Thread 725071009

N7 Day is almost here bros, think we'll get any new info about the new ME game?

Well maybe

>>725071009 (OP)
Nothing substantial, any ME game in the works is still years away, and with the buyout its future would be in even further jeopardy

>>725071009 (OP)
An anon said they're still in pre-production after all these years, not sure the game will ever come out if that's accurate

Pepperidge farms remembers.

>>725071009 (OP)
No

>>725071009 (OP)
>OP doesn't know about the leaks

>>725073895
fuck you fag

>>725072386
No, akshually he said the original pre-production got scrapped and now they're doing new pre-production. Which means it's not even in development hell. It's in pre-develoment hell.

>>725074356
So it was so bad they scrapped everything? It's fucking over

>>725073895
DONT CLICK ITS KAI LAME

>alliance officer
>council spectre
>bimbo makeup, fuck me heels, hair worn over her eyes

>>725076358
Would've at least been better if her hair was tied up as normal. They really went way too far trying to make her generically hot, especially for a character who's meant to be proper/military focused.

>>725076358
that's the best part! They did it with Edi and Femshep too

>>725076358
Ashley is ugly, sorry bwo

Reminder that the Asari are parasites who were willing to let half the galaxy burn before revealing their illegal cache of technology

>>725077753
Yep, never trust a literal race of blue space whores

>>725077753
that's why i laughed while thessia burned

>>725077753
Yep, screw the Asari, they really have no fucking excuse for holding back the info as long as they did.

It's truly fascinating how lore filled ME1 is. Everything has an explanation and description in the codex. Fucking everything.

I can't believe they're actually doing time travel for the new game lol

>>725080263
They go back and we get a proper Mass Effect 2.

>>725071009 (OP)
It won't be good
>>725072503
PEAK EA

>>725080323
We're going to say goodbye to this whole Reaper business and just explore the galaxy and its prothean ruins, the homeworlds of other races, and shut down space gangs and pirates.

>>725080323
I love ME2 but it really fucked over 3 because it's basically a side quest

>>725080263
Is it? I thought it was just set so far in the future that the dudes from andromeda had made it back to the milky way

>>725080263
I actually really liked the theories I saw on *how"* the time travel was going to be used. Like an non invasive form of time travel. It's been a while since I've watched stuff about it though. I like the idea of it though, and how it can connect Andromeda to the Milky Way. I'm just unsure on bringing back Shepard full fledged.

>>725080675
Yep, 3 could've been way WAY less rushed/full of conveniently huge plot changes like the krogan genophage shit + the quarians retaking homeworld if ME2 had handled those kinds of things as something of a leadup to the reaper war.

ME2 should've been (mostly) preparing galactic defences as much as possible before they arrived.

>>725080695
>Is it?
That's the rumour floating around at least

>>725077753
They probably thought they could fuck the reapers and have peace

In reality, there should have been 4 mass effect games. Have the 3rd be the preparation of the invasion, and the 4th is the actual invasion. You can keep Shepard dying at the start of 2 or even move it to the beginning of 3

I mean nothing is stopping them from just setting a completely separate story during the events of ME1, 2, and 3 and tell interesting plotlines in an established universe and time-frame. The galaxy is fucking huge and a lot of planets have potential beyond being backdrops for shoot-outs.
But since EA and Bioware are completely on fumes and exhaust with their string of failures they HAVE to bring back Shepard and all the old faces. They cannot afford not to.

>>725080924
>>725080838
The scope of the plotline of ME2 makes it feel like it should have been the 1st entry. Think about it, you stop a rare species of aliens from their freak project and kidnapping colonies. Then you get elevated to do proper Spectre work ala 1 and then retroactively get a proper introduction to Reapers. The escalation flows better than having Reapers get pushed to the periphery in 2. Or do the smarter thing overall and drop the reaper plot all together, have it so that without the vanguard + conduit, they don't wake up.
ME2 as we know it accomplished so little that it had ME3 do the heavy lifting of finding a way to stop the Reapers and then also doing it.
If ME2 just shared half the burden of finding a way to stop the reapers then ME3 might have been less fucked.

