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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 22, 2023 0:59:03 GMT
Ooh, good catch, that makes sense. I'm no big fan of the Council but constructing a gateway of any kind when you can't be sure what's going to come out of it is monumentally stupid. Didn't they learn anything from Doom? It could lead to an interesting situation though with humanity getting booted from the Council and such. We could have so many smug, insufferable Volus characters... I think a lot depends on whether this is just Cerberus constructing its own relay, or whether the Systems Alliance is covertly backing them in that endeavor. I'm inclined to think it's just Cerberus off doing its own thing. The main reason being that the planet in the latest trailer appears to me to be the same planet as the one beneath the relay that's being constructed. There's also Cerberus colours on the relay, and on the stockpiled canisters in the new trailer. Most people seem to think that the N7 figure is some sort of agent/infiltrator, so I suspect that the Systems Alliance have sent an N7 to investigate/disrupt what Cerberus are up to. The obvious question of the back of this though is just what the **** are Cerberus up to? Where is this new relay paired to? By the goddess, I hope they don’t involve Cerberus in any way, shape, or form in this. They have been so overused. Plus why would anyone bring them back after they supported the Reapers?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 22, 2023 0:55:28 GMT
The ME2 Story is not what made ME2 the most loved ME Game out of the Trilogie. It´s all about the companions. If you play ME2 you will get emotionally attached to them. And there is the Suicide Mission, where all the beloved Companions can die The Story itself is mediocore The ME1 Story is the best out of the Trilogie in my opinion The Main problem from Andromeda is, that the Story is mediocore and the companions are annoying.
Edit: And SAM sucks
The ME2 companion roster is my least favorite in the entire franchise. I disliked or couldn’t care less about most of them.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 19, 2023 17:19:10 GMT
Disagree about that being a staple of BioWare games. DAO, DA2, DAI, and ME3 didn’t have huge plot twists either. Any plot twists they did have are on par with MEA’s, like the Angara being a created race or the Kett using other races to make Kett(even if this is a copy of Collectors=Protheans). Unlike the C=P twist these are not story driven plot twists. They are Plot holes. The Angara and Khett being similar -especially considering if you look at the anatomy of the Khett you can see Angara features through out -even the way the eyes and limbs move makes the Borg-ify process pretty much an astute catch. Though I will admit I liked the conversion process but believe it should have been ALOT more painful. If your going to ripoff the Borg then make it really hurt. Also who does it help discovering the Angara are being converted? No one. Your in no position to change the empire from your small place in the galaxy. Maybe the Khett Empire could be corrupt Jardaan whose technology went rabid? That I could grant you. Also the Angara being created brings up the question: Who let some out while others remained in stasis? Maybe the Jardaan ran out of time to release all? Or maybe personalities were not yet downloaded into the stasis Angara? Too many questions reside from these. A plot twist may have a hole two but can come to conclusion when some sensibility MEA does not. Again proof of no third act. If it had this it would have been a much better game. That’s not lack of a third act. That’s setting things up for future games. They explicitly stated stuff like the Jardaan, Mysterious Benefactor, etc were part of a megastore that was going to cover multiple games. Just like how ME1 left many questions about Reapers but didn’t answer them.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 19, 2023 17:16:29 GMT
Disagree about that being a staple of BioWare games. DAO, DA2, DAI, and ME3 didn’t have huge plot twists either. Any plot twists they did have are on par with MEA’s, like the Angara being a created race or the Kett using other races to make Kett(even if this is a copy of Collectors=Protheans). As to Dragon Age and ME3 they do have plot twists that are important and advanced the story and not outright brazen holes. Granted maybe not as grandiose as Revan... but to start with DAO has two imo -I don't consider the "Warden must die to kill dragon a plot-twist. The two here are certain outcomes of the Landsmeet result in getting companion Loghain when not trying and story playing out with his view point can change your whole view of the game. The other is Flemeth's shapeshift reveal -which though crude does have an overarching plot twist that -that she can what I call "ghost possess". DA2 as for plot twists does have the