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Announcing Mass Effect: Annihilation (new novel)
- Thread starter LordOfLore
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Probably should have clarified what it was in the title. Gonna disappoint a lot of people
It's a book
These were planned way before the game released, I believe.
I read the first book. It was alright.
God, remember rage faces? That used to be a thing.
I wanna say this is the third book that was planned? With a NK Jemisin book releasing something this year still?
I don't think this was planned considering the Quarian Ark was going to be a major DLC for Andromeda.
Writing books takes time, this doesn't have to reflect any decisions made after Andromeda came out. Books are also millions of times cheaper to make than video games!
Reading? Bah. I'll find out what happened to the Quarians the day they release this as DLC and not a second sooner.
I see. I thought they just decided to offload their remaining ideas/story beats into books and wrap it up.
Although I imagine if Mass Effect ever makes a comeback it's going to be another reboot with a completely new "vision" anyway.
Yeah, Valente would be the type of writer that I wouldn't expect to be doing media tie-ins (then again Jeff VanDeMeer did a Predator novel so whatever pays the bills). Not sure she seems like a great fit for Mass Effect though.
After Deception, I'm not sure I can ever take Mass Effect novels/comics seriously again. That shit was straight up dreadful.
Noted author though, maybe that might sway me.
Noted author though, maybe that might sway me.
Glad we're getting at least a bit of closure. Expecting Annihilation to wrap up the Andromeda storyline completely, at this point.
What a sad turn of events. Mass Effect was one of my favorite franchises last gen. At least they're giving people closure.
So... never?
Hmm, interesting. The official (re?)announcement does kinda open the wounds of no DLC, which sting a bit since I felt it had potential and DLC might even have helped recover the reputation hit from the memes. However, over on reddit the author claimed this novel has been in the works for 18 months, so it leads one to wonder which parts of the plot would have been referenced in the game by tie-in DLC if it existed.
Interesting turn of events for what I assumed was now a dead franchise, especially given the writer's body of work. We'll see what this means for the future I guess.
Mass Effect is dead man. And after what they did to Visceral, Anthem is pretty much going to be the last hope for BioWare and I bet EA is forcing them to loot and microtransaction the hell out of it. Make it essentially TitanFall meets Destiny and Division.
Oh well, at least canon wise maybe we can learn more about the Quarian Ark and what seems to be Benefactor based on that description? That Manveer Heir podcast. I could see where he was coming from and now I understand what story he was trying to tell in Andromeda. The Angara, Kett and colonization blah blah. But I was far more interested in our Milky Way Galaxy aliens, the Nexus issues and political ramifications, and trying to help them rather than get embroiled in Angaran politics listening to them preach about how the Kett invaded etc.
I really enjoyed the first several books, but was absolutely mortified with what happened after Ascension. I stopped reading after that. Anyone recommend revisiting the novels after that? Worth the time? I have zero faith in their quality at this point.
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Made this same joke when i saw the title.
I feel bad for Bioware.
Same. I have a feeling DA4 may be the last game that resembles anything I recognize as Bioware.
It depends on the quality of the novel.
The part that probably doesn't come through with this is that IIRC, Gillian was a central character in the prior two ME novels written by Drew Karpyshyn, the lead writer for ME1 and 2.
She was some powerful biotic created by Cerberus experiments, her adoptive father was a Cerberus operative and the main protagonist who defected and was killed by Kai Leng in the second book, Gillian swears revenge... and then in a terribly written third novel, Kai Leng is portrayed as the biggest dweeb in the world, all the lore details are fucked, and Gillian is stabbed to death by Kai Leng with a toothbrush having accomplished nothing, rendering the entire trilogy essentially pointless.
It was a book so bad that BioWare actually promised to look over it and possibly fix it, but then another controversy (a very minor one, you've probably never heard of it) erupted and it kind of got forgotten.
Good...good..drive that knife in deeper, twist it with all you've got.
At least we'll get some closure :(
At least we'll get some closure :(
Maybe toothbrushes are some sort of kryptonite for biotics. You need to let your teeth rot in exchange for amazing powers.
