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This is a 106 year old child according to Bioware.
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This is a 2 year old child according to Bungie
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It's fat according to me. Tali board.
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>every asari has cornrows
No thanks.
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Damn! I hope I get to look as good as you when I'm your age!
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I fapped to the edi tag in the past 2 days and was pleasantly surprised that there is some actual non futa porn of her and good quality 3d animations too.
>choose your character
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Samara > Liara
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Why would someone make this?
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Never thought of it that way but it's kinda true lol.
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Kek.
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MOOOOOOOOOODS
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For me, it's captain Wasea.
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Shit taste.
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This is a 14 year old kid according to Bioware
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SHE'S ONLY 106 YEARS OLD YOU SICK FUCK
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>entire trilogy came out in less than 5 years
>on a single console generation
>KINO setting
>KINO worldbuilding
>SOVL characters
>still fun despite the 3rd game being rushed as shit
What went wrong with gaming industry bros? Will we ever get another space-opera RPG KINO?
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Hopes?
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>human supremacist
>booty call is an asari matriarch
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I mean...
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>>734134607
I unironically want it to be good.
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>>734134607
There is no hope. Only the future that is Bioware going out of business.
>going to be full of faux-pozz shit like Dragon Age: The Purple One
>market tested "this is what the focus groups say trans is" trash instead of dialogue written by humans
>every mechanic and environment carefully balanced to have the least fun and the most market investor return
AAA is just a bunch of rats in suits counting dollars, there's no talent left in that sector, just passionless greedy corpo cunts.
If we want a good Mass Effect, we'll have to wait for an Indie studio to do it.
If EA had any brains they'd pull the IPs out of Bioware's fumbling hands and diversify their products, like 40k does.
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>>734136485
It has some pretty good waifus, though. It's a shame they're stuck in a dead franchise. Or that Bioware retired them.
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>>734136790
There were good things and bad things about them.
>>734136845
I think it will be OK. Maybe a 6-7/10. I remember reading that some people played the beta for it and that the TPS combat was looking very rough.
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The GOAT
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mordin is a cool dude
can’t believe I never really used to bring him on missions until my most recent playthrough
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>>734137584
https://youtu.be/Ea1eWarxdxQ?si=tCC8MFqFSojxhXD1
Come home.....
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>>734137003
I liked the book as well but the latest TGA trailer kinda killed the hype for me ngl. I'm thinking of checking out The Expanse books, as well as (finally) watching the show.
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Getting released and not being absolute shit.
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>>734137770
Second book is coming out this summer and a comic writer was recently hired for a project regarding Exodus, so I am already satisfied with the worldbuilding and lore. I am really hoping the story and side quests are good.
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>>734137584
Man i want to replay tge trilogy but every tine I boot up legendary edition and get to the mako planets the game starts stuttering like a motherfucker. I can't get through 2 runs of me1 per character playthrough of tge trilogy with that shit crashing my game every few side quests.
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this is an 82 year old child according to Toei
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>>734137584
If you haven't played all of the classes, you haven't completed the run anon. I'd go even so far to argue that you'd need to play all nine possible backgrounds, but I haven't done that as well.
>>734137869
Well, the worldbuilding and the various TRPG books won't mean diddly squat if the game itself flops. I can only hope WotC won't fuck it up in the same manner they had with Larian.
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>>734137879
Are you on linux?
I tried playing LE on my steam deck and it crashed constantly. The EA app they force on you just doesn’t play nice with it or something and the only work around would be playing a cracked copy instead.
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>>734138094
All 3 backgrounds, all 3 careers, every class, both genders, and every romance option.
Mass effect is not reactive enough for this but I do like spacer sole survivor vanguard maleshep x liara/tali/tali, and earthborn sole survivor sentinel femshep x Liara/Thane/Traynor
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Sole survivor is the most blank slate background which I kind of like, but Shep works best in my mind when he has a more personal stake with the Batarians and there’s a lot of missions that seem to count on that.
Colonist ruthless is kino.
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>Should I do soldier or engi next when I play again in like a year?
Solider is the brain-dead default option best suited for first playthrough, so I don't know whether you'll enjoy it at this point. Though, Solider with Incendiary Explosion ammo and Marksman might be interesting to try out, as you can see from webmrel.
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>All 3 backgrounds, all 3 careers, every class, both genders, and every romance option.
Then I kneel anon. I have three emergency backup playthroughs for the three unused background/profile combinations and romances.
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ME4 will be GOOD. I still HOPE....
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>>734139068
No, it's stronger.
You literally can coom so hard your synapses are fried and you die.
Besides Blueberries have functional vaginas referred to as Azure in public perception in Citadel Society.
So basically a race of Semen Demons.
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y-you can't post that
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>ME4 is good
we get a cool surprise mass effect game
>ME4 is bad
we get another troon bomb to laugh at
schadenfreude bros... we're set to win!
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YUP YUP!
