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Post by Ianamus on Jan 30, 2017 14:59:11 GMT
Oh no, what if his "trap" is that he isn't romanceable . *Shakes head furiously to clear it* No, no, no! I'm just over thinking it. Right, Bioware? Ugh, I hope I see him and Sara in the next trailer instead of Liam/Sara <- that pairing's way too predictable. I want my alien romance! What if Vetra isn't romanceable? The blowout would be quite something to witness. I'm more concerned that she'll be lesbian than her not being romanceable at all. I mean, on the one hand it would be great to have a lesbian squad mate on the team, but... we already had Nyreen and female players already got a Turian with Garrus. It would also mean that Scott can only romance the most human female aliens yet again. In fact, he might get no female aliens other than Asari at this rate.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 30, 2017 12:32:44 GMT
So now that I think about it, what was up with that asari and her Salarian father? She was a fully grown asari but salarians only live about 30 years. So how does that work? Her father should have been long dead by the time she was grown, no? you figure that even if he mated with her mother as soon as he was able to and was at the end of his life, she couldn't really be more than 25 years old. She should have been a child, right? Liara was a little over 100 and was just considered an adult. Maybe he was her stepfather? Otherwise it wouldn't work. I guess it depends on what age Salarians/Asari reach physical maturity. As far as I'm aware we don't know exactly with either. It's possible that Asari are mostly fully grown physically at 20-25, but aren't considered to be mentally adults until much older. Perhaps she was supposed to be the Asari equivalent of a teenager, but they didn't want to create a new model.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 29, 2017 22:41:48 GMT
You guys are going to have to catch me up. There are no Quarians in MEA? Not that we know of. The devs have hedged on answering the question, saying they're not ready to reveal exactly which Milky Ways races made it for the ride. Personally I don't see why not. We have the four Council races plus the Krogan, despite tensions between the Krogan and pretty much everyone else. The Quarians were once a Council race and were involved in some pretty major story lines in the trilogy (unlike the Rachni and other races that get mentioned when we talk of races that likely won't make it in). They're also a fan favorite. I can't see any logical reason to leave them out, even if we won't see them in the quantities we do some of the other aliens. My hope is they're waiting until closer to launch, or leaving it a surprise, because there's a major Quarian character (not a squadmate, necessarily, but someone important) they want to keep under wraps for now. Because at this point leaving us hanging only to go 'nope, sorry, not in this game!' seems a bit cruel and it's just going to piss the Quarian fans off. The way I see it there are three possibilities at the moment: 1. Like you said, there is a major Quarian character, unlikely to be a squad member but possibly a crew member, who they plan on revealing further down the line to fuel hype, Possibly in an initiative briefing or a trailer of some sort. 2. They plan on bringing Quarians in in a DLC of some sort, and don't want to talk about DLC plans yet. 3. They aren't planned to be in but marketing doesn't want them telling us about it because it would cause an upset among some players. I'm hoping it's option 1, but 3. wouldn't surprise me at this point.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 29, 2017 1:06:09 GMT
There was a worse one, with this character called "Shiki" ... it was made into an anime. I watched the anime because it looked like there was a romance between the main character and his best friend and I'm a total sucker for those. But I couldn't even finish it, too gross. And supposedly the game was grosser. I'm sorry, this is not at all Jaal-related Jaal, I would never cut you in half or feast on your entrails or stick you in a robot body!! Oh blue-tentacled prince of my heart! Oh god, Togainu no Chi... one of the worst anime I've ever sat through. All I know about the game is the infamous scene where someone is sodomized with a screwdriver. For some reason it's always the grim and gory Bl games that end up being translated into English. Sorry ladyconsular... I should probably keep my embarrassingly good knowledge of Yaoi games/anime to myself
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 29, 2017 0:47:52 GMT
I've heard of it Seems all those BL games are gore fests ... have never felt an urge to play a single one! >.< I only know about it because I liked some of the artwork (edited to make a point that it was tame, just generic character pics) I came across on the internet (< curse you internet ). I had no idea what kind of game it was or anything until I looked it up. I read a bit about it and, Jesus, it was like watching a train wreck; I read several different scenarios from the game and couldn't, for the life of me, understand how any sane person could write (and especially publish) it. And then, people played it... Man, I need to go stare at some of these Jaal pics to relieve my poor brain. The gory endings are the "bad" endings that you try to avoid. The good endings tend to be pretty sweet. And yes, I have to admit to having played Dramatical Murder a few times... Some of the routes are ridiculous though, I can't believe the stuff they got away with in a widely published game. Like Ren. He starts off as your cute robot dog, but he has a hot human digital form because of course he does. So you have sex with him in cyberspace. Then, he downloads his consciousness into the body of your twin brother, and you have sex in real life... I couldn't make it up, I really couldn't.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 28, 2017 17:43:05 GMT
I don't understand why they don't just release some sort of obscure chart for the people who want it, but that isn't advertised on their main sites. Then those who are actively searching for it can know before hand, but it will be easy for those who would rather not know to avoid the material.
