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The Mass Effect Community Thread
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They say Fall, August is technically Fall so Gamescom reveal is possible.
You can already see that Bioware people on Twitter are doing some damage control trying to assure people that the game will be shipping in Q1 2017.
I saw the tweet you're referencing, and I think he's saying we'll get more info in the fall, not that the game ships in the fall.
While I'm at it, updating this post:
Ivory Samoan
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I think it's smart to still show a bit of gameplay now, once TF2 has shipped I foresee a whole lot of Mass Effect being pushed promotion wise from EA: November 7 blowout nigh on confirmed I reckon.
Half the problem is that they announced the game way to early but both times they've shown the games it has been a bit underwhelming. It was kind of expected last year but they've spent all that time since then saying it's coming early 2017 so you would expect a big blow out of information and this is all they show. I don't blame people for questioning what state the game must be in at this point.
I do kind of think it isn't just a Bioware problem though EA haven't been able to get their shit together for the whole of this generation.
I do kind of think it isn't just a Bioware problem though EA haven't been able to get their shit together for the whole of this generation.
NOOOO!!!!!!!!! I wish I had seen that before the conference, I would have lowered my expectations accordingly
Hopefully BC for ME2 and ME3 gets announced tomorrow at MS's conference, I need my Mass Effect fix because at this moment I'm beginning to lose interest in ME:A.
NOOOO!!!!!!!!! I wish I had seen that before the conference, I would have lowered my expectations accordingly
Hopefully BC for ME2 and ME3 gets announced tomorrow at MS's conference, I need my Mass Effect fix because at this moment I'm beginning to lose interest in ME:A.
I wouldn't say I'm losing interest, more like my interest has gone from feverish back to almost forgotten.
Basically it woke up, saw that it was basically nothing, then hit the snooze button and went back to sleep until Fall.
I think my largest problem is that I've had my hopes up for almost every event leading to this and then dashed every single time, and I think this one kind of broke me.
I think I'll be excited for when it comes out, but I'm at like fool me 5 times, I need to learn to expect nothing.
The official word is that we'll get more info in the Fall, so I suspect that what we've seen is what we get for E3. GamesCom and N7 day are both in the fall, so who knows for those events?
If the last 2 E3s and the last N7 day has taught us anything, it's to not get your hopes up.
I think I'll be excited for when it comes out, but I'm at like fool me 5 times, I need to learn to expect nothing.
The official word is that we'll get more info in the Fall, so I suspect that what we've seen is what we get for E3. GamesCom and N7 day are both in the fall, so who knows for those events?
If the last 2 E3s and the last N7 day has taught us anything, it's to not get your hopes up.
My money is on Gamescom but I think some small gameplay or the same trailer at Microsoft's conference and announcing backwards compatibility.
BrassDragon
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I'm just amazed they're not even ready and able to talk about the story and characters... I mean, okay, so maybe they don't have a slice of gameplay ready for primetime but surely at this point, they can say something with more substance than 'HOW FAR CAN WE TAKE MASS EFFECT DOT DOT DOT?'
If you asked me a few hours ago, I was sure we would at least get some tangible information about the new protagonist to tide us over. Now we don't even know if we've seen them in the footage!
If you asked me a few hours ago, I was sure we would at least get some tangible information about the new protagonist to tide us over. Now we don't even know if we've seen them in the footage!
SliChillax
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I'm glad about the no story or characters part. I wanna discover everything once I play the game.
I'm a bit more mellow on the showing after some time, but there's a certain irony that a showing that was supposed to hype me up and get me all excited only managed to seriously deflate me and drown my hope for the game.
Then again deflated expectations can be good, at least. Less for the game to live up to.
Then again deflated expectations can be good, at least. Less for the game to live up to.
Any BC announcement will likely come on the Microsoft stage. MS knows that Mass Effect are widely requested titles, they'd want to have that goodwill pop.
Update, updated.
Why didn't I think of that?
prag16
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Yeah, whether or not the game is ACTUALLY in danger of being pushed back, they certainly made damn sure that would be the conclusion everyone jumps to. Folks over in the main thread are losing their minds.
The delay announcements fan fiction is really interesting.
prag16
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The dude "calling" the precise and elaborate four phased delay sequence lost me a bit of faith in humanity. Assuming it was a serious post. If it was satirical as a response to all the hand wringing, then it was brilliant.
The GOAT is still that guy that wrote the Elcor/Hanar smut fanfiction.
Ivory Samoan
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I think that is the perfect amount of gameplay and story tidbits for a game still coming out in next year: what Fallout 4 did with it's short promotional timeframe I think will become more the norm... less can sometimes be more.
At least it showcased some gameplay, and my god...how good looking is this game!
Frostbyte Mass Effect looks tons better than Frostbyte Inquisition at this stage.
At least it showcased some gameplay, and my god...how good looking is this game!
Frostbyte Mass Effect looks tons better than Frostbyte Inquisition at this stage.
Ivory Samoan
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Frostbite
Also, I made a webm of the trailer without the dev bits in it since IMO it should have been a separate video. Seems like an actual trailer now. Not sure what to do about audio.
Oh true haha...always was Frostbyte in my head
Nice, look forward to this edit!
No suggestions on how to keep the SEs, but here's the original song if you just wanted to match the music.
That should help. Audio mixing/editing is new to me, so I got to figure out how to make it work with a 1min36sec video.
It's easy stuff. Even the built in Windows editor can handle the basics.
It's not necessarily adding it to Premiere I have trouble with, it's just making the rhythm match the video. Making the music sound like it totally matches the trailer by cutting the music in the right places.
HarryHengst
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Nice trailer, good reminder that the game exists, but im not expecting this until late 2017. Still got like 18 billion planets to visit in No Mans Sky by then so its okay.
Ivory Samoan
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I'm happy for them to delay it until whenever it needs to be finished, if there's one game I don't want rushed out the gate ever, it's Mass Effect.
That crucibles powering the ARK ships theory is intriguing.........I like it!
Posted this on the ME; andromeda thread. But I thought it was worth another post.
Did you know that the Mass Effect Trillogy on PC sold the same amount of copies as Mass Effect 3 on the WIIU (270k according to VG Charts). That kind of blew my mind a little bit
Aparently VG charts is terrible... My bad. Sorry everyone
Did you know that the Mass Effect Trillogy on PC sold the same amount of copies as Mass Effect 3 on the WIIU (270k according to VG Charts). That kind of blew my mind a little bit
Aparently VG charts is terrible... My bad. Sorry everyone
I thought VG charts wasn't reliable one bit? And I seriously doubt that the whole trilogy sold the same amount on PC as the bomb that was ME3 on Wii U.
VG Chartz is shit data that rarely reflects reality and only really leads to misinformation, and use of it on GAF has been a bannable offense due to this fact.
Yeah for the quick and dirty stuff I just pick out a few beats and line up the track accordingly. Didn't even bother editing the transition on my double take re-cut to the intro in the Andromageddon video :]
For old highlight clips the process was much more involved, but I once just ended up using time stamps marked on post-its.
"last leg of development" too
Yet we still know almost nothing of the main story or how the game will play. I guess the game will be more of a surprise? Yay?
Sure. Seeing too much too far out in advance is what killed me about No Man's Sky.
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