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>>734131072
Ah yes, because the one man chosen to be humanity's best of the best is actually just a subby little bottom who needs a big alien troon to top him and put him in place.
This came from tumblr didn't it?
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Missionary. Deep in the azure. For all eternity.
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>>734140007
No, it's very much the Volus. Small, ugly, control the monetary system, "client" to the galaxy's acting police force, extremely clannish and deeply racist and always blaming everyone else for their misfortunes. Also, strong criminal energy.
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Threadly reminder that only troons play as Femshep
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>Femshep
For TRANNIES. Sheploo or nothing.
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>>734134607
If we could hypothetically go back in time and get seventh console gen Bioware to make it
>More cool ayy crewmates like a Vorcha or Volus
>no tranny/fag shit
>bring back the multiplayer mode without the loot crate RNG cancer
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I was always a bit disappointed there wasn't more content for a "perfect' playthrough with her. I know its supposedly because a relatively small amount of players in ME3 would see it, but they added the fucking Samara ending for the ME3 DLC which they KNEW a smaller group of people would qualify for (those who dated Samara in ME2, basically got to the kiss, didn't date anyone else in 2 going forward OR in 3 .)., they could have done it. As I recall, if you don't date Tali in ME2 and finish the romance with her, you can't romance her in ME3 properly. However, you can get back together with Liara or start with her in ME3, despite her having some of the most romantic content with Sheploo throughout all 3 games. My first ME3 playthrough was my Infilitrator Sheploo and
>Romance Liara ME1 > Romance Nobody from the main cast ME2 + Romance/Rekindle Liara at Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC > Romance Liara continued in ME3
I think there should have been some scenes or special stuff you only got if you did all of the above, but some anon said that there actually was some small bit of content that qualified but I guessed I missed the uniqueness of it?
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I'm rather impressed at what modders were able to do, specifically for Miranda (and to a lesser degree, Jack). For the LE games, go look at the EGM and Spectre Mod by itself, but there's a submod that depends upon them called the Miranda Mod that basically makes her a full time onboard ME3 character! She even has her own EGM special missions, an independent shuttle she'll take when she's out on them, and the mainline missions in ME3 like with her sister are all revamped , she stays in Shep's quarters if romanced etc
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They are going to make us kill Grunt in the next game, won't they?
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>>734140594
Don't forget that they, through control of the money, have bought the military protection of the much larger and more powerful Turian Hierarchy and dont have any military of their own...except a handful of intelligence/defense service Space Mossad / ShinBet (you can play as one of these in the multiplayer as I recall).
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Goodness gracious I love high heels Charlie I LOVE HIGH HEEEEEEEEEEEELS!
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>>734134607
Female Turian and Krogan romance.
>every sex scene in Andromeda DETAILED as FUCK
>Vetra doesn't even get naked
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Based.
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KINO.
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>>entire trilogy came out in less than 5 years
This is the most frustrating thing about vidya nowadays. After Gothic 1, you had Gothic 2 released in like a year and a half, with a 3 times larger world.
Baldur's Gate 2? Also a year after the first one.
Thief 2? Within 2 years after the first.
Might and Magic 3, 4, 5 and later 6, 7 and 8 would release year after year.
Now games both big and small take 5 years at the absolute minimum, and often more than 8 years. It's ridiculous.
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they don't think it be like it is, but it do!
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>tv show will be set right after the reaper war
>made by Amazon
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>Ah yes, because the one man chosen to be humanity's best of the best is actually just a subby little bottom who needs a big alien troon to top him and put him in place.
Strongest hooman vs weakest ayylmao unironically. Hooman BITCHES should learn their place
>t.ayylmao
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That's great and all, but it doesn't really change what I said.
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You think that's old man Grunt? Over a thousand years old? And they have like dinky soldier gear for the rank and file krogan? That looks Imperial Guard from Warhammer tier, worse than the lowest tier shit we saw in the trilogy. The guy on the left literally has a warhammer on his arm. The fuck are you going with that, you fucking moron?
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We’re at a point where we’re getting trailers for games that won’t even be out for another decade like TES6 and GTA. Duke Nukem Forever tier development cycles are the new standard.
I don’t know what the fuck is going on in the industry or why it feels like everyone just collectively turned retarded and insane around the mid 2010s.
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>tv show will be set right after the reaper
That's not what Mike Gamble said. He said it takes place after ME3, not RIGHT after ME3. After ME3 leaves it vague. It can be 200 years later, it can be a thousand years later.
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>if you don't romance Tali, she jumps on Garrus's cock instantly
>Liara has a crush on you all the time
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>amazon
Total coinflip. It could be absolute trash, or even good. They have so much money and ongoing projects, that the end result depends entirely on who they select to make it.
I'm still baffled by who they chose to make the Rings of Power, two literal whos and then threw hundreds of millions at them. What the fuck were they thinking?
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Not "classic" but that already happened.
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>writer from the Fast and Furious series
Actually it's just F9. Most of his other writer credits are just shorts. I don't understand how they select these people for these projects, is it just all nepotism?
