Forum Posts: 643 | Comment #1 by Cowraffe Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 07:45:25 AM | |
| I wonder what color they're going to choose for the canon ending. Unless they make it available to import your game. |
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Forum Posts: 1664 | Comment #2 by cjdavies Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 07:48:15 AM | |
| Great, I have deleted all my ME saved content believing that was it and to free up space. |
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Forum Posts: 80 | Comment #3 by Calib4n Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 07:52:13 AM | |
| Now that the Doctors have bailed, I bet it won't have much Mass Effect in it either. |
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Forum Posts: 80 | Comment #4 by Calib4n Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:01:01 AM | |
Aaaand I can't help but notice that the producer's name for this game is "Condominas".
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A Condominas is what the parents of Starchild should've used. |
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Forum Posts: 3654 | Comment #5 by littlejay Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:02:14 AM | |
| @2: Who deletes save files to free space? you delete dlc you are not gonna play anymore, not save files. They take up so little space most of the time and you never know when you will need it or play it again. |
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Forum Posts: 17 | Comment #6 by Mr Chr15topher Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:02:19 AM | |
| Only problem is, if you chose the green synthesis ending, everyone will be glowing, which will become very annoying. |
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Forum Posts: 180 | Comment #7 by Floodclaw Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:05:25 AM | |
| So the game could be really really different depending on what ending you picked at the end of 3? Huh. I wonder how a Synthesis Mass Effect 4 would play out. |
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Forum Posts: 38 | Comment #8 by Aussie27Legend Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:08:45 AM | |
| I am less than excited for a Mass Effect 4. |
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Forum Posts: 933 | Comment #9 by Lord Montymort Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:16:32 AM | |
| Well, Shepard I can live without, but I'm not gonna buy this game if Tali, Garrus and Liara aren't in it. Without them it would be Mass Effect in name only, as these three characters made the series for me, and where the reason I wanted to save the Galaxy. Without them I would have sooner left it to be destroyed by the Reapers. |
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Forum Posts: 32 | Comment #10 by cstbrophy Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:16:50 AM | |
| they want 1200 points for a bioware dlc? crazy. |
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Forum Posts: 17 | Comment #11 by LegendaryMSN Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:16:54 AM | |
| I hope they do an game save import again. Similar to what they did with Dragon Age 2, where character from origins turned up and some referenced past events... Like I don't want this game to completely ignore Shepard, I want he/she to be remembered in some respect, even if the story is a prequel, or along side the same time of the original trilogy. |
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Forum Posts: 1208 | Comment #12 by UberPirateNinja Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:17:18 AM | |
| i bet they do a prequel, to totally avoid all the guff about the me3 ending |
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Forum Posts: 2 | Comment #13 by ZLU CORONA Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:22:08 AM | |
| they should stop before they ruin every cool aspect of the series... |
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Forum Posts: 231 | Comment #14 by Infomouse Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:23:44 AM | |
| After the "justice" they did the Mass Effect trilogy with Mass Effect 3, they can take their new game and shove it. Fuck BioWare. |
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Forum Posts: 3 | Comment #15 by wbpridgen Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:23:51 AM | |
They're either going to choose one of the 3 endings as cannon or use storylines that will
Ale you "trilogy" effort seem more pointless -- such as the Geth being destroyed anyway because of galactic prejudice - the Krogan killing each other off due to their nature - etc. I just don't see them being able to carry over the "species' fate" decisions or the final decision. That many variables would produce so many daunting continuity and writing variables that they might as well produce and release 3 seperate games at once, all alternate universes. That's just unreasonable.
