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There's no realistic way to continue the story in the Milky Way after ME3's endings. Instead of getting into that quagmire of choice carry-overs, we're getting a completely new galaxy. It's a soft reboot.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:MEA doesn't acknowledge the endings of ME3 tho, It seems they're trying to skip that ME3 even happened with this. To some people, and considering the reaction to that ending, this is a good thing
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BigPaddy posted:Thing to remember that between ME:3 and ME:A it has only been 600 years so Grunt is still kicking the arse of anything that doesn't have his boot print on it yet. I really hope they somehow find a way to connect the galaxies at the end of the game and Grunt is in the sequel.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:17
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Schubalts posted:There's no realistic way to continue the story in the Milky Way after ME3's endings. Instead of getting into that quagmire of choice carry-overs, we're getting a completely new galaxy. It's a soft reboot. Imo people would be much more enthusiastic if you could import an ME1/ME2 save for minor Easter eggs, idk why they didn't do that edit: Mordin's human assistant is part of the AI if you saved him in ME2, maybe he even alludes to mourning Mordin if he died in the suicide mission, for example Civilized Fishbot fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Mar 1, 2017 20:18
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Schubalts posted:It's a soft reboot.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:18
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How can you not be happy to get a new Mass Effect game on a good game engine with improved mechanics across the board?
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Mar 1, 2017 20:20
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Back Hack posted:You're right, lets catalog all the interesting things that playing as zombie cyborg had on the game and story ratification resulting from it: It let the events of the Citadel DLC happen.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:20
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Schubalts posted:There's no realistic way to continue the story in the Milky Way after ME3's endings. Instead of getting into that quagmire of choice carry-overs, we're getting a completely new galaxy. It's a soft reboot. Shoulda just taken the Elder Scrolls route and said "gently caress it, they all happened due to gently caress you." But no.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:20
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Deakul posted:How can you not be happy to get a new Mass Effect game on a good game engine with improved mechanics across the board? Hedging your bets. If you complain about how bad the game is obviously going to be before it's released and you turn out to be right, you can be smug about it to all your internet friends. If it turns out to be good, you can't be smug, but you can at least play the good game. Either way, you win.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:23
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Deakul posted:How can you not be happy to get a new Mass Effect game on a good game engine with improved mechanics across the board? I will be happy if I can play it on my computer and if it is fun. DA:I played on my compy but I never finished it because. . . I dunno, it just didn't feel compelling for some reason.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:24
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Deakul posted:How can you not be happy to get a new Mass Effect game on a good game engine with improved mechanics across the board?  Spacebump posted:I really hope they somehow find a way to connect the galaxies at the end of the game and Grunt is in the sequel. If the game doesn't end in a cliffhanger with a giant ugly ship coming out of warp and Cora going "They're hailing us! Unknown signature!" and then there's a pregnant pause before Grunt's face, older and now with an eyepatch, appears and says "Shepard." CUT. TO. BLACK.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:26
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SgtSteel91 posted:To some people, and considering the reaction to that ending, this is a good thing Personally, I wish Andromeda had just been a new setting. Mass Effect's done, for good or for ill, let's see a new setting - which a new galaxy should be regardless.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:27
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It will turn out that the entire game is a simulation being played out in Shepard's mind while she's dead, before ME2 even happens. Andromeda 2 will be called Mass Effect II-2
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Mar 1, 2017 20:29
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precision posted:
Only if Grunt has a massive billowing cape and is standing on the bow of the ship, in vacuum.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:33
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Cythereal posted:Personally, I wish Andromeda had just been a new setting. Mass Effect's done, for good or for ill, let's see a new setting - which a new galaxy should be regardless. I agree with you but from a financial standpoint I see why they went with a soft reboot. I just don't know how much buy in they'd get from fans for a completely new sci-fi franchise when everyone knows how they torched the old one. Fake edit: Who am I kidding, as long as the aliens were fuc... er, "romanceable" and the characters meme-able then I'd be another IGN 11/10 goty.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:35
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I only preordered the deluxe edition ironically
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Mar 1, 2017 20:35
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It will be called MasseffeX-II and be about pretty, pretty dresses.
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Halloween Jack posted:Worked through, or worked up? I didn't get it on PC, just Shadow Broker.  Man ME3 really spoiled me for choice. A whole two pistol choices ME2?
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Mar 1, 2017 20:38
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You know what, I've decided that as long as this game doesn't have the stupid gun weight mechanic from ME3 it's golden
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Mar 1, 2017 20:38
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It's a Mass Effect game. It's going to be an enjoyable but overwrought space drama with a few annoying voices and some janky animations and a questionable ending and we're all gonna eat it up, and then dissect it's flaws until the sequel comes out. The only real question in my mind is if they can keep the multiplayer intact. That, and I better be able to punch a reporter.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:39
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King Bahamut posted:You know what, I've decided that as long as this game doesn't have the stupid gun weight mechanic from ME3 it's golden
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Mar 1, 2017 20:41
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RBA Starblade posted:Man ME3 really spoiled me for choice. A whole two pistol choices ME2? Three with paid DLC! Also the second shotgun is worse than the first in just about every way. 8one6 posted:I agree with you but from a financial standpoint I see why they went with a soft reboot. I just don't know how much buy in they'd get from fans for a completely new sci-fi franchise when everyone knows how they torched the old one. It's a Bioware RPG, it's virtually a genre unto itself these days with some weak competition from Obsidian. Still, Inquisition was such a clusterfuck of atrocious gameplay and hideously unlikable companions and supporting NPCs that I'm going to wait and see what the thread says about Andromeda before I buy. Bioware/EA is angling for sequels, though, given that a couple of the interviews have mentioned the game coming with a Mass Effect version of the Dragon Age Keep.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:44
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Deakul posted:How can you not be happy to get a new Mass Effect game on a good game engine with improved mechanics across the board? Doesn't draw and quarter Casey Hudson in the opening cinematic; no Mass Effect game can be good until this happens.