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>tali is clearly into shepard and interspecies relationships
>the two chiralities of life are dangerous to each other
>quarian immune deficiency
>both she and shepard know that an attempt at a relationship between them is dangerous
>she expects the man to make a move
>if shepard doesn't make a move this guy wants her to wait until the reapers have almost killed everybody to give shepard a chance?
>garrys doesn't even get a heads up that shepard is into tali?
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I wonder what would come out. Braindead Asari, somewhat intelligent Varren pups or regular Asari with maybe a knotted blue cock?
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They lean too much on N7 branding IMO. Andromeda made the right call to give us a protag of a different background, but then fucked it up with pretty much everything else.
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You know all the degenerate fetish posting aside Varren are really cool.
I was always mad you couldn’t keep one on your ship as a pet. DA had a warhound party member so I thought they would do something similar in ME but they never did.
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Assuming asari are even capable of melding with non-sapient species, they don't have to have sex with something to steal its dna and use it to mix up the dna of their offspring. The offspring will be a normal asari.
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Omega based
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>I really hate to see it
Honestly, I can't think of any game where the concept art is inferior to the end product.
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It’s time to admit Andromeda was good.
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I mean, nobody gives a shit about N7. It's only important so far as Shepard is concerned. Can there be other N7s? Sure. Does anyone give a shit? No. It's like the Grey Wardens in Dragon Age. If you're not the Warden from Origins, nobody gives a shit. Or, at least, people could have given a shit, if Bioware didn't royally fuck the Wardens up, over and over again. But N7 is literally nothing.Less than nothing, unless it is tied to Shepard.
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Could have been something, if the game had actual classes for the protagonist, instead of the retarded SAM shit.
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Just read the filename /v/ro and find it on rule34xxx, it's not that hard.
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I hate Rigid's proportions. What the fuck even is that? At least Aardvark's proportions were more "on model".
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>It's only important so far as Shepard is concerned
That's basically my point, which is why making Ryder's dad in Andromeda an N7 and having a tacticool chick wearing N7 branded everything in the ME5 promo art was a bad move.
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Are we in the right time line, bros?
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>>734146493
And the issue is that, does anyone want more of the Bioware style of writing? More Bioware companions? ME is Shepard and the crew. That's it, that's all. I get why it shouldn't be, but unfortunately, it is.
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>has zero content in the base game
>gets all the best shit in the citadel DLC
Still wish Jack got more. Both her and Miranda should've been able to join you. Just get rid of Vega and keep EDI as a AI.
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That's it, i'm grabbing the peanut butter
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>Andromeda was nearly 10 years ago
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>N-no its not gay to like women with cocks
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This is the Milky Way's ass!
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>>734147481
It was very comparable. But not as hideous. I mean, it was pretty ugly, but not as bad as Veilguard.
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Andromeda had the sense to take place in another galaxy AND take place hundreds of years later. And even then it still almost killed the IP. Veilugard shit on the setting, lore and characters of the past three games and killed the entire IP for good. So I'd say Veilguard was worse.
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Honestly I felt the same. Outside of the first mission on Mars she barely acknowledges your relationship with her and later on you have to reminder her like three separate times that you are in a relationship. I stuck with it because the only other option available at that point was Ashley who is barely a character in ME3.
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>>734147794
Liara always felt like a middle schoolers idea of a relationship
it was hilariously bad how desperate and retarded they made her in 1 then she gets a DLC in 2 and suddenly she does a complete 180 in 3 and she's a space CIA spymaster
just from a writing standpoint she is complete garbage
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>>734148519
More people care for ME than they did for DA, at least. But there's not much you can do with ME. In terms of gameplay, you've done everything before. In terms of story, you dismantled the setting. In terms of characters, you retired one of the best casts in video game history. It's literally over.
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>tfw no peanut butter autismo gf
https://youtu.be/dfZFsmPTYJQ
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>>734148961
3 mp had really cool shit I would’ve liked to see in sp.
They could really let you go wild with class abilities if they wanted since there’s already a precedent for a bunch of different omni weapons.
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>>734149221
they are prepping to go into full production soon
doesn't mean it will be a good game, or that anyone left a bioware will have a job the day after it launches
there is no guarantee that EA won't cancel it halfway through
but it is progressing for now
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To kill what? Salarians? There's no cool enemies left in ME. Are you gonna have me kill Krogan for the Nth time? Are you gonna nerf the Yahg? I guarantee you, we're not even gonna see a single new race in the new game.
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>>734148961
>In terms of characters, you retired one of the best casts in video game history.
This is very sad. A decade passed since ME3 and we somehow went backwards. Companions became worse not better. DA Inquisition, Veilguard, Andromeda, Starfield, Outer Worlds 1 / 2, all have very unlikable cast, that you mostly try to ignore because their presence makes the game worse.
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I'm not gonna expect some genius writing, even if we went back to the old cast, but at least I liked them better than I liked any of the retards that followed. If it is even the same level of bad as Andromeda, I can stomach it, if it's people I like.
