BioWare's New Mass Effect 3 Anime Tells Vega's Story

[mygocarp]

What's with all the hate, against Vega and anime? It's not like anyone is forcing you to watch it.

I for one am interested. Production IG is a great studio, although I can't comment on the writing, as clone wars had multiple writers.

 

[Gatx]

I'm down with them trying to make an anime but this looks meh. I mean Production I.G. can do good work, but they can also completely drop the ball sometimes. Look at their entry for Halo Legends (the ones about runaway Spartans in training), while touching on an interesting aspect of Halo lore, had terribly animated action sequences. This looks better but no where near the level of Ghost in the Shell, film or series.

For those who don't know, during season 2, Clone Wars best season, two people were doing most of the writing, Henry Gilroy and Paul Dini. Gilroy quit due to disputes and Paul Dini was busy with other projects, turning over the writing responsibilities to people who thought that General Grievous getting beaten by GUNGANS would be awesome entertainment.

I actually thought that was a pretty cool moment, and Grievous anywhere outside of the microseries is a dick and just a so so fighter on his own so its not entirely a "wtf is this" moment. Also Gungans aren't so bad, I mean you shouldn't hate the entire species just because of Jar Jar. It's not like they're Ewoks or anything.

 

[johnnnny guitar]

Hell yeah the most boring underdeveloped squad mate in the Mass effect francise is getting a dull anime could you get anymore excited.

Why not do a short film about garrus becoming archangel or mordin creating the genophage nope we need james vega to become as relevant as possible after the game is released.

 

[Saulkar]

Soldiers? You mean effeminate emo-git, anime, cookie-cutter, stereotypes. I have nothing against aforementioned stereotypes however they seem to be the go-to place holder cast in most anime these days and a trained soldier they do not make.

 

[Saulkar]

Hell yeah the most boring underdeveloped squad mate in the Mass effect francise is getting a dull anime could you get anymore excited.

Why not do a short film about garrus becoming archangel or mordin creating the genophage nope we need james vega to become as relevant as possible after the game is released.

You know, that is a very intelligent observation. I wonder why E.A. never thought of that.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I'm down with them trying to make an anime but this looks meh. I mean Production I.G. can do good work, but they can also completely drop the ball sometimes. Look at their entry for Halo Legends (the ones about runaway Spartans in training), while touching on an interesting aspect of Halo lore, had terribly animated action sequences. This looks better but no where near the level of Ghost in the Shell, film or series.

For those who don't know, during season 2, Clone Wars best season, two people were doing most of the writing, Henry Gilroy and Paul Dini. Gilroy quit due to disputes and Paul Dini was busy with other projects, turning over the writing responsibilities to people who thought that General Grievous getting beaten by GUNGANS would be awesome entertainment.

I actually thought that was a pretty cool moment, and Grievous anywhere outside of the microseries is a dick and just a so so fighter on his own so its not entirely a "wtf is this" moment. Also Gungans aren't so bad, I mean you shouldn't hate the entire species just because of Jar Jar. It's not like they're Ewoks or anything.

Did you miss the part where a single obviously evil Gungan named Richelieu, sorry, Rish Loo, managed to convince the entire Gungan species to turn on the human population just by telling them to? Where was the Gungan Council with Boss Nass? Why does one Gungan automatically speak for the entire nation and then the nation actually believes that turning on the humans in order to side with the organization that almost resulted in their genocide eleven years earlier sound like a good idea? Or where Grievous, the warlord of the entire CIS, was so horribly outclassed by warriors with pointy sticks?

That fight scene was so lazily done that frankly it looked like Grievous was a moron. And later that season during a fight with significantly stronger enemies, Grievous tears them apart without breaking stride. These same Gungans had been slaughtered by basic droids the episode before for christ's sake.

 

[Snowbell]

Not MORE anime! Please stop production for a little while so I can catch up ;_;

 

[Scow2]

Really?

I mean, seriously?

James Vega's story?

Of all the awesome characters to choose from, they went with Vega? Not Wrex, not Liara, not Garrus, not Mordin, not Samara, not Legion, not Jack. Nope. James Vega.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the guy, but...

...

SERIOUSLY?

Who better to tell the story of than the guy who didn't have the benefit of two previous games to let him show who he is? Legion, Liara, Wrex, Garrus, Mordin, Samara, and Jack all have their stories told to death in the games. Time to let the guy who hasn't had enough time to shine get a second chance to impress us.

Of course, we'd probably have been more interested if this was made BEFORE Mass Effect 3 came out, to interest us in the new party member - The primary reason Garrus, Tali, Wrex, and Liara are loved so much is that they've been in the story since the very beginning.

 

[AgedGrunt]

Who better to tell the story of than the guy who didn't have the benefit of two previous games to let him show who he is? Legion, Liara, Wrex, Garrus, Mordin, Samara, and Jack all have their stories told to death in the games. Time to let the guy who hasn't had enough time to shine get a second chance to impress us.

Legion, Jack, Samara, Thane (and Kolyat), Grunt, Kasumi, Mordin and Miranda are all very interesting characters before the events of ME3. Some got better, some started to slip, but let me finish the point below.

Of course, we'd probably have been more interested if this was made BEFORE Mass Effect 3 came out, to interest us in the new party member - The primary reason Garrus, Tali, Wrex, and Liara are loved so much is that they've been in the story since the very beginning.

Consider two names you didn't mention: the original squad of Ash and Kaiden. All the screen time of the series didn't improve their popularity. It's not about impression, it's all this stuff about characters that we don't know that's really interesting. Liara has to have hundreds of stories, ditto Thane, Tali, Mordin, Samara. The beefcake is cardboard compared to others, and with this anime is a lost opportunity to explain lore that Vega couldn't touch with a Thanix Cannon.

 

[Scow2]

Who better to tell the story of than the guy who didn't have the benefit of two previous games to let him show who he is? Legion, Liara, Wrex, Garrus, Mordin, Samara, and Jack all have their stories told to death in the games. Time to let the guy who hasn't had enough time to shine get a second chance to impress us.

Legion, Jack, Samara, Thane (and Kolyat), Grunt, Kasumi, Mordin and Miranda are all very interesting characters before the events of ME3. Some got better, some started to slip, but let me finish the point below.

Of course, we'd probably have been more interested if this was made BEFORE Mass Effect 3 came out, to interest us in the new party member - The primary reason Garrus, Tali, Wrex, and Liara are loved so much is that they've been in the story since the very beginning.

Consider two names you didn't mention: the original squad of Ash and Kaiden. All the screen time of the series didn't improve their popularity. It's not about impression, it's all this stuff about characters that we don't know that's really interesting. Liara has to have hundreds of stories, ditto Thane, Tali, Mordin, Samara. The beefcake is cardboard compared to others, and with this anime is a lost opportunity to explain lore that Vega couldn't touch with a Thanix Cannon.

They only really had one game with any screen time. In the second game, they had what amounted to a cameo, written to apply to both of their distinctly different personalities. And in the third game, they were again written completely interchangeably. Also, this may be personal preference, but I considered Samara and Morinth (Both!) to be FAR less interesting than even Kaiden.