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[Hanako Ikezawa]

Yeah, I was just being a jerk. I dunno those other characters from SWTOR either.

I didn't see you as being a jerk. You were just pointing out a character I forgot. 

[Mdizzletr0n]

Yeah see, to me, it sounded like you were saying:
 

to let the guys have a turn since lesbians already did. You didn't say let the guys and girls have the option. You said "guys", so I assumed you meant only guys. You implied lesbians already had their turn, so sit this one out and let the guys have their turn. I still want a lesbian, human LI. From what I have seen on the web most guys prefer Asari or female quarians as LIs anyway (Liara and Tali are way more popular than Miranda, Ashley, and Jack), and i'm sure they will get those options this time as well. Asari are always bisexual/pansexual, and I doubt a quarian female will be made lesbian. The rage would be unbearable for bioware.
 
Plus there is the possibility of a female turian or drell LI for the guys, which has not been done as well. The guys have had plenty of human female LIs.

  

And I was corrected on that so changed it to just the console games. You're addressing a point that has already been addressed and rectified. 
 
I never said they couldn't. I just said let them be available to guys. Have the character in the leak be bisexual, pansexual, demisexual, or some other orientation that has them available to both genders. You're the one wishing for a gender to be left out by wanting her to be a lesbian.

Just make her Bi. Problem solved. Every one wins. Lol

[Dantriges]

Most of this information isn't necessarily new, but I think people are overreacting to the Cerberus stuff.

Could be, but these cockroaches already appeared as the crew and "questgiver" in ME 2 for no reason* and as one of the major antagonists in ME 3 for not much of a reason.

So Cerberus getting shoehorned in for some contrived reasons wouldn´t be new.

*seriously you could put Shep in a coma, have his old crew move on to some reaper related things or trying to persuade people in power of the looming threat, have him come back, give Shep a new ship and some new crewmates, because the old ones are unavailable and quite a few contrivances would disappear.

[Deathjester929]

Cerberus huh? Yup this sure is a "Mac Walters game". BTW I love how he LIES on his linkedin and claims to be a lead writer on the Mass Effect series and a Bioware lead since 2003. Is Bioware going to release a patch for ME 1 to correct Drew Karpyshyn being the only lead on the game, to reinforce Mac Walter's lies and revisionist history? I wonder if this imaginary wonderland Mac Walters lives in, is where the ending to ME 3 he penned is "art"  (all the did was ripoff 2001 and the Matrix Architect and turn ME into a transhumanism game, pushing synthesis with evil enemies that he did not even create and that we had no reason to trust). 

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/macwalters

 

I was BAFFLED this guy kept his job. I was even more blown away when he was promoted. I see people surprised to see Cerberus here? I'm not. Mac Walters is a egomaniac who cannot even post an honest linkedin due to his delusions of grandeur. The Cerberus plot line in ME 3 (horrible)  and that even worse ending are pretty much all he has contributed to the ME story arc. Not surprising to see him want to do more of it. 

 

I keep looking for what Mac Walters did to even get the job for ME 3, let alone Andromeda. Did he write amazing novels? Is he related to higher ups at EA? Did he do ANYTHING before being gifted the lead role on ME3? He wrote Garrus and Wrex in ME 1... Whoopee. Garrus was MUCH better written after the character passed from Mac's hands. Bioware has VERY talented people who worked for them in the past,  and who just started working there again.

 

The only good parts of ME 3 were Tuchanka and Rannoch. The ideal lead writer would be Drew, but he only recently came back to Bioware. Why the @$%# was Dombrow or Weekes not chosen as lead? That is who wrote Tuchanka and Rannoch. They GOT IT. They understood what the fans wanted. Walters? Has no clue.

 

I can only imagine it was because Mac has no integrity (proven liar) and agreed to break up the main plot line in future games and parcel them out as DLC among other EA BS. 

 

The only other reason I can see for Mac being used is so EA can spin the same lie that Mac Walters is on his Linkedin... That Mac Walters is the "lead writer of the Mass Effect series", even though the only game he wrote in the series was the worst received.

 

Funny how Mac Walters has "Four AAA titles with an average Metacritic score over 92%" on his BS linkedin as well. 

 

Here was the only game in the series he lead wrote by himself.

 

It has a 5.4 user review on Metacritc.

 

http://www.metacriti...c/mass-effect-3

 

Mass Effect 1 and 2? Both close to a 9. This game was simply doomed when EA chose this corporate yes man, liar, thief (2001/Matrix Architect), No sale. For those that do buy it? I am going to laugh as this game is just as poorly recieved on metacritic by the USERS, who are not press who receives advertising money for the game (like IGN). 

