Mass Effect 3

Originally posted by BackFire
Agreed. Post trilogy is the only real option if they want your choices to be at all meaningful.

Though I don't agree that they'd have to choose a canon ending for ME3. I don't believe it'd be as difficult to implement the possibilities of all the endings into the next game as it initially seems. When you think about it, what are the major differences between each ending and how they'd affect the galaxy?

There are reapers or there aren't reapers. There are Geth or there aren't Geth. Everyone has shiny Synthesis skin or they don't. There are pretty easy to explain ways around all of these. Assuming the game is set a 200-1000 years after the third game, they'd just have to make The Reapers/Geth not in it very much and not consequential to the main storyline of the new games.

And they could say that the Synthesis skin/eyes was only a temporary symptom of the merged existence and now everyone is back to having normal skin/eyes.

See, this is a fundamental problem with the 'big choice' conclusion and then a sequel. Either a. it means you have to make several entirely different plotlines for the sequel, or b. you do as you say- but if you do that, you are openly demonstrating that the oh-so-important choice made originally was actually trivial and it didn't really matter what you did.

Originally posted by NemeBro
why

Why........ not?

Originally posted by BackFire
And they could say that the Synthesis skin/eyes was only a temporary symptom of the merged existence and now everyone is back to having normal skin/eyes.

I pray this is the case anyway.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Why........ not?

Originally posted by Ushgarak
See, this is a fundamental problem with the 'big choice' conclusion and then a sequel. Either a. it means you have to make several entirely different plotlines for the sequel, or b. you do as you say- but if you do that, you are openly demonstrating that the oh-so-important choice made originally was actually trivial and it didn't really matter what you did.

Yep. It's how its been the whole series, really. All of the big choices end up being shown as pretty trivial in the following game. Killing the council amounted to having slightly different council members in the second game with identical dialogue as the original council. At least these decisions feel big when you initially make them.

The decisions that really end up mattering are the ones that cost the squadmates their lives. There are plenty of those throughout the series.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Answer me you insect.

I..... like Asari? 😖hrug:

Plus, if we play an Asari we could be Shepard and Liara's kid. That would be cool. Also we could get some badass biotic powers.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Casey Hudson wants feedback about when the next game should be set. Should it be pre-trilogy or post?

Put me down firmly for post-trilogy. As I've argued in the past, unless they change the mechanics entirely, a choice-based RPG set where all of histories great moments are already set isn't a good idea.

I doubt Bioware would do this and would instead go for a lame Contact War game. Which would be lame.

👆

My thoughts are that they should create a game in a post-ME setting.

Then, have the movie that they are planning on making follow Anderson during the Contact War. Making a movie about Shepard is problematic because everybody's Commander Shepard is different - your Shepard would do things mine wouldn't and vice versa. The game allows for this due to the choices made. Making a canon movie about ME kind of destroys that - because now this is BioWare/Hollywoods Shepard that we would be seeing.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Plus, if we play an Asari we could be Shepard and Liara's kid.

Hahahahahaha

No.

Garrus and Tali >

Yeah but Garrus and Tali can't have kids. With each other or Shepard.

QED.

Originally posted by Nephthys
I..... like Asari? 😖hrug:

Plus, if we play an Asari we could be Shepard and Liara's kid. That would be cool. Also we could get some badass biotic powers.

Shepard and Liara's kid? Dude lame.

The other acceptable race would be Turian I guess.

Liara is the best LI and that's a fact despite the fact that it's the only one I've ever actually done. Thats how great it is. It's siren song and choice blue tush are impossible to resist.

Plus with an Asari kid we could still have a decent timeskip for civilisation to build itself back up. Unless we go into great-great grandkiddies. Plus isn't Liara the only one where it's even possible for Shepard to knock up in ME3?

Shepard and Liara's child? Dude, no. We need to keep up with the times. I recommend one of Joker and EDI's iChildren with a facebook app to be the next main protagonist 131

Originally posted by Nephthys
The other acceptable race would be Turian I guess.

Liara is the best LI and that's a fact despite the fact that it's the only one I've ever actually done. Thats how great it is. It's siren song and choice blue tush are impossible to resist.

Plus with an Asari kid we could still have a decent timeskip for civilisation to build itself back up. Unless we go into great-great grandkiddies. Plus isn't Liara the only one where it's even possible for Shepard to knock up in ME3?

It's the only one you've done? You're missing out. Tali's is very good and Garrus' is probably the best in the series, honestly. Fem Shep and Garrus have some unbelievable chemistry and some truly moving moments. Liara does have the benefit of being the only one you can romance in all three games, though. And honestly I feel as if she's sorta the canon love interest, or at least the one that they assume most will follow.

I think..... I may have tried Ashley's? But I'm pretty sure that was my Kaiden run so her romance can't have been interesting enough to save her. 😎

Then again I've tried romancing Kaiden but he was so boring I switched to Liara again mid-way. 😬

ME2 and 3 I've only played once through, and couldn't bring myself to cheat on Liara.

Originally posted by Nephthys
The other acceptable race would be Turian I guess.

Liara is the best LI and that's a fact despite the fact that it's the only one I've ever actually done. Thats how great it is. It's siren song and choice blue tush are impossible to resist.

Plus with an Asari kid we could still have a decent timeskip for civilisation to build itself back up. Unless we go into great-great grandkiddies. Plus isn't Liara the only one where it's even possible for Shepard to knock up in ME3?

SHOCKER.

I don't understand how that would work.

Quick question: why is it that a lot of people think that Mass Effect has really good characters? I have only played the first game and I enjoyed the dialogue system but I thought most of the characters were kinda boring tbh. Shephard, Ashley and Kaiden sucked, and Wrex, Garrus, Liara and Tali were just decent imo and Saren was a mediocre villain. KotOR and KotOR 2 characters was 100 times better.

Because you have terrible opinions.

Please explain to me how Ashley, Kadien, Sanchez or Saren were good characters please? Tali and Liara were ok (Mission was on par with them), Wrex and Garrus were the two best but still nothing compared to say, Canderous or Atton.

The character development goes through the roof in the second and third game. In the first game a lot of the characters are pretty bland compared to how they're handled in the following games, particularly Tali and Garrus, who both shine in the sequels.