And now we can hope they gameplay will be more like ME1 and less like the crap that was ME 2 and 3.
>>333417621
I want to be able to explore planets again, no more of this scanning shit.
>>333417621
>BEGGING FOR SHIT GAMEPLAY
JUST
Nigga, ME1 gameplay was horrible. The only good thing about it were the grenades and they're on ME3.
>>333417621
isn't Andromeda pretty much confirmed to be shit at this point? Plenty of people left the project and it's now in the hands of young and hip feminist trend-setters and beta cuck males.
>>333417621
How can they even continue the series? Kinda wrapped it up. Unless it's going to be some bullshit "biggerer and betterer" version of the Reapers that even the Reapers are afraid of.
Combat and storytelling quality were inversely proportional in the original trilogy. If ME3 did anything right, it was the combat, as proven by the surprisingly excellent Horde mode. Keep the combat the same. Give us weapon and armor mods similar to ME, though, as well as exploration
>>333418273
no, in andromeda you're the bad guys
also I imagine it would be set before the events of me1 through 3, because otherwise it would just be stupid
>>333418458
>because otherwise it would just be stupid
Why?
Why can't it be set after ME3 with a different story?
>>333418635
W-what about the synthesis ending?
>>333418635
Because it is easier to push the Reset Button than to build upon the already existing lore.
I like ME3's gameplay
just the story is so bad
>>333418112
Don't forget the curry niggers
>>333418724
Sry I am colourblind, care to elaborate? ;)
>>333417709
You should be in luck. Leaks show that the Mako is coming back, as is a Jetpack
>>333418724
Well only one of those endings happened and I guess it is up to Bioware to decide which one. I'm guessing they wont choose the synthesis one though.
>>333418779
And what evidence do you have that they aren't doing something new? They already have the universe set up and all they need to do is add to the lore they have already created.
ME3 gameplay was good.
>>333417621
Why is her pose so sexualized? It's very problematic and I am NOT comfortable with it.
>>333417621
I hope you can play as pansexual antro furry
>>333419045
Good, I hated how they took away the exploration of other planets away in 2 and 3 and replaced it with that scanning bullshit.
They reworked the cover system, its hard to explain but it's more freeform. You can move to a cover point and you'll automatically take cover, but your character doesnt feel like they're magnetically attached to it.Mind you this was from a years old playtest and I have nothing to prove myself other than my word
>>333419225
so mgs V style? The over in ME 3 was their smallest issue if you ask me.
>>333418962
Designated shitting planets confirmed.
>>333418962
killed my hope for this game.
>>333419057
Setting up the next game in an other galaxy right when last game brought a massive backlash from the community due to the shitty ending screams ''WE'RE TOO AFRAID TO TOUCH THE MILKY WAY, LET'S PRETEND LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED''. Kinda like lying by omission
Nah, son.
I hope ME:A has Mass Effect 3 combat with the world, story, and RPG elements of 1.
Playing a Vanguard in ME3 was one of the only good parts. I don't want that to go away.
>>333417621
I hope they extent exclusiveness to muslims.
A first person view would be a nice addition, would add a lot to the combat.
>>333419515
They said they want to go back to more RPG elements like 1 that got lost in the sequels but who knows how that will turn out.
>>333419515
prepare for a subpar FPS with gay consequences
>>333419503
>in an other galaxy
I never said in another galaxy, it could be set in the same on decades or even a couple of hundred years after 3.
>>333419797
Its called andromeda of course it's another galaxy you retard
>>333417621
Is there any reason to believe that this game won't be total garbage?
The gameplay in ME1 was one of its major complaints. ME3s gameplay was great, esspecially since they removed class-exclusive weapons.
Still I felt it was also really easy. Insanity was a fucking breeze in 3 compared to 1/2.maybe because I played so much multiplayer
>>333419503
I think you're right about the reasoning but... from a story perspective, how can they keep it going? A different galaxy also has reapers, and now they gotta find a way to stop them? Will it even have reapers? If not, is it even Mass Effect? Or is it going to be some Star Wars bullshit where the reapers in Andromeda galaxy are 10x the size?
Even though the endings in ME3 sucked, storywise they did a great job of completely eliminating the threat and bringing some measure of peace. Only bullshit can come from this entire thing.
>>333420235
The reapers only effected the galaxy after they became too advanced and made too intelligent robots and shit
If it's a prequel in andromeda and they aren't advanced enough to warrant reaper intervention then they won't be there
Simple as that
>>333419892
>the andromeda strain is set in another galaxy
So I'm guessing they're just going to leave out some of the races since you can wipe a few of them out in 3.
Pretty lame. I wanted another geth or batarian squadmate.
>>333420362
The game is literally 100% confirmed to take place in the Andromeda galaxy you fucking retard
>>333419797
Returning to my Reset Button. They won't make a new ME game set within the Milky Way because it has gotten to big for them. The weight of the story is too much for their lazy ass to handle. It is just easier to ignore our galaxy and guess what? They did.
I think you are giving Bioware too much credit here.
