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[Darth Volus]

So what? 

 

We are gonna get some color coded ending anyway. This time maybe pink will be one of the choices. 

[Tantum Dic Verbo]

Thought #1: I'm Drunk,
#2: Where's Deckard?
#3: MP doesnt have a story so who gives a ****?
#4:

I would like to do something terrible to you for putting that...sound in the thread, but you're already listening to Katy Perry.

[landylan]

I wasn't impressed with the story in the first three ME games. It's an interesting universe, but it's like a bunch of separate stories of you recruiting people. They always end with some ridiculous scene. Saren turns into whatever that was. Then you fight a giant human in the lamest boss fight ever. Then star child blows up all the mass relays, and everyone apparently had the technology to rebuild them.

 

Compared to the other Halo games, I don't see what was wrong with the writing of Halo 4. I didn't realize Halo fans played the game expecting a killer story.

[Dunmer of Redoran]

I wasn't impressed with the story in the first three ME games. It's an interesting universe, but it's like a bunch of separate stories of you recruiting people. They always end with some ridiculous scene. Saren turns into whatever that was. Then you fight a giant human in the lamest boss fight ever. Then star child blows up all the mass relays, and everyone apparently had the technology to rebuild them.

 

Compared to the other Halo games, I don't see what was wrong with the writing of Halo 4. I didn't realize Halo fans played the game expecting a killer story.

 

I think there's something funny about how Mass Effect and The Elder Scrolls are my two favorite game franchises but in terms of writing, which I consider extremely important, they're polar opposites. The Elder Scrolls has meh characters, great stories, and almost impeccably consistent lore. Mass Effect has amazing characters, meh stories, and lore like Swiss cheese.

 

 

I love ME, but they need to get a handle on simple things like "Who makes what" (Who makes the Katana, who makes the Scimitar, how is the Lancer an "old" weapon when it was common three years before) why are Shepard & Friends constantly called "old" despite being young upstarts a few years prior, and so on. It's just like how they sometimes say that some people use perfect digital translators, but in-game, this is obviously not the case because of all the idioms, linguistic conventions, facial movement, accents and such. Only the hanar are shown using them.

 

Whatever they do with the writing, I hope they address those inconsistencies before anything else.

[Quarian Master Race]

Well Halo 4's writing was much better than the other games in the series, all of whose plots can be summarized as "faceless space marine guns down millions of evil aliens". The only good creative decision in the narrative was the introduction of the Arbiter in Halo 2, whom virtually every Halo-bro in the playerbase hated, resulting in his relegation to a sidekick in the next game. By typical FPS standards, Halo 4's singleplayer narrative could be considered good (not saying much, but still). Can't possibly be worse than the Rannoch Arc, Crucible plot or the original ending of ME3

It's too bad that as the writing got better, the Halo MP gameplay became a horrible COD clone, killstreaks and all.

[Tantum Dic Verbo]

Then star child blows up all the mass relays, and everyone apparently had the technology to rebuild them.

Here was my dream for ME4:

The mass relays aren't mysteriously rebuilt. Instead, stuff is wrecked throughout the galaxy as badly as it appeared during that final scene in ME3. You make a character in one of several beginning areas (a la DA:Origins) that are cut off from the rest of the galaxy, now that the former means of interstellar travel has been destroyed. You're starting in the grim aftermath of the cataclysm (like Fallout, without the Ink Spots and Vault Boy), working your way toward the point where the galaxy can start rebuilding interstellar travel.

Hmm. Perhaps you could play a human stranded on Thessia who's trying to prevent the rebuilding of interstellar travel, because stuck on a planet filled with Asari.

Anyway, I envision an ME4 where ME3 happened and isn't handwaved away.

[JRandall0308]

We are gonna get some color coded ending anyway. This time maybe pink will be one of the choices. 

 

Given how alternative-lifestyle-friendly Bioware is, I'm surprised pink isn't already one of the choices.

 

Perhaps you could play a human stranded on Thessia who's trying to prevent the rebuilding of interstellar travel, because stuck on a planet filled with Asari.

 

Hah hah, awesome. They could get the guys from DOA Beach Volleyball to help out with the Asari character models. Y'know. For science.

[Quarian Master Race]

Given how alternative-lifestyle-friendly Bioware is, I'm surprised pink isn't already one of the choices.

