But it has to have a reference to breakfast or dental hygiene.
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BioWare teasing next Mass Effect [Up4: Fourth Pic (1 LQ offscreen, 3 concept art)]
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But it has to have a reference to breakfast or dental hygiene.
shinobi602
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EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Yeah. I like TIM. I like Aria. And I like the concept of Cerberus. It's the execution that falls flat in Mass Effect 3. Cerberus, as an idea, regresses from game to game, media to media, as the lore gets more stupid and comical.
I think what frustrates me is that Cerberus is neither terrifyingly insidious nor morally grey. In Mass Effect 1 then being this low key super secret black ops gone rogue is pretty creepy. When you start discovering what they're doing you feel like you're knee deep in a dark mystery surrounding some really serious shit. Mass Effect 2 elevates them to a more composed organisation, introduces TIM, and tries to back track on the Mass Effect 1 stuff to make them morally grey. Cue Mass Effect 3 and there's absolutely nothing redeeming about them, turning the entire group into cartoonish villains.
Cerberus is just one of those things on my Mass Effect pile I want gone forever when moving into a new game with new ideas. When BioWare say they're done with everything associated with the Shepard trilogy, I consider Cerberus just that. Shepard's arc is over, and so is Cerberus. It's done. Kaput. No more, not ever. Let's not dabble in this shit again.
Melchiah
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Hopefully both of them will be multiplatform.
Please be Jade Empire 2.
EatChildren
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Doesn't necessarily have to be BioWare.
shinobi602
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What do you think of my line of thinking here?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=89223961&postcount=633
Probably human, maybe Asari. ME costs EA too much money to go for something as comparatively alien as Turians. I actually kind of doubt that they'd want to wait too long with development, given that it was a last gen series, and with having to port over to the new engine, it may actually continue on the story more so than we'd like.
TheRealTalker
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wait so when the PS4AllAccess event
quickdevilred
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great
instead of being creative EA has bioware working on an unnecessary sequel.
figures. thanks ea
instead of being creative EA has bioware working on an unnecessary sequel.
figures. thanks ea
Wahwah. :`(
As if EA is alone in this business making "sequels". And... first, this ME game is not even going to be sequel anyway. Second, you can be creative while using a known franchise. And, third, a lot of people want another ME game, and EA would be crazy to ignore that. Don't let all the whining about ME3 and the trilogy ending tell you otherwise.
This is EA's internal showing event they have before their unveil cycle starts.
shinobi602
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I'd say the probability of not being able to play as a human is 0.
shinobi602
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Sounds like it!
TC McQueen
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I used to play ME3 MP after finishing the campaign (before the Extended Cut came out), but my 360 RROD'd trying to download that patch to fix the FemShep save import problem and I never bothered to fix it or deal with Origin BS after I moved to PC.
It's more of a Frostbite-only technical conference with internal reveals sprinkled in.
The next mass effect was actually shown last year. I'm surprised the details haven't leaked so far, to be honest.
I think everything in the damn shot is concept art. Look at the window. Does that look real? Who knows.
TheUnsunghero26
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Anyone have any guesses as to what Casey Hudson's team's new game is going to be? They already have Sci-Fi and Fantasy covered, and EA previously canceled a Spy game they were working on. It will also be the first BioWare IP made completely under EA, so we'll see how that turns out.
Zombie RPG
Cerberus, Illusive Man, and the human Reaper were collectively the worst aspects in the story of Mass Effect 2 and 3. The Reapers and their agents would have been enough, and the increased focus on humans was ridiculous. Mass Effect 1 did a really good job of making humans seem like just one part of a much larger mosaic.
Also Mass Effect 2 and 3 did what Prince of Persia: Warrior Within did. The characters were grittier, said 'fuck' and 'shit' a lot more, and there was a lot more emphasis on sex appeal with the female characters. You can see that exemplified in areas like Omega and new races like the Vorcha which felt like something out of Gears of War.
Also Mass Effect 2 had a hugely unnecessary jumping of the shark at the start by killing Shepard and destroying the Normandy, all in the service of making Cerberus take center stage.
They were still good games, but IMO it was a disappointing direction for the series to take overall. (I'm speaking as a huge fan of the series. ME 1 is my personal favorite because of the clear focus and awesome tone of the story.)
Also Mass Effect 2 and 3 did what Prince of Persia: Warrior Within did. The characters were grittier, said 'fuck' and 'shit' a lot more, and there was a lot more emphasis on sex appeal with the female characters. You can see that exemplified in areas like Omega and new races like the Vorcha which felt like something out of Gears of War.
Also Mass Effect 2 had a hugely unnecessary jumping of the shark at the start by killing Shepard and destroying the Normandy, all in the service of making Cerberus take center stage.
They were still good games, but IMO it was a disappointing direction for the series to take overall. (I'm speaking as a huge fan of the series. ME 1 is my personal favorite because of the clear focus and awesome tone of the story.)
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Gordon0Freeman
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The gameinformer cover reveal is tomorrow...
I think a lot of us have learned to compartmentalize Bioware writing. With the sheer amount of writing in those games, there's potential for good and terrible.
bengraven
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CharmingCharlie
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This might be of interest to some. There was some sort of "secret PAX Panel" earlier this year and this guy apparently attended and he has posted the info he gleaned from it all. To be honest there is nothing too revealing other than him saying it will most definitely be sequel, a few races were revealed and that some old races are coming back.
You can read about it here :-
http://indoctrinationtheory.forumotion.co.uk/t469-mass-effect-4-information-from-secret-pax-panel
You can read about it here :-
http://indoctrinationtheory.forumotion.co.uk/t469-mass-effect-4-information-from-secret-pax-panel
EatChildren
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Cpt.Underpants
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CharmingCharlie
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Yeah yeah my bad, just saw your topic now. I should've guessed I can't compete with Eatchildren. I merely get the odd Mass Effect crave now and again but you are a flat out and out Mass Effect junkie ;-)