Thread 723341672

Heres your new mass effect bro

>>723341672 (OP)
what the fuck is even that
and everyone has the andromeda beta-bitch proportions

is that fucking vinesauce vinny

Is this from mass effect 4 or are you just shitposting

>>723341752
Exodus. It's the callisto protocol of Mass Effect if that makes sense.

> male protagonist

/v/ won't like it.

>>723342297
It's a game being developed by the original ME devs, away from BiowEAr. Track record for these type of projects is spotty (Callisto Protocol, that one studio in CA with a fuck ton of WoW devs), but there's some real hype for it.

>>723342453
>but there's some real hype for it
ya, sure

>all different flavors of jeets
Leafs are faggots.

>>723342453
>callisto protocol
Interest lost

>>723341672 (OP)
Why are their heads so big? Is this a WEG?

>>723342339
unfortunately it does

Damn, they really worked hard on that biowares iconic thousand yard stare

>>723342603
its not being made by callisto protocol devs, that guys post is just formatted like shit.

>>723342575
Ass Effect fans have been wandering the desert for years. The slightest possibility of a good game is enough to get them excited.

Surely one of these 2 will be good. How no one even tried to do a fantasy sci fi rpg after bioware is beyond me

>>723341672 (OP)
Looks like TOR

>already planning to release a 2nd book and a tabletop game before theres even a real showcase of the game
Seems kinda dumb going all in on a setting no one knows or care about, for now. There was even that one amazon episode about exodus

>>723342339
>It's the callisto protocol of Mass Effect
Doomed to failure, then.

>>723343338
Cyberpunk 2k77 is sci-fi.

>>723343338
What do you mean, we had Squadron 4-
Oh.

>>723344508
Yeah, that Expanse game has a decent shot at being a worthwhile space game at least.

>>723343524
Her face is just tired. Cut her some slack.

>>723343170
anyone who considers himself a mass effect fan after 3 should be shot, the opinion of these "people" doesn't matter

>>723343338
if its a sci-fi shooter, i'm interested.

the game is 5 years away from release

>>723341672 (OP)
What happened to this game?

>>723342339
>callisto protocol
terrible fucking shit lmfao

>>723341672 (OP)
So is Chris L'Etoile involved? I feel like lack of his presence was most felt in ME3.
>>723343338
Has there been a look at gameplay for the Expanse game yet? It kind of seems like as a game it's out of left field for OwlCat compared to what they've made. Given how buggy their other games are at release I fear this could be a mess.

>>723341672 (OP)
why is their head so big

For some reason Advent Rising comes to mind.

>>723341672 (OP)
lol get this shit out of here, this is gonna set new woke records

>>723341672 (OP)
Are the helmets working as mangnyfing glasses?

>>723344853
>not after 2
You're part of the problem

>>723344853
>not after 2
You're part of the problem

>>723342339
Does it also have a pubg lore tie-in?

>>723344853
>>723346390
>>723346475
>not after 1
It is you who are wrong.

QRD?

>>723341672 (OP)
Why does everybody think that those face magnifying helmet designs are such a great idea? Looks like trash every single time in all 300 games that attempted it.

>>723344609
It's Cyberpunk, not the talky and techy subgenre as seen with properties like Star Trek.

>>723352424
Is Trek ded?

>>723354223
I guess in the broad scope of gaming, perhaps.

>>723342439
As if there won't be an option to choose the gender of the lead.

brown people don't even like space

>>723341672 (OP)
estrogenized men, all of them

>>723341672 (OP)
>No cool alien squad mates
This better be an amazing goddamn universe.
Who from the original are even involved. If it's none of the writers then get me the fuck out of here.

>>723354223
bruh we just had two days with the new Voy game never dropping off the board Looks meh btw. but the thread were comfy af

>>723341672 (OP)
why dey head so big

>>723342453
>real hype
Where, I’ve never heard of it.

>>723342339
>It's the callisto protocol of Mass Effect
lmfao

>>723355872
>no sights of any kind on the huge guns

>>723356083
There is at least one alien squadmate.

>not a single attractive female shown
Why are they kidding themselves?

>>723345486
Only explanation why their heads look so big.

>>723357947
Could well have some sort of direct interface into your cybernetic eyes or something
Although sci-fi guns should still have iron sights if they had main sighting systems like that

>>723355872
>>723341672 (OP)
Yep, that's what was bothering me.
It all looks incredibly faggot-pilled.

>>723358069
>le wise ayylmao race
>le aloof squadmate who lectures you on everything
>"That's not how our ancient civilization does things!" after every single dialog decision
Spare me.

>>723361136
WELL, in MY cycle bla bla bla

>>723361602
Yeah. Had enough of that shit with the faux-Jamaican talking squid in ME3.

>>723360917
You can nearly hear the "Wow, that is a lot to unpack there, lets not be hasty!"

>>723361671
Throw this primitive out of the airlock.

>>723361902
Maybe it's a fakeout for a renegade interrupt

>>723362167
we should be that lucky

This thread is full of tortanic fags and clueless jump-to-conclusion retards. What made Mass Effect special was its worldbuilding. The first game was a crpg, the following games were cover shooters. The video we have of this so far shows a fuckton of fascinating world building. Even if the gameplay and assets end up being kinda jank, the product is still going to be a good time, just like what we have had in the long tradition of this kind of game.

poster above me has jacked off to gay porn since age 9

Where's the Farscape? The Red Dwarf? The Firefly?

>>723362315
Thought I knew you man...

>>723363089
>firefly
let it go anon…

>>723362873
2 and 3 don't stray really far from ME1 game mechanics to say they were simply shooters. They tossed out content instead of building up on it, sure, but they also changed the approach from empty huge bunkers with text snippets and Mako rides (it is missed) to smaller, more detailed combat missions.

>>723360917
That's a classic "suave" type you mind-broken moron.

>>723342339
>Exodus. It's the callisto protocol of Mass Effect if that makes sense
Oh. So it's shit.

>>723363556
RICOOOOOOOOOO
SUAVEEEEEEEEEE

>>723344703
They probably won't let you be racist against belters, unfortunately.

>>723363452
>2 and 3 don't stray really far from ME1 game mechanics to say they were simply shooters
Insofar as one can apply the term "crpg," and how we now see rpg-lite mechanics in every game, including shooters, they near enough were. That's a bit of an exaggerated dichotomy and wasn't really even solidly implied - but I think you got the point of that post.

>>723363556
>t. seething faggot lover

>>723341672 (OP)
Are their faces all tired or something?

>>723363804
Allowing yourself to forget the past or, worse, never having even experienced it, must truly be a miserable existence.

>>723343170
she has every spell. that means she has the spell that brings her tea. it can be used to both fill the teacup as well as move the teacup to her. It can do anything you can imagine bringing tea to mean, because its folk magic

>>723345245
>>723345486
>>723351205
>>723356213
>>723359335
If you were to take the image into photoshop and erase the helmet, you would realize that their heads are normally sized. There's some kind of optical illusion going on - the helmets aren't close-fitting to be barely larger than the actual head but also aren't large enough to break one's interpretation of them as an extension of the head.

>>723341672 (OP)
I'm more interest in the mechwoman. There isn't enough room in that suit for a full body. Is she a fucknugget?

>>723342187
I thought that a new video just dropped.

>>723363779
>but I think you got the point of that post.
Of-course. As I played 2 immediately after 1, it was readily felt too. Felt a bit jarring initially, especially in overt things like the lack of ammo mods, projectile trails, shield or ME1 grain vfx, but it got better.