>>333420235
Don't expect reapers. It's gonna an other ''AN ANCIENT EVIL AWAKENS AND YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE TO DEFEAT IT''. Fuck, they pretty much spelled it out in the first leaks.
>>333420362
Andromeda is a galaxy you fuckwit
>>333420585
Do you ever stop shitposting? Because at the moment that is all you are doing.
No one knows anything about the game yet.
Will EA kill Bioware after this game bombs? I'm getting tired of waiting for their shutdown.
>>333420386
I'm gonna be bold and say that this will set in a parallel universe
>>333418458
>implying we will be the bad guys other then the first few missions and then it will be revealed that the ones the sent you are the real bad guys and then you will form a resistance with the aliens.
We aren't gonna be invading colonists. We're gonna be refugees. Expect a #refugeeswelcome type propaganda shoved down your throats.
>>333420359
>Simple as that
Not really. Without the reapers, it's no longer Mass Effect. It's just some space shooter with Mass Effect stickers on it. The entire story is about the reapers and how civilization deals with it.
>>333420625
Doesn't mean the game is set in Andromeda.
It could be about a threat from Andromeda, could be that the Milky Way is at war with Andromeda.
Who the fuck knows? We will find out soon though i'm sure.
It's just going to turn into Pocahontas: Check your Privileged Effect. Except the writers are so shit it'll be a complete rip of Avatar: Blue In Loo Effect.
It's going to bomb.
I can't wait till it releases and there being a sizable percentage of people genuinely liking it, and then another chunk entering the Zelda Cycle and saying ME1-3 were literally perfect but Andromeda is just soulless and not as good as the original trilogy, while the sizable group of individuals who did not follow the /v/ autism train of hating ME3 come out in defense of all 4 games.
It will be an even bigger fracture of /v/ than if Trump and Sanders both run independent while Hillary runs as the Dem candidate and we have a four-way presidential running would split American voters.
2 and 3 were the best 1 had the worst gameplay fuck off.
And if anything its going to be shit since Bioware is full SJW now. Expect more gay romances instead of actual straight ones.
>>333421123
>You’ll be exploring an all-new galaxy, Andromeda, and piloting the new and improved Mako you saw
http://blog.bioware.com/2015/06/15/introducing-mass-effect-andromeda/
Stop being so fucking retarded.
>>333421123
>Bioware: the game is set in the Andromeda galaxy
>retarded anon on /v/ who hasn't followed any of the news: BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S *IN* ANDROMEDA GALAXY
MUST BE A KOJIMA RUISE
>>333421065
>Without the reapers, it's no longer Mass Effect.
Of course it is as long as it is set after 3 and they acknowledge the events of the previous games.
It doesn't have to be about the same thing all over again.
We had three games all about the Reapers, we don't need another.
>>333421274
>gays less than 5 percent of the population
>every single follower happens to be a faggot on the side
>>333421356
>We had three games all about the Reapers, we don't need another.
I completely agree. I just think the series is done and they need to move on to new ideas.
>>333421771
They're already working on some new IP
>>/pol/
>>333421356
inb4 a reaper is revived and sides with the native aliens and it turns out he's a good reaper protecting those poor aliens from foreign invasion and the entire narrative of the game ends with "white people in space are literal Satans, even the reapers protect species from you >:("
>>333417790
Global cooldowns really fucked the game over.
Upon replaying ME1 and ME2, I think ME1 had much better combat even if it was clunky, because your powers actually had some thought behind them instead of just spamming whatever did the most damage.
ME1 had fucking awful gameplay. Yeah ME2/3 was casual but at least it was functional and fun.
You need the customization from 1 with the gunplay from 2/3.
>>333418962
He sure loves cum, doesn't he?
it's going to be a destiny/division clone
>>333421907
oops meant for >>333420960
>>333417621
Did people legitimately like the game-play from ME1? Say what you will about the shootan elements of 2 and 3, but nothing could be as bad as the boring shit from 1.
>thought the leviathan dlc was legitimately interesting and had fantastic atmosphere
>want to know more about them since they lived for so fucking long and have crazy powers
>bioware will forget they ever existed because of how shit the ending was and their relation to it
Shame.
>>333417621
Give me the biotic combat from ME1 and we'll be good
>>333421771
>I just think the series is done and they need to move on to new ideas.
But they are, it carries the Mass Effect name but it is with a whole different story and set of characters.
I don't mind that. If they brought back Shepard and all the old crew and made it all about Reapers again then it would be a problem.
I think Andromeda will be enough of a new game to stand apart from the old games whilst still retaining what makes Mass Effect, Mass Effect.
>>333422150
Adept was a blast. You really were a space wizard, levitating entire rooms and sending everything flying.
I agree 2 and 3 have vastly superior combat but the biotic stuff is way more underwhelming than in the first one.
>>333417621
>And now we can hope they gameplay will be more like ME1 and less like the crap that was ME 2 and 3.
Would not matter to me if the game did. Modern Bioware is to never be trusted while under EA. The franchise is damaged goods. There is no correcting this ship.
ME1 gameplay was utter bullshit and ME2 and 3 actually fixed it.
