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exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Twist And Pout! posted:

mass effect is dead. the next mass effect game with be a f2p clash of clans clone to cash in on nostalgia with as little effort as possible. EA has learned its lesson and will employ no more than 5 interns to work on the next game to ensure profitability

Hell, I'm glad of it.

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Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 hours!

exquisite tea posted:

I think Andromeda has shown that wishy washy attempts to divorce the series from the ending of ME3 suck total rear end and if there's ever a new Mass Effect game the writers should have the confidence and intellect to pick an ending or move forward with some combination of the two (excluding Synthesis which everyone knows is terrible).
No way, I'm putting all my skill points into Joker's Hat.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

exquisite tea posted:

Hell, I'm glad of it.

Same. The series is over, well done. Go make a new sci-fi setting.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Cythereal posted:

Same. The series is over, well done. Go make a new sci-fi setting.

Space Wars

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'

exquisite tea posted:

I think Andromeda has shown that wishy washy attempts to divorce the series from the ending of ME3 suck total rear end and if there's ever a new Mass Effect game the writers should have the confidence and intellect to pick an ending or move forward with some combination of the two (excluding Synthesis which everyone knows is terrible).

no, let it die

as much as a part of me would like some kind of reboot of ME But Improved, leave it in the grave. it's where it should have stayed after ME3.

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

im listening..

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


I want more mass effect, unless it’s going to be bad, then I don’t

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"
The problem with any attempt at another Mass Effect game in the near future is it would almost certainly be helmed by Mac Walters (presuming he wasn't shuffled into a constructive-dismissal make-work position with the rest of the non-cherry-picked members of Bioware Montreal). That's a prospect nobody wants.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


All major sci-fi franchise sequels this year were huge letdowns for me, yet all new sci-fi properties were extremely good. Maybe Luke Shepard was right. Maybe it truly is time for the Mass Effects, to end.

Twist And Pout!
Sep 3, 2011
a mass effect Sims clone where you design your own ship and buy clothing and decoration lootboxes for your MEs. pronounced "mees"

when your MEs have sex it zooms into a choose your own adventure softcore porn minigame, if you last a long time you get credits to spend on lootboxes

you can pay RL money for replay tickets, allowing you to bang your subordinates more than once a day

coming in 2019

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

Twist And Pout! posted:

a mass effect Sims clone where you design your own ship and buy clothing and decoration lootboxes for your MEs. pronounced "mees"

when your MEs have sex it zooms into a choose your own adventure softcore porn minigame, if you last a long time you get credits to spend on lootboxes

you can pay RL money for replay tickets, allowing you to bang your subordinates more than once a day

coming in 2019

only if you call the sequel #MEstoo

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?
I'd just retcon it so Sovereign's failure on the Citadel results in the Reapers forgetting about our galaxy for another couple millennia.

Shepard's space adventures continue, and she lived happily ever after.

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Rinkles posted:

I'd just retcon it so Sovereign's failure on the Citadel results in the Reapers forgetting about our galaxy for another couple millennia.

Shepard's space adventures continue, and she lived happily ever after.

By mysterious coincidence, the events of ME2 transpire almost identically, just for different reasons. (Cause I don't want Shepard missing out on her ME2 buds)

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.

Rinkles posted:

I'd just retcon it so Sovereign's failure on the Citadel results in the Reapers forgetting about our galaxy for another couple millennia.

Shepard's space adventures continue, and she lived happily ever after.

That sucks rear end

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene
I’m glad ME3s ending killed the IP, it deserved nothing less

Professor Beetus
Apr 12, 2007

They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus

No, Space Trek.

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

You choose a color at the start of Mass Effect 4

- Red nothing happens, there's a line about how they rebuilt
- Blue there's a line about how the Reapers rebuilt stuff then self destructed
- Green you're asked to pick again. If you pick Green again there's a green filter over the whole game

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
I want a new ME game where I get to play a Krogan and my Renegade move is a headbutt. Headbutt your boss, reporters, your crew, geth... headbutt everything.

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Dick Trauma posted:

I want a new ME game where I get to play a Krogan and my Renegade move is a headbutt. Headbutt your boss, reporters, your crew, geth... headbutt everything.

quote:

The plot of ME:A should have been the human ark showing up, then Ryder looks up and sees the Krogan ark cutting the human one off then you play as a Krogan and you and your squad of angry frogmen headbutt your way to prosperity. Dialogue options include headbutting, punching, shouting, and shooting.

...

Just imagine it, instead of the Not Mako you could drive that giant truck-thing from ME2 and 3 on Tuchanka. The plot could be about who's angrier and dumber, the new alien invaders, the hostile new worlds, or you. Tensions could appear from not being in Council space so shut the gently caress up, turian diplomat, we're going to do what we want and use all the cool weapons you said were probably war crimes, and resolved by either agreeing with the krogans or punching the diplomat and then agreeing with the krogans (the "paragon" option).

hire me bioware

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 hours!

exquisite tea posted:

All major sci-fi franchise sequels this year were huge letdowns for me, yet all new sci-fi properties were extremely good. Maybe Luke Shepard was right. Maybe it truly is time for the Mass Effects, to end.