>>723363907
Normal men didn't look like scrawny feminine boys in the past.
Imagine wanting to play as/team-up with something that looks like a modern day eunuch.

>>723341672 (OP)
In AWE of the size if that lass in the back

>>723364373
All you can see is his face, not body. The suit has space for a normal male proportion. Is anything less than Hardpec Slamthrust (which can't fit in that suit) "scrawny feminine" to you? You fucking retard. Stop posting.

>>723364373
>Normal men didn't look like scrawny feminine boys in the past.
You know, if men like that existed, they'd still be men. It's their nature, their words, actions and intentions that matter.
Why be so bothered about appearances as long as they aren't ugly?

>>723364373
You only think he looks scrawny because you have been conditioned by seeing tons of soibois in your confirmation bias of wanting to bitch about the recent political climate.

>>723363556
>>723363804
You are both right, guy looks like someone copypasted the original male Starbuck or Spaceball's Lonestarr.
Bodylanguage looks 100% "I can't get my soimilk open, mommy", but then he is trying to look unthreatening

>>723364373
lol, k

>>723341672 (OP)
>boring generic suits that don't stand out
>boring generic weapons that don't stand out
>boring generic robots that don't stand out
>no alien races, just different flavor of mutt humans
>what's meant to be the game's standout scifi gimmick (FTL takes decades so you go back to the same place when everyone's old and shit) sounds far more boring for a videogame than the game they desperately want to be compared to's standout scifi gimmick (mass effect relays), as it goes from something that's integral to the universe and you interact with non-stop to something most players will want to actively avoid for fear of messing up and ending up with everyone you know dead because you accidentally jumped 150 years into the future, which you fundamentally know won't be done justice to the scale it should because it's a videogame so at most some NPCs will disappear or look older but buildings for example will probably look the same
I can show you the N7 armor, a krogan battlemaster or the design of a geth and you'll immediately know they belong to Mass Effect. From the start, that IP stood out in how well realized its setting was. Nothing in Exodus stands out for me, it feels like an IP suited first and foremost for novels over a functional, memorable videogame.

>>723364840
I don't see any faggots here, unlike the OP pic.

>>723365020
>hollywood actors in the late 70s
I would not lay bets either way

>>723341672 (OP)
Looks like it was made by women and trannies.

>There's a book tie-in out already before the game
>Look inside
>Set in a planet called 'Anoosha'
>Look at characters' name
>Aponi
>Josias
>Look at the setting
>A Galactic Empire of evolved humans spanned thousands of stars governed by..... seven queens which rotate as an empress for 60 years term
>The story is about how it's unfair that the celestials (humans who genetically and technologically enhanced themselves to be better than baseline human in everyway) treat normal humans as unequal
Alright...

>>723341672 (OP)
Why do these western studios keep making characters heads so fucking large it looks weird.

>>723365292
/thread

>>723343338
Owlcat will absolutely not be able to make a game like this be good on their first attempt.

>>723365292
>>The story is about how it's unfair that the celestials (humans who genetically and technologically enhanced themselves to be better than baseline human in everyway) treat normal humans as unequal
We've had same bullshit even with normal humans, sounds realistic enough.

>>723341672 (OP)
>>723355872
Why are western artists incapable of designing cool looking sci-fi costumes? Everything from the past decade just comes out looking like random bits of garbage taped together.

>>723365456
I'd give them a chance on the look, but playable without startoybox?
Ca. in 2035, depending on DLCs

>>723342339
>It's the callisto protocol of Mass Effect
I kinda hate that I understand what you mean.

>>723364974
Why the fuck did they pose him that way?

>>723342339
Can't be, because Callisto Protocol was a mediocre knockoff of something that was actually good. ME never was.

>>723365642
gotta show the snowflake accessories off before the "boring, swipe left" reflex hits

>>723365636
qrd? Played Mass Effect but not Callisto Protocol.

>>723365764
a pale imitation

>>723365704
>ME never was.
A statement written by a bitter ME3 player, no doubt.

>>723342339
>It's the callisto protocol of Mass Effect if that makes sense
well said

>>723365739
Well it makes him look like a fag.

>>723365536
They think when humans start to space travel
we will still be wearing nasa garbage

>>723365536
Because space genre is compromised.

>>723366150
I don't care if it's supposed to look realistic or not if it just comes out looking like shit.

>>723366249
Well thats the template they are using they arent using their imagination at all its just "what would NASA wear?"

>>723341672 (OP)
man i shoulda known better than to have hope for this shit

>>723341672 (OP)
She's a big suit.

>>723366832
>post-2012
>still clinging to hope
Reminder we all really died in 2012 and this is hell

>>723341672 (OP)
I like what I see, but I need to see more to make a firm judgement.

>>723363992
Yeah but she's still too small to reach the cup, and that's a little funny.

>>723365456
Right now my bare minimum expectation is that it launches as a broken unfinished mess like Cyberpunk 2077, but gets fixed and expanded upon till it's actually good.

Also what are the chances we get to use some power armor?

>>723368076
Launching as a broken unfinished mess is guaranteed because that has been every single Owlcat game thus far. This is going to be considerably worse than that though because this game is such a drastic departure from what they are already used to making.

Meh. I'll just wait until the Chinese make a F2P ripoff of Mass Effect.

>>723368147
asians don't like sci-fi, only fantasyslop, especially the chinese

>>723368207
They have the Three Body Problem.

>>723365292
oh...

>>723368340
>Three Body Problem
tits
ass
cock & balls
The answer is futa, problem solved. No need to thank me.

>>723368076
>>723368135
Hopefully still better than Starfield.

>>723358069
>>723364974
Wow it's literally just a painted human with a skin condition.

>>723369828
Just like Mass Effect?

>>723369008
I'm actually kinda enjoying Starfield. The worst things about it are definitly the writing and the procedural generation. If it had been set during the Colony War, had better quality voice-acting, gave us more interesting/less retarded quests, used more hand-crafted content, and had an exploration system more like Mass Effect's, I think I could actually recommend the game to people.

>>723341672 (OP)
Why does NASA-punk always look ugly?

>>723370092
Two wrongs don't make a right, retard.

>>723344853
>>723346390
1 was the worst game in the series though

>>723341672 (OP)
Is the lady in back a limbless torso piloting a Dreadnought?

>>723341672 (OP)
not too bad for modern standards

>>723370125
> If it had been set during the Colony War
Game set during the Colony War would be retarded. Would end up with the same issue NV, Skyrim, and witcher 3 had where the "war" was just both sides sitting around, thumbs up their asses since having the war actually going on would get in the way of playing the rest of the game.
>and had an exploration system more like Mass Effect's
What does this even mean? Mass Effect 2/3 had zero exploration, and Mass Effect 1's planets were more barren and empty then Starfield's.
>had better quality voice-acting
The VA is generally pretty normal.

>>723341672 (OP)
>just flat out stealing the VS from Lost Planet

>>723364974
best post in the thread

Nudevs have zero artistic talent. There's no edge, no creativity. Just bland safe boring garbage

>>723370241
Moving the goal post as usual.

>>723342339
>It's the callisto protocol of Mass Effect if that makes sense.
So we can expect it to get a sequel that's a mediocre Hades clone for some reason two years later?

>>723366832
How the fuck do purple like you still exist. Do you not honestly see what's going on in the world right now?