 

 

Hah hah, awesome. They could get the guys from DOA Beach Volleyball to help out with the Asari character models. Y'know. For science.

What is that supposed to mean? An ending for those afflicted with breast cancer?

as for the second point, I thought they already did, at least with Liara and her ME3 boob-job.

[J. Peterman]

Preorder cancelled.

[Dalakaar]

Here was my dream for ME4:

 play a human stranded on Thessia who's trying to prevent the rebuilding of interstellar travel, because stuck on a planet filled with Asari.

Awesome.

[Quarian Master Race]

Slightly OT but Halo 4's main baddie the Didact was voiced by the same guy who did Harbinger. In fact, he basically is the same character except he wants to turn humanity into AI's for his robo-army instead of Reaper slushie.
 

[Dunmer of Redoran]

Slightly OT but Halo 4's main baddie the Didact was voiced by the same guy who did Harbinger. In fact, he basically is the same character except he wants to turn humanity into AI's for his robo-army instead of Reaper slushie.
 

 

No surprise there. That is generally how VA stuff works.

 

IE Claudia Black frequently plays witches (Xen's philosophy of studying everything is basically the Eluvians and the Well) and sinister-looking women, Raphael Sbarge often plays Mr. Nice Guy, Simon Templeman is many ominous wizened dudes, and so on and so forth.

 

I guess the Harbinger VA will now and forever voice various space-abominations.

[JRandall0308]

Harbinger made me think of Sovereign (still the baddest-ass Reaper) (voiced by Peter Jessup) and that awesome speech he gives you on Virmire.

 

Also we need more Fred Tatasciore (Saren) voices. Yes I know he did some incidental work in the other MEs, but he needs a featured role. That guy's voice is also bad-ass.

[Mindlog]

I would like to do something terrible to you for putting that...sound in the thread, but you're already listening to Katy Perry.

Woah, look out. Mr. I never dated ---------------- riding in on his moral high horse.

In the interests of not being banned portions of this joke were redacted.

 

Hmm. Perhaps you could play a human stranded on Thessia who's trying to prevent the rebuilding of interstellar travel, because stuck on a planet filled with Asari.

Reported.

[David Diablo]

Good article, but it's kind of hard to get excited about new games anymore. Not until I see the end product will I make a judgement. So many disappointments lately...  

 

[Dunmer of Redoran]

 

Good article, but it's kind of hard to get excited about new games anymore. Not until I see the end product will I make a judgement. So many disappointments lately...  

 

 

I feel the same way. I don't think I've been excited for a new game's release since Total War: Rome II, and I don't think I need to explain how that worked out.

[David Diablo]

I feel the same way. I don't think I've been excited for a new game's release since Total War: Rome II, and I don't think I need to explain how that worked out.

 

I remember being excited for that game too... 

[Terminator Force]

I'm actually happy the current head writer was replaced. As I'm not confident in his lead writing skills for ME3. Ultimately, I wish the original ME1 lead writer would return, but for now replacing the ME3 lead writer seems good enough. ME3 lead writer can't even admit his mistakes. Seen him accept some award and he made it like only a few hate the ME3 ending & that's it's fine?! Is that why it wasn't properly fixed in the DLC? Whatever, as long as he's out of the lead role now.

[NuclearTech76]

I'm actually happy the current head writer was replaced. As I'm not confident in his lead writing skills for ME3. Ultimately, I wish the original ME1 lead writer would return, but for now replacing the ME3 lead writer seems good enough. ME3 lead writer can't even admit his mistakes. Seen him accept some award and he made it like only a few hate the ME3 ending & that's it's fine?! Is that why it wasn't properly fixed in the DLC? Whatever, as long as he's out of the lead role now.

I heard Mac Walters would still be involved, so IDK that we've dodged a bullet there. 

 

If we're hiring Halo contributors, why not Martin O'Donnell? I enjoyed that series even though the story was a little contrived but the music was always awesome even if some of the scores seemed a little "recycled".

[JRandall0308]

O'Donnell doesn't even write music for Bungie (Halo) any more though. As of April 2014.

 

http://en.wikipedia....artin_O'Donnell

[Krazy_Kirby]

Pfft halo, I like that overrated series