I seem to recall Yahtzee having a great line about "the same few square foot of Tolkien's back garden". Here's hoping for a game about elephant-faced astro-nomads who build their cities on the backs of space whales and travel the galaxy in search of a cure to their debilitating skin condition. And have Brian Blessed voice the player character.
Actually, just have Brian Blessed voice the player character. I'd buy pretty much any game that does that.
I've said before that my perfect videogame would be a detective/cop style game set in one of these fictional universes, and Mass Effect has always been one I'd enjoy the msot.
Mass Effect: C-Sec would have you sign on as a C-Sec officer and work your way up through the ranks handling drug busts, murders, robberies. Everything that happens in day to day life. The moral choice system could still be used as you become either a Dirty Harry style cop or a good guy cop, you could have a partner with whom you have Lethal Weapon style adventures, and you could also include all of the usual quirks of Mass Effect, like Keepers, aliens and SPECTRES.
All the joy of the great cop/detective movies and shows, combined with the fun of the ME universe. It'd be great!
There will be two forms of opinion on this
A) The silent majority, might be cool - worth a go whatever
B) The vocal minority, "you can't resurrect the dead by digging it up and screwing it" which also happens to be a horrible joke I heard somewhere
Too bad I didn't buy ME3 and don't plan to buy anything from Bioware/EA ever again. The only possible exception being DA3 but that's only because they haven't released enough info about it to turn me off yet, im sure they are working on the advertisments for the 8 different day 1 DLC packs.
I totally agree with this point, the only issue is that's exactly what they did for Dragon Age 2, and so many people complained about that. Granted there were more complaints aimed at the change in gameplay, (I for one didn't mind the faster pace, but the fact it was padded out by having the enemies trickle in like a crummy beat-em-up rather than having a challenging fight irked me.) but the smaller story got its unfair share of flak as well.
Personally though, I love smaller, personal stories. At the end of their respective games, I cared a lot more about the citizens of Kirkwall than I did about the much larger population of Ferelden.
And to get back on the topic of the thread, I was disappointed with Mass Effect 3's ending, sure, but I still remember the 98% of the game that was pure gold, and so I have high hopes for whatever they decide to do, and I'm sure they won't (entirely) disappoint.
I'm hoping it'll be good but I can't make assumptions yet. I'd like to explore the citadel more thoroughly, rather than just the relatively few floors we got to see through in the trilogy.
I know that's what everyone says, but i just can't agree with them. I just found ME2 rather.... dull. Most of the new characters were dull, but at least Garrus got to prove the bad-ass that he was in is ME2. The gunplay was tragically dull, the lack of RPG elements, etc.
I don't want to be another one of those millions of threads that popped up around the release of ME2 saying how much it sucked.
I didn't think ME2 was particularly bad.... it was just dull to me. The amount of time wasted doing planet-scanning, pointless side-quests, conversations with people you're about to kill in 3 seconds....
And the story being non-existant didn't help.
"Yeah, there's some bad-guys, but we're not going to let you confront them.... because you haven't arbitrary recruited enough monkeys/turians to fight with you."
I've got an entire fucking ship full of Cerberus operatives, why can't you just give me some squadrons of those commando's that randomly appear all the time in ME3, and I'll go fuck up some collectors.
At least in Mass Effect 1 you had Saren, and had to discover that he was the least compelling bad-guy in years
I wonder if the founders just couldnt handle seeing their company fall from grace. Regardless of how you personally felt about ME3, DAII or SWTOR, non can deny their receptions were less than warm.
As far as Im concerned Bioware died after ME2. Just a stinking sub-company of EA now, making games for money rather than love.
One idea that some friends and I were kicking around would be a type of Mass Effect: Battlefront, in which you play through story campaigns taking place during some of the historical wars in ME's history, such as the Krogan Rebellions, the Morning War, and the Rachni Wars.
Because yeah, after taking out the big bad monsters nearly succeeded in wiping out the galaxy, there's not much you can do AFTER that story, so pretty much all that remains are things to do BEFORE that story...especially when you think of the nature of the endings...particularly the fact that
the Blue ending leaves Shepard as a God commanding the massive Reaper fleet, and the Green ending leaves the galaxy as a fully united utopia, with now friendly Reapers wandering around and helping everyone.
So yeah, my money is on a prequel.
Either my fever is making me see shit, or Captcha is drunk: "Pie Are Round".
I'll stop posting about how I'm done with the series when it dies and there aren't anymore news articles about how EA is still kicking this dead horse.
The Mass Effect universe has such a rich lore they could make hundreds more games out of it.
What awaits to be seen is whether they'll be innovative and deep,like Mass Effect. Or simple and homogenised, like every other EA game.
I'll stop posting about how I'm done with the series when it dies and there aren't anymore news articles about how EA is still kicking this dead horse.
We already knew they would continue with ME universe after ME3, so congrats Bioware on just trying to shift the focus from co-founders leaving to HEY GUIZ MORE GAMEZ.
Wait; the silver lining in the news that the soul of the company is leaving is that the soulless abomination is going to lurch forward and do more harm to their legacy?
I'll stop posting about how I'm done with the series when it dies and there aren't anymore news articles about how EA is still kicking this dead horse.
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