Personally I find not knowing in advance can be fun, but I inevitably search for the information before hand every time regardless.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 28, 2017 1:31:49 GMT
I'm sort of getting that feeling myself, and hope it pans out that way! I don't think I want Javik levels of antagonistic (even though he's amazing XD), but I do sort of envision Jaal being very wary and distant at first. He's there to keep an eye on the new comers and doesn't trust them until they earn it, kinda deal. But I can also see curiosity getting the better of him at some point once some of the walls come down. That stare down in the trailer? Imagine that same stare watching your every move. Someone smack me. I don't even know anything about the guy. XD I also want to write fanfiction already but that way lies tears because the chances of him being how I imagine are low. OTLI had to watch the trailer a few times because everything happens so fast, but when I saw how close he got to Scott I was like "whoa... do Angaran's know what personal space means?" You don't even see him when they are bringing Scott in, then he just brushes through everyone and doesn't even hesitate to get in his face. That really sold me on him. Maybe they are like the Tamaraneans, and learn the language of other species through lip contact
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 27, 2017 22:32:54 GMT
Counterpoint- Cass and Dorian could be flirted with for quite a while before they indicated they weren't interested in women. I haven't played the Dragon Age games, so I was unaware of this ^, but again, even if that sort of thing is indicative of 'real life' ( ) I would hope no character in ME:A does that. String Scott and Sara along, only to then say soz bros/sis, I don't swing that way. Alas, based on some dev comments about the romances, and how they want a mix of different types of romances, relationships, one night stands etc., I suppose we can expect some of this stringing along and flirty bait stuff in ME:A. Cause apparently no guns on the Tempest isn't a creative liberty, but not having 'realistic' relationship stuff from the real world is It's a difficult balance. I thought Cassandra's felt very natural and well done: if you flirt with her she doesn't respond to it immediately, since she's primarily concerned with the important shit going on. She just sort of raises an eyebrow and continues. However, if you persistently flirt she confronts you in your spare time and asks you what your intentions are. So it takes a while to build, but she doesn't "string you along". It wouldn't really make sense for her character to say "I don't like girls" the first time you make a subtle remark, because even when she eventually approaches you she's second-guessing herself about whether you are actually flirting with her or not. Dorian play flirting with a female Inquisitor also makes sense for his character, but is harder to justify.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 27, 2017 21:59:41 GMT
To be fair, listing LI's now would be awkward if a large number are characters who haven't even been announced yet. We don't even know if all the squad mates have been announced yet or if there are more to come.
The cinematic trailers have always featured kissing. The purpose is to show that the game includes romance to people unfamiliar with it, not to confirm anything to pre-existing fans.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 27, 2017 13:23:17 GMT
SAM has a distinctly male voice, so having him be the uploaded consciousness of your deceased mother would be... very odd.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 27, 2017 0:01:13 GMT
Yeah Jaal is deffo a dude based on this gif (and comparsion in wider shots). Angara females are waaaaaay slimmer than males and no broad shoulders Hmmm as I look at them they're groding on me big way. Design looks good, better than Kett which I was slighty disapponted at (although Archon's face looked much better in trailer than the Game Informer Kett model). But Angara looks very Mass Effect. In fact, they sorta look like something I expected Quarians to look like before reveal lol, dunno if it makes sense That's exactly my thought, and one of the reasons why I like Jaal's design so much. The other Angarans I'm not as sold on, but they have always been at strange angles so far.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 26, 2017 23:31:07 GMT
Seeing both male and female angaran makes me happy that we aren't seeing a repeat of just one gender per species like in ME1, before eventually trickling in the other genders of the alien species game by game, DLC by DLC. They've already confirmed that if the species has multiple genders you will see them, for all the species in Andromeda.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 26, 2017 19:47:02 GMT
Wow, my opinion on the new new species has turned a complete 180. Jaal looks good, way better than the lackluster NPC's of the new species we've seen. He alone almost makes up for the fact that the Quarians are probably not in at this point. Almost
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 26, 2017 19:41:43 GMT
It was pretty cool. Had a very different tone to what I expected, but I liked it. Feel like it gave me a better idea of what the final product will be than anything I've seen so far. Don't really have much to say on Liam or Cora. Cora's appearance isn't what I expected, but I like it, it set's her apart from our previous female squadmates. Liam looks a bit too similar to Koth from SWTOR for my taste. I really wasn't keen on the background NPC's of that new species we've seen, but the design of the focal one in that trailer is gorgeous
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 21, 2017 12:18:28 GMT
