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This "teaser" was nothing really. Idk man. I'd love a good new Mass Effect game, but with BioWare's recent track record and news about the state of things at the studio, my expectations are pretty low. It's really up to you. You're able to change classes between games, so you know. One thing...

Also re: "cringe Marvel humor". Citadel definitely leans more on the comedic side. It's fair to say that it knowingly gets "campy". Is that the same as "cringe Marvel humor", though? I don't know. What is "cringe Marvel humor", anyways? I'd say any humor that is tonally jarring is cringey...

The characters. The big appeal of the Mass Effect series, (and BioWare RPGs in general) is their cast of interesting, entertaining characters that you get to know in the process of bringing them on missions and chatting with them back on the Normandy. And with the ME trilogy, many of these...

Right, the confrontation with Wrex on Virmire was a great moment. Added meaning to your interactions through the later games, too. One really underwhelming aspect of Andromeda for me was the squad member characters, certainly. The fun, interesting, and emotionally engaging cast of characters...

Is there anything you would consider "conflict among the protagonists" in previous Mass Effect games, or other Bioware RPGs?

I would say the rest of the Mass Effect trilogy, Mass Effect 2 and 3, are definitely good and worth playing if you already enjoyed ME1. One pretty cool thing is that you can import your save files from each previous game, carrying over your decisions. If you're playing on PC I would highly...

The unofficial patch for Mass Effect 2 Legendary Edition was finally released a few days ago! The Legendary Edition wasn't a total disaster, but it was still pretty buggy, and Bioware only bothered with one patch that didn't fix a whole lot. Unofficial patches by the modding community were...

It can seem a bit forced, but you may be underestimating the ability of government leaders to stick their heads in the sand. It's also in line with how the Council was characterized as skeptical about the existence of the Reapers at every turn in ME1. You can point out some similarities...

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition outperformed expectations | VentureBeat It seemed like MELE was doing pretty good at launch but it's nice to get further confirmation. No solid numbers given, but EA is talking up how it outperformed expectations and that it, along with the two player co-op...

Ok. Fallout Tactics came out 3 years after Fallout 2, right? I would argue that the feeling of getting Tactics instead of a proper new Fallout game added to some fans being unhappy with the game. Veers into what I said about spinoffs interfering with the main series of games. You say my...

Again, Fallout 3 wasn't a spinoff. It was sold as the third game in the main Fallout series. And if a different Fallout spinoff got clobbered for just being a bad game...you're not contradicting my point. Gamers are cool with spinoffs if they're decent games in their own right, they don't...

And your examples seemed to involve different circumstances than just gamers not wanting spinoffs. Do you have other examples?

It all depends. If something feels like an obvious cash grab, fans won't like it. If you get a spinoff when there hasn't been a new mainline game for the franchise in a while, fans won't like it - eg Metroid Prime Federation Force. I can't speak for Front Mission, but with Fallout 3 that wasn't...

Sure. Nintendo milking Mario for all he's worth is obviously intentional. I meant that Nintendo is an anomaly when compared to the rest of the video game industry in how it make makes so many spin offs using its characters and franchises. Like, the only character that even comes close is Sonic...

Yes, I was including that plucky little plumber as a "mascot character" lol. Really Nintendo is an anomaly with the sheer amount of spin offs they've made using Mario and other characters. I was asking about franchises more directly comparable to Mass Effect, which is why I mentioned Halo and...

You know how we've never gotten a space sim game for Mass Effect? Well at one point there was one in development... For the Nintendo DS. No, not 3DS, just DS. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-07-01-bioware-prototyped-mass-effect-spin-off-for-nintendo-ds "It was going to kinda be a...

Mass Effect lead writer Mac Walters actually talked a bit in an interview about how the Mass Effect movie project never got off the ground. What's interesting is that he mentioned he thinks Mass Effect would be better suited for a TV series or miniseries rather than a movie -- which is just...

The relays actually are replicable. The Protheans were able to construct a one-way relay, the Conduit, and it's a key plot point of ME1. And as Battlegrinder pointed out, there actually are examples throughout ME2 and ME3 of Reaper technology being safely reverse engineered. In the Leviathan...

Hubris. The Illusive Man's problem was hubris. He saw the threat of Reapers and thought, it would be a waste to just destroy them. How much greater would humanity be if we could master the very things that presume to use us for their ends? Hubris isn't rational. It's a common literary theme...