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[AlleyD]

I'm probably wrong, but I got a hint of Firefly from the ME:A trailer and the speculation that ME:A may be aiming at being more of a space western than a military based space opera. If so, this is pretty intriguing to me for numerous reasons.

 

1. I think there is more than enough story potential available in the setting of a rogue freelancer/outlaw operating on the fringes of Andromeda societies  to re-invigorate the franchise. Having the main character cast as some military officer would bring inevitable comparisons with Shepard and the previous trilogy, and show a lack of imagination in Bioware to recover old ground.
2. I  think that leaving formalized military setting would lend to a more dynamic crew environment that is not restricted by the inherent hierarchy of a military chain of command and offers potential for conflicting opinions and objectives within the crew that inform the story line or side quests
3. Also having the hero inhabit a more mundane role could set up that threats and challenges derive from more mundane antagonists. I sincerely hope we don't see a form of Reaper 2.0 type of threat underpinning the ME:A and that the main story avoids being another Power fantasy with a central Mary Sue that the Galaxy revolves around. Galaxy's revolve around super massive black holes and that is what Shepard became for me in the longer term.
4. Having a more mundane setting would be better served with a more mundane vessel. Having a Millenium Falcon/Serenity type vessel rather than another Normandy lends a different character to the ship. Leaving the slick design aesthetic for a more grubby and lived in type of thing and making the process of maintaining and upgrading the ship play more of a role in story or side quests
5. Enabling more diverse character building options; possibly the chance to become a "robber Baron" type of character that carves up the New Frontier for their own ends.

 

Does anyone else feel intrigued?

[Sir Froggie]

While I would love this, I'm not holding out to much hope for it to happen. The trailer could have just been something that they thought would be interesting to see and not really indicative of the final product.

[the Dame]

Yeah, thought about Firefly, but mostly because of the music track BW chose for the teaser.. and because I like Firefly.

 

And, personally, I would like for MEA to have similarity with Firefly: in my opinion it will allow to create very deep and exciting story without blowing out of proportions already quite worn out "epic bubble". 

I'm tired of saving everyone. I would like a story about one person.

[Dr. Doctor]

I'm thinking something along the lines of being an Alliance Corsair or a Privateer.

There's a new galaxy to explore and the governing body has given you Carte Blanche to go out and expand.

[Draining Dragon]

I'll just leave this here.



I should go.

[Paulomedi]

Yup, first thing that reminded me, in a good way as well.

[ForgottenWarrior]

Firefly is one of those accidential masterpieces that could never be repeated, i think Joss himself said this once. With that, i doubt bioware could make something near as good as Firefly.

The trailer. I more get the idea that devs wanted me to feel that "Firefly feel", rather than the association itself. A certain music just isn't ennough. It's either they didn't even bother capturing that Firefly essence or they never intended to do. If you completely mute the trailer and put one of Sam Hulik's track there you wouldn't notice any difference from ME1-3.

In fact i can imagine how it could have been done properly.

Remember, that N7 guy who suppose-to-be-our-pc-but-actually-isn't? He walks in to room and with great pathos in his voice demands all criminals to lay down his weapons and surrender to Authority. A moment later another guy walks out of shadow and kick this N7 dude out the airlock, revealing himself as a playable character. With this exact soundtrack, it would have been much better.

[Vespervin]

I was immediately reminded of Firefly, and this is a good thing. I'm very excited for ME:A, I just wish we saw more. Oh well.

 

I'm a patient person.

[Fiery Phoenix]

My thoughts exactly.

[Iakus]

I didn't get a "Firefly" vibe at all.

 

Starcraft or Borderlands, maybe.

[Lady Artifice]

As soon as I started watching. I hope they allude to the show at some point during the game. 

[Steelcan]

As soon as I started watching. I hope they allude to the show at some point during the game. 

we didn't get enough shoutouts in ME2?

[dreamgazer]

Not Firefly, exactly, but certainly a strong general Space Western vibe. Which I dig. 

[Lady Artifice]

we didn't get enough shoutouts in ME2?

 

No. 

 

I will not be satisfied until shoutouts subsume the game content. 

 

Mwahahaha. 

[Heimdall]

I immediately thought Firefly when I say the desert planet and music.

 

That said, I'm not expecting it to be reflected much in the game.  At most, I think we'll see less of a strict military influence on the main character and crew.  There's definitely a 'lawless frontier' feeling they're going for, so I expect to see that.

