Mass Effect Universe (Spoilers) - The Bear and Badger

Raiziel

Played ME1 four times through, ME2 three times through, and ME3 two times through. I love the ambition of the first, and it’s tough to pick between 1 and 2. They’re both such different games. ME1 still pips it, I think. Things start going downhill with the third game, but not because of the ending; I was fine with that.

I’m ready to go in again.

Still dream of a new Mass Effect (that’s actually good).

regmcfly

Don't we all....

Armitage_Shankburn

Me1 shooting system, hahahahahaha. Absolute covids

Verecocha

Yeah, I’d play ME1 with some huge changes, otherwise I’ll bypass it and go straight to 2. Shame it’s probably some way off as it’d be a good little burner for this period when not banged up.

Blocks100

Name me any trilogy in videogames, or film or literature, where they've said 'hey!, let's make a fourth' and it hasn't turned out to be utterly shit.

They should have kept Mass Effect as a triology. Even if Andromeda had turned out to be half way decent, I still wouldn't have wanted it. And by extension, I don't want another Mass Effect game.

Let sleeping Reapers lie.

Armitage_Shankburn

Gears of War judgement, Halo ODST, Resident Evil 4,

Oh, trilogy. Well, star wa-

Ok

mistercrayon

I think it was a shame they removed some of the RPG gun mechanics. I really like it when a game lets you fool around with the systems to the point of being able to make things trivial (in the Case of ME1 I put so much freeze on my gun it never got hot)

Dinostar77

Reading the making of ME4 it had no chance. They went off completely in the wrong direction. Randonly generated planets isnt what people wanted. Tight gunplay, good storyline and new species is what it needed. It got none of that.

Anyway No Man Sky beat them to it with a tenth of the budget.

The storyline i.e get a crew together for a suicide mission is what i loved and that iconic music.

mistercrayon

Blocks100 wrote:

Name me any trilogy in videogames, or film or literature, where they've said 'hey!, let's make a fourth' and it hasn't turned out to be utterly shit.

They should have kept Mass Effect as a triology. Even if Andromeda had turned out to be half way decent, I still wouldn't have wanted it. And by extension, I don't want another Mass Effect game.

Let sleeping Reapers lie.

The tricky thing with this is that if the fourth is good they’ll make waaaay more. But if they stop at four it was probably shit.

Verecocha

I dunno, I thought Andromeda was ok. Just didn’t really think of it as a Mass Effect title aside from being set in the same universe. Just gave me the opportunity to play with gameplay mechanics etc that I enjoyed again. You could say give it another name etc etc but at the same time you can see why they continue with massively popular series.

It wasn’t actually a bad game, just not as good in comparison with the other 3 entries. Got far too much stick in my opinion.

Blocks100

EvilRedEye

The thing that I find crazy/a shame about Mass Effect is they managed to pull off the 'everything is canon' multimedia aspect of the franchise in a way that Disney Star Wars could still be envious of, they seemed on the cusp of turning it into a film, which could have catapulted it into a proper Star Wars/Star Trek mega-franchise... and then managed to fuck it all up and toss it into the bin.

LivDiv

Totally agree Vere. ME:A once patched was a solid game. If it had a different title and came from a different dev it wouldnt be as hated on.

Blocks100

Even post-patch, it still had the worst ever conceived alien race that spoke in a mock-Australian accent.

superflyninja

I was a giant ME fan and I loved the mako bits in ME1 but bailed on Andromeda like so many others after a few hours. Is it worth revisiting?

Tempy

Here's a good video on the line that Bioware walked with Shepard.

Some interesting stuff there with how it tracked the NPC's paragon/renegade status

regmcfly

I am going to watch the shit out of that shortly.

Roujin

Hey I saw that vid on my recommended feed this morning! I'll watch it later right after I re-watch the indoctrination theory video, aka the best bit of content ever spawned by Mass Effect apart from the Overlord DLC and Tali, best girl, bae 4eva, fight me cowards, etc.

Armitage_Shankburn

Roujin wrote:

Hey I saw that vid on my recommended feed this morning! I'll watch it later right after I re-watch the indoctrination theory video, aka the best bit of content ever spawned by Mass Effect apart from the Overlord DLC and Tali, best girl, bae 4eva, fight me cowards, etc.

Word.. indoctrination theory was so fucking cool.

Lord_Griff

We have star citizen to look forward to.

Dinostar77

Lord_Griff wrote:

We have star citizen to look forward to.

£300mil later and huge feature creep. Whats the latest on that?

Lord_Griff

Exactly that
300 million dollars of quality.

Dinostar77

So alien colonial marines all over again then?

Lord_Griff

Marginally worse AI

Dinostar77

So someone cant spell tether again and didnt spell check his work?

Dinostar77

Nov 7th, N7 day. Rumoured to be announce of re-master of ME triology

Officer_V

Dinostar77 wrote:

Nov 7th, N7 day. Rumoured to be announce of re-master of ME triology

Aces, though I don't think I could play the original without huge changes. Just start at 2.

Dinostar77

Dont think i could be arsed with doing the mako bits again

mistercrayon

Mass Effect was so egregiously broken as a game but I think that’s what gives it character. I love it for that.

hylian_elf

Would be good to have a remaster of 2 that I can play. I was due to start it for the first time this year on my 360/Bone.

The first was a bit shit though.

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