BioWare Drops Another Hint

[Therumancer]

If I had to make a wild guess, my immediate guess would be that they are working on making a dedicated FPS game in the Mass Effect universe set during the initial contact/war with The Turians. Apparently that conflict was interesting, hardly one sided, and while a more powerful species (on the merits of having been more established, spread out, and with allies) at the time, The Turians really got their noses bloodied by a group of brandy new "primitives" which is one of the big reasons Humans get such special treatment from The Council and so on.

At any rate if I understand things, earth wasn't quite as unified at that point (this war helped solidify things). What this means is that you could in theory have a character like a British Agent fighting Turians. What's more the two factions (humans and Turians) make splitting things up into "sides" for multiplayer matches would be fairly easy.


That said, this is total shot in the dark conjecture. Frankly though as an RPG fan I was not all that happy with how shooter-centric "Mass Effect 2" became. I understand Bioware's desire to want to get a chunk of that lucrative FPS pie (which is a seduction most companies succumb to), but I'd rather they develop more RPGs to be honest. Oh sure, they make plenty of them as it is, but the effort spent there could be rather invested in a genere that is a little less travelled, and it is what they do best.

Really I think there are already a ton of games trying to be "Call Of Duty", but not all that many games that have done what "Knights Of The Old Republic" or the first "Mass Effect" did.

 

[duedmen]

maybe its a mass effect espinoge game like alpha protocol in mass effect universe with out the game breaking bugs

 

[TaboriHK]

That's really pretty poor justifying going on there.

Everything I've said is bang on... if YOU don't want to admit that Bioware screwed the pooch in the storyline of the second then that's up to you .. but don't post that I got it wrong.

ME2 has got pretty much nothing do do with the first.. except the WIDER storyline.. which doesn't actually get tackled.

I mean come on... wiping out all progress (story and character) of the first in favour or a botched new storyline and a whole different cast (except for the cameos)...(EDIT.. oh I forgot, Joker's is back.. big woop:/) really... even a first year lit student would have learned the do's and don't of storytelling... Bio just failed so hard... and it's sad to see people excuse them for it.

I didn't post that you got it wrong. I posted that you didn't get it at all. Because you clearly didn't. Wiping out all progress? Almost all of the choices you make in the first game come back in some manner of consequence. You can't argue quality because quality is largely up to the individual, but as far being coherent, you couldn't be more wrong, and the aggressiveness of your insistence makes you come across like you have some kind of weird grudge.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

I don't care at all. Bio used to be good.. but they can't even pull together a coherent storyline over 2 games, never mind 3.

The storyline from 2 is so far removed from what happened in 1 (the machine baddie suddely working with organics, you suddenly working for the people you were trying to kill in the first, the sudden introduction of a new stringpuller, what was wrong with the shadowbroker anyway.. illusive man my ass), no doubt 3 will pull a bunch more sudden reveals out of it's ass...Lazy, cheapass storytelling.

The franchise is an incoherent mess considering all the crap they said about it all being planned .. lmao.. they couldn't even make sure the gameplay was comparable.

The new Bioware is unworthy of their past successes.

I don't think you're right about anything you just said. It all seems like you were barely paying attention. Cerberus was AN antagonist in ME, not THE antagonist. And the politics of the galaxy is what forces not only you to work with them, but also you to work against the Shadow Broker, who tried to sell your corpse to the Collectors. Were you listening at all or did you just cut through all the cutscenes and dialogue?

That's really pretty poor justifying going on there.

Everything I've said is bang on... if YOU don't want to admit that Bioware screwed the pooch in the storyline of the second then that's up to you .. but don't post that I got it wrong.

ME2 has got pretty much nothing do do with the first.. except the WIDER storyline.. which doesn't actually get tackled.

I mean come on... wiping out all progress (story and character) of the first in favour or a botched new storyline and a whole different cast (except for the cameos)...(EDIT.. oh I forgot, Joker's is back.. big woop:/) really... even a first year lit student would have learned the do's and don't of storytelling... Bio just failed so hard... and it's sad to see people excuse them for it.

I'm sure you clearly know Bioware's game's and storyboarding decisions better than they do to make such "bang on" assertions. Perhaps you should just run to take over Bioware with your sizzling intellect of Mass Effect's "do's and don't's", huh? /sarcasm

Everything he has is actually much closer to the storyline and justifications of the universe for the first two games than yours. Someone is just being needlessly antagonistic about a game they didn't like. Shocker.

