no Seth Green, period.

Why?

N1 - Carrie-Ann Moss. An old asari matriarch or Aria's cameo (some DLC videonotes and weapon stuffs).

N2 - Martin Sheen as a cameo for Illusive Man. Some old beacon with a prerecorded message for a side-mission? I would like it.

N3 - Joaquin Phoenix as a some sort of mature 'thinker' guy in a team. Maybe, a lead researcher or something?

N4 - Gerard Butler for a frontline councillor. And if there would be a '300' reference I'd buy it without hesitation ;D And btw this guy can make some interesting insight into frontline dialogues and social behaviour for some characters (considering his efforts for the 'Law-Abiding Citizen' movie)

N5 - Keanu Reeves for some sort of alien Japanese-like warrior leader. Some idealist alien faction with a knack for philosophy. Could kill the word budget alone though, but it's worth it.

N6 - Kevin Spacey for some cool guy to be a semi-friendly counterpart for the protagonist. You know, someone challenging player at some point for leadership, someone that cool to have a chance to win this leadership. 

N7 - Allegra Clark for a secretary. This would be magnificent to say the least!

N8 - Brian Bloom for a serious squadmate this time with a little knack for sardonic humour.

N9 - Kim Bubbs for a computerized suit support, like EDI was in ME2-3, and, probably, AI on board of the flagship.

N10 - Moon Dailly for a crew member, better if a support person like chief medic. One that can insist on what's important. Softly.

N11 - Beata Harju for a combat reporter or a support crew member. Heard her once on finnish radio and totally loved.

N12 - Mirjami Heikkinen for a settlement leader, or some secondary base chief. Strong, recognizable voice with a scent of leadership.

N13 - Kazumi Evans + Madeline Merlo + Shylo Sharity for a band in some club. You'll get an audience thanks to that alone, trust me

N14 - Jonathan Groff for some kind of a clumsy yet sympathetic guy around. Somewhat close to Alister from Dragon Age: Origins, I think.

Not a complete list, ofc, but I think you get the idea.

Ah I see, it´s the asari fanbase.

 

The conversation with the councillor is one of the most hated conversations in the entire series? I didn´t know. Perhaps Shep didn´t say anything because it would be hypocrisy after blowing up the collector base full of reaper-prothean tech because he was too dumb to call Hackett/Council or turning over the base to one of the current enemies. Let´s not forget the exquisite prothean decor, we collected for Cerberus in ME 2 and the pyramid which probably turned up in Cerberus hands.

 

And well the Alliance knew of the reapers coming soon, not in a hundred years or so but in a few months or years. Still it was only one asari who worked at the prothean archive.

Allliance was one of the few to decline Reaper threat as a reality. Remember Udina?..

Well... This turned out blaming the asari so fast. I am amused.

So you say asari are responsible for all the trouble with Reapers coming? You say asari have ruined the defence of the Milky Way with not_sharing the Thessia Archives?..

1. Rachni weren't considered sapient and civilized enough to settle diplomacies with. When rachni became a problem, it was salarians who came up with their 'sterile krogan nation' solution, which in my books is nazism. 

You really think sharing advanced tech with them is a good idea?

2. Turians... When a turian sees a problem, turian shoots it into face first. Everything that can be used as a wepon will be used as a weapon in their hands. Remember the First Contact war, yes? Let's share some advanced tech with turians, so that once some power-crazy turian hits the floor he/she succeeds. 

btw, it was asari who bargained the peace between turians and humans. 

3. Krogans are victims of genocide with a full right to seek revenge after the genophage went live. Also krogans are alogical, violent living tanks with weapons suitted for vehicles in their hands... Yes, let's share some tech with the guys. That will ensure the peace and reinforce MW defences, no doubt.

4. Quarians have created the sapient AI nation - the Geth. Short after that quarians failed to maintain control of that advanced AI nation, 'd lost their home planet and went gypsies.

Yes, let's share some tech with them and hope that they won't totally give in to another AI nation, thousands times greater than the Geth.

And so on. Point is - there were no qualified and trusty nations in the MW to share such an impressive piece, you see? The cure looks much worse than the disease, so there's no point in trying.