I'm so tired of all these mass effects.

Burkion
May 10, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Dick Trauma posted:

I want a new ME game where I get to play a Krogan and my Renegade move is a headbutt. Headbutt your boss, reporters, your crew, geth... headbutt everything.

The Paragon move is also headbutt

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene
It’s actually Quadagon in ME:Krogan

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

The big moral choice at the end of ME:Krogan is whether to screw over the Krogran ark for some nebulous and contrived reason to help all arks survive or to decide to gently caress everyone else over for only the Krogan's gain. The first option is permanently greyed out.

Thor-Stryker
Nov 11, 2005

RBA Starblade posted:

The big moral choice at the end of ME:Krogan is whether to screw over the Krogran ark for some nebulous and contrived reason to help all arks survive or to decide to gently caress everyone else over for only the Krogan's gain. The first option is permanently greyed out.

Bioware'd that for you.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy
The Green ending just means there's an extra line about how awesome nanotechnology is now but no effective gameplay changes because they effectively had nanotechnology before anyway.

Sometimes when you get mad they say "uh oh, green eyes mad!" But it doesn't effectively change anything.

The Engineers and Infiltrators get green eyes and the Sentinels wear cool shades so you can't tell what's up with them, man, maybe they've been smoking the green.

im cute
Sep 21, 2009

Twist And Pout! posted:

mass effect is dead. the next mass effect game with be a f2p clash of clans clone to cash in on nostalgia with as little effort as possible. EA has learned its lesson and will employ no more than 5 interns to work on the next game to ensure profitability

Hmm... I have also played Heroes of Dragon Age.

ashpanash
Apr 9, 2008

I can see when you are lying.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

The Green ending just means there's an extra line about how awesome nanotechnology is now but no effective gameplay changes because they effectively had nanotechnology before anyway.

You're forgetting about the sentient hats. Because synthetic apparently means 'looks like a printed circuit board' in Mass Effect land.

I agree, Let it die. I still wanted Mass Effect after 3 because I thought the universe might be salvageable. Now I think that even if they manage to make a good game or two, some franchises (I'm looking at you, Star Wars) are better served by just ending instead of going on forever. Bring on the new poo poo. Give me more Horizon, plug that poo poo into my veins.

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene
I still can’t believe they also hosed up the MP lol

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


MP wasn't that bad

Burkion
May 10, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Ainsley McTree posted:

MP wasn't that bad

It wasn't as good though is the problem.

Especially if you played out the gate. They did A LOT to fix it.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Moola posted:

im listening..

Halo Wars but Mass Effect.

I would buy it.

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

Ainsley McTree posted:

MP wasn't that bad

it is still a shadow of ME3 MP

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


Moola posted:

it is still a shadow of ME3 MP

That’s true

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug
ME3 MP was better than it had any right to be. I remember a lot of people (myself included) expected it to be a cheap cash in.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Did Andromeda ever fix bioware's issue of being incapable of writing a player character who actually sounded smart? I know Hale and Meer put their damndest into their voice performances for Shepard, but the underlying dialogue they are given just isn't that good. They make it authentic though, no denying that. I've been looking at other Bioware titles and with the exception of origin specific dialogue options indra gin Age Origins, every Bioware protagonist has come off as an over eager yet entirely naive and ignorant doofus.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJHaYVL1ZXk

chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



Arcsquad12 posted:

Did Andromeda ever fix bioware's issue of being incapable of writing a player character who actually sounded smart? I know Hale and Meer put their damndest into their voice performances for Shepard, but the underlying dialogue they are given just isn't that good. They make it authentic though, no denying that. I've been looking at other Bioware titles and with the exception of origin specific dialogue options indra gin Age Origins, every Bioware protagonist has come off as an over eager yet entirely naive and ignorant doofus.

I'd say Shepard's a mixed bag. There was definitely an effort with some of the "Tell me about X" lines to have it sound like Shep knew what the hell she was talking about and was just trying to make sure that everyone was on the same page.

On the other hand, there were also scenes like with the council in ME1 where no matter what you picked Shepard sounded like a crazy person.

Ryder does not have the highlights.

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'

Arcsquad12 posted:

Did Andromeda ever fix bioware's issue of being incapable of writing a player character who actually sounded smart? I know Hale and Meer put their damndest into their voice performances for Shepard, but the underlying dialogue they are given just isn't that good. They make it authentic though, no denying that. I've been looking at other Bioware titles and with the exception of origin specific dialogue options indra gin Age Origins, every Bioware protagonist has come off as an over eager yet entirely naive and ignorant doofus.

Well, I mean, they need to get all that exposition across somehow...

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

Milky Moor posted:

Well, I mean, they need to get all that exposition across somehow...

The Codex was fine.

Reading is FUNdamental!

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Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

The Codex was fine.

Reading is FUNdamental!

Yeah, I read the poo poo out of the Codex in the first game.

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