New Mass Effect game is possibly COD: First Contact War

[TheRealGoochman]

I LOVE Mass Effect, and I like Call of Duty.....but both as their own styles.

Therefore I have to say, please keep Mass Effect awesome as it is......it doesn't need to be CoD'arized

 

[Altorin]

lol, and this would officially be the game that would require me to man up and get Gold.

If it truly is based around the Turian war then the game is pretty much throwing out the series' only outstanding feature by using such a limited scope. Also I have a feeling that hiotics will be hard to balance in pvp.

On the other hand a foray into multiplayer will at least give them the discipline to not make sub-Gears of War level combat mechanics. I'm getting tired of the conversation simulators but I don't think Bioware has demonstrated the skill to make a game that stands up on its combat mechanics.

humans had barely started using Biotics prior to First Contact. They had hardly even linked Biotics with Eezo, and what Biotics they had were largely concerned with not killing themselves because there wasn't any real training programs available. I doubt Biotics will play a large part in the game if it really takes place during the First Contact War (and this may actually be what makes the game more "CoD-like")

 

[Hader]

As long as it isn't at all like CoD...it may be okay. I still care mostly about the main trilogy and the singleplayer though, so unless this has something more than the CoD-style multiplayer then I won't be buying it.

 

[EinTheCorgi]

I just really hope that if they do multiplayer they do some co-op stuff to also hopefully into will be single player with MP tacked on and not the other way around also Mass Effect+ COD= Abomination!

 

[Korten12]

*sigh*

I wait longer and longer for some kind of DLC to be made for Ashley/Kaiden after the Liara fans got their fix and instead of doing a simple DLC to please part of the fanbase that they have ignored for so long, Bioware go ahead and make a whole new game.

I've got hurt feelings.


Okay but seriously, a first contact war thing could actually be pretty cool. Just as long as there is a reference to Shanxi and General Williams, that would be pretty cool.

Why Ashley she is xenopobic (isn't she?), so she would hate Elites!

 

[xam883]

Can't juge the game with just a trailer.
BUT, if the game is a CoD clone i will be disapointed in bioware. I hope the game has someting else going for it than just being a FPS because we have to many of those as it is.

 

[MrGalactus]

If this is done well it will DOMINATE the charts

 

[Polaris19]

I hope this is just someone kicking up dust, because I will be very disappointed in Bioware if they feel it's time to dip into the FPS market. They have bigger things to work on (like, maybe that Jade Empire franchise that was supposed to be a trilogy...)

If this is done well it will DOMINATE the charts

I don't necessarily believe that. Mass Effect is loved, and it sells well, but compared to the FPS market leaders, I think Mass Effect would have some trouble grabbing the attention of people. There haven't been a lot of truly new IP's in the FPS market lately, and thats because Call of Duty, Halo, and Battlefield just have a stranglehold of the multiplayer market on consoles.

Maybe I'm alone here, but I'd rather see them take more time on Mass Effect 3 than watch them send a needless FPS out the door right now.

 

[Lord Honk]

Go for it Bioware, impress me I'll happily spend money if it brings me as much enjoyment as the others did.

 

[CD-R]

Bah, I'm not a fan of the idea. Smacks too much of the reason for ME2's backslide into 'thermal clips'.

Mind you I'm not much of a shooter fan, but I still think that if they wanna make this into a Mass Effect shooter, since it'll be human-centric, then because ME canon states that there are very few human biotics, they'll most likely cut them entirely. They might have Tech classes but again they'll be limited, so we're left with the soldier class stretched out into another game.

Like we don't have a million of those already.

Well since it's during the First Contact War you'd have the old fashioned no reload guns. I just hope they have vehicles.

 

[CD-R]

If it truly is based around the Turian war then the game is pretty much throwing out the series' only outstanding feature by using such a limited scope. Also I have a feeling that biotics will be hard to balance in pvp.

On the other hand a foray into multiplayer will at least give them the discipline to not make sub-Gears of War level combat mechanics. I'm getting tired of the conversation simulators but I don't think Bioware has demonstrated the skill to make a game that stands up on its combat mechanics.