I'm sure they'll make destroy the canon. Off the bat that's one species storyline they don't have to worry about. |
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Forum Posts: 463 | Comment #16 by francisrossi Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:31:56 AM | |
| Co-op and deathmatches from the outset at a guess. EA have destroyed Bioware though, so it no longer matters to me. |
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Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #17 by Shepard666Commander Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:32:33 AM | |
| I love the trilogy and cant wait to see what they do to the franchise. A prequel would be cool like the first contact war. |
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Forum Posts: 579 | Comment #18 by Hurricane Of 87 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:39:14 AM | |
| #12: Yeah, too many fanboys expecting the writers to service each one of them and the decision they made individually instead of cranking out a decent story means anything post-ME3 would be a Sisyphusian effort. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #20 by davidani Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:48:01 AM | |
| How about a prequel |
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Forum Posts: 5899 | Comment #21 by Opiate42 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:07:53 AM | |
So the Drs. CEO's have left, and Drew K has left. My confidence in the story for any future installments is at an all-time low having so many people involved with the origins of the lore no longer involved with the series.
Possibility of derailment is very high. |
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Forum Posts: 136 | Comment #22 by Roose91 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:14:21 AM | |
| Haha I love the misty eyed whiners on here still crying about the ending. It's Bioware's IP, not yours! If you're gonna keep slitting your wrists and wailing about the ending THAT THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH IN THE FIRST PLACE and let it cloud your purchase of future games in the series then that's your loss but can you kindly shut the fuck up about it now, you're so damn boring. |
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Forum Posts: 9 | Comment #23 by Boro Iz Rich Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:15:33 AM | |
| Bioware needs to go back to Micosoft; quit and form a new studio or something. Start a new Mass Effect trilogy without the EA flavor and this time, DO IT RIGHT. Otherwise, it should just die and prevent further damage to what used to be a great series. |
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Forum Posts: 57 | Comment #24 by xduderx Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:18:06 AM | |
| I liked the ending |
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Forum Posts: 231 | Comment #25 by Infomouse Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:19:41 AM | |
@#22
Complaining about complainers is unproductive.
End of the line >:p |
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Forum Posts: 136 | Comment #26 by Roose91 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:24:26 AM | |
@25 And what's productive about complaining in the first place? Sure it worked once with guilt tripping them into changing the ending, but you're all still complaining about it now! Some people are just so damn ungrateful. Seems most Bioware "fans" are stricken with a serious case of toys-out-the-pram syndrome.
End of the line. |
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Forum Posts: 79 | Comment #27 by Fridgeater Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:28:41 AM | |
I'm glad they're going to keep using the Mass Effect universe. As they said there is a lot more that can be done within it, so many stories that they could tell.
They could make it so the ending of Mass Effect 3 has no bearing on this story other than 'galaxy is saved'. I do have one thing to ask of Bioware... Elcor Hamlet please. |
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Forum Posts: 231 | Comment #28 by Infomouse Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:30:42 AM | |
@#26
I paid for a product. I was dissatisfied with my purchase. I voiced my concerns to BioWare, and instead was greeted with automated "we are listening" response.
Then they denied there was anything wrong with the game in the first place despite there constant promising of major content even weeks before launch.
When they finally did say anything, it was met with "artistic integrity", and "fans need more context because stupid". I understood the ending perfectly the first time, and needed no help from BioWare to understand the mess they left the trilogy in.
Until BioWare themselves reconcile with me, I will continue to voice my dissatisfaction with the product. |
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Forum Posts: 150 | Comment #29 by Ginormous76 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:35:08 AM | |
| I was hoping that if you were a straight male Shepard (or female with Liara) it will turn out they were pregnant and that's your character. |
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Forum Posts: 136 | Comment #30 by Roose91 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:47:53 AM | |
Forte, forte. Alas, as someone who enjoyed the whole series (though in particular the second and third installment) and as someone who is somewhat of a completionist, I know that this game at best can be completed in five or six working days, side quests et al. Ample time to complete the game and still be within the returns period of any good distributor-that is to say, if you wre so "dissatisfied" with the end product, why didn't you return it? I'm with you in as far as customer entitlement,
I was incredibly underwhelmed with Skyrim (or more accurately overwhelmed with the ridiculous amount of bugs in a "finished" game), having played the Franchise since Morrowind and with probably 1200+ hours invested in Morrowind, Tribunal, Bloodmoon and Oblivion and DLCs altogether. I voiced my concerns. Sometimes they take the pont on board, sometimes they don't. I'm not still whinging about it a year on like some people with ME3.