[agonis]

@DeathJester: Calm down and eat a Snikers. You are not yourself when you are hungry.

[Wolfryck]

Cerberus huh? Yup this sure is a "Mac Walters game". BTW I love how he LIES on his linkedin and claims to be a lead writer on the Mass Effect series and a Bioware lead since 2003. Is Bioware going to release a patch for ME 1 to correct Drew Karpyshyn being the only lead on the game, to reinforce Mac Walter's lies and revisionist history? I wonder if this imaginary wonderland Mac Walters lives in, is where the ending to ME 3 he penned is "art"  (all the did was ripoff 2001 and the Matrix Architect and turn ME into a transhumanism game, pushing synthesis with evil enemies that he did not even create and that we had no reason to trust). 

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/macwalters

 

I was BAFFLED this guy kept his job. I was even more blown away when he was promoted. I see people surprised to see Cerberus here? I'm not. Mac Walters is a egomaniac who cannot even post an honest linkedin due to his delusions of grandeur. The Cerberus plot line in ME 3 (horrible)  and that even worse ending are pretty much all he has contributed to the ME story arc. Not surprising to see him want to do more of it. 

 

I keep looking for what Mac Walters did to even get the job for ME 3, let alone Andromeda. Did he write amazing novels? Is he related to higher ups at EA? Did he do ANYTHING before being gifted the lead role on ME3? He wrote Garrus and Wrex in ME 1... Whoopee. Garrus was MUCH better written after the character passed from Mac's hands. Bioware has VERY talented people who worked for them in the past,  and who just started working there again.

 

The only good parts of ME 3 were Tuchanka and Rannoch. The ideal lead writer would be Drew, but he only recently came back to Bioware. Why the @$%# was Dombrow or Weekes not chosen as lead? That is who wrote Tuchanka and Rannoch. They GOT IT. They understood what the fans wanted. Walters? Has no clue.

 

I can only imagine it was because Mac has no integrity (proven liar) and agreed to break up the main plot line in future games and parcel them out as DLC among other EA BS. 

 

The only other reason I can see for Mac being used is so EA can spin the same lie that Mac Walters is on his Linkedin... That Mac Walters is the "lead writer of the Mass Effect series", even though the only game he wrote in the series was the worst received.

 

Funny how Mac Walters has "Four AAA titles with an average Metacritic score over 92%" on his BS linkedin as well. 

 

Here was the only game in the series he lead wrote by himself.

 

It has a 5.4 user review on Metacritc.

 

http://www.metacriti...c/mass-effect-3

 

Mass Effect 1 and 2? Both close to a 9. This game was simply doomed when EA chose this corporate yes man, liar, thief (2001/Matrix Architect), No sale. For those that do buy it? I am going to laugh as this game is just as poorly recieved on metacritic by the USERS, who are not press who receives advertising money for the game (like IGN). 

 

 

Yeah man I hear you. Screw the government.

[wolfhowwl]

Cerberus huh? Yup this sure is a "Mac Walters game". BTW I love how he LIES on his linkedin and claims to be a lead writer on the Mass Effect series and a Bioware lead since 2003. Is Bioware going to release a patch for ME 1 to correct Drew Karpyshyn being the only lead on the game, to reinforce Mac Walter's lies and revisionist history? I wonder if this imaginary wonderland Mac Walters lives in, is where the ending to ME 3 he penned is "art"  (all the did was ripoff 2001 and the Matrix Architect and turn ME into a transhumanism game, pushing synthesis with evil enemies that he did not even create and that we had no reason to trust). 
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/macwalters
 
I was BAFFLED this guy kept his job. I was even more blown away when he was promoted. I see people surprised to see Cerberus here? I'm not. Mac Walters is a egomaniac who cannot even post an honest linkedin due to his delusions of grandeur. The Cerberus plot line in ME 3 (horrible)  and that even worse ending are pretty much all he has contributed to the ME story arc. Not surprising to see him want to do more of it. 
 
I keep looking for what Mac Walters did to even get the job for ME 3, let alone Andromeda. Did he write amazing novels? Is he related to higher ups at EA? Did he do ANYTHING before being gifted the lead role on ME3? He wrote Garrus and Wrex in ME 1... Whoopee. Garrus was MUCH better written after the character passed from Mac's hands. Bioware has VERY talented people who worked for them in the past,  and who just started working there again.
 
The only good parts of ME 3 were Tuchanka and Rannoch. The ideal lead writer would be Drew, but he only recently came back to Bioware. Why the @$%# was Dombrow or Weekes not chosen as lead? That is who wrote Tuchanka and Rannoch. They GOT IT. They understood what the fans wanted. Walters? Has no clue.
 