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I have no idea, you said there’s nowhere to go in terms of gameplay and I disagreed with that part.
Narratively I do think 3 is as definitive of a conclusion as it gets and continuing from that point will require a reboot, major retcons, or some mix of the two and is a task I do not believe nu-Bioware is up to without botching everything hilariously.
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If Gamble wasn't a hack with a boner for salvaging Andromeda, you would set ME4 a few years after the reaper war. Shepard takes the role of Anderson, guiding you through the entire game. Post war galaxy, realys are damaged, massive power vacuum in the galaxy. Asari and Salarians are hated due to hoarding prothean technology and being limp wristed during the war effort respectively. Humans, Turians and Krogans are the new council. You could make a great game within that timeframe
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>>I have no idea, you said there’s nowhere to go in terms of gameplay and I disagreed with that part.
I mean, we're not even gonna have the previous enemy variety. Let alone the variety that the MP had. You have no husks, no other reaper forces, no collectors, technically, there's not even any batarians. They're an endangered species. No Geth either. You're gonna fight Asari, Krogan, Humans and Turians. That's your gameplay. If you're lucky you'll get some new loki mechs, and vorcha.
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There’s nothing stopping them from introducing a new extragalactic threat per se, but I couldn’t tell you how to do it in a way that wouldn’t just feel like reapers 2.0.
Maybe dial back the stakes for one game and just introduce new ayys for us to fight that aren’t eldritch monsters but are still threatening enough to fuck up a scattered and broken galactic society post reaper invasion.
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>>734149234
The idea behind Andromeda was alright, distance yourself from the aftermath of ME3 as much as possible, but the execution was terrible, godawful really. In better times BioWare could aim for creating something like Stargate Atlantis. It's an easy premise to work with - survivors stranded in alien territory far away from home with no way of going back. A fresh start and a whole new galaxy to explore while still keeping the old lore intact.
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>>There’s nothing stopping them from introducing a new extragalactic threat per se
I would rather kill myself.
>Maybe dial back the stakes for one game and just introduce new ayys for us to fight that aren’t eldritch monsters but are still threatening enough to fuck up a scattered and broken galactic society post reaper invasion.
In the 2023 N7 Day teaser we got an emergency transmission from Andromeda in 2819. We're not post Reaper invasion. We're way post Reaper invasion.
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>>734150060
Does this design fill you with confidence?
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>>734136749
Massive shame.
Then again she's a milf who felt guilty forbirthing three Ardat-Yakshi. Needless to say there is a reason she can't have sex anymore.
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>>734150150
The point of Andromeda is to open a way back to the Milky Way. I don't know why, but it is. Making the entire point of sidestepping the endings moot.
At this point, it seems like Bioware is taking the most retarded choices available to them, just because they can, or they want them to happen, with no consideration for the setting.
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>>734150353
Every Veilguard cutscene I’ve seen is written like a sensitivity training seminar.
I don’t know why it’s so hard for Bioware to find anyone who can write normal human dialogue. AI would probably do a better job of sounding organic.
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>>734150017
One thought I just had is that it could go, in very broad strokes, like this:
- X number of years after reapers destroyed
- destroying the reapers in your galaxy destroyed them everywhere
- there is no longer a cleansing force that destroys civilization before it becomes advanced enough to reach other galaxies with ease
- this vacuum without the reapers allowed [insert cool alien empire here] to develop beyond what they would have done with the reapers
- they now seek to expand their empire and suddenly appear in the ME galaxy to fuck shit up
- the MC leads a team of spectres gathering Intel and doing spec ops missions against the invading force
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>>734150335
Well, it's not Shepard. Apparently, the N7 program survived past the 2800s. Even heard of a military program outliving the Roman empire? There's a first time for everything, I guess.
2819 is so far away to logically predict, it is insane. Mass Effect was supposed to be grounded. In 2819 we might as well, I dunno, re-clone people out of the excrements of their latest dinner, with full personality quirks and memories.
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It does, but Mike denied it being Cerberus.
Maybe Alliance decided that white and blue was worse than black and gold, I don't know. It is definitely supposed to be human, though. Or maybe crippled, leaderless, and broke Cerberus also outlived the Roman empire, not just the N7 program.
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>>734130065
Calling her a child seems a bit much. She seems to be at around 18-21 by Asari standards. Old enough that people recognize her as an adult but not old enough that they would trust her with anything important or earnestly care about her opinions.
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>Andromeda was written like the devs only played the Citadel DLC
That can be said for a lot of Bioware's writing past ME3. They don't seem to understand that the Citadel shit was earned after three whole games with these characters.
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>>734150615
They haven't "confirmed" a timeskip, but if you put it all together, if Liara is an old hag, if >>734142341 is old man Grunt and >>734144986
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They do have a new writer in Mary DeMarle, but the idea that one writer is gonna make every line a gem is delusional at best. Even then, that doesn't stop what other writers will be in the writing room going through it with a fine tuned sensitivity comb and force a certain type of writing to not upset their LGBTQIA2S+ fanbase that they actively cultivated the past 15 years.
