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Rumor: Mass Effect Andromeda is about Colonialism
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Renegade points all over my body
That's pretty badass.
Scientist Supreme!
Banned
This is my concern as well.
They will probably drive this into two directions.
The first one where you are Jesus and came to make seemingly endless compromise for the sake of peace.
The second one where you are some Space Marine that fights for the glory of mankind and views foreign life fundamentally beneath your existense.
Both of these will contain high-school levels of logic accompanied by red herrings and strawmans.
IE: Mass Effect
The first one where you are Jesus and came to make seemingly endless compromise for the sake of peace.
The second one where you are some Space Marine that fights for the glory of mankind and views foreign life fundamentally beneath your existense.
Both of these will contain high-school levels of logic accompanied by red herrings and strawmans.
IE: Mass Effect
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I mean if it's helping the Korgans out: Cool. If it's just them doing more politics where the council trollfaces you and ignores your "grave threat": No thanks.
They weren't destroyed, they were simply damaged/deactivated. It's not nearly the same as them blowing up like in the non-extended cut endings.
RipperGrim
Member
It looks like the story is going for a Battlestar galactica route.
Edit:
The people who made The Old Republic are not the same people who make Mass Effect.
Edit:
The people who made The Old Republic are not the same people who make Mass Effect.
Some interesting posibilities here. Hopefully there will be several separate native species where each one needs to be handled differently. This way there can be several different dilemmas with colonization that have to be adressed.
I really hope they can avoid the low hanging fruits though, like taking the stance that colonialism always is bad because it has historically negative connotations, or going for moral relativism in relation to the new species and their existance. Id be fine with those virws being represented by individuals in the game, but I would be dissapointed if the game was trying to preach a shallow moral viewpoint about something like imperialism, cultural or otherwise, as the lesson to take away with you.
I really hope they can avoid the low hanging fruits though, like taking the stance that colonialism always is bad because it has historically negative connotations, or going for moral relativism in relation to the new species and their existance. Id be fine with those virws being represented by individuals in the game, but I would be dissapointed if the game was trying to preach a shallow moral viewpoint about something like imperialism, cultural or otherwise, as the lesson to take away with you.
SchrodingerC
Member
While that would be an interesting concept to explore in a space setting, don't count on the Bioware writers to deliver beyond the 'humans are special snowflakes' theme.
Plus, people are going to be too busy arguing who's the best alien waifu.
Renegade points all over my body
This is really great. I completely agree that primitive people must be civilized.
Given their recent track record, I have no faith in Bioware being able to tackle a topic like this with anything approaching the finesse required.
Then again, given the amount of people responding positively to this image, it might not even matter if they did do a good job, as any even halfway subtle reproach of colonialism will probably be lost on the wider audience.
Renegade points all over my body
Then again, given the amount of people responding positively to this image, it might not even matter if they did do a good job, as any even halfway subtle reproach of colonialism will probably be lost on the wider audience.
Agreed. It'd be hilariously tone-deaf to let the white guy protagonist be the colonialist then the saviour of conquered people's, if this is the route they're going with.
Bold move on the plot. I like.
I prefer the name Bob.
bigdaddygamebot
Member
I'm not convinced that Bioware has the chops to pull this off from an intelligent and interesting perspective. In fact; I think it will only be slightly more elegant than this.
Andromeda Sheppard meets the "aliens". Andromeda Sheppard has a decision to make!
a) Give aliens galactic small pox
b) Help aliens build a space barn
callsignkrogan
Member
ugh i need this nowwwwwww
I can't wait to experience Bioware tackling the complexities of colonialism!
Those shoulder pads kinda ruin the design.
Those shoulder pads kinda ruin the design.
Renegade points all over my body
Yeah but do the aliens have to worry about global warming? Or Donald Trump?
MrFrankFontaine
Banned
Really need some more Mass Effect in my life. Hoping we get more solid info at E3.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
I honestly couldn't care less for the human politics in these games. I dunno why but it just bores me silly when we have better routes we could be exploring. One of my biggest gripes with original trilogy was how after ME1 instead of humans being the underdog all of a sudden practically everything is on us. I liked being a smaller part in a bigger universe.
Yeah, exactly. The armor design is basically just American football player design these days. In terms of uniqueness, it just mimics the exact same trends we see in other sci-fi games and their armor designs. You could've told me that the armor render was from Battlefield, Call of Duty, or whatever near-future sci-fi setting, and I would've believed you.
Samurai G0SU
Member
Can't wait for e3!!!
Like others, I'm not sure Bioware has the writing and presentation to pull this off based on their last few games they've made. Not saying its a given but I've been less than enthused about their scifi stuff after the ME games. So many things in there seemed like they were designed by a 12 year old for other 12 year olds. A race of all blue women who happen to look 95% like human super models and can somehow have sex with species from entirely different planets and produce offspring.
We shall not worry about Donald Trump as when he finally sits on the Golden Throne, we will enter a new Golden Era.
A.D. Skinner
Member
You say your planet...I say my planet.
For humankind? Oh dear, no no no...for me.
For humankind? Oh dear, no no no...for me.
I mean, this definitely says something, but not about Mass Effect.
For reference, Battlefield armor:
Jumping Chief
Neo Member
Seems interesting.
Q1 2017
The interesting thing about this is we're the prawns.
meltingparappa
Member
In a game about choices, I'm surprised they're still going the full cartoony evil vs full cartoony good route.
Unless you're an old British imperialist and think colonialism is still good.
Unless you're an old British imperialist and think colonialism is still good.
...they're refugees.
Iirc the armor design in Andromeda is based on what people could realistically actually wear.I mean, this definitely says something, but not about Mass Effect.
For reference, Battlefield armor:
I'm going to reserve judgement on this until I have played through the game but boy do I hope they've done their research and know what they're doing.
Well, sure hope this is only a rumor then.
Well, sure hope this is only a rumor then.
Revolutionary
Member
Chuckled at the fact that it's explicitly referred to as a third person shooter right there in their description. RPG? What's an RPG?
Frozenprince
Banned
In what world is Avatar subtle? It's Dances with Wolves with blue people.
Iirc there's a Krogan.
Diablohead
Member
I can see this game being about gaining trust of all the races, similar to gaining their trust in ME 2 & 3