Has anyone else noticed the reoccurring themes of lost civilizations? We had the Rakata in SWTOR, Arlathan and the Tevinter Imperium's glory age in Dragon Age, and the protheans in Mass Effect. Now we are adding the remnants?
NOTE: I am not upset about this, but I find it a curious revelation.
Has anyone else noticed the reoccurring themes of lost civilizations? We had the Rakata in SWTOR, Arlathan and the Tevinter Imperium's glory age in Dragon Age, and the protheans in Mass Effect. Now we are adding the remnants?
NOTE: I am not upset about this, but I find it a curious revelation.
Just a simple survey leak. Wait until Sunday, they may reveal something along these lines.
True. Most of the time I just ignore leaks like that one, but even omitting the remnants you can see Bioware likes to include something along these lines. Learning from the past, I guess. 
I can't believe I was just thinking about this... but yeah that's in a lot of games if you think about it, progenitor culture/civilization.
I can't say I'm shocked... the evidence is rather overwhelming at this point that their likely was a civilization antedating Egypt, Sumer, Indus Valley, Mayas, etc. If you are interested....underwater ruins, disparate symbols, etc,
I want to see something mysterious and dangerous. Something "more" than the reapers.Has anyone else noticed the reoccurring themes of lost civilizations? We had the Rakata in SWTOR, Arlathan and the Tevinter Imperium's glory age in Dragon Age, and the protheans in Mass Effect. Now we are adding the remnants?
NOTE: I am not upset about this, but I find it a curious revelation.
I want to see something mysterious and dangerous. Something "more" than the reapers.
It is not really strange, It is not uncommon that there is an older civilization that in places that has natural resources. And then there is the bonus that it give the writers something that they can use as a point in quest and a way to give the player a way to get knowledge about the world without making it weird. (usually)
Well the trope is always their kind of brilliantly pacifist and are indifferent to people using bits and pieces of their civilization to then go off and wage their own personal relative wars..... or just so long dead they never coming back sort of deal..
It's actually "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" as one example that slightly reversed this because they were kind more just like sorta confused, but actually interested in kind of keeping the energy going, and then when someone comes along and is like "Oh yeah, maybe you should try this!" They kind of access the power and use it themselves more or less.
Well the trope is always their kind of brilliantly pacifist and are indifferent to people using bits and pieces of their civilization to then go off and wage their own personal relative wars..... or just so long dead they never coming back sort of deal..
It's actually "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" as one example that slightly reversed this because they were kind more just like sorta confused, but actually interested in kind of keeping the energy going, and then when someone comes along and is like "Oh yeah, maybe you should try this!" They kind of access the power and use it themselves more or less.
Looking at this concept art for the game
I hope we don't actually see a 'remnant' in the flesh, just the lost traces of a once great empire. I can imagine now stepping onto an empty alien city, the first creatures to have walked the roads and streets in centuries. Would be quite haunting.
Looking at this concept art for the game
I hope we don't actually see a 'remnant' in the flesh, just the lost traces of a once great empire. I can imagine now stepping onto an empty alien city, the first creatures to have walked the roads and streets in centuries. Would be quite haunting.
If not in the flesh this game then maybe the next. I'm kind of hoping that they're intimidating and that their might is more scary than that of the reapers if they are an enemy. Like the galaxy's white walkers. But then you have to ask yourself, wasn't that just what the reapers where? Yes, they were. But I just hope they don't do the whole reapers thing again. I just want an enemy to sort of look at in awe and fear. One that I know is going to be a threat and not the reapers.Looking at this concept art for the game
I hope we don't actually see a 'remnant' in the flesh, just the lost traces of a once great empire. I can imagine now stepping onto an empty alien city, the first creatures to have walked the roads and streets in centuries. Would be quite haunting.
I want to see something mysterious and dangerous. Something "more" than the reapers.
Agreed, but not to the level of horrific and disturbing visuals or depravity. That's not my idea of entertainment.
I must say Bioware does a good job of not following the pacifist lost civilization trope. Perhaps the only one that sounded like it was even remotely peaceful is the elves lost city of Arlathan in Dragon Age. The rest were more like tyrannical empires that broke apart or disappeared.
Until we learned that they were slavers that probably were on par to the magisters of old or even worse... I really liked that move.
I'd be more interested on cults obsessed in recovering the glory of the ancients or stuff like that, we could end up with a bunch of guys emulating the SS or the samurai and the shoguns or whatever. I think it would be nice to exterminate one of those cults.
Has anyone else noticed the reoccurring themes of lost civilizations? We had the Rakata in SWTOR, Arlathan and the Tevinter Imperium's glory age in Dragon Age, and the protheans in Mass Effect. Now we are adding the remnants?
NOTE: I am not upset about this, but I find it a curious revelation.
You know...there are starting to be tons of things I'm not fully understanding here....I mean if Andromeda didn't have the reapers, and this race was more evolved than the Levithian because of that, wouldn't they have already gone to the Milky Way to colonize it for more resources or explored it and eventually destroyed the reapers with a certain amount of ease?
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