TC McQueen
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I dunno, I'd like to have tons of armor in a setting where thresher maws are a thing.
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Mass Effect (4): First Details & Images [Update 2: Video of Mako driving around]
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Seriously. If you haven't settled with the fact ME is part shooter, it's already over.
true. armor for safety makes sense.
also the other picture has less armor on the characters.. i just had a knee jerk reaction.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
ME2 lost some customization, but the combat of 1 was so pointless. It does not hold up today. If you mean stuff like atmosphere and pacing then I would tend to agree.
Agreed. If this game really is like Voyager and we a trapped in some new galaxy the only way I would find it to be worthwhile is if it all occurs before and during the Reaper war and when we come back to the Milk Way it will be after the Reapers are defeated and it sets up this whole new situation of a Galaxy that snatched victory from the jaws of defeat then faced with this totally new and unknown galaxy that is filled with it's own intelligent and highly advanced life. It would create an interesting scenario for ME5.
funkystudent
Member
They probably cant think of how to make a Mass Effect game without the Citadel, reapers, geth, genophage, etc.....
I know Bioware think its probably a good idea to not mess with the ME3 story but I cant imagine the fan base would care if they bent the ME3 ending a little for the sake of setting up the next saga. Otherwise everything will have zero weight because in the end nothing can happen that would effect the other 3 games.
Just set the game a hundred years later. Kill off and add a few races in the gap. Have some guy say the reaper invasion is so long ago no one is 100% sure what happened at the end.
Go from there.
I know Bioware think its probably a good idea to not mess with the ME3 story but I cant imagine the fan base would care if they bent the ME3 ending a little for the sake of setting up the next saga. Otherwise everything will have zero weight because in the end nothing can happen that would effect the other 3 games.
Just set the game a hundred years later. Kill off and add a few races in the gap. Have some guy say the reaper invasion is so long ago no one is 100% sure what happened at the end.
Go from there.
rocksteady1983
Member
Glad to hear multiplayer coop is coming back! Loved it. No info on a mass effect complete collection?
aspiegamer
Member
Blah.
Clean break or probably not going to bother. Nothing to remind me of the previous heartbreak, at all, please.
Clean break or probably not going to bother. Nothing to remind me of the previous heartbreak, at all, please.
The designs of the Armor look alright, the Mako is ok but I want it to be a big tank not just a minivan only for transportation. The reluctance to give a clear answer on when and where the game takes place has me greatly concerned though. Making it take place during the same time period / era of Shepard is a really lazy idea that really irritates me primarily because the most important and interesting story from that era is Shepard's and any other story will seem unimportant by comparison.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
I miss the Mass Effect 1 armour aesthetic.
Nothing beats tali. They couldn't even be assed to get her hands right.
I forgive you man. Any word of Mass Effect gets the blood pumping
in a franchise where they did so much wrong, that's what stands out to you?
TC McQueen
Member
I don't. It was literally reskins of the same basic armor models, much like 99.9% of the weapons.
indigo-cyclops
Member
The original Mako was the best of both worlds; mobile but offensive. Seems like improving on that design is the best outcome.
I want to be excited for this game, but unless it has the explorative nature and RPG depth of Mass Effect 1, Im not all that interested.
I can understand not liking it because of the copy/pasting, but it was an idea that should have been expanded upon, not abandoned completely.
You know, I could see the new galaxy thing working out pretty well. Have the setup be that someone took Shepard's warning seriously, did the math (One Sovereign nearly took the Citadel and destroyed half a fleet, a whole fleet of Sovereigns = NOPE!), and made a plan B to send out ships with the best and brightest of the Milky Way species to another galaxy using some mass effect trickery and then destroy all records that it ever existed.
Then the new game becomes about being strangers in a strange new galaxy, exploring the great unknown, and settling down in a new home. Or set the game some generations later, completely untouched by whatever color space magic happened in the Milky Way.
