Henry Cavill Working On A Mass Effect Project?

Mass Effect was just never going to be a cultural phenomenon in the way Star Trek was, because a lot of Star Trek's success was related to it hitting just right in regards to a bunch of social and cultural factors, as well as aspects of a rising medium that don't really have an 1:1 analogue to the 2000-2010s and modern gaming.

Going down a chain of hypotheticals (consistently going for the bad outcome, obviously) and reaching a definite conclusion isn't wonky analysis. Because you can't do any serious sort of forecasting that doesn't embrace uncertainty.

The only sort of...data(?) that you even mention is MEA didn't sell too well (extrapolating that to "Mass Effect just doesn't sell well these days" because of course) and yet you are prescribing the exact goals ME5 needs to hit.

We're forgetting the major difference here. Mass Effect is a video game and Star Trek was/is a TV series movie. TV or movies are always going to be more accessible then video games. While video games have become more popular, Star Trek is always going to be more known then Mass Effect ever will be. 

I disagree. I think a lot of paralels could be drawn. It's not going to be 1:1 analogue, but the trajectory was there. The new tehcnologies, the hardware, gaming as a medium, ME was there at the right time, to address an audience in gaming that was there, but had not been reached by anyone else, not in this way.


There is always an uncertainty in predictions. Which is why we are making discussions. That is my analysisn. Consider it wonky, but I am factoring the damage of the franchise sustained from ME3, the endings and the subsequent treatment of the fanbase during the debacle, the small turnout for ME:A and the immediate cancelation of all related to that title projects, as well as the canning of the studio, the commercial, critical and community reception of ME:A in itself, the re-release of the trilogy for modern consoles with a lot of skeptisism associated with it already and a sequel, so far in the future, that its announcement doesn't even make sense. These are all very bad for marketing a product.


Yes, because if Bioware intends to keep using this franchise, and not end it with ME5, they will need to build it up again. What is Bioware being known now? Releasing two barely functional games, for $60 and abandoning them with the absolute minimal support. In the case of the second game, they strung along its fanbase for 2 years and waited 2 days after its 2nd anniversary to announce it to the fanbase. Public opinion right now, is not at an all time high. When you make an investment, which is what ME5 is at this point, you don't get return on that investment on day 1. Right now, ME is starting from square one. If we were getting a title with Shepard and co., as the teaser implies with Liara being there, for most people at least, we wouldn't be, but we both know that it's not happening, so we may as well be at square one. So if we are making ME5 with a new protagonist, what that titles achieves, will be a mediocre success. It will break even, maybe even get a slight return. The second game, to make the initial investment worthwhile, will need to have grown a good 50% compared to the first game. And it, too, will need to be well received, so that the third game, will know the success that EA wants from it. Anything smaller than that, EA is going to chop all support for the title and, quite likely, the franchise as a whole. EA will not settle for ME1 levels of sales for Bioware's "flagship" titles, in 2025. Triple A segment budgets, are not sustainable at 1m copies sold. Because, if the game costs 100m CAD to make, at an average of $70 US a pop, all sold digitally, through origin, where EA keeps 100% of the money, 1m copies sold on launch is still $70m US. It's barely making its budget and under non-realistic conditions. In reality, it will have to sell 2.5m copies at launch to break even. If current gen development costs don't grow higher, compared to last gen.

Who would even be the writer?

Wait wait wait wait wait hold up....didn't Andromeda sell only a bit less than 3? Second best launch sales of the entire series, etc., etc. For a new protagonist and after the controversy of ME3...that is not something I would call a failure financially. And seeing that the MENext trailer and Legendary Edition trailers hap people foaming out of their mouths....Mass Effect dead? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa!

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This is a very...interesting board...


Anyway, back to Mr.Cavill. Who knows?!? I think he'd make a great Shepard if he gets the haircut, and if he's just a VA..that's great too! Looking forward to seeing what happens.

Analysts, media and EA's own finnancial call put ME:A's sales to 1.5m copies sold at launch and 2.5m copies sold in its first year. Approximately, similar to ME2. So, maybe second best, but when ME2 was released amidst the Great Recession and when the gaming medium was much smaller than what it was in 2017 and with ME:A having a budget of $100m CA, that it inches out ME2 is not a success. Not financially, at least.

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Yea, but this is also AFTER the ME3 controversy, which left a lot of people jaded, AND with a whole new protagonist(s) AND with a bad rep before and after release.   And it STILL did as good as ME2.  That's not an easy feat.


Anthem on the other hand....  

Ok so on the same day that they announce the end of Anthem, we get teased on a potential new ME show... Is it just too obvious or is it just me? The amount of content and stuff they've been releasing makes it seem like they need way more cash to continue their dev work...

...how in the world do you figure? What props this confidence so high? Because, ouff.
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But wow. Henry fucking Cavill. Shepard now synonymous with Superman.

Damn, never imagined it but he'd make an amazing Shepard. Buzz the hair, add a scar and insert blue contacts and I can see it. He certainly has the jaw of justice. But I hope they don't go the TV route. Cavill is too busy anyway to do more than lend his voice, right? However, many all over seem to think Cavill will be Shepard as if in a TV role...
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Also, Cavill said he had a bundle of papers. So, the quarian references could just be where he's currently at in his catching-up on the ME lore. Although, a male quarian squadmate with his voice would be amazing. Sign me up for that lovefest.