yeah, I guess that could work but like I said I feel like it'd result in the new protagonist(s) not feeling like they are as vital to the series as Shepard was, you know?
Honestly having a single protag and cast in the original ME trilogy made the galaxy feel like a really small place. Hopefully they'll increase the scope of Andromeda and use a fresh cast each time.
I think what really made it look like a small place is that you kept running into familiar people.
It was both.
not necessarily the shepard part. the ME trilogy made me feel like although galactic equality is everyone's right, mankind is overall the most effective and apex species that's a part of it. and shepard is the leader of a team that does what's necessary for the well being of the whole galaxy. so that part didn't make it the setting feel contained. at least not for me.
And this is some of the biggest problems that the trilogy faced. It felt painfully contrived, a galaxy with billions of humans and trillions of sapient beings and the best idea anyone could come up with after Shepard dies is to use space-bucks to bring him back. A galactic war and the only point of view we're offered is the only one that apparently made a difference. It all made the galaxy feel hugely inconsequential.
Well he was brought back because of what was going on. And at that time the council didn't want to acknowledge the imminent threat. By Me3, shepard wasn't raging at them like he should've so I felt like their negligence is what felt hugely consequential.
I can't really comment on this coz I've only played da3, and just a little bit of it. It was a cool game when I played it but I just couldn't get into it.
He was brought back because evidently in a galaxy of trillions, spending billions of spacebucks on a literal christ resurrection was the best idea. It felt cheap.
Because literally no one else was doing anything about it man! Not only that but by the time the events of Me2 unfolded, Shepard probably already became a living legend coz of the battle of the citadel.
perhaps. i'm not entirely opposed to this idea but i'll have to see how it goes, whatever the fuck it is that they have planned for Me4+
But that's not even true. The alliance was, and nobody actually knows what the covert operations of other governments were doing.
I don't know if that's entirely true though. All we saw was that bit on horizon and whatever they had planned, if anything at all, wasn't very effective.
No, the alliance were running missions to take down the collectors and acquired the data to do it.
I think whatever vega's team was doing was also alliance's attempt at taking down the collector's. i'll give you that, but I still don't agree that shepard's resurrection made the galaxy feel small
What it comes down to for me is that a series- and this includes the trilogy, can be more interesting when contextualizing the stories of the previous games through the eyes of new and different characters. Going from DAO to DA2 (which had unrelated issues) you got to play the game as a Warden and build your own mythos. DA2 let's you view the events and mythos surrounding the Warden through the eyes of a refugee and you can see how the actual experience of the story differs from how someone else entirely would view it. This I think, at least allows for fundamentally stronger world building than a static paradigm through a single character.
I'm not opposed to the idea (I guess I just need to actually have it happen to see how I feel about it though) but I think Poodlestrike's got a point. and dragon age has always been that way, if ME switches it up there's no guarantee the transition will be as smooth if they stretch it out as much as you say they should.
Of course shit could go sideways if they make the attempt but all they need to do then is clone Weekes.
clone weekes?
DA's main writer. He did Priority Tuchanka and iirc, wrote Tali in ME2 and 3.
Hm..so ME had a main writer but had others do certain different missions and stuff?
do you mean for a game like ME or for any video game's writing staff?
okay so what did you actually mean? "yes shit could go sideways so if they were to happen they should..."
wtf? you said that was the joke, so what do you actually mean?
I got the joke. I'm trying to move passed it now and asking what he practically means, if he had a serious answer at all. If not (and the whole thing was just a joke) then whatever. That's that.
too much and too deep sarcasm often becomes hard to detect, buddy.
I wasn't getting upset if that's what it seemed like, just annoyed. After we established that the cloning thing was a joke, I just wanted to know if he meant anything at all when diaspora said "if shit goes side ways, then x..." but if he didn't mean anything it's all good.
damn, that's crazy. i'm only a bit surprised because i remember that horizon zero dawn, sony's new rpg IP, is written by one guy, same guy who wrote one of the fallout games iirc
Yeah, same here. I'm more curious than excited for ME:A.
hm, that's an interesting way of putting it. i myself wouldn't mind getting to see a few more character and plot details though
They promised investors no later than March 2017 iirc, so that's either holiday this year or early next.
I'm right there with you. Showing this game to my wife. We're playing it on the TV through Steam Link. She's digging it so far. Shepard just became a Spectre
everybody keeps saying it's gonna get delayed but has there been any hint of that or is it just going by the history of this series and how the last two games just got delayed?