I'm a woman and yes I'm a feminist

Which is as obvious as it could ever be. i state it again - equality doesn't mean your particular group should have benefits. And I don't mean neither 'female' or 'feminist' an insult, it's just a reality statement.

As for the rest - I'm fine with a fact that you have an opinion on complicated matters. I just don't like the very opinion.

See the title.  This is a thread for suggestions and discussions.  No being rude, no bashing others for their opinions, please.

 

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Whoa, there. No need to be that agressively feminist.

1. Equal numbers of romances, beginning to end, for male and female player character.  At least one option each for gay and lesbian player characters as well.

Good idea, I like it. Though quantity doesn't always mean quality.

Limit the number of romance options.  If the series follows one protagonist, allow romances to begin mid-series with the "base" romances from the first game.  If not, then you can have brand new romances every game and no one's going to mind that too much. 

Well, that's actually what ME developers usually do. Most romances are from the first/second game, with only a few short-term relationships.

If this is a series, rather than a single game, romances should build on the relationship through time, through ups and downs. 

I'd say a yes if not for the 'should' part. Variety is nice. Breaking up with a partner from the first game when playing a second sounds pretty  interesting for me. Specially if party members are going to change their attitude too much (just look what they've done to Leliana and Varric in DA:I).

1. It is very much not okay to take options away from straight women or LGBT people, while still leaving straight males with all of their options.

For now I can say that straight male gamers are the ones with LESSER choices to romance in last BW games. Specially if you take the Inquisition. Favoring female gamers or LBGT ones or prioritizing these groups over, let's say, straight male gamers is just about that wrong.

Equality doesn't mean YOU should have the privilege.

Breakups and deaths of LIs are fine if that needs to be part of their story, however, unavoidable breakups and deaths of LIs and/or betrayals should not ONLY happen to the female player character. 

Thanks. we got already that you're a female feminist one. Why don't you see that male gamers can lose LIs due to unavoidable breakups too? Miranda, maybe? Or Kelly Chambers? I liked her a lot, you know. 

Anyway, why focus on your particular group being offended if every group has some players not liking the sits? What kind of selfish is that?

Bah, I didn't like the robotic dog at all (although I did like that the the model serial number was K-9 )

 

I replaced the robodog with Urz, Shepard's most steadfast companion.

 

I think we might see Varren in Andromeda as well. The Krogan are sure to bring some and once they get there, they'll probably bread like rabbits in Australia.

And scale scratch.

Yeah, extranet purchases light years away from the Milky Way. 

I know ads are annoying, but honestly not that much.

It would also be fun to see the squad interact with one.

Stop toying with my imagination, please. Me2, remember?..

Asari

Miranda was in no way a femme fatale or an ice-queen.

Miranda was an ice cream.

On the other hand, I think I can live without most of 'must have things' stated above... If we get an asari LI.

Too much angst will just eat away at you. Go find some distraction beside Mass Effect.

Some of that is a picturesque exaggeration of course. I don't dream of Mass Effect: Andromeda at night just like at all.

It won't have Merrill anyway.

Well, except that the Conduit and the return of the Reapers are both discussed in an audio clip which the Council believes is genuine enough to strip Saren of his Spectre status.

So Saren and Benezia are both total nutjobs? Yeah, I guess that makes sense. But if Saren's plan revolves around Reapers that don't exiat, that doesn't exactly make him sound like a threat.

Spectres have a lot of sensible information in a case, kind that does not actually need to go public. It shouldn't be sold either, let's say, to Cerberus or any other terrorist organisation like batarian government. Do not forget that there's still a testimony over there of a dock worker, which surely started some doubts. I believe Mass Effect weapons can be traced just like the conventional guns on Earth now, so - who knows?.. A body of a fellow Spectre with a gun wound from a Saren's hand cannon is worrying to say the least. 

Audio track isn't a random track either. I believe it can be linked with the extracted audiochip (from a geth brain), that should be enough to believe it's genuine. 

Tevos (I believe it's her or the Salarian Councilor) said that Saren doesn't truly believe into the return of the Reapers, but using it to convince emotionally unstable Shepard and Benezia into operating in the way he desires. Which also makes sense.

And here we go about 'reading skills'. Yes.

Great find! Cheers, and ty for this insight!

Anyway, Inquisition is great.