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Arglebargle III posted:Doesn't draw and quarter Casey Hudson in the opening cinematic; no Mass Effect game can be good until this happens. it's true, known badgames such as Mass Effect (Casey Hudson: project director) and Mass Effect 2 (Casey Hudson: still project director) were sorely lacking such an event. if only they'd had this they would have been good but oh well RBA Starblade posted:A whole two pistol choices ME2? More like a straight upgrade path, at least with pistols. I did some ini editing and a fairly minor change (something like +4 rounds per magazine? Maybe 5?) to the starter pistol would've kept it as a competitive choice but as it was, "starter -> Carnifex/Phalanx" was the only way to go I like the idea of fewer, but meaningful choices and all, but they kinda missed it for pistols. They did get it better with SMGs (Tempest v Locust was a reasonable choice) and so on, so hey. Psion fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Mar 1, 2017 20:59
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Ainsley McTree posted:I only preordered the deluxe edition ironically 
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Mar 1, 2017 21:02
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"Good news, Ryders! Thanks to the results of destroy/control/synthesis, our ships can travel even faster than before and the trip between galaxies can be done in a few minutes!" - A returning character in MEA2, probably
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GreenBuckanneer posted:MEA doesn't acknowledge the endings of ME3 tho, It seems they're trying to skip that ME3 even happened with this. Correct. That's literally why MEA is happening - it's a reboot without completely rebooting ME1 and 2 because otherwise the franchise is stone cold dead. ME3 is *waves hands* no longer a factor here.
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Mar 1, 2017 21:15
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Hobo Clown posted:"Good news, Ryders! Thanks to the results of destroy/control/synthesis, our ships can travel even faster than before and the trip between galaxies can be done in a few minutes!" - A returning character in MEA2, probably All three endings are canon. Shepard chose Control, then built another Crucible and Synthesized the galaxy, then when the rebuilding of the galaxy was complete Destroyed all the Reapers. Then fabricated herself a new humanoid body and dug it out of the rubble of the Citadel.
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precision posted:It will turn out that the entire game is a simulation being played out in Shepard's mind while she's dead, before ME2 even happens. Andromeda 2 will be called Mass Effect II-2 I'd be 100% down for this. I'd also be down for a remake/remix Mass Effect Trilogy game that changes the story of 3 to something different.
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Psion posted:it's true, known badgames such as Mass Effect (Casey Hudson: project director) and Mass Effect 2 (Casey Hudson: still project director) were sorely lacking such an event. if only they'd had this they would have been good but oh well The Crucible's energies radiate both forward and backward in spacetime, rendering all of Mass Effect history red, blue, green, and poo poo.
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I don't actually think it would've been hard to make a sequel to ME3 if you just accept the destroy ending as canon. The other two obviously are too destructive to the setting.
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Mar 1, 2017 21:40
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ME4 set in a post-Control God-Shepard Autocracy 100 years after ME3. Shepard is now basically TIM only competent and all-powerful. You have to build the perfect squad to take him down... or die trying. THIS poo poo WRITES ITSELF PEOPLE
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Mar 1, 2017 21:43
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Nichael posted:I don't actually think it would've been hard to make a sequel to ME3 if you just accept the destroy ending as canon. The other two obviously are too destructive to the setting.  I mean, other than the fact that everyone's green now, Synthesis is probably the most "life goes on much the same as it ever did" ending. It's just really lovely to have one person make a universal decision for every single living thing in the galaxy.
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Kurieg posted:
That's kind of true. I think I would've preferred something in the original setting but Andromeda's fine. I don't care that much because all of ME's series long plots kind of wrapped up in ME3 so ignoring the old games isn't a huge deal. It'd be harder to do that with Dragon Age.
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Mar 1, 2017 21:47
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Even if you ignore the endings themselves, there's things like the genophage being cured or not, quarian vs geth thing, whether the rachni exist...
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Mar 1, 2017 21:51
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Avalerion posted:Even if you ignore the endings themselves, there's things like the genophage being cured or not, quarian vs geth thing, whether the rachni exist... The writers could always just make the choices themselves. Every player's play through for the old trilogy doesn't have to be cannon.
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Mar 1, 2017 21:52
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Are the Dragon Age and Mass Effect universes linked
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Nichael posted:That's kind of true. I think I would've preferred something in the original setting but Andromeda's fine. I don't care that much because all of ME's series long plots kind of wrapped up in ME3 so ignoring the old games isn't a huge deal. It'd be harder to do that with Dragon Age. Mostly because Dragon Age seems deathly allergic to acknowledging the really big binary choices from Origins. Golems vs Dwarves or Elves vs Werewolves. The Mage Chantry one doesn't matter in the long run because either all the mages are loving dead or the chantries don't exist anymore. e: They even had Leliana come back as a Crow Ghost if you killed her.
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precision posted:ME4 set in a post-Control God-Shepard Autocracy 100 years after ME3. Shepard is now basically TIM only competent and all-powerful. You have to build the perfect squad to take him down... or die trying. No, Reaper Shepard is the DLC companion. Bioware makes no attempt to balance her.
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Fried Watermelon posted:Are the Dragon Age and Mass Effect universes linked Extremely
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