Mass Effect and Stargate

Honestly I got more of a Halo vibe than a Stargate one. The whole 'Forerunner' artifacts and structures lying around with the 'Sentinels' protecting and maintaining everything. Not to mention the Builders all mysteriously disappeared and the Angara thing where they were "indexed" for repopulation later on.

I'll bet we'll get a "Librarian" type of character if there's ever another game too.

Srsly?

Great, now both you and television have ruined one of the greatest forerunners (for me at least) of the past millennium. The television show for Stargate was atrocious.

Should be right up there with like Castle, NCIS, Jericho, etc.

"I know the world just ended, but... *giggle* Ya wanna go to prom?" Wait.....



No wait, srsly.


What?

Are you fucking joking me?

Blasphemy! You sir are a false god! Lol. The movie was bad the shows were great! All IMHO of course.

You are pretty much a drama queen. It's amusing. 

But fear not. You are not alone. Hyperbole is a steady staple on the interwebs. 

Mass Effect is nothing like Stargate.

Mass Effect had a beautiful scientist who is as bad ass as she is brilliant





Oh...well. Stargate didn't have a cool alien that character that isn't emotional and was formerly part of an enemy faction...




Um...Okay Stargate ddin't have a tough but fair general that somtimes breaks the rules to help out the heroes.



Damn...oh I know! Stargate didn't have one of it's main characters die only to come back later through a process that isn't very well explained!





I fucking give up...

You win The Internet for the day, my friend.

So does this mean that Udina is Senator Kinsey? And Jacob is so obviously Jonas Quinn. Bland guy fills in for Kaiden for a while, leaves when Kaiden returns, and shows up later for a one-off, complete with a new super-smart girlfriend.

When I first saw those rings on Eos I thought they would be some cool alien technolgy, much like the stargates they resemble, and what did I get? Water purification, built by boring humans at that.

How many deaths did Ryder have this game? Three?

1. Planetside
2. Archon's ship
3. Khi Tishara

4. DLC 1
5. DLC 2
6. DCL 3

Of course, if that is the case, I wonder if Ryder only gets nine lives?

It's a copycat industry and Bioware have done their fair share.

Technically Ryder didn't die in #3. 

Hey!  That's me!  I did that.. probably among others somewhere..

Yes, I've commented before that Andromeda specifically reminds me a tremendous amount of Stargate Atlantis.  Overall I think themes of Stargate, much like many other sci-fi series, like Star Trek or Star Wars being the most prominent, were used to create Mass Effect.  

The name "Shepard" is fairly common and with a lot of themes from Mass Effect and Shepard being vaguely having themes of Jesus Christ, I think you could easily say it's coincidence.  However, Stargate Atlantis premiered three years before Mass Effect released with the lead character being named John Sheppard (two p's! ) , and then ME also had the default male main character being named John Shepard. 

I love both franchises so any crossover themes are fantastic for me.  I think Ryder takes more cues from Sheppard in Atlantis than O'Neill, but considering Sheppard was a variation off O'Neill to begin with that was fleshed into his own character later... it's a good mix.  I said in a different thread the overall story of Andromeda is, broad strokes, the same as Atlantis.  An expedition from the Milky Way travels to a different galaxy and finds the highly advanced remains of a prior civilization that seeded life through the galaxy.  Their first mission, the experienced military commander is killed and the younger, cocky main character takes over as the leader in over his head to make first contact and establish friends.  The enemy is a feared opponent with a galactic empire, using biological weaponry against their opponents.  Despite all the odds, the underdogs from the Milky Way defeat their enemy in the end because the main character has a special attribute that make them unique and can interface with the ancient technology.

I'll just say that I love Stargate.  I love Mass Effect.  I've always wanted a Stargate RPG style game and Mass Effect is the closest there has been.

You should watch the original movie, OP. It was a great movie, with James Spader and Kurt Russell.

Yeah, Daniel died quite a damn bit in Stargate. He spent more time in a sarcophagus than some of the Goa'uld it seemed.