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Mass Effect New Mass Effect confirmed

Haba

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Man, considering what they managed to do with DA, which started as a "traditional" fantasy, I'm actually kinda curious how far modern Bioware could push the woke agenda in a scifi setting, which is much more suited to all kinds of degeneracy.

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Man, considering what they managed to do with DA, which started as a "traditional" fantasy, I'm actually kinda curious how far modern Bioware could push the woke agenda in a scifi setting, which is much more suited to all kinds of degeneracy.

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Have you seen the Mass Effect cartoons on Pornhub?
 

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I might give ME5 a chance if the protagonist was a Volus, Elcor or Hanar. Maybe Vorcha. But none of that is going to happen, Bioware only pays lip service to inclusion. :cry:
 

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Man, considering what they managed to do with DA, which started as a "traditional" fantasy, I'm actually kinda curious how far modern Bioware could push the woke agenda in a scifi setting, which is much more suited to all kinds of degeneracy.

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Asari with huge shlongs could be interesting. Or reserve that retcon/reveal for Ardat-Yakshi.
 
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I might give ME5 a chance if the protagonist was a Volus, Elcor or Hanar. Maybe Vorcha. But none of that is going to happen, Bioware only pays lip service to inclusion. :cry:

A Mass Effect: Origins would be interesting.
I would like to play as a Turian or Asari.
Go back and set a game during the First Contact War, with the humans as the antagonists.
I'm saying this for years.
 

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Go back and set a game during the First Contact War, with the humans as the antagonists.

Great idea, considering it's Bioware, it'll probably be white alt righters wanting to genocide aliens for being too vibrant and diverse, and you play as a black girlboss rebel, with a rainbow squad full of trannies, teaming up with aliens to fight against the evil wypipo empire, save the galaxy and usher in a new glorious era of diverse and tolerant humanity we see in the later games.
 

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I'm not the biggest Mass Effect lore expert but didn't the First Contact war only involved the Humans and the Turians? I do agree a game based around it would be cool but I would feel a little disappointing in not seeing any of the other species.
 

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The Turians were the evil aggresors in that war.


As fir the Amazon show... lol
 

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I'm not the biggest Mass Effect lore expert but didn't the First Contact war only involved the Humans and the Turians? I do agree a game based around it would be cool but I would feel a little disappointing in not seeing any of the other species.
Plot twist: a show on the First Contact War turns out to be a better Halo show than Halo.
 

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This game is getting cancelled.
You hid the better part of that timeline: Bioware would be getting shut down, albeit a quarter-century too late.

Alternative timeline: We receive about as much entertainment from the Mass Effect game as from Dragon Age: Veilguard, and Bioware is shut down immediately after it launches and flops

I prepare to consider this a win/win scenario.
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It's a broad enough universe that they could have made an RTS of the Turian War, a 4X game, or anything.
So many settings that could benefit from a 4x or grand strat game tbh.
I mean, pretty much every big scifi/fantasy franchise already has some kind of conversion mod for one of Paradox games.

I think it's pretty much the best you can count on, since creating individual strategy games out of these big mainstream franchises, doesn't make much sense financially. If it's an action game, any normie can jump into it, but strategy games are pretty niche, no normie will play a grand strategy just because it's the setting he likes. So you're limited to people who are both fans of strategy games, and a specific franchise - and that's a very small group.
 

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New Mass Effect confirmed.
Years ago, one of my first ever threads was a lamentation that there are not enough space opera CRPGs. It's the closest to my heart. I know the Codex likes to rag on Mass Effect for not being an RPG, but I fucking loved Mass Effect for what it was, a space opera world detailed unlike any other in gaming. Even in spite of the ending controversy bollocks, it is probably my favoruite game series and game trilogy of all time. Even reading the in-game codex was a pleasure. One of the few times I've ever felt the kind sadness you feel at the end of a great space opera TV series like Star Trek: The Next Generation or Babylon 5; sadness that it was over. BioWare, for whatever else we may accuse them of, did an amazing feat of sci-fi world-building that I felt was on the same order as other great space opera multimedia franchises like Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, etc.

