@Intellijosh: I wonder if we'll start this new game in current system and the prologue will be finding a way to a new one that can support life, where the 'real game' begins, or we'll just start there? Has that been covered?
I don't really know what the endings did, so I don't know how they all leave the universe save what I've read here.
@Keitha313: They've already said you can choose your gender. All they did was decide to make their marketing representative of their 20 year history of allowing you to choose your gender by using a female in the marketing.
@VampireLord123: Can't say it worries me at all. There are still copious amounts of developers who like creating strong story and character driven games for me, others who create those sandbox survival games that others get into, others that are making multiplayer only games (where I could only complain that the setting or theme seems so interesting that I would like a good campaign from it), etc. Everyone seems to be getting a good shake of the sauce bottle these days.
EDIT: Scrap that, some jRPG series that I like seem to be getting way grindier than they used to be (sort of the Japanese equivalent of adding meaningless filler to justify open worlds in western games, except in jRPGs they really effect your ability to progress through the story). That has been annoying me for a few years.
@Gamer_4_Fun: According to Bioware's stats, 82% of characters created in ME are manshep. I generally role-play as a female anyway, given the choice, but I'm just saying, Jennifer Hale's VA is way better.
@BlackBaldwin: All but three (from what I can tell) games that Bioware has ever made have had male/female player options, and so they want to also use a female lead in their marketing. How is this a problem, and not just them actually being representative of almost every game they've developed in the past 20 years?
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