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[erpg]

Alright, I'll spoiler tag it so people feel even more compelled to read it.

 

[Plywood]

I hate that I'm such a slut for this universe. I hate what they did to it in Mass Effect 2, I hate that they ruined the music, that they made a Illium boring typical floating car future planet, I hated the clothes, I hated that the one new species were shit-eating parasitic rat things. I hate the ridiculous

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human reaper

. I hate the the

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Prothean collectors

were absolutely useless

And even after reading that MP FPS rumour, which is not what I want in any way, I'm still excited. What is wrong with me?

 

[Songbird]

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I think the vorcha are the rat things.

He's pointing out that there were some more important and better liked species introduced in ME2.

Hmm, the drell certainly weren't forgettable. Maybe they'll have different outfits next time around.

 

[I <3 Memes]

He's pointing out that there were some more important and better liked species introduced in ME2.

 

[Plywood]

He's pointing out that there were some more important and better liked species introduced in ME2.

Yes, yes I was. Thank you.

 

[erpg]

The thing with Thane is that he's a single entity, and really insular character (he's a good one though, for sure). It's not like "oh hey, Turians are awesome!", "Ha, those slimy Volus" or "Man, Quarians really messed things up with the Geth thing".

It's just hey, that's Thane. And...he's that guy. And they live with the Hanar. Whereas with the Vorcha I knew straight out that they were garbage, and thats what their species is! Still, like the Batarians, they're barely developed, but its more than what I got out of Thane.

 

[universalmind]

EA's John Schappert

wtf

 

[EmCeeGramr]

uh wow nice job being a total racist again the vorcha, racist mcbigot

 

[Hasphat'sAnts]

I hate that I'm such a slut for this universe. I hate what they did to it in Mass Effect 2, I hate that they ruined the music, that they made a Illium boring typical floating car future planet, I hated the clothes, I hated that the one new species were shit-eating parasitic rat things. I hate the ridiculous

Spoiler

human reaper

. I hate the the

Spoiler

Prothean collectors

were absolutely useless

And even after reading that MP FPS rumour, which is not what I want in any way, I'm still excited. What is wrong with me?

I just replayed Lair of the Shadow Broker, and I can tell you right now, I don't care if they gut Mass Effect DA2 style. As long as I can still have the kind of conversation I just had with Liara, Mass Effect is fine by me.

It's a shame BioWare doesn't do subtlety often. Mass Effect just scream for this sort of stuff because its world is so consistent.

 

[Fimbulvetr]

I think the vorcha are the rat things.

The Vorcha seem to be more roach based.

Unliked by everyone, tenacious, haven't evolved in forever, immune to radiation.

 

[erpg]

The Vorcha seem to be more roach based.

Unliked by everyone, tenacious, haven't evolved in forever, immune to radiation.

They remind me of mole rats with skin cancer.

I just replayed Lair of the Shadow Broker, and I can tell you right now, I don't care if they gut Mass Effect DA2 style. As long as I can still have the kind of conversation I just had with Liara, Mass Effect is fine by me.

It's a shame BioWare doesn't do subtlety often. Mass Effect just scream for this sort of stuff because its world is so consistent.

I'm almost in the same boat. What I liked about ME1 wasn't necessarily the RPG elements, or even how the game played (but I do prefer the shorter cooldowns and level up variety in 1), but how it portrayed space, and alien life, and really awesome minimalist architecture. It also felt like I was in a movie. I was more easily immersed into the 'role' of Shep. The loading screens, absolutely infuriating fly-a-ship galaxy map and the mission complete screen in ME2 slapped with a stank fish and constantly reminded me I was playing a gamey thing where everything "every button I press has to equal awesome" as opposed to a really great experience.

And I feel like they won't go back to what I liked about the first. Especially if this is going to be an FPS in the same lineage as Call of Duty and other positive reinforcement shooters. It just isn't what I'd like (since I've got Bulletstorm for that!), but I still feel compelled to give them a chance because I am week willed and I loved ME1 to death.

 

[Songbird]

uh wow nice job being a total racist again the vorcha, racist mcbigot

The Vorcha seem to be more roach based.

Unliked by everyone, tenacious, haven't evolved in forever, immune to radiation.

Hey, I'm no racist! My buddies on Omega tell me they're great cheap labour. I even have a vorcha friend.

