prag16
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Ah, thanks. Didn't search back far enough, and didn't realize this news was three days old. I'll hang my head in shame (for bumping this) and disappointment (for the likely 2017 launch).
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Mass Effect: Andromeda announced (Holiday 2016)
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Ah, thanks. Didn't search back far enough, and didn't realize this news was three days old. I'll hang my head in shame (for bumping this) and disappointment (for the likely 2017 launch).
Alpha Phoenix
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Yes, this is going to be a 2017 game, likely around March next year. It's not coming this year, people.
TheWorthyEdge
Member
Mass Effect is awesome, and my body is so ready. You had to know the game wouldn't come out this year though. I was optimistic but shoot, it just wasn't going to happen.
DISSESHOWEDO
Banned
Oh boy, oh boy! Hope that boiware learned a lesson or two with the previous teilogy!
Can not wait!!!
Can not wait!!!
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
They had to do everything from scratch because they moved to Frostbite 3.
Also, according to the Dragon Age team, getting the Frostbite engine to play nice with RPGs (even pseudo-RPGs) can be a difficult process.
I can only replay the Mass Effect trilogy so many times, EA.
(just kidding. I'd buy and replay it all over again if they released a remastered version on modern consoles)
Well, at the very least, I'm glad they're not rushing it. Some of those cut-corners in ME2 and ME3, as great as those games are, are pretty obvious.
GasProblem
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Ehhh, Im fine with early 2017. As much as I want to play this, its not like there's nothing coming out in 2016.
Yeah I forgot they moved to Frostbite 3.
Also I guess EA have a stacked portfolio and told Bioware to relatively take their time.
Still though 2012-2017 is kinda nuts.
prag16
Banned
This is what I was just thinking. Everything seems to be taking forever. And people said "oh no dev costs won't rise with PS4bone"...
Naughty Dog is another example. They released 4 NEW games for PS3. They're on pace for probably 2 on PS4 at most. The prospects of Quantic Dream getting more than one new game out for PS4 look tenuous. CoD has gone to a three year cycle rather than 2, and so on and so forth.
The concept of "remasters to fill the gaps!" is here to stay, and probably never going away at this point. (Either good or bad depending on who you ask; I personally don't think it's GREAT, but I don't have a huge problem with it either).
It's not just the engine switch. The original trilogy vision ended, key staff departed, a new studio is handling a great deal of the work now, the consoles are different -- everything changed.
I expected 2015 at absolute earliest even when ME3 ended, because it was safe to say things were very different going into this one.
Still, would have loved '16. :S
I expected 2015 at absolute earliest even when ME3 ended, because it was safe to say things were very different going into this one.
Still, would have loved '16. :S
Cross-Section
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This, though I'd be just fine with them keeping the ME3 system, which gated Charm and Intimidate based upon accumulation of Reputation (which was rather easy to do as long as you talked to everyone), rather than how high your Paragon and Renegade bars were.
More time in the oven is fine by me. I really hope they've planned out this next saga much better. If they aim to create another trilogy, or even just interconnected series of games, again they really need to get a great roadmap laid down ahead of time. None of this napkin shit.
As good as ME 1-3 was you could tell from the start of ME2 they really only had a vague as hell idea of what they were doing and where they were going. And that all famously resulted in the shit storm that was ME3's ending.
Also I hope they pull a FO4 and don't show anything more of the game until like 3-4 months out. I don't need to spend 6+ months getting spoon fed info.
As good as ME 1-3 was you could tell from the start of ME2 they really only had a vague as hell idea of what they were doing and where they were going. And that all famously resulted in the shit storm that was ME3's ending.
Also I hope they pull a FO4 and don't show anything more of the game until like 3-4 months out. I don't need to spend 6+ months getting spoon fed info.
Meccanical
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This looks like Mass Effect Inquisition.
Miyamoto quote and all that but I'm not getting any younger lol.
Truthfully I'm just a bit frustrated with certain games taking forever to see the light of day.
I definitely thought we'd be getting games faster this gen but I get development is becoming more complicated and devs have much grander ambitions for their games,
The Witcher 3 comes to mind as a recent example
I was also all for remasters to fill the gap early on but after Nathan Drake collection I'm over them personally.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
The last 2 games launched early in the year, so I naturally expected this one to as well. The end of this year is stacked anyway.
BF3 was an October launch, so it's possible. Battlefront did pretty well in November though so they may want to stick with that.