ME1 didn't decide whether it wants to be a cover shooter or a classic RPG and so it was stuck in the middle. Shooting was boring and biotics were extremely overpowered. One singularity was extremely overpowered, two singularities were basically press-button-to-win. And that's just one of biotics powers of which all physics/ragdoll-based were completely out of whack.
ME2 took a step in the right direction in that it balanced things out, but was kind of bland. And then came ME3 which finally nailed it. I don't know which class you played and I don't know how boring the rest are -- but playing Vanguard in ME3 is pure joy. Sure, it was a bit overpowered, but actually enjoyable since it required input unlike ME1's press-singularity-to-win.
Sick and tired of this ME1 gameplay meme. Actually, the only really good thing about ME1 was it's sober art style in comparison to the more comic book exaggerations of the other games. Nothing really stands out about ME1. The story isn't that good (when it went full retard in ME2 and ME3, it was at least ridiculous and therefore entertaining in a cheesy way), and the dialogue and crew interactions only flourished with ME2.
Also never forget the mind numbingly boring vehicle exploration sessions.
>>333417621
I don't give a shit aslong as the Co-op is good
ME3's co-op was a diamond in the rough
Bioware confirmed that the game takes place in the Andromeda galaxy, and thr characters are on a generation ship that came from Milky Way to colonize.
>>333417621
So is this going to be single-player or will it dip its toes in the pseudo-MMO loot treadmill ala Detsiny/Warframe/Division? Because I'll be honest, if this has co-op, I will be VERY interested.
i really miss when EA paid posters used to shill here
now that andromeda is coming im excited to have them with us again
>>333422571
I hope they don't remove some of the alien classes since some of the old races might not make an appearance in the main game.
I'll be kinda pissed if I can't play as a geth juggernaut or vorcha flamer in the mp.
I just wonder how much tumblr leftists cuck propaganda will be in this installment of Fag Effect. It probably won't even give you the option to play as a white male.
>>333422498
>There is no correcting this ship
Making an Asari harem & breeding game could help smooth things over though
>>333420794
they would have allrdy shut down if stupid niggers stopped buying madden and Fifa every year.
>>333423315
swtor is a pretty big success so Bioware is here to stay
Will they include space battles this time?
I feel they missed out on a good opportunity for some large scale battleship fights. Some BSG style space battles would be awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBgjS_xQWXM
>>333417621
Fucking dream on, 4 will be the worst and most casualized game in the series
Only me1 was good and not even very good, shit by today's standards, very limited choices, very very small world and only lasts 8 hours. Yeah infact the ful series is garbage.
![429ba50fb41ace72f0674e59865a96f1[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/qAmIIEP.png "429ba50fb41ace72f0674e59865a96f1[1].png")
>>333417621
But the gameplay in Mass Effect 1 was terrible.
>>333423392
When you literally spell out how space combat works in the first game and then you trample all over it in the second and third, you kind of want to minimize shitting on your own words.
>>333423375
not big enough to hold up EA though. EA would still fall and someone else would just buy bioware.
>>333420168
You know there was a mod to take off class-exclusive weapons in ME2?
>Even caring after ME3 retroactively ruined the series
>>333423672
I just want epic space battles anon. And I think Mass Effect Andromeda would be a good game to make it happen.
>>333423872
Something has to be good in the first place to be ruined.
>>333421940
Biotics are at least not total dogshit in 1. Who's great idea was it for every enemy in the game to be immune to all powers unless they were almost dead?
>>333423943
Mass Effect 1 was fantastic. The shooting was wonky but the story, lore and characters were amazing.
>>333424001
>Who's great idea was it for every enemy in the game to be immune to all powers unless they were almost dead?
That was a huge issue too. They became essentially useless on any difficulty setting above normal because by the time the enemy is at their own health, they are dead.
The only good power was throw because, again, you could spam that shit like crazy.
>>333423662
Sorry it wasn't a generic third person shooter like 2 and 3
>>333417621
It will probably be shit. I may buy it used in a couple years for $10. I haven't bought a Bioware game at full price in a long time.
I liked the first game. 2 was alright. 3 was ass. If they just keep getting worse I can only assume this one will be complete garbage or unplayable.
Tali is pretty great though.
>>333422564
Neo-/v/ isn't real they said.
>>333418962
Oh well. This made me not even wanting to pirate the game, even if it was possible..
Fucking brown manbabies and their insecurities.
>>333418962
Dropped.
>>333417621
I'm not buying it because they hired a degenerate to play a major part in the game's development that will affect the overall quality of the game.
Same reason I didn't buy Anthony Burch's Cucklands games, didn't even get the free copy they gave away on xbox.
>>333424250
Yet 2 and 3's gameplay were much better.
>>333424250
nice argument
>>333424458
this. I loved the gameplay in 3. Special when you used your Omni blade as soldier.
>>333424325
Good rebuttal. High five my fellow college freshman.
>>333424458
Agreed, but everything else went down the shitter and marked the end of Bioware as a good developer.
>mass effect 3 was a bad game
When will this meme end?
