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The Mass Effect Community Thread
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LegalEagleMike
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damn that brought the hype.
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Now you're just starting to sound tastelessTechnically competent, sure. But no game has bored me to tears like that since RDR. (Again, fight me.) Not even Skyrim, and let me tell you, that was a boring ass game. (For the 3rd time, fight me.)
We will at the latest see it when the EA Access Trial starts which is days before the game launch
prag16
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Note: There's a pretty major story spoiler (probably early-game, but still) in the launch trailer, FYI.
But my reaction:
Heckler456
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Is their panel being livestreamed?
prag16
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Also looks like we got another hint on what the non-player-character sibling is up to. Possible large spoiler..
Unless they switched between the male and female Ryder as the player character mid-trailer (which is possible but probably unlikely), it looks like the non-player-character will be eventually held captive by the Archon. A rescue is likely a major plot point.
Man Called Aerodynamics
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Awesome trailer. Hype is at barely sustainable levels...
I thought it showed a bit too much but not like they're going to waste time creating new assets and content to mislead people in a trailer. Dug the trailer mostly and am listening to the music on its own right now and by that virtue I guess the trailer did a good deed by introducing me to a new artist but I like my ME trailers to have some Synth or Two Steps From Hell.
Speculation based on the launch trailer don't click if you don't want.
Speculation based on the launch trailer don't click if you don't want.
That was the impression I got as well, and that they're using the captured sibling to get access to the Ark or SAM. Maybe that's what happened to the other Arks and Pathfinders as well.
So there is one brilliant bit of marketing in this trailer, which can be evidenced by our speculations over the past week:
We all thought the Golden Worlds would be where the meat of the game takes place, just like the AI thought they would be their new homes. Now we're at launch/they arrive, and none of them are habitable and suddenly we have no idea what to expect. Great bit of meta-marketing to set the player into Ryder's mindset.
Poodlestrike
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Gahh I can't wait to get home and watch it.
Man Called Aerodynamics
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prag16
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Yeah, it's funny how
we were JUST talking about it, and the certainty that a lot of people were expressing.
That's why I feel like it's almost better NOT to watch this trailer;
That's why I feel like it's almost better NOT to watch this trailer;
Thought the trailer was GREAT on the whole, but they may have a revealed slightly too much.
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Agreed . Just when we saw the ark briefing, the trailer turns around and says that it
turned out to be bullshit by the time we arrived
Man Called Aerodynamics
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Hey, so what ever happened to Sara Ryder being the default character for marketing? :lol:
Heckler456
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I knew it! I'm in the twilight zone!
Foxhound286
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If I remember correctly, that was never a thing. What they said was that they would switch between Scott and Sara every major trailer, if my memory serves me.
I think hes being sarcastic since it gets brought up in every scott ryder trailer, lol
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That was never a thing. They've said since Inquisition that they believe in not having only one gender in the marketing and making artwork appear neutral for the player to fill it in. Hence both DAI and Andromeda have characters on the cover that could be male or female, and the marketing for both games shows more than one version of the player character.
Female Ryder was never slated to get all the marketing. Just some of GAF and the internet interpreted her being shown first as being handled like ME trilogy, despite BioWare being clear they will handle it more variably like DAI.
Foxhound286
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Lol, whoops, that could be true. I can't detect sarcasm over text for shit.
prag16
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You might want to spoiler tag that. We did NOT know that. Speculations could be made, but no, we didn't know anything concrete. Evidenced by how many of the close followers of this game in this topic were still making certain assumptions as recently as right before the launch trailer.
Heckler456
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Yeah, I was definitely under the impression that those 7 habitable planets were just under "enemy control" or whatever; not that they'd be wastes.
prag16
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Right, that was what I was figuring too, until this trailer. Not a huge deal, but it's definitely a curveball some people will prefer to get in-game rather than from this trailer.
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Yep, that's what was assumed.
That existing species would not want us present or that other arks got to them but were struggling or not cooperating with us. Didn't think we would get there and find out we have a whole lot of exploring that needs to start over.
shinobi602
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I wouldn't consider that too spoilery honestly. Just saying, there's *a lot* that's going on in the game that people aren't aware of and that they haven't shared.
