Mass Effect News Thread

Question: the MP beta will only be for console, correct?

yeah! my assumption is Ellen=mom too. it's like, I see parents who have children (where everyone in the family unit is the same race) with different-culture names in each generation irl sometimes (like people who move to a Western country, stay there, have kids and name the kids something Western, as an example). different-culture names for two twins tho? totally possible of course, especially in a sci-fi future where everything is more global and cosmopolitan, but it still sticks out to me like a sore thumb, lol. aerith and bob.

So stoked about this! I hope it works with the player character, too.

Indeed. Sara and Alec are fine, because they are common names used almost everywhere, but Scott really is not. I hate that name. They could have come up with something more universal like Alexander. 

I still wish we could name our twin too since we can even change their appearance. You could avoid those situations by having everyone call him "your brother", "my brother" or give him some random nickname - doesn't matter to me. But since that's not gonna happen guess I'll just pretend "Scott" and "Sara" are some extremely stupid joke names they call each other. 

Based on that logic they shouldn't have inserted the option of calling the one we pick with their default first name.
I much prefer having our sibling having a fixed name then naming ourselves, same goes for the father. They're not our characters. It's different from the one we pick because we should have control of the name, but not npcs. 
I do agree it might've been better to have a more universal name for Scott, although I don't have much problem with it.

I have a brother and sister and I use both 'my brother/sister' and their name when talking about them. I call him by his first name and her with a diminutive from her name, but only because she thinks the first name sounds too formal. It depends from the person I guess.
Besides, l'm sure the brother/sister terms will be used. The first name isn't only used for those talks, and it helps variating between the terms.

It's also worth remembering that this is set over 160 years from now. It's not unreasonable to suppose that names have become quite homogenized with people borrowing from all cultures for their kids' names.

just because some stupid people irl name their sneauxphlayke goblins Smayden/Frayden/Apple/Blanket/Darth Vader/Crystal-Bean/Mi'kaella (pronounced Mi-kay-la)/Nnyceu'l'l'ahaaa (pronounced Mi-kay-la) doesn't mean we should encourage it   [non-srs statement, not an argument posed]

Elder King: ofc its different for all people, my post was meant like 'on reflection I don't ever say my bro's name [cuz I thought I did, but realized I didn't upon thinking about it] so not saying it wouldn't necessarily be that weird' not 'actually I never say my bro's name and my personal experience must be = everyone's norm therefore anyone who says their bro's name or any character who does is weird'.

other notes: I know it's an 'experience/illusion of having choice' RP with characters we only borrow and influence, not a what-we-say goes Sandbox like the sims (even TS has limits). mentioned the future being more cosmopolitan as well (that's stated in the ME lore so it fits). I still feel bad for the "Aabida and Scott" crowd, and it still sounds "off"/odd [by this I mean jarring, not that someone's name choices are weird/bad/whatever] to me.


iirc they said we'd see it before launch. I think.

It does on Sara's ponytail but whether there are other hairstyles we can pick with it we don't know yet. We know they did use hair physics in DA2 so hopefully we'll see a few hairstyles with a little hair physics. Maybe a couple of shoulder length ones similar to what Hawke can have in DA2. Even if it's just kept simple like DA2's hair was then that's at least something. At least I'd be happy with that. But as people have said before hair can be tricky to do right in games but as long as it dosen't come out looking all helmet heady I'll be fine with it. It dosen't look all helmet heady to me atm so hopefully that'll continue. It would have been nice if they'd have delivered this in DAI but they didn't most likely due to the fact it needed to be toned down for the old gen but at least it looks like MEA will at least attempt to make up for DAI's shortcomings

I dunno, I think Valyn/Scott and Valen/Sara will be Okay and/or Berta/Scott and Sara/Rob. I really want to link my PC to either Valentine Tereshkova, or Roberta Bondar, and for me that is sort of a part of the charm of this particular game.

I think it is more important to create the PC you like than worry about what other people may think about the name you picked.

That would be two of us!