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Post by Buckeldemon on Jun 22, 2021 18:38:50 GMT
Remember the Dragon Age codex stating that magic can not be used for any sort of travel, including teleportation? In Dragon Age 2, enemy mages often teleported away, when you tried to engage them in melee especially. Answer from BioWare: "they are not teleporting, they are slowing down time and then run really really fast". I thought it was "something with stealth", a.k.a. instant vanish invisibilty. Which could make one wonder if it is actually blood magic. DAO at least had checks based on distance and rank of ability and opponent in question, and most baddies using it attacked from an old-fashinoned ambush anyway.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Jun 22, 2021 18:44:09 GMT
Wasn’t that just changed to be explained as part of “Varric is an Unreliable Narrator” same reason why enemies just fell from the sky or why all streets and caves looked the same?
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 22, 2021 19:23:33 GMT
I thought it was "something with stealth", a.k.a. instant vanish invisibilty. Which could make one wonder if it is actually blood magic. DAO at least had checks based on distance and rank of ability and opponent in question, and most baddies using it attacked from an old-fashinoned ambush anyway. DA2 mages had DAI stealth before DAI rogues then Wasn’t that just changed to be explained as part of “Varric is an Unreliable Narrator” same reason why enemies just fell from the sky or why all streets and caves looked the same? That's quite possible - good old Varric has a lot to answer for. Though some of his unreliable narrator moments are clearly identifiable in the game - like Bethany's chest in the prologue and the hilarious over the top fighting sequence in Bertrand's home - it makes sense that Varric doesn't remember everything perfectly. But I'm pretty sure I remember one of those more silly "explanations" too. DA2 has several of those "lore-bandaids". Didn't David Gaider state at some point that the "Band of Three" codex entries were added late during the development process because they suddenly noticed that most mage NPCs were insane and they needed some kind of explanation for that? And today that bandaid is an important bit of lore about the city of Kirkwall. All in all, I admire them for finagling things like this, they are like an u-boat crew with lots of holes in the hull that made it home anyway.
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Post by dmc1001 on Jul 10, 2021 19:52:13 GMT
The sell figures of MELE might be better than Bioware thought it was going to be. This is good, because it will motivate them to work even harder and with more joy(caused by in mind of how much loved ME is) on the next Mass Effect. This only works if they look at the writing they did in the past and create the same level in a new game. I'm finding it hard to believe that will happen. I didn't personally have the same issues as others but it's clear it won't be a big seller unless things are better.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jul 11, 2021 2:32:54 GMT
The sell figures of MELE might be better than Bioware thought it was going to be. This is good, because it will motivate them to work even harder and with more joy(caused by in mind of how much loved ME is) on the next Mass Effect. This only works if they look at the writing they did in the past and create the same level in a new game. I'm finding it hard to believe that will happen. I didn't personally have the same issues as others but it's clear it won't be a big seller unless things are better. From what we know, Will Continue takes place a long time after ME3, judging from Liara's appearance and as several people have covered and Mike Gamble has hinted on twitter, the next game will be about bridging the Milky Way with Andromeda. Not particularly interesting, but not all games have to be world ending events. Although, I am sure, Bioware already has thought of a way to make it one. But is this the game that will bring fans back? That will solidify Mass Effect's return? I understand that Bioware will make a lot of choices of ME3 canon in it, but we are still going to be playing a game hundreds of years later, when all these choices have no effect and that just works in resetting the status quo to pre Reaper War levels, but that just leaves all of the interesting work we'd want to see, out of the equation. I assume that, after DA4 we'll get "supplementary media" to explain the things that happen in between and that is, most likely, what the ME team is working in the meantime, which means that some things are already set in stone. Like the time period we will be playing in and its world state. And I am sure we will get Liara in some of that material, which will explain to us how she gets to ice planet. So I think it is a little late, already, to influence where this goes from here. What I can't help but feel is that we are missing some more important pieces of the universe in between the time right after the Reaper War, to the point where Milky Way gets connected to Andromeda. It's like Disney erasing the EU and following Return of the Jedi with The Force Awakens, when people wanted the Thrawn trilogy. Only we never even got the Thrawn trilogy equivalent to look forward to. I don't know how this is supposed to bring people back. Also, this is the positive feedback thread, so I am positive this will tank.