But sure if people want to go in absolutely blind then definitely don't watch.
But sure if people want to go in absolutely blind then definitely don't watch.
prag16
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I'd figure the
"golden worlds are fucked" reveal
The
sibling held captive by the Archon
they're comatose at the start
But if you're saying that these aspects aren't that huge in terms of all the shit that goes on in the game, that's a good thing.
I mean they kinda already revealed habitat 7 being fucked in the first 13 minutes video last week so that's not too suprising
HeisenbergWW62
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Like additional new races hopefully
It was a tad spoilery for my taste, but not too bad
This makes me very excited. I think its been awhile since I had this little story info about a BW game.
Last time might have been KOTOR and we all know how awesome playing that game blind was.
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No, but it seems like the type of info that people who think the actual trailers get too spoilery with would have not wanted revealed to them.
If you've seen the briefings which were basically story-free, the trailer has a fairly noteworthy piece of info that would have been somewhat unexpected once solidified in the game. So I'm just spoiler tagging it as a courtesy because it indeed feels like something where a trailer is giving out a little much info in a case where the reveal is a bit too interesting if we're being careful about the actual game story.
Man Called Aerodynamics
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Yeah, I'm just playing around. I'm really just bemused at this point at how much people get worked up over the default characters. You don't see anyone getting indignant over what the preset characters look like in Skyrim or Fallout. Everyone just knows that you can create your own character to your own specifications. Only in Mass Effect is it a thing to get upset if the preset characters aren't to your liking.
Golden worlds being "a bust" could still mean a lot of things. They're not as hospitable to humans as the intel indicated. They're occupied by hostile aliens. Or we simply don't know the situation with the worlds that the turian/asari/salarian arks were assigned to because we've lost contact with those arks. I don't think we really know much more about how the story will play out than what we did yesterday.
DeadlyParasite
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Feels odd for BioWare to make merchandise for a race in a game where they don't exist. Just more salt on the wound that we have no Hanar.
Don't forget that this is GAF. Where people consider that the absence of an item in Zelda is considered a spoiler, so yeah... i bet that trailer is super spoilery to some.
Foxhound286
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prag16
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Yeah; I went into ME1 fairly blind, but I knew WAY more about ME2 and ME3 going in than I know about this. Should be good.
True, however
the popular assumption was "oh, these are the seven planets that are explorable in the not-Mako.
Making us wait for Jaal huh, I see how it is lol
Officer.Sanchez
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DeadlyParasite
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I want to watch the IGN video to see the dialogue wheel in action but I've gotta hold the line for another 6 days to experience everything blind and fresh.
[Internal struggling intensifies]
[Internal struggling intensifies]
prag16
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I want to watch the IGN video to see the dialogue wheel in action but I've gotta hold the line for another 6 days to experience everything blind and fresh.
[Internal struggling intensifies]
They don't show a huge amount of dialog wheel. The IGN first 13 had a lot more of that.
Launch trailer are always the worst, they try to wow people as much as possible which almost always mean tons of spoiler. ME2 was especially terrible in that regards
Someone posted pics of the brochure from the multiplayer show at PAX
https://imgur.com/gallery/hMC6l
https://imgur.com/gallery/hMC6l
I haven't been watching the stream because spoilers =(
Game sounds hot though.
I know there's the newer/current blue and white Andromeda Initiative logo with the tempest on it, but frankly I've always liked this one more.
Discord link in email tags- so quote to retrieve; it can be used to organize ME3 multiplayer matches if anyone wishes too. I'll re-post it closer to March 16th for the 10 hour demo.
Game sounds hot though.
I know there's the newer/current blue and white Andromeda Initiative logo with the tempest on it, but frankly I've always liked this one more.
Discord link in email tags- so quote to retrieve; it can be used to organize ME3 multiplayer matches if anyone wishes too. I'll re-post it closer to March 16th for the 10 hour demo.
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