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Argh. 

And anyone who thinks otherwise is on BioWare's payroll. Got it.

Nope. Anyone who decides to derail a ME:A thread into 'protecting Inquisition' is payrolling.

This thread is a plea to to the ME:A dev team and a following discussion. You like the Inquisition? Fine, I get it. Now please follow the way back here and state again how much you like this nuisance.

But please, don't ask me to like fangirls.

Note: my signature states that I am a fangirlism disapprover. What did you expect me to do, really?..

Note2: please, refrain from further escalating this verbal exchange. I am not going to change my POV and the discussion on this matter won't be any constructive. Feel free to contact me in PM if you see it fitting.

Ew. Was going to respond to your actual post until I saw this.

Sure, no problem with that.

You see - I am a tolerant person when the discussions stays on the topic. When a person decides to 'protect' the unfinished, unshaped, utterly broken product it's all his right. Just as it's my right to dislike such a person. 

And please notice I'm gentle with him, even if hate the attitude.

At least we have a homeworld, not infested with Geth.

Yeah, same here.

Without Shepard's intervention, the GETH would have wiped you out. You can't take the credit.  Shepard saved your race starting with Tali in ME1.  Keelah Selai should be "Thanks to Shepard, we have a homeworld again."

Those ignorant space gypsies, you'll never get any recognition from them.

All i could focus on was graphical artifacts.

 

Maybe im misinterpreting what you mean. If you are getting artifacting it's not a glitch, you need to decrease the overclock on your GPU while running the program that is artifacting. 

 

Maybe you mean just glitches and poor AI in general, if so artifacting is a different thing.

My GPU isn't overclocked at all, but I still do get these. And no, it's not my GPU, because the problem is Inquisition-specific.

4 of those 5 things were failures and the other wasn't nearly as impressive as me roflstomping the entire geth consensus singlehandedly with science.

Still, at least you did something of merit to help the war effort *glares at Tevos*

*stares at Tevos*

Councilor Tevos ensured the asari dominance in all the galaxy for centuries, brokering peace in situations far from what is usually called 'complicated'. For example, quarians were not sentenced to any harsh treatment after the tremendous crime they've committed (letting an armed AI rule a space sector. A SECTOR!).

Tevos ensured the end of the First Contact War, so that the Turians did not wipe out humanity.

Tevos helped cover the dirty story for both Anderson and the humanity, making the first human Spectre failure a well-guarded secret.

Tevos helped Anderson to get the Cerberus ass after all the Omega business and dealings with Aria.

And after all Tevos is an asari, that tells everything. Tevos is awesome.

5 points. 

I am 99% certain I am not a financial record used for paying one's employees.

 

However if BioWare wants to put me on their payroll, I do accept cash.

 

or they can pay me in Tim Hortons coffee and timbits. I'm fine with that.

Trust me, you need to talk to that AlanC9 guy.

Thermal Clips.

 

Plus, there's plenty of silly writing in Mass Effect(which while not lore breaking is still something you hate on DA:I for) like Saren risking his spectre status to find something that lets him access a part of the Citadel that was very public and he could have easily gotten to with his spectre status.

 

and of course, becoming space Jesus in Mass Effect 2. They don't even tell us how it's possible to bring somebody back after a fall from orbit with a compromised hardsuit beyond "lots of credits and medical space magic".

 

 

I kept up with the DA:I development. As I said, if you don't want them to show us planned features only to not get everything they showed us then we'll not be seeing much of ME:A until much closer to launch because things change and they can't fit everything they wanted to in.

 

People often complain when they don't give us any news and then complain if they show us something and it ends up being cut content. If you ask me they revealed the game too early and Bethesda has the right idea by revealing Fallout 4 only about 5 months before launch.

I hope it won't offend you if I call you a payroll? Please, go find AlanC9.

I'm sure you two are going to get along very, very nice.

Set yourself free, developers.

 

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Give in to the temptation, and let go. See what happens. Let the world see that BioWare can make a romance-free game without it having any significant impact on its success.

 

Free yourself from the resources needed to do all the extra voicover and writing.

 

Free yourself from the inescapable rage backlash over every romance detail.

 

Developers, set yourselves free.

 

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Don't do kids then. Please.