OT: It's either a DLC, an Alpha Protocol like game, or something teasingly familiar to Mass Effect 3 upcoming. At least, for my personal guesswork on this.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

How could Shepard die?

Somebody mentioned the suicide mission, so I won't be redundant. However, you could also be dumb enough to screw Morinth.

 

[crazypsyko666]

My guess is that it's going to be a game involving the Mass Effect Universe. Their marketing department would have to be completely retarded to not use one of their bestselling franchises.

EDIT: The game could, again, be radically different from the most recent. That is a definite possibility. Or, it's a cutscene. Because everyone remembers how the collectors went down in three shots like they did in the cutscenes for ME2, right? And how everything looks exactly the same between cutscenes and gameplay? I'm just saying they could be introducing the new main character. That could be the big unveiling, because it's not really a surprise that ME3 is going to be released in the future.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

thinking its gonna be a futuristic action game (probably set in the mass effect universe) possibly telling the story of first contact between humans and the aliens.

This sounds like a good idea. Weren't the Humans and Turians at war for awhile?

 

[Boom129]

its a game set in the mass effect universe starring another human spectre (or perhaps a corsair)

 

[RYjet911]

I don't care at all. Bio used to be good.. but they can't even pull together a coherent storyline over 2 games, never mind 3.

The storyline from 2 is so far removed from what happened in 1 (the machine baddie suddely working with organics, you suddenly working for the people you were trying to kill in the first, the sudden introduction of a new stringpuller, what was wrong with the shadowbroker anyway.. illusive man my ass), no doubt 3 will pull a bunch more sudden reveals out of it's ass...Lazy, cheapass storytelling.

The franchise is an incoherent mess considering all the crap they said about it all being planned .. lmao.. they couldn't even make sure the gameplay was comparable.

The new Bioware is unworthy of their past successes.

I don't think you're right about anything you just said. It all seems like you were barely paying attention. Cerberus was AN antagonist in ME, not THE antagonist. And the politics of the galaxy is what forces not only you to work with them, but also you to work against the Shadow Broker, who tried to sell your corpse to the Collectors. Were you listening at all or did you just cut through all the cutscenes and dialogue?

That's really pretty poor justifying going on there.

Everything I've said is bang on... if YOU don't want to admit that Bioware screwed the pooch in the storyline of the second then that's up to you .. but don't post that I got it wrong.

ME2 has got pretty much nothing do do with the first.. except the WIDER storyline.. which doesn't actually get tackled.

I mean come on... wiping out all progress (story and character) of the first in favour or a botched new storyline and a whole different cast (except for the cameos)...(EDIT.. oh I forgot, Joker's is back.. big woop:/) really... even a first year lit student would have learned the do's and don't of storytelling... Bio just failed so hard... and it's sad to see people excuse them for it.

You're quick to bash someone who didn't explain every problem with your analysis of the story while ignoring my response to you entirely.

Also, the cast is not entirely different. Garrus and Tali, who were members of your squad in ME1, return to your squad in ME2.

You obviously haven't paid any attention to the story, so stop bashing it, troll.

 

[PeePantz]

I mean come on... wiping out all progress (story and character) of the first in favour or a botched new storyline and a whole different cast (except for the cameos)...(EDIT.. oh I forgot, Joker's is back.. big woop:/)

Uhh... Garrus....

OT: I really hope this isn't Mass Effect related. I love Mass Effect but hopefully they will create a new series that is great and perhaps in a different genre.

 

[HellsingerAngel]

My guess is that the clues related to Mass Effect are just to throw everyone off. Iron is a strong symbol of the Soviets, Vostok is a research station in Russia and SIS is certainly one of the bigger players in the Cold War. I hope BioWare has either created a new IP or picked up a really old one.

 

[RejjeN]

possibly telling the story of first contact between humans and the aliens. thinking its gonna be set in london (hence why you could see the tower bridge and the thames in the trailer) with an mi6 agent sent to investigate all the wierd things happening.

The First Contact War wasn't really all that much of a war, all that happened was that a Turian patrol destroyed a group of humans trying to open a Mass Relay, then they 'attacked' one of the Alliance's new colonies which surrendered rather than have all their people be killed, then the rest of the Alliance showed up and kicked the Turians where the sun don't shine. Then the Council stepped in and it ended.

 

[Andronicus]

Aww, if it's Mass Effect 3, well, I was hoping it'd be a whole new franchise. And if it's not, then, well, it just looks like another shooter game. And I still have yet to play a game made by Bioware.