>>723370496
>Game set during the Colony War would be retarded.
Can't imagine it being any more retarded than the current situation where both the UC and Freestar feel like they're on the brink of becoming failed states and the entire rest of the galaxy is overrun with pirates, bandits, and killer mercenaries.

>What does this even mean?
I mean that instead of trying to simulate exploration across entire planets filled with nothing but long-stretches of empty space and stock repeating assets, the devs should've just had us scan planets for resources & info like in ME2 and gave them a single "Point of Interest" full of hand-crafted content where we could land and do ground missions.

>The VA is generally pretty normal.
IMO, everyone just sounds so board and painfully obvious they're just reading lines of a script. So far I haven't encountered any NPCS that sound like they're genuinely emotional or invested in what they're saying.

>>723363089
unc...

>>723371309
...onsious

>>723355872
>>723365536
Devs hire artists to do a job they don't care about. If you want to make a Kingdom Come or Homeworld, you need autists who love and know everything there is about armor or spaceships. Most of the 100s of artists working on the project are hired muscle working remotely to get their pay check. Craftsmanship is there, but they don't care enough to put in artistry as well. And manager or higher-ups don't see the difference between those two either.

>>723371273
>where both the UC and Freestar feel like they're on the brink of becoming failed states
They aren't? If Anything, Starfield is pretty clear that the UC and Freestar are working together, and the galaxy, in general, is in a much better state then it was before the Colony War.
> and the entire rest of the galaxy is overrun with pirates, bandits, and killer mercenaries.
This is just RPG design. Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fo3, NV, Fo4, Starfield, Witcher 3, etc. have way more badguys to fight then would normally exist because the game is boring otherwise.
>I mean that instead of trying to simulate exploration across entire planets filled with nothing but long-stretches of empty space and stock repeating assets, the devs should've just had us scan planets for resources & info like in ME2 and gave them a single "Point of Interest" full of hand-crafted content where we could land and do ground missions.
This was one of the worst parts of ME2, and would defeat the point of Starfield being a space exploration game as, at that point, you wouldn't be exploring anything.
>So far I haven't encountered any NPCS that sound like they're genuinely emotional or invested in what they're saying.
They sound like people talking like people to me honestly.

>>723363089
Resting, forever safe in our hearts, away from their grubby hands and talentless minds.

>>723363089
Looking forward to inevitable Lexx game.

>>723347013
what?

>>723347013
Knowers know.

>>723370223
Because the people making it have no concept of the functional systems that comprise a suit and which can add visible interesting details. Like the difference between a sleek spaceship and one covered in radiators and tubes and shit.

>>723341672 (OP)
What is the game called?

Amerimutts in Space? Miscegenation in the Milky Way?

>>723372919
>reformating your fatties
Brosnan on suicide watch

>>723373345
Exodus

>>723342439
You can pick the gender of the protag + customize them just like ME, the one in the trailer is basically just the default look like Sheploo.

>>723342339
ouch

>>723345179
Has there been a look at gameplay for the Expanse game yet?
No, there's been some 'wander around the environment' videos but no proper combat or other in-depth stuff

https://youtu.be/BfMtfl3BkRA?si=a1cabNHmp8rTwqll

From what I hear from gaming interviews, seems like the game is more likely to come out in 2027 rather than any time in 2026, going by how far the game looks to be along.

>>723373652
Why the fuck does every "scifi" over the last 10-15 years look EXACTLY like this?
>Random square panels with writing on them
>Wawo look it's made out of a mystery plastic material
>Everything is square
>Wawaweewwaa look how efficiently inefficient everything is it's just like NASA
I hate this, it's almost like they just pick pieces from the asset store or something, there is zero artistic involvement.
The most soulless bland shit, I bet AI can make a sci-fi setting 1000000000x better than this shit.


Also I'm pretty sure the "old bioware devs now making a new game" is just the Andromeda devs, that game looks exactly like the soulless andromeda garbage.

I'd also like to add that they made the only "woman" only visible from sternum up and some sort of witch or something stupid.

>>723374318
Unironically James Cameron Avatar

>>723341672 (OP)
Add an alien girl with a big ass and an Eastern European accent and I'll buy the collectors edition

>>723372958
Callisto protocol is a sequel to PUBG.

>>723374720
They dropped that connection mid development

>>723371387
>you need autists
At some point you morons gotta stop misusing this fucking word as a synonym of "smart and deeply minded with appreciation for details" because autism and well thought-out creation are NOT the same thing!
It sounds like self-mockery each time you do it, as if you're fucking ashamed of mere idea of putting any effort into anything more complex than calling someone a nigger!
Cunts!

>>723375748
Stop being autistic about it.

>>723341672 (OP)
Looking at the poster, we might end up with an Awakened Octopus as a companion, as well as some white-haired woman.
And since its design is a clear callback to ME1's poster, the Celestial female whose face is floating at the top is the main villain.

>>723376284
Has all the hallmarks of being garbage slop

>>723376430
Eh, the book was OK, so the franchise has some potential - not that you've actually read it to give any sort of opinion on it. The real test is how well-executed the RPing and the time-dilation gimmick is gonna be.
I can also only hope this gtame will at least have a ME3-like variety of weapons and powers, but the shooting looks boring from what I've seen so far. Some of the companions might be interesting, like the octopus or the Deva Celestial.

I'll check it out but oof, it LOOKS boring

>>723342339
The callisto protocol of _____ is going to be a common thing now that tons of devs are getting laid off

>>723370125
I'm not a hater like 90% of /v/ but goddamn Starfield was boring. The best part of the game is building ships but the process towards getting a super cool one is full of detours, requiring lots of money and level progression in a game that is otherwise super dull where none of the story or characters are worth remembering. Not even mods fix the problem, unless you want to switch the ugly Bethesda guns with Star Wars blasters.

>>723374318
Alright then smart fella, what would you have it look like instead?

>>723377347
Not that anon but Phantasy Star Online/Universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2laWdm60us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufu-YjuMI-8

>>723369828
>it's literally just a painted human with a skin condition
I heared there are no aliens in this setting, only human offshoots, so you are right.

>>723364974
Mass Effect has such a unique aesthetic because the devs wanted to imitate Syd Mead's design style with all the light and shiny metal with strong geometric and smoothly sloping features. When I was a teenager I didn't appreciate the style and thought it was kind of mid beyond the Normandy, the N7 armor and the Avenger assault rifle, but when I replayed ME1 as an adult even the little boxy houses and research labs on remote planets had a lot of style thanks to this look.

>>723375937
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>723370125
Imagine if it had been set during the exodus from earth and the search for a new home planet instead.

>>723341672 (OP)
I hate the hollywood "I demand to be contractually showing my face 99% of the time" glass dome helmets even on the mecha
Then again i know I can't hate them because I think they're ok if I think it fits the visual theme of the scifi. They even make sense for visibility. Somehow I just think they seem cringe here because I liked the full-face helmets in Mass Effect.

>>723341672 (OP)
Haha they still fucking forgot to have the eyelid cast shadow on the eye. Holy fuck even when they had to hotpatch their last game to specifically fix that because of relentless mockery they just forgot again

>>723374318
>Why the fuck does every "scifi" over the last 10-15 years look EXACTLY like this?
It's the cheapest style to produce. When the management of a game doesn't give a fuck about hiring a proper art director and demanding a unique aesthetic, artists will usually default to this pseudo-NASA aesthetic in order to achieve a scifi vibe in a reasonable time.