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The idea that the Council would not be on the Alliance's ass over Cerberus and the coup is insane to me. Anything that will be considered Cerberus, or Cerberus like would have to be eradicated on sight, while in Council space. Unless the Council gets fucking annihilated, regardless of our efforts, but we have no frame of reference for that.
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>>734150757
They could go for the 40k route of stuff happening so long ago that people lost the knowledge and understanding of bygone days and instead rely on scraps, old tales and distorted legends. BioWare is too retarded for something like that thou. It will take place 600 years in the future but it will feel like only a decade has passed since ME3 making the time skip completely pointless.
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Get back to me when keeping an engine rewrites an entire shit game, and makes the gameplay loop actually worthwhile. Nobody wants to go through Andromeda, because it has no redeeming qualities, unless it caters to your fetish in some way.
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>>734151142
KINO as fuck. Such a shame Bioware butchered Cerberus in ME3. They should have been Renegade's Alliance in ME3.
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>>They could go for the 40k route of stuff happening so long ago that people lost the knowledge and understanding of bygone days and instead rely on scraps, old tales and distorted legends
That's a different franchise, though. Like, that's Mad Max, or Fallout. That's Second Collapse Warhammer. It's just not Mass Effect. It is cool as an idea, like the dystopian future of the X-Men, but it is not the mainline setting, and it would radically change the interstellar travel aspect of Mass Effect, and having a ship to go system to system, because we don't even have FTL, meaning also no FTL guns and likely no Biotics either. Not to mention the scarcity of aliens. It's a complete change of setting. It's cool, you can do it, but it just isn't the mainline return of ME that people want, and the franchise needs right now.
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Absolutely not. Andromeda was just a big disappointment of a spinoff. The writing and characters were terrible, but it was still at least playable, and it had the good sense to sequester itself away as a spinoff so that the main series could continue if it floundered.
Veilguard was offensively bad. Hell, it was more than offensively bad. It took a steaming shit on its predecessors from every angle. It tossed out the lore, themes, design, gameplay, anything it could get its hands on until the only way anyone could tell it was a DA game was by being explicitly told. Furthermore, the diarrhea sludge it caked itself with was so foul that it caused the series itself to subsequently die from sepsis.
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>But then it wouldn’t really be recognizable as Mass Effect anymore.
This isn't the biggest issue, but the things you can't have in future ME, unless it gets bombed back every 50 years, is insane
>Syd Mead aesthetic
>Envirosuit Quarians
>Cerberus
>N7 program
>Any returning cast that isn't Liara and maybe Grunt
>Any previously visited location looking like it did in 2186
You basically keep the names and some vague notion of the alien races, that Bioware will be sure to try and subvert in some way, to basically make a new IP
Like, imagine this N7 comes over from Andromeda to fuck shit up in the Milky Way, only to get her shit pushed in by an entree from the alliance QT3,14 program, that's progressed by 600 years, while she's stuck in 2186 doctrine.
I feel like my brain is going to fucking explode by the absurdity.
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I mean, Andromeda killed Mass Effect. I know that Veilguard went scorched earth, but so did ME3/Andromeda combined. You can't go to the Milky Way and you can't go to Andromeda. Maybe we'll open a wormhole to the Sombrero galaxy were a bunch of LGBTQ rejects ended up and now it's the adventures of Starfeet Academy season 2. Or 3.
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>>734151843
Cerbereus somehow went from fringe Alliance spec ops group going rogue, to massive private entity with billions to spend to private army big enough to invade and occupy planets, and all that in the span of couple of years. BioWare really didn't know what direction they want to take it.
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>>734149267
holy shit, she is so perfect.
death to all faggots that like fat cows like >>734145841
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>>734152271
The only path forward is having a massive time skip, like 1000 years to distance yourself from ME3 and Andromeda and try to take the series from there. Pulling it off would require some actual talent in the writing room which I doubt BioWare still has left.
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>progressives arent autistic racist misanthropes
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>>734152624
How are you gonna do that? What about the husks from synthesis that fucked and had little husk babies? What if they live forever? What about the green lines? What about the Reapers? You can't go back to ME, in any point in time that is after ME3.
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>>734153046
Here's what I'd do.
>Did you pick Synthesis or Control?
>Congrats, you beat Mass Effect, it's over.
>But you can continue with a Destroy surviving ME3 Shepard.
But Bioware for some reason are too dumb to do that.
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I like it and the Inferno armor best, but I wish we could've gotten them in N7 or Alliance colors by default. I know there are mods for that, but I didn't bother with finding those particular ones.
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>>734153197
Totally reasonable.
I find it hard to imagine anyone is that attached to the retarded ME3 endings that there would be a shitstorm over blue and green being functionally retconned. Idiotic reason to limit yourself when making a sequel.