 

[Nirolak]

Hopefully the multiplayer will let you play as a variety of races and not just be Alliance military vs. mercs or some bullshit like that.

I'm hoping for a variety of historical battles from the Mass Effect universe such as the Geth Uprising and the First Contact War.

wtf

Actually, John Schappert founded Tiburon before he went to Microsoft and went back to EA when Microsoft decided to go Kinect crazy.

 

[EatChildren]

I'm hoping for a variety of historical battles from the Mass Effect universe such as the Geth Uprising and the First Contact War.

This would be cool. If it is indeed a multiplayer focused shooter, as someone else said I hope its not human vs. human (though I cant see it being that). Even as much as I'd like it to be First Contact War based, it would be nice if it included all the races as well.

 

[TheFLYINGManga_Ka]

They won't change the perspective, it'll just be Uncharted/Gears of War with CoD's perk and upgrade system.

Doesn't sound too bad at all.

Could be fun.

 

[Songbird]

I'm hoping for a variety of historical battles from the Mass Effect universe such as the Geth Uprising and the First Contact War.

How about Turian Reunification? I'd love to see their homeworld and more about how their armies operate, even the cultures that clashed.

Oh and if Systems Alliance is a faction I demand Lance Henriksen as Hackett doing the announcements!

 

[DuckRacer]

You dont need Shepard in every game set in the universe, especially not spinoffs.

Oh I know, I just wanted Mass Effect 3 with multiplayer instead of ME Brotherhood.

 

[Empyrean Heaven]

IF this is true, color me surprised. Of all the genres Bioware would get into, I definitely did not expect dudebro shootan.

 

[Rahxephon91]

Eh I don't know how to feel about this. I like ME, but I'm not sure it needs mp TPS spin-off. Nor do we need more damn CoD influence mp. Do something different. You aren't going to compete with the leader if you just copy it.

 

[Dalauz]

I really want a Jungle /Urban/Desert Strike RPG.

 

[AppleMIX]

I'm kind of have mixed feelings about this too. I would like it to try something new with multiplayer, rather than just be a COD clone.

 

[EatChildren]

If it were a shooter, it would be nice if EA hit up Crytek for CryEngine 3.

It would be glorious. GLORIOUS.

 

[Nirolak]

If it were a shooter, it would be nice if EA hit up Crytek for CryEngine 3.

It would be glorious. GLORIOUS.

The job postings specified UE3.

I'm kind of mixed about this too. I would like it to try something new with multiplayer, rather than just be a COD clone.

By appeal to the CoD audience, I think they were referring to the level up system they talked about afterward rather than a carbon clone.

Medal of Honor is already their bet on the CoD clone front.

 

[daoster]

A Modern Warfare-like experience detailing the First Contact War.

I'd dig it.

 

[EatChildren]

The job postings specified UE3.

Disgusting.

 

[Mrbob]

Sweet when I think about multi-player shooter I think Mass Effect.

 

[AppleMIX]

By appeal to the CoD audience, I think they were referring to the level up system they talked about afterward rather than a carbon clone.

Medal of Honor is already their bet on the CoD clone front.

That is comforting news.

Imagine choosing a race/class and having battlefield sized matches. That would be awesome.

 

[krakov]

Disgusting.

Yeah, ME2 looks horrible indeed.
I'm not keen on the idea of a ME multiplayer shooter but would it really work to release a standalone mp game? doesn't seem very popular right now.

 

[kai3345]

If EA gets dice to make the Multiplayer portion Battlefield Mass Effect, I'd definitely be hyped for this.

Otherwise keep that multiplayer outta my Mass Effect

 

[harriet the spy]

I hate that I'm such a slut for this universe. I hate what they did to it in Mass Effect 2, I hate that they ruined the music, that they made a Illium boring typical floating car future planet, I hated the clothes, I hated that the one new species were shit-eating parasitic rat things. I hate the ridiculous

Spoiler

human reaper

. I hate the the

Spoiler

Prothean collectors

were absolutely useless

And even after reading that MP FPS rumour, which is not what I want in any way, I'm still excited. What is wrong with me?

Agree with everything but the

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collectors

. I don't know why people hated them, I found them more interesting than

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generic army of robots

.

 

[Dalauz]

based by the books the first contact war was some long range ships vs ships little battles

 

[K.Jack]

My bets:

The story is a prequel, probably during the First Contact War, maybe the occupation of Shanxi. That's far enough back, to take humans w/ biotics out of picture, right? I imagine they'd want to avoid having to balance biotics, at all costs.

