Bioware: Next Mass Effect on "The Right Track"

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Its going to be a MMORPG. That's the only way they can keep the franchise going. The Shepard saga is over, for good or ill. They'll never officially touch any of those characters again - to do so would invalidate a lot of player's journeys with them.

It'll be a dry, faceless, lifeless MMORPG that will launch to moderate fanfair and interest. Six months down the line, half the servers will be shut down. Two years out the game will shut down completely. Just another casualty to the WOW monster and the growing indifference of the gaming community.

 

[pilouuuu]

If they make it planning the ending in advance and respecting our decisions then I'm sure it'll be simply amazing!

 

[Subscriptism]

I'll believe it when I see it, until then I'm assuming it's going to be shit.

 

[Bluestorm83]

There is no right way to make a joke that the only "Right Track" for another Mass Effect game would be the train to Auchwitz, so I will not make that joke. Instead, I will allow your minds to fill in the blanks.

 

[Mikeyfell]

There is no Mass Effect, they killed it, remember.

There is nothing they could show in a demo that could potentially blow anyone away.

Because it would involve seeing the choices you made impact the game. (Which they can't show in a presentation)

Unless the "next Mass Effect" is a re-issue of ME3 presented as if anything that happened in the first two games mattered the whole franchise is still dead.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Translation : We are making a game to rival Halo 5!!11111

 

[The Ubermensch]

>They want to take to slow, we say more power too them.

Doesn't mean they aren't going to hype the shit out of it though

Spoiler: Guys, we've got something, it's really good. This guy who saw it said it was really good. Oh man, and we're making it, its going to blow your fucking mind. But you can't see it yet, not till it's ready. You want to see it now? I mean, I'd love too but it's not awesome enough yet. Like at the moment it's the most awesome thing you've ever seen, but we are going to make it blow your fucking mind it will be that awesome. Like literally, to stare upon it will cause your consciousness to evacuate your brain and become pure energy, the force of which will cause your head to explode. But you can't see it yet.

Menwhile... at Bioware Studios

This is what I'm seeing when I see this marketing

 

[Pyrian]

I, for one, don't understand people who want to keep their shit.

It's more of a timing issue, really.

 

[PirateRose]

So the article can be summed up as, hey ex-fans we really want to draw you back in so get really excited for something you won't see for at least a year.

 

[Malbourne]

I'm glad to hear the development team is taking to the sequel with so much enthusiasm, but lately it seems like Bioware is using its classic franchises like a crutch. Maybe the dev teams would be better off pursuing a new IP, or at the very least, making the fourth Mass Effect the first step in a fresh adventure.

 

[Fox12]

Hmmm. Lost your shit? In a good way or a bad way? I don't think I can care anymore Bioware.

 

[carpathic]

So, it'll have at least one kind of tank in it, real exploration, meaningful sidequests, procedurally generated landscapes and multiple possible solutions to singular problems?

Great, because you guys cut all of those things from number three and that's why I'm probably not buying number 4.

Whilst we're at it, real money gambling, let's not be having any of that, although given EA's obsession with it (And it's appearance in Battlefield 4 of all things) I'm not holding much hope.

They kinda removed all those awesome things from ME2 then added some of them via DLC.

Then they added multiplayer, because that makes everything so much better.

I am actually curious what they are going to do with Mass Effect, but I am also terrified what they are going to do the game next - I am certain we'll never get the awesome 80's dirty sci-fi vibe back. But I want so badly to play in this universe again!

 

[Pinky's Brain]

I'm cautiously optimistic about DA:I ... but the artistic integrity defence they pulled for the ME3 endings kinda doomed ME4, they simply can't make a sequel without trivializing the ME3 endings (pretty much have to canonize destroy). Which most of the players won't care about, but Bioware have build up the ending as some Magnum Opus so they can't really do that.

So we will have to get a pre/mid/interquel ... and really only writers like that.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Considering I would have lost my shit if I had paid money for ME3 and its abortion of an ending your tweets don't exactly full me with confidence Bioware Dev.

Also, I hear Vaseline is perfect for getting EA out of you after its done preforming ventriloquism with yourself as the dummy.

 

[duchaked]

I'm working on my Insanity playthrough of ME3, and it's still freaking amazing. Obviously there's the ending, but at this point I'm just shrugging it off (all has been said and done about it already).

All in all...I'm still blown away by the series. Personally I would enjoy a scaled down story, but retain the focus on the characters. The Citadel DLC felt like what the tone of a reunion of the Firefly gang would be like haha

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Snip

Wow.


Or...they could just tell a separate characters story in another time period that doesn't touch Shepard's? They have already been talking about the possibility of different playable races ala Dragon Age Origins and Inquisition.


Are you seriously saying that the 10 or so characters from the main trilogy are the only characters in the entire universe?

They can't really do another time period at this point, can they? If you do prequel, well no matter what happens, it all works out in the end because the ME games still happen. There can be no risk of Galactic extinction because the Reaper arc hasn't occurred yet. You can't have it set in the past because we already know how it ends. With the first ME game. And you have to do a Galactic extinction plot to keep up the epic feel. That was the problem with DA2. We went from the stalwart hero of the land to some street thug type guy(or gal) who slowly does shit that doesn't really matter. You can't jump down in scale for your plot - it makes it seem weak and meaningless.

And you can't do a sequel because of the mess that was ME3's ending. Too many variables. Players would insist on being able to import if not their Shepard, then at least the story they built. Did the Quarians die, is Wrex dead, synthesis vs destruction etc...Some players had the Reapers win - do they not get to import their story and get no say in whats going on? The problems facing a destroyed Reaper galaxy are not going to be the same as those of a dead Quarian, no Krogan cure synthesis one. They would have to do something so completely removed from the Galactic stage and race relations - the two staples of ME mind you - that they might as well make up an entire new game and IP. Just start over instead of riding the ME wave while claiming to be something new and different.

Bioware made such an absolute mess of ME3 that the franchise is essentially untouchable. Its like the Schumacher Batman and Robin. No one can touch the entire franchise for years. ME3 is still too fresh in our minds. If we play a new one, we'll be too tempted to look for any possible clue to if Shepard or the crew lived we'll miss the game's plot. Does the grizzled cop and intrepid reporter stop the Krogan smugglers? Who cares! I want to know if Tali and Shepard find each other and live happily on Rannoch.

Anything less than Mass Effect 4: Just kidding Shepard is back will leave the fans with such a case of blue balls they'll wonder why Bioware doesn't just make an entirely new IP again.

 

[Glaice]

I'll care when there's something actually to show fans, otherwise this is just stupid pre-alpha hype.