Bethany/Carver dual situation but that is seen a mile ahead. Then there is the Anders reveal but yeah lets skip that. The only one worth note here is the insane Merideth's lyrium sword that explains her role in the story and her increasing insanity and the satisfying end. DA3/I also has two for me. Those being Corypheus and Flemeth -again. Still both are a stretch -one for ultimately winning at immortality and the other being related to an elvish deity? OH and for me I don't care about Solas. He can stay where his twist is even if he ties in with one. As to ME3 as much as he is distained its still there: One word: Udina. There is also the plot twist we were given of the Hudson to that goes reverse to his statement: RED, GREEN, BLUE. None of these are plot twists.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 18, 2023 23:07:47 GMT
A plot twist is just an extreme change in the story meant to shock the audience. That's what it was. Not going to keep talking about this because I'm not prepared for people ignoring how impactful this *twist* was to players at the time. Yes MEA has twists. They're just flat duds. As you said, “Other players aren’t you.” To others they were bigger twists than anything the Shepard Trilogy did.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 18, 2023 21:22:27 GMT
Eh, the “A Warden has to die” twist wasn’t really a twist since almost everyone thought that the moment they said a Warden is the only one who can kill an Archdemon. In that thought I personally don’t count Sovereign being a Reaper as a twist since we knew Reapers were an advanced synthetic race and how many times we heard “It’s Sovereign doing this for Saren” by then. As for Solas, that wasn’t a 3rd Act plot twist but a teaser for the next game. Also personally saw him being the Dread Wolf since before the game but definitely after first talking to him but that’s just me I guess Sovereign being a Reaper wasn't The Twist in ME1, it was that everyone was galactic cattle since essentially forever. DAI's Solas was The Twist. You don't have to agree, but it was what people experienced with faces due to not paying enough attention. Other players are not you. Agreed with DAO but technically it’s at least more of a swerve than a twist. 1.That’s not a twist though, since the only time we hear of races before the Protheans is Liara saying there is a pattern of advanced races disappearing so we already knew that. 2. But it’s not an Act 3 twist, which means it’s a game that didn’t do that so it’s not a staple of BioWare games. Overall if these tiny things are considered twists, then MEA absolutely has twists.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 18, 2023 5:18:24 GMT
DAO - sacrifice DA2 - ok yeah DAI - Solas ME3 - lol wtf was that Ok, I'm being cheeky. Eh, the “A Warden has to die” twist wasn’t really a twist since almost everyone thought that the moment they said a Warden is the only one who can kill an Archdemon. In that thought I personally don’t count Sovereign being a Reaper as a twist since we knew Reapers were an advanced synthetic race and how many times we heard “It’s Sovereign doing this for Saren” by then. As for Solas, that wasn’t a 3rd Act plot twist but a teaser for the next game. Also personally saw him being the Dread Wolf since before the game but definitely after first talking to him but that’s just me I guess
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 18, 2023 4:15:48 GMT
Andromeda is without question the best game in the franchise. ME:A Isn't the best but it isn't the worst Bioware game in existence. That falls to CrapAnthem. ME:A could be better if they had just finished the game or at least given it its THIRD ACT. A staple of Bioware games is to have a major plot twist on entry into that third act: Your Revan, Your the Spirt Monk, Collectors are Protheans ect. An example you may understand is that of Ratchet's species not being extinct but in another dimension -though I don't think that occurs right before the Third Act of one of those games. Just getting caught up on the franchise. The ME:A we got had no major plot twists, no revelations and especially no conclusions. I mean a plot twist like the Angarians being the Jardaan or the Jardaan being "Precursor" Humans -cliché as either of those two is -would still have been better than what we got which was... nothing. Personally I would have preferred this after playing ME:A... The Meridian biome is also an active rogue roaming Death Star and its your moral duty to destroy Meridian to save the galaxy or to let Meridian exist while it kills everything else not on it -now that would have been satisfying. Disagree about that being a staple of BioWare games. DAO, DA2, DAI, and ME3 didn’t have huge plot twists either. Any plot twists they did have are on par with MEA’s, like the Angara being a created race or the Kett using other races to make Kett(even if this is a copy of Collectors=Protheans).