>>723370125
>if it was a completely different game I think I could recommend it to people
shocking stuff. if big rigs over the road racing was an actual good racing game I might be willing to recommend it to people too

>>723344609
It's gta rpg with a coat of "cyberpunk"

>all characters are some shade of brown mystery meat
I thought we were past this
Did these devs just not get the memo that this kind of stuff is over?

>>723378741
Works for space stuff. Unless humans explicitly maintain certain purity amounts, mystery meats can be expected in a purely global space travel industry.

>>723379543
>thinking any race will suffer living next to another when there are enough colonies to avoid it

>>723377683
Me 1 and 2 had this look, I feel like ME 3 already started to change.

>>723347013
He only means that it is to Mass Effect what Calisto Protocol is to Dead Space.

It is not the same developer or publisher as PUBG.

>>723341672 (OP)
in libtard future men should become women and women men? Whats the point?

>>723380938
and niggers should enslave white people
because generational justice

>>723379664
That depends on what social control methods and psy-ops are used, what social structures are present, etc.
Seeing as you incorrectly think that race takes higher priority than ethnicity, that broad, subsuming over-group matters more than individual details of actual blood, just like similar others that were subjected to modern social engineering, you clearly can be made to suffer some things within limits defined by your personal character, at bare minimum.

Social manipulations and control may or will become much more complex if and when we will reach proper space era. Much more.

>>723344703
We already have an Expanse game, it's called Nebulous: Fleet Command.

>>723364974
>no aliens just weird people
getting more DUNC vibes than ME

>>723379543
>Works for space stuff
No it doesn't at all because brown people will never get to space. They are doomed to live and starve on a dying overpopulated planet for the next thousand years. Brown people in space is unrealistic if they are trying to make a projection about a space faring human race.

Luckily, I reverse search that image.

I was ready to bury my 360 console in the garden, a full burial with honors and mark it's save file as dead.

>>723341672 (OP)
>clearly inspired by ME
>look like ME
I'm not sure what exactly is the problem. You know what you're getting.

>>723383884
>look like ME
no?

>>723383547
A foolish and baseless assumption.

>>723384950
It's not foolish or baseless. It's all based on what we see happening in the world today, what brown people depend on, and how physics work. Unless brown people find a miracle energy and a new miracle white neighborhood to mass migrate to and invade, they will spiral into global famine as the world is unable to sustain the large population of browns in the 10s of billions.

>>723370092
No? Retard

>>723383884
mass effect has it's own language and inspirations, spacesuits were made for beauty as well as functionality, they were comercially available after all, this just looks like nasapunk shite that starfield is like. Where we watch The Martian and salute the (generic government) American flag and wear our soft white, dark grey and orange (military grade=minimum effort) space suits whilst saying hell yeah science! Still living in a boomer fantasy of what they imagined when they saw the first moon landing. Nothing's edgy or makes you think anything deep.
The most generic and boring idea of just iterating on current gen space suits instead of creating something new. Andromeda did similar shit.

>>723385717
Good post. ME artsryle has that Y2K nu-Space Opera flare. Starfield and Exodus look like "grounded" corposlop that looks procedurally generated on some guy's Artstation.

>>723341672 (OP)
Bureau 13 looking motherfucker

>>723385430
What you see is limited in scope, comprehension and interpretation, like a man seeing a rock falling from the sky and not grasping that the rock is there due to a massive unseen object aligning it from elsewhere.
Your non-descript and averaged down "brown" people aren't eternally a thing in itself any more than any others, being a mass of humans peculiarly misoptimized to their strategic degradation just as the some of you are.

There's a sufficiently concerning hypothesis that all human population amount is vastly overstated as a part of planetary population culling, i.e. the total amount of normal people (and as such people that can mount a rebellion) is on decrease.
That said, regardles of any assumptions that some (India and China in particular) nation's census isn't actually inflated for political purposes, - while current tendencies are bad for the masses, it is mostly at junctures.
2 things.

One, actual people with potential are in sufficient amounts that solid technocracies are already possible to make given proper leadership.
Two, and this one concerns your assumptions - you don't get why any select mass of people is in their states of life. There are abstract reasons for that. Not all are natural, and not all are preternatural.
Even "European" transmigrating set of multi-ethnic civilizations arose because of interests of some, whether malice and heroism, or incidental accomplishments.

>>723385449
>Sarenen

This doesn't look any gayer and lamer than ME, you're just nostalgic 360 shitstains.

>>723341672 (OP)
woke shit

>>723386053
I assume the designers aren't given much lore or help from writers to work with to design "space suits" so they physically have to go to the most basic subconcious design. They aren't given enough time to do the writing and ideas as well as the design itself. I'm convinced that's how bethesda is constantly making shit designs, the lack of prep given to designers.
Then you see a world fully realised in all aspects like in cyberpunk and every visual aspect tells a story because the story is already all there for them and designers just need to connect the dots.

>>723342339
>It's the callisto protocol of Mass Effect if that makes sense.
to quote avgn. "its like puking on a pile of shit!"

>>723386438
You say this because you must believe that the people's potential like from ancient Mesopotamia like sumeria and egypt will come back again and become more interested in the sciences, but those populations are fucked forever because of Islam.

>>723386887
True, it's much easier making assets for an already established and fleshed out setting like Cyberpunk that has multiple pen and paper bibles written over multiple decades.
It's also why FO3 looked so eye-catching and memorable even to newcomers. All those old iconic designs aged like wine.

Which makes me really appreciate FO1 and ME1. They frontloaded so many ideas, designs and assets that the rest of the franchise merely recycles with barely anything new added in.
Especially the case with ME1. Animations and models got reused all the way to ME3. When Andromeda tried adding something new it just ended up looking like an uninspired tumor growth when compared to other games in the setting.

>>723387067
It doesn't need to come back, because in an abstract sense it has never left.
Concerning Islam, it's stated to be in decline by some, just like Catholicism or Orthodox Christianity of the past.
Even if it is not, the sheer peer and environmental pressure, as well as Semitic games, have noticeably messed up the notion of maintaining pure, dogmatically rigid Islamic states and simultaneously keeping up with others without external assistance, in the wiser rulers.
As the totality of events is moving, those who won't advance will lose, unless someone aims to sabotage entire populations preemptively.
Individuals not compromised by religion, or possessed of their own viewpoints exist even there, and so does the potential.
In the context of the thread, give the total political sphere more sophisticated shake ups, and you'll get the OP pic.

I thought this game project shut down due to lack of funding. Or was it a similar game? I swear it was some ex Bioware devs game getting shitcanned within the last 6 months or so.

>>723341672 (OP)
please tell me the girl is quadruple amputee and has to use that suit to move around

>>723380147
>2
>having this look
lol
lmao even
Nothing screams Syd Mead like Omega or dark enclosed hallways in an indoor-only Citadel huh

>>723388254
>Omega or dark enclosed hallways in an indoor-only Citadel
yes
there can be a beauty in "ugliness" and poverty. There can be a deep space nine for a star trek

>>723341672 (OP)
why do the male guys look like the real estate canadian twins but with two different skin colours?

>>723344298
Multimedia ventures don't work right off the bat. You've got to have a successful product first before you go in that direction.

>>723388254
It's very consistent in that wealthy and/or 'civilised' areas use varying levels of Syd Mead, while areas of heavy industry such as Omega (remember that the whole thing used to be a mining operation) tend to be grimy and utilitarian even in the first game.

