Torrannor posted:

You forgot the hunky gay Krogan!

Humerus posted:

I know it wasn't actually a Bioware game but remember how in KOTOR 2 everyone was like "yeah the war ended but I don't remember how/it didn't affect me anyway"? Maybe they should have done that for the beginning of this game. Let the player say how the Reapers were dealt with and then just move on with Andromeda shenanigans.

Dr. Abysmal posted:

I wonder how long it will take until it's revealed that the human supremacist group Cerberus infiltrated humanity's ark ship.

Dan Didio posted:

I actually don't remember, but it was some dumb game of the decade thing in 2010, I think?

Alain Post posted:

thrilla in vanilla posted:

Illiterate Clitoris posted:

Never stop preordering, brave goons.

Mywhatacleanturtle posted:

I forgot; did they ever explain why you never see female turians in the main trilogy?

RBA Starblade posted:

The Geth and Quarians are Battlestar Galactica. Mass Effect is every sci-fi slapped together.

Phobeste posted:

Stargate is also the small, explicitly military, explicitly human based with a couple alien allies team going on adventures frequently based around shooting stuff and often involving precursor races

tayvaan posted:

SAM is inside you and all of your crewmembers already. So yes.

Hedrigall posted:

Youtube comments are afire with anger and SJW-witchhuntery because there's a black person in this game.

BexGu posted:

God Emperor of Dune-type Shepard Reaper!

Or just a new society with a bunch of these images laying around

quote:

There are 'several highly advanced alien races' we'll meet in Andromeda

* Barrier can now deflect projectiles at foes

* Powers have individual cooldowns

* Blades confirmed as a craftable melee weapon (we already knew hammers)

* After a couple of encounters with the Kett, you'll be able to craft some of their technology (they use plasma guns)

* Crafting is entirely optional, not important to the story

* Based upon your dialogue choices, there can be tensions in the team

* You see planets and stars fly by from the Tempest's bridge, all windows on the ship give a view of your current location on the galaxy map

* 'Interrupts' are not paragon/renegade, but 'disarm' for example (it's a strategic choice, not a moral)

* You'll be able to understand the Kett motivations, they're more nuanced as an enemy

* There's a whole separate storyline besides the Kett

* The Kett were originally designed to be completely nude, but it was awkward in cutscenes

* All squad members have a loyalty mission (they seem to be 'a string of objectives' rather than one single mission)

* The loyalty missions will explain the squad members' motivation for leaving the Milky Way

* Michael Gamble: 'I definitely wouldn't call Andromeda an open-world game.We like to use the term exploration-based game. Sometimes that happens in open spaces, but not always. You can cruise around some of these planets in the Nomad, but it's not the traditional sandbox-type game.'

* You don't have to fuel the Tempest

* Side quests will be 'more varied and interesting than ever', says BioWare

* Active abilities/powers (like Overload, etc.) have an alternate fire mode

* There is no level cap, you can keep leveling until you run out of skills to put points into

* 5 difficulty levels, including narrative (very easy, just the story)

* Nomad's top speed is 130+ km/h

* Tempest top speed is 13 light years per day

* You can upgrade the omnitool (the blade)

quote:

The Kett were originally designed to be completely nude, but it was awkward in cutscenes

Hedrigall posted:

It'll probably be a Kett defector.

marshmallow creep posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoehWZDT76o

Hedrigall posted:

The fan art community is great

Pattonesque posted:

Weirdly I think this is the only time in the whole series your class comes into play in anything other than combat.

AlternateAccount posted:

It was posted earlier, but I am posting it again: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=27792

Does a great job of explaining why Mass Effect is pretty good and why Mass Effect 2 and 3 are 90% poo poo.

For example, why Miranda is terrible:

kaptainkaffeine posted:

cards against humanity is doing a thing:

https://totallyfuckablealiens.com/