Would you be in favor of more space gameplay in MEA?

Well, there have been very minor sequences of zero g cut scenes or gameplay in the original Mass Effect trilogy. It wasn't a lot, but I definitely agree it would be great to expand upon that system. We can't outright say BioWare isn't doing anything like that in this game, as it would likely be a minor system at best. Regardless, it is something that I think would continue to take advantage of the rich environment Mass Effect inhabits. It's kind of mind boggling they haven't done more with space at this point.

I see, thanks the info. Yeah, 1313 is definitely the project I was thinking of. Remember seeing that reveal in the gigantic planetary elevator. Visceral seems to be a pretty solid studio though. I wasn't much of a fan of DS3 (played but never beat) but the first two games were excellent IMHO.

I don't know about any other projects they've done though, just my experience with the Deadspace games.

Now that you mention it....I definitely remember learning that the DS studio was doing hard line (I scoffed at it honestly), so I actually never played hardline, which, to date, is the only BF game I haven't played at all in any capacity.

It's not that I didn't trust them at all...just seemed to be something outside their wheelhouse perhaps? Not sure how to frame it because I do recognize their talent.

DI though, I never tried. Only pure action games I seem to care about is the devil may cry series. And some various IPs way back in the ps2 era.

By the time Star Citizen is finished (if/when), someone else will have started from scratch and won the genre

I would really like to have some zero-g combat segments like in Dead Space 3, or a space fighter mini-game in the same vein as Halo: Reach or COD: Infinite Warfare (seriously, I was shocked at how fun the zero-g combat and space fighter segments are in that game).

I don't expect it to be in MEA, but it would be nice for a potential sequel. The Tempest is pretty small compared to the original Normandy, so I could see it zipping around like a space fighter.

Sure, I never played Dead Space. Kinda been interested. How scary is it? I didn't like the new Alien: Isolation game. I don't like horror stuff usually.

No. People always want "more stuff" in their games, temporarily forgetting that you can't have a game that has it all. Adding another dimension of gameplay outside of a few cutscenes here and there would mean other parts of the game would suffer.

No idea. I know Chris Roberts is famous for Wing Commander. What exactly do you mean by "exterior pilot view"? You can pilot ships in third person, first person. You can walk around in the interior of ships. You can more or less do whatever you want.

Dead Space 1 and 2 are survival horror. Dead Space 3 is survival action. Regardless, there are just some systems in Dead Space that I believe would work well in Mass Effect.

Dead Space 1 was definitely survival horror. Dead Space 2 is arguably also survival horror. Only Dead Space 3 was a clear departure and more of an action third person shooter due to coop and less of a focus on horror.

Not really. The only reason this game took so long to develop is because BioWare Montreal had to build Andromeda from the ground up. They had to bring Mass Effect to an entirely new engine and create assets from scratch. Sequels are going to be far easier and faster to make and will not require five years of development time. That is, of course, BioWare doesn't decide to completely overhaul the entire foundation for the game again.

Something like this wouldn't be as much work as you'd think, especially since BioWare has already done things resembling this in the original trilogy, whether for short segments in the base game or the DLC.

Here is the list of people who worked on Freelancer:
www.imdb.com/title/tt0165789/fullcredits/

Do you know if any working on Star Citizen?


As to external pilot view I realize it is probably called chase view:

Is that right it is called chase view?
Is that view a possibility in Star Citizen?

Thank you.
I would surmise the game will be the spiritual successor to Wing Commander (never got to play myself) but I will give S.C. a look.
Maybe even could find easter eggs from both the Wing Commander and maybe even the Starlancer/Freelancer series as well in it.
Any time line on release or still years away?

They just need to ship the blasted game already and prove that crowdfunded games with AAA quality are possible and work. The player base is already going to be incredibly limited since the game is only possible on PC. May as well start building that community and grow the game over time, since now it's essentially an MMO.