>>723347013
>PlayerUnknown's Callisto Protocol
we almost had it so ludo

>>723386683
You don't have an actual argument

>>723365292
>>The story is about how it's unfair that the celestials (humans who genetically and technologically enhanced themselves to be better than baseline human in everyway) treat normal humans as unequal
To be fair the whole "exploring the impacts of transhumanism on society and the people left behind by it" is a pretty standard sci-fi staple that pops up over and over again in all sorts of different stories. Doesn't mean that they're not going to make a mess of it, but the concept itself is sound.

>>723388387
>yes
Retard, ME2 went against 1's artstyle on purpose

>>723342339
>>723342453
I'll need to see this game's version of the Asari before I can judge it.

>>723388882
>on purpose
exactly, double retard

>>723374318
This is what the show looked like and I'm pretty sure it was just following what the books described. The setting of the expanse is hard sci-fi even if the actual plot is decidedly not. You're getting mad over an adaptation staying faithful to its source material.

>>723389208
>>723388882
and that image i posted is literally a syd mead painting for blade runner. And Omega, Illium and so on are VERY Syd Mead

>>723389036
>I'll need to see this game's version of the Asari before I can judge it.
There is none - every race and creature in the game (as we know of so far) has terrestrial origins.
So, the best you can get is a catgirl race, provided the Celestials felt the need to bioengineer them in the first place.

>>723389715
what a coincidence I'm non-buynary as well, sorry devs you'll have to respect my needs and not expect to be monetarily compensated for your work

>>723363992
why not fill her mouth (or stomach) with tea directly?

>>723386438
>given proper leadership
ah yes, "proper leadership", mankind is fucked

>>723368340
>hear about the books
>oh man i love alien invasion and humanity fuck yeah shit
>get the books
>they are boring multiple pov snoozefests full of pseudoscience and baby tier philosophical bullshit
god damn chinks cant make anything good, can they?

>>723389715
>missing the chance to call the AIs binary
I'm kind of angry

>>723342339
>the callisto protocol of Mass Effect
Amazing

>>723361136
>le wise ayylmao race
>le aloof squadmate who lectures you on everything
>"That's not how our ancient civilization does things!" after every single dialog decision
I'm a sucker for this shit.

>>723390457
It ain't over 'till it's over.
Current figureheads won't last.

>>723390781
Quick rundown?

>More hyper cynical post-2000s sci-fi without aliens, pulp adventuring, interesting science and FUN
Writing sci-fi has become a lost art. It reached its peak in the 90s and started dying in the 00s.

>>723392702
Reddit sciencebrains killed sci-fi more than fantasy, because they can flex their physics degrees and say 'erm, this isn't realistic'

>>723392835
>the pursue of hyperrealism killed science-fiction and fantasy (to an extent)
>in other words, realism killed imagination
depressing

>>723393063
Assumptions born of incomplete or even complete knowledge of physics are neither scientific, nor realistic.
Actual realism never kills imagination, it creates it. They aren't realists or hyperrealists, they're pop-sci-punk fetishists.

>>723342339
Just to be clear this is the former project lead starting their own studio and making a disastrously bad clone of the IP they created?

>>723392702
>without aliens
Not a bad thing. Making up beautiful aliens is extremely hard.

>>723392835
It's really fun reading old science and futurism magazines from the 70s, and seeing how absolutely out there and uplifing their vision of the future was.
Reaching the 2000s and seeing none of it come to pass really buck broke humanity.

>>723393580
>Reaching the 2000s and seeing none of it come to pass really buck broke humanity.
Your choice of ugly slang aside, no. It never did. But brakes were pushed.

>>723343338
>>723341672 (OP)
new Mass Effect - will flop or not even release
Exodus - barely anyone will even notice it's out, most will just laugh at another flopping deislop
Expanse - massively handicapped by an intentionally shit setting ill suited for vidya, but will still do the best and might be even relatively successful. Owlcat's name alone will work in their favor. In worst case scenario where this game somehow completely flops, Owlcat will still be doing great due to a guaranteed success that is Dark Heresy, which will be reinforced by Rogue Trader dlcs, their other secret crpgs and published games. Eventually already ready framework from Expanse will be utilized for other such game in a nonshit setting

>>723392702
If every space ship was shaped like cock&balls sci-fi would have been in a way better shape right now imo

>>723393535
it's not hard, but unfortunately "beautiful aliens" just means appling golden ratio facial proportions to alien faces. Even when they deviate from that formula with someone like Lae'zel they use makeup and markings to draw your eyes away from the "ugly" (non golden ratio proportions).
This leads to the meme of ever female alien/orc/fantasy race just being a woman with different skin. So you could call it hard if you're not following this formula but I don't think that exists, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong with an example of a beautiful alien that's not just golden ratio human.
(unless you go into furry/scalie territory (and even then you're using golden ratio proportions to create beauty)).

>>723393535
But so worth it. It's not like these teams have numbers in the hundreds and are paid to brainstorm cool designs that players might like. As far as Exodus/Mass Effect is concerned, if they managed to do it in 2005 they 'should' be able to do it in 2005+20.

>>723394296
Looking back and what we've had since it's kind of insane how they hit it out of the park with Saren's design and storyline

>>723343338
>How no one even tried to do a fantasy sci fi rpg after bioware is beyond me
Rogue Trader is actually the first proper Space Opera crpg, unlike console action game with rpg elements that was Mass Effect and an antichrist of crpg genre that was Kotor. And those two were all that there was for RPGs in Space until RT

>>723345179
>So is Chris L'Etoile involved?
He is not. He's recently written dialogue on Aliens Fireteam Ellite and another mobileshit game called Everspace 2.

>>723393472
Exodus' studio was founded by James Ohlen (lead designer/creative director of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR, DAO and SWTOR), Chad Robertson (technical director for SWTOR and Anthem), and Drew Karpyshyn (writer for KOTOR and Mass Effect).

>>723395150
But the average employee at their company looks like this

>>723394168
With the caveat of hardness being a skill dependent property, it IS hard.
These are just reskinned humans or humanoid animals slash mythological creatures.
And while they all pass in terms of literal alienness, as in "not us", they only barely satisfy that particular public assumption of pulpy space-alienness, and barely meet "design that you'd be able to stand in a mirror or in actual environment every day" standards. Their prettiness comes from humanity more than anything.

The lizard thing has a nice skull shape, the Viper is functional but just as down to earth - clearly an uplifted species, clear human-naga mutant, not particularly alien.
The DnD lady has a questionable nose design.

The only alien here is the oddly Bayonetta-ish (Bayonetta 2 to be exact, similar smoldering gaze) female Turian, but even with Turians you can feel the problem:
Smaller amount of fingers and toes - not enough to make the manipulators non-functional, but enough to be jarring in cross-comparison with humans; protrusions in weird places; questionable function of exposed mandibles (better than Sangheilli at least).

Making a pure alien, at least comparable to the Elder Things in terms of being removed from humanity, but not so far so as to be an eldritch thing?
Yet still pretty to human and cosmic sensibilities?
Now that is hard.

>>723395963
Just hire Meandraco

>>723396372
What does he draw?

>>723363089
theres nothing anymore. let alone anything actually good

>>723355872
Just by looking at that image I can already see how annoying these characters are going to be. 24/7 quirky fun ironic and sarcastic characters. Miss me with that shit

>>723394296
This picture makes me have MIB flashbacks.

>>723370125
soon you'll see all the cracks. and the writing will get worse and worse.

>>723341672 (OP)
Counterpoint: space wolf people, possibly even pettable.

>>723391146
hur

>>723396635
hahaha so its furshit too? amazing.

>>723396635
PROSPERO SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN
ALL IS DUST

>>723341672 (OP)

So long as it actually releases, who gives a damn.