 

[Mindlog]

I want to shoot Batarians.

Did the incisor exist during the First Contact War? Something during the Skyllian Blitz or Torfan would be more interesting. More species and tactics in play.

I'd still like to see Garvug or one of the other CDN worlds.

Aequitas still seems like the most likely candidate.

 

[x Power Pad Death Stomp x]

They should make a Mass Effect universe version of Star Wars: Battlefront if they are going to make a shooter.

Loved those games and they never made a 3rd one......and yes, LOTR: Conquest was ass.......but it would be nice to see something different than "IT'S JUST LIKE CALL OF DUTY BUT IN SPACE".

 

[gdt]

I would buy a goddamn Mass Effect cooking game.

Give me a ME FPS, and I will literally fuck the hole in the DVD. GIVE IT TO ME.

 

[Fimbulvetr]

Agree with everything but the

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collectors

. I don't know why people hated them, I found them more interesting than

Spoiler

generic army of robots

.

Generic robot hivemind vs generic bug hivemind?

Whoever wins, we lose.

 

[EatChildren]

based by the books the first contact war was some long range ships vs ships little battles

I think there was only one major ground battle, and that was when the humans took back the Turian occupied Shanxi. Otherwise yeah, everything was orbital.

 

[WickedLaharl]

never have i been so disappointed that i didn't get to see tali in her skivvies. i skipped over tats and fake butt for the freaky alien sex only to get blue balled

 

[a Master Ninja]

I thought Mass Effect 2 had too much shooting. Is this a common opinion?
I'm fine with a 100% shooter spin-off if Mass Effect 3 strikes a better balance between combat, exploration, and dialog trees.

never have i been so disappointed that i didn't get to see tali in her skivvies. i skipped over tats and fake butt for the freaky alien sex only to get blue balled

Where Bioware failed, rule 34 succeed.

 

[squicken]

I thought Mass Effect 2 had too much shooting. Is this a common opinion?
I'm fine with a 100% shooter spin-off if Mass Effect 3 strikes a better balance between combat, exploration, and dialog trees.

No I think most people agree that both MEs have succeeded in spite of their combat. It's why the first game is better, simply b/c the core of the game isn't the combat.

This goes for lots of games. I'd argue that what makes AssCreed, Fallout, ME, and even Red Dead good are things other than their combat.

 

[Jerk]

Congratulations Bioware, you have officially jumped the shark.

I am sorry, but did you not play Jade Empire? Mass Effect 2?

 

[lastplayed]

I'm fine with a 100% shooter spin-off if Mass Effect 3 strikes a better balance between combat, exploration, and dialog trees.

What if EA is using this spin-off as a testbed to turn Mass Effect into its CoD franchise?

 

[golem]

What if EA is using this spin-off as a testbed to turn Mass Effect into its CoD franchise?

Would buy.

 

[Nirolak]

What if EA is using this spin-off as a testbed to turn Mass Effect into its CoD franchise?

They already have a Call of Duty franchise.

Medal of Honor just sold over a million in the October NPD.

BioWare Montreal however is a studio headed up by multiplayer central people from studios like Raven, so I'm assuming this spin off is intended to be a new sub-series like Shift is to the NFS arcade titles.

 

[Ashodin]

If Mass Effect ends up having a multiplayer variety game, I'm done.

Seriously, there's only so much shoe-horning multiplayer into games I can take, dudes.

 

[AppleMIX]

What if EA is using this spin-off as a testbed to turn Mass Effect into its CoD franchise?

That would make no sense what so ever. They put all the effort into Medal of Honor and it actually sold (over a million). It would make no sense to have two competing COD clones.

 

[Nirolak]

If Mass Effect ends up having a multiplayer variety game, I'm done.

Seriously, there's only so much shoe-horning multiplayer into games I can take, dudes.

Though this wouldn't be shoe-horning, since it'd be a multiplayer focused spin-off instead of multiplayer shoe-horned into the main game.

 

[firehawk12]

Man, if they spin off the franchise into a third person shooter, I think WRPGs are done.

(Unless somehow Obsidian is writing that game, then it'll be the best thing ever. )

 

[The Faceless Master]

would be interested if DICE was involved...

 

[Stallion Free]

would be interested if DICE was involved...

Yeah, because they made MOH multiplayer so appealing :lol