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Post by dmc1001 on Jul 11, 2021 15:05:27 GMT
From what we know, Will Continue takes place a long time after ME3, judging from Liara's appearance and as several people have covered and Mike Gamble has hinted on twitter, the next game will be about bridging the Milky Way with Andromeda. Unless Liara jumped in an ark and traveled to Andromeda I don't see what difference it makes if she's centuries in the future. It would still take 600 years to get there. Unless a magic relay that crosses the divide instantaneously there's no bridging the games. And the helmet. Why would Shepard's helmet be on an ice planet? If it's Alec's, he died on a garden world so that also doesn't work. It's just a fail to have that helmet be on an ice planet. BioWare is going to have to work damn hard to make sense of any of it. The only way I can imagine this could work at all is if we see events leading up to the arks disappearing and then the effects in Andromeda. Future Liara is musing on it before she picks up some random N7's helmet in the future. Seems like a boring game to me.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jul 11, 2021 15:42:39 GMT
From what we know, Will Continue takes place a long time after ME3, judging from Liara's appearance and as several people have covered and Mike Gamble has hinted on twitter, the next game will be about bridging the Milky Way with Andromeda. Unless Liara jumped in an ark and traveled to Andromeda I don't see what difference it makes if she's centuries in the future. It would still take 600 years to get there. Unless a magic relay that crosses the divide instantaneously there's no bridging the games. And the helmet. Why would Shepard's helmet be on an ice planet? If it's Alec's, he died on a garden world so that also doesn't work. It's just a fail to have that helmet be on an ice planet. BioWare is going to have to work damn hard to make sense of any of it. The only way I can imagine this could work at all is if we see events leading up to the arks disappearing and then the effects in Andromeda. Future Liara is musing on it before she picks up some random N7's helmet in the future. Seems like a boring game to me. Not only that. There is a case to be made about how easy it is to reject new characters. And it really feels like that's what's happening with Bioware, consistently, over the past decade or so. New characters are, mostly, rejected and the ones that aren't, don't have particularly large staying power, either. For example, look at a potential sequel to Andromeda, with just the characters that weren't negatively received; Jaal, Vetra and Drack. Jaal and Vetra, should they return, are both romance interests for Ryder, meaning that Bioware will not have them be romanceable for whatever new protagonist we get. Drack is, arguably, at the end of his fighting career and even Andromeda feels like a last hurrah for him. So in the case of the first two, the characters are automatically downgraded, in terms of interactions and by having Drack return, you either have to kill him in the game, or you diminish the importance of the condition, by having him be fine, in spite of his health issues. Arguably, Drack should have died in the original game, but Andromeda is so all over the place that it's just one more thing that sticks out.