 

But I expect we'll still be a space marine, just a less prestigious one.  I hope there'll be much less EPIC scale saving humanity and whatnot, but I'm not optimistic.

[wright1978]

The music definitely had a Firefly feel.

The N7 focus probably means its not going to have that feel.

[UKStory135]

I also got a Borderlands 2 feel to it as well, which for me is good.

[Akrabra]

I didn't get a "Firefly" vibe at all.

 

Starcraft or Borderlands, maybe.

Same. I was thinking Jim Raynor. 

[canarius]

I want Mass Effect to be Mass Effect. I don't want it to be Firefly, I don't want it to be Inquisition and I don't want it to be Skyrim. Besides I am not a huge fan of Firefly. It just felt like wild west with space ships. I didn't get the Sci-fi feeling I get from Mass Effect and Star Wars. Mass Effect shouldn't be anything like Firefly.

[Kunari801]

I did from the music.  Which I'm sure is *NOT* the type of music we'll see in game.  Did they intend to give the Firefly vibe?  I don't know, not really anything else in the trailer gave the vibe so I'm going to guess no they didn't.  

[Heimdall]

A Dream Scenario for the game's beginning if it does turn out to be more like Firefly:

 

The game starts out like Mass Effect, your on a mission on a new ship heading something like the desert planet under the leadership of your N7 commander.  You meet the main enemy, the Khet or whatever they're called, things happen, the ship goes down.  The PC is forced to trek across the desert with one surviving fellow soldier, leaving behind a damaged Mako, and makes his/her way to a lawless settlement where they ****** off a local crime boss, join forces with a pilot, mechanic and merc, and eventually repair the Mako for a chase across the desert that culminates in stealing a ship that becomes our own.

 

And somewhere in there we can fit threads of the main plot in.

[Draining Dragon]

Yeaaah, if someone could just remake the Andromeda trailer with the Firefly theme, that would be greaaat.

[AlleyD]

A Dream Scenario for the game's beginning if it does turn out to be more like Firefly:

 

The game starts out like Mass Effect, your on a mission on a new ship heading something like the desert planet under the leadership of your N7 commander.  You meet the main enemy, the Khet or whatever they're called, things happen, the ship goes down.  The PC is forced to trek across the desert with one surviving fellow soldier, leaving behind a damaged Mako, and makes his/her way to a lawless settlement where they ****** off a local crime boss, join forces with a pilot, mechanic and merc, and eventually repair the Mako for a chase across the desert that culminates in stealing a ship that becomes our own.

 

And somewhere in there we can fit threads of the main plot in.

 

The only things that spoils this idea is that being an N7 operative already suggests that the player character is already some elite military and the build up of a single threat species driving the plot.

 

Maybe the N7 operative is an antagonist who the commits an atrocity on the settlement  that the player witnesses and then a revenge/justice plot line that swaps the hunter/prey roles. The player operating outside the law to recruit a posse of characters to enforce a more personal form of justice.

[the Dame]

I want Mass Effect to be Mass Effect. I don't want it to be Firefly, I don't want it to be Inquisition and I don't want it to be Skyrim. Besides I am not a huge fan of Firefly. It just felt like wild west with space ships. I didn't get the Sci-fi feeling I get from Mass Effect and Star Wars. Mass Effect shouldn't be anything like Firefly.

 

Well, in my opinion, it still will be at least in something like Firefly.. like space travel, ships and all..

 

Seriously though, why saying "being similar" so often interpreted as "="?

 

 

A Dream Scenario for the game's beginning if it does turn out to be more like Firefly:

 

The game starts out like Mass Effect, your on a mission on a new ship heading something like the desert planet under the leadership of your N7 commander.  You meet the main enemy, the Khet or whatever they're called, things happen, the ship goes down.  The PC is forced to trek across the desert with one surviving fellow soldier, leaving behind a damaged Mako, and makes his/her way to a lawless settlement where they ****** off a local crime boss, join forces with a pilot, mechanic and merc, and eventually repair the Mako for a chase across the desert that culminates in stealing a ship that becomes our own.

 

And somewhere in there we can fit threads of the main plot in.

 

Looks promising for me 

[Heimdall]

But we aren't an N7 operative in that scenario, not anymore than a marine posted on Shepard's ship is an N7 operative.  We just work for one.