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 15, 2023 17:43:08 GMT
Been to see The Marvels. It's a fun film. Not top tier MCU, but well worth watching. Occasionally tonally dissonant, but not to the extent it spoiled the film. Often moving too. There is a mid-credits stinger, but not one at the end (well sort of, it's so insignificant as to be irrelevant and certainly not worth staying for). It was great to have a superhero movie where the superhero is optimistic about being a superhero again.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 13, 2023 22:41:27 GMT
Andromeda is without question the best game in the franchise.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 10, 2023 17:25:28 GMT
Wouldn't use Quarians still in their suits as evidence for anything. Remember Tali did say that they might still wear them because of how the suits have become part of their culture. Well I've this before when the first teaser dropped. Destroy/control ending might be both canon. Here we have blue and red colors (control, destroy and also paragon and renegade with the symbol looking exactly the same as both of these choices. I'm not so sure if both of those endings are gonna be canon though). All three endings might be in since 600 years have passed which is a long time but idk... Some geth may have fled to Andromeda before the reaper war. Probably what that ark 6 is for? So some will still be alive. I was only being semi-serious I think the most likely route is some sort of vague/generic explanation as to why whatever choice was selected things turned out the same and essentially reset after a period of time, such that we end up with a blended future state that negates none of the selections (bar refuse obviously). I still think that would suck personally, I'd rather they just picked an ending, went with it and then built the next game out from that choice, but I doubt they'd do it. I can see that. Like either Synthesis or “as centuries past now almost everyone is integrated with machines” or something. Reapers are either dead or left after repairing the galaxy. Geth either alive or had some outside the blast radius. And so on. Really the harder choices are the ones not in the ending, like the Genophage or the Geth/Quarian War. Not a huge fan of merging them like that either, but the alternative would almost certainly be Destroy as canon so I’ll take them not making my Shepard commit the largest genocide in our cycle’s history.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 10, 2023 16:32:45 GMT
I think so. Helmet resembles a quarians Galactic civilization exists - Rules out refuse ending Geth exist - Rules out destroy ending Quarians exist and still in suits - Rules out synthesis ending (surely they wouldn't still need their suits 600 years after synthesis?!) Control ending canonized and Shepard still exists and controls the Reapers therefore you have your "What happened to Shepard" question answered.....! Wouldn't use Quarians still in their suits as evidence for anything. Remember Tali did say that they might still wear them because of how the suits have become part of their culture.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 10, 2023 1:21:34 GMT
He did mention how it was great of Bethesda to make sure they still had a big role in the game after that decision, where most studios the actors are either just recast or cut.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 9, 2023 20:37:33 GMT
I got something in my feed yesterday about Bethesda actually casting voice actors for the PC, but then cutting the feature. Yep. It was going to be Elias and Cissy. When it was cut they instead were cast as the voices of Sam and Andreja. Elias confirmed it, saying they did months of work.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 7, 2023 22:43:12 GMT
Geth in a knight looking suit and Angara are spotted! The first things to actually have me excited from the stuff today!
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 7, 2023 21:14:57 GMT
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 7, 2023 21:09:50 GMT
And its an mostly meh. Oh look a mysterious N7. Again. What was that music? ME3? Yeah... I expected something more but they like being mysterious. They leave it open for us to think... It might be liara or a new protagonist but the helmet also looks kinda similar to ryder. Definitely not Liara. Even when they had asari wear helmets, it was more elongated in the back to accommodate the scalp crests.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 7, 2023 21:07:03 GMT
Wow, what a lame design. “Let’s take Snake Eyes and put him in a N7 duster.”
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 7, 2023 20:39:04 GMT
Would much rather continue as Ryder than have Shepard 2.0 aka new N7 protagonist. If they do the latter maybe it’ll be a dual protagonist: Ryder doing the stuff needed in Andromeda while the new person does the stuff in the Milky Way. But unfortunately that will not flesh out andromeda more. Why wouldn’t it? There could be lots of things we have to do in Andromeda that fleshes it out more.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 7, 2023 20:11:35 GMT
Would much rather continue as Ryder than have Shepard 2.0 aka new N7 protagonist. If they do the latter maybe it’ll be a dual protagonist: Ryder doing the stuff needed in Andromeda while the new person does the stuff in the Milky Way.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 7, 2023 19:24:07 GMT
I strongly believe it might be liara though. She wears a cloak and the same was on the 2020 teaser. Also remember last year the reflection of the n7 video with liara and the geth? Maybe she IS an n7. She has a third role and it might be that Definitely possible. I guess the big reveal might just be that her role is N7 now. But if it is her this is starting to feel like DAD with Solas and Varric all the time lol. Bioware realized they’ve used Varric more than Liara as their poster child so are trying to balance the scales.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 7, 2023 19:11:27 GMT
The lighting and structures outside the windows on the back wall look like this place, so Thessia maybe?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 7, 2023 19:09:18 GMT
Wait wait wait! That music.... I might be wrong I've heard it before in andromeda. Also the white lights. Doesn't it resemble the tempest's interior lights?? Please be ryder! It’s not the Tempest. There is no room in the Tempest like that.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 7, 2023 19:06:39 GMT
Doubt it’s Shepard. Regardless of ending they’d have passed away half a millennium before this.
Ryder would be in the Pathfinder color scheme.
Liara I assume would also be in her color scheme. That or her obsession has gone far worse.
So new character is my guess.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 7, 2023 18:55:46 GMT
One thing I can't remember ... did the Andromeda Initiative trigger a distress signal when they first arrived? Or maybe this is a signal sent after the conclusion of MEA due to new events? We know the Nexus has been trying to reach the Milky Way but have yet to get a response. It’s one of the news stories we hear in the game.
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