BioWare: Mass Effect 3 Brings Shepard's Story to a Close

[Clonekiller]

Yay! No comic continual story crap. This one has an end! Good thing too. I meant, what do you send at Commander Shepard after a bunch of galaxy destroying supper machines.

 

[katsabas]

Things that end.

This is the reason I like Deathnote and not One Piece.

Why I prefer Avatar with 3 seasons and not Simpsons with 10+ seasons.

Why I say Fallout 3 and not another Final Fantasy. Or Symphony Of The Night and Soul Reaver over something like another Call Of Duty.

CLOSURE! What has happened to that? I miss it. Whether he lives or dies, Shepard has become synonymus with that word in my dictionary.


Then again, after I play ME3, I will just play more ME2. Because of the same reason I watch The 2 Towers more than Return Of The King. Because I don't like thinking to myself 'Well, that's that. Now what ?'

Huh. It kind of rhymes.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Good. I want my "lots of little blue children" running around with me and Liara. I don't want my Shep running off on another adventure while Liara has to raise the children alone. Part of me is sad this series is ending, but most of me is happy. It will be nice to have closure.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I Seem to remember the same thing being said about halo, and yet the next halo game is supposed to include master chief.

so Im skeptical until they actually keep their promise.

 

[Uber Evil]

The one thing that would be EXTREMELY satisfying for me is if they gave you the option to deliver a long, drawn-out "the reason you suck speech" to the Citadel Council. Doesn't really matter WHEN but I would guess either right after the Council members show up on the Normandy (as some screens indicate) or towards the end of the game after you've successfully beaten back the Reaper Invasion (or more hauntingly, after you've failed, and can quite legitimately blame the Council for the failure since a LOT of problems would've been solved if they had listened).

Ah yes, Reapers. We have dismi- *headshoots.* I want this option. It would be hilarious. I'm not too picky when it comes to ME, so I say Bring it on, Bioware. I trust them with the universe.

 

[Exile714]

How many times am I going to hear "It's going to turn into COD!". Firstly, they said they are adding some of the RPG elements back in, and secondly, I am just sick of reading it. When I first read it I was like "meh" because I am not a big mass effect fan. But seriously, in every goddamn ME3 thread now, there's always 2 or more people that go "GAAAH It's going to turn into Gears of Call of halo!". Is there one point in mass effect history that didn't have cover based shooting? I mean, what else do you want? Turn based? RTS? What? I actually had to do alot of shooting in ME1 when I played through it, so I don't know why people are suddenly complaining about it when it's been there since 1. Also, again, I see that damn complaint on every ME3 thread. Can't we go through ONE without seeing it? Please?

They want dice rolls. You know, where the attack is determined based on stats multiplied by a random number? Apparently, some people believe that true RPG's require you to be "detached" from your character so you can pretend you're actually playing the "role" rather than playing a "game." Or something like that. It doesn't make much sense to me, but then again, these complaints don't make much sense to you either. People on the internet are 1) weird and 2) love to complain.

 

[TheTaco007]

MASS EFFECT MMO GOGOGOGOGO!!!!

 

[Fujor]

three words for you Bioware.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/First_Contact_War

Read through this. The conflict amounts to very little, with only one battle for planetary control, the rest being a series of small ship to ship skirmishes. Before either side even had fully prepared themselves for a real conflict, the Council intervened.

To put it in a different perspective, it'd be like making a game centred around a minor territorial dispute before the UN intervened and the situation was peacefully resolved. There just isn't much material there to work with.

It'd be better to set something in a new setting as well instead of look into minor backstory events. We've still only gotten to see a fraction of the galaxy, even the Citadel, Omega, or Illium.

As i said, i know the lore but with ME3 having a strong rumor of space battles it'd be a great format for the game.

and don't focus so much on the "war" aspect of it. I think the "First contact" part is much better particularly from a non human side. Bioware could finally nail the whole racism thing they keep trying to do by introducing the human race on the galactic stage.

seriously. it has potential. I don't mean a game about the first contact war. i mean it set before, during and after.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

-snip-

They mentioned something about an MMO, but in the same statement, they also basically said that's thinking too small.

And I think it is. I wouldn't be surprised if this launched into a multi-media entertainment empire - the "Star Wars/Star Trek" of our generation.

You'll see books where the author's are given a lot more lee way in the happenings of the universe (kind of like Star Wars), you'll see new games set in the same Universe, you'll probably see them developed by more than one developer eventually, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if they were going to make a movie out of this... either based on the original trilogy or something new.

I see what you mean then. Didn't the Mass Effect movie get a green light? I know there's a trilogy of books out as well and the graphic novel that came out before...either ME2 or, before one of the DLC's seemed like it would be open ended. Maybe we'll get a First Contact War FPS. Seemed like a pretty big deal (unless that's what the movie(s) will be about)

 

[Zydrate]

I approve of this, but I will miss Shephard. I at least wish we can still import our save game in ME4 and at least get a cameo of Shephard, or at least be a semi important character.

I wonder. Will the "fail" result be considered a secondary canon? I'd imagine they'd have to make two games in one if people imported a fail-game.

 

[Alon Shechter]

As long as Mass Effect continues, I can live without Shepard.
I like my Shep, but he's a Captain Obvious of absurd levels.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

I can see my Shepard settling down, Mormon-style, with Miranda, Liara and Ashley on some remote colony; dispensing frontier justice when the need arises.

 

[Revolutionary]

Farewell Shepard you will not be forgotten (especially the way I changed your gender between games, you don't forget someone after that )

 

[The Bandit]

This pretty much sums up why I feel the "Shepard loses" ending would be the best one. Because for two whole games we've been seeing this man as what is pretty much space Jesus in the eyes of all the in game characters (Much like how Gordon Freeman is beard Jesus in the Half-Life series),to see him fall and have the universe suffer would create some form of closure,and end with something better than "Shepard punched alien Hitler in the face".
Sometimes,a sad ending is the best ending.

Except there's the fact that Shepherd losing would mean the end of every living being in the galaxy. Kind of hard to make a game with a dead character.

 

[redeemer09]

I can see my Shepard settling down, Mormon-style, with Miranda, Liara and Ashley on some remote colony; dispensing frontier justice when the need arises.

i second this

 

[putowtin]

it's no surprise that Shepard's story ends with Mass Effect 3. That's not really a bad thing though; once you've saved the galaxy from malevolent giant robots from space, it's hard to think of a way to top that.

At home with the Shepherd's! See (the now retired) Commander Shepherd relax, do the house work, cook up a mean fondue, change his blue babies nappies!

(I'd play it!)

 

[Pat8u]

I have an idea why don't they make a game call MEO (mass effect origins) and do exactly what they did with dao but with different combat

 

[BrotherRool]

This is a good decision. I hope the new games would involve no-one we know and preferrably a different age of the universe. Lots and lots of generations into the future when cults have sprung up worshipping Shepard