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Rumor: Mass Effect 4 details leak through survey
- Thread starter Lakitu
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RadioHammer500
Banned
it's technically the same galaxy isn't it?
How so?
"Exploration" in ME1 was weak as hell compared to DAI. At least the latter let you find interesting ruins, weapons, and lore.
dragonbane
Member
MC is gonna be this kid:
RadioHammer500
Banned
wait a second this takes place in the Andrameda Galaxy...
Mass Effect trilogy took place in Milky Way
how are they going to explain interGalactic travel technology..they didn't have that in the trilogy, especially since the mass effect relays were destroyed
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Going by this info, if legit, no.
Andromeda is one of the closest galaxies to our own. I think it's the nearest big one?
razgriz417
Member
All sounds good to me on paper. Give me a release date and some game footage now...
captainnapalm
Member
Sounds like loads of padded content - repetitive combat challenges, collections, metagames, MMO elements - ala Inquisition, with old school Bioware content mixed in here and there, ala Inquisition.
Leatherface
Member
I wish I could play all the Mass Effect games again for the first time. Getting hyped! 
sammyCYBORG
Member
It's amazing that so many games do the saving the world / universe story that it's got boring. I agree with all the people wishing for a more low key story.
Same method as Interstellar probably, worm hole. Or they just froze themselves in the ship for a thousand years. Either way works. Relays would be dumb since there can't be relays outside the milky way.
spookyfish
Member
Actually, if true, it sounds pretty good.
EDIT: The survey, not my smart-ass response.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
...can we romance the wormhole?
Phat Michael
Banned
This will be the best game in the world, with the best multiplayer.
hypersleep or something similar. Which would explain a level of technology we're already familiar with. That, or the mysterious wormhole they encountered somewhere.
We'd probably have to if you want to enter the hole.
Beelzebufo
Banned
Maybe the Remnants are the cyber people from the green ending, and you've gone so far into the future that they all died off D:
You maniacs!
You maniacs!
Didn't the main plot of the first game revolve around a relay between galaxies?
Hyperzephyrian
Banned
This talk of "APEX" gamebux and Inquisition-style "strike teams" make me very, very nervous. And I'm disappointed that it will be set in a different galaxy.
I'm honestly not sure why I expected otherwise, though. BioWare's mantra is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. If something doesn't work quite right, they have an alarming tendency to axe it completely.
I'm honestly not sure why I expected otherwise, though. BioWare's mantra is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. If something doesn't work quite right, they have an alarming tendency to axe it completely.
Sounds like it has a LOT of freemium-ish grindathon sections.
The story sounds exactly like Bioware wrote it, which admittedly isn't too hard since everyone knows the formula now, but it has a ring of truth, I suppose.
The one cool thing is that... it sounds like the story is going off of the 4th ending of ME3. That maybe Shepard rejected the Catalyst and you play the last survivors from the Milky Way or something. That would actually be INSANELY cool.
But otherwise... yeah, okay.
The story sounds exactly like Bioware wrote it, which admittedly isn't too hard since everyone knows the formula now, but it has a ring of truth, I suppose.
The one cool thing is that... it sounds like the story is going off of the 4th ending of ME3. That maybe Shepard rejected the Catalyst and you play the last survivors from the Milky Way or something. That would actually be INSANELY cool.
But otherwise... yeah, okay.
No?
Reapers were programmed by the leviathans/thralls to manage life in the galaxy the milky way, and the reapers built the relays. It'd follow they're exclusive to the milky way.
The strike team mechanic doesn't seem too dissimilar to the mining mini-game in ME 2/3.
Mass Effect: Inquisition
Seriously, I want a setting with a dumb ancient civilization, so when you collect their shitty 1499 artifacts your character comments "ugh, another one from those idiots" and your colonization attempt actually start failing because you're retrieving junk and keep sending it to the labs.
Seriously, I want a setting with a dumb ancient civilization, so when you collect their shitty 1499 artifacts your character comments "ugh, another one from those idiots" and your colonization attempt actually start failing because you're retrieving junk and keep sending it to the labs.
Hyperzephyrian
Banned
ME2's mining was just a
shitty
Yeah, true.
shinobi602
Member
Pretty good deal after.
I expect E3 reveal in those phases. Small teaser in Sony or MS press event depending with whom they have timed exclusivity deal on content and then full reveal during EAs own event.
I thought I remembered someone saying the reapers were waiting outside the galaxy and needed the
Citadel relay to get back in a timely manner in addition to making for a good surprise invasion point.
Dr_LucienSanchez
Banned
Sounds good to me, for the most part. Story seems cliche, but can't really pass judgment on that yet.
Really excited for the multiplayer though. After putting in so many hours in ME3 multi, it's such a fantastic addition.
Really excited for the multiplayer though. After putting in so many hours in ME3 multi, it's such a fantastic addition.
They wait in the dark space outside the galaxy. Like how standing outside of someone's house isn't the same as being inside someone else's house.
between star systems; not different galaxies (iirc)
Blame everyone who voted mass effect 1 NeoGAFs most essential rpg, I guess.
Anyway, some things sound different from inquisition, like being able to play the missions yourself. Mass Effect's combat is leagues ahead of Dragon Age's so whatever I'm doing ill be having more fun doing it.
Hyperzephyrian
Banned
Mass Effect 1 had its problems, but none of those problems involved Inquisition-type "strike teams," unlockable fog-of-war maps, or F2P currencies.
MC is gonna be this kid:
Don't even joke about it, my sweet.
Coffee Dog
Banned
That's a mix of good (you're on a kirk style exploration mission!) and WHY (protheans again, resource gathering bullshit)
You are correct.
No, ME1 was worse. At least in DAI, it's not a colossal pain in the ass to actually get anywhere to do whatever it is you're supposed to do.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
with love you can do anything.
Captain Tuttle
Member
What do you want to play as, the janitor?
This sounds amazing, almost too good to be true
Hyperzephyrian
Banned
Than a game you haven't even seen yet. 0/10, didn't even complain about "dice-roll combat."
Would you like to pay 200 APEX to speed this Strike Team up?
ProtoCents
Banned
I read all of that imagining the grind. It sounds like they're doubling down.