More so, it really isn't going to catch anyone from Bioware's eye on here, so why do it? |
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Forum Posts: 21 | Comment #31 by Olliezilla Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:48:37 AM | |
| Cheers for the spoiler, hadn't came round to ME3 yet. |
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Forum Posts: 136 | Comment #32 by Roose91 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:49:15 AM | |
| Sorry that was @28 and **were |
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Forum Posts: 16 | Comment #33 by Spandex Stiffy Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 09:52:31 AM | |
| @28, you're such a reasonable customer that your still leaving rage-laden f-bombs and insults to those who disagree after 8 months? I guess everyone should be ashamed for telling you that they're sick of hearing it. That's reasonable. |
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Forum Posts: 125 | Comment #35 by Jesuit007 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 10:01:47 AM | |
| @31 Really at this point it's hard to feel bad for anyone getting ME3 spoilers... if only because there was SO much fallout over the ending that it was a major deal for months. |
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Forum Posts: 1904 | Comment #36 by Rivercurse Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 10:14:47 AM | |
| It's gonna be an MMO imo. |
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Forum Posts: 42 | Comment #37 by OrionSatsume Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 10:30:41 AM | |
| No, it won't. Ea would never allowit given their track record with SWTOR. |
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Forum Posts: 1434 | Comment #38 by Vindicator51 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 10:37:30 AM | |
Tbh, after how Mass Effect Turned out, i hold CD Projekt Red in much higher regard now.
Too bad that Bioware no longer exists, since key people left them. |
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Forum Posts: 267 | Comment #39 by macd Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 10:39:45 AM | |
I kind of agree with #34.
I loved the ME series, and think it is probably the best series I have ever played. However, in this day and age nothing is ever left as is anymore. It's sequels galore all over the shop. While sometimes that is good, after a point it does just seem like "give us more money! NOW!"
Of course, I'll still buy it despite that stance. I realise the arse-backwardsness of my opinions and actions on this one. |
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Forum Posts: 56 | Comment #40 by Unalive3 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 10:44:38 AM | |
| I could see a prequel (like the Rachni/Morning/First Contact Wars), an in between (Garrus as Archangel), or a sequel. The sequel could be set like 100 years after so they could explain away the ME3 ending and Shep's squad members. |
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Forum Posts: 63 | Comment #42 by Aversion Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 10:55:25 AM | |
| I don't know how I truly feel about another ME.. |
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Forum Posts: 1094 | Comment #43 by CyberPunch83 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 11:04:11 AM | |
| If they make another Mass Effect, prequel or not, I'm done with the series. It's a TRILOGY, don't screw with that. |
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Forum Posts: 73 | Comment #44 by Mjkjets Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 11:06:56 AM | |
| I'd like to see ME4: Origins. Choose the race of character for the campaign. Different starting points for each race. |
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Forum Posts: 2 | Comment #45 by icegardner9 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 11:07:13 AM | |
| You know the 2 head guys of Mass Effect and Star wars mmo quit becasue you whiners cant just be happy with the fact you got to play a great game. you crapped on their hard work. I dont want them to make any more mass effect because I dont want the cry babies to come back and ruin it anymore. |
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Forum Posts: 37 | Comment #46 by thenewpeter Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 11:25:34 AM | |
They're going to continue the series already? The hell...
They should wait several years before bringing it back, not so bloody soon, all that this sudden bring back announcement (this is what this is, it's kind of impossible to see it any other way).
Is this what games are coming down to? How fast we can get the next one out?