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>>734153523
Well, Bioware were fucking idiots for encouraging, and then sitting on that for 14 years now. They can go back on it after all this time, it would be the wise thing to do. It might make them look like idiots for insisting on it for 14 years, but everyone, I think, will be relieved to hear them say it. It's not like we haven't told them about it enough.
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>There’s a mod that backports Ajax and a couple other 3 armors into 2 I’ve been playing with
Yeah, but I am weirdly picky and puritanical about those kinds of things. I'll be all up for changing the default color scheme of Ajax armor into N7 black or Alliance blue because it makes sense for Shepard to not wear the colors of his enemy (unless they're infiltrating) but porting that model into ME2 or ME1 is out of the question. Personally, I wish they could've stuck with ME1-styled hardsuits throughout the entire trilogy, but it is what it is.
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>>734134607
Agreeing with the others. There is no hope whatsoever. EA’s best bed would be to reboot with a new team handpicked to lead the charge featuring all their best animators and writers they have available to reinvigorate the feanchise. I expect it will be extremely middling, with much of the woke shit sanded down to show an extremely barebones shooter with light ROG mechanics and a bumbling story with baffling one-liners throughout.
I predict we will have more fun watching the inevitable dissolution of Bioware than actually playing the turd they squeeze out.
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>>734154340
The point of bringing Shepard back, isn't exactly Shepard per se, but rather to interact with the crew. If my options are Insurrectionist Grunt, who I am going to have to kill, and Liara, my Shepard bites the bullet 3 frames in.
>>734154396
Sure, but what are the alternatives? Play some fucking rando that just stumbled into something and is somehow the only person that can do everything? Like Inquisitor, or Rook, or Hawke? Or even worse, some rando that was given a mcguffin and now he can do everything, like Ryder. ME is about playing as Shepard and shooting the shit with Wrex and Garrus. Everyone else is second rate at best. Either Bioware delivers that, or they can enjoy their 1.5 million "engaged" players.
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>He wants the specific measures. Girth, length, all that stuff.
I got them for all the notable Asari (based on my own schizo headcanon). Sorted by length, they are as follows:
PeeBee (5") < Rana Thanoptis (6") < Nassana & Dahlia Dantius (7" & 8") < Jona Sederis (9") < Tela Vasir (10") < Tevos (11") < Aria T'Loak (12") < Benezia (13") < Irissa (14") < Aethyta (15") < Shiala (16") < Rila & Falere (17" & 18") < Samara (19") < Liara (20") < Morinth (21") < Sha'ira (22")
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>>I predict we will have more fun watching the inevitable dissolution of Bioware than actually playing the turd they squeeze out.
EA won't dissolve Bioware. They will keep Gary McKay as GM, they will fire the ME leads, and keep the rest as a support studio for Sports FC. A fate one could say that's worse than death.
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>best looking armor by far
>fully complete in the game files with individual stats and lore and everything
>unobtainable without cheats
Love those big pauldron armors in 1 but it still weirds me out. Didn’t even bother to add them to the loot pool in LE.
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it will never be good. there's no need to hope. no point. AAA game studios don't know how to make games anymore. they dont know who to make them for.
from 2002 to 2015 bethesda made morrowind, oblivion, fallout 3, skyrim, fallout 4 and over a dozen fully fledged expansion packs for those games
between 2001 and 2010 rockstar made 4 GTA games, 2 GTA stories games, and a bunch of DLC for GTA 4, and also read dead 1, bully, the warriors and a few other smaller projects
between 1998 and 2012, bioware developed BG1 and 2, kotor 1, jade empire, neverwinter nights 1, 2 dragon age games and the entire ME trilogy.
its been between 8-12 or more years since any of those studios have developed a note worthy game unless you count note worthy flops.
AAA gaming is dead. they dont know how to make games anymore. or theyre not allowed for some reason. maybe having upcoming games drives investment better than actually releasing them. i dont know. but when they do eventually come out theyre invariably shit
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>>734155731
Even if you bring Shepard back, if you saddle him with a bunch of nobodies, you're not winning. You need the crew. ME1+ME2 people. Fuck Allers, fuck Traynor, fuck Cortez and fuck Vega, they all get a trip out the airlock. Waste of fucking resources.
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>>734155971
I think people would be on board for new characters as long as they’re well written or just cool. Everyone goes mental for the aliens so put more of them in.
Gimme a krogan with fat tiddies and a turian girl that isn’t trapped in a dogshit game.
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>>734155971
next ME should star an N7 aviator
>space combat doesn't work like that
It should play out like a chess game with barrel rolls
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>>734156121
>The writers room is going strong, and we’ve got a lot figured out about how it fits within the Mass Effect canon, and where it sits in respect to the new game. The show will explore a brand-new story within the universe’s timeline, and will be set after the original trilogy. It won’t be a retread of Commander Shepard’s story – because after all … that’s YOUR story, isn’t it?
