4 Things We Don't Want In The New Mass Effect In 2 Minutes

Leave out cheap nasty DLC that seems so popular nowadays.

Bioware did the right thing with DAI hopefully the trend will continue.

Mass Effect RPG Elements weren't more menus and such, something this article failed to explain.

It was the dialogue, the lore inserted into the game and such.

ME1 had the most RPG elements (exploration of the universe), ME2 had a balance of RPG & action (focus on space crime syndicates/find the enemy), and ME3 had more action and a darker story (the enemy is known->reaper war).

Every ME game had its flaws, every game had its positive things.

And despite ME3's failures, it is still a very good game.

WHY ME3 FAILED (SHORT ANSWER?)

1) EA as a publisher pushed Bioware to finish game sooner. As a result, ME3 suffered in many ways

2) Main writer of of ME1/ME2 and his team (mr. Karpynsky) is pulled out of ME3 to focus on Star Wars MMO story. Story loses focus, culminating in the bad ending (the point that all should be explained)

3)Day 1 DLC (Prothean DLC)

What a failure here! An NPC super-integral to the main story (almost the entire series are about Protheans) is at a DLC. Talk about cheap way to make money. You lose way too much stuff about the story if you dont buy that DLC.

3)Arrival DLC of ME2

When you start ME3, you learn that Shepard has destroyed the entire Batarian System to hold the Reaper invasion.

300,000 batarians dead (almost the entire Batarian race) gets barely a mention from the Council.

Not even a small cutscene in ME3 to explain this. Again you lose major story stuff by not buying the ME2 DLC!

4) TOO FEW PARTY MEMBERS.

ME1 had Shepard & 6 characters (total 6 party members, counting both Ashley/Kaidan)

ME2 had Shepard+12 characters! (total 13 party members, counting both Morinth/Samantha)

Zaeed is free in shop from the 2 DLC choices (Kasumi, Zaeed) is free. So total free 12 members (+1 from DLC)

people dont like Jacob, but with 13 choices you cant blame Bioware, and Jacob serves a purpose (Miranda's ally)

In contrast, ME3 has Shepard+8 characters (total 9 party members, counting both Ashley/Kaidan).

Javik is the Prothean DLC member. So total 8 free members.

James Vega was voted worst ME party member. In reality he is not that bad, he is there to insert new players into the ME universe. The main problem is that we have few party choices already.

5) More Stuff to prove that ME3 is rushed.

Tali picture is a stock picture from the internet (<< LINK REMOVED >>)

Winter Galaxy Ending picture is a stock picture from the internet (<< LINK REMOVED >>)

5) End of ME story/Story of ME3 in general

Where is the Harbinger? why he didn't do anything to stop Shepard?

How Anderson is at the Citadel? Why the Star child explanation of the plot is so bewildering?

Remember the 3 same colored endings and the outrage of the fans in the Bioware forums?

Remember the indoctrination theory in the internet that explained the ghostly kid Shepard was seeing?

IN THE END, Bioware had to produce NEW ENDINGS to explain as a free DLC complete with sliding pictures 3 months after shipping the game. Maybe if they had more time, it would come to this.

WHAT HAPPENED TO BIOWARE AFTER ME3:

Both Bioware creators (Myzuka, Zeschuk) left from the game industry, many Bioware developers (trent oster, Banner saga devs plus some others) left Bioware, and even Casey Hudson, ME head director left in 2014.

Things now are not looking very good for Mass Effect, especially now that EA has tasked Bioware to focus on Star Wars games.

OTHER GAMES THAT EA HAS RUSHED/HANDLED POORLY:

1) Dragon Age 2 (had a production time of only 9 months, which is very short for a game of this caliber, it was negatively received by many gaming sites/people)

2) Whole Madden fiasco (EA got sued because of some price fixing in regards to their competitor 2K)

3)Army of Two:Devil's cartel (poorly received, studio is now in shambles)

4)NBA Live 2014 (poorly received, << LINK REMOVED >>)

5) Battlefield 4 server problems (<< LINK REMOVED >>)

6) Simcity Online server problems (<< LINK REMOVED >>)

PS: For those people who dont know, Dragon Age inquisition would also be rushed.

You would ONLY play as a human character (like Dragon Age 2). Fortunately EA was convinced to give more time.

(<< LINK REMOVED >>)

So, maybe you will understand what happens to games that are rushed..

I honestly just sort of wonder how they will top the Reapers and their 50,000 years cycle in terms of dire importance. I suppose this is why I was not hired as a Mass Effect 4 writer ;)

Sort of like how the Death Star destroys single planets...oh yeah? the Sun Crusher destroys entire systems (Star Wars novels)....how do top that?

@<< LINK REMOVED >>

One of the things I worry about is the corner that the series backed itself into with the 1-of-3 endings approach which led humanity into three different directions; rebuilding after the destruction of the Reapers, rebuilding with the help of the Reapers, or everyone joining with technology and essentially becoming Reapers.

The only ending that made any sense to me was to destroy the reapers. I choose it every time. The entire plot was going in the direction until the sharp left turn Star Child Surprise. The other two endings are not my ending, so either one appearing in a new Mass Effect would make me uneasy about buying the game.

No matter which ending someone picked, they can be seen as so huge and different, there's no way they wouldn't change the entire galaxy for Mass Effect. In one ending, Shepard is still around and controlling the Reapers and so the Reapers are still a character and so is Shepard. In another ending, everyone is one with the AI. Or everything in the universe is in ruin and it's time to rebuild from the husks of the Reapers. It's not like the Hero of Ferelden where you either die, or not, during the battle with the ArchDemon, and make a cameo in a future game. With Mass Effect, everything has changed pretty much forever.

Plus, none of that crap makes any sense anyway. "We built AI to come and kill you so your AI won't will you."

It needs to have ... lucy in it <3

shouldn't have cover based combat, this is not Gears of War.

shouldn't sell out and change the original ending with DLC because some kids cry about it.

shouldn't have multiplayer.

I WANT SHEPARD BACK

Love this show!

Supermac and casey... oh wait....

I want more planet scanning!! Remove everything else. I'm talk all planet scanning and probing!!

Wtf was wrong with the mako handling? That was a freaking beast of animation and physics for an RPG of that time.

Biotic Charge > Nova FTW

I always laughed while driving Mako in ME 1 because it did very awkward maneuvers without falling apart but getting shot by enemy fire was fatal... go figure...

And now I want to get my PS3 out of the wardrobe and play the ME games again. Ah well, I can think of worse things to do with my time...

Lucy's hair style is the same one as the default female character in Inquisition ;o

Well there was an official survey Bioware did some while ago and I already told them what I want :]

What I can do without are the looooooooooong loading times. Judging by how Inquisition was though, long loading times aren't going anywhere.

I know an SSD HDD might help, but still, other big games like Skyrim and Watchdogs load much faster on my PC.