Diablohead
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It's goiong to end up being tied in stupidly like cerberus funded the arc or something bullshit
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Rumour: Small new Mass Effect: Andromeda details
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It's goiong to end up being tied in stupidly like cerberus funded the arc or something bullshit
Maybe. Maybe not.
Not sure how I like the sound of manually flying versus the galaxy map. Also not too hot on Cerberus being back, and the seeming lack of focus on new aliens. I hope this is just early game and there are a lot more new species than Vorcha/Collectors, hopefully some that are a little more relatable. Putting the focus on the evil/monstrous aliens seems like it would be throwing out a lot of story possibilities in a story where you're basically a foreign colonist.
HalfBakedProphet
Member
A single pro-human Cerberus agent undercover on a ship isn't a bad concept in and of itself. As long as an entire Army of dudes don't materialize out of thin air a la ME3, I'm willing to roll with it and see what direction they take it
I think it's fine for them being in the game.
As long as they aren't center stage and you eventually defeat them within the first game.
Heck, I think it would be cool if there was a choice where you defeat Cerberus and get given the choice of killing them or "absorbing" them into your faction.
If you kill them you are an evil bastard, but no future complications happen.
If you absorb them, then in a future game they try a coup throwing your whole faction in chaos.
It would be pretty cool
(I know ME3 has a coup in the citadel, but I'd like a more extreme version where your favourite teammates might be in on it.)
Off-Kilter
Banned
That setup sounds like Interstellar
I'm not too sold on Cerberus either. ME3 kind of turned them into cartoon supervillains, which is not inherently a bad thing, but I can't really take them seriously in ME anymore. Even if that whole "...and then it turned on them and started killing their dudes." conversation in ME3 was amusing. Because, really... That's what they do. Repeatedly.
Still, having Cerberus sympathizers on the ark could be fun, or if they want to keep it on the cartoon supervillain level, they have their own ark, which for some reason arrives in the same area of space as yours. It would, at least, be worth it to have a plot development where you think you're making first contact with an alien species, only to have them react aggressively since the first humans they saw were monsters. Then you have to track down whoever that is and beat them up.
Still, having Cerberus sympathizers on the ark could be fun, or if they want to keep it on the cartoon supervillain level, they have their own ark, which for some reason arrives in the same area of space as yours. It would, at least, be worth it to have a plot development where you think you're making first contact with an alien species, only to have them react aggressively since the first humans they saw were monsters. Then you have to track down whoever that is and beat them up.
GlamFM
Banned
John Kowalski
Banned
btw are there other games set in Andromeda? I can't think of any right now
Trickster
Member
Why? Unless they add some weird twist to it, flying between solar systems should be the most boring and pointless thing ever. Space is sorta empty you know.
GlamFM
Banned
There are people who like simulators, guess you´re not one of them.
FunkyPajamas
Member
Guys, what if the antagonist being a human means that's who you play as when rogue? Rogue: antagonist is paragon human.
TumblingHippo
Member
Three questions:
- Can I play as an alien?
- Can the main character be an alien?
- Can I role play in the role as the main role as an alien?
Garrett Hawke
Member
Probably not to all of those
Trickster
Member
In my Mass Effect? Yeah, no.
Ditto. It's unnecessary and it doesn't really match up with how the ships really fly. Sounds one of thing a fan always wants until the get it.
No. It's a sidestory to the original trilogy. That one is set in the Milky Way, but this one is about colonizing the Andromeda Galaxy, it seems. Same universe, though, but you don't play as Shepard this time.
So you want your character to walk over to someone, get 2 lines of dialog, enable detective vision, find the monster(s), and kill them? I don't get the Witcher 3 sidequest love, they were fine but not godly like everyone makes them seem.
Also isn't have multiple choices the correct way to role play instead of having one gray choice?
So the big twist is that you spend all this time trying to find a place in Andromeda to live and escape the Reapers (in the Milky Way) only at the end to realize that Andromeda is on a crash course with the Milky Way and the cycle continues and the game ends with the MC talking to the reaper god child and choosing your favorite color.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Right, Mass Effect is not a sim in any way. If they want to do some flying stuff, give us a little ship we can fly around and do some like orbital battles against other fighter craft. Or do bigger naval-style battles with our Normandy stand in. Flying in a straight line to the next star over is never going to be super fun.
GlamFM
Banned
Don´t get it. When i saw the game not to long ago space travel was what excited me the most.
Not really like the Mako but of all the things in this rumor report I'd bet on this being fake/scrapped anyways.
Trickster
Member
Not sure what you've seen of the game that I haven't then. Because we've seen practically nothing except a short teaser that took place on the surface of a planet.
So I don't see why that would make you excited for space exploration. However, planetary exploration, that I could understand why someone would be excited for, there's potential in that. But empty space, going from planet or system a to b? Sorry, that I honestly don't see the appeal of.
Cyber Caesar
Member
We need that spin-off. I hope the message has been sent.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I hope Male Protag has some actually good customization options this time around
It was super easy to make a good looking FemShep. ManShep, not so much
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
I'm pretty sure BioWare have stated that the protag is human for sure... not sure when though.
Personally, I love the sound of all of that, except maybe the Cerberus stuff.... but we'll (I'm sure it'll be great).
GlamFM
Banned
I've seen prototype stuff.
Disappointed with this.
Fuck the reasons. Make a game where I can play as a Quarian or a Turian.
Even better if it were set before humans are relevant to the galaxy
Sounds good but for the love of god, please no Cerberus!
I'm interested to see how they account for what I assume will be less NPCs in general outside of your ship. Obviously there's going to be new races but unlike the trilogy where the races all had pre-established relationships that made sense, it would be weird if you're just dropping onto planets and casually introducing yourselves to entirely new cultures throughout the whole game. I have a feeling they're going to give us a huge ship that acts as the only hub and contains the majority of characters and conversations. Then everything else will be focused on combat and exploration.
Trickster
Member
Is this something that got leaked that I'm not aware of, or are you saying you have seen some behind closed doors prototype stuff???
Are you even allowed to say such a thing if you saw the game?
Isn't there NDAs for that?
GlamFM
Banned
Are you even allowed to say such a thing if you saw the game?
I'm not under any NDA. I'm also not going to spoil or leak anything.
But since the info is out there I there I think it's ok to say that I liked what I saw.
Silent Chief
Member
I dunno.
I think that resonate badly with the current refugee crisis.
Wasn't there already a race of refugees in the ME universe?
Also, I only played the second one. What's forcing everyone out of the Milky Way and its 400 billions stars into the nearest galaxy and its trillion stars? Technically, Andromeda is already in the process of fusing with the Milky Way, so in the scale of the universe, it's like moving your chair a foot to the left.
GlamFM
Banned
No, it was a assassins creed on a plane situation.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
In a shocking twist, it turns out there's one returning character, having somehow made his way to the Andromeda Galaxy
"Nobody can take me out, not even the Shepard"
-KL
Alpha Phoenix
Member
Not sure I would like this. I loved the traditional navigation from the previous games.
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