>https://blog.bioware.com/2025/11/07/n7-day-2025/
Sure. If that's our story, I can't wait to play Admiral Shepard. Shepard will never return in a capacity outside of player character.
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>I think people would be on board for new characters as long as they’re well written or just cool.
But they won't be. I mean, they've release DA2, SW:ToR, ME3, DA:I, ME:A, Anthem, DA:tV, all had shit casts. You honestly expect me to believe that NOW Bioware will make the good cast. They were saving it for ME:2819.
If they could sure. But they won't be. So why even make the hypothetical? Like, what if ME3 hadn't actually fucked the setting?
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>>734156651
I liked him so much, I forgot he existed.
I remembered Cortez more than Javik.
Javik had one schtick, and now it's old.
Forget him.
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Is she a moron?
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Please don’t take my post to mean I think ME4 is going to accomplish what Bioware has been struggling to do for the past decade now. It’s DOA 100%.
It’s just frustrating and sad to watch them fumble what they used to do effortlessly. ME2 threw most of the old cast to the side and gave you a lot of new faces and it still worked out good.
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>it still worked out good.
Did it, though?
Do you forget the shitstorm over the sidelining of the ME2 cast in the finale of the trilogy, and the lack of any meaningful interaction, or closure with your ME2 LIs? It's why they had to cancel their DLC plans and make Citadel instead. Because they fucked up so bad. Patrick Weekes said so. He was the one that convinced Casey to give players closure in a DLC that was about the characters, since the game did not. This is famous.
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>>734157034
I remember being 8 years old when that first x06 trailer came out. It completely altered the trajectory of my taste and I'm eternally grateful to those Canadians for introducing to Syd Mead, to Tangerine Dream, to a hobby of pulp and science fiction space opera dumpster diving
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https://youtu.be/ZYnjoRbODfQ?si=gKmOOUzCQUbElSBV
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>>734157705
They’re good at world building and writing really flowery prose.
In NV’s case it’s just fun to play since all the groundwork from 3 so all they had to do was improve from there. Won’t pretend like it isn’t a buggy unfinished piece of shit but it’s still my buggy unfinished piece of shit.
That said KOTOR 1 >>>>>> 2
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>>734157385
They kind of fucked up Sheploo in the final release. He was originally much more of a Captain Kirk type but they made him look sort of gay biker in ME2 and ME3. Giving Shepard the beard in 3 works a lot better than the federline
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>Young Yvonne
>Hag Yvonne
>At the same time
What a time to be alive
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I'll shill for Pillars and Deadfire, about 500 hrs combined across both, and Tyranny is its own tragic little sideshow of missed potential.
But it's Sith Lords and NV cunts can't get over, Pillars is verbose in its worldbuilding & char writing which can be grating if you're not in the mood for it, but if you do want to settle in to a session of balance-man encounters and dry ''gritty'' fantasy its just the thing - Sithlords and NV brought that specific appeal to vastly more prominent IP.
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I did not know who Robbie Williams was at the time either
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>>734151587
There is an opportunity to do the two though
>500 years after the reapers were wiped out (destroy ending)
>all the mass effect relays were destroyed ending FTL
>citadel worlds banded together to create their own FTL relays but progress is slow to roll it out across the galaxy.
>races were scattered everywhere, starting new cultures and allowing new species to advance into space
>while the core worlds are basically back to normal, the big project is to build relays further out into the frontier, wild west style.
>most of the galaxy is forgotten about or unknown, protagonists bounce between the sleek scifi interior and rundown, backwaters of the frontier
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>>retard that skips are dialogue detected
>Jack had 1:57 of audio, including secret audio, in the entire game, disappeared after seeing her once in the Purgatory club, and you didn't even get to say goodbye to her
How does not skipping dialogue fix that?
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>>734156882
I know people like to jerk off the 80s and 90s, but I want to go back to the 2000s. I was only 10 in 2007 and I feel like I missed out on a lot.
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Having both ammo systems (maybe make certain weapons use one or the other, or have modifications you can do that swap the type) would make the most sense to me. Let's say you're exploring an entirely unknown world and it has hostile life forms on it. There'd be absolutely no logical reason that you'd find handy dandy Council Space Brand™ "heat sinks" on such a world.
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Listen, if it takes you 500 years to not make a relay network, do something else. Like, it's clearly not working. Nobody is waiting 500 years for someone to put up new relays. Maybe the Asari will stick to that route, since they living for millennia, but humans and especially Salarians will find their own alternatives. Unrealistic at the very least.
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>I was only 10 in 2007 and I feel like I missed out on a lot.
it was peak, absolute peak.
but dont be dismayed, its just another thing that brings painfully into remembrance of how good thing could be.
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>>734130065
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>>734160337
Highest EMS ending has Shepard breathing
Shepard is like 60% Reaper and Synthetic parts
Edi's alive, Geth probably need to be repaired
You're supposed to question the authority of the Reaper boy, is he telling me the whole truth?