Then the new game becomes about being strangers in a strange new galaxy, exploring the great unknown, and settling down in a new home. Or set the game some generations later, completely untouched by whatever color space magic happened in the Milky Way.
Last Hearth
Member
Anything set during ME1-3 and I'm not interested. The ending of ME3 destroyed any interest I have in that time period.
I'd only be interested if it's after or alternate universe.
I'd only be interested if it's after or alternate universe.
I liked it. It needed a lot of work done to it though
EAware thought that meant just putting you into corridors instead.
Last Hearth
Member
How would you run into familiar faces under that scenario?
Does anyone remember the now-defunct CGHUB's competition? Some of these designs were fantastic!
Yea, to me because they were so much in my face. And some of these issues, like heels for Asari which made no logical sense aside from seemed like utterly lazy design to make impractical space babes, spanned more than one game.
Yea, to me because they were so much in my face. And some of these issues, like heels for Asari which made no logical sense aside from seemed like utterly lazy design to make impractical space babes, spanned more than one game.
Yeah this makes no sense. Lol. Possibilities of seeing known characters in another galaxy? It can't happen.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Please no old characters. Please set after 1-3. And please no more galactic threat.
My theory as well. Pretty much the only thing I can come up with given the information they've released.
BouncyFrag
Member
I thought it was okay but became a real drag on replays.
Well, think of any character that didn't appear after Mass Effect 2. They're potential Plan B passengers. Or the beginning of the game could be pre-launch, so you'd get to talk to the Council or Anderson or whoever before setting out.
Besides, gotta remember it's EA. If any named character shows up as a hologram to say "Good luck!" it counts for a marketing bullet point.
no you're right they were pretty empty. the bases you went in were all copy pasted from planet to planet too. i remember it being pretty novel though. being able to just roll around getting loot and minerals and stuff. it was the vistas and the idea of an interesting world. got that scifi curiosity flowing.
Cyber Caesar
Member
Kiss me I don't smoke. This sounds fucking brilliant.
Admiral Woofington
Member
You don't play as Shepard.
You play as a German Shepherd in space. Commander Shepherd.
You play as a German Shepherd in space. Commander Shepherd.
metareferential
Member
The Mako is back, fuck yes.
Now bring back everything else that was cool about ME1.
I loved that game soooo much.
Now bring back everything else that was cool about ME1.
I loved that game soooo much.
Miles Quaritch
Member
This is very disappointing. Qaa hoping they'd jump ahead a few thousand years.
Ah well, hopefully the Reapers won't feature during ME4. I've had my fill of them...
Baron_Calamity
Member
How could it be another galaxy? No one mentioned that any of the races could travel out side to another galaxy. Even with Mass drives that seems pretty unlikely.
Z
ZombieFred
Unconfirmed Member
Read above about this possible be set in a different galaxy during the timeline and thus doing a clever trick of avoiding the story implications with the Reapers and set something fresh and a complete new journey again into new distant worlds. This makes it rather exciting and can work and please everyone in some regards.
TC McQueen
Member
Apparently there's an article on Game Informer about this press conference?
Edit: It's just compiling what Nerd Appropriate already posted.
Edit: It's just compiling what Nerd Appropriate already posted.
VisceralBowl
Member
Or this could just be a galaxy that the Reapers have left in ruin / are attacking right now before they move onto Shepard's. I hope not, but that definitely could happen.
Do like.
figadapaura
Member
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
why is it during Shepard's lifetime? I thought that was all over. More Reapers?! Fuck off.
I wanted a new beginning. Now it's the same damn thing. :/
Edit: I am happy to see the Mako though.
why is it during Shepard's lifetime? I thought that was all over. More Reapers?! Fuck off.
I wanted a new beginning. Now it's the same damn thing. :/
Edit: I am happy to see the Mako though.
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
There's no escaping the ghost of ME3 is there? Would hate the new game to have anything to do with the first trilogy.