I don't know if Bioware expects these new characters to be better received, but I don't see it happening, especially taking today's Bioware into account. Also, as you've said, the Shepard-baiting that Bioware did in that trailer is not lost on me. I don't expect Shepard to be back and, as I've heard, Liara will be the only one to make a return. From what I understand, this Ark 6 we hear about in the trailer, is who we will be dealing with, far into the future, where Liara is considerably aged. Either they have some relay that can take them across the galaxies, that they set up, or in a freak accident, shot them into the far future. One or the other. Either way, Shepard and friends will not be coming back, just Liara. I can't wait for the reactions, personally.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2021 16:29:01 GMT
From what we know, Will Continue takes place a long time after ME3, judging from Liara's appearance and as several people have covered and Mike Gamble has hinted on twitter, the next game will be about bridging the Milky Way with Andromeda. Unless Liara jumped in an ark and traveled to Andromeda I don't see what difference it makes if she's centuries in the future. It would still take 600 years to get there. Unless a magic relay that crosses the divide instantaneously there's no bridging the games. And the helmet. Why would Shepard's helmet be on an ice planet? If it's Alec's, he died on a garden world so that also doesn't work. It's just a fail to have that helmet be on an ice planet. BioWare is going to have to work damn hard to make sense of any of it. The only way I can imagine this could work at all is if we see events leading up to the arks disappearing and then the effects in Andromeda. Future Liara is musing on it before she picks up some random N7's helmet in the future. Seems like a boring game to me. Unless that ice planet is Alchera (which is shown us to be an ice planet in ME2's Normandy Crash Site) and that could logically have a piece of Shepard's armor still on it. It's strange during the Normandy Crash Site that Shepard finds an intact helmet just lying out in the open and that TIM would make a note of his/her finding it in his email summarizing the mission... when we also know that Liara recovered pieces of Shepard's armor and kept them in her apartment and that Hackett allegedly gave Liara Shepard's tags (which begs the question of how Hackett and, not Liara, obtained the tags to start with). There is a lot of things that have never made sense regarding the recovery of Shepard in ME2 that could be explained here.
Liara could be there meeting travellers from Andromeda... where a more advanced "relay" has been developed using remnant tech. If Liara is more than 600 years older than the time of the Trilogy, it is unlikely that she'll have any significant role beyond providing us with a "history" of what happened after the end of the Reaper War (a verbal conversation that could be "flexible" based on whatever the player inputs as an ending choice and then moves on to describe an event after the Reaper War that, regardless of that ending choice, puts the Milky Way galaxy into whatever state/peril it is in at the start of this new game... a peril that is, perhaps, shared by the Andromeda galaxy (e.g. due to the effects of dark energy/scourge).
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Post by KaiserShep on Jul 11, 2021 16:42:25 GMT
I'm leaning on the trailer being a fairly simple bundle of different elements to get the speculations going, but not something to necessarily take at face value. Like, I don't think Liara's going to find a piece of Shepard's armor on whichever planet this is, walking past a reaper hulk, etc.. Since Shepard's journey ends squarely in earth's orbit, there's no reason for some random helmet shard to be in some extraterrestrial tundra. I think it's just for a nifty teaser image. Hard to speculate on Liara's age, because asari have never been shown to really show age in their face like humans do, just maybe with the scales on their fringes and the ones that you see along the jawline.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jul 11, 2021 17:18:32 GMT
I'm leaning on the trailer being a fairly simple bundle of different elements to get the speculations going, but not something to necessarily take at face value. I agree, but you have to take into account the reaction from the public. Just look at the Youtube comments, to that video and how they all are about Shepard and friends being back. So, if Bioware wants some engagement, youtube is far more accurate than twitter, because a lot more people are on youtube, than twitter. Effectively, everyone is on youtube, nowadays.
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Post by dmc1001 on Jul 11, 2021 22:04:12 GMT
Shepard and friends will not be coming back, just Liara. Reason enough not to play. Just having to listen to her voice in MEA was so annoying.
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Post by dmc1001 on Jul 11, 2021 22:08:34 GMT
Unless that ice planet is Alchera (which is shown us to be an ice planet in ME2's Normandy Crash Site) and that could logically have a piece of Shepard's armor still on it. Alchera never made sense. The helmet was said to be all that was holding Shepard's brain together. Why would we then find it on Alchera? I did think of this but it's a bad idea.
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Post by Son of Dorn on Jul 11, 2021 22:10:57 GMT
Shepard and friends will not be coming back, just Liara. Reason enough not to play. Just having to listen to her voice in MEA was so annoying. Ditto. I dread the day that she'll be a squadmate. Cause you know Bio will shove her into a LI spot. And we know what that means.... 😒
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jul 11, 2021 23:10:00 GMT
Ditto. I dread the day that she'll be a squadmate. Cause you know Bio will shove her into a LI spot. And we know what that means.... 😒 She won't be an LI. Liara will not have any partner in her life, after Shepard, regardless if she was romanced or not. Like Leliana in DA:I.
