Jawmuncher
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So it's only 6 total?
It does seem that they just copied ME1 and replaced Tali with Jaal.
Cora = Ashley
Liam = Kaidan (although I expect both of these to survive)
Vetra = Garrus
PeeBee = Liara
Drack = Wrex
There isn't a Salarian party member again? Fucking robbed again. It's there most interesting race.PeeBee is NOT Liara, at all.
There isn't a Salarian party member again? Fucking robbed again. It's there most interesting race.
There isn't a Salarian party member again? Fucking robbed again. It's there most interesting race.
Looking good but dislike all them filthy alien squadmates. Hopefully will be able to roll whole human squad, all the time.
The Salarian is the pilot.
Not good enough. You'd think with Mordin's popularity they'd have more Salarian party members. Less humans.There was one but he was cut due to time constraints. May return as a DLC squadmate. On the flip side we do have a Salarian pilot and whatever Salarian they have Kumail Nanjiani voicing. So we'll at least have at least two decent Salarians to interact with for once.
PeeBee is NOT Liara, at all.
100 and change years old loner academic? That's pretty similar, even if she seems to have a much more annoying personality.
Age, sure, but everything else is different. Not an academic, she's an adventurer. Also as you said very different personality from Liara. Also not socially awkward, just blunt.
Her class is "rogue academic", and she still seems socially awkward, just in a different way. She still needs our protagonist to show her what this thing called love is.
The main character being an one man army does ruin a lot of strategy/tactics that went into the original trilogy in regards to team balance. A player had to be more aware of what type of mission they were going on, such as a Geth base, and customize accordingly.
Now that your character can do everything, there's little reason to think about things like that and it reduces the role of teammates from backing up your weakpoints to being a glorified damage multiplier.
My concern like everyone else has said is that the main character is now essentially a one man/woman army rendering party members as distractions on harder difficulties. This will be more interesting speed runners but not so much for someone playing the game casually. Of course, purists have the option to stick to one strict class for the entire game as well
I hate to be a Debbie downer but it's like majority of what they've shown thus far just isn't doing it for me and I consider mass effect to possibly be my favorite franchise. Nothing is evoking the excitement I had when waiting for 1, 2 or 3:/
You get my worries down perfectly.My concern like everyone else has said is that the main character is now essentially a one man/woman army rendering party members as distractions on harder difficulties. This will be more interesting speed runners but not so much for someone playing the game casually. Of course, purists have the option to stick to one strict class for the entire game as well
I'm also a bit disappointed that squad members got 3 combat abilities and 2 passive abilities. It will come down to take whichever squad members offer the most fun banter on missions. I think it would have been cool if squad members had completely unique combat abilities but maybe their unique ability will unlock after finishing the loyalty missions ala ME2 and ME3. PeeBee's bare midriff is the only that bothers me. I like Liam's design a lot.
Her class is "rogue academic", and she still seems socially awkward, just in a different way. She still needs our protagonist to show her what this thing called love is.
What are the Vegas odds on a day one paid DLC companion?
ME2 had Jaeed and Kasumi and ME3 had Javik right?
Yeah I feel the same.
I mean I'll get it, it's a BioWare RPG and I'm still holding out for that KOTOR/ME/DA:O feeling. Inquisition killed it a little bit, but it's not dead yet.
Who's doing the music for this anyway?
100 and change years old loner academic? That's pretty similar, even if she seems to have a much more annoying personality.
Hoping Jaal is bi. He's my man crush.
Those are literally your only take aways? I'm surprised you're able to tell any human characters apart. Do you get the Illusive Man and Jacob confused too?
Those are literally your only take aways? I'm surprised you're able to tell any human characters apart. Do you get the Illusive Man and Jacob confused too?
Can I fuck the krogan?
Those days are long gone.
Daddy you can't handle the Krogan.Can I fuck the krogan?
The amount of assumptions about characters from their race or "just another human" here is astounding.
It's always like that. And because BioWare has a certain stable of tropes they favor (like most fiction writers, shocking) people don't even account for the specifics or context once the game is out, they just go "X is an expy of Y" and slag it off.
The bad ones, anyways.
It's always like that. And because BioWare has a certain stable of tropes they favor (like most fiction writers, shocking) people don't even account for the specifics or context once the game is out, they just go "X is an expy of Y" and slag it off.
I don't even know that you can even really accuse Bioware of relying on tropes. Some characters might fit an archetype and might start off operating with a few tropes, but most of them I feel do step outside and develop into pretty unique personalities. It's why the Bioware fanbase tends to attach so hard to them.
Which, for me, is exemplified in their characters that look "cringy", like Sera in DA:I or Jack in ME. I personally had some very bad preconceived notions regarding both characters, but being the completionist I am, I actually gave these characters a chance under that guise, and ended up appreciating them for what they are.
Agreed. Sera especially I think is pretty brilliantly characterized.
One of the previews mentioned the companion characters in Andromeda each individually have more lines than Shepard in ME3. That's a lot of room for them to grow. It's intellectually disingenuous to just throw them into a category based on what race they fit into and the brief one or two sentence description Bioware has given to each so far.
The amount of assumptions about characters from their race or "just another human" here is astounding.
Meh, I see plenty of room for different characters from different races, but I don't see much evidence Bioware does.
Like, why not have a human scientist and an Asari soldier, rather than yet another human soldier?
(Vetra seems fairly new, but it would be hard for her not to be considering how little we've seen of Turians outside of Garrus)
lol the Illusive Man doesn't even have a character. If you read the novels, (I'm an expert) you actually learn that his real name is McGuffin.