Wasn't she the only squadmate in the trilogy that was completely invincible? I wouldn't count on her being dead.
If they must tie it into Shepard then go full-measure with it.
Canon-ise Destroy ending
Shepard's body is recovered from the rubble
Reunite with crew
Have fun!
Noooooo... We already played with the most important characters and did the most important stuff during Shepards lifetime so how can I get excited about the story if it involves minor events. Have this one take place thousands of years later.
Sounds like the timeline of #MassEffect will be during Shepard's lifetime but won't involve Shepard...hard to tell @GambleMike being cagey!"
-"Seems strongly implied that new Mass Effect will be set in totally different galaxy, but will contain familiar elements. #SDCC"
I doubt that they'd actually do a story in another galaxy. In fact, I recall something similar to that "different galaxy" statement coming from one of the other ME4 info dumps months ago and it being clarified as "unseen areas of the galaxy."So essentially what Atlantis series was to Stargate franchise. This, I can live with.
I don't think the story has to have super high stakes, in may cases that ends up being for the worse.
If it's in a different galaxy, but the Mako is there, then I'm guessing that this'll be some Star Trek Voyager action where you're part of a special secret Alliance team that goes through yet another super-special relay that nobody knows about, and it strands you in another galaxy.
The Omega-5 relay!If it's in a different galaxy, but the Mako is there, then I'm guessing that this'll be some Star Trek Voyager action where you're part of a special secret Alliance team that goes through yet another super-special relay that nobody knows about, and it strands you in another galaxy.
Sounds like the person didnt understand what was actually said, wouldnt really use this quote
PLAYABLE HANAR FUCK YES
Apparently BioWare was actually the studio to add the ability to animate quadrupeds in Frostbite for Dragon Age, so the technology is there at least.
If it's in a different galaxy (and not just an uncharted section of the same galaxy), but the Mako is there, then I'm guessing that this'll be some Star Trek Voyager action where you're part of a special secret Alliance team that goes through yet another super-special relay that nobody knows about, and it strands you in another galaxy.
If it's in a different galaxy (and not just an uncharted section of the same galaxy), but the Mako is there, then I'm guessing that this'll be some Star Trek Voyager action where you're part of a special secret Alliance team that goes through yet another super-special relay that nobody knows about, and it strands you in another galaxy.
To be fair, two of those three things were things people liked from the previous trilogy and wanted to see return, so if you're going to talk about something, those are pretty easy to show off/discuss without dealing with the whole "we really dropped the ball on the story at the end of the last trilogy" thing. Plus showing off all this other stuff builds up good will that Bioware desperately needs after their major fuck ups, so they probably plan to show tons of stuff before mentioning anything story related, so people will be willing to accept the game even if the plot is weak.I'm done with Bioware. You don't unveil a story-based game by talking about multiplayer, armor, and vehicles.
Oh god Reapers are coming back aren't they?
I'll just drink myself into a coma
The whole ending situation is a non-issue in terms of creating a sequel, the only option is Destroy. It's not exactly a difficult situation to figure out. Synthesis is completely untenable and Control just posses a shit ton of issues that would make for a boring ass universe. There have been plenty of games that offer perfect or good endings that go on to have sequels where they use the bad ending because that's the one that offers the most interesting possibilities. Anyone who would be up in arms because their choice of Control or Synthesis wasn't honored needs to reevaluate their life.
Also the whole relay blowing up thing was never about it being an Arrival type situation, but the fact that without the relays the majority of the galaxy would be dead in the fucking water, cut off from all other peoples for decades if not centuries due to limitations in standard FTL travel. Just because an asteroid hitting a relay causes a huge ass explosion doesn't mean when the Catalyst fires and breaks the relays that also creates a solar system destroying explosion, it just means the relays are broken.
If the game is set in another Galaxy during Shepard's life in a Star Trek Voyager type situation then how can old characters show up?
To be fair, two of those three things were things people liked from the previous trilogy and wanted to see return, so if you're going to talk about something, those are pretty easy to show off/discuss without dealing with the whole "we really dropped the ball on the story at the end of the last trilogy" thing. Plus showing off all this other stuff builds up good will that Bioware desperately needs after their major fuck ups, so they probably plan to show tons of stuff before mentioning anything story related, so people will be willing to accept the game even if the plot is weak.
