Steve Blum's not in Mass Effect 1. He's in Mass Effect 2 and 3.
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Val the Moofia Boss
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Oh really? Huh. Wrex sounded just like him.
No, Wrex's voice actor is Steven Barr.
What's funny about Mass Effect 2 is that Steve Blum's in a super obvious role early on, then in a way less obvious one, but there's at least one bad guy in a DLC party member loyalty mission that also kinda sounds like him, so I didn't peg the major role Steve got.
A new teaser trailer for a new Mass Effect game, likely in the Milky Way Galaxy. I'm interested to see how it turns out, even though Andromeda burned me a bit.
Arlos
Sad Monarchist
Seem to be post-Red ending.
Look like after the Andromeda mess, they finally decided to tackle a proper sequel.
I must admit to a slight pike a excitement at the thought.
I wonder if they resolved the problem they had? Aka, too many choices outcome to keep porting them to a new game.
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
I’m guessing that the galaxy is more or less in a state of “Post Apocalypse” and fixing the relays will be part of the plot
It will be really hard to set up a Galactic Government and many colonies may have declared independence or made their own star nations
Also, I think maybe less than 1% of the galaxy has only been discovered....so they may meet something new
It will be really hard to set up a Galactic Government and many colonies may have declared independence or made their own star nations
Also, I think maybe less than 1% of the galaxy has only been discovered....so they may meet something new
Please tell me that's not Liara, I'm really, really tired of Liara.
Overall...eh, we'll see. Bioware as a studio hasn't been doing well for a long while (in terms of making good games, I have no idea about the financials). Mass Effect was always very interesting as a setting, if they manage to resist the temptation to cook up another galaxy shaking mega plot and have us do something smaller, more limited in scale, this could be really interesting.
And hey, look on the bright side. Between 3 and Andromeda, it's not like it could make things worse.
Arlos
Sad Monarchist
Now you’re just tempting fate.
Mass Effect is like that one ex who you keep swearing off, but every time she changes her relationship status to "Single" on FB, you can't help but hope...
I'm... mildly disgusted that Liara seems to be returning yet again. Yes, she's going to live to the ripe old age of a thousand years if someone doesn't kill her first, which makes her a perfect viewpoint character for the series. But I think I've had enough of her to last me a lifetime. She's much more interesting than, say, whatever bland bowl of oatmeal is serving as the Male Human Default Squadmate in the game, but she's not nearly as good as many of the other characters. I'd say even one-offs like Thane Krios or Zaeed Massani were more fulfilling to interact with than she was.
Aside from that, though I'm cautiously optimistic. The Post-Red Ending galaxy might be the most interesting of the three endings to explore, and with no galactic threats on the horizon, maybe Mass Effect will finally have enough room to tell an excellent story. Instead of fighting to contain the Reapers, why don't we focus on a father hunting for his lost daughter, or an interstellar investigator paid to hunt an escaped convict across known space, or a recon team that finds the jackpot while searching for pre-battle resource caches.
Probably won't be much exploring in this game, though. Not after what happened to Andromeda.
Overall, this trailer feels like a promise that things are coming, but not necessarily of things to come. Think Poncho Chief. The trailer is conveying an idea of searching through the rubble, rather than showing a trailer for a specific plot.
Yeah. Granted, I didn't play Andromeda, but I watched the trailer and some playthrough highlights, and the characters didn't stick with me. They just weren't memorable, not in their design or the lines they spoke. I don't know if that's because of the production issues that Andromeda ran into, or if Bioware is just so far up its ass that it can't write good stories anymore. I'm just a little worried.
Liara is fine if she's just an Anderson level character, not a permanent party member. Have her be available to talk to from time to time at a major hub location like a Citadel equivalent, but not always around the main ship.
Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
Sounds like a much more chaotic galaxy than the one we knew in ME1. Doubtless, some Krogan Warlords are going to be setting up petty-kingdoms and empires with Wrex (temporarily) unable to keep them under control. Batarian slavers (what's left of them) are going to have a field day.
Von_Lohengram
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Liara is the logical choice for two reasons:
1. She is guaranteed to be one of the crew that survives until the very end of ME3
2. She has a natural lifespan over about 900 left, leaving the teaser nicely vague about when the new ME takes place.
That doesn't mean she'll be a major character. Like Colonel Blair did in Wing Commander, she could become part of the supporting cast.
1. She is guaranteed to be one of the crew that survives until the very end of ME3
2. She has a natural lifespan over about 900 left, leaving the teaser nicely vague about when the new ME takes place.
That doesn't mean she'll be a major character. Like Colonel Blair did in Wing Commander, she could become part of the supporting cast.
Liara is a crap idea because it relies on her ceasing to be the Shadow Broker. She would make more sense as the MC's boss than anything else.
Liara ceasing to be the shadow broker sounds like a great idea, because having her become the shadow broker (or even any kind of information broker at all) was dumb.
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So...
Playing ME2, just finished the recruiting Tali mission. Fighting the Geth was painful.
ME2 actually doesn't have a plot, most of the game is running around on errands to one recruit people or two trying instill loyalty in them.
I'm playing generally Paragon, though not 100% of the time.
Successfully(I think) romancing Miranda.
I've got other side quests, like helping Liara on I think it was Ilos? Seems I've got a Garrus loyalty mission coming up.
Playing ME2, just finished the recruiting Tali mission. Fighting the Geth was painful.
ME2 actually doesn't have a plot, most of the game is running around on errands to one recruit people or two trying instill loyalty in them.
I'm playing generally Paragon, though not 100% of the time.
Successfully(I think) romancing Miranda.
I've got other side quests, like helping Liara on I think it was Ilos? Seems I've got a Garrus loyalty mission coming up.
No, it does, but it's more of an overarching one.
Its sort of like the general "beat the Goa'uld" plot line that Stargate SG-1 had for most of its run: it's there in the background most of the time, possibly not relevant to a specific episode's story, but it takes over every so often.
There's a reason why contemporary reviews of ME2 compared it to "a season of a TV show."
With Liara front and center, it's probably going to be a dramatic stunning crime story about an underground war between warring families that each desire to take a larger cut of the pie, changing the course of the Universe forever, blahblahblah.
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No, I understand there is a final objective to the game. It’s just past the first two missions or so, it’s episodic, and entirely up to the player.
Which makes the game simultaneously feel hectic and drawn out at the same time.