>>725081139
I like 2 as is because it establishes the Normandy and Shepard as this impossible force that can unite the most uncivilized aspects of the galaxy as well as the best of the cultures. I think it's important to show that the Normandy can go rogue and be the beacon that it would need to be in 3 to unite against the reapers. I like that you go into the bowels of society, in Omega and can still rise to the top and get in the pocket of the leaders, while still manipulating the council to let you do whatever even though you were rebuilt by a human supremacist organization. I love 2, I just wish we didn't have to jump from the adventure of 2 into the universe ending threat in 3 immediately. There NEEDED to be some buffer or prep.

>>725080970
Problem is anything set before ME3 will have the overhanging gloom of "why should I get invested in this when every major character in this game probably dies during the reaper invasion?"

Though I definitely think that Shep should stay gone no matter what, their story is done, simple as that. Given the promotional stuff we've seen so far though, it seems like at least Liara will be making a return, hopefully at least everyone else is dead from old age or just off doing something else.

>>725076358
Miranda already existed and is superior anyway, so I have no idea why they did this

>>725081672
Miranda's just an ass to plow with a bag on her head.
Ash has like, a character arc

>>725071009 (OP)
Make a starfighter game in the MEverse, literally nobody cares about space combat for some reason.

I went back and played ME1 and I gotta say the Mako is definitely overhated.
Sure it's controls were a bit clunky but I had absolutely no problem navigating anywhere on the map once I knew what I was doing.
I used it as a IFV where I ran over the Geth tetrapod and then popped out and killed everyone else.

>>725084121
I think an Alliance pilot would be a great protagonist for ME5.

>>725081448
this is pretty much spot on. 2 is absolutely fine for plot as the middle entry for the overall reaper story. the problem is those fuckers just go through dark space into the galaxy between 2 and 3. it makes no sense. yeah the keepers would've sped up the process but if you can traverse intergalactic travel then who gives a shit. it also implies that they moved right after sovereign was defeated, so it's only a 2 or so year delay. that's nothing to them and the grand scheme of exterminating the entire galaxy. why not just travel regardless? they weren't on some reserve hibernation mode because they instantly started fucking shit up. even shep blowing up the alpha relayed delayed them by a few weeks if at all.

there should've been a more build up for the reapers showing up. maybe spend all of 3 with the illusive man either falling and/or being a more central antagonist depending on your actions in 2 with the collector base. then 4 is the full invasion and consequences of all your choices

>>725071009 (OP)
Played Andromeda, ME1 and ME2 recently. I will start playing ME3 tomorrow. I will write my detailed review after I am done with ME3.

Sneak peak: I played Andromeda expecting a very bad game but I can say I am plesently surprised. Overall, it was a nice game.

>>725071009 (OP)
Just finished the first game, holy shit that endgame. Gonna start 2 sometime later this week.

>>725077753
That whole bit of the story, like almost everything in 3, was so poorly thought out it felt like rough draft material that they were forced to include due to time crunch or something. Like not only did the asari obtain about "countless technological advances" from the beacon while somehow learing nothing about the reapers despite being directly uplifted by the protheans, the illos message and the rasta space nigger hologram but they decided to seal it inside a statue in a public temple instead of an underground bunker that only government personnel and scientists have access to. I hate being so autistic that this shit still bothers me but it was really fucking bad.

>>725071009 (OP)
Just played through 2 again and got platinum trophy by accident. I don't feel very motivated to play 3 again even with the dlc. I wish they didn't rush it so badly.

>>725077753
Something like this and probably worse is happening irl. I bet if weren't so constantly brutally fucked from the moment we spawned in we would have powers like in some anime.

>>725080970
If they hadn't only gotten much worse since it released I'd say they should remake the trilogy.

>>725086384
Doesn't LE already exist?

>>725086486
All it did was change the graphics and add the dlc. They didn't fix the story they fucked up in 3.

>>725086617
Fixing the story would probably mean making a completely new ME3.