EA sitting on the Mass Effect IP despite technically owning Bioware has been such a pathetic misuse of squandered assets and potential for a decade.

>>723396765
*hourglass noises*

>>723396784
I almost never side with corporations, but it's completely understandable that they shelved it. Andromeda was a dumpsterfire, and if Veilguard is anything to go by, any subsequent Mass Effect entries would have also been utter dogshit. They'd have probably added a dedicated Cuckold dialogue option in addition to Snarky and Indifferent.

>>723396390
Weird shit you sometimes want to fuck

>>723395885
I can't wait to finally play a game made by normal normies again.

>>723396635
That just looks like Starfield

>>723342339
What a perfect description

>>723397081
I for one am glad that ME hibernated during the worst of the last decade. You started seeing the rot with Andromeda having asari talk about pronouns and stuff. Granted, the new one will probably still have plenty of that shit.

>>723395672
Definitely would, but she would need to keep the nose and ears on.

>>723388759
If only they didn't always use it as an allegory to racism...

As far as cool alien art goes, the man that made concept art for Marathon was great.

>>723395963
I was talking specifically about the "beauty" part of it. Making an alien "alien" is hard. I was saying that "beautiful aliens" just equals the proportions of a beautiful woman, even in furry like characters, even in their face. The female turian model may aswell just be garrus with a liquify tool in photoshop overlaid onto a supermodel's face. We're talking about different things so whatever.

>>723345179
ACKSHULLY their latest release, Rogue Trader, barely had any crippling bugs.
I am also very curious to see them tackle actual 3rd-person gameplay though.

Andromeda players, did the internal layout match the external size of the Tempest?

>>723397976
>I was saying that "beautiful aliens" just equals the proportions of a beautiful woman
I still disagree, but I see your point.

>>723398046
It was better than the Normandy, but still felt bigger on the inside.

>>723397976
>I was talking specifically about the "beauty" part of it. Making an alien "alien" is hard.
>We're talking about different things so whatever.
You replied to
>Making up beautiful aliens is extremely hard
To try to contradict him by focusing on part of it when what he meant is pretty goddamn obvious is just being a dense motherfucker.

>>723398176
Thanks.

>>723393580
gotta baby sit brown people that hate you for the foreseeable future

>>723398347
??? yes I argued that making "beautiful" aliens isn't hard because "beauty" is kinda hardcoded as humans. Beautiful is a specific word, a word he used. And you an argumentative nigga jumping on a conversation you weren't involved in. Plus you need to proofread your last sentence. I agree with him when he's more specific.

>>723341672 (OP)
What is that thing in the back?

>>723398670
>Why yes, I AM a dense motherfucker. Allow me to explain to you what you just explained about what I explained.
Cool, thanks.

>>723345297
This. Being owned by WotC means it's gonna make Veilguard look like Mein Kampf.
Assuming it ever comes out, which it probably won't. Has all the signs of vaporware used to suck the publisher and investors dry.

>>723398670
>proofread your last sentence
???

>>723398826
wow what a gotcha, I talked to anon about a word he used that I thought was interesting. I am a dense mother fucker. You've been on 4chan way too long, searching for arguments where there is none

I completely forgot about Exodus. I looked at these screenshots and thought "this doesn't look like Expanse, what is this shit?".

>>723345297
>hasbro
might as well just burn money

>>723342579
It's just realistic, Indians will populate space.

>>723341672 (OP)
I don't want any more Mass Effect, thank you.
The franchise is dead.

>>723342339
This is a great description. Has any of these "old guy from previously successful game series goes off to make new game" things ever worked out?

>>723400752
Igarashi with Bloodstained, I suppose.

>>723397696
Yeah, exactly. There is hope it'll be greatly toned down with the privatization of EA, though.

>>723400752
Recent ones are Hideous Kojimbo, Tim Schhafer, and Chris Roberts.
Back in the olden days there was a constant churn of small roles making their own studios and creating big hits.

>>723377347
Alien: Isolation
The only game I have ever watched a Let's Play on because I loved the aesthetics and I'm a scaredy cat who can't play scawy games

Sorry, my face is tired.

>>723402963
It's really going to be something, isn't it?

>>723341672 (OP)
>Even in death my franchise must continue

>>723341672 (OP)
Why is that girl in such a tiny mech

>>723403483
Well, the main character looks decently attractive face-wise. A step up from Mass Effect Androgynous at least.

>>723365536
Why do you say western? The japs are even worse, and lost their ability to design non-faggy stuff by the early 2000s, and everyone else is even worse than either one.

>>723403990
Isn't the MC the dude on the left? Also, at least Ryder was white.

>>723345179
I think the only real things I've heard them talk about is
>They keep saying they can't talk about romance yet (so presumably there will be some by their track record and being vague about it)
>You pick your origin (Earth, Mars, Belter)
>Your first companion is your characters sibling (always the opposite gender as your character)

>>723341672 (OP)
2025 guys, can you believe it? 2025 slop grafix look like this.

>>723375093
They said that but there's a bunch of shit in the end you can tie to PUBG.

>>723404237
I've never seen this gif before wtfffff

>>723404237
>they can't talk about romance yet (so presumably there will be some)
>Your first companion is you sibling (always the opposite gender)
Alabama bros...

>>723404237
>Your first companion is your characters sibling
I actually like this idea and was dissapointed when Dragon Age 2 has a sibling companion who just leaves the party no matter what after the first act.

>>723404237
>can't talk about romance
>first companion is your sibling of the opposite sex
Wincest incoming.

>>723365536
We can still go back, right?
Before sci-fi design became utterly drab, flavorless and grey?

>>723341672 (OP)
How can you even sit in this position all day without ruining your pelvic muscles?

>>723370932
whats wrong with this game? i liked it

>>723341672 (OP)
Looks good

>>723405291
kek
She's probably paraplegic or missing her legs or something like that. Gotta get those brownie points somehow

>>723389715
>non-binaries are a different species

>>723341672 (OP)
No I'd like Das EFX instead thank you.

>>723389715
>human
>non binary
Cringe. Sci-fi as a setting would have been the perfect justification for alien races which do indeed not have only male or female genders, like I totally see an alien race which could be hermaphroditic for example, but it's current year and devs just can't help themselves but cater to mentally ill delusional freaks. So dumb

someone post the disarming webm

It looks... okay. I don't hate it but don't feel excited about it as well.

>sci-fi
>everything is made out of metal
Can we stop with that shit

>>723407279
Non-Human Awaked Species
Binary
Male and Female
Disengage safety protocols.

>>723409050
What do you propose? Ferofluid?

>>723377673
It was my fault for not knowing this wasn't an original setting when I wrote my post.

>>723410190
plastic

>>723410932
>plastic
>the material that deforms and becomes extremely brittle when exposed to... sunlight
Fuck's sake, Anon.

>>723394589
Look man, i love owlslop, fuck, i even think they make the best modern rpgs, but you really cant compare something like a AAA 3D rpg to crpg that they normally do. Sometimes i want to watch a blockbuster man, i dont want indie or artshit movies all the time

>>723410190
Everything should be made from titanium because it's the strongest!!1

>>723410190
Literally anything? Are you surrounded by walls of metal right now? Then why the fuck would you be 100 years in the future? I don't want to walk around on a metal floor no matter what year it is

>>723410190
nta, but i like what they do in terra invicta, one of the technologies you can unlock implies that everything is going to be made of interwoven carbon nanotubes

>>723413116
I guess you can cover metal.

