EA Conference Call touches on MEA's reception & future ME movie.

It would probably suck, but it would also most likely star male Shep, so I would have to bypass it just on principle since he does not exist to me. 

For crying out aloud! ME had always been a third-person corridor shooter.  With a cool setting, decent story and some good characters. It had never been "Baldur's Gate 3d, the space edition". 

(And guess what? The Sacred 'Baldur's gate' is actually a DnD dungeon crawler. With THAC0. )

Honestly, I don't see how ME1 had been any superior story-wise and character-wise. And don't get me wrong, but Mordin and Legion (+ nostalgic feelings for ME1) are the only ones standing between ME2 and gathering the Pokemons. 

MEA has a solid story for the 'opening' game, and it has arguably more character-related content than all the MET combined. My only issue with MEA plot\design is that they were not brave enough to detach from the 'mother-trilogy'. They should've left the MW behind, really. 

Another thing that baffles me is how some people consider MP\combat and story something mutually exclusive, and talk as if god forbids enjoying both of them. I loved ME3 MP (other than the stupid pre-EC TMS thing, but MP is not the one to blame for the crappy game design), I'm into good combat and I love BW stories & characters. 

It's too early to say something about that cinema, most of the cinematic game-fictions are crap. It takes years, money and skills to make something like 'Warcraft' (or first Silent Hill). That ME anime about Vega looked cheap and had mediocre 'Horizon'-clone for a plot.  

I find this amusing as you were complaining about the lack of m/m content in the Romance thread.

I find that hard to believe? Surely you would have heard his voice at one point, I'm pretty sure the Mass Effect launch trailers had male shepards voice in them.

Never watched any trailers...played the series years after 3 was released (don't really watch many game trailers at all anyway).

Ah...there is a little M Shep in everyone...how spiritual...and creepy....spiritual, but creepy!

Regardless of what one thinks of Andromeda - and I think it's pretty obviously a step back for the ME franchise - there can be no doubt that the ME fanbase is expecting (and rightfully so) world class content. A movie, if done right, could re-ignite the ME universe. However, do it wrong and all the built up goodwill could be destroyed over night.

If the movie is what it should be, i.e. like the original trilogy filled to the brim with great story, drama, memorable characters and genuine depth, it will open up what is a brilliantly engaging world to the masses.

If the movie is another substandard video game movie, directed by a Michael Bay of the world (or someone with similar lack of artistic prowess), with explosions, clumsy CGI and a story so shallow even a Volus would be able to stand in it without getting its ankles wet, we'll get another Transformers at worst, Star Wars Episode I/John Carter at best. And that will be that.

Much like Andromeda should have been, a movie will have to be targeted towards intelligent adults expecting high quality, not common denominator pre-teens expecting awesome cool stuff, boiiii, yolo, swag, swag, 420, bro, like, bro.

Well, a suit talking suit, there's not much of use for us plebs in there. The movie though, it's interesting - if true. I just don't see how a Mass Effect movie could work. Not work as in be well done, but work as in make significant money for EA and whatever producer the associate themselves to. In fact, I feel a Mass Effect movie done right, story driven, focused on characters and lore would do worse than what many here (including me) fear a ME movie would turn into - a pure action movie with much power spamming and space battles included for the sake of it.

If any Mass Effect film follows the trilogy too closely, it would be very much in danger of falling into the bolded description, considering its middle chapter is very close to this. 

Just the same, I have very little faith that this will end up in the hands of any filmmakers capable of making this material work for the big screen. 

Ah, I have been wondering what Uwe Boll is up to lately...

Mass Effect movie?

First Contact War and humanity's further introduction to the galactic scene.

That's what I'd make it about.

''Wilson also pointed out that BioWare continues to support Andromeda's multiplayer "regularly" with new content. Overall, Wilson said EA is is "very happy" with "how BioWare is treating Mass Effect."

Yeah.. Like one patch in 2 months...