Any decent series should have nice gaps between games, like the mass effect games did, but the last was meant to end the series, so, give it time to feel ended, then launch a big come back announcement several years later, hell, if they waited 5 years, they would of been able to have gotten away with classic editions on the next gen of the older games as well. :/
I don't know why.. but I'm thinking of Halo4's remodeling of Halo, when this has been said... Like they're just trying to show that they can change too... |
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Forum Posts: 190 | Comment #47 by ash356 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 11:35:04 AM | |
I don't see it working, unless they choose a canon ending. As @15 said, there's far too many variables from ME3 - the Quarian/Geth being just one, the Genophage another, and, of course, that ending.
How do you make that many story variables? To me, that doesn't seem possible whatsoever, unless they focus it on other galaxies with other races (The reapers may have been reaping more than just ours, come to think of it). |
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Forum Posts: 32 | Comment #48 by Zmoke Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 12:17:17 PM | |
| @34: What's wrong with the milk? It's delicious and you make cook delicious food with it, and ice cream. Try putting a few strawberries on top of that, strawberry. |
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Forum Posts: 1725 | Comment #49 by cheevo360 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 12:20:58 PM | |
| Well my opinion is that Shepard is one of coolest main character and personal about character so will be good move on from that onto next main series. I also hope BioWare bring bit more RPG like ME 1 with ME 2 and 3 lots of action but need lots of RPG too. :) |
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Forum Posts: 1725 | Comment #50 by cheevo360 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 12:25:13 PM | |
| #43 Hey I understand how you feel about it but BioWare mention way before ME 3 released that they wanna bring another Trilogy for ME series so it is 4 to 6 with new twists of storyline after end of Shepard. :) |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #51 by flechetteXXX Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 12:26:57 PM | |
| I agree that all the "fans" dissatisfied with the ending really need to just stop. Yes youre entitled to your opinion but its over... let it go. Besides I dont know what theyre talking about "there will be no more Shepard" my Shepard was alive at the end of ME3. |
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Forum Posts: 66 | Comment #52 by NorseForce28 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 12:28:44 PM | |
| It wouldn't be a Mass Effect article without an idiotic, trolling comment from strawberry. Seriously, guy? |
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Forum Posts: 78 | Comment #53 by EnkiduV3 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 12:41:10 PM | |
| @21 Just so we're clear on this, Drew Karpyshyn had nothing to do with Mass Effect 3 and only co-wrote Mass Effect 2. He is one of the best writers in the industry, but he has had less and less to do with Mass Effect over the years. |
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Forum Posts: 202 | Comment #54 by Sanchezz4387 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 12:45:38 PM | |
| and the fuck i had has gone, don't appreciate being blamed for forcing the founders to leave, don't appreciate broken promises, don't appreciate each mass effect getting progressively lost from its originality and quality story telling/rpg elements. don't see a 4th version being very necessary actually, they should have left it after 3......oh hold on EA have a franchise to milk 10 iterations out of! |
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Forum Posts: 511 | Comment #55 by ImmortalArbiter Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 01:03:03 PM | |
Mass Effect 4: Featuring no RPG elements at all, and with TDM!
