Gravity

i cant see myself enjoying that. it didnt really enhance my experience in dead space 3. from a 'science' perspective it makes sense but let us not take video games seriously because they are just games. when im playing a game, the only thing i care about is decent gameplay and a half-decent story, dont really need it to be scientifically accurate, nor do i need it to abide by the laws of physics. that's just me though. it might be a feature that a lot of others would appreciate, but it doesn't do anything for me at all.

Yes, I've always liked the idea of having more diverse environments and any space exploration game needs at least some zero G environments.  Water would be another case of diverse environments. 

Also, there needs to be more variation in gravitation in general, having earth like gravity everywhere would be extremely weird and unlikely. I'm not talking about extreme gravities that would instantly liquefy the protagonist, no but Mars-like gravity or 1.3 times the gravity of earth.

They sort of embrace it. The mass effect is all about gravity, more or less, and they talk about it reasonably accurately in the lore. We also get floating, glowing asari, though, and some other silly stuff. I'd definitely like to see ME embrace the science in science-fiction a bit more often, but I think that boat has long since sailed.

Space walks and "zero-G" would be great. Now that we have intrinsic propulsion in our hardsuits, maybe they'll surprise us? This is an open-world space exploration game. This definitely seems like the right opportunity for these types of things.

Water environments could work the same way in terms of mechanics too. Floating and propulsion in a large ocean world with no dry land.   The would just need to add bubbles appropriately and possibly account for the current pushing you.   

I just hope any space sections have no sound at all this time, other than maybe sound from inside your helmet.

I can't wait for the day this is implemented. Funnily enough, variation in gravitational fields is a 'realistic' touch that could have lots of interesting & fun implications with respect to gameplay -- unlike, say, adjustments for atmospheric pressure.

Though at least Mass Effect universe has a magical mass-altering technology at its disposal; unlike a certain well-known sci-fi franchise where 'away teams' regularly beam onto STRANGE NEW WORLDS in their everyday clothing.

At least the people who made the '60s Star Trek cartoons put a glowy yellow 'force shield' around people out on space, activated by a button on their belts. Perhaps the TV series also had this, though I don't remember it ever being introduced.

No.
Not unless they do Zero-G correctly.
First they need to give better directions to follow than they did in Dead Space games and that mission in Crysis.
Anytime you end up going in circles for 30 minutes getting killed many times over it can get annoying.

Also the ME3 mission was not true Zero-G and is more dizzying than an interesting story element that was added.

Thanks for that!

I'd never read anything this specific regarding onboard gravity systems, but it makes sense in a limited way, as Hanako has outlined. Notably, our hardsuits are equipped with mag-boots, not "gravity boots" or some powerful extension of the mass effect as described above; so I'd think any gravity manipulation would be limited and imprecise. It might help a marine more easily operate on a high-G world, for instance, but wouldn't bring the effects to 1-G. Some hardsuits are specifically called out as "powered armor", and so some of the stress would be taken off of the wearer as the suit picked up the slack.

ME lore isn't airtight like real science, so don't take the above to be dismissive of Hanako's post. I just never saw the stuff she's referencing. There was a time when the devs used to interact with us on the old BSN. It was all good before DA2. Anyway...

As to the original request for "lore", there's really not a lot. It's mostly a matter of understanding real physics/gravity, and then applying the mass effect to that. I mentioned the floating asari as an annoyance, earlier, because that shouldn't happen. If I drop an asari and a penny from the top of a building on Thessia  , they should hit the ground at the same time. This is because their relative mass is irrelevant. (Air resistance factors in, but isn't relevant to this discussion.) Similarly, the assorted asari that we see reducing their mass should still fall just as quickly. They'll likely hit harmlessly, if their biotics are good, but they'll hit fast, all the same. Most people probably think, "Oh, cool. That's a clever, cinematic use of biotics." I think, "FAIL Biovar. Fail."

I'd recommend checking out the Mass Effect wiki, if you never have done so. Much (all?) of the codex has been gathered on the wiki. It's a nice place to refresh your memory, or read up on the News Network items you never read the first time.

That's simply not how the mass effect works, though, according to lore; and it's definitely not how gravity works, of course. Per lore, mass is reduced or increased within a mass effect field. That's it. The acceleration of gravity would remain unchanged. I think they just thought it would look cool, and never considered that it violated basic scientific principle.

You're right about no one ever wanting to accurately represent the varying displays of gravity on different worlds and environments. I've only seen it done consistently in The Expanse on ScyFy. It's an essential part of that beautiful show, and they do a good job of making it a constant presence. I actually thought of that program when I was talking about powered hardsuits. The Martian Marines have some sick powered suits that are visually remiscent of ME, but not really similar.

I bet more games would do it if they thought people would be able to manage the controls comfortably. It would be similar to low-speed swimming, if they gave us propulsion. If not, it would be tricky. I'd definitely like to see a couple of scenes in a space exploration game. At the bare minimum, I want a couple of space walks with mag-boots engaged.