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Don't sacrifice interesting story and game play for the sake of being beholden to science. In other words, emphasis on the "fiction" in "science fiction". Remember, this is a game, not a NOVA episode.
On a sidenote, I watched a Nova episode not long ago, where Leliana's actress did the narration.
It made it all the more sexy.
They should hire Richard Dawkins for the evolution related stuff and Lawrence Krauss and Neil deGrasse Tyson for planet and physics stuff.
They should also hire a religious figure to voice over a species religious and spiritual beliefs, with Richard Dawkins delivering smug remarks in the background.
If a new cosmological revelation happens after release then I expect Bioware to account for it via a patch!
On a sidenote, I watched a Nova episode not long ago, where Leliana's actress did the narration.
It made it all the more sexy.
Brought the sexy back to science, eh?
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Brought the sexy back to science, eh?
It was actually about dead bodies.... The catacombs to be exact. 
It was actually about dead bodies.... The catacombs to be exact.
I won't carry this any further then. I could. But I won't.
Don't sacrifice interesting story and game play for the sake of being beholden to science. In other words, emphasis on the "fiction" in "science fiction". Remember, this is a game, not a NOVA episode.
Tbh, Mass Effect is bordering more on science fantasy than science fiction at this point. They might as well just go fully over the edge and make it full Star Wars.
How scientific can it possibly be it we are to ride a giant naturally occurring wormhole to Andromeda? Speaking of wormholes Morgan Freeman should totally be your next AI, alien scientist squadmate or at the very least Emperor of space. Watching Morgan Freeman break down complex modern science to Middle America with folksy old timey analogies is about the funniest thing on TV, e.g. "when i was a boy in Mississippi...", "my grandmother used to say...", etc.
That's not to say that they couldn't use more of the good-stuff to inform environment, character and gameplay design akin to ME1 particularly if we are to explore the very concept of exploration itself.
How scientific can it possibly be it we are to ride a giant naturally occurring wormhole to Andromeda?
If that turns out to be the case, then I demand Richard Dean Anderson and Amanda Tapping voice the player character!
Tbh, Mass Effect is bordering more on science fantasy than science fiction at this point. They might as well just go fully over the edge and make it full Star Wars.
Full Circle...since KOTOR was the forerunner.
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If that turns out to be the case, then I demand Richard Dean Anderson and Amanda Tapping voice the player character!
I'd like to play a smartass scientist this time.. someone with the delivery of Joker.
What if Neil deGrasse Tyson does VO for the lead scientist in your crew...?
What if Neil deGrasse Tyson does VO for the lead scientist in your crew...?
Then I'll think I'm back in a first grade science class whenever he starts lecturing.
Then I'll think I'm back in a first grade science class whenever he starts lecturing.
You had Tyson? I had Bill Nye 
Then I'll think I'm back in a first grade science class whenever he starts lecturing.
Let's say no lecturing.
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I'm a Mr.Wizard and Carl Sagan kid then...
But I didn't pay attention to science like I should've. Not until I was older.
I'm a Mr.Wizard and Carl Sagan kid then...
What if Neil deGrasse Tyson does VO for the lead scientist in your crew...?
As cool as that would be, he'd probably sooner tear apart the Mass Effect series for all it gets wrong than participate in it. He doesn't appear to be a big fan of Science Fiction, particularly when it leans heavier on fiction than science.
The only Sci Fi movies I've heard him praise were Contact and Interstellar. Contact was based on a novel by Carl Sagan, and Interstellar was produced by an astrophysicist. Both were very heavy on science.
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As cool as that would be, he'd probably sooner tear apart the Mass Effect series for all it gets wrong than participate in it. He doesn't appear to be a big fan of Science Fiction, particularly when it leans heavier on fiction than science.
The only Sci Fi movies I've heard him praise were Contact and Interstellar. Contact was based on a novel by Carl Sagan, and Interstellar was produced by an astrophysicist. Both were very heavy on science.
I get that impression too.
You'd have more luck with Michio Kaku... he's a respectable physicist, but he also has fun entertaining the silliest stuff.
In fact, he talked about ME once.
I get that impression too.
You'd have more luck with Michio Kaku... he's a respectable physicist, but he also has fun entertaining the silliest stuff.
In fact, he talked about ME once.
https://www.youtube....h?v=iwj8deuPjNE
Here you go.
I get that impression too.
I can't remember if it was an interview or something I read, but he once trashed the movie Oblivion. He talked about being contacted by people who were going to film a Sci Fi movie that wanted him to be a consultant or whatever. When they told him the plot involved an A.I. from space invading the Earth to suck up its oceans to extract the hydrogen for fuel, he refused and basically told them the basic premise was stupid...as the universe is loaded with ice, Europa has more water than Earth, and hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. He didn't name the film, but it was obvious he was talking about Oblivion.
Mass Effect occasionally gets up to similar stuff (the great genetic diversity of humans..lol), so I would imagine a similar reaction.
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I can't remember if it was an interview or something I read, but he once trashed the movie Oblivion. He talked about being contacted by people who were going to film a Sci Fi movie that wanted him to be a consultant or whatever. When they told him the plot involved an A.I. from space invading the Earth to suck up its oceans to extract the hydrogen for fuel, he refused and basically told them the basic premise was stupid...as the universe is loaded with ice, Europa has more water than Earth, and hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. He didn't name the film, but it was obvious he was talking about Oblivion.
Mass Effect occasionally gets up to similar stuff (the great genetic diversity of humans..lol), so I would imagine a similar reaction.
Good on him. Tom Cruise sucks. 
I remember that ME2 interview with Michio Kaku.
Personally, I doubt BW will hire scientists to verify the scientific consistency in the game. I do think they should, though.
What if Neil deGrasse Tyson does VO for the lead scientist in your crew...?
Then I'd want him to be stoned. You know, just chillin'.
Good on him. Tom Cruise sucks.
Correction: Action-Man Tom Cruise sucks. There's still the Magnolia/Collateral/Vanilla Sky Tom Cruise, who's awesome I guess he just gets paid too little to show himself.
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