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The Suicide Mission should have been placed at the tail end of Mass Effect 3. It was the best part of ME2 (and perhaps of the enitre trilogy) and would have been a great way to end things with high stakes. Also the squadmates who could die in a game were pretty much always shafted content-wise afterwards, Garrus and Tali excepted, so no SM in ME2 would have very likely allowed more stuff to do for characters like Jack, Grunt or Mordin. I wanted a Krogan squadmate in ME3.
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>>734161223
Saying the ME3 squad cast is ass is basically saying the ME1 cast is ass which means you are a gay homosexual prison pussy
Edi was good, Javik was great. Vega didn't need to be a squadmate but I like him as a character. I do concede that Kirrahe and Legion should have been squadmates
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>>734161407
It was disappointing coming directly from 2.
I love Garrus and Tali and EDI is kind of cool I guess but that’s really about it. No Krogan or Salarian or any other cool aliens was a let down as was having nobody return from 2 to join your team because Bioware wrote themselves into a corner with the suicide mission.
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>>734161552Cut your dick off and join the 41%
>>734161604
Correct me if I'm wrong, but both Garrus and Tali can die in the SM, correct?
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>>734161590
you get like two conversations each with each new me2 character. They're cardboard cutouts save for Legion. Garrus and Tali get development because they were already pretty developed per ME1.
>>734161604
yea Kirrahe and Wrex should have joined up after the Sur Kesh mission.
But I'm not exactly missing Mordin, Samara, Thane, Jack or Miranda from my squad
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>>734161668
>ex
lmao
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Everyone can die in the SM, leading to Shepard dying at the end because Joker doesn't have the strength to pull him up
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>>you get like two conversations each with each new me2 character. They're cardboard cutouts save for Legion
And still better and more memorable than anyone from ME1 not named Wrex. In fact, more memorable than the vast majority of video game characters. Thane, Grunt, Miranda, Samara, Jack, all very recognizable. Not Jacob.
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>>734161765
Well, that is a lie. Because if you can include 2 people that can die in the squad, why can you not include the others in the squad? Because Bioware ran out of time and had to rush the game out. We have on-disc data with cut content that put Miranda on the ship. We have Patrick Weekes on the record to cut Jack for Tali, because they didn't have time to do both. Patently, dying wasn't an issue. Time was an issue.
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>>734161663
Everyone can die in the SM (including Shepard if he's the only one alive to run for the Normandy), that said Garrus and Tali received a different treatment and were the only companions to not be thrown into a conrer in ME3.
Even Wrex got completely sidelined after ME1 because he could die on Virmire and it sucks.
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>>734161828
Garrus in 1 is alright but his presence in the story basically falls off a cliff after the Citadel and his one quest where you kill the Salarian guy. You’d think he would be more important considering how much they plugged him in all the promo art.
Tali too. Should be your number 1 Geth expert but she basically stops existing after the Citadel.
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>>734161823
not as a squadmate
>>734161828
you ask a normie gamer what their favorite squaddies are and they'll tell you Garrus, Liara Tali.
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>>734162106
So you make a game with 3 squadmates? What is the argument here? Like, we already know sidelining the ME2 squadmates went badly. So badly that they had to patch in a dozen things in the game with the EC, and cancel a DLC to do Citadel instead, just so you could get that time with the ME2 cast. Like, it is insane that Bioware would "waste" a DLC just to make content for some characters that are barely in the game, let alone the squad, because they could be dead. That just doesn't happen. It was a bad choice, and Bioware paid for it.
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Moot if you can hear me please remove these newfags
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>>734156426
It just looks derpy.
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>>734162269
I'm not arguing with you, have a present for the end of another ME thread. You've probably never seen this before
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>>734162920
You say that, but you did argue with me. Garrus and Tali only became popular because of ME2, where they really hit their stride, and Liara because of LotSB and ME3, where she was the only bitch you could fuck, and had more content than any other character in the entire game. Yes, preferential treatment made some characters more memorable. Do you think Miranda would have been less memorable if things were reversed?
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>>734163642
>They both were insanely popular in ME1 already
Nobody played ME1. It was a financial failure and Bioware had to sell themselves to EA. They were going bankrupt thanks to it and Jade Empire. ME2 made ME popular.
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>>734163642
I think in Tali’s case her design did a lot of the heavy lifting. She really has no personality beyond being there for optional exposition on Geth lore. After she gives you Saren’s audio file to give to the council she never does anything important again compared to Liara.
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>>734163698
lol
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>>734164169
Not good numbers. I don't know what to tell you. It is a well known fact that the game was a financial failure, and Bioware was going bankrupt. If it weren't, they wouldn't have sold themselves to EA.
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>>734164268
I mean...2 million copies sold by January 08, it's only beaten by Halo and COD that were block busters with 8 and 4 million. ME was made with like a 10th of the budget too
I know you have no idea how any of this works, but Bioware didn't sell themselves to anyone, EA purchased Bioware from Microsoft
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