Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh?

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Feb 18, 2015 11:18:05 GMT -5 sevach likes this

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Post by Noelemahc on Feb 18, 2015 11:18:05 GMT -5

Feb 14, 2015 1:08:12 GMT -5 sevach said:

With the cancelling of "whatever it's name was" is Bioware now Mass Effect, Dragon Age and TOR? Are they ever going to do something different?

I can't help it but have a morbid curiosity about Mass Effect, which is a lot better than the total indiference towards DA, but what would really interest me is a SPRPG in the Star Wars universe...

Ah, to recall the days when Blizzard made games that didn't have the word "Craft" or "Diablo" in their name. It's not a fundamentally BAD this, per se. Now, making all these games equally crap is what matters here.

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Feb 18, 2015 11:56:14 GMT -5

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Post by Axalon on Feb 18, 2015 11:56:14 GMT -5

Feb 18, 2015 11:18:05 GMT -5 Noelemahc said:

Feb 14, 2015 1:08:12 GMT -5 sevach said:

With the cancelling of "whatever it's name was" is Bioware now Mass Effect, Dragon Age and TOR? Are they ever going to do something different?

I can't help it but have a morbid curiosity about Mass Effect, which is a lot better than the total indiference towards DA, but what would really interest me is a SPRPG in the Star Wars universe...

Ah, to recall the days when Blizzard made games that didn't have the word "Craft" or "Diablo" in their name. It's not a fundamentally BAD this, per se. Now, making all these games equally crap is what matters here.

FYI Kids, Noel is talking about ye olden Blizzard days in the Year Of Our Lord 1997, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth and Zeus struck down mortals with bolts of lightning.

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Feb 18, 2015 16:01:40 GMT -5

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Post by Noelemahc on Feb 18, 2015 16:01:40 GMT -5

Holy fuzznuggets, I was convinced Lost Vikings 2 was released in 1996, not 1997. BTW, if you want to play it, get the SNES version, not any other, as it's the ONLY one which has Lost Vikings 1-like pixel art instead of crummy Warcraft-style pre-rendered 3D models for sprites.

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Mar 2, 2015 5:13:59 GMT -5

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Post by Noelemahc on Mar 2, 2015 5:13:59 GMT -5

Unconfirmed rumours:
* Warren Spector is involved in some capacity in the project
* The game will be shown in full glory at E3 2015
* ~~The above image~~ is someone's fanart that wasn't properly sourced, full image here.

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Apr 18, 2015 8:16:32 GMT -5

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Post by Noelemahc on Apr 18, 2015 8:16:32 GMT -5

Look sir, leaks!

Apparently, EA has been surveying randomly sampled people much like they did with DAI, and much like they did with DAI (where we now know a lot of info from the final game was IN the survey) there's info on what the game may contain.

TLDR: Set in the Andromeda Galaxy, a longish while after Shepard's time
Seven crew/party members to recruit
Game is about time-resource management in trying to establish and keep alive multiple offworld colonies, in mechanics that sound reminiscent of the original Dune (the one without numbers, kids)
Multiplayer is the same Horde mode as before, with presumable new features
The new ship is called Tempest
Exploration is (somehow) seamless from ship to planetside
You can customize the Mako's appearance
New ancient extinct alien race to deal with the disappearance of (presumably, Reapers never touched this galaxy, so it has its own skeletons in the closet)

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Apr 18, 2015 9:37:05 GMT -5 via mobile

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Post by JudgeGreg on Apr 18, 2015 9:37:05 GMT -5

Apr 18, 2015 8:16:32 GMT -5 Noelemahc said:

Look sir, leaks!

Apparently, EA has been surveying randomly sampled people much like they did with DAI, and much like they did with DAI (where we now know a lot of info from the final game was IN the survey) there's info on what the game may contain.

TLDR: Set in the Andromeda Galaxy, a longish while after Shepard's time
Seven crew/party members to recruit
Game is about time-resource management in trying to establish and keep alive multiple offworld colonies, in mechanics that sound reminiscent of the original Dune (the one without numbers, kids)
Multiplayer is the same Horde mode as before, with presumable new features
The new ship is called Tempest
Exploration is (somehow) seamless from ship to planetside
You can customize the Mako's appearance
New ancient extinct alien race to deal with the disappearance of (presumably, Reapers never touched this galaxy, so it has its own skeletons in the closet)

Hmm. Not bad concepts. I'm a little unclear of how everyone got to this galaxy and isn't affected by whatever ending we picked for ME3. It would make sense if the colonizing started before the reaper war.

Eh, I'm over thinking it. I probably won't buy it, but on the surface, these seem like good ideas.

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Apr 18, 2015 10:02:13 GMT -5 sevach, shotgunfu, and 1 more like this

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Post by Axalon on Apr 18, 2015 10:02:13 GMT -5

Apr 18, 2015 8:16:32 GMT -5 Noelemahc said:

Look sir, leaks!

Exploration is (somehow) seamless from ship to planetside

Best way I can think of for seamless is landing the ship and exiting via the shuttle bay or the airlock directly onto the planet, then boarding and taking off again.

Scour solar systems and planets within the Helius Cluster to find valuable resources

NOOOOO! NO MORE PLANET SCANNING!