I hope Bioware ignores your advice. I mean here is the point though I think it all comes down to balance and how you do things. DA I gets panned a lot of times for the quality of its side quests and the quality of its exploration content and for the content of its story. And I...disagree really. DA I had a lot of good side quests in it. And a lot of DA Is side quests were fun. The issue is one of balance and reptition. I did not mind doing the side quests but I minded doing six side quests involving the rings. I did ot mind doing the rifts, I minded doing it seventy times, I did not mind even doing the Shards really...I minded doing it over and over and over again. The more you repeat something, the more boring it gets. I agree with those criticisms... to an extent. DAI had huge, beautiful areas, but they felt very shallow. 90% of the time all you were actually doing were the same four quests (find the shards, collect stuff, kill x, close rifts). Some areas had cool side missions, like Crestwood, the Dalish had a cool mission where you had to catch a golden Halla and Dragon fights were fun. But ultimately none of it reached the strength of, say, the poetic treant we met in Origins, the political side-missions of Orzammar, finding a pet Nug for Leliana or guiding the blind templar through the ruined alienage building. Those missions stuck with me all these years later. Basically, there were few fun and interesting NPC's or situations in the side content. Or, at least, finding them required sifting through hours of dull fetch quests. I remember excitedly discovering those ruins in the Oasis in Inquisition... only to find out that to progress through it you had to collect rift shards. So even what seemed like a fun exploration mission required tedious grinding. The main story missions were good, but the storyline felt too short considering the absurd size of the open world and hundreds of dull and repetitive quests. The game would have been much better if there were 2-3 less zones, more interesting content in the remaining zones, and an extra storyline mission. Another issue is that the main storyline and companion quests were oftentimes too detached from the open world. The most memorable missions: The Winter Palace, the Mages/Templars, the Elven Ruins, the final battle... none of them took place in or near the open world zones but in unique instances. Usually side quests are something you do alongside the main story, but Inquisitions didn't even take place in the same area. Many areas literally existed for no other purpose than side missions and had no relevance to the main storyline at all, which was very strange.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 20, 2017 20:57:01 GMT
This whole month has been a bit of a letdown. The short combat trailer and briefing don't really cut it for me, not when we are so close to release. You do see we are only two months away from playing it, right? I know, but there are some concerns I have about the game and I'm still a bit cautious/skeptical. A bit of news could get me excited again and liven up stuff around here.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 20, 2017 18:34:25 GMT
Hm... its Friday, almost the end of the working week before the weekend... and no major announcements have been made about next incoming gameplay/story/characters coverage...let alone the 4th Briefing... O well, I guess Bioware wants this week to be 'lil quiet... This whole month has been a bit of a letdown. The short combat trailer and briefing don't really cut it for me, not when we are so close to release.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 19, 2017 14:25:43 GMT
I imagine most of the Quarians, if they do go Andromeda, would have arrived on the nexus. It could possibly have been expanded slightly to accommodate them, if a larger number did decide to go, but I'd imagine it would have had the room regardless. The other possibility is that they went on the Turian Ark. As they are the only other dextro species it would make sense for them to join the Turians as they could share food supplies, and the devs have said that the Arks all contain a smaller number of other species. Hmm. Would they even be able to use the cryo stasis that the other species use since they can't really ever be out of their suits? Sorry if I keep harping on that, just curious about how that would work. lol Going on the Turian Ark as the smaller contingent of other species would make sense though. I wanna say they would spread the quarians over all the arks though due to their handiness with tech. But again, brings me back to the possibility of having to have special accommodations for them that I'm not sure all the arks would be willing to or able to provide. I don't see why they couldn't use the same cryo-stasis technique as the other species. Even if we assume they can't simply be frozen while inside their suits, which would be the most obvious solution, we know Quarians can survive outside for brief periods. Tali takes her suit off on multiple occasions if romanced and takes her mask off on Rannoch. As long as the pods were sterilised before-hand they should be able to manage with only a minor infection at worst.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 19, 2017 12:15:33 GMT
If you're so opposed speculation then what are you even doing here? That's the entire point of this thread. Its useless speculation considering that it was already confirmed that they will not appear in vanilla MEA (DLCs maybe) but may appear in MEA2 or MEA3. This thread is less of speculation and more of wishful thinking. If you have a reference for that, share it. Otherwise stop having a go at people because they want to discuss something you don't like. It's rude and petty.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 19, 2017 12:02:22 GMT
They will NOT be in MEA. Let it go... If you're so opposed to speculation then what are you even doing here? That's the entire point of this thread.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 19, 2017 11:32:58 GMT
"Scott Ryder's Mass Effect Andromeda weapon is a heavy pistol called the Rude Primitive Sex Toy."
