Mass Effect hiatus speculation and reactions (consolidated thread)

Aren't we always?

Funny stuff.

Other people have offered you different ways to expand the world lore (from the basis of the little bits we actually get in game) and you can only see the same old template.

Bioware or no one. Bethesda has their own set of franchises, but I doubt they have the capital to purchase an IP from EA. Obsidian is a lot smaller and they're struggling to get out another South Park that frankly, shouldn't have taken this long since all the voice acting and dialogue have been done for a long time (I'm pretty sure it's was almost two years ago when it was recorded) especially when you consider they're re-using a big portion of the assets from the previous title. Can you imagine how long it would take it for them to do a game... and on Frostbite?!?... hahahaha. CDPR might be a good choice, but why? Bioware is capable of learning... and if they haven't learned from this... then the point is moot. The IP goes up for sale and we, as fans, hope for the best. I can tell you the day that happens, it will be a sad day, just as sad when Black Isle studios closed. There will never be another Black Isle and I'm sorry, but there will never be another Bioware. New or old. However, why are we talking about this? The hype train has passed. Bioware is back to work. The new IP is now being handled by veterans and not rookies. EA's CEO said that Bioware is not done and committed to seeing more games come down the line. I don't know why people are knocking Dylan. Pessimism for this can be squarely pointed at EA, but Bioware gave us more than RPGs. They gave us Jade Empire (KICK ASS) and Shattered Steel. I own these games. I got a lot of mileage. If it's a FPS, I've dumped some serious time in Far Cry, Crysis, Fallout (ESPECIALLY FALLOUT) and Bioware is going to make one? Holy crap. Awesome. This will also give these newly minted veterans some time to understand in depth what more Frostbite can do and they can implement old-school RPG elements over time like the Paragon/Renegade system (I give a F*** if you don't like it. It's an original game element, respect it and make it yours. Adapt.) and improve on storage (COME ON!), inventory, crafting (you can go blind in Andromeda doing it) and all the while learning to polish each other's work so no one looks like they just rushed out amateur-hour writing. It's all good guys... they're listening. Their face is tired. lol. 

This is the whole point, and why I do not engage in these arguments anymore. Everyone is motivated by preconceieved ideas, and personal preferences. Some people regard their preferences as the "right ones", but no one's actually are. This is just a pointless merry go round, and I think, at this point, both sides should just admit irreconcilable differences and go to their seperate corners.

My question would be more along the lines of what did Sten actually want from a female Warden? To quit fighting? That would make his behavior completely incoherent. That Origins convo is either brilliantly designed or a weird accident, since thanks to the Warden not asking any of the logical questions we never do find out what Sten's getting at, or why the Qun works the way it does.

Concerning gender under the Qun, I think we've got an excluded middle issue within the thread. What if the tamassrans assign gender by behavior rather than aptitude? Krem born under the Qun would simply be male, and the genitalia would be a trivial detail. If you're going to have gender roles, might as well slot people into them by brain gender rather than genitalia.

It would be slightly odd for the Qun to match 21st-century Western practice in this one area, but OTOH we should expect one or two things to match up by chance.

This thread is almost as entertaining as what's going on in the government right now.

Not in Australia.

The govt just got ranked next Kenya for internet speeds after spending $36 billion on copper cables.

Their logic was "We don't need fast internet we have televisions."

"Slightly" because the qunari already are fairly close to our current beliefs -- if not practices --  WRT race, in contrast to the rest of Thedas.

And of course there's no actual chance here. The Qun wasn't designed by throwing darts at an anthropology textbook. Don't be daft, man.

www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/05/11/mass-effect-andromeda-sequel-issues-may-leave-all-its-cliffhanger-storylines-unresolved/#5edc559e32c8

Very interesting article.
It seems things Mike Gamble told us may not happen in the future.

Am I missing something, or does that article basically just add thoughts onto Kotaku's report?

"I dont understand. You are a woman. Yet you dress and fight like a man. In Qun women are teachers and caretakers. Women have no place fighting on a battlefield"

Sten, curent leader of Qun faith in DA:O on gender roles. They are rigid, woman is a woman and there is no changing that.

Then DAI comes and shits all over the established lore to push an agenda. And you wonder how people are upset? What role did transexual nature of that character play except to preach? Did they return to their female role to seduce a character and kill them off, or did anything where gender bending benefits them? Of course not.