BF3 was an October launch, so it's possible. Battlefront did pretty well in November though so they may want to stick with that.
I still think it's coming this year. But the way it was phrased it could slip into next year but we will have to wait until E3 to know for sure.
So far the November slot it empty, COD and Battlefield are given this year but with no Assassin's Creed this year and Scalebound delayed it would be a perfect time to release it.
So far the November slot it empty, COD and Battlefield are given this year but with no Assassin's Creed this year and Scalebound delayed it would be a perfect time to release it.
prag16
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I'm not a ME fan lol
Just giving some hope to the ME fans
shinobi602
Member
Ya'll haven't given up on that remaster huh. Lol.
Nostremitus
Member
Never give up hope.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
EA have been pretty outspoken against remasters, which is so strange considering the shady things they have done in the past for easy profit. It's just such a weird stance to take, especially when it's something that people are crying out for.
Works for me I guess as ME1's Trophy list is a chore and I don't want to do all that again. I have about ~60% done on PS3, ME2 around ~80% and ME3 is 100%.
While I would obviously prefer to get my hands on this game sooner rather than later, I am completely fine with the game slipping into early 2017. That would put it 5 full years after the ME3, which to me says that Bioware Montreal is really going all out to build this game, and make it something very new compared to the previous 3.
Plus this is the game that pretty much everybody is expecting to slip into the next year, and have been predicting it for awhile, so it wouldn't really upset me because the initial shock has long worn off.
Plus this is the game that pretty much everybody is expecting to slip into the next year, and have been predicting it for awhile, so it wouldn't really upset me because the initial shock has long worn off.
LegendofDragoonLives
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ND will probably release 3 games on PS4 but not 4 unfortunately. ND also rewrote the script and dropped like 8 months of work, so keep that in mind. Had Amy stayed, this game would have likely been a summer 2015 release.
RandomSeed
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I watched for the lens flare, but rewatched for the penis shaped rocks.
Papacheeks
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In all honesty, I think they will have 3-4 games thi gen as well. Remember the time frame last of us came out, at the end of PS3's life cycle(i mean this by means of big ip releases).
So bear that in mind. I can see them putting out 3 more games at the most. And I think one of theme will be an experiment game, like not a full on AAA.
(at the very least, just a bloody version of the game with all DLC included. It's insane that doesn't even exist. At this point, remastering it would just be a plus.)
SoRuffShoNuff
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Is there no hope at all for a PS4 release of the original trilogy with all DLC. I'd love to play through the series again but buying the DLC for last gen is just about as much as buying a whole new game.
Dammit ^^^^^^
Dammit ^^^^^^
I think EA have said they aren't interested in doing remasters.
So it seems highly unlikely.
Link: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1125551
It's what I have been expecting all along.
Yeah, but BioWare also has the new IP that has been in development almost simultaneously with MEA.
I wouldn't be surprised if MEA launches Q1 2017 and the new IP in the fall.
prag16
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TLoU was June 2013, almost a full three years prior to Uncharted 4. Granted some resources went to remasters in that time. Early 2018 is probably the best case scenario for an additional game, with late 2018 probably being more likely.
Maybe they could squeeze in 3 if the PS4 has the same 7 year lifespan as the PS3. But how could they possible get in 4? For that to happen, two of the four could have to be smaller experimental non AAA games, not just one. We'll see.
If it's not announced this year, it isn't happening I think. It's getting to be too late for it now.
Cyber Caesar
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5 years and no Mass Effect, this is why we needed a spin-off Mass Effect title.
I'd say there's a maybe 0.5 percent chance of it.
There was a faint glimmer of hope when the Bioware GM came to GAF and asked what we would hypothetically want in a remaster, but since then, literally every statement EA has made on the subject of remasters has indicated that as a company they are strangely opposed to them.
Outrun
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Playing each of those games multiple times to get max level makes me happy that their is no ME Remaster.
I want to play something new..... I guess in 2017
I don't believe in no win scenarios.
Live Free or Die
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Of course there will be.
nortonff
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Bluepoint should remaster the shit out of this trilogy.
All three games combined with saves that automatically continues to the next game, with all the dlc + 1080p@60
BOOOOM
It would sell like water and would be the best way to promote Andromeda.
All three games combined with saves that automatically continues to the next game, with all the dlc + 1080p@60
BOOOOM
It would sell like water and would be the best way to promote Andromeda.