Collider wrote...
Bioware said themselves that they wanted Ashley Kaidan and Liara to survive through ME2 so they can have large roles in ME3. That leads me to suspect that they will indeed be squad mates.
Slidell505 wrote...
Collider wrote...
Bioware said themselves that they wanted Ashley Kaidan and Liara to survive through ME2 so they can have large roles in ME3. That leads me to suspect that they will indeed be squad mates.
I hope I can tell Kaiden to go **** himself.
Collider wrote...
Considering Miranda is the hardest squad mate to perish in the suicide mission, seems a definite she's returning as a squad mate in ME3.
Collider wrote...
A cameo by definition can't be something significant. Seems to me that Bioware made it clear that Ashley Kaidan and Liara are going to return in a large role including as squad mates. Miranda seems the best bet for ME3 seeing as how she's the most likely to survive or the hardest to die during the suicide mission.
Modifié par implodinggoat, 15 mars 2010 - 05:13 .
Modifié par phimseto, 15 mars 2010 - 05:41 .
phimseto wrote...
You're right, and they probably will listen to fans. I still can't believe the hue and cry regarding not having each and every character back from ME1. From a storytelling sense, I thought Bioware did a good job of explaining each character's absence away. I'm not sure how workable a decision that is for ME3, though. If I had to guess, here's what Bioware would do.
You will recruit a core group as your "through the game" team. This will be mostly new characters, with a few returning characters (Garrus most obviously).
Some characters will be a part of your crew, but not a part of your ground team. Mordin might be your full-time researcher, if he lived. Liara would be on your crew, but as an information analyst. Ashley/Kaidan show up as your XO. Etc. etc. This way, they're "on the crew" but Bioware isn't wedded to having to write for them in every non-ship scene.
I suspect that, in order to honor the large cast, you'll also (a la Kingdom Hearts) situationally play with certain characters: teaming up with Wrex and Grunt on a Krogan reunification mission, Tali and Legion on a mission to the Quarian homeworld, Jacob and Miranda on a Cerberus-related mission, Zaeed on a Blue Suns mission. That way, you can play at least part of the game with the characters you want, if not the whole.
Finally, what they definitely will do is give you the option of recruiting any of your old teammates for the final set of missions, provided they are still around and not otherwise committed (like Wrex leading the krogan or Zaeed leading the Blue Suns, and even then it might be negotiable). By doing so, they answer what would have been the biggest complaint: "I wanted 'x' on my final mission!"
I wouldn't mind if they did it that way. My only request, as it were, was that they made it possible to have something of an ongoing dialogue with all of your old playable characters, talking about the evolving situation, and squaring away some personal business, etc.
Another advantage to doing the game this way is that it makes the game feel more epic: these other characters are your agents/teammates, out there organizing on behalf of your mission. When you land into the middle of whatever lynchpin moment they find themselves in, it's like your management flying in to seal the deal. They give you the report, and then you close things out together.
Collider wrote...
Considering Miranda is the hardest squad mate to perish in the suicide mission, seems a definite she's returning as a squad mate in ME3.
Lol, provided that she survived :/Dethateer wrote...
Collider wrote...
Considering Miranda is the hardest squad mate to perish in the suicide mission, seems a definite she's returning as a squad mate in ME3.
She was the only squadmate that died on my first playthrough. So... no.
Ibanez2009 wrote...
The guys and ladies from Bioware are famous for those acts. They ALWAYS listen to their fans. I mean, nobody's perfect, but what they gave us with Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect..... was a blessing for everyone.
I hope they will give us our Mass Effect 3 AND take MANY of our ideas in the Wishlist thread in. As for me.. I hope that ME 3 will be a HUUUUUGE game! It should have 6-8 disks so I can play a long and nice storyline.
This is a good point. The existing characters are developed - there is no need to create new backstories for them. so i'd wager that creating new characters would be even more work than using existing squad mates that the writers are already familiar with.Orange Face wrote...
Bring them back...ME3 is the end of the story...please don't waste any time or space developing new characters when there are roughly 15 developed squad mates... and if you were unfortunate (read dumb enough) to get most of them killed then you should be punished with a whole crew of cookie cutter people like Jenkins.
FutureBoy81 wrote...
some more Zaeed please
Collider wrote...
I have seen a few threads where people have claimed that it is unlikely or nearly impossible for all squad mates to return, either because of the number of squad mates and/or the possbility that most of them could be dead.
Not only is it not impossible, it's not such a daunting task as some people would make it. Mass Effect 1 & 2 required monumental effort and talent to begin with; Bioware is fully capable of having fan favorites return as squad mates or at the very least more than cameos.
As we've learned from Lead Gameplay Designer Christina Norman's comments on how fans reacted to Mass Effect 2, Bioware listens to its fans. And what do the fans want? I'll let these polls speak for themselves.
social.bioware.com/892908/polls/2652/
social.bioware.com/892908/polls/1974/
I'll gladly answer any questions about my position on squad mates returning. Would like to hear your feedback on the subject.
If your response has spoilers, please post it in the spoiler allowed version of my thread: social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/105/index/1715314
Modifié par Darkhour, 20 mars 2010 - 02:10 .
How do you figure? That wasn't the case in ME2. True, Shepard was under a unique situation...but since they seem to want to revamp gameplay in ME3 or at least RPG features, I see them as resetting Shepard again.Darkhour wrote...
I am under the impression that ME3 will roll over directly from ME2. Starting at level 30 and moving on into level 31 thru 60.
I agree! They have so much content already set up, they shouldn't throw it away.Anything other than this pretty much makes ME2 a waste of time. 90% of the content being for nothing. The story was getting to know people. To just dump them just doesn't seem right.
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