Poll: Mass Effect Andromeda Teaser Trailer

[Frankster]

Gotta admit that trailer hit the sweetspot for me, I dig all this space and exploration stuff (as opposed to the wild west frontier vibe I was told previous trailers for this game had).

Onto Ops questions:

1) Sure why not? Bioware has had a few stumbles with me that's for sure, but overall Im still quite fond of the mass effect series and I'm not exactly drowning in space exploration based rpgs atm.

2) Space Opera for me please, doesn't have to be militaristic but it wouldn't hurt either since usually gives you justification for being armed to the teeth and having big space battles every now and then (that you don't usually get to participate in..but whatever!). I wouldn't mind if the series tries to be darker, mass effect had a few grim dark elements in its backstory and I loved it (the whole fate of the protheans thing or the reapers themselves before they became demystified, also people being turned into friggin goo). Honestly the only thing I'd hate it try to be is become 2001 right at the end, that is where Me3 majorly fucked up imo.

3) Maleshep all the way for me since most of my sheps were male but I never felt compelled to be hostile that people preferred another VA then the one I am most used to.
Besides didn't we already have this with Kotor? Reven was canonically male and the jedi exile was canonically female.
Having to settle on a canon version for storyline purposes is a better solution then only referencing that character in the vaguest terms or even not at all imo.

 

[LetalisK]

1. My fence was never broken. It almost was with ME1, but I thankfully got over that hurdle.

2. I...don't know? I'm down for anything as long as it's done well. Except for a straight up horror game, but I don't see that happening.

3. I'm as furious that PenisShep didn't voice the trailer as I am excited that VaginaShep voiced it.

 

[Rastrelly]

1. Choo-choo for me. Mass Effect 3 was a disaster on all levels, furthered even more by Inquisition. I don't care about Bioware and their product any more.

2. I don't care, really.

3. No, really, I don't care =)

 

[distortedreality]

1 - i'm sure i'll get it on or around release day, just as I did with the previous two ME games. ME3 didn't ruin my love for Bioware games, and certainly didn't ruin my love for the ME universe.

2 - doesn't really bother me - i'd be fine with it continuing on from the previous games.

3 - i think either shep would of suited the trailer, but I always rocked a femshep, so i'm good.

I'm really looking forward to getting more info. As someone said earlier, if they want to go the planet exploration route, I hope that they have an improved mechanic for it.

 

[Halla Burrica]

1. I'm really excited for Andromeda, actually. ME3 had massive problems, which I don't think I even need to cover because it has been so extensively for the past 3 years, but it still had many excellent moments that were some of the best in the series (The Genophage mission in particular comes to mind). I still think Bioware cares about this franchise, it's EA I'm more worried about.
2. Tonally I'm more for ME2's approach, in other words mostly kinda serious and gritty and downright dark and depressing at its peak moments, but not without its humourous and witty parts either to break up the angst. Plus clever dialogue goes a long way.
3. Not really furious, I like Jennifer Hale's voice.

 

[Nimcha]

1. Yeah, sure, I love ME 1 & 2.

2. Exploration, I want more of it.

3. There's a male Shepard?

This! Plus I also loved ME3 and its ending. No problems for me.

 

[spartandude]

To be honest I really dont care about Mass Effect anymore. Not just the ending of 3 but almost all of ME3 ruined it for me. But on a positive note I really like that they seem to be pushing Femshep because thats who I played as and in my mind Shepard was a woman. Mostly because Jennifer Hale was amazing.

 

[EyeReaper]

I thought we all agreed that Hale did it better technically, but Meer was more fun. He took it less seriously to me, like a B-movie actor.

Also, how do we know that bioware won't just do the same thing with ME 3's trailers, you know, release two of them? Isn't one piece of promotion a little early to decanonize one of the Sheps?

 

[Adamantium93]

1) ME3 left a really bad taste in my mouth and it wasn't just the endings. I felt like the game as a whole was missing what made 1 and 2 so fun. These are: interesting side characters, learning new things about interesting aliens, lots of places to explore, the ability to balance a dark story with lighter tone, the ability to define Shepard's personality. I'll wait until reviews pour in before I make a judgement though. I just hope they don't learn the wrong lesson from ME3 and cow tow to the fans on everything. People didn't hate ME3 because it wasn't what they specifically wanted, they hated it because it didn't feel like Mass Effect.

2) Space Opera. ME1 and ME2 nailed that in different ways. Look at those.

3) I played both so either is ok by me.

 

[crimsonspear4D]

1) I will always look toward the original trilogy as a great story with just a slightly disappointing ending and epilogue with fond and tearful memories. When I was young(er) I was never into Star Wars, Star Trek, or Battlestar Gallactica but games like Halo and Mass Effect gave me my first experiences into Sci-fi games... and I will ALWAYS appreciate that.

2) Dark is okay because it brings out the action and suspense in story, but also tempered with light moments because it adds character development and relationship dynamics.

As the main driving force of the game? Exploration but I also would like a sense of progression if/when we discover and settle on planets, and an interesting ambient and flowing atmosphere. My favorite thing two do in Mass effect 2 was reading and listening to the background stories and listening to npcs talk about things in the world, that was kinda fun to me.

