A New Mass Effect Game (Page 1 of 4)

I read somewhere that it would actually be alongside the Shepard stories, so the same time.

But then again, all the sites I saw were based on rumour and speculation because no one seems willing to admit anything other than that the new game will involve the Mako again.

What really amuses me about this is that whilst perusing games on Amazon I discovered that they already have ME4 available for pre-order, despite a distinct lack of knowledge about what the game will involve.

I agree but you never know until we see it and play it.

BioWare is making it and they will have a good range of characters but I hope that his Mass Effect game has new races in your party that we did not have in the first 3 games.

I am 90% sure that the main character is going to be human but there is always that other 10% chance that they switch it up on us at the last moment.

I have a habit of doing the same, where available my first play-through on any game is usually human female (except Reckoning randomly where I chose elf).
But it's always fun to explore the other options on other play-throughs, like all the origin options in DA-O (I think there's six), it's interesting to see how the characters respond to a different main character, be it race, gender or their actions and the options that presents.

Also for ME4 (whatever they actually do call it) it gives them a chance to remove themselves from the Shepard storyline further if they go for a completely different species. But then again, I doubt they'll go for anything other than the Systems Alliance again, just to keep it familiar if nothing else. And to bring the mako back.

Last edited by Lilitia (2014-08-30 14:31:57)

The only problem with putting it after ME3 is that they might be forced to pick a cannon version of events or have to have a lot of alternative situations relative to the different outcomes. Not only from the choice, but the effect the EMS score had.

Unless they set it far enough after ME3 so that any potential damage was/could have been fixed and therefore they only have to have a few different bits of dialogue. That at least means they reduce the number of major plot options they'd have to factor in, ie the outcome of the Quarian/Geth stuff. And even then that ignores the option you had to reject the obvious three end options.
(I would use spoiler code options to hide text, but I don't know what options this forum has for that, so I'm opting to be vague.)

Also the mako was fun, but blooming difficult to control, which didn't help encourage me to cover the entire map to see what wasn't already marked on there. Maybe some way of combining the scanners and the mako?

I have seen trailers for the new Mass Effect game it looks Awesome but looks can be all it is once you start playing it. I hope to add more to this topic once I see more about the game and I will post what I find.

Yeah I saw the same E3 one, where they basically make it seem like a Space Western (so Firefly).
Also guessing that as it's set in a different galaxy many years in the future we're not going to see any cameos from old faves and they're going to do whatever they can to sidestep the whole ME3 thing.

Also does "holiday 2016" mean winter holidays or summer? I'm assuming winter, but the optimistic/impatient part is hoping it means summer.

I'm sure it will tie in somehow given the ending of ME3 and how the loss of the mass generators would have effected everyone. It's supposed to be set in a completely different galaxy, so that will be interesting to see how they got there. And how the legend of the "shepherd" lives on.

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