>>725086617
people say AHEM mod is pretty good ending wise

>>725080970
they did this with andromeda but you faggots complained nonstop about it

>is the best antagonist in the franchise in your path
Seriously though, the trilogy really suffered from the fact there wasn't a proper concrete villain for the player to go up against throughout each of the main games outside of 1. ME2 was too busy being coy about Harbinger/Collector General to bother making them feel like an actual character, and he had zero presence in 3 to the point you wonder why he was built up at all. The Illusive Man flip-flops throughout 2 on being morally grey or outright villainous, and despite the game's best effort at depicting them otherwise, he and Cereberus come off as incredibly incompetent, having to rely upon Shepard to fix their constant mistakes. They even make a joke about it in the Citadel DLC. Compared to Saren, who was always shown being one-step ahead with numerous resources at his disposal that he actually uses effectively throughout the story.

>>725086780
Beyond horrendous character dialogue, graphics, and terrible characters, Andromeda was fucking boring.
They basically recycled the fucking plotline of the Protheans with the Remnants and they made their villains act like Reapers/Darkspawn by creating shock troops from assimilating other races.

>>725086961
The main problem with ME is that they had no concrete plan, and just made up stuff along the way. That bit them in the ass when developing 3.

I went through the franchise earlier this year and stopped in the middle of 3. I actually think 2 is the worst one now going back. that game is so fucked up in the balance department and with how the skills are distributed it's unbelievable. you spend a vast majority of the game not getting any new skills or even upgrading anything because of how the upgrades are weighted. also the way that biotics are non-functional against shields is fucking ridiculous. they knew that shit was OP in 1 but man what a horrible overcorrection.

>>725086961
>ME2 was too busy being coy about Harbinger/Collector General to bother making them feel like an actual character,
And the collectors themselves were silent, boring jobbers who were only in 3 missions. I found it funny that the writers tried to treat them being protheans as some big revelation when it adds literally nothing to the story
>oh my god...the giant murder machines who turn people into mindless zombie slaves....turned the last species they murdered....into.....mindless...zombie...slaves? AAAAAAAA HELP ME VORCHAMAN I'M BECOMING INDOOOOOCTRINATED

>>725087237
EA's grubby hands demanding that too much player choice was too confusing to the average player like Dean Takahashi who was so fucking stupid that he played ME1 without distributing a single skill point.

>>725086994
I'd say Andromeda characters have much better arc and overall progression compared to most ME1-2 characters.

Krogan, the new race guy, asari archeologist or whatever are all interesting characters with nice arcs/developments.

Sure, the game rehashed the prothean/reaper plot points but the game also did the first contact very well. I really liked how you weren't able to understand most of the shit they were talking about but as the game progressed with the help of your AI they became intelligible. The fish race being very suspicious towards you was a nice touch. Their overall race is pretty good as being overly emotional. Them not understanding your idioms and being puzzled by them is how I would imagine a first contact with an alien race would actually happen.

The planet exploration is 5000x better than what ME1 and 2 did with neat little side quests. Dialogue is not that bad, comparing to ME1 and 2 as well. Hell, I can even say ME1 has more plot holes and pretty much nonexistent dialogue compared to Andromeda. ME2's overall plot is very thin and the game is held up with a great cyberpunk aesthetic starting hub zone (Omega) and 2 very memorable characters (Mordin and Legion). ME1 is liked because it did the world building well and it had a very memorable main villian, but also had a lot of plot holes. ME2 is liked... because idk why? It is not a bad game, I just don't understand what's great about it. Andromeda did world building as good as ME1 imho and doesn't have as much plot holes, but it lacked a good villian.

Was Andromeda a great game? No, but after playing ME1 and 2 recently right after Andromeda, I would say they are pretty much on the same level.

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>>725086994
>>725087740
Peebee without the ugly black strip across her eyes is actually pretty fucking fine, don't know what they were thinking

>>725088048
There is still the issue of her obnoxious personality and stupid ass dialog.

>>725088106
That's the character arc of her, she starts as obnoxious and very annoying, but as the game progresses she grows up, becomes much more mature, starts to understand the overall danger etc., something most original ME characters don't go through.

>>725072386
the thing with woke devs is that they are incredibly lazy on top being bafflingly incompetet