Yeah the whole ending thing was shit but the rest of it was good.
>>333424395
Which degenerate?
>>333424629
Can you give some example?
>>333424793
The third games ending is my only real example, sorry.
>>333424723
Some insecure indian
>>333418962
1, 2 and 3 were largely the same. All they did was refine the combat and streamline things.
There were no real major differences separating them.
>>333425206
He's been there since before 3 came out and works on gameplay, one of the only things 3 was okay at.
>>333418962
>bitches about white superiority while living in prosperous white country
>comes from society with literal castes
i can't take much more
jesus fuck
I just want to be a space archeologist, exploring planets and the ruins of ancient civilizations with my bros
>>333425596
Reminder they replaced planet exploration for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnImYYAwjD0
>>333417621
Are you legit retarded? Stop doing the /v/ shit were you retroactively make things bad. ME3 had the best gameplay by a landslide, with level up choices that mattered. It beat out ME2's gameplay and is leaps and bounds better than the garbage gameplay of ME1.
Don't be a retard.
>>333425093
I agree that the ending in 3 was not great but I'm honestly surprised when people say that they think that Mass Effect 1 was the best game in the series.
Mass Effect 1 was awesome in the first playthrough but when you play it for a second time you will find some game downers(Biggest problem was the pacing of the whole game).
>>333425757
Both were boring as hell.
I enjoyedall three games, each better than the last
>>333417621
I just want the armor system back.
All the ones from 2 and 3 sucked.
>>333426126
Yeah man, I love recolors.
>>333422571
Loved the online in ME3. Very well done, other some things in the last DLC being over powered i felt it was balanced nicely. If they add in a not random way to unlock classes like in Dragon Age it would be near perfect
>>333424668
>"Does this unit have a soul?"
no, it really wasn't
>>333424723
The degenerates that shoe horn in needless shit like Manveer Heir did, he WANTS more people who aren't white just to make up the numbers, more trannies, more obscure social corners, more gay/bi/trans/attackhelicopter/queer/androgynous NPCs and more needless bullshit.
People don't play games to have social non issues pushed in their face, I don't care if someone is gay, I don't care if someone has a mental illness that makes them want to mutilate their genitals, but when its being made into a focal point in games, I don't want to see it.
I didn't buy Cucklands because Anthony Burch is a cuck and a SJW, I didn't want to spend any time playing a competent shooter (not his doing) based upon endless pop culture references (google is your friend).
I won't buy Mass Effect: SJW because I don't want to spend my time playing a game making me pay attention to people's issues who I couldn't give half a fuck about.
You know that there will be trans/gay/whatever characters, and their personality will be based on that, their loyalty missions will reference them, the outcomes will reference them.
Don't get me wrong, if there are gay choices or whatever, I don't care, I won't be choosing them. But if I have to see some Tranny Salarian whining that he can't make HRT pills on the Normandy (or whatever they call the new ship) and crying that he got misgendered just to progress in the game, I won't even bother watching a game play trailer.
>>333426464
edit: forgot to mention that planescape is fuckin great though that really updates my journal
>>333426298
And I love DLC armor that gives a 5% increase in health
>>333426126
Another dumb fucking idiot. Seriously? You miss the three arbitrary ranks of armor with 3 models a pop and endless recolors? Nothing but a meaningless numbers game and zero real customization?
>>333426126
I want the armor system of 1 with the variety of 2 and 3 (especially 3)
>>333419515
ME1's character development was already barebones as fuck, a soldier from XCOM has more speccing options from him.
Also, I played Vanguard in all three games andI preferred ME1's 'CQC specialist with freaky but not too OP psychic powers' portrayal over the superhero shit in ME2/3. ME3 made it even worse by reducing the cooldown on Charge to like 4 seconds.That unique Vanguard attacks was satisfying as fuck, though.
>>333426547
what is this post, autism?
you can't be me, i've never played any of the infinity engine games
so I guess you liked femkrogan saving her race by eradicating toxic masculinity as well?
>>333426642
What I miss is that Bioware tried too hard to make the armor unique and not give us a choice at all.
>>333422752
It will dip its toes into the
>play this iPad tie-in for global resources on the world map missions
vat of bubbling shit.
An ME3-style multiplayer with lots of unlockable / purchasable classes is still highly likely, though.
>>333426409
I liked the way it was, imagine how broken the game would be if all could unlock the big fucking prime whenever they wanted
>>333418061
Protective Cup
But if you wanna see krogan junk bulging out of his suit I won't argue with you.
>>333425595
Facts and consistency don't matter to progressives. They're essentially following a religion at this point.
Mass Effect 3 was garbage in every single way. The laughable plot, the shitty cameos, the forced-nostalgia where they try and shoe-horn in literally everyone you've seen in the last 3 games despite doing shit in wildly different parts of the galaxy. With every game they seemed to rewrite the previous game's lore in multiple areas as they 'refined' the gameplay by cutting down skills, removing sub-class specialties, and further and further reducing it into a TPS instead of a TPRPS.