Oh god Reapers are coming back aren't they?
I'll just drink myself into a coma
So this is Stargate Atlantis.
I'm done with Bioware. You don't unveil a story-based game by talking about multiplayer, armor, and vehicles. Those things are all good, but they're not what makes Mass Effect great. If the game is not ready to show off properly then do not show it off. I mean really? Old characters may appear but we're in a different galaxy and this somehow set during Shepard's life? Half-baked nonsensical ideas from the people who gave us Mass Effect 3. Do what you want Bioware, but you're not getting anymore of my money.
To be fair, two of those three things were things people liked from the previous trilogy and wanted to see return, so if you're going to talk about something, those are pretty easy to show off/discuss without dealing with the whole "we really dropped the ball on the story at the end of the last trilogy" thing. Plus showing off all this other stuff builds up good will that Bioware desperately needs after their major fuck ups, so they probably plan to show tons of stuff before mentioning anything story related, so people will be willing to accept the game even if the plot is weak.
Well, people explore. There's two years between Shepard dying and being revived, for instance. We know where Garrus is in that time, and we can account for about two months' of Liara's time, but how many other missions did Tali lead for the Quarians? (We know at least one other mission resulted in the death of her squad.) Did Wrex do any soul searching or travelling before returning to Tuchanka? He never says. Not to mention - what were the likes of Thane, Miranda, or Samara doing BEFORE Shepard recruited them? Samara's an easy one, for instance; her crazy hunting could've taken her outside of known space briefly prior to ME2.
There are certainly enough gaps there for cameos.
Someone will need to condense this down for me and cut the bullshit, I'm in the middle of watching the second godfather film. What exactly has been revealed and where are we story wise?
Sure if they did it that way it could work out. The more interesting way to do things would be to have this Voyager type situation occur right before the Reaper War started. They do their whole side story in another Galaxy and when ME4 ends and they find a way back home, they return to a post ME3 Milky Way where everything has gone to shit.
All of this depends though on whether this is a crew stuck and lost in a new galaxy, or if its an open channel they can go to and from at will and what time during ME1-3 it's set. We know so little right now it's hard to really say how shitty this is or not.
To be fair, two of those three things were things people liked from the previous trilogy and wanted to see return, so if you're going to talk about something, those are pretty easy to show off/discuss without dealing with the whole "we really dropped the ball on the story at the end of the last trilogy" thing. Plus showing off all this other stuff builds up good will that Bioware desperately needs after their major fuck ups, so they probably plan to show tons of stuff before mentioning anything story related, so people will be willing to accept the game even if the plot is weak.
Someone will need to condense this down for me and cut the bullshit, I'm in the middle of watching the second godfather film. What exactly has been revealed and where are we story wise?
Well, yeah, because we're NeoGAF, home of people who care a hell of a lot about games. For the average person, it might work. But anyone who really gives/gave a shit about the franchise, it's not that impressive since we care about things that Bioware isn't going to talk about for a long time (story and setting), especially because of ME3's ending.People are not buying it though the story and setting seems to be what concerns people
You do know this is Comic Con right?
Where 70% of the people here are DRESSED AS CHARACTERS from your universe?
If there was ever a time to talk about armor designs... Well, nailed it.
I'm done with Bioware. You don't unveil a story-based game by talking about multiplayer, armor, and vehicles. Those things are all good, but they're not what makes Mass Effect great. If the game is not ready to show off properly then do not show it off. I mean really? Old characters may appear but we're in a different galaxy and this somehow set during Shepard's life? Half-baked nonsensical ideas from the people who gave us Mass Effect 3. Do what you want Bioware, but you're not getting anymore of my money.
Well, yeah, because we're NeoGAF, home of people who care a hell of a lot about games. For the average person, it might work. But anyone who really gives/gave a shit about the franchise, it's not that impressive since we care about things that Bioware isn't going to talk about for a long time (story and setting), especially because of ME3's ending.
I'm done with Bioware. You don't unveil a story-based game by talking about multiplayer, armor, and vehicles. Those things are all good, but they're not what makes Mass Effect great. If the game is not ready to show off properly then do not show it off. I mean really? Old characters may appear but we're in a different galaxy and this somehow set during Shepard's life? Half-baked nonsensical ideas from the people who gave us Mass Effect 3. Do what you want Bioware, but you're not getting anymore of my money.