Really, after Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3, I have less than 0 faith in anything BioWare puts out. I guess this way I won't be disappointed! |
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Forum Posts: 329 | Comment #56 by xXsLeAzEmEpLeAzEXx Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 01:25:07 PM | |
| More mass effect YEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! as long as they keep to what made it awesome in the first place. @2 what a muppet. |
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Forum Posts: 366 | Comment #57 by Trikke Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 01:51:12 PM | |
| I'm happy nonetheless! |
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Forum Posts: 590 | Comment #58 by reaper527 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 02:05:54 PM | |
@56
they haven't been doing what made it awesome in years. they released an amazing game, and each game since has been worse than the last |
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Forum Posts: 33 | Comment #60 by Kroesis Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 02:34:13 PM | |
| They said that the trilogy is Shep's story so it's unsurprising that s/he won't be in the next. I love the universe and it's lore so as long as it has a decent storyline and the established universe and it's laws, such as Biotics and requiring something like the Mass relays for long distance travel, aren't tampered with, although I can understand them using a canon ending if it's a true sequel. In my eyes it should be set before the trilogy as a prequel or or a decent enough time after the events of Mass 3. I tend to agree with #46 though, they should give it plenty of time before the next one, take advantage of the next gen machines and come up with a really compelling story. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #61 by DRNoob Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 02:52:48 PM | |
| @2 File saves take up like 2MB, dude. |
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Forum Posts: 8 | Comment #62 by lmoggy Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 03:01:20 PM | |
| Volus protagonist for ME4 |
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Forum Posts: 540 | Comment #63 by ErmacVersion1 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 03:07:40 PM | |
| @#2, you know they make hard drives bigger than 20 GB now right? |
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Forum Posts: 60 | Comment #64 by The Kingslayer Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 05:50:38 PM | |
| But Shepard lived in my play through :-( |
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Forum Posts: 29 | Comment #65 by Godfather93a Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 05:51:29 PM | |
| Um Shepard always lived if you picked destroy option so can we at least still go & talk to our Shepard or maybe see his/her face in some vids in game? Or there is the option that ME4 will be B4 the events of the Trilogy. |
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Forum Posts: 29 | Comment #66 by Godfather93a Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 05:59:58 PM | |
| Also I would love playing as an Asari or Krogan protagonist maybe even a Turian. On top of that I'm honestly fine with leaving Shep behind the Extended Cut DLC gave me the ending/closure I was looking for. However seeing as the game ending in three largely different ways I'm curious as to see how ME4 is with say the Synthesis option. Really hope Bioware won't flake out & say well you had three options but in the end it did not effect anything, but isn't everyone part robotic now? NOPE. but... NOPE just deal with it we have your money jackass just buy the next game & shut it... ya know? |
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Forum Posts: 138 | Comment #67 by Rastaman20 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 07:07:54 PM | |
| um well its cool theres gunna be another game but only thing im wondering is how there going to avoid a Shepard 2.0 because to me any character there gunna make you play is gunna feel like played a clone of shepard unless they let you play as an alternate alien race now but even then you'll feel like Shepard-The Alien Marine lol |
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Forum Posts: 136 | Comment #68 by Roose91 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 07:24:57 PM | |
@Icegardner9, speaking of baby's, I think I want yours.
First person I've seen (alongside me), who is openly critical of ME whiners. You should see my Amazon review-something like 2-50 on my ratings-purely because I reviewed the game from an honest point of view where I enjoyed it and didn't think the ending was too terrible.
The feeling of self-entitlement in gamers these days really is bordering on obscene. |
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Forum Posts: 136 | Comment #69 by Roose91 Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 07:30:08 PM | |
| Okay that's me exaggerating-I've just checked it-i'ts 2-19. |