There are a total of two lines of abrasive dialogue between Tali and Liara in ME3 if you romanced Liara in 1 and then Tali in 2. I can only imagine they added 2 lines between other possible romances or none at all. Nothing felt right. Everyone sounds bored and tired except a handful of true professionals (Carie Anne-Moss as Aria, Mordin's couple of paragraphs of dialogue, etc..) and if you needed any evidence of game reviewers and game companies being tied too close, don't forget Jessica Chobot was a war asset and NPC.
Large, important plot points that end up being stupid at the end anyways were locked behind DLC. See: Leviathan, Javik. Javik is a Prothean and a heavy amount of ME lore revolves around the Protheans and their fight against the reapers. So of course the logical thing to do is make him optional DLC and ONLY talk about characters he's never met by reading their memories off of the ship hull.
And the Citadel DLC. Holy fucking shit the Citadel LC. ME3 was already bare-bones and lifeless as it was, and then they try and inject some 'fun' into it in the worst way possible that is immersion breaking, tone breaking, poorly contrived garbage written by people who were clearly in a perpetual state of arousal.
ME3 was trash.
>>333428073
>The laughable plot
You mean the same plot that was in the previous games?
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET ME ROMANCE A QT TURIAN GIRL
>>333418962
DESIGNATED
>>333428073
I liked the Citadel DLC, despite it clearly being written by someone who writes fanfiction. It's at least an attempt at giving the side characters a proper send off.
>the forced-nostalgia
this is spot on though
1/3rd of that game is melodramatic garbage, the other 2/3rds are "hey remember how much you guys liked ME2? man that was such a good game huh!?"
Did they get a new voice actor for Wrex in 3? I remember noticing him sounding a lot different.
>>333428461
Never ever. I wonder if they'll let you pick from whatever new species you'll met.
>>333428269
Mass Effect 1:
An epic beginning tale of humanity finding its place within the galactic order of things. Untrusted and untested, you alone must deduce the motivations of a rogue fellow SPECTRE agent, all the while finding hints and clues to an ancient galactic force that will destroy the galaxy. Why are they doing these things? How often has this happened? How will humanity be seen in the eyes of the galaxy? It rests on you.
Mass Effect 2: You die and your experimental and very valuable cruiser is blown the fuck up by technology that will become common place in six months. You should be dead and stay dead but you are magically resurrected using cyber-tech by a corporation that murdered your C.O and does biological terrorism on human colonies. You work for Timmy to go around and find out things that Tim already knows but doesn't tell you. He's actually working for the people he wants you to kill, who are also working for the Reapers for reasons.
They're making a Terminator and you must kill the terminator. Before you kill the Terminator you must help a bunch of strangers who are all utterly whiny fucks despite being the top 1% of their fields. You will help them solve their personal family problems because this gives them depth, right?
At the end of Mass Effect 2 you realize one important thing: Absolutely nothing you've done has impeded the Reapers in any way. You haven't demonstrated to the council or anyone else that Reapers exist. No one takes the dozens of eye-witness accounts, testimony, or vid records of your interactions with the Reapers and all you've done is solve a few people's personal problems and shoot a couple of things.
By the start of Mass Effect 3 the galaxy discovers what we've known all along: The Reapers are coming. Everyone is so surprised. They attack earth first for no reason. Reaper invasions now consist of them landing and puking lasers. So scary.
Have you seen the writing credits between games? It is not the same plot.
>>333418061
>He doesn't know what a support cup is
Ah, you must of been one of those lazy fat kids who never played a sport.
>>333417621
Its still gonna be the hallway shooter with the pretty background
HALLWAY
CORRIDOR
You going from point A to point B and walls restrict your movement in all directions other than B and A. Sometimes even the way back is blocked and the script, music, tension of danger and companions push you to go forward so fast that you couldn't look around to see how shitty textures around you.
How will they incorporate the endings of 3 into Andromeda?
One of the endings literally turns all organics into cyborgs.
I don't know if they'll make any references to this, because there will be a few fans that picked the Synthesis ending who'll probably be wondering why the Humans and Krogans don't have glowing eyes shit.
>>333422571
C-can I get that Quarian pose without that icon blocking it?
Is she grabbing her tit?
>>333429068
>It is not the same plot.
Reapers are coming to destroy the universe.
There are three stages
1. The revelation
2. Trying to convince everyone it is happening
3. Time to stop the Reapers cause they are on the way
i can't wait for SJW bullshit in this game to shitpost about on /v whole day.
>>333428852
Nah but they got a new VA for Mordin in 3
>>333429157
Doubtful that it'll have anything about ME3's ending. You'll get shipped off in the colony ship before then so Bioware won't have to touch upon it.
>>333426481
Honestly I don't even care about tranny characters as long as they aren't there to preach some bullshit statement.
The last AssCreed game had a tranny in it and while it seemed completely stupid and pointless to me, there wasn't any sort of ideological message being pushed, so beyond my initial eyeroll I didn't care.
>>333426481
>he WANTS more people who aren't white just to make up the numbers, more trannies, more obscure social corners, more gay/bi/trans/attackhelicopter/queer/androgynous NPCs and more needless bullshit.
