http://t0.gstatic.co...u45eQ2bh2vxryQgLook, Casey himself has said time and time again that Mass Effect 3 is a good entry point. This doesn't mean they're going to be ignoring players, or descisions, or that they're going to retcon everything you've ever done. All this means is that you don't need to sink 100+ hours of your life on games that came out years ago to enjoy this one.
Every entry in every game series needs to be approachable. I've said this before in a few other threads. It's the assumption that comes with the medium. You could jump into Fallout: New Vegas without picking up the other 5, you could hop right into any of the Assassin's Creed games, or Halo or any CoD. This can be copy pasted for numerous other series on consoles, just off the top of my head there's Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age, Diablo, Warcraft, Starcraft, Pokemon, Devil May Cry, Mario, Banjo Kazooie and Tomb Raider.
That doesn't mean I think Mass Effect is the same but it's an assumption of a medium. When you go to a movie sequel you don't mind seeing the previous ones because it's maybe 5 hours out of your life and you can likely find them all on Netflix. When you want to get into a book series you know you need to read the older ones because it's all a connected thread. The issue is that when you see a game with a number on the end it's a much smaller fear that you'll need to know what's happened because games with strong stories are even at this stage far and few between.
Because of this known cultural assumption of gaming they need to prepare for new players, and they need the new players to know that they're not being treated like diseased rats just because they don't want to drop the price of a new game on all of the old games in the series and the optional content. The truth of those statements adds up to this, if you haven't played before we have a story device to bring you up to speed. In this case that story device is another motion comic. Which is also what was referenced when Silverman said that it's hard to remember all of your choices.
I'd also like to note that not everyone has played Mass Effect more than once, not everyone plays it like it's the only game that was ever released. When most people buy a game, they place it once then they put it down and play other things.
These forums are not a majority, you are all the vocal minority and you know why that is? Because most other people move onto other games once they beat them, some stick around to finish off achievements but almost none go ahead and complain about it for years. So yes, most people will have forgotten descisions, most people will have forgotten characters, and Bioware knows that. That doesn't mean they're changing their descisions, it means that they're reminding those who may have forgotten just what they did.
Badpie, you also seriously quoted Silverman out of context, he wasn't saying your romance didn't matter, he was saying that a new player wouldn't need to freak out because they don't have one.
Of course, none of you rabid dogs who've been fueling 13 pages of nothing but vitrol will see any reason anyway, and once Mass Effect 3 is out, I'll likely never bother to even come back to these forums so sure, tear apart every little quote that is put out as though it's the end of the world, becuase clearly you all have been making games for the better part of 20 years.
EDIT: Hell, look at the article, it's incredibly biased, it's the Fox News of gaming, and every studio that isn't catering the incredibly specific niche that the writers like.
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