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Forum Posts: 312 | Comment #70 by Toon Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 08:54:07 PM | |
| I'm surprised we didn't have to pay anyone just to finish that interview. Not sure if want.... |
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Forum Posts: 4 | Comment #71 by aim of kronic Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 11:41:23 PM | |
| @22 thank you.. i couldnt have said it any better.. i still havnt played ME3 so i dont know the ending but i understand its not my game and i could care less on how they end it |
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Forum Posts: 15 | Comment #72 by eldiablo8965555 Saturday, October 20, 2012 @ 01:19:22 AM | |
| @Roose91. I agree with everything you said. For those who complain ITS JUST A GAME ITS NOT YOUR LIFE. Get over it and go live a real one. If you don't like it trade it in and shut up, its been months now. Its not right for you to be aloud to complain but than get offended when someone complains about your complaining. No one said you have to keep a game you don't like. I for one enjoyed all the Mass Effect games and the ending with the extended cut was fine! I was very satisfied with the ending. |
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Forum Posts: 4 | Comment #73 by chemicalali490 Saturday, October 20, 2012 @ 07:11:41 AM | |
| Dunno why but I'd like to see the game come to a moment where (depending on how you ended ME3) Quarians don't have to wear protective suits :D |
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Forum Posts: 101 | Comment #74 by xxthegodofwarx Saturday, October 20, 2012 @ 10:19:04 AM | |
| me3 was good until that god awful enging |
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Forum Posts: 3240 | Comment #75 by KillerBEA Saturday, October 20, 2012 @ 02:52:39 PM | |
| Can they just focus on one thing at a time? Dragon Age 3 and Mass Effect 4 at the same time? Oh boy...... |
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Forum Posts: 136 | Comment #76 by Roose91 Saturday, October 20, 2012 @ 03:51:35 PM | |
| @eldiablo8965555 Thanks pal, refreshing to see someone else who will voice their thoughts and not just jump on the bandwagon of what's "scene" at the moment. I'll just say what I honestly think whether it goes against the grain or not! Between ME Whiners and Anti-COD fanboys, they sum up everything wrong with gamers today. |
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Forum Posts: 11 | Comment #77 by GothamCommand Saturday, October 20, 2012 @ 04:14:55 PM | |
| I'm almost sad I read the comments on this... |
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Forum Posts: 51 | Comment #78 by Draznar Saturday, October 20, 2012 @ 08:39:56 PM | |
Mass Effect 4 will fail horribly and I'm glad I see so many comments in here saying that they won't be buying it.
This is a really good way to show game companies not to put half-assed endings into their games. And no, this is not sarcasm. |
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Forum Posts: 51 | Comment #79 by Draznar Saturday, October 20, 2012 @ 08:50:46 PM | |
I'd also like to point out that all the "cry babies" are speaking in rational, intellectual sentences. While the people calling us cry babies and saying we are spouting "f-bombs" are the ones being cry babies and spouting F-bombs.
I'd just like to point that out, especially since I haven't met anyone who didn't like the ending who acts like the people who liked it do.
Weird, eh? |
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Forum Posts: 74 | Comment #80 by Onyx_a87 Saturday, October 20, 2012 @ 11:32:33 PM | |
| Guess that means I'll just have to buy more copies |
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Forum Posts: 7 | Comment #81 by jcb231 Sunday, October 21, 2012 @ 02:02:15 AM | |
I'd like to see a sequel set a hundred years or more after ME3's ending.
By setting the game pretty far into the future, they could smooth out a lot of the issues with the different endings. There could still be elements of whatever you picked, but after a century or more things could be repaired and the galaxy could have normalized a bit. |
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Forum Posts: 1534 | Comment #82 by HalfEVILmonkey Sunday, October 21, 2012 @ 07:17:10 AM | |
| @#74: What is an "enging"? |
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Forum Posts: 3 | Comment #83 by apollosrequiem Sunday, October 21, 2012 @ 02:56:33 PM | |
| It felt to me that Mass Effect wrapped up pretty much the storyline for the entire universe. It might be refreshing to have a new character and new worlds and races to explore. |
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Forum Posts: 178 | Comment #84 by PuttyGod Monday, October 22, 2012 @ 04:24:24 AM | |