I really despise this shit and it has no place in storytelling unless it's actually pivotal to the story being told. If you're story isn't about the issues then there is no reason to even bring it up beyond a casual mention. Because the characters should be too busy saving the universe and getting important shit done to be talking about all this nonsense.
Also, it's not American game developers job to depict the nationalities and cultures of the world or obscure hipster bullshit. Japanese games typically feature Japanese leads. Chinese games feature Chinese leads. Korean games feature Korean leads. American games should reflect our demographics which means the majority of the cast should be WHITE because 70% of our nation is WHITE.
>>333429371
In Mass Effect 2 you convince precisely no one that anything is happening. You are working for a corporation that openly engages in terrorism and yet still dominates enough markets to continue making heaps of cash, despite the fact everyone knows they're terrorists.
They make a ship that's biggerer and betterer than a ship that took years of Alliance-Turian Engineers and scientists to put together in the span of a year. It's twice as big in every way. They hand you all this shit for one reason: Go out and explore some colonies and tell me what's up. Half of the game is picking your 'crack team' and the other half is solving their personal problems. At the end, you fight a terminator and fly away. They tell you over and over again that Cerberus Corporation blew a significant chunk of their assets on resurrecting you and creating that ship, and supplying you with everything you need to go and explore the colonies TIM has already seen and fight entities he already knows about. The entire game is confirming Cerberus' suspicions that Reapers harvest genetic material. Then it ends.
Earth is then attacked first for no reason. Then suddenly the Reapers are all over the place super quick, despite having to come in from dark space. In Mass Effect 1 we're told Reapers can disable Mass Effect relays and that is how they have always won. In ME3 this is never mentioned again. In ME1 we're told they harvest all the races that are space-faring and use the Mass Effect relays, under the assumption that the reapers are programmed to make sure no one species dominates the galaxy. In ME3 we're told in the very opening title crawl that they harvest ALL ORGANIC LIFE in the galaxy every 50 000 years. This makes no sense.
The Plot started great, then did a giant circle that ends where we began and is totally useless to the plot, and the third game is ham-fisted nostalgia garbage.
>>333417621
>more like ME1
So the with a shitty interface and bland planets that some intern likely made just randomly creating mountains all about with the occasional mineral to mine, artifact to collect, satellite to salvage and a copy pasted compound full of enemies that bum rush right into your biotics as they shout the some three lines over and over? Sounds like a fucking blast.
The universe in two and three felt bigger and richer with the small, uniquely designed and detailed arenas than the multiple huge areas of fuck all to explore offered in the first one. And the inventory management in the first game was so fucked the smartest thing Bioware ever did was straight get rid of it. There was no fixing the pile of trash that was the interface in that game.
>>333418962
>leave shitty brown country for prosperous white country
>simultaneously imply that white people aren't better then brown people
Sure thing brosephus.
Fucking this. In ME2 all classes felt the same because of the weak biotics and global cooldown.
It was a bit imbalanced but becoming an Adept god in the first one felt like actual development.
>>333429932
>Also, it's not American game developers job to depict the nationalities and cultures of the world or obscure hipster bullshit
And therein lies the problem. These people do expect Japanese developers with a 95% ethnic Japanese population to depict the global audience. It blows my mind when people whine that Japanese developers need to create more black/brown characters in a nation where you're unlikely to ever even come into contact with them.
>>333429056
Aren't they evolved from birds or some shit so they don't actually need tits?
>>333417790
>>333418427
I'm tired of this meme. 1 was just a bit clunky, but instead of smoothing out the kinks it became cover shooter and the only strategy you need was spam abilities because they ignore cover anyway. Should have pushed for more synergy based takedowns with your team, better use of positioning and abilities as a resource to be more mindful of.
>>333430610
And then if they do kowtow and add one, and it's a TV stereotypical black/brown person, and people get assmad. It's like, where the fuck do you think these people in Japan are getting their info on what black and brown people are like? No shit the characters a stereotype, that's their only exposure to that race.
>>333418962
>gameplay designer
Was there ever even hope for Bioware?
>>333424193
The only good power was Warp, because it did real damage and did double to barriers and armor.
>>333419057
Every ending blows the relays though.
>>333421940
I think the biggest problem with ME1 was making it an almost but not quite third person shooter.
What they should have done was detached the player from the action completely. Had a phased realtime combat system like Baldurs Gate and KotOR.
Its gona be some multiplayer shit
Might as well kill yourself if you are saving yourself for this.
>>333431982
And in every ending they get repaired though.
>>333417621
>Gameplay like ME1
You mean shitty shooting mechanics?
Shitty exploration?
Shitty loot?
Shitty inventory system?
And a bunch of useless stats that have little effect on the overall game?
Fuck outta here!
ME1 basically only had a better story (and it was cliche as fuck) and music than the sequels. The sequels did better combat and powers. Also made the classes feel more unique.