This has to be deliberate...
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 19, 2017 10:50:41 GMT
Well, we know that if the crew of a ship of the Flotilla don't like how things are going, they are free to leave at any time. Since between ME2 and ME3 the Quarians are planning for war, there may be some ships that don't want to participate(the entire Civilian Fleet didn't want to) and actually had the courage to stand up for their misgivings and leave the fleet. No longer part of the Flotilla and knowing the Reapers are imminent, they could go to the Andromeda Initiative as a late addition, offering their expertise with ships in exchange for a ride. That allows a few hundred or thousand able to be in Andromeda. This is acceptable to me as reasoning for them coming along. But I need to know if they need their own special type of cryo stasis tubes to be able to go. If so, the only problem I would have is that they would have to learn of and join the AI soon enough to have those prepared before departure. And which Ark would they have to fit with these to allow them to travel? Or would they put them on their own ships? I imagine most of the Quarians, if they do go to Andromeda, would have arrived on the nexus. It could possibly have been expanded slightly to accommodate them, if a larger number did decide to go, but I'd imagine it would have had the room regardless. The other possibility is that they went on the Turian Ark. As they are the only other dextro species it would make sense for them to join the Turians as they could share food supplies, and the devs have said that the Arks all contain a smaller number of other species.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 18, 2017 17:39:29 GMT
He/she wasn't saying that they need to have EVERYTHING be new in Andromeda, just that they don't need to bring EVERYTHING from the Milky Way into Andromeda. Otherwise, I agree... it would all feel too familiar. This is supposed to be about exploring a new galaxy and discovering things we haven't seen before in Mass Effect. This includes new species. I know, I want them to find a good balance of old and new as well. But I think that Andromeda is just as good an opportunity to create new stories for the existing species as it is to create new species. I'd love to see Quarians in a setting where the migrant fleet, Geth and their homeworld are so far removed that they are not relevant to their story. And Krogans who don't focus on the genophage, Asari removed from their seat of power and so on. That will be just as interesting as the new species they introduce.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 18, 2017 16:00:22 GMT
I don't see why bringing back Quarians and showing us new cultures are considered mutually exclusive. The original Mass Effect had 11 different alien species, 12 after Bring down the sky introduced the Batarians, and it did just fine. While I do want to see new species, after seeing those weird tentacle guys I have very low expectations. I'd rather they bring back the interesting and developed existing species and take them in a new direction than add loads of new species that feel like a cheap rehash of what we've had before. No! People just need to accept the fact that this is Andromeda and not the Milkyway. Flooding the Andromeda galaxy with Milkyway races cheapens the aura of discovery and being in a foreign place. Too much famiarity ruins the who whole aspect of being in Andromeda in the first place. It is your type of thinking why we get rehash movies like The Force Awakens because marketers knows that nostalgia is big for people and a cheap way of putting people in seats is to tickle their nostalgic fantasies. The Quarians story was resolved in either direction in ME3. It is time to move on. I hope Bioware sticks to theie guns and does not bring every single sentient race from the trilogy in order to itch your nostalgic dreams. Their story was resolved? So was the krogans. And the Salarians, Turians, Asari and Humans. Doesn't stop us having all of those species back. Maybe you need to accept that this is a Mass Effect game, not a new IP. If they wanted to completely detach it from the original trilogy they would have just made a new franchise. Let's be honest, Andromeda is ultimately set where it is so that they can ignore Mass Effect 3's events without consequence, not because they wanted to give us a completely alien setting.
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Post by Ianamus on Jan 18, 2017 13:46:27 GMT
I don't see why bringing back Quarians and showing us new cultures are considered mutually exclusive. The original Mass Effect had 11 different alien species, 12 after Bring down the sky introduced the Batarians, and it did just fine.
While I do want to see new species, after seeing those weird tentacle guys I have very low expectations. I'd rather they bring back the interesting and developed existing species and take them in a new direction than add loads of new species that feel like a cheap rehash of what we've had before.
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