BioWare: "We're Not Done" With Mass Effect

[CronoT]

Everything that made BioWare what it was is gone. The greatness that is Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire will always shine as an example of what they accomplished. Personally, I think they peaked at Jade Empire, but I never played Mass Effect. By the time ME3 came along, they were no different than the husk that Rare is.

Say what you want about Nintendo; the truth is, they PROTECT their IP's. We just pretend the Phillips CD-i never existed.

 

[oldtaku]

Mass Effect is about all you have left now - better milk it!

 

[Flailing Escapist]

"That there horse we killed, well we're gunno start hittin' it with these here sticks for a couple of years if ya'll want to come join us."

 

[Machine Man 1992]

Fingers crossed for Mass Effect elseworld stories.

Otherwise, they're just giving poor Mass Effect the Rasputin treatment.

 

[Raesvelg]

There's still a ton of room left to play around in the universe, the problem is that they can't do it after ME3.

Kinda like Dragon Age; after Origins, they had a very limited number of ways they could incorporate your choices into DA:2, given the way the game's endings could play out.

They can, as others have mentioned, go smaller-scale. Pre-Reapers. Hell, they could even do a Shepard story set during the Skyllian Blitz if they really wanted to.

They've got about 20 years of relatively static universe where all the major players are in pretty much the roles they're in at the start of Mass Effect 1. No human Spectres, of course, but that's not a huge hindrance.

 

[Malconvoker]

Really, the only thing that popped into my mind when I saw this was "Cool, I really hope they make a table top RPG"

I wanna play other races and am so much of a nerd that I want to do so with paper and pencil. That way, any story could happen =3

 

[Darkness665]

No.

Just No. To BioWare as a "brand", Origin, Project $10, "You're Mom Will Hate This", adding multi player for the checkbox, to hating your customers like Ubisoft and Sony and for completely screwing up Mass Effect.

 

[WanderingFool]

The only way to beat ME3 is scale is to go smaller. Mae its a much more personal story rather than "hurdur now its the UNIVERSE!"

Actually, I think it would be interesting to see the events of the ME universe through different eyes than Shepard's. I know someone who is trying to setup a ME RPG based that starts during the battle for the Citadel in M1, ad goes all the way to the first Reaper contact in ME3. I think it would be a chance to see the universe from the perspective of someone who iisnt aware of the horrors that are the Reapers.

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

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Actually, I think it would be interesting to see the events of the ME universe through different eyes than Shepard's. I know someone who is trying to setup a ME RPG based that starts during the battle for the Citadel in M1, ad goes all the way to the first Reaper contact in ME3. I think it would be a chance to see the universe from the perspective of someone who iisnt aware of the horrors that are the Reapers.

You make it sound more like a horror RPG then anything.

As for the article... I wouldn't call this a silver lining unless EA eases off on the deadline enforcement a little bit. ME3 felt more rushed then anything and I hate to see the same mishaps occur again.

If I could only find a picture of that one Quarian with the pixel blood... seriously, nobody noticed that during development? I could see that from across the room.

 

[ecoho]

ok i need to inform a few people,here were go, it was stated back when ME3 was comeing out that it was NOT the end of the series just the end of shepards story(the articles are on THIS SITE use the dam search bar) so please stp balmeing EA for this it was part of biowares planes from game 1.

OT: Need a dam release date guys i mean i know why you released this today(to mask the founders leaveing) but please give us a treaser or something

 

[WanderingFool]

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Actually, I think it would be interesting to see the events of the ME universe through different eyes than Shepard's. I know someone who is trying to setup a ME RPG based that starts during the battle for the Citadel in M1, ad goes all the way to the first Reaper contact in ME3. I think it would be a chance to see the universe from the perspective of someone who iisnt aware of the horrors that are the Reapers.

You make it sound more like a horror RPG then anything.

Than I obviously didnt say it right. What I mean is, In ME1, you are focused on Saren, but than you find out about the reapers. From than on, ME2 deals with fighting the collecters, and thus stopping the reapers, and ME3 deals with the actual reapers themselves attacking.

The the scratch made RPG my friend is trying to put together basically deals with stuff that isnt related to the reapers. Thus far he decided on there being a campaign dealing with the Geth, Cerberus and biotic (okay, this one may be a bit of a horror story). And is planing on atleast two more before the events of ME3 role around.

So, in a nutshell, its basically sidestories that have no underlying Reaper tones, or thats the idea...

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

The only way to beat ME3 is scale is to go smaller. Mae its a much more personal story rather than "hurdur now its the UNIVERSE!"

I have to agree with this. Maybe some kind of threat to the Citadel that a Spectre is sent to investigate. And only the Citadel. Smaller scale, but still serious enough to warrant a game around.

I recommend a detective-like story with more emphasis on mystery surrounding a less catastrophic event with a sweet twist. It's hard to continually feel for the fate of all mankind... over, and over, and over again. Armageddon is getting tired.

L.A. Noire meets Mass Effect? Could be interesting.

 

[Flunk]

Bioware no longer exists, it's now totally absorbed into the fun-destroying mass that is EA.

 

[Dendio]

Bring the single player dlc...my wallet is willing!!

 

[crazyrabbits]

Say what you want about Nintendo; the truth is, they PROTECT their IP's. We just pretend the Phillips CD-i never existed.

Metroid: Other M [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/lb_i.php?lb_id=13373815860B43920100&i_id=13373815860I43921400&p=1] would like to have a word with you.

This project, wherever it ends up, will be a lame duck. Keep in mind that this was a franchise that the creators had no plans for (and didn't script out any future plans for) until EA came in and ordered further sequels. If anything, EA should be commended for giving Bioware the extra three month delay to finish the game. I shudder to think how much more of a buggy, rushed mess the game would be if they released in December 2011 instead of March 2012.

Any further installment, by necessity, has to be either a prequel or a smaller-scale story. Trying to make an antagonist that "one-ups" the Reapers is going to fail, especially if it's set within the same time period as Shepard and his/her squadmates. The only foreseeable threat, the "tech singularity", by all in-game data, isn't set to show up for hundreds of thousands of years.

Bioware either has a choice of bridging the trilogy with prequels (which, if the response of the fanbase is any indication, will be a failure) or setting the action many, many centuries ahead and lose everything that made the games so unique (the world and characters they set up).

That said, if EA's marketing current strategy is any indication, it will either be filled with multiplayer or a F2P MMO. They turned their back on purely single-player games a long time ago.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

"What do you do after you threaten to destroy every living thing in the universe? Threaten to destroy every living thing and also their cat?" -Yahtzee Croshaw

I'm honestly pretty curious to see just what convoluted places they'll be taking the Mass Effect lore/story in the future. Then again... maybe they'll get it right somehow so people won't threaten to nuke BioWare's offices anymore.

 

[Abbot of Beregost]

This. They've murdered what could have been the Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. If anything, this announcement is a clear indication that the evil at EA has finally won out. RIP, Bioware.

 

[lunavixen]

I can understand doing the single stories as DLC like Omega and the like, but a whole new game? no. don't do it guys, the storyline for Shepard is finished and there aren't enough characters sufficiently fleshed out for a whole game about themselves, besides, the Reapers are already dead as is Cerberus, what is there left to do?

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

I look forward to seeing some small, more personal kind of side stories. At least, I hope that's what they do. But I have all faith in Bioware's storytelling. (For the record, I *very* much liked the ME3 endings, so sue me.)

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Oh really? Well in that case you can still go fuck yourself. I'm fuckin' done with you.

I have a feeling that Mass Effect will become their CoD. Or at least, that's what EA wants it to be.