Interest terminated.

 

[THAC0]

British spies that go to Vostok to take temperatures in an attempt to make a new record for the coldest recorded temperature on Earth that just so happen to go to the future due to a thermomiter explosion next to a swimming pool filled with toads. Wait! I copyright that!

the spies got to Vostok to discover why the Russians are spending so much time there, and investigate dropping temperatures and other weather anomalies. once there (they do a titorial mission about getting past a patrol, a stealth based mission sneaking into the base, followed by a run and gun mission), they find a pool filled with glowing toad like creatures. The toads seem to be somehow connected to the odd temperature anomalies, but the relationship isn't clear. (then they fight a boss).

The rest of the game has the spies slipping between dimensions trying to stop the Russians from harnessing what ever mcguffin they are after, and preventing them from messing with weather patterns which are a side effect of their research.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

My guess is that the clues related to Mass Effect are just to throw everyone off. Iron is a strong symbol of the Soviets, Vostok is a research station in Russia and SIS is certainly one of the bigger players in the Cold War. I hope BioWare has either created a new IP or picked up a really old one.

This is exactly what I was hoping, I mean mass effect is fun and all but I'd like to see what new ideas bioware can come up with.
Oh,and I'm always the stealth guy so a game related to MI6 sounds right up my alley.

 

[icyneesan]

I think its a video game.

 

[McNinja]

Too bad Sony Russia occasionally confirmed that it's Mass Effect 3 on Twitter. And as it happens with Sony, a screenshot has been taken before they removed it.

It says "Bioware company showed a teaser for VGA award in which you can see first footage of Mass Effect 3.
It's a Sony, people. PSP Go leaked, PSP2 leaked, now they leak even third-party announcements.

That doesn't look like Shepard though. At all. So dubya tee eff?

Shepard could die in ME2. Most likely ME3 is about new hero, like Dragon Age 2.

Or maybe it's the guy you'll assume the role of if you either start a new game (without loading a save from ME2) or got Shepard killed off for good in your save file.

If you die in ME2, you aren't alive in ME3, and thus you cannot be Shepard. Which could mean there could be a new hero for those of you that failed miserably and didn't play through it again, which could be interesting. But Bioware has stated on hundreds of occasions that Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3 are Commander Shepard's story, so a new hero might not be it. On the Bioware forums, there is speculation that it is another character from Mass Effect.

Mass Effect 3 everyone. GET YOUR HOPES UP. DO IT.

 

[duchaked]

BioWare Drops Another Hint

BioWare [http://www.bioware.com] has let slip another hint about its secret new project and this one leads somewhere that you probably weren't expecting.

That image is all the proof that I need. It is almost certainly related to Mass Effect. That short little clip probably took a fairly significant amount of effort to put together, and (I hope) Bioware is not so lazy as to reuse a design that would still require them to remodel the weapon entirely.

This my friends, is VERY clearly an Incisor Sniper Rifle, and it is a weapon in Mass Effect 2.

YEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHH

Whether it's Mass Effect 3, or 'N7 Code of Honor: Medal of Duty', I care not, I will be greatly excited.

lol N7 Code of Honor: Medal of Duty...I'll play that

 

[Silver_Shade]

Too bad Sony Russia occasionally confirmed that it's Mass Effect 3 on Twitter. And as it happens with Sony, a screenshot has been taken before they removed it.

It says "Bioware company showed a teaser for VGA award in which you can see first footage of Mass Effect 3.
It's a Sony, people. PSP Go leaked, PSP2 leaked, now they leak even third-party announcements.

That doesn't look like Shepard though. At all. So dubya tee eff?

Shepard could die in ME2. Most likely ME3 is about new hero, like Dragon Age 2.

Or maybe it's the guy you'll assume the role of if you either start a new game (without loading a save from ME2) or got Shepard killed off for good in your save file.

Just saying, it could just be a guy in the trailer. For all we know, it pans up and Shepard has a gun to the back of his head.

(I know that exact scenario is probably wrong, you can see behind him pretty clearly, but you get my drift.)

 

[Silver_Shade]

-SNIP-

Whether it's Mass Effect 3, or 'N7 Code of Honor: Medal of Duty', I care not, I will be greatly excited.

lol N7 Code of Honor: Medal of Duty...I'll play that

Seconded. As long as Bioware keeps doing that thing they do, I'll play whatever they make.