>>333422571
Is it still worth to get ME3 for the Multiplayer now? It's pretty cheap
>>333434984
you can easily sink 500 hours in the MP if you like it
try it for a few hours or whatever and if you don't care just return it cus I think origin lets you return games for a good deal of time after you get one
>>333434984
ME3 Multi still has people playing
>>333417621
>EA
>Bioware
>expecting ME to go back to ME1 style when retards worldwide have voted ME2 as the single greatest RPG ever made
Mass Effect died at 1. Just stop. It will never go back to that.
>>333421940
>Upon replaying ME1 and ME2, I think ME1 had much better combat
You're immediately wrong, and you should acknowledge your unbearably shitty taste.
That goes for OP too, you fucking faggot, ME2 was clearly superior to 1 and 3.
>>333426642
the armor designs, and designs in general were better in 1
>>333435601
>>333435663
Alright. Will get it. I played it when it was on Beta but never touched it again.
>>333428601
>>333428073
Citadel should have taken place after the ending
>>333430642
they evolved with tits
don't try to make sense of mother nature the drunken bitch
>>333418962
Here, have the edit
>there could be multiple galaxy spanning empires in mass effect that simply never ran into each other
>>333436647
>come across another empire that has figured out a way to travel between solar systems without relays.
>>333418962
How come it's socially acceptable for people to be racist against whites?
>>333436647
>>333437126
what i wonder is if the next game even has mass effect relays in them
if not, then why call it mass effect
if yes, then how did they not get blowned up
if the galaxies never met all, how can that be if relays are supposed to connect people to each other
>>333437296
Because only whites are self loathing.
>>333437296
It isn't, only a fascist would call that acceptable.
>>333418724
>>333419057
>>333420825
>>333420235
The way I see it:
1:
>red ending happens, reapers kill everything
>remaining humans find a way to travel to another galaxy through some special relay
>try to colonize shit
2:
>at the beginning story goes parallel with ME3
>when humans see that everything is going to shit they form a special group and send it through a special relay to another galaxy
>they start colonizing shit
>reapers find out and follow them
>>333437362
Knowing Bioware they'll just say "oh uh, the crucible you made in 3 did it." and offer no further explanation while retconning FTL to be good enough to make relays worthless.
>these are the people that you share a hobby with
JUST
>>333437362
This is what triggers me most about Andromeda. Everyone is pretty much stuck in their own local cluster without the relays because travel takes too long, so how the fuck did they get to Andromeda in the first place? And if it was possible why didn't everyone just evacuate there anyway?
>>333418962
now I am going to pirate the game, not even play it, and send him the screen behind my middle finger
>>333425969
ME2 > ME1 > ME3
>>333438468
Two ways they'll explain this.
1) Space magic.
2) It took many, many centuries to cover the distance aboard a huge ark ship that carried everyone in cryo. When they get there they conveniently find that the space is already colonized by native aliens advanced enough to build not-relays and create an empire. Despite this massive technological advantage however they need a bunch of technologically primitive monkeys to solve all their problems by via cover based shooting.
>>333417709
Because exploring featureless expanses of literally one texture stretched for miles and miles is such a fucking fun way to spend time.
>>333418962
What does this mean? Bioshit tripling down on the sjw train?
>>333439313
This, mako expeditions were not fun. Although scanning wasnt fun either.
>>333418962
I'm calling it, Heir vas Manveer is a gay quarian companion.
>>333439140
God, I don't know which one would be worse
>Krogans: Niggers
>Quarians: Slavs
>Batarians: Arabs
>Volus: Jews
>Elcor: ???
>Asari: ???
>Hanar: ???
>Drell: ???
>Turians: ???
>Protheans: ???
>>333440336
>>Krogans: American Indians
>>Quarians: Gypsies
>>Batarians: Arabian
>>Volus: European Jews
>>Elcor: Chinese
>>Asari: Greeks
>>Hanar: Japanese
>>Drell: Indian
>>Turians: Russian
>>Protheans: Tanzanian
>>333440336
Quarians are gypsies
Turians are order loving, pretty rational, an ideal modern western police officer.
I hear peotheans were based on Japanese, namely samurai.
Asari are modern west, except matriarchal, and minus feminism.
Salarians are Chinese or Japanese.
>>333440336
>Elcor: Any island people. Slow and relaxed.
>Asari: French.
>Hanar: Buddhists.
>Drell: ???
>Turians: Russian Spetsnaz if they were a species.
>Protheans: /pol/.
>>333442161
literally what the fuck is this list nigger lol
>>333440336
>Krogans: Niggers
>Quarians: Slavs
>Batarians: Arabs
>Volus: Jews
>Elcor: Latinos
>Asari: Indians (dot)
>Hanar: Southeast Asians
>Drell: Indians (Feather)
>Turians: North/Western European
>Protheans: East Asians (Mongols, Japanese, Chinese, Korean)>Geth: Central European
>>333442712
Batarians are like Russians what with their slavery = serfdom and their relationship with Humanity being like USSRs relationship with USA during the Cold War
Asari are greeks what with lavish emphasis on decadence and poetry and sex and art and being liberal and retarded
So is this the start of a new trilogy? like ME androma 2 or will it just be the start of random shit like ME resurrection
>>333442967
>Asari are greeks what with lavish emphasis on decadence and poetry and sex and art and being liberal and retarded
That's India though except being "liberal" which isn't exactly true since they still look down on other Asari they just have some opposite values to us particularly when it comes to being a slut or mating within your species
>>333443210
Probably a new trilogy unless the game bombs.
