Not so Ground breaking

May 10, 2017 11:08:15 GMT paridave42 said:

May 9, 2017 17:26:18 GMT @carefull said:

Well, if you actually read the OP, what the OP says is that groundbreaking would have been:

1. Plots that originate in the MW or closely related to the events of ME1-3.
2. Really, really, really hot male squad-mates designed to romance female (or male?) PC. Possibly with female squadmates not designed to romance a male PC.

I honestly think that while it is fine to be disappointed with how Liam looks, no gaymance squad member or that Benefactor story-line remained unfinished as of yet, I would not really call the game "groundbreaking" per se if it indeed fulfilled the requirements vaguely outlined in the first post.

(Sigh)  this reliance on reading between the lines and capture an impression of oneself's emotional state when starting a thread is somewhat irritating. Clarity would be nice.

MEA would have been much more "ground breaking" if it had been much less of the MW and much more of Andromeda.  Instead they gave us Kadara which was safe, and the Angara on 3 different worlds and for the most part they were friendly.  In fact, in the whole Helius cluster there is only one native sentient species.  Bioware did provide a useless black hole.  "Ground Breaking" would have been being seen as the hostile alien, breaking down the barriers and building relationships.  Instead, you save the Moshae and everything is ducky dandy.

Okay, I misunderstood your:

Too many missions could have been plucked from M!, 2, or 3 in order to provide some form of continuity from the Trilogy. 

It could be read exactly the opposite way.

Actually, having only one detailed and developed sentient species is groundbreaking compared to ME and SW, which are choke-full of token species that are little more than tweaks on the same avatars and a few lines of lore, and whose home worlds we never visit. Even with 3 council races, we barely drop by. So it is completely opposite to what ME had.

What you said about being in conflict than slowly winning trust of Angara by no means describes a groundbreaking game either. It is not just saving Moshae in the game either. It is stabilizing the diplomatic embarrassment on Kadara and resolving a conflict with Akksul one way or another. Even if we were able to conquer Angara or enter negotiations with Kett behind Archon's back to trade access to Meridian  for leaving Angara to be exalted in a conventional way, it still would not be groundbreaking. Anything but some sort of a peaceful settlement with Angara will preclude the sequel game being made.

It was either lighter game or a darker game, and I would imagine a lot more people would have objected to being forced to collaborate with Kett and sacrifice Anagra to save humanity's bacon. There are still folks unhappy about having to work with Cerberus.

The choice would have been nice, but the game serialization really harms even the possibility of divergent endings in vid games & so much is pumped into the setting and IP that it is almost unavoidable that all but the last game of the series would have the same essential ending.