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Post by cmdrshep2183 on Jan 9, 2024 1:05:27 GMT
For some reason many sci fi set in the far future feel like they were made in the 90s to me even if they weren't made in that time period.
The first "Mass Effect" had more colorful and shiny aesthetic than Mass Effect 2 and 3 and it's world made me feel a great "Sense of Wonder".
To me the first Mass Effect felt like it came straight out of the 1990s to me while the second and third game's story and aesthetic felt more influenced by 2000s sci fi like "Battlestar Galactica", "Firefly", and the J.J. Abrams "NuTrek" movies.
I felt the same way with the 2021 "Dune" movie. It didn't have Wars or Trek style aliens but the world presented in that movie was "Weird" and "Exotic" but yet it was a high quality movie.
I was just a small child at the very end of the 90s but I perceive that the 90s were a golden age of sci fi in TV, books, and movies.
It seemed like society was more excited and optimistic for the future and the possibility of discovering alien life back in the 90s.
I bet the "Hubble" space telescope and the first rover on Mars during the 90s as well as going a decade without a single Space Shuttle disaster contributed as well.
I just discovered Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep" and I am enjoying so much. The aliens in this book remind me a lot of Mass Effect and like Mass Effect 1 there is a huge sense of wonder.
Should the next ME have a shiny bright colored aesthetic like the original non remastered ME1 and has a world the evokes a sense of wonder?
LE ME1 has better textures and gameplay but I feel that the original ME1's color palette, UI, and font of the subtitles and dialogue wheel gave it some of it's charm.
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Post by SwobyJ on Jan 9, 2024 18:34:33 GMT
To me: -ME1 was 1970s-*90s* + speculation for 00s onward -ME2 was 1980s-*00s* + imo it kind of held back for the sake of badassitude 80s Terminator Blade Runner chic -ME3 was 1990s-*00s* + speculation for 10s onward (contemporary futurism) -MEA was 2000s-*10s* + imo it kind of held back on the degree of futurism it wanted to explore and just went into vague space colonizing Halo Space X stuff (despite it being in Andromeda); I'd also argue it still had a toe into the 80s-90s with its formation of Helius Space Council and First Contacty style stuff, but it was with a very Millennial air
I'd want a new Mass Effect that heavily involves the Milky Way, the trilogy, but also MEA, and something entirely new... to have the whole gamut. 1970s-2020s, bay-bee. I'd want it to look back on the 1970s scifi concepts more than ever, while recognizing what MET and MEA had, while also trying to include something that reflects whatever we could call futurism today (while maybe having a bit more control over how much Space Magic is involved). I want the spread of designs and a game willing to become the next definitive Mass Effect game that MEA couldn't be and ME3 arguably wasn't.
The next game after can drop the 1970s and maybe even 80s designs, but for this one, I want a whole fun retrospective on the series just as much as I want it to step into the new future.
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