Would you like some sort of a companion app?

I honestly don't think so. I think Nintendo screwed up when they introduced the PS Vida (I think). In terms of the pip boys, meh. They were crap in a box, as far as I'm concerned.

If it's something like Fallout Shelter, which was not connected to the main game, then sure why not. If it's something that I need to play to access certain features in the main game then HELL NO!

I'm not sure how viable a second-screen experience would be to ME or really any of the BioWare franchises at this point. I can see how it worked with Fallout with the Pip-boy… it's the Pip-boy. A Fallout game without a Pip-boy would be… like a DA game without a dragon. It's just not meant to be.

About secondary games… Well, if they do a cool promo game that's tied with advertising and what-not, that's fine. I don't want it tied to the main game though. That whole galaxy map app just drove me bonkers, when it worked, and coupling with the MP limitation, just drove me up the wall. I'm happy they patched that up ASAP.

As second screen do you mean that pipboy app to where you can manage your game inventory through your phone? I've used it and found it cumbersome. Unless I was going to hand my phone to someone and tell them to do XYZ while I try not to get shot while I wait for them to do the thing I can bring up the ingame pipboy and have the game pause so I have what I need when I need it relatively easier. The collectors edition pipboy was nothing but a glorified phone case that was too small for any of my phones that were released in the past 4 years.

as for falloutshelter it was a nice game I quit playing before any meaningful update because once you unlocked the nuka cola facility the only point to continue was try to get better loot and you eventually forget when your settlers out in the waste dont need attention for 5 days while you hope they find your 20th fatman and the mean time you're doing a dumbed down version of farmville.

This isn't exactly the sort of thing you suggest, but I've always thought that a datapad replica loaded with, say, the codex would make for a pretty sweet collector's edition item. Expensive, certainly - easiest way to do it would probably be to make a custom shell for a generic Android tablet - but still pretty cool, 'specially if they work on some custom content - personal notes and diagrams from the previous 'owner' of the datapad, that sort of thing - to go along with the codex.

Think of it as the Mass Effect equivalent of Halsey's journal from the Halo: Reach CE.

Not sure about something like this in ME, but app like Pip-Boy? Hell yeah! What you might not know is, that it has extreme trolling potential.

Locate someone playing Fallout 4, link your app to their account via wifi and you can throw out anything from their inventory, including equipped item, without them noticing. Even equipped gun can be thrown out , WHILE SHOOTING. A must-have app for any douchebag out there.

But again, not much use for this in ME.

#inb4 it takes away from the SP/MP

I don't really need this - I guess this is some kind of marketing to heat the market a bit?

Nah. Something decently fun but not tied to the actual game would be fine - like, say, Fallout Shelter - but I've never really felt compelled to engage much with companion apps.

Maybe a nicely-presented version of the in-game codex for your phone - I actually think a replica datapad* with the codex on it would make for a fantastic high-tier CE item - but that's pretty much it.

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*I'm thinking it'd maybe be doable, cost-wise, if they used an off-the-shelf Android tablet reference design, and then manufactured a custom body for it, designed to look like a datapad. Probably not worth the trouble, ultimately, though--I'd be just as happy with a model of the Tempest.

No. When I'm playing a video game I want to play the video game, not fiddle with something on my phone.

No. I don't actually care if they do a companion app, unless they lock in-game content behind it which irritates me especially if its something I'd like (like Cassie Cage Tuxedo outfit).

I wouldn't mind something where your companions send you texts, like they did with ME3.

No, not really, I don't like that sort of thing as I personally see no benefit to it other than keeping the player hooked to the game.

Just my opinion