>>333418962
>curry thunder
so his shits smell like curry gone really bad and he makes a loud noise as he ejects it on the streets?
>>333442967
Batarians are more like Arabs, and their relationship with the modern west.
>>333427614
>An ME3-style multiplayer with lots of unlockable / purchasable classes is still highly likely, though.
I hope so. ME3 multiplayer was great. Anyone who disagrees has yet to play as an unstoppable vorcha soldier in high tier difficulty
>>333438041
This is why trump needs to win.
>>333443842
Fuck I forgot the Vodcha
For >>333442712
Make Vorcha the Latinos and Elcir are Pacific Islanders
most interesting race coming through
if hanar haven't made it into the andromeda galaxy, i am fucking DONE
>>333429068
>>333430106
>At the end of Mass Effect 2 you realize one important thing: Absolutely nothing you've done has impeded the Reapers in any way.
I liked ME2's character focus, but honestly, this was a huge problem. It's why I never had any real hope for a satisfactory conclusion to ME3. Nothing you accomplish in the first two thirds of the trilogy really helps you with actually defeating the Reapers. Sure, all that awesome stuff you did for people provides you with a bigger fleet to hold them off while you work to stop them (and gives you more colors to choose from) but there's really no building up of any sort of plan to actually stop the Reapers until ME3.
>>333417621
What's with that sexy pose? I thought bioware avoided things like that?
>>333444887
Arrival and ME1 itself were two huge delays to the Reapers getting to the Milky Way and years of extra time for every species to prepare for their arrival
No battarian teammate, no buy.
>>333419515
I'd like ME3's gameplay with ME1's variety (access to those powers via the wheel) and the upgrade progression.
ME3's combat+sound was extremely satisfying, but not very deep.
>>333445827
No Vorcharomanceno buy
>>333445064
Which amounted to jack shit in terms of actually stopping them in the end. All that preparation means little in terms of the story, because the Reapers steamroll everything that isn't a monumentally one-sided fight (ie. an entire fleet vs one of the smallest Reapers). The way the Reapers are stopped is through the Crucible, which is never even hinted at until 3. Sure, you could say they only found the Crucible in time because of the two delays, which is true, but it's still bad plotting from a narrative standpoint. The story is exactly the same if you have it without the Arrival and have the Reapers show up at the beginning of ME3. And, as has been mentioned, no one but a few people did anything in that amount of time to stop the Reapers. Even if ME2 had ended with the entire galaxy realizing they needed to get their asses in gear and every other part of the ending was left unchanged, it would've been a lot better. The galaxy continues to not believe Shepard until the Reapers actually show up and start blowing everything up.
The ending to ME1 is actually pretty good, and I probably should have clarified. It is the honestly the biggest set back the Reapers get and should've been how the series continued. Blowing up/mind controlling/turning green all the Reapers was dumb and it was always going to be dumb. If the Reapers were instead "sealed" so far out in the depths of Space that without the Citadel they couldn't do shit to the galaxy except try and float towards it over millions of years, and instead you had to fight their local forces to stop them from unsealing it, it probably would've come across better. Maybe not do a "Defend the Citadel" finale every time, but something more like cultists trying to unleash a crazy god than a typical "use the magic super weapon to defeat the hilariously OP god aliens."
>>333442712
Fixin' it for you
>Quarians: Chinese
>Elcor: Saxons
>Asari: Koreans
>Turians: South Europeans
>Protheans: MesopotamianKANGZ
>>333445970
>>333445827
>implying anyscum from the terminus system would ever be allowed on the colony ship.
>>333445827
>there will never be a Human and Batarian cliche buddy cop story
Kill me.
>>333445970
"RAAAGH LAY WITH ME HUMAN!"
>>333442967
Batarians scream north korean. Extremely secretive/isolated from the rest of the races, government makes it seem like their planet/system is much better than it is, most of the population lives in shitty conditions under the rule of a dictatorship/hegemony.
>>333446375
Mass Effect: Good Cop Bat Cop
>>333446012
Reapers woulda won if they invaded at the time of ME1, your argument is invalid
>>333443842
>learn you can't get insta-killed when standing on a ramp
>banshees can't do shit to vorchas since the regan beats out their dot damage
>standing in front of two banshees and just melting their faces off while they scream ineffectively
Fucking bomb. That vorcha kit with the flamer and the minigrenades was a murder machine.
>>333422564
I can't imagine a person being more wrong.
>>333430384
You're a worthless cocksucker.
>>333417621
I'm just excited for the jetpack
>>333419371
-Jetpack
-Improved Mako
-Krogan & Blonde Chick as Squadmates
-Explore New Worlds
Has me interested
But I'm not sold on it until we see more and even then it's still Bioware so there's still a 90% percent chance it'll be a trainwreck.