3) Oh no question, Femshep all the way with me. Not only because I think Jennifer Hale is the superior VA (Mark Meer is a good VA but he's not main protagonist material), but also because I like to play as a gay black woman...... yeah, getting diverse in this mug! I always liked to romance Liara and femshep always seemed like the natural choice; it's just a shame femshep couldn't romance Tali or Miranda (although it was clear that, at one point, it was an option), or keep Kelly around.

 

[Redryhno]

1. Sure, I suppose I"m willing to try it at some point. Preferably when it's got all the bullshit DLC out and I can get it all at around 60-99% off. Pretty much everything post DA2 has just been a disappointment for me from Bioware. And not just a handful of things in each game, but the WHOLE game itself.

2. Maybe Star Trek TNG-like? Take some of the Voyager "YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN", the DS9 development, and the overall optimistic attitude even though there's dark and dangerous things out there that are absolutely terrifying?

3. Not especially, more cringey than anything because it was exactly what FemShep was shit at in ME1-3, and that's giving speeches, orders, yelling, or anything that doesn't have someone directly in front of her. Hale is a shitty voice actor, there, I said it, she has no range at all, and she cannot do much other than standard every day person-to-person talk with any degree of competence, and her voice is recognizable enough that listening to her alot of times is like voicemail. She's not a Liam O'Brian who has a distinctive voice that most people can just let wash over them while still having some amount of range, even if it's not much.(for popular things he's done, there's alot of difference between his Gaara dark tone and his Yasuo dark, but still upbeat at times tone)

Still, I think it could've been done better, provided this is going to be like the others in the series with a customizable gelatin-set character. They could've had both voice actors reading the next paragraph with the final one weaving the two together to foster that kind of "ALL OF YOUR CHARACTERS MATTERED" thing they wanted to try with ME3.

But, given that they didn't, I'm going to hazard a guess and say that this new "Shepard" is either an honorary title given, or they're a canon descendant of you and Liara(this is something I've always had problems with due to the mental and experience age difference when you first meet her and Bioware not particularly liking you swapping your ME waifus, there's more, but that's just the basis). Or Shepard didn't actually die and your choice in ME3 made even less of an impact canonically than you thought.

Or they just know they want Hale in it again for some damn reason...and haven't given thought to who exactly they want for MaleShep.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

People be bitching all the time that their toys are not exactly how they wanted them to be. Personally, i'm done with ManShep; his good-guy script really grated on me after a while, the air of insufferable smugness and feel-good friendship talk got to the point of seriously strong cheese. Yes, i know i could choose to be an asshole, but i like to pick what i feel is right at the time. The only thing stopping me from playing through again as Fem-Shep is the repetition factor that means your aren't exploring the unknown wonders of the Galaxy, but revising a familiar script for the slight changes that may or may not occur. In a time/knowledge-learned ratio, it isn't worth the time. But a brand new story? Hell yeah, i'm Fem-Shep-prepped!!

 

[fix-the-spade]

1. Are you willing to mend fences, assuming your fences were broken, and give this new Mass Effect a try? Or has Bioware's choo-choo-train of disappointments sullied them forever?

All they have to do is tell good story, with interesting characters, that is self contained and ends in a manner fitting of the events leading up to it.

Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 did all of these things, number 3 didn't. The biggest mountain they have to climb is convincing people to play a game that doesn't have Garrus, Tali, Kaiden/Ashley and Wrex in it. Mass Effect 2 worked so well because it was mostly about the crew, can't see how Bioware intends to solve that issue.

 

[Gone Rampant]

I'll get excited when we see some actual damn gameplay.

As for the issue? I'd have liked Meer back, sure- he's done just as much to deserve it as Hale, not including how Meer also did the Vorcha in 2 and 3.

I have more of an issue with jackasses saying things like "... torrent of butt-hurt among man-shep faithful, demanding that the "proper" Shepard give the send off."

Those who stereotype their opponents are usually hiding something. Usually a flimsy argument.

 

[Imre Csete]

Hard to be excited when almost everyone who made their past games great are gone from the company, and BioWare Montreal just isn't doing it for me. They made ME3's barebones multiplayer and the Omega DLC was bland as hell.

 

[Redryhno]

Hard to be excited when almost everyone who made their past games great are gone from the company, and BioWare Montreal just isn't doing it for me. They made ME3's barebones multiplayer and the Omega DLC was bland as hell.

Yeah, that's another thing, Karpyshyan and the people that liked writing under him really made so much of Bioware's games good have been gone since before ME3 went fully into development.

 

[Fox12]

1. Potentially, yes.

2. I think they should go for a sort of Firefly feel. We've seen the military. Lets see some mercenaries, or pirates, or smugglers. Don't give me universe ending drama. They've done that. Instead, lets focus on saving one person, or one crew, or a small settlement. The first trilogy was the Ocarina of Time of the franchise. The new trilogy needs to be the Majoras Mask. A smaller, tighter, more focused story. Don't go for epic, go for intimate. I don't think they'll do this, though.

3. No. I don't think ANY Shephard should provide narration, ever. Or any other character, for that matter. It messes up the ending further, and reopens old wounds. If you must provide narration, though, get Garrus, instead of the single worst voice actor in the cast. Both Shephards are boring and lifeless.