>>723413116
Isn't iron one of the most common elements in the universe also?

>>723358069
we need entire races with their own unique histories and cultures if it's in any way supposed to emulate mass effect (which itself just took the lead in this respect from star trek)

>>723341672 (OP)
Dr Who ass suit

>>723341672 (OP)
More like mystery meat effect

>>723410190
Bones of our enemies.

>>723341672 (OP)
I used to be always annoyed at fishbowl backlight design of the movie space helmets. But then I've noticed that I stopped using full helmet in Mass Effect almost immediately, usually wearing a visor at most. At least there is a personal mass effect field lore reason why their suits are so slim and thin and characters can omit wearing a helmet.

>>723417663
>"I've noticed that I stopped using full helmet in Mass Effect almost immediately, usually wearing a visor at most"
>he hasn't played the trilogy so many times he's memorized in which missions he should leave Shepard's face exposed and in which ones it's safe to have him clad in full armor because there's not much cinematic interaction

>>723365764
Callisto protocol was a game from Dead Space devs that looked and played almost exactly like dead space but was set in a different universe with (not)necromorphs, however it sucked.

>>723418149
Funnily enough, Callisto had a (slightly) more memorable suit design than Exodus

>>723417864
I used to be able to do this 15 years ago...

>>723341672 (OP)
>FROM THE DEVELOPERS WHO TOTALLY BROUGHT YOU MASS EFFECT TRUST US GUYS

nah

>>723411201
Shitty cheap consumer-grade plastics suffer from that, high quality (and expensive) plastics exist that are rated for exterior use on spacecraft with all the extreme stresses and raw unfiltered sunlight exposure that implies - and that's without getting into any magic science fiction future materials science.

In any event that anon was clearly complaining about interior environments being made entirely of metal and most of those don't get any more sunlight than the interior of your average building and there's shitloads of plastic knocking around in there.

>>723364210
>>723405398
Nope.

>>723341672 (OP)
>Andromeda-style armors
Oh no no no no no no no...

>>723368076
Regardless of Cyberpunk's issues on launch the story and quest design in that game was still solid as long as you knew you were going in for a story based action fps and not the RPG they initially promised.
There was still SOMETHING in 2077 to salvage with better game design through patches.

The issue with games like Starfield and ME Andromeda is that there was nothing to save or build around.

So far I find the setting rather forgettable
>some humans separated from us thousands of years ago and they're not ultra advanced and see themselves as another race, also time travel but not really and generic looking ships/suits/close to no aliens and those that exist look like >>723358069
Yawn. No joke so far the thing that has 'excited' me the most is the fact the game has "weapons, armors, skills and squadmates tailored for stealth" and that stealth is supposedly a fully viable playstyle. For someone that always wished Mass Effect had stealth, this sounds neat.
https://youtu.be/xNkmV0gBClM?t=177

I'm really missing the Angry Bald Space Marine era of protagonists of the 2010s, bros...

Drew Karpyshyn is the lead writer so I SHALL be playing

>>723424058
Hasn't written anything worthwhile in 18 years

>>723396635
i think the whole enlightened animals thing theyre doing is cool and interesting from a sci fi perspective but i cant help but think its just going attract some the lowest denominator of freaks (furries) into the conversation and thats just going to be awful for everyone. some months ago i decided to go onto the official youtube channel to see what kind of press they were doing to get people interested and they this cringe as fuck role-playing shit with animal facepaint in what i could only assume was fursona type shit and it really turned me off from wanting to engage with the devs or the fandom or anything to do with this game.

i think at most ill pirate this game because it does interest me but the pandering to furries is fucking disgusting and they should be ashamed of themselves

>>723343170
>Ass Effect fans have been wandering the desert for years. The slightest possibility of a good game is enough to get them excited.
Not really, i moved on from that "your choices matter" type of games.

>>723398887
I'll admit I know little about all that, but surely WotC isn't THAT bad?

>>723404342
>>723404425
Sweeeeet home Alabaaaama

>>723365292
So it's just a scifi Underworld. Didn't even bother changing the story.

>>723426749
>i think at most ill pirate this game because it does interest me but the pandering to furries is fucking disgusting and they should be ashamed of themselves
Maybe they're innocent and just thought it's cool. Maybe. Hopefully?

>>723345297
Oh.

>>723370932
Redacted was a calisto protocol sequel? I had no idea.
It wasnt a bad game, just not great

>>723396635
>we want the furry audience

Do we really need every helmet in every work of science fiction to perfectly frame the wearer's face?
I get it. You spent a lot of money on performance capture and don't realize it looks like shit. Can we still have cool helmets?
It's especially stupid when they have lights inside the helmet like Callisto Protocol, shining INTO their faces.

>>723427434
im sure the devs weren't thinking of depraved furry shit (or maybe they were) when coming up with interesting sci fi beats to put into the game but it will no doubt attract the furries anyway and they will fill these threads with furry porn when the game drops akin to what loli faggots are doing with pragmata

>>723344609
Why the fuck would you attempt to shorten 2077 with 2k77 which now means instead of twenty seventy-seven you're saying two thousand seventy-seven?

>>723427870
But ANON how will you RECOGNIZE the FAMOUS ACTOR if you don't have a RETARDED helmet showing their ENTIRE face?

>>723427903
>>723426749
You could be right, but it should be pointed out that these are just bigger regular animals that talk, not anthropomorphized bipedal with clothes and such, so maybe it'll attract regular zoophiles to it instead. Not that there isn't crossover, but the aesthetics are different enough to warrant some thought.

>>723364974
"My fwoat is sore mommy, can I have a stwepsiw?"

>>723427870
I really like when I can cover at least thr mouth of my character so I can pretend there's flawless lipsynching going on. Thank you, Mass Effect.

>>723427870
>and don't realize it looks like shit
How are they all so blind?

>>723389715
lol I was already out but this cemented it.

Don't care what anyone says, Calisto was cool, at least it was masculine. I didn't like that the bro had to die and the chink bitch survived instead. They should at least revisit the universe.

>>723389715
>>723407273
>>723428791
You should keep in mind these are extremely modified humans and raised animals, the Celestials themselves are altered enough that they can't interbreed with humans naturally anymore, with some so strange they transfer their consciousness into their progeny, which begin as eggs and are carried to term by the males in a hatching pouch. And that's just one type, there's many kinds, including ones that more or less turned themselves into sentient stargates.

>>723429180
Yeah i don't think they were talking about genetically modified sexless humans.

>>723427870
>Do we really need every helmet in every work of science fiction to perfectly frame the wearer's face?
:DDD
Sorry, my face is tired [from laughing]

>>723391356
It's a hwhite hole.
For the longest time I thought the extended edit I saw on /f/ was real. Kinda dissapointing.

>>723430017
A white hole?

>>723357947
bruh that hasnt been a thing since halo 1. its obviously built into the headset

>>723429856
I can hear this image

>>723428508
Tempest Rising did this with secondary characters. Likely to save some time and money. I didn't mind, but some people were bitching and moaning about it.

>>723345085
Still in development. Likely coming out next year.

>>723341672 (OP)
>the men are less manly than the girl
The Modern Audience will love it.

>>723394769
Oh, he wrote Everspace 2? That game fucking sucked.

>>723343338
Expanse game is made by russkies, so that one at least got a chance to not be awful

>>723416749
i'm pretty sure that's fake

>>723394769
>>723432218
>>723432320
everspace 2 was great for a AA game

>>723404808
>bottom has more colour
weird

>>723341672 (OP)
thought the pic in OP looked like this lol

>>723430464
>implying

>>723363779
>Insofar as
Shut the fuck up, just shut up.

