The Milky Way is HUGE. HUGE! Why, oh why, would anyone leave it? What's the motivation?
Are you a pod-person? To explore the unknown is entirely and irreversibly human. I would leave the Milky Way right now to explore a new galaxy. Who the hell wouldn't?
mass effect
a dialog choice based 3rd person shooter with rpg elements set in space,
maybe i am just easy to please
For me, Mass Effect is Mass Effect 1, as a prototype. The second may have a better story, and the third better graphics (the only good thing it has along with voice acting), but overall the first contains all the necessary material to fancy about it and with it.
For me, Mass Effect is Mass Effect 1, as a prototype. The second may have a better story, and the third better graphics (the only good thing it has along with voice acting), but overall the first contains all the necessary material to fancy about it and with it.
The perfect Mass Effect game to me has a nice compact, well paced and developing story with a threatening, but not infallible villain like Saren was. Then you take Mass Effect 2's mission structure where every mission had its own self-contained story that not only helped flesh out party members, but showed you that the Galaxy was more than just Shepard, with billions of inhabitants leading their own lives and/or trying to destroy other's lives. Also ME2 had a bunch of hub worlds, and every mission took you to some place different. Hub worlds in my perfect ME game would be even larger than ME1 Citadel, with different tiers and buildings you can go to, reachable by a skycar you could either manually pilot to explore the giant galactic cities, or use for quick fast travel. Then you mix in ME3's smooth gameplay, weight system, and skill trees that made each build unique, different to ME1 which was riddled with passive boosts.
I love ME2 the most because it best displays the culture of the universe best. Much of ME1 is visiting barren planets with the same copy and paste space station. If not that then you were forced on a mission that didn't allow one to really explore the culture of the universe, save for the Citadel ofc. ME3 eliminated any kind of exploration that ME1 and 2 offered because of the plot. ME2 took you to so many places, and you got to meet so many people with their own personalities. Each recruitment/ loyalty mission also took you to different areas of certain hub worlds, like how Mordin's mission took you to Omega's apartments, or Samara's mission allowed you to enter a new section of Omega's clubs. I loved how everyone had their own story, and Shepard was allowed to be a part of it while never truly being the center of it until the main story missions. I also love how ME2 had side missions focused on the different merc groups, which showed that the galaxy is a living place which moves on, whether Shepard is there or not. ME2 for me made the Mass Effect Universe one that I wanted to actually live in. Going to Omega with all the awesome neon and looking out the windows into space, going on the actual Quarian flotilla... I really hope ME:N expands on all of that. With next gen technology we can go beyond being shoved in the small hub boxes that ME2 admittedly had, with static NPCs copy and pasted everywhere.
One of the biggest complaints about the trilogy is how choices don't matter. Why play Arrival and have Shepard kill 300,000 Batarians when you can just skip it, put the burden on someone else, and achieve the same results? Why help Liara become Shadow Broker when she achieves it anyway? Maybe because Shepard doesn't have to be at the center of every single galactic decision. People still have lives to live, things to do, and they'll do them with or without Shepard. Shepard might have made it easier, but S/he wasn't required. When they are required we get a Messiah "special snowflake" and everyone is so averse to that these days. I hope the new character avoids the messiah trope, and I hope the story of ME:N doesn't try and raise the stakes even further.
All the familiar species from the Shepard Trilogy, and without some sort of forced synthetic annihilation of diversity. Where they exist has never mattered much to me.
The mass effect relays as a means of long distance space travel.
The main character having their own ship.
The art style & music.
mass effect
a dialog choice based 3rd person shooter with rpg elements set in space,
maybe i am just easy to please
same, just add some 80's synth music and companions
Mass Effect to me(especially Mass Effect 2) is like the Star Trek games we never had.
What's wrong?
Some would argue ME2 doesn't have much of a story at all. Really, all you primarily do in the game is prepare a brand new crew in order to initiate the suicide mission. Overall, I think many undervalue what actually happens in ME2, but it's not the first time I don't agree with others on BSN.
and the third better graphics (the only good thing it has along with voice acting)
Come on, that's just not true!
What about these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEozsxoOJvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyx6UfXt6Bg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9z2TkVNWlM
I dare you to find more emotional scenes in ME1-2.
It doesn't really matter to me where it plays, as long as they get the ME tone right.
- Music/Atmosphere
- interesting Characters and our/their interaction with each other + potentially arising conflicts
- Combat
- Visuals
- Tough choices/conflicts to solve
- the various races
- Dancing... 