I can only imagine it was because Mac has no integrity (proven liar) and agreed to break up the main plot line in future games and parcel them out as DLC among other EA BS. 
 
The only other reason I can see for Mac being used is so EA can spin the same lie that Mac Walters is on his Linkedin... That Mac Walters is the "lead writer of the Mass Effect series", even though the only game he wrote in the series was the worst received.
 
Funny how Mac Walters has "Four AAA titles with an average Metacritic score over 92%" on his BS linkedin as well. 
 
Here was the only game in the series he lead wrote by himself.
 
It has a 5.4 user review on Metacritc.
 
http://www.metacriti...c/mass-effect-3
 
Mass Effect 1 and 2? Both close to a 9. This game was simply doomed when EA chose this corporate yes man, liar, thief (2001/Matrix Architect), No sale. For those that do buy it? I am going to laugh as this game is just as poorly recieved on metacritic by the USERS, who are not press who receives advertising money for the game (like IGN).

THE FIRE STILL BURNS

[Andrew Lucas]

Let it go,

Let,

It,

Go,

[Remix-General Aetius]

the uploader has disabled view of the vid's rating. no surprise there. if the dislike bar was still red, it'd be so long it'd be overlapping your monitor.

[Remix-General Aetius]

the uploader has disabled view of the vid's rating. no surprise there. if the dislike bar was still red, it'd be so long it'd be overlapping your monitor.

[AzWarp]

I find this "alleged leak" to be rather weak. This is likely the work of a fan who just "likes making YouTube videos" as he states himself at the beginning. There's nothing in this leak that is really any different than what was described in the April 2015 leak. It sounds more like he took the text of the leak and embellished it... maybe to spur some discussions? Add to that the fact that he goes to great lengths to try to explain the source of this leak... and fails miserably in doing so. This sounds like "I heard it from my cousin's stepfather's sister who got it from her friend who has a friend who works across the street from a BioWare studio... blablabla"...

 

Assuming that there is truth to it, I will not be bothered by Cerberus being present in some capacity but where I am lost (and where I believe I smell a fake in the leak) is where it says that aliens drop from Cerberus ships. This makes little to no sense at all. Aliens dropping from a pro-human organization's ships? Are they being shot at and that's the reason they're dropping off? (Sorry I digress...)

 

As for those who think that Cerberus ships are placeholders... sorry folks but I don't buy it. MEA is being rebuilt from the ground up because of the change to the new Frostbite engine which means that even if they wanted to reuse some content from the trilogy they essentially couldn't. So why create a Cerberus ship as a placeholder when you can save time and create the real thing to begin with? The placeholder theory doesn't stand up IMO.

[Catastrophy]

You mean aside from Cerberus being objectively stupid and poorly written for 2 games?

THIS time it'll be all different!

[Zehealingman]

Cerberus.

 

 

 

Yay?

[SnakeCode]

This being BioWare, i think it far more likely that the buxom blonde is a placeholder than the Cerberus stuff.

[Ophir147]

Yeah, well remember in ME3, Ashley WIlliams needed "sex appeal"

 

Seriously, I'll be shocked if all female (or even female-shaped) creatures in the game aren't "buxom"

 

It's worth noting that gaming's political climate has changed a lot in the last 3 years. I think it would be more realistic to expect some companions along the lines of DA;I's companions; interesting characters but at the end of the day they'll still be fugly.

[SnakeCode]

It's worth noting that gaming's political climate has changed a lot in the last 3 years. I think it would be more realistic to expect some companions along the lines of DA;I's companions; interesting characters but at the end of the day they'll still be fugly.

 

Disagree about them being ugly, but I agree with the overall point. It's fair to assume that the female characters will be decidedly not "sexualised."

[Ophir147]

Disagree about them being ugly, but I agree with the overall point. It's fair to assume that the female characters will be decidedly not "sexualised."

 

Yeah, poor choice of words. Beauty is subjective of course. I feel that as Bioware games graphics are getting better and they are giving character models more detail, the result isn't always how you imagined the character to look.

[Andrew Lucas]

Disagree about them being ugly, but I agree with the overall point. It's fair to assume that the female characters will be decidedly not "sexualised."

I hope males aren't as well.

[SnakeCode]

I hope males aren't as well.

 

Unlikely. Not only is there no pressure on devs to not make unsexualised male characters, but it's just hard to have good guys be so. Men aren't sexualised in the same way that women are, so it isn't as simple as to just have them cover up and not have the camera linger on his ass.

