Bioware: Mass Effect inspired 'a lot' by Final Fantasy!

"Yeah, you know we actually reference a lot from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. We used a lot of their GUIs and the way they did their ship - that was kind of like in some of the early designs for the Normandy," revealed Watts.

"Our attack helicopters are loosely based off that movie. There's some great stuff, especially their glowing GUI screens; we used those a lot. I keep a folder of that stuff and I still actually tell the guys 'just go back and look at that. Change it like that!'"

Linkage.

just goes to show you who's boss here ;)

the movie visually at that time was amazing and very cool, but it was still a very boring and dull movie for me

"Yeah, you know we actually reference a lot from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. We used a lot of their GUIs and the way they did their ship - that was kind of like in some of the early designs for the Normandy," revealed Watts.

"Our attack helicopters are loosely based off that movie. There's some great stuff, especially their glowing GUI screens; we used those a lot. I keep a folder of that stuff and I still actually tell the guys 'just go back and look at that. Change it like that!'"

Linkage.

just goes to show you who's boss here ;)

"Yeah, you know we actually reference a lot from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. We used a lot of their GUIs and the way they did their ship - that was kind of like in some of the early designs for the Normandy," revealed Watts.

"Our attack helicopters are loosely based off that movie. There's some great stuff, especially their glowing GUI screens; we used those a lot. I keep a folder of that stuff and I still actually tell the guys 'just go back and look at that. Change it like that!'"

Linkage.

just goes to show you who's boss here ;)

HAZE-Unit

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"Yeah, you know we actually reference a lot from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. We used a lot of their GUIs and the way they did their ship - that was kind of like in some of the early designs for the Normandy," revealed Watts.

"Our attack helicopters are loosely based off that movie. There's some great stuff, especially their glowing GUI screens; we used those a lot. I keep a folder of that stuff and I still actually tell the guys 'just go back and look at that. Change it like that!'"

Linkage.

just goes to show you who's boss here ;)

Pegalamp

keep your system wars mode on :(

I actually liked The Spirits Within. It was a hell of a lot better than that awful drek Advent Children.

Shepard is the mostandrogynous in gaming history, so I see it.

"Yeah, you know we actually reference a lot from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. We used a lot of their GUIs and the way they did their ship - that was kind of like in some of the early designs for the Normandy," revealed Watts.

"Our attack helicopters are loosely based off that movie. There's some great stuff, especially their glowing GUI screens; we used those a lot. I keep a folder of that stuff and I still actually tell the guys 'just go back and look at that. Change it like that!'"

Linkage.

just goes to show you who's boss here ;)

I actually liked The Spirits Within. It was a hell of a lot better than that awful drek Advent Children.

heretrix

I was about to say "Doesn't look anything like Final Fantasy." :?

But when when I saw the 'Final Fantasy: Spirits Within' I'm like "Oh yeah, I totally see that now." :|

Bioware was inspired by a lot of different sources for Mass Effect.

[QUOTE="heretrix"]

I actually liked The Spirits Within. It was a hell of a lot better than that awful drek Advent Children.

drinkerofjuice

I like Spirits Within. It may not have been a FF per se, but it was an entertaining movie. Still have the DVD too.

I never noticed the similarities, but hey, it's hard to notice similarities when Mass Effect 2 is total crap. Mass Effect 1 was awesome though.

Shepard is boss and one of my favorite new game characters!!!

Shepard is boss and one of my favorite new game characters!!!

RyanShazam

[QUOTE="RyanShazam"]

Shepard is boss and one of my favorite new game characters!!!

lucky_star

Shepard is boss and one of my favorite new game characters!!!

[QUOTE="dreman999"][QUOTE="lucky_star"] Hope hes not so robotic in ME3.lucky_star

[QUOTE="lucky_star"][QUOTE="dreman999"] ...He/she is robotic? Compered to stone face shep in ME1, Shep is super charismatic with out the roleplaying involved. On another note....If you feel your Shep is robotic.....then get into the roleplaying your Sheperd!!! Based on my second play through, Sheperd is not robotic, especially a FemShep who has a temper.dreman999

[QUOTE="dreman999"][QUOTE="lucky_star"] The animations are awkward. DAII was better in that area.lucky_star