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Apr 18, 2015 17:15:11 GMT -5 via mobile

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Post by JaracRassen on Apr 18, 2015 17:15:11 GMT -5

Interestingly, I remember a lot of us talking about it being set in a new galaxy far away from ME1-3's time. There's still a lot of questions, though. If it's concurrent, how did they all get there? The Andromeda Galaxy is FAR from the Milky Way, and FTL speeds are far from fast enough to reach it.

The only way this works is if:

1. It's set way after ME3 (which opens its own can of worms)

2. We found something far beyond Reaper tech to transport us there

The ideas they have are good for the most part, but that's why I'd take it with a grain of salt.

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Apr 18, 2015 17:24:58 GMT -5 via mobile Noelemahc likes this

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Post by JudgeGreg on Apr 18, 2015 17:24:58 GMT -5

Apr 18, 2015 17:15:11 GMT -5 JaracRassen said:

Interestingly, I remember a lot of us talking about it being set in a new galaxy far away from ME1-3's time. There's still a lot of questions, though. If it's concurrent, how did they all get there? The Andromeda Galaxy is FAR from the Milky Way, and FTL speeds are far from fast enough to reach it.

The only way this works is if:

1. It's set way after ME3 (which opens its own can of worms)

2. We found something far beyond Reaper tech to transport us there

The ideas they have are good for the most part, but that's why I'd take it with a grain of salt.

I would buy a council long term exposition that started back before ME1 but didn't arrive or establish until a long time later... I didn't do the math or science on that theory, so that might just be silly.

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Apr 18, 2015 17:34:48 GMT -5 via Tapatalk

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Apr 18, 2015 17:24:58 GMT -5 JudgeGreg said:

Apr 18, 2015 17:15:11 GMT -5 JaracRassen said:

Interestingly, I remember a lot of us talking about it being set in a new galaxy far away from ME1-3's time. There's still a lot of questions, though. If it's concurrent, how did they all get there? The Andromeda Galaxy is FAR from the Milky Way, and FTL speeds are far from fast enough to reach it.

The only way this works is if:

1. It's set way after ME3 (which opens its own can of worms)

2. We found something far beyond Reaper tech to transport us there

The ideas they have are good for the most part, but that's why I'd take it with a grain of salt.

I would buy a council long term exposition that started back before ME1 but didn't arrive or establish until a long time later... I didn't do the math or science on that theory, so that might just be silly.

I guess I could buy that. I'm just wondering why Humanity would need a new home not in this galaxy if it was sent pre-ME Trilogy. Only like 1% of the Milky Way was explored, if I recall. Why explore in another galaxy when you don't really know what's in your own backyard?

The way I see it, something cataclysmic must have happened to the galaxy post-ME3 to cause them to leave their entire galaxy.

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Apr 18, 2015 17:35:44 GMT -5 Axalon likes this

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Post by Young Sammich on Apr 18, 2015 17:35:44 GMT -5

After watching Axalon's recent playthrough of ME3, specifically the Leviathan DLC, I thought there was an obvious choice for an antagonist post-ME3 regardless of what "choice" was made. The Leviathans surely weren't all wiped out during the battle for Earth so what would they be doing afterwards? I doubt they would just return to watching the galaxy from the depths of the ocean on that planet. I would imagine that with the Reapers gone, or there numbers reduced in the control ending, the Leviathans would return to being the "apex" species of the galaxy and would want to have the lesser species pay tribute to them as they did in the past. Perhaps this "Remnant" and the Leviathans are one in the same but who knows.

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Apr 18, 2015 21:00:19 GMT -5 abledanger and JaracRassen like this

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Post by baronfang on Apr 18, 2015 21:00:19 GMT -5

So basically what I'm getting from this is the Milky Way Galaxy is Chernobyl to the current writers and this is a way of copping out having to go anywhere near it. Closest thing to a blank slate without erasing everything that makes the series Mass Effect.

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Apr 18, 2015 21:55:42 GMT -5 abledanger, malcom, and 1 more like this

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Post by 500metrictonnes on Apr 18, 2015 21:55:42 GMT -5

Chernobyl, you say? Such is life in the ~~zone~~ Milky Way.

Setting it in the Andromeda Galaxy is patently ludicrous, since it ignores just how utterly, incomprehensibly vast space is, even within our own galaxy. But I suppose they need to set the next game far enough away that it won't be affected by whatever colour Shepard chose.

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Mass Effect Andromeda ~ Not Quite "The Something", Eh? Apr 19, 2015 0:38:16 GMT -5

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Post by shotgunfu on Apr 19, 2015 0:38:16 GMT -5

Apr 18, 2015 21:00:19 GMT -5 baronfang said:

So basically what I'm getting from this is the Milky Way Galaxy is Chernobyl to the current writers and this is a way of copping out having to go anywhere near it. Closest thing to a blank slate without erasing everything that makes the series Mass Effect.

"Mass Effect: Round 2, The 2nd Attempt"

It had to be a clean break, BW left themselves with far too much baggage for anything other than a prequel or (more or less) clean reboot. I look forward to the hand-waving that makes what looks like and utterly impossible journey possible.

An a bit of reflection I bet they are going to use the Citadel relay as their hand-wave. Let them leave using the reaper IIF between ME2 and ME3.