>>723364580
>It's their nature, their words, actions and intentions that matter.
This is the biggest load of copium I've ever heard. Post your hand.

>>723435287
Do something about the chip on your shoulder instead of bitching at others.

>>723417456
>bones of your enemies
>polished stone floors
>interspersed with leather and wood, but tastefully
>the aforementioned stone floors give nice reflections that are part of the design as the reflections themselves complete the design and feel of the grotesque room
VVVGGHGHHH
Modern slop-fi designers would never.
>but ancients used to work with stone and bone
>we can't do that in the future! we can't even bone today!

>>723385717
>this just looks like nasapunk shite that starfield is like
What makes it extra shit for starfield and with this one is, that they just take that aesthetic and call it a day instead of actually doing anything interesting and creative with it. It's like if in your pic instead of turning the car's design language into a unique sci-fit suit, they just took the car's body parts and stuck them onto the dude's arms and legs. I'm saying this because I thought the modern astronaut aesthetic for sci-fi is shit too, but then I saw that it can be cool if the people behind it actually do something unique with it. Here is an example (don't mind it being chinese, because it's sick af, the space craft the character uses that unfortunately not really seen here is also really cool):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLA-cfH2kIQ

>>723427132
They are worse.

>>723436219
This looks like Nasapunkslop without shiny lights and that's somehow even worse. The white suit dude is literally legally distinct DS Isaac. Plus the demon thing somehow making sounds while in space which isn't the worst thing. The laser discs not just making a grid pattern and cutting that dude up is worse.
>but realism killed sci-fi
Lack of imagination did. For all its faults ME took the titular technology and made it do a bunch of stuff. Also that ship looks like the Andromeda ship but blander.

>>723341672 (OP)
>>723355872
>>723364974
>>723365292
Why the fuck is every modern fiction like this the equivalent of dunking a ladle into the same big bubbling cauldron of unidentifiable sludge and slapping it into a bowl like
>here is the unique new sci-fi setting we crafted

>>723363779
I don't know why everyone pretends that ME1 wasn't also a cover shooter for some reason, how to glue yourself to a wall is one of the very very first things the game teaches you how to do once you get a gun in your hand, and the regenerating shield layer means the most efficient way to fight is to stick yourself behind cover as much as possible so you take as little "real" damage as possible.

Also while the skills screen looks impressive, when you drill down into what each pip does the majority of them are something like "2.5% more [useful value] when using [weapon/skill]", levelling up didn't feel particularly satisfying or rewarding most of the time because you'd just be making your gun imperceptibly more accurate or something. ME2's levelling system was massively over-simplified, but IMO for all its faults in other areas ME3 had the best levelling system out of the three games by a big margin. Every level up felt like you were getting something new to play with, and the latter half of each skill line having two choices each time gave you a lot of leeway to customise exactly how you played.

>>723342339
it should be illegal to advertise games with the guise of being the devs of an established IP, every single time someone did it they ended up being the fucking janitor of that company that never actually contributed to anything, just like the OUTER WORLDS devs that kept spamming "YO WE MADE NEW VEGAS BRO REMEMBER NEW VEGAS BRO YEAH ITS US BRO ITS THE NEW VEGAS GUYS" and then it turned out to be a steaming pile of shit

>>723436704
If that's what you think okay. But the suit doesn't remotely look like anything from DS and the demon guy being able to talk in space makes sense in the story. And I know that is subjective, if you take issue with the rest of the soundscape, personally I on the other hand think everything being in complete silence because it's in space doesn't really make for good entertainment. Besides, you think nasapunk is shit, but dislike it when it's not realistic enough? The exact issue of nasapunk slop is that's so lame because it's based on realistic nasa shit.

>>723436916
That wasn't saying that ME1 didn't have cover shooting. It was saying that it was a crpg and the sequels are just cover shooters. "You can use weapons you aren't proficient in (for certain circumstances in which they help) but you will suck with them" particularly demonstrates that.

>>723437297
looks neat

>>723437416
I always thought people's obsession over mechanical minutiae results in a ridiculously narrow definition of 'crpg' which, somewhat ironically, completely eliminates the actual roleplaying part of the game from whether or not it meets the definition of a roleplaying game.

All three games follow the same digital choose-you-own-adventure format down to almost the last detail, but somehow only the first game is actually an RPG because they changed how the shooting mechanics work in the sequels? It's such a stupid position to take.

>>723436916
If "everyone" says something you're against maybe *you* are the contrarian one, anone

>>723438551
>a ridiculously narrow definition of 'crpg'
I don't know, I'd consider both Fallout 1 and Dragon Ages Origins CRPGs and they're pretty different from one another

>>723438551
>I always thought people's obsession over mechanical minutiae results in a ridiculously narrow definition of 'crpg'
You are wildly misrepresenting what is happening. There is a difference in how the game 'feels' and what you are trying to describe is their effort to explain what. It's a consequence, not a cause.

>>723438551
>somehow only the first game is actually an RPG because they changed how the shooting mechanics work in the sequels
They're talking about everything except the shooting, you total fucking moron. Go stuff straw somewhere else.

>>723439140
I literally said in that post that the roleplaying part of the Mass Effect games remained virtually unchanged across the entire series you double nigger, my entire point was about how the fundamentals of everything that wasn't tied to shooting stuff stayed in place the whole time.

>>723439408
No, you were a reductive faggot giving a superficial description so that you could call them the same.

>>723439408
Your shitty description would let you call Fallout 1 and DAO the same. Read the other replies you got, dipshit. They all come together to paint a proper picture of what a faggot you are.

>>723439603
Please explain to me in exacting detail the differences in how the player engages with the narrative of the game and guides the protagonist through the story (AKA roleplaying) changes from ME1 to ME2/3. Because there fucking isn't any.

>>723439795
>Your shitty description would let you call Fallout 1 and DAO the same.
Yes, because Fallout and Dragon Age are both roleplaying games you tremendous retard.

>>723364840
At least he still had good hair in the reboot

>>723341672 (OP)
why are the heads so big?
why do they both look so zesty?

>>723392702
The modern viewpoint of a lot of writers seems to be that non-humans are pointless and that having only humans is inherently more interesting and mature.

>>723342339
>We got this instead of another pathfinder game
why does this timeline have to be so gay and lame. I bet they spent twice the budget too on this shit.

Looks gay af.

>>723443069
Dont worry you can look forward to Star Citizen's imminent release

>>723434932
>M8
OI
I remember there are Yuropean or American corporations (presumably) and one obviously Russian (Rosenkov a best), but are there any Australian corps in Mass Effect?

>>723392210
humanity (chinese government) sucks ass, ayys gonna take everything and we will have other ayys nuke our sun out of spite while we make tail to the warp.

>>723399829
The first jeet colony ship will fill with shit and crash into a sun, Vishnu willing.

>>723341672 (OP)
Yo that mech looks SICK.

>>723441246
zesty?

>>723434932
yes, theres some strangely obsolete tech floating around for some reason, but hows that relevant. we got asshole today fawning over record players, of course futurefags would be like "yo this kinetic slug thrower just "feels" right, yo. 9 world wars, brozeth". obviously thats some military general in charge of procurement whose acting just like they do today. "yes we should go backwards and make an expensive awful m14 instead of moving to 6.8 m4's". time is a flat circle