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Post by themikefest on Jul 11, 2021 23:34:41 GMT
when we also know that Liara recovered pieces of Shepard's armor and kept them in her apartment Recovered? Pieces? Didn't she take the armor, the one piece seen in her apartment, from Shepard's corpse instead of recovering it? You do know there's two version's about the dogtags, right? What bother's me the most is why did Hackett give the dogtags to an alien instead of Mrs. Shepard, Shepard's mother, for those playing a spacer? Hackett would know any personal effects of the deceased would be givien to the next of kin.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2021 1:04:49 GMT
Unless that ice planet is Alchera (which is shown us to be an ice planet in ME2's Normandy Crash Site) and that could logically have a piece of Shepard's armor still on it. Alchera never made sense. The helmet was said to be all that was holding Shepard's brain together. Why would we then find it on Alchera? I did think of this but it's a bad idea. It makes more sense for just the piece that attaches the ear and mouth pieces to be found than the entire helmet (which is what is found during the Normandy Crash Site. If it was what was holding Shepard's brain together, it would not have been left on the planet, but transported while still on Shepard's head until his/her body was brought to the facility where the rebuilding began. I'm suggesting the helmet we found in ME2 was a plant by TIM and the small pieces that Liara found is the only part the broke off the helmet during the original explosion.
Another explanation is that Shepard has a supply of several helmets... in which case it could be a piece of one he/she had stowed in his/her locker and that blew up with the ship.
If it is Alchera... then I would suspect Bioware would, at this point, have an explanation (i.e. retcon) in mind and a reason for why Liara is returning to that site... which is an opportunity for them to solve one of the things about the OT that has never made sense to start with.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2021 1:09:19 GMT
when we also know that Liara recovered pieces of Shepard's armor and kept them in her apartment Recovered? Pieces? Didn't she take the armor, the one piece seen in her apartment, from Shepard's corpse instead of recovering it? You do know there's two version's about the dogtags, right? What bother's me the most is why did Hackett give the dogtags to an alien instead of Mrs. Shepard, Shepard's mother, for those playing a spacer? Hackett would know any personal effects of the deceased would be givien to the next of kin. What is shown during LotSB and described by Shepard is "It's a piece of my old armor."... so, no, it's not the entirety of the armor in one piece in her apartment. There is also the separate piece that Legion is wearing... and that's obvious he did not recover it from the corpse itself since he tells Shepard in ME2 that Shepard was not at the crash site.
The tags don't make sense either... and an explanation as to why could be something also forthcoming. Logically, the tags would have been on the body and, therefore, acquired by the Shadow Broker initially. Why would the Shadow Broker have gotten the tags to Hackett... It seems more likely that Liara would have just grabbed them before handing Shepard over to Cerberus. Why would she have given them to Hacket just to have him give them back to her? Perhaps she's lying to Shepard about Hackett having them at all. However, then, there's the tags in Anderson's pocket at the start of ME3... are they new ones or did Shepard turn them into the Alliance when he/she turned herself in?
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Post by themikefest on Jul 12, 2021 2:19:35 GMT
Recovered? Pieces? Didn't she take the armor, the one piece seen in her apartment, from Shepard's corpse instead of recovering it? You do know there's two version's about the dogtags, right? What bother's me the most is why did Hackett give the dogtags to an alien instead of Mrs. Shepard, Shepard's mother, for those playing a spacer? Hackett would know any personal effects of the deceased would be givien to the next of kin. What is shown during LotSB and described by Shepard is "It's a piece of my old armor."... so, no, it's not the entirety of the armor in one piece in her apartment. There is also the separate piece that Legion is wearing... and that's obvious that he did not recover it from the corpse itself. The tags don't make sense either... and an explanation as to why could be something also forthcoming.
I said she took the armor, the one piece seen in the apartment, did I not? As far as an explanation for the dogtags. It won't mean much since I wanted my Shepard to ask the question at that time.
