Mass Effect 5 'The Return of Shepard'

No. What we saw prior to 1.05 was unpolished hubris. I clearly saw the difference after 1.05. They just didn't have enough variety. That's the real crime. It's not their artistry went down, they again just didn't provide enough variety, like the music. It wasn't polished. There is great talent untapped, sitting at desks, waiting for a lead and a developer to take their creativity onto the Frostbite canvas. I see the good and the potential. They can't hang on their old reputation anymore. It's now on Bioware 2.0. They're veterans now with a 6-7 game rating. They laid an excellent foundation. I'm excited for the DLC. It's going to have bugs. It's Frostbite, yo. However, I am willing to bet they will tie up as many loose ends. It will help the game stand on its own two feet. 

With that being said, I still got a chuckle from the above post. It can happen if the trend continues.

Very truthfully, I wish they'd invite some people into the alpha instead of doing focus tests.

I mean, that's great and all, that they're doing focus tests. But it doesn't really address the main problem of a thirteen year old doing the writing.

"And then... *gasps* Cora does biotics. Then, Liam says, 'I didn't know you were biotic?' And you wanna what Cora says? *snickers* *gasps through bracers* 'They aren't contagious.'"

Srsly?

Are you fucking joking me?

What's the difference?

That's the hubris. Where was the director? Why didn't some one say, "Ok, let's try it again differently. Ok, can you try it this way in case we need to use an alternate version?" No, it sounds like we got a lot of first takes. The writing. Who actually role-played that and said, "This doesn't sound right. Can we try an alternative?" The director is supposed to be doing this. Unless there was some sort of unknown filter or process blown, I just can't imagine a director being that afraid to speak up. 

Heh.

Wow.

Ummmm, okay.

If I have to explain it to you, the meaning is prolly lost, but I'll give it a try. Focus tests are with people that have a desired interest in the product that you're selling. Alpha (and summarily beta) tests are for finding bugs in game and the problems with the game in general. No matter what they are.

In other words, say you're a developer. Say that you're gonna create a third person shooter. Say you invite several people to alpha test your game, only to find find that it would better work as a 2D side scrolling game. What are you gonna do? Ignore all of those alpha testers who said it would work better as a 2D side scroller, or all of those focus tests who think that you should keep it as a third person shooter?

Which are you gonna ignore? Experience or mass intelligence?

Why would i want Shepard back when i can have the greatest sitcom legend making horrible jokes at the most dumb moments ?

Even if Ryder was kinda shitty in a lot of ways i still wanna see improvements with him/her and actually being able to not act like a bitch in MEA2.

Wait, aren't most if not all of those jokes optional?

As said, Bioware are more than capable of performing the ridiculous, take the beginning of ME2 for instance.  I can think of 3 quite plausible scenarios right here right now and I can't write for toffee.

And here; bsn.boards.net/thread/10320/bioware-move-forward-mass-effect

Oh, and it's more than four, fyi.

Ashley coming back to me has a lot to do with how fans reacted maybe not asking for her return, but instead choices carrying forward.  Look deeper at the different characters that returned in Mass Effect 3, I remember after Mass Effect 2 I am pretty sure there was an active thread for every character about how they "should" return in Mass Effect 3 and how important it was that they would.

The problem with the characters returning in Mass Effect 3 is if they weren't in your squad the majority were basically cameo roles where they do a small bit and never heard from again. Which is what I mean by diluted, instead of having a handful of characters that have an impact on the game they plenty like Grunt or Jacob where its some dialogue during a mission and they could have had any NPC spouting the majority of that dialogue and it would have been identical.

I don't think either of those things are in BioWare's best interests for I just can't see them making it so it wouldn't be drowned out by negativity again.  I can see multiple groups that have the completely opposite opinions about what should and should not be done to each game that regardless of what happens it just wouldn't be good enough.

If you're (Not Novatrex directly, but whoever originally made this) going to post something like this, at least be intelligent and use something with the protagonist as the comparison.  Because looking at Shepard vs Ryder, shepard in that pic looks like a drugged out raider high on Jet from Fallout 3.  If you're going to use Addision, at least use the updated one so you don't look like you are a month behind.  

Edit: It twas ze Terminator Force.  Haha, you crack me up sometimes, man.  I enjoy your posts but use the updated stuff.