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Jason Schreier - A new Mass Effect is in early development at BioWare
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It's just being cute, I know, but I'm actually cringing at the thought that someone might in seriousness read those as a "Let me research the lore". They said they also used the fan-made Wikis when writing ME3 to keep track of the lore but the fault there is that, a former writer would actually go to the Wiki pages of the characters he wrote and make comments and fixes to misinterpreted or miscontextualized quotations. When he left after ME2 they had no "IP writer" anymore and they actually started using the Wiki seriously instead of any internal documentation. That's one of many reasons why the expository dialogue in ME3 often sounds like it was written to summarize instead of developing the story.
And if this was actually for real it would be next-level stupidity, but yah, I totally get he's just teasing fans and being cute.... I hope.
Also, side-note Reddit Mass Effect had a pretty hilarious top comment.
Andromeda is far from tapped. Just don't bring back the pathfinders, start with a new protag (multiple races this time PLEASE), advance the world like 50-100 years, and have the Milky Way races expand across Andromeda. Then introduce some interesting NEW Andromeda races, drop the super advanced ancient civilization crap they've been leaning on for far too long, then maybe reduce the stakes slightly so you're not saving the damn galaxy....every. single. game. Not saying it would be easy, but that dropped ball is still in play.
this might be bioware trying not to get the axe from papa ea.
If Dragon age flops, they are done.
If Dragon age flops, they are done.
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What Bioware need is a fresh start. Given how EA's flagship titles have been received this generation, I'm sure the studio heads will try to salvage Bioware's reputation with Dragon Age and Mass Effect coming back into form.
If EA are forced to close down Bioware, the industry reaction may be too much for them to swallow like their previous closures. I mean the company will go on, shares may drop but will still be strong, but many more will avoid EA like a plague.
If EA are forced to close down Bioware, the industry reaction may be too much for them to swallow like their previous closures. I mean the company will go on, shares may drop but will still be strong, but many more will avoid EA like a plague.
- Mass Effect Trilogy Remake (could be done by another studio).
- Knights of the Old Republic III.
I think it's more like:
- Anthem reboot, next gen only - 2021
- Dragon Age 4 - Late 2022 delayed to 2023
- Mass Effect - 2025 delayed to 2026
To be fair he was talking about new next-gen projects made by Bioware not a remaster of their older titles.
As long as the reboot doesn't have an overarching universe ending threat I'll be on board. Those stories can be good but it's a tough needle to thread. ME3 is a victim of the need to raise the stakes. I think a better version of that game doesn't start with the Reapers invading and instead the Reapers invading is the bad ending of the game.
Not even the best Mass Effect trailer, which is ME2's launch trailer.
Outside of ME, Kojima's probably made 10 trailers that are better.
I have hope. Please be good.
It should be Sam Hulick AND Jack Wall.
Sam Hullick is great for ambience music but Wall is amazing at character themes and epic set pieces.
It should be Sam Hulick AND Jack Wall.
Sam Hullick is great for ambience music but Wall is amazing at character themes and epic set pieces.
I just can't get too excited from anything Bioware anymore. I give benefit of the doubt but so much talent has left and Casey completely lost any trust I had with ME3
Will Mass Effect 3's remaster be considered the second game to be "remarstered?"
And they're throwing the dice with one guy whose namesake's catch phrase is "Game Over, man!" and one guy whose name is literally "gamble". What are the chances?
Seriously though, I do want BioWare to succeed. Hoping for the best!
And they're throwing the dice with one guy whose namesake's catch phrase is "Game Over, man!" and one guy whose name is literally "gamble". What are the chances?
Seriously though, I do want BioWare to succeed. Hoping for the best!
I'll say this bluntly: Bioware put themselves into a bad corner establishing Reapers as nearly invincible ancient death machines
If the Mass Effect trilogy wasn't a trilogy (ie only one game), then a remaster would be nice for them to flesh out a new engine (and by new engine I mean Unreal).
But I don't think they'll handle that, so I'm curious to see what they're cooking up. Hopefully not another lengthy dev time with a rushed development push at the end.
But I don't think they'll handle that, so I'm curious to see what they're cooking up. Hopefully not another lengthy dev time with a rushed development push at the end.
Totally! Would be good for BioWare to release a more successful game!
Yeah this will be 2024 at the earliest then. Doubt I'll be gaming as much then, hope it's good at least.
The Andromeda setup was great to capture the feeling of being an explorer of uncharted worlds, though. Something which was only really achieved by ME1 before it. Andromeda didn't work out for very different reasons than the setup.
Yes. It still fills me with wonder to this day. The possibilities of gen 7, that Mass Effect vertical slice video felt like to me. A fiction genre realized in big budget video games as I could have never imagined.
You didn't need to go to an entirely new galaxy for that though. ME lore was very explicit that only a tiny fraction, 1%, of the Milky Way had been properly explored. The vast majority was totally uncharted. The Mass Relay system that the Reapers set up was purposefully designed to channel and limit the development and expansion of space faring civilizations. A post ME3 game could easily branch out to those unexplored areas. Not to mention the potential of capturing that sense of re-discovery of visiting places, races and cultures we saw before the Reaper War and then seeing them afterwards and the potentially dramatic effects that near total annihilation and subsequent recovery and conflicts may have had on them.
They are both the same, Anthem was a worse game than Andromeda by a loooong mile.
Whatever it is, if they can manage to include an alien character in it that doesn't look like Shrek then they'll be off to a better start than Andromeda.
If the story had been focused entirely around Cerberus, fighting them and various forces corrupted by Reaper tech that Cerberus had unleashed, that would've been better than actually fighting Reapers and full on Reaper invasions. You could remove actual Reapers invading at the start of the game while keeping 90% of that story the same which is a mostly well told story up until the ending which is what it has to be because of that game beginning with the reapers invading.
I recently played SW: KOTOR which made me miss Mass Effect, they share so many similarities that ME is ostensibly a remake.
Any fans of ME should play KOTOR!
More on topic though....yeah I have zero enthusiasm considering the state Bioware are in these days.
Any fans of ME should play KOTOR!
More on topic though....yeah I have zero enthusiasm considering the state Bioware are in these days.
Shit, make it a good PRG this time, forget about making it as good as ME1, just don't make it into a multiplayer shooter, please.