale, self-contained events.
Either way I'm pretty excited for some more Mass Effect. Fingers crossed it's new gen and PC only.
Either way I'm pretty excited for some more Mass Effect. Fingers crossed it's new gen and PC only.
figadapaura
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Well, it was your decision to go in this thread. I'd understand if the game had just come out in the last 6 months, or even the last year, but you can't expect people to spoiler tag things forever.
Ovek
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Ascenion
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I think we all know destroy would be canon. While heavily debated by the community it gives the most interesting sequel options in a post reaper galaxy while ensuring they can't pull bullshit and bring the reapers back unless they retcon dlc and say there were some elsewhere. Plus if somehow this game fails and
they have to brig back Shep it's the only ending he really lives in and not just lives on.
dgrdsv
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It also would be as far from Mass Effect fundamentals as physically possible.
Rei no Otaku
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Even control would work. In fact that one makes the most sense if they were to do a sequel.Or just pick destroy
Melchiah
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I'm okay with smaller scale events, but I'd like to see some "epic" mystery as well. Perhaps something in the dark space, but not in the scale of threatening the galaxy, as that's already been done.
George Oscar Bluth II
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You see, BioWare? Dennis and I want the same things. Give us these things.
Green Yoshi
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Not after Mass Effect 3 (I like it though).
Yeah, for sure. Mass Effect is a space opera so you gotta expect some epicness. I just don't want them to retread the whole saving the universe from annihilation against all odds thing, it's played out.
It would, although wouldn't you agree that following the events from 3, there really can't be anything like Mass Effect happening inside that universe?
figadapaura
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If they do pick an ending, I hope it's destroy, but I'd rather they just start fresh. Far enough into the future that nobody really talks about it anymore (except for like history classes or whatever).
Ovek
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It could be set many years after the events of ME3, if you think about it people keep mentioning that the game has a exploration theme. Maybe the game is about exploring the many hundreds of unopened/deactivated gates.
This might be how the new race appears and how me meet something "darker"... we all know there will be something "darker".
Melchiah
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One option could be bringing the Leviathans onboard, but I'd also like there to be something we haven't seen before.
Ascenion
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So do I. I remember reading something, probably fan made, about it being so far into the future that due to infighting in the galaxy because of the prolonged existence of species and races since no reapers, Salarian "uplifting", and over population that reaper tech is adapted to allow for true intergalactic travel and we end up going to Andromeda and well you can see where this goes.
CharmingCharlie
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At this point I am incredibly "meh" about a new Mass Effect. I am still interested in seeing how Bioware are going to salvage the mess from ME 3. Whilst the red and blue ending are fairly "similar" it's the green ending that poses a problem. Even if you set the game thousands of years into the future after ME 3 you still have to deal with the consequences of the Green ending for the 3 people that actually chose that god awful ending.
Muscle Wizard
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I'd prefer a reboot/re-imagining at this point. A prequel would be pointless and there is no conceivable way to salvage the ending of ME3 to do a sequel.
Confidence Man
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If it takes place before the original maybe they'll ditch the stupid thermal clip reloading and go back to weapon heating/cooling.
Get out.
Muscle Wizard
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Unless EA made the deal pre-180, I doubt this. EA is all about maximizing profits and unless they are under contract with Microsoft they wouldn't limit themselves from that sweet PS4 money.
Turin Turambar
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I would like some other developer tries to make a epic scifi RPG, as I dislike the setting and tone used in Mass Effect. Something more modern. ME feels stuck in the 60-70s scifi.
What's your stake? I'll take it.
Avatar bet?
No bet but I can easily see MS getting this. The game always sold the most on 360.
The first mission/prologue should be during the final mission in ME3 to take back Earth, fuck all this talk of ignoring the ending to 3. Bioware claims they were "proud" of it, well then lets see it from a different perspective.
Who cares what BioWare thinks.
Do you expect them to say they fucked up? They won't even acknowledge Dragon Age II was atrocious.
figadapaura
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PinkCrayon
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This excites me.
Synless
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Sarcasm? See Titanfall.
Exploratory
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Doubt?
I still think we'll see some kind of teaser, it may be closed door, but not much else. They want that Dragon Age hype.
Melchiah
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The tone of the first one, and its soundtrack, was perfect. The closest any sci-fi RPG has ever got to Babylon 5.
Rei no Otaku
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Which was before MS shit the bed. Also wasn't Titanfall not even going to be made at all until MS stepped in? I remember hearing about that from the special Keighley did on it.
*Sigh*
They are mutually exclusive though.
figadapaura
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Unproven IP (which is going multiplat now that it has). There's no way ME4 is gonna be exclusive to anybody.
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