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CdrMike
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Jun-15-15, 08:51 PM (EDT) |
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2. "RE: A possible item of interest..."
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I wasn't permanently turned off by the ending so much as the attitude that EA* took to fan complaints about said ending. I bought all the DLCs, spent hours playing through them just to get what I was expecting to be the best possible ending, and then got short-changed "for the art." Yeah, I feel ripped off and EA is going to have to do a lot to win me back.That said, I've got no real investment in this new series. I say new because it is, Shepard's gone and so are all the characters we've come to love. Hence "Mass Effect Andromeda" and not Mass Effect 4. I'll wait and see what happens between now and launch day, but I would not be surprised if the franchise follows Dead Space in becoming unrecognizable to fans. *(the amorphous mass Bioware is now part of) --------------------------
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Verbena
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Jun-16-15, 00:55 AM (EDT) |
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10. "RE: A possible item of interest..."
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>I wasn't permanently turned off by the ending so much as the attitude
>that EA* took to fan complaints about said ending. This exactly. The ending was bad, yeah. They did things they promised the fans they wouldn't do. Stuff happens when you're making something as complicated as a AAA game. But when it -does- happen you cop to it, you don't tell the fans their subjective opinion is -wrong-. By definition opinions can't be right or wrong. >That said, I've got no real investment in this new series. I say new
>because it is, Shepard's gone and so are all the characters we've come
>to love. Hence "Mass Effect Andromeda" and not Mass Effect
>4. I'll wait and see what happens between now and launch day, but
>I would not be surprised if the franchise follows Dead Space in
>becoming unrecognizable to fans. One thing is for sure. I bet Bioware is acutely aware they have some ground to make up, and they don't have the two doctors in the house now, either. I'll be watching it closely but I won't be preordering.
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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her
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Matrix Dragon
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Jun-15-15, 10:46 PM (EDT) |
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3. "RE: A possible item of interest..."
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As someone that did like ME3's ending... Good grief guys, another year, another E3, and another video completely pre-rendered with absolutely no information about the game? Really?(Also, Andromeda? An entire new galaxy? We've got a hell of a lot that could still be explored in this one.) Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter |
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Nova Floresca
Member since Sep-13-13
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Jun-16-15, 00:24 AM (EDT) |
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>To be fair, the mass relays aren't the only FTL travel method in the
>setting, they're just a lot faster than tooling around in hyperspace.
>That development therefore simply resets the setting to something like
>Star Wars. I shall cop to my annoyance with the ending and subsequent instances* of dick-movery by BioWare having overshadowed that fact in my mind. *See Republic-side Taris in TOR and how the Promised Land from KotOR turned out "This is probably a stupid question, but . . ." |
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Matrix Dragon
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Jun-16-15, 00:27 AM (EDT) |
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>I didn't bother after the original end, but I was led to believe by a
>friend who played the Extended Cut that the Mass Relays still didn't
>survive the end of 3, which means crawling around at ordinary speeds. Even in the original ending, they were just broken/badly damaged. I always figured they were fixable, but I was kinda hoping that ME4 would be set during the reconstruction, heading off into regions of the galaxy you'd lost contact with, helping to reunite galactic civilisation. Wandering off to another galaxy as the trailer implies seems a bit much. Did someone accidentally overclock a Relay while fixing it? "We appear to have overshot our destination." "No, really?" Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter |
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Astynax
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Jun-17-15, 07:16 PM (EDT) |
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>I...hmm. I am not 100% sure my lore is correct, but I thought the Mass
>Relays weren't understood and weren't fixable, which was why they
>couldn't make more of their own. Then again, I guess it's not like
>they can't reverse engineer the parts now.
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> Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
> Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her Two endings from the extended cut show some level of assistance from the beings who made the relays to begin with. So at least 2/3 of the time, galactic society will be back on its feet after some rebuilding time.
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