[Andrew Lucas]

Unlikely. Not only is there no pressure on devs to not make unsexualised male characters, but it's just hard to have good guys be so. Men aren't sexualised in the same way that women are, so it isn't as simple as to just have them cover up and not have the camera linger on his ass.

Yes, they are, but you know, they don't have boobs or slim hips when it comes to sexualization. Just take Pratt's shirtless and after "shower" scene in Guardians Of The Galaxy.

So no, you're incorrect.

I love how people gets so dismissive when it's the opposite. Good lord.

[SolNebula]

Disagree about them being ugly, but I agree with the overall point. It's fair to assume that the female characters will be decidedly not "sexualised."

 

Yeah I feel you. I hardly found any female attractive in DA:I to justify a romance with my male Inquisitor. I ended up not romancing anyone for the first time in a BW game...sad as I think they should balance it better to appease everyone. Josephine could be considered the traditional romance but it clearly felt underdeveloped in comparison to others. Ulitmately how they depict a woman always end up in a particular stereotype that is hardly sexy for me.

 

In the past you had the sexy beauty cliché which was very popular (Miranda) now we got the strong women in charge cliché (Cassandra) and we never seems to find in a game a legit women character like the one you could meet outside in the street. Not over the top in one way or the other....just a normal woman, with his merits and flaws, independent but feminine.

 

I would love for more normal "everyday" characters that don't reflect a particular stereotype. Probably I'm hoping for the impossible but tbh I loved good-rogueish female characters like Mission Vao or Mako SWTOR which were smart, funny and charming without being over the top. Even though maybe they are representing stereotypes of their own they felt to me like the closest to normal women you can meet usually. I'm not quite sure I expressed my thoughts well...

 

EDIT: This is my personal opinion and is not meant to open a debate in the roles of women in videogames.

[Andrew Lucas]

Life itself is full of clichés.

[Getorex]

Gotta say, collector/vorcha mashups don't strike me as the most creative direction they could have gone for new species.

 

Though I am on board for the omni-shields.

 

 

 

I've gotten hooked on the Expanse sci-fi book series (soon to be a SyFy channel miniseries) and The Polity scifi book series.  In both the big bad is ancient alien nanotech, possibly a weapon from a long-lost war or something that has long since morphed into something horrific. 

 

In The Polity a series, there are Jain Nodes (Jain being the ancient little-known alien race thought to have created the nano weapons) scattered here and there.  They detect when they are handled by intelligent life or AI and immediately go to work subverting either to its own ends.  Spreads like a very nasty disease and is very very dangerous and destructive.  A reasonable enemy design for any story.  Always a threat that could pop up at any time, any place, and if not squelched early, could easily spread and wipe out civilizations, be they living or AI-based (in The Polity AIs are preferred as the government because they rule without greed of any kind - not for money, not for power, not for aggrandizement) and there are many different types of human (genetically modified for specific environs from high-g to vacuum, no-g, also augmented or even a melding of human and AI to certain degrees).  Jain Nodes or similar are much better than Reapers, less of a one-off dead end (Bioware painted themselves into a tight corner with the Reapers).  At least with that sort of enemy you don't have to come up with some motive that may self-contradict (like the story of the Reapers and their entire purpose).  A (probable) weapon of war or conquest from an ancient unknowable alien race that got away from them, probably wiped them out just as it has other alien civilizations in the distant past who stumbled upon the Jain Nodes.  It even works in a way that is similar to Indoctrination: at first it gives the person who gets infected a feeling of great power, physical and mental, as it alters and "improves" your own body.  It gets the person so infected to spread the infection as they think they are growing themselves into something almost god-like, but then once it gets to a certain point it overtakes the infected and simply bends them to spread and destroy.  The person who thought they controlled the tech and were being made into a god instead becomes a mere slave and then a mindless tool.  Besides the alterations to strength and mind (turning you into something like a vast AI) it also ALMOST makes you indestructible: you heal almost as fast as you are damaged by weapons.  Having to be essentially blown to chunks or vaporized to prevent repair.  Capable of subverting AIs or other computers at a touch (as nano tangles invade and launch viral attacks then then take control of the AI/computer). 

 

THIS is an enemy worthy of ongoing story.  Both The Expanse and The Polity series (different authors) are able to turn the nano weapon tech into a nightmare that is frightening, VERY dangerous, and in need of constant lookout and drastic measures to prevent spread. 

 

A mere mean and agressive alien race makes ME:A something like Halo or Crysis.  Not horrible but been there, done that. 

[Degrees1991]

Cerberus ugh still a buy though Krogans and all.

[SolNebula]

Life itself is full of clichés.

 

That's very true but I think as a media mature it's only sensible to get rid of them or tone them down in one direction and the other.