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[Dale]

Okay Bioware...

 

Hopefully your marketing department is doing their job reading our rants & raves.  I'll let you in on a secret:  once you PERFECT something, then DON"T CHANGE IT!    You don't declare the WHEEL obsolete because it is a 10,000 year old invention.  Likely you've already read a million opinions already so here goes -- a LONG SHOT in that you might JUST consider this.   If not, may the Reapers assimilate you.

 

Reinstate the ME1 radar screen in the lower-right to show where enemies are (red triangles).   Also include the MAP screen for the bigger picture.  In some games (like Dead Space), you are given a 3D map that you can rotate & view from any direction.  This is awesome when navigating multiple floors (instead of the "stairs" icon -- duhh).

 

Reinstate the ME1 planet exploration missions.   That really gave some variety.   Prefer Mako over Hammerhead.  Heck, use both!  Scanning planets (ME2) for minerals was the biggest WASTE of time in any game.   Think about it:  the SR2 cost billions.   Resurrection of Shep cost billions -- yet we've got to fiddle fart scurrying around finding this & that to upgrade our hand-held weapons!  (ludicrous)

 

Show characters in CASUAL wear instead of ALWAYS same (usually combat) garb.   ME1 showed both.  Shep's apartment (ME3) was a good start -- but not quite there.

 

Tali's face plate *MUST* be transparent.  Remember 300 years ago they didn't wear suits.   Though in the flotilla she says "I've never shown my face to anyone".   Is she GOD?  Will we drop dead if we see her face?   Okay, if they're picky around other Quarians, then the face place can be temporarily obscure -- but around the rest of us -  CLEAR!   It would be really NICE if she had a special (germ-free) decontaminated private room where she could entertain visitors outside her suit.   Her immune systems are improving, aren't they? 

 

How about some SURPRISES in the game?  Totally void in the entire trilogy.   Kaiden (ME1) could have at the last moment discovered an elevator & underground tram to take him a couple miles away while Shep and Saren blabbed for 3 minutes.   With all the planets surveyed & visited (ME2), you'd think Tali could have stumbled across some alien (Prothean) technology to bring her immune systems back to normal. IE: various Star Trek episodes.    How about a little PROGRESS folks  -- instead of the same old same old?

 

Hacking only when something important.

 

Focus on STORY instead of spending 80% of the time running around like an idiot trying to find resources & money & upgrades.

 

A HANDFUL of weapon & ammo mods (not 40 weapon mods, 30 ammo mods, 20 shield mods).  I ran a laptop to my side (Excel spreadsheet) just to keep up with all the variations.   That was ridiculous in ME1 and clumsy in ME3.    Menus should be entirely HIERARCHIC and not NETWORK.   Showing bar graphs to compare weapons is good (ME3).   A simple drag-and-drop (or checkbox in a list of mods) would be simple & intuitive.  Menus should be simple & intuitive and NOT NEED AN [explanation] GUIDE!

 

Reinstate mission TASK DETAILS (as in ME1 & ME2).  It was piecemeal & nonexistent in ME3.   Some games give an option to show the current objective HUD (one line).

 

Team should be able to swap weapons (with each other) in the field (not just at the armory).

 

When it comes to Council, politicians, admirals, etc --  IRON-CLAD admission that they ROYALLY screwed up (or exposed as such).  I was really hoping at the start of ME3, that Shep would FINALLY get to tell the Alliance Command "You stupid idiots!  I told you so!"  Perhaps that was implied -- but it needed to be said explicitly.

 

Finally you do NOT have a MEMORIAL service for your hero.   Somebody had sawdust for brains -- and WE (your customers) pay your bills & keep you from holding up cardboard at the intersection.

 

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Forum readers:  As you can expect, these are simply MY suggestions.   Obviously you may see things differently & have lots to contribute.   The primary intended audience for this thread is Bioware to improve on the next game(s).   I solicit your input & creative ideas -- but keep in mind that Bioware will most likely listen to BRIEF bullets (1-3 liners) rather than an "epistle" of [splintered] discussion.   Thanks for your input.

[Jos Hendriks]

 

Yeah, often times I laugh at the comments I get, or get frustrated by some, but the ones that make a light bulb go on are the ones that make all the other crap comments worth it.'

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Jaulen,

 

Truer words were never spoken.   You and I have come to this forum to hear different viewpoints and opinions on things.  Reading such, I’ve capitulated & CHANGED some of my thoughts.  So I’m WIDE open on hearing differences of opinion that differs from mine.

 

I draw the line though when “posts” consists of juvenile sarcasm, bratty slander, and non-contributors whose only goal in life is to reach 40,000 meaningless or irrelevant “posts”.  Seems to me (Origin forums) the ratio of intelligent-relevant responses TO crap is 1:5.   On the Steam forums it is 1:10 since there is no IGNORE feature there and I don’t have your kind of [gifted] patience.

 

But I certainly agree with you that some responses (lots of threads) are worth crawling over the garbage for.    Some have been outstanding, phenomenal, & just brilliant.   One that comes to mind (if I can remember) is “what determined the old solution was no longer viable?”

 

As you can expect, there is no easy solution to filter the garbage (“free speech” vs censorship) & I favor the LESSER of the two evils.   Face it, there really IS a problem but no PERFECT solution – so I’ll offer my IMPERFECT suggestion.   Yes, I know about the general IGNORE feature for a particular individual – that’s not the point here.  Here goes:

 

Just like there is a LIKE button in the lower-right part of the post, I propose an IGNORE button at the top of EACH post.  When clicked, the post vanishes from your sight and replaced by

 

NUMBER OF PEOPLE IGNORING THIS POST IS xxx,xxx

 

To other people, they see this message (at the top) BEFORE reading this post.  They have 2 options:

 

If the number is high, they will likely skim over or ignore it.

Read the post (so this is certainly NOT censorship).

 

When the number of ignores reaches 10, their number of [blessed] "posts" will be decremented by 1.

 

In summary, if we can vote to LIKE a post, we can vote to IGNORE a particular post.   In short, the bratty & irrelevant sarcasm will be hosed down & they will think twice before wasting our time.   Obviously they will SHRIEK reading this.

 

 

You could also just choose to not read a post. An ignore function would have gravely detrimental functionality, because it can be wielded for abuse, or for shutting out dissenting or unpopular opinions right next to weeding out unhelpful posts. In addition, you can't decide what is or isn't relevant to a discussion for other people. 

[Jos Hendriks]

As mentioned, when you see "THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IGNORING THIS POST IS xxx,xxx" it sends a message to the one who made the "post" and an alert to those who have the OPTION to read it.   Not censorship - as others have the option to read it.

 

And if you choose to not respond to something that is worth ignoring, it sends a similar message, but without the potential for abuse.

[Jos Hendriks]

"sends a similar message" to who? (if simply ignored)?  

 

You can choose the word "abuse" if you like.   I (and lots of other foks) don't like the "abuse" of our threads being hijacked, derailed, and cluttered with juvenile sarcasm, & bratty slander.  Now who is the victim here?

 

I don't think anyone likes to have their topic derailed (much like this topic is right now, for instance), especially not by people being inconsiderate, but ignoring those being inconsiderate is all you have to do. Adding an ignore post feature is great in utopian situations, but knowing this is the internet and this is a forum on the internet, it opens the forum up to way more bully potential.