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Post by Phantom on Jul 12, 2021 2:26:51 GMT
Ditto. I dread the day that she'll be a squadmate. Cause you know Bio will shove her into a LI spot. And we know what that means.... 😒 She won't be an LI. Liara will not have any partner in her life, after Shepard, regardless if she was romanced or not. Like Leliana in DA:I. What about the fans that want to romance her as a new character? should the new PC become the member of the Cult of Shepard? Should the Cult of Shepard become a new bad guy faction or a good one?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2021 3:25:46 GMT
What is shown during LotSB and described by Shepard is "It's a piece of my old armor."... so, no, it's not the entirety of the armor in one piece in her apartment. There is also the separate piece that Legion is wearing... and that's obvious that he did not recover it from the corpse itself. The tags don't make sense either... and an explanation as to why could be something also forthcoming.
I said she took the armor, the one piece seen in the apartment, did I not? As far as an explanation for the dogtags. It won't mean much since I wanted my Shepard to ask the question at that time. I'm speculating about what the trailer might be indicating as possibilities for the next game... not going to even try to address your own personal beefs with the old ones. What any explanation (if one is forthcoming) might mean to you personally is entirely your business. Suffice it to say I don't share many of your personal beefs about the OT and I have my own different ones.
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Post by Son of Dorn on Jul 12, 2021 13:46:45 GMT
Ditto. I dread the day that she'll be a squadmate. Cause you know Bio will shove her into a LI spot. And we know what that means.... 😒 She won't be an LI. Liara will not have any partner in her life, after Shepard, regardless if she was romanced or not. Like Leliana in DA:I. Let's hope that's the case then.
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Post by dmc1001 on Jul 12, 2021 14:51:25 GMT
If it is Alchera... then I would suspect Bioware would, at this point, have an explanation (i.e. retcon) in mind and a reason for why Liara is returning to that site... which is an opportunity for them to solve one of the things about the OT that has never made sense to start with. That's possible. Yes, a retcon would be needed. I'd say it's a waste of time but ME2 contradicts itself on this matter.
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Post by QuizzyBunny on Aug 3, 2021 0:18:13 GMT
I still have a little ways to go before I finish MELE, trying to drag it out because I don't want it to end... but I've enjoyed the journey immensely, appreciating the game far more now than back when I played it (as I could now play them in the order God intended) and they really are a masterpiece of game-making. Admittedly I struggled a bit with the ending like many, but I've never allowed it detract from my overall view of the series. Thank you so much for creating so many lovely characters and stories! As for MEA, despite what some doom and gloom youtubers might say the game had a lot going for it: - The landscape visuals were better than ever - The combat was amazing fun - There were some especially lovely characters like Drack and Vetra - The way you could scan things for exp was interesting - The premise of the game is good So please, take the good parts in mind when making ME Next.
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Post by dmc1001 on Aug 3, 2021 2:17:16 GMT
BioWare, you used to make awesome games! Remember KOTOR? You can do it again! That's all I've got for positive feedback.
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Post by dmc1001 on Aug 3, 2021 2:23:01 GMT
I'd rather not. Either give characters a real return, or don't touch them. I especially don't care to see them old. I've seen way too much harm being done to characters, once they've turned old. This is how I feel. If they are going to go with new characters, I want the game to be able to stand on it's own and not use the old cast for nostalgia points. Either bring back Shep and crew, or don't. Exactly what I feel. I did need ancient Liara. Either Shep or someone new. BW didn't feel Ryder came people what they wanted. Which, I guess, was more or less Shepard 2.0. If that's how it has to be, fine. Of course, I'd go for a new IP entirely but if they're dead set on going with an ME game then I want an entirely brand new cast. Sure, reference some random crap, but no voice recordings from across the ages (HATED that in MEA like you wouldn't believe). Don't need to know if Shep was male/female, paragon/renegade, etc. Or who lived and who died. At this point, they should all be dead. I wouldn't be surprised if, hundreds of years later, rebuilding was still happening and new areas of the galaxy were being explored. And no attempt to top the Reapers. That's just ridiculous.
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