| Honestly, with the way ME3 ended, and the three lead guys involved with the IP gone, I really shudder to think of what EA will do with the series next. A prequel like the First Contact War as people have said would not work because that was strictly between Humans and Turians and that just doesn't lend itself to a full game structure the way Halo: Reach did. If the next game actually takes place after ME3, then... there are some big issues standing in the way of things, especially due to the effects of each possible ending. They would have to just pick one canon decision and pretend no races were wiped out and that Shepard just chose Control and flew the whole Reaper consensus away to dabble and do nothing. If they go with destroy, then well, every AI, the Geth, every droid, many computer systems and entire ships will just be completely gone. If they choose Synthesis, well, I think you all know why that wouldn't work. The only way I think they could pull it off is to either disregard the entire Shepard story arc, pretending it didn't happen, or have the game take place during the same period of time. And then we have the issue of story, what could the game possibly be *about*? It really cannot get any more serious or epic than the full galaxy-wide destruction of every living organism by sentient Machines, one of which is comprised of the knowledge and essence of the "Gods" race that created them. So if they go with a "smaller-scale storyline within the universe, focusing on a tightly knit plot regarding extremely fleshed out characters and etc.." I quoted that because that is what happened with Dragon Age 2, and we know how that turned out... Kirkwall... It's the same issue - in Dragon Age, they kind of addressed the biggest, world-ending problem that could exist, what with the Arch Demon and all of the races coming together, etc. just like Mass Effect did. How can you make the next game feel important after dealing with things like that? I don't know, but they sure as hell better not make a Mass Effect FPS or MMO or I'm going to hang myself. |
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Forum Posts: 178 | Comment #85 by PuttyGod Monday, October 22, 2012 @ 04:30:17 AM | |
| Also, I'm not completely opposed to them completely redoing ME3 and taking their time with the writing to ensure that everything fit a little better, addressing the catalyst shenanigans differently, or anything. I'm just trying to say that I feel like ME3 had the weakest writing and plot implementation of the three games. ME3 has the best gameplay, a weave between ME1's heavy RPG, and ME2's heavy action - light RPG turnouts, but something about the campaign just didn't feel as satisfying or memorable to me as the rest of the series has. Obviously they would never redo ME3, but it would be nice. Maybe they'll remake the whole series two generations from now in a super HD bundle with improved gameplay or something, lol. |
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Forum Posts: 79 | Comment #86 by Fridgeater Monday, October 22, 2012 @ 06:33:14 AM | |
Everyone keeps calling it Mass Effect 4. Thing is it really wouldn't be Mass Effect 4, it would be the 4th game set in the Mass Effect universe but not a sequel to the Trilogy. Like how Brotherhood and Revelations are the third and fourth games in the Assassins Creed series but they aren't in the trilogy per say.
The universe they've made is so vast that they have a very large scope to play with. As for the arguement about the Synthsis ending. All that ending did was stop Biological and AI from warring on each other by giving them a common bond. That doesn't mean all war will cease. Think of it this way, we the human race all share a common bond in that we're human but that hasn't stopped us maiming, killing and generally being dicks to each other. So why would it stop the Krogan from attacking the Salarians, who have even less of a bond and more reason to go to war? Add on that id its set hundreds of years after the events of Mass Effect 3 that leaves a lot of time for conflicts to arise.
They could even switch perspective and make a fps (not saying they should but they could), personally if they did this I would ask for them to take notes from System Shock 2 lol |
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Forum Posts: 189 | Comment #87 by tsydrown Monday, October 22, 2012 @ 07:26:23 PM | |
Still dont understand the hate for the original ME3 ending, I thought it was a nice touch. Not played the "amended" ending, but honestly ain't that fussed, the Trilogy was a class act, and they made their intentions of further ME games clear before the third one was released, so hardly surprising news.
Far too many fickle people who think they've the right to demand whether a sequel is released or not, dont forget how many people actually WANT another ME game, and the fact that EA know it'll sell, its a foregone conclusion.
Further ME games dont need Shepard in them, they've already expanded the Universe enough to show there's so much more for them to do.
I for one can't wait to see what they come up with, only then will I decide whether it's any good, unlike many people who already claim it wont be good enough, yeah, coz you've had the chance to play it already *Facepalm* |
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Forum Posts: 3 | Comment #88 by Mike McBob 2323 Monday, November 05, 2012 @ 07:21:06 PM | |
| Will be interested in what they do next. |
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