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Post by Parachroma on Jan 27, 2020 5:04:27 GMT
I was thinking about the original ME and thought it would be pretty neat if there was an MMO. Obviously story driven, but the ability to settle random habitable planets. Build your base, discover and farm your own resources, create/upgrade your own 'Normandy', create/upgrade your own rover. Protect your base from the planet's wildlife or even extraterrestrial life. Having a hub like the Citadel would be crucial in commerce, finding events to join up in groups for mercenary work, raids, or settling distant planets. Just think, when all of those star ships were attacking a reaper, each of them could have been commanded by someone...like you!
I think such a game would need to be massive in size and scope, but oh how rewarding it could be!
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Post by dmc1001 on Jan 28, 2020 3:05:17 GMT
It would have to be seriously fleshed out, like SWTOR. It also needs the ability to avoid PVP if you're not interested.
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Post by KaiserShep on Jan 28, 2020 23:38:10 GMT
Frankly, I would much rather the franchise simply drop dead than go the way of a total live service title. It would basically end Mass Effect's prospects of any proper focused singleplayer game, with the greedy fucks at EA finding a better avenue to monetize the franchise to boot.
A hard pass.
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Post by tatann on Jan 29, 2020 6:41:01 GMT
Exactly, MEA already felt like a "single-player MMO" at some point, except I couldn't play it with my friends to compensate for the inferior story telling and the huge amount of filler content.
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Post by dmc1001 on Jan 29, 2020 15:06:38 GMT
Frankly, I would much rather the franchise simply drop dead than go the way of a total live service title. It would basically end Mass Effect's prospects of any proper focused singleplayer game, with the greedy fucks at EA finding a better avenue to monetize the franchise to boot. A hard pass. 100% agree. As it is, I think DA4 is doomed out of the gate. I don't intend to play it.
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Post by jclosed on Jan 29, 2020 16:38:29 GMT
Wit all respect to Parachroma, I am really sorry to say (and nothing personal) but.....
What if Mass Effect goes MMO?
Then...
If it was possible to do that with a game I would... Curse it, whack it to pieces, bury it in strong smelling excrement, spit on it and drop an bomb on it, after that burn the remains to the ground, embed the ashes in concrete and drop it in the deepest shaft I can find on earth (and probably piss over it).
There is no thing that infuriates me more than converting a good shiny single player game into a pile of dirty stinking "Game As Service", "Always On Line", MMO piece of garbage. It is a degradation of anything that make a single player game worth playing. The game has to be so "simplified" to stupidity that everyone can play it, and thus crushing all possible subtlety with it because it's too "hard to understand" for the masses. Oh - and in stead playing as the sole hero in the game, you now are now one of the 435625625412332 copy's of heroes that all think they can save the world on their own. So - If it was not obvious by now, my answer to this proposal is a resounding NO NEVER!
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Post by Polka Dot on Jan 29, 2020 16:56:32 GMT
Frankly, I would much rather the franchise simply drop dead than go the way of a total live service title. It would basically end Mass Effect's prospects of any proper focused singleplayer game, with the greedy fucks at EA finding a better avenue to monetize the franchise to boot. A hard pass. 100% agree. As it is, I think DA4 is doomed out of the gate. I don't intend to play it. I have no expectations wrt DA4 at this point. I'll take a look at what they deliver, and make my purchase decision at that time.
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Post by Sanunes on Jan 29, 2020 17:01:15 GMT
100% agree. As it is, I think DA4 is doomed out of the gate. I don't intend to play it. I have no expectations wrt DA4 at this point. I'll take a look at what they deliver, and make my purchase decision at that time. That is how I feel at this point as well. We know nothing about the direction BioWare is going to go with Dragon Age, but so many people are making assumptions on what the game will be like with zero information. Now if we knew more about then the game then I could understand people being turned off, but right now it feels more like a YouTube video proclaiming anything it can to get clicks.
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Post by AnDromedary on Jan 29, 2020 20:33:14 GMT
ME as an MMO? No. Nonononononononononono. In short, NO! And just in case I wasn't clear: No.
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Post by Serza on Feb 2, 2020 19:49:41 GMT
You're my fucking spirit animal, that's exactly what I wanted to post.
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Post by Son of Dorn on Feb 2, 2020 20:11:20 GMT
ME as an MMO? No. Nonononononononononono. In short, NO! And just in case I wasn't clear: No. Sorry, could you repeat that please? 😆
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Post by AnDromedary on Feb 3, 2020 20:02:13 GMT
ME as an MMO? No. Nonononononononononono. In short, NO! And just in case I wasn't clear: No. Sorry, could you repeat that please? 😆 No. You gotta love a good paradox when it comes your way.
