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Oh god did they actually say that? Welp, there goes my hype for anything made by bio ware going forward. Inquisition could have been a good game, but the majority of the side quests and collection crap was basically mmo level stuff. If I wanted to play an mmo by bioware we already have SWTOR; I thought rpgs were supposed to be smaller and higher quality. That's what worries me about this game most if these rumors are true, if it's too big it'll just be a slog to get through most of it, and nothing kills replayability like a slog to get to the enjoyable bits.MC1980 said:
I'd go since it's set after Mass Effect 3:Johnisback said:
"The Reaper threat was dealt with on a universe level scale with the Crucible."
"They probably came the same way Humans did, may have come earlier some how."
"Future plot line means new technology, or a Mass Relay between galaxies was found later."
"See above."
"Some technologies mature slower than others, some are just more efficient, some just get more efficient which keeps them in use. Besides new technologies only replace old ones if they're better."
"Probably because they're formed from a group of Protheans that managed to escape the Milky Way some how."
Many here are not fond of Inquisition, which is interesting cause most of the reception I've heard has been quite positive.
While I think ME has historically been a significantly stronger franchise than DA, this reeks of Dragon Age Inquisition design paradigms, which is a bit unsettling. DA:I was not a very good game. It was positively riddled with flaws and absolutely stuffed to the gills with some of the more tedious and regressive content to ever stain the genre.
ME might get around some of that with its inherently better/smoother combat and (Gods willing) a better script. But I'm not holding my breath on that latter point, Bioware seems to have suffered a serious talent exodus over the last 4-5 years.
ME might get around some of that with its inherently better/smoother combat and (Gods willing) a better script. But I'm not holding my breath on that latter point, Bioware seems to have suffered a serious talent exodus over the last 4-5 years.
Inquisition was my last straw with bioware. Interesting as it was the first game I felt hyped for sense like 2012- and even after hearing all of the "Itz 7autta10" reviews I still really wanted to play it.
Mass Effect 2 remains my favorite game, but honestly I don't think ME4 will be any good, saying this when pretty much no one knows anything about it. I enjoyed ME3, up until, you know... But I honestly feel like there isn't a direction they could go that would make me interested in throwing my money away for them again.
Mass Effect 2 remains my favorite game, but honestly I don't think ME4 will be any good, saying this when pretty much no one knows anything about it. I enjoyed ME3, up until, you know... But I honestly feel like there isn't a direction they could go that would make me interested in throwing my money away for them again.
Honestly give their track record for promising the moon and the stars and only delivering a wet piece of paper with the word Space written on it, I think we can safely say only about...what, 1/5 of what they say will be in the game actually will be.
So go ahead and read the list of all the neat things they're promising and pick one to be in the game.
So go ahead and read the list of all the neat things they're promising and pick one to be in the game.
Yesterday when I read this I was disappointed. But I had some time to think. Now I'm pissed. Like I said above, new galaxy is a cheap way of not addressing the ending of ME3. If they wanted a cheap way out they could have used the silly fanmade Indoctrination Theory. Why, you may ask. Well, because they could've lied about it. They already lied about the nature of Mass Effect 3 so why not lie about The Indoctrination Theory too? They could have said that it was their idea from the start. If they wanted a cheap way out they had one that didn't include sacrificing an entire universe that so many of us have grown to love. If this info is true, then fuck Bioware and fuck EA.
In order:Johnisback said:
1. The reapers only seemed to be limited to the milky way galaxy, not the entire universe, they had a mass relay that warped them outside the Milky Way galaxy, which is where they hung out between cycles, there is nothing to suggest that the Reapers were a universe scale threat. In ME4's case, it is likely removed by the fact that it takes place away from the Milky Way, and far in the future, so they can essentially handwave away whatever ending you got in ME3.
2. From what I'm reading, it's not that the humans got there first, it looks like the ME races have all sent their own colony fleets to the andromeda galaxy, humans likely arrive around the same time or slightly before all the other ME races, still setting this way in the future of post ME3 which is why it's never mentioned in those games.
3. This is something that most people thought happened, but got retconned after the ME3 extended cut ending. The mass relays were not destroyed, they were damaged, but the epilogue in the extended cut reveals that they were rebuilt, meaning that a trans galaxy relay would be able to be repaired as well. Given that this game likely takes place a long time after ME3, it is also possible that the ME races simply built their own mass effect relay, or discovered another form of FTL.
4. No clue on this one, depending on how far the jump in time is, the level of technology should be a hell of a lot more advanced, especially with the control and synthesis ending, there would be no excuse to have us just drive around a slightly retooled MAKO.
5. I doubt these remnants are Protheans, that seems like a bit of a cop out.
Cool. My thoughts on subject matter:
1) It's not a Mass Effect game at all. Other place with different setting, no connection to story of ME1-3 or characters. If those will pop up, it will be dumb.
2) Absolutely stupid premise with intergalactic colonization.
3) Obvious attempt to distance from ME3 fiasco. Too late, sorry.
4) Even less RPG then before. More crafting and shooting. Mentioned 'diplomacy' will boil down to 'tough choice' between two groups you don't give a fawk about.
Final verdict: don't care.
1) It's not a Mass Effect game at all. Other place with different setting, no connection to story of ME1-3 or characters. If those will pop up, it will be dumb.
2) Absolutely stupid premise with intergalactic colonization.
3) Obvious attempt to distance from ME3 fiasco. Too late, sorry.
4) Even less RPG then before. More crafting and shooting. Mentioned 'diplomacy' will boil down to 'tough choice' between two groups you don't give a fawk about.
Final verdict: don't care.
I'm sure they are trying to get away from the endings by distancing themselves but I don't see how you can make a sequel that distances itself. If you went for destroy all the AIs (like the Geth) are dead, if you did synthesis everyone is a cyborg, if you did control the galaxy is ruled by a dictator Reaper conciousness which may or may not be Shepard (it was pretty unclear) and if you did refusal everyone is dead. All of those are very different and they'd all impact people a lot even if they did move to another galaxy. That's part of the problem with the Mass Effect 3 endings, you can't ignore it and sweep it under the rug if you make a sequel. Only hope to avoid dealing with it is in a prequel or an interquel. Or retcon the whole thing but I doubt they will at this stage.
well that kinda makes sense, to be honest.I mean, obviously it's going to be seperate from the Shepherd/Reapers narrative, could even be a soft reboot but this is kinda acceptable in Sci-Fi. We get to keep the general style and a bunch of the cool races but it can be seperated from the existing trilogy so it isn't 60% "Hey, remember this character from the three previous games who now has an even longer branching story that eats into the plot?"
Basically ME1-3 is Kirk
ME4 is Picard
I'm also not going to whine that one of the three characters they mention is a Krogan.