Yes they did. They made MDK 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDK_2

 

[Souplex]

I can't wait to kill some filthy Turians!
The Space Wizards franchise has needed co-op for a while now.

 

[mirasiel]

Why assume that the game would be set during the first contact war, could be Mindoir, that was a major conflict which was followed up with a lot of counter attacks I think?

Seem to recall something in ME/ME 2's codex about the alliance relieving Mindoir and then going on to curb stomp batarians/pirates as a 'warning' .

Hell it could be any number of scenarios since the first game makes it clear than Alliance Marine units get sent to a lot of places for 'recon' and 'other' missions, for example the first time you run into a thresher maw*. Hell, doesn't N7 mean that shep was part of special forces, they must do something beside practice bad ass one liner interrupts and reporter punching.

/edit personally if we are doing spin off games, can I has spaceship commanders plz? Just so I can say "Sir Issac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-***** in space" A lot and not seem too odd.

*Also screw you bioware and the horse you rode in on, obvious traps are fine but god damn I was always scared to drive the Mako out onto flat open ground anywhere, cuz it was thresher country. probably added about 20 hours to my game time cautiously advancing

 

[Vrex360]

*sigh*

I wait longer and longer for some kind of DLC to be made for Ashley/Kaiden after the Liara fans got their fix and instead of doing a simple DLC to please part of the fanbase that they have ignored for so long, Bioware go ahead and make a whole new game.

I've got hurt feelings.


Okay but seriously, a first contact war thing could actually be pretty cool. Just as long as there is a reference to Shanxi and General Williams, that would be pretty cool.

Why Ashley she is xenopobic (isn't she?)

No, she really isn't. I'd go into more detail but let's just say that she says and does a lot of things that contradict the idea that she is xenophobic, as well as that she actually has the capacity to move past her grudges towards aliens.
Thing is, the whole image of Ashley being this mad angry alien hating racist, is basically just an example of Ron the Death Eater. In which a character is percieved as far worse then they really are by the audience.

To quote what the TV Tropes page says:

"Ashley also gets it from another angle - her (somewhat justified) dislike of other alien races, and Turians especially, comes from the fact that thanks to the Turians, her family name is now essentially mud in the Alliance military. She actually expresses hope for improved relations with the Quarians thanks to Tali's assistance in one case. However, the Hatedom flanderizes her caution into outright, blind, unreasoning hatred."

 

[SalamanderJoe]

"New Mass Effect game is possibly COD: First Contact War"

Sorry is this what Activison was planning for the next Call of Duty, because I heard the next COD was space/future warfare?

I'd rather have Mass Effect multiplayer, not another COD. I still haven't hit prestige in Black Ops yet! Geez!

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

I was hoping that they would go back to being more RPG-like with Mass Effect 3, but then they release this =S

Stop it, Bioware! You are RPG developers, stop trying to become shooter developers....don't mess this up again =S

Perhaps with they'll get the urge to make shooters out of their system with this game, and go back to RPG's with ME3... at least thats what i hope

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Oh boy ME as COD is made of fail.......

The game hasn't even been announced yet. Save the bashing until you've played it at least.

Considering COD piece has gone down the gutter and ME has been turned into a simple action game as it is...combining the 2 is devideing by zero...(unless its like ME1 only larger levels and more vehicles and more modification of equipment then and only then will be be awesome)tho the gamer zombies will eat it up regardless....

 

[Tdc2182]

This is a good idea... why?

Call of duty is a solid shooter.

Mass Effect is a solid RPG.

Two and Two make a number.

Though it does sound like it is completely changing the... point of Mass Effect.

 

[Protocol95]

For those that know the ME universe Ashley Williams Grandfather fought a guerilla campaign to defend a colony from a Turian invasion during the first contact war. A game set during that would be eighteen kinds of awesome.

would only be worthwhile if you have th option of sacrificing Grandpappy Williams so Ashley will never be born

Why? Because if it's something like 'she's racist' you've got a debate coming.

OT: Sounds like a pretty interesting concept so long as they try to improve the shooting machanics a tiny bit.