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What if the next Mass Effect game is different from the first three games?

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Posté 31 mai 2013 - 07:30

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The main series Mass Effect games so far have followed a very familiar formula: customizable protagonist, third-person view, cover-based shooting, squad commands, galactic exploration through a map, while actual gameplay is set in mostly relatively linear instanced worlds.

But what if Bioware decide to try something different? What if, for example, instead of a third-person cover-based shooter, they make a first-person game with not one chest-high wall in sight? What if it's not even a role-playing game at all, and/or you play as a more rigidly defined character? What if instead of a squad of two characters that can be commanded, you get just one follower at a time like in Jade Empire, and he or she is completely AI-controlled? What if the game has no followers altogether? Lastly, what if there is no galactic exploration? What if the game is instead set on a much more limited scale, and instead of selectable instanced maps, the game is either more linear or more open world?

Two lines of questions, then. For the players, would any of this be acceptable? Would you still buy a game that departs from the aforementioned formula? Would it make it you more or less likely to buy the game? For Bioware developers; as you get ready to make this game, is this part of the discussion, or are you already dead set on sticking with the old formula?

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Anthadlas
Posté 31 mai 2013 - 10:14

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If they do any of these things I won't play it,
I want Mass Effect, Not Mass Effect themed Call of Duty

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Dubozz
Posté 31 mai 2013 - 10:50

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Well.. at least the ending will be diffirent.

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Posté 31 mai 2013 - 12:47

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I wouldn't be keen on a game like that, it sounds like 'Call of Mass Effect: Space Warfare'. I started playing RPGs like Mass Effect to get away from games like that.

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Linkenski
Posté 31 mai 2013 - 01:52

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I want a game with co-op like in Dead Space 3 but with interactive dialogue. It could be the best thing ever.

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squee365
Posté 31 mai 2013 - 02:13

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I want a space exploration based Mass Effect.

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Eralrik
Posté 31 mai 2013 - 04:59

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I want multi-player separate from the single player experience. I want exploration back and the armor choices from ME1 back, I would like to get exploration of planets with more stuff to find weather it be random generated and not always the same stuff found each play through.
I also want more RPG choices not a character that talks through things without my input that really killed me in ME3 obvious points where a Paragon or Renegade should have flashed on the screen and didn't. Also put the bloody Puzzles back in I want to think, shake it up abit put the puzzles from ME1 and 2 in I hate when game company's dumb the games down I've lost interest in a lot of MMO"s who have gone with the dumbed down version it looses the challenge factor.

Keelah Se'lai

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Posté 31 mai 2013 - 05:42

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Many wouldn't buy it, those being the hardcore rpg mass effect fans. many would still buy it, though, but only if out could compete with the battlefield and cod markets.

Mass effects formula works. Devising from a third person cover shooter rpg wouldn't be smart at all.

and seriously, mass effect had a monopoly on space rpgs. Most other Scifi games are shooters, or they are post apocalypse, or they are bad games.

No sane company would abandon that genre. It's hugely popular and has little competition, if any

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Ninja Stan
Posté 31 mai 2013 - 11:52

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Mass Effect was different from other BioWare games, and players quickly learned to accept the new setting, the game world, and the new characters. I'm reasonably certain that, regardless of what the next game in the ME turns out to be, most ME fans will come to enjoy and accept it as part of their ME universe experience.

It's the same with any franchise, whether it's Star Wars, Spider-Man, Batman, Star Trek, Street Fighter, Sweet Valley High, Harry Potter, or NCIS.

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Posté 31 mai 2013 - 11:59

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Ninja Stan wrote...

Mass Effect was different from other BioWare games, and players quickly learned to accept the new setting, the game world, and the new characters. I'm reasonably certain that, regardless of what the next game in the ME turns out to be, most ME fans will come to enjoy and accept it as part of their ME universe experience.

It's the same with any franchise, whether it's Star Wars, Spider-Man, Batman, Star Trek, Street Fighter, Sweet Valley High, Harry Potter, or NCIS.


Question is, will it build upon the events of ME1-3, or will it simply be an alternate storyline in the same setting (a bit like a reboot, if you will)?

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Posté 01 juin 2013 - 12:27

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RadicalDisconnect wrote...

Ninja Stan wrote...

Mass Effect was different from other BioWare games, and players quickly learned to accept the new setting, the game world, and the new characters. I'm reasonably certain that, regardless of what the next game in the ME turns out to be, most ME fans will come to enjoy and accept it as part of their ME universe experience.

It's the same with any franchise, whether it's Star Wars, Spider-Man, Batman, Star Trek, Street Fighter, Sweet Valley High, Harry Potter, or NCIS.


Question is, will it build upon the events of ME1-3, or will it simply be an alternate storyline in the same setting (a bit like a reboot, if you will)?

Not something Ninja Stan can answer, he doesn't work for BioWare anymore.

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Posté 01 juin 2013 - 01:25

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all the ME were different from each other, they slowly slides to the more (I hate to use the word) "COD" or movie game-play style where you experience the game exactly as intended, with very little agency as defined by the first two games.

Would not be surprised if the series followed that route more in the next release.

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Posté 01 juin 2013 - 02:25

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Wraith 02 wrote...

If they do any of these things I won't play it,
I want Mass Effect, Not Mass Effect themed Call of Duty


This

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Ninja Stan
Posté 01 juin 2013 - 03:49

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RadicalDisconnect wrote...

Ninja Stan wrote...

Mass Effect was different from other BioWare games, and players quickly learned to accept the new setting, the game world, and the new characters. I'm reasonably certain that, regardless of what the next game in the ME turns out to be, most ME fans will come to enjoy and accept it as part of their ME universe experience.

It's the same with any franchise, whether it's Star Wars, Spider-Man, Batman, Star Trek, Street Fighter, Sweet Valley High, Harry Potter, or NCIS.


Question is, will it build upon the events of ME1-3, or will it simply be an alternate storyline in the same setting (a bit like a reboot, if you will)?

No one knows.

You'll have to wait for official announcements just like everyone else. BioWare's next big project is DAI, so it may be a while before any substantial information on the next ME game is released. It will also come from BioWare Montreal, as far as I know, as they are the ones developing the next ME game.

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Posté 01 juin 2013 - 07:50

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The replies have been most fascinating. Thank you everyone.

Ninja Stan wrote...

Mass Effect was different from other BioWare games, and players quickly learned to accept the new setting, the game world, and the new characters. I'm reasonably certain that, regardless of what the next game in the ME turns out to be, most ME fans will come to enjoy and accept it as part of their ME universe experience.

It's the same with any franchise, whether it's Star Wars, Spider-Man, Batman, Star Trek, Street Fighter, Sweet Valley High, Harry Potter, or NCIS.


It should be noted that Mass Effect was a new intellectual property at the time, and one's general expectation when a studio moves to a new IP is that there would be a new direction. Mass Effect is now a much more established IP. Moving established IPs into a new directions have proved divisive in the past, though the degree of division have varied from case to case. The various franchises you highlighted are cases in point.

What I'm wondering is whether Bioware are willing to take that risk to move the Mass Effect series to a new direction, and how would the players respond to such a move.

FlamingBoy wrote...

all the ME were different from each other, they slowly slides to the more (I hate to use the word) "COD" or movie game-play style where you experience the game exactly as intended, with very little agency as defined by the first two games.

Would not be surprised if the series followed that route more in the next release.


The core formula remained consistent throughout the series, as I highlighted in the first paragraph of my original post. How would you feel if the next game won't be anything like what I described?
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