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[CMdrShep93]

We all know Mass Effect was inspired by 70s sci fi. To be honest when I first played Mass Effect 1 I was reminded a little of Lilo & Stitch. Perhaps the first scene with the Council reminded me of the first part of that movie where Jumba Jookiba went before the Galactic Federation. The Grand Council woman looked a little like a Salarian. Imagine Salarians running the Council. That is a very scary thought.

 

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I know Bioware inspired by Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly, and 2001: A Space Odyssey but were they influenced by other works of fiction too?

 

Check out Syd Mead's art. Very Mass Effect.

 

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[Dalinne]

OMG.

At first I thought you were trolling. But Lilo & Stich is awesome, so I'd give you thumbs up for that.

Now I see the image captures... well, maybe you are right. Weirder things inspire the franchise. I heard that the infamous music elevator for example:

 

comes from this freaking movie??? 

 

 

Edit: now I'm not sure if that's true or an Urban Legend... Someone watched that movie?

[Undead Han]

The art of Syd Mead.

 

 

[CMdrShep93]

OMG.

At first I thought you were trolling. But Lilo & Stich is awesome, so I'd give you thumbs up for that.

Now I see the image captures... well, maybe you are right. Weirder things inspire the franchise. I heard that the infamous music elevator for example:

 

comes from this freaking movie??? 

 

 

Edit: now I'm not sure if that's true or an Urban Legend... Someone watched that movie?

 

Perhaps Disney should make a sequel where Lilo and Stitch become agents for the Galactic Federation and are given a cool Normandy style spaceship and colorful characters to help them on their missions. It probably won't be as good as the first movie but it would be a cool idea.

 

 

Also EPCOT at Walt Disney World reminded me of the Citadel Presidium.

[AlanC9]

When people say 70's sci-fi, what are they talking about? Buck Rogers? Original Battlestar Galactica? Logan's Run? The first Star Trek movie? The Starlost? Tom Baker-era Doctor Who?

[straykat]

I thought Aliens was an influence. Not as horror like.. but the Colonial life, evil Corporations, etc.. seemed to be like it.

[Fogg]

Star Control II was a big blueprint. I remember playing The Ur-Quan Masters and telling about it to my brother and he said 'Ah, you mean Mass Effect!'.

 

[SKAR]

We all know Mass Effect was inspired by 70s sci fi. To be honest when I first played Mass Effect 1 I was reminded a little of Lilo & Stitch. Perhaps the first scene with the Council reminded me of the first part of that movie where Jumba Jookiba went before the Galactic Federation. The Grand Council woman looked a little like a Salarian. Imagine Salarians running the Council. That is a very scary thought.

https://bplusmoviebl...lo-stitch-1.png

http://vignette2.wik...=20140529051512

I know Bioware inspired by Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly, and 2001: A Space Odyssey but were they influenced by other works of fiction too?

Check out Syd Mead's art. Very Mass Effect.

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for future ME I hope they look to farscape, firefly, et cetera.

[SKAR]

The art of Syd Mead.

hmm I wonder what that reminds me off?

[SardaukarElite]

Visually they have a lot of 70s sci-fi art in them, as has been pointed out.

 

The Alliance seems to draw from Star Trek's Federation's optimistic everyone joining together and going to space. 

 

Big ships that maneuver like clumsy fighters is also quite Star Treky.

 

ME2's Suicide Run has more than a few similarities with Serenity's climatic sequence (crash landing, fighting into the facility, final stand while hero goes to final fight, favorite characters may die).

 

Thresher Maws are clearly a reference to a popular Fatboy Slim song. 

 

Specters always had comparisons drawn to Jedi Knights but I suspect that's more a functional thing of them being a group who let the player go out and do player things. I don't think there's actually much Star Wars directly in there at all. Biotics are kind of generic special powers rather than force analogous. 

[ArabianIGoggles]

OMG.

At first I thought you were trolling. But Lilo & Stich is awesome, so I'd give you thumbs up for that.

Now I see the image captures... well, maybe you are right. Weirder things inspire the franchise. I heard that the infamous music elevator for example:

 

comes from this freaking movie??? 

 

 

Edit: now I'm not sure if that's true or an Urban Legend... Someone watched that movie?

I watched it when I was younger because I wanted to see Jessie from Saved by the Bell naked.  Can't remember much about it other than it was awful.

[katamuro]

My answer and its probably also very close to the truth is that Bioware took inspiration from all kinds of sources, all kinds of genres and all kinds of scifi. Artstyle, aliens, alien worlds, the story itself all of that has been seen in pieces somewhere else. What ME did was blend it so well that we saw it as their own. 

[Spacepunk01]

The original Mass Effect really captured our imagination. I loved the futuristic retro-look of the game. Sadly, ME2 and ME3 morphed into mainstream science fiction, while the retro look and feel gradually faded away.

 

...and the film grain? This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think it was great.

[ZipZap2000]

I thought Aliens was an influence. Not as horror like.. but the Colonial life, evil Corporations, etc.. seemed to be like it.

 

Rachni.

 

 

 

@Op

 

*Shepard enters a dream sequence*

 

Leia: Use the force Shepard.....

 

Shepard:.....What?....

 

*Bullets ricochet and the sounds of explosions ensue*

 

Liara: I said warp! Use your warp!

 

Shepard: Oh, right.

 

 

 

X-Files, Greek Mythology, Sci-Fi, there's a lot to look at in terms of 'inspiration' with this franchise.

[ZipZap2000]

The original Mass Effect really captured our imagination. I loved the futuristic retro-look of the game. Sadly, ME2 and ME3 morphed into mainstream science fiction, while the retro look and feel gradually faded away.

 

...and the film grain? This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think it was great.

 

 

I liked the grain as well. 

[Eryri]

The Reapers have quite clear influences from other works of fiction. In addition to the whole "space-Cthulhu" thing, which goes back to HP Lovecraft, they very much resemble the kind of genocidal, self-replicating, Von Neumann machines that show up in novels like Alistair Reynold's 'Revelation Space', and Greg Bear's 'Forge of God'. The earliest version of this trope I can find is the 'Berserkers' from a 1960s series by Fred Saberhagen - https://en.m.wikiped...er_(Saberhagen)

[Sifr]

There's a definitely a lot of influence from Babylon Five in Mass Effect.

 

Both feature first contact scenarios where cultural misunderstandings lead to a brief war, a Council that deals with interstellar politics, powerful precursor species and a Lovecraftian menace returning to terrorise the galaxy after a long absence.

 

Also the main character is a Commander with a surname begin with S.

[Salarian Master Race]

Farscape had a race of religious blue people who could enter your mind: