Countdown: Launch minus N1 day (and 70 Trailers) thread

Interesting comparison. Wasn't the Illusive Man a puppet of The Catalyst?

It's always great and a little weird to see and hear the people behind the characters and it's just so odd to hear the voices you know so well but on 'someone else's' face, coming out of 'someone else's' mouth. And I flat out love Martin Sheen - from Apocalypse Now to The West Wing to ME2 - Bioware did really well to get someone of his standing and calibre and the game is all the better for it. I hated the Illusive Man but it was a great performance.

The voice cast of Mass Effect is pretty godly over all. Something DA actually lagged behind a little bit until Inquisition. (Bull, Dorian, Cassandra, OMG Solas)

Launch minus N61 days to 3.21 Mass Effect Andromeda. (Counting down 70 trailers of Mass Effect)



Mass Effect 2 Cinematic Trailer - December 23rd 2009

"He has no idea what he's getting into..."

In the latter half of 2009, BioWare shared exclusive Mass Effect 2 material with IGN.
Some of it was released later without IGN branding, some of it never was, some of it was released in a different format later on.

We won't be presenting each different variation of trailer in our countdown because of duplication,
but we'll post links and videos (if appropriate) where there is a second version that was used in the IGN coverage.

This cinematic trailer itself comes in two versions, a long and short version (this being the extended one).

Over the next few days we'll share a series of character trailers, that BioWare entitled 'Fight for the Lost'
(though who exactly the 'Lost' that were being fought for are is a little shaky)

As for the cinematic trailer, what do you think of the (diminishing?) practice of releasing such trailers that are not actually the game?

I have mixed feelings about these... While on the one hand they're very cool and fun to watch, on the other it's hard not to compare it to what we actually get in the game, and feel like the game lacks in comparison. I much prefer seeing actual in-engine stuff as that gives me a realistic sense of what I can expect to see in the final product. Warts and all.

Although what occurs to me is that trailers like this are becoming much less necessary now - because game graphics have evolved to become on par with those CG trailers of the past. I look at that trailer and think - you know, they could totally create scenes just like that with the games we have today! And I'd rather the budget that would go toward marketing like that be spent instead on making cinematics of that quality in the actual game. (Though that's likely a rhetorical scenario - I imagine marketing budgets are a totally separate from those allocated for development.)

Launch minus N60 days to 3.21 Mass Effect Andromeda. (Counting down 70 trailers of Mass Effect)



Mass Effect 2 Fight for the Lost ~ Thane - January 7th 2010

"Don't mistake me for a common soldier"

The first of 5 character trailers, how did you first react to the character of Thane?

Launch minus N59 days to 3.21 Mass Effect Andromeda. (Counting down 70 trailers of Mass Effect)



Mass Effect 2 Fight for the Lost ~ Grunt - January 7th 2010

"Me? I'm here to kill"

The second of 5 character trailers, how did you first react to the character of Grunt?

I got chills. Decided if I met him in game, no way I was not going to make him my friend because I sure didn't want him as an enemy. 

I ended up romancing him once and loved it. 

My thought was that Krogan make great heavy hitters so was glad to have him on my team.

Launch minus N59 days to 3.21 Mass Effect Andromeda. (Counting down 70 trailers of Mass Effect)



Mass Effect 2 Fight for the Lost ~ Subject Zero - January 12th 2010

"I don't fight for humans, that's Shepard's job..."

Interesting how much BioWare highlighted bad-assery in their promoted characters, Thane, Grunt, and now Jack...

To the point that for me it gets a little ridiculous, tbh I never saw most of these trailers before and I have to say that if I had no other info and I saw only this, I don't think I'd have ever tried ME2 I love Thane and Jack, but they sound so generic and uninteresting here   

I wonder sometimes if the CGI trailers are outsourced...

(the Grunt CGI almost looks like a Plushie, and don't talk to me about Mordin ~ upcoming...)