Stop making me quote you to show what I think!
So...I agree with this, the new trailer is very 'meh'...I know humanity is the central theme in the mass effect games, but what you end up doing is exploring other races and their cultures and how they react to humanity.
In fact, it feels like false way to advertise. You'll be on earth for what, half an hour in the beginning, if that? And then some at the end? I mean the meat of the story will take place elsewhere, with fantastic species and intergalactic politics...WHY isn't THAT the focus!?
It doesn't even seem like the future. It's like EA is trying to retcon the series to be based around earth in the semi-present, because that setting sells better than Sci Fi set further in the future.
I just checked, and Mass Effect is set in the year 2185. But this trailer looks more like a Blade Runner type of world set a few decades from now at the most.
I just checked, and Mass Effect is set in the year 2185. But this trailer looks more like a Blade Runner type of world set a few decades from now at the most.
I don't think we're going to have omni-TV's in a few decades.
Remember, people in the 80's thought 2000 was going to look like the Jetsons.
I, however, am more cynical. Our tech is growing fast, but not for the common working class. Bill Gates has a talking house (Or something), and that's about it as far as I know.
For the rest of us? Not yet, and not for a long time.
Remember when Bioware said they were studying Skyrim? I really hope the whole live-action trailer thing doesn't catch on. There is already enough misrepresentation in trailers.
But they won't. Nobody will ever publish a film made solely by game developers, and those made collaboratively have been pretty much proven to suck. and so, I don't want developers showing me this stuff.
The Prince of Persia one wasn't bad.
The Doom movie was only saved for the First Person sequence, but that was basically the last ten minutes of the movie.
In your defense, there's pretty much only a couple good adaptations surrounded by twenty bad ones.
I thought the Prince of Persia film was awful... but oh well. I did think the first person bit of Doom was cool, and the rest of the film wasn't abysmal, apart from the final fight scene. I would love to see a Metal Gear movie, or Mass Effect movie, or even a Halo movie, but I don't think one will ever be done well.
Stop making me quote you to show what I think!
So...I agree with this, the new trailer is very 'meh'...I know humanity is the central theme in the mass effect games, but what you end up doing is exploring other races and their cultures and how they react to humanity.
In fact, it feels like false way to advertise. You'll be on earth for what, half an hour in the beginning, if that? And then some at the end? I mean the meat of the story will take place elsewhere, with fantastic species and intergalactic politics...WHY isn't THAT the focus!?
Well I figured it's as much a focus as the volcano in LOTR is the focus, as in it being the final goal and only just at the end.
But if it actually is a huge part of it...well...then...crap.
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