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Post by LogicGunn on Feb 7, 2020 15:48:37 GMT
There aren't enough ways for me to say no to this.
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Post by kotoreffect3 on Feb 8, 2020 17:26:03 GMT
I dont want to see another franchise I love go way of the mmo. Mmos by their very nature force concessions to immersion and atmosphere. ESO at best feels like a watered down Elder Scrolls game, with SWTOR I always find myself thinking of the KOTOR 3 that never was.
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Post by jamiecotc on Feb 13, 2020 22:05:23 GMT
I was thinking about the original ME and thought it would be pretty neat if there was an MMO. Obviously story driven, but the ability to settle random habitable planets. Build your base, discover and farm your own resources, create/upgrade your own 'Normandy', create/upgrade your own rover. Protect your base from the planet's wildlife or even extraterrestrial life. Having a hub like the Citadel would be crucial in commerce, finding events to join up in groups for mercenary work, raids, or settling distant planets. Just think, when all of those star ships were attacking a reaper, each of them could have been commanded by someone...like you! I think such a game would need to be massive in size and scope, but oh how rewarding it could be! All this could be done without turning the game into an MMO. Look at Fallout 4. That said, still a hard pass. BioWare is not Bethesda, nor should it be. BW's strength is in story and characters and not in crafting or base building. DA:I was a giant leap forward in both departments, but still a bit unrewarding. With the state of BW today, they need to focus on their strengths for now.
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Post by michaelm on Feb 14, 2020 7:45:35 GMT
Well...if I could be a female Quarian, I'd be in.
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Post by simit on Feb 16, 2020 11:21:52 GMT
Doubt there be much "enthusiasm" on these boards for a ME MMO tbh but i'll be honest an say after the trilogy i personally thought a ME game like Destiny or Division was the way forward an done right probably would've blew them 2 out the park, instead we got Anthem an ME:A, 2 games i enjoyed for what its worth.
I still think the right future for ME is online though as a GaaS game
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Post by KaiserShep on Feb 16, 2020 17:19:05 GMT
Doubt there be much "enthusiasm" on these boards for a ME MMO tbh but i'll be honest an say after the trilogy i personally thought a ME game like Destiny or Division was the way forward an done right probably would've blew them 2 out the park, instead we got Anthem an ME:A, 2 games i enjoyed for what its worth. I still think the right future for ME is online though as a GaaS game What a bleak horrible future we live in when the future of Mass Effect is just another grand monetization scheme EA can take advantage of, while hollowing out the core experience of BioWare’s better games. There’s just no way around it. If Mass Effect went the way of Division or Destiny, games with entirely empty narratives and extremely thin characters, I’d have to check out of this shitshow indefinitely. Hopefully the guys at Archetype games pull something good.
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Post by garrusfan1 on Feb 22, 2020 2:35:07 GMT
No please bioware don't do an MMO of mass effect
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Post by sassafrassa on Feb 25, 2020 16:50:43 GMT
I've always felt that a Freelancer type game set in Mass Effect would work wonders. Just something very open ended where you might run your own "Mom and Pop" Survey and Salvage team, or join a pioneer team on a new colony, be the head of security on merchant ship or even fleet, or run with a pirate gang, conduct secret STG, Cerberus, or Spectre missions. Maybe you can join the Alliance and get stationed at a listening post, charge with detecting pirate or other criminal activity and then rushing to the scene to fight them off. Maybe you're a bounty hunter, gradually using your wealth and connections to recruit allies and buy better ships.
Could be single player, could be multiplayer.
I think the problem with a Mass Effect MMO in the traditional sense is going to be the sense of scale. How do you preserve the feeling of size in terms of planets and the galaxy? It might be best to set an MMO in limited location. Like, one planet, it's moon, a space station in orbit, and maybe a nearby asteroid belt. Then, maybe, you could portray all of it at nearly 50% scale or something.
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Post by KaiserShep on Feb 25, 2020 17:18:22 GMT
The real problem is the publisher. MMO's are essentially a low value offering designed to create a more consistent revenue stream per user even after they paid the premium price for entry. If EA ever got it into their greedy fuck brains that Mass Effect is better suited as an MMO, you can kiss any hope of a singleplayer ME goodbye.
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Post by dmc1001 on Mar 23, 2020 13:43:19 GMT
Agreed. I like SWTOR but it's endless. SP games have a set story. You get a mission, you complete it, game over. In an MMO, you get a mission, you pick up 15 side missions, three months later you leave the planet, you get a new mission....
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