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Now that BioWare is the company that it is today, an activist haven, I'm of course dreading this. I've now seen about 4-5 of my most beloved franchises killed.

What these types tend to do, is also retroactively re-write canon, so that the entire history of your favourite show/game is bookended by their shit contribution.

They take a 60-year old franchise, beloved to millions of people, let's say, and prequel it so that everything after is poisoned by their banality; attacking the root of the tree. So what you can expect is that kind of maliciousness, not just say bad writing that effects the present entry, but malicious writing that destroys what others built retroactively. It is obscene. Given this, it probably is better that BioWare is a dead company. Saddens me to say it. But freezing what was heartfelt and good in amber is better than seeing it turned into a monstrosity. People can re-play and discover the original trilogy. It's better that BioWare is destroyed by Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
 

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New Mass Effect confirmed.
Years ago, one of my first ever threads was a lamentation that there are not enough space opera CRPGs. It's the closest to my heart. I know the Codex likes to rag on Mass Effect for not being an RPG, but I fucking loved Mass Effect for what it was, a space opera world detailed unlike any other in gaming. Even in spite of the ending controversy bollocks, it is probably my favoruite game series and game trilogy of all time. Even reading the in-game codex was a pleasure. One of the few times I've ever felt the kind sadness you feel at the end of a great space opera TV series like Star Trek: The Next Generation or Babylon 5; sadness that it was over. BioWare, for whatever else we may accuse them of, did an amazing feat of sci-fi world-building that I felt was on the same order as other great space opera multimedia franchises like Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, etc.

4oV6vIP.jpeg
2PYGnpq.jpeg


Now that BioWare is the company that it is today, an activist haven, I'm of course dreading this. I've now seen about 4-5 of my most beloved franchises killed.

What these types tend to do, is also retroactively re-write canon, so that the entire history of your favourite show/game is bookended by their shit contribution.

They take a 60-year old franchise, beloved to millions of people, let's say, and prequel it so that everything after is poisoned by their banality; attacking the root of the tree. So what you can expect is that kind of maliciousness, not just say bad writing that effects the present entry, but malicious writing that destroys what others built retroactively. It is obscene. Given this, it probably is better that BioWare is a dead company. Saddens me to say it. But freezing what was heartfelt and good in amber is better than seeing it turned into a monstrosity. People can re-play and discover the original trilogy. It's better that BioWare is destroyed by Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
 

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New Mass Effect confirmed.
Years ago, one of my first ever threads was a lamentation that there are not enough space opera CRPGs. It's the closest to my heart. I know the Codex likes to rag on Mass Effect for not being an RPG, but I fucking loved Mass Effect for what it was, a space opera world detailed unlike any other in gaming. Even in spite of the ending controversy bollocks, it is probably my favoruite game series and game trilogy of all time. Even reading the in-game codex was a pleasure. One of the few times I've ever felt the kind sadness you feel at the end of a great space opera TV series like Star Trek: The Next Generation or Babylon 5; sadness that it was over. BioWare, for whatever else we may accuse them of, did an amazing feat of sci-fi world-building that I felt was on the same order as other great space opera multimedia franchises like Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, etc.

4oV6vIP.jpeg
2PYGnpq.jpeg


Now that BioWare is the company that it is today, an activist haven, I'm of course dreading this. I've now seen about 4-5 of my most beloved franchises killed.

What these types tend to do, is also retroactively re-write canon, so that the entire history of your favourite show/game is bookended by their shit contribution.

They take a 60-year old franchise, beloved to millions of people, let's say, and prequel it so that everything after is poisoned by their banality; attacking the root of the tree. So what you can expect is that kind of maliciousness, not just say bad writing that effects the present entry, but malicious writing that destroys what others built retroactively. It is obscene. Given this, it probably is better that BioWare is a dead company. Saddens me to say it. But freezing what was heartfelt and good in amber is better than seeing it turned into a monstrosity. People can re-play and discover the original trilogy. It's better that BioWare is destroyed by Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Good thing I only like ancient and mostly dead ttrpg space opera franchises like Star Frontiers and Star*Drive. The woke DIE corpos are only interested in the most successful IPs, which are few and far between.
 

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