Some would argue ME2 doesn't have much of a story at all.
Much or few, it has a story and it's slightly better than ME1.
What ME2 lack was Shepard's own story.... s/he's more a terminator than a person...
What's wrong?
Much or few, it has a story and it's slightly better than ME1.
Come on, that's just not true!
What about these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEozsxoOJvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyx6UfXt6Bg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9z2TkVNWlM
I dare you to find more emotional scenes in ME1-2.
Challenge accepted
https://www.youtube....h?v=z2MS_EUg_Q4
https://www.youtube....h?v=UXLVFnl3WcE
https://www.youtube....h?v=hpIT9XR6CoY
https://www.youtube....h?v=Ezih2ausUA4
https://www.youtube....h?v=dPZQxad9pCc
https://www.youtube....h?v=wouAuL0NarQ
https://www.youtube....h?v=AYdJ3ioeNVQ
https://www.youtube....h?v=Fn6hFZ9jYMc
Do I win yet?
In all honesty, what makes Mass Effect so good is a LOT of things. I can do a whole thesis on the themes, the emotions, the characters, the gameplay...in the end, it has one thing helping it under all of these layers and intricacies of plot and character.
Heart.
Challenge accepted
https://www.youtube....h?v=z2MS_EUg_Q4
https://www.youtube....h?v=UXLVFnl3WcE
https://www.youtube....h?v=hpIT9XR6CoY
https://www.youtube....h?v=Ezih2ausUA4
https://www.youtube....h?v=dPZQxad9pCc
https://www.youtube....h?v=wouAuL0NarQ
https://www.youtube....h?v=AYdJ3ioeNVQ
https://www.youtube....h?v=Fn6hFZ9jYMc
Do I win yet?
Well for me they don't stack up, not even close. But if they do for you that's the beauty of the trilogy. But it's a flat out lie that only the graphics and voice acting were good in ME3.
PS: Also lol at Ashley vs Kaidan. Nuking that xenophobe b*tch's ass was the most fun I had in this game. The only reason I ever let her leave is to shoot her in the face myself during Priority: Citadel.
Yeah as long as it has the council races and other stuff that is familiar to ME that we've seen before IE. Biotics, a few good firefights, exploration, finding new things about ourt surroundings then I think that pretty much covers it. If it is being set in the Andromeda galaxy that last part is pretty much covered already. If it's as intriguing a story as Shepard's then I won't complain . The milky way was fun to explore and it'll be interesting to see what comes next.
For me, it would be:
-Interaction with a crew of interesting, believable characters; this has been Bioware's core competency for a while, so I'm pretty sure we're going to get that
-Set in the mass effect universe, with the lore and background from that. I don't need it to be set in the Milky Way, as long as the various species with their histories are along so that previous lore ties into the new game.
-Is a shooterish game of some type; it would be weird for Mass Effect to suddenly turn into a Civ style 4x game. Although I might still play that, it wouldn't feel overly mass effect like.
The reason I play Bioware games is for the character interactions. There are two things I need to be happy with a Bioware game; a high ratio of character interaction to other gamplay, and the other gameplay needs to be at least moderately challenging on the highest difficulty level without being boring. This is why I liked Mass Effect 2 and the Citadel DLC best out of all the Bioware products I have played; lots of character interaction, and while I wouldn't call them hard, exactly, they weren't trivially easy. Same thing with Dragon Age II; its the hardest of the three Dragon Age games on Nightmare, and probably had the highest ratio of character interaction to other stuff out of the Dragon Age titles, so its my favorite out of the three despite some serious main story failing and an appalling number of reused maps.
Going on an awesome Space-opera adventure with a bunch of my (in-universe) buddies and my (in-universe) girl.
Everything else is just gravy.
Well for me they don't stack up, not even close. But if they do for you that's the beauty of the trilogy. But it's a flat out lie that only the graphics and voice acting were good in ME3.
PS: Also lol at Ashley vs Kaidan. Nuking that xenophobe b*tch's ass was the most fun I had in this game. The only reason I ever let her leave is to shoot her in the face myself during Priority: Citadel.
So you're challenge was a ruse?
I am disappointed. As to what you are trying to prove, I agree, no reason to tell me that.
A romance trilogy with a little galaxy saving as a sub plot.
So... you only romance Liara or Ashley/Kaidan? 
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So... you only romance Liara or Ashley/Kaidan?
Seriously. If my game was a romance, then it comes off like a season of Buffy or Angel... with a broody loner...and one middle section with some romance (with another broody loner).
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