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Post by dcal31 on Mar 5, 2017 19:51:31 GMT
13 hours ago theorigcylonhybrid said: Comments such as this for example killed off the quarian species and ensured their extinction in ME franchise. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Dear God and SalMasRac help me! I have to ask! Okay, you said very clearly, right here, theorigcylonhybrid... that "Fans complaining about the ME3 ending accomplished that." and you support this when you said "comments such as this for example killed off the quarian species". when questioned about this stance you asked, essentially, how quarians could have made it to andromeda based on current lore, i.e. no hints and no ark ship, but the problem is that we are not talking about ark ships and lore we are talking about how THE COMMUNITY of players, making COMMENTS on forums and threads accross the internet "killed off the quarians" as YOU said. it has Nothing to do with How the quarians get anywhere or why, and everything to do with what you said about the Fans being responsible for killing the quarians. The question I ask you: How did the Fans complaining about ME3 Ending Kill the QUARIANS and their chances in Andromeda? edit: after watching SalMasRac talk with you and see you respond like he was talking to a brick wall, I don't really expect an answer... but dear god I tried to make this as perfectly clear and understandable for you as possible. If you want a non-lore answer, the developers were forced to remake the game in ANOTHER galaxy because of the negative comments of the ME3 endings. Due to comments from the fan base on the ME3 ending that is the main reason this next game is in andromeda. Am I right or wrong about that? The way the game has been developed is a massive open world game but to make room for new races and lore in andromeda because we are in a new galaxy, the decision by bioware seems to be to not include all milky way races as a consequence and knock on effect. The means the exclusion of the quarian civilisation but perhaps not individual quarians. If the fan base has not reacted so negatively to the ME3 endings, this chain of events would not have occured. This game would be set in the milky way galaxy and there would be no retcon. In the milky way galaxy there would have been a much greater likelihood of seeing some kind of quarian civilisation despite the choice between the geth and quarians in ME3. Bottom lining it, the developers were forced due to fan feedback to make a new setting for the mass effect franchise, a setting that does not lend itself to having a massive quarian presence. Thats it. I mean bioware has limited time and spending resources and it already is a massive game. So much so that they excluded a salarian squadmate from your team. If they think an extra squadmate is too much, how about an entire new element to the gameplay lore by introducing quarian colonists. Now it may be possible that there are quarian colonists and the reason we haven't seen them is because the marketing for this game has been a bit rubbish because they are holding back lots of information until the last few weeks until release. But 2 weeks from release and no quarian reveal is too late. 99% of people don't follow mass effect news as people in this forum and won't know about a quarian reveal now. I believe I heard by a developer that there are other civilisations in andromeda that haven't been revealed yet and probably won't be revealed until people start playing the game. But not revealing THESE civiisations is some kind of marketing ploy to not ruin the wonder and exploration of the game. However we already know a lot about quarians so this reasoning doesn't really apply to this case. Just to play devils advocate, let's assume it was the fan reaction that caused them to change the setting. Consider an alternative universe where the endings as they were originally released are universally loved fans and praised by critics for their brilliance. It's still split about equally as to which is your favorite, but everyone has at least one they love. There are no flame wars or protests, so we're all still talking on the official forums. In fact, the devs are stopping by daily to bask in the never ending praise we give them there. Okay, scenario set up. It's time for the next Mass Effect game. Where do we go? What do we do? The endings are still vastly different outcomes, which the writers were careful to point out are all equally valid choices, with no real "good" or "bad" choice. Choosing one as canon will displease (to put put lightly) 2/3's of the fanbase. Setting aside the ending, several choices within the game have wildly different outcomes. Several civilizations can be effectively eradicated depending on the outcome of your choices including the geth, quarians, krogan, drell. hanar and batarains. Any direct continuation of the story is impossible without establishing a canon story that will displease the vast majority of fans. So, to put it bluntly, you are wrong. Regardless of the fan reaction to the endings, the writers are left in the same quagmire when it comes to continuing the story. If you want to blame anyone for the situation that the present writers found themselves in, blame the ME3 writers who ensured it would be virtually impossible to make a direct continuation of their story. The writers were the ones that "doomed" the quarians and, fittingly, they are the only ones that can "save" them, if they so choose.
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Post by Cypher on Mar 5, 2017 20:17:56 GMT
No, I'm basing it on Bioware already saying that not everyone going will be riding on their own individual arks. And I said twice now that there may be some quarians present in andromeda, maybe working engineering or something aboard the nexus as part of the mixed crew, but the quarian civilisation is gone. The arks hold the cryochambers for the colonists. And the arks are the colony ships. They build one ark for 20,000 humans according the briefing. So, if there were say 20,000 quarians going, they would have their own ark for colonisation purposes. But they don't... 1. 20k Quarians don't need to go. 2. Seeing as Krogan are clearly present, everyone going doesn't need and doesn't have their own Ark.
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Post by spacev3gan on Mar 5, 2017 21:43:19 GMT
They can. Ship captains can choose to leave the Quarian Fleet if they wish. This is even part of the plot from one of the books, ME Ascension. So there is no lore break in this case. Can they leave permanently the Migrant Fleet permanently, taking with them a sizable population and never return, just like that? As far I know based on general in-game lore, each and every Quarian individual is committed to the Fleet, and one only leaves (with the promise of coming back) during the Pilgrimage. I believe this is the understanding that most people who have played the trilogy have. But since I have never read the books, I am unaware of what subjects within ME universe they deal with.
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Post by theorigcylonhybrid on Mar 5, 2017 21:58:10 GMT
And I said twice now that there may be some quarians present in andromeda, maybe working engineering or something aboard the nexus as part of the mixed crew, but the quarian civilisation is gone. The arks hold the cryochambers for the colonists. And the arks are the colony ships. They build one ark for 20,000 humans according the briefing. So, if there were say 20,000 quarians going, they would have their own ark for colonisation purposes. But they don't... 1. 20k Quarians don't need to go. 2. Seeing as Krogan are clearly present, everyone going doesn't need and doesn't have their own Ark. 1. If you ever wanted to establish colonies, it would help if you had enough colonists to establish even one colony. 2. I doubt the krogen are there to establish long term colonies seeing as they still have the genophage and don't have a colony ship. They are probably along for the adventure. Its only a single clan are going.
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Post by theorigcylonhybrid on Mar 5, 2017 22:17:53 GMT
If you want a non-lore answer, the developers were forced to remake the game in ANOTHER galaxy because of the negative comments of the ME3 endings. Due to comments from the fan base on the ME3 ending that is the main reason this next game is in andromeda. Am I right or wrong about that? The way the game has been developed is a massive open world game but to make room for new races and lore in andromeda because we are in a new galaxy, the decision by bioware seems to be to not include all milky way races as a consequence and knock on effect. The means the exclusion of the quarian civilisation but perhaps not individual quarians. If the fan base has not reacted so negatively to the ME3 endings, this chain of events would not have occured. This game would be set in the milky way galaxy and there would be no retcon. In the milky way galaxy there would have been a much greater likelihood of seeing some kind of quarian civilisation despite the choice between the geth and quarians in ME3. Bottom lining it, the developers were forced due to fan feedback to make a new setting for the mass effect franchise, a setting that does not lend itself to having a massive quarian presence. Thats it. I mean bioware has limited time and spending resources and it already is a massive game. So much so that they excluded a salarian squadmate from your team. If they think an extra squadmate is too much, how about an entire new element to the gameplay lore by introducing quarian colonists. Now it may be possible that there are quarian colonists and the reason we haven't seen them is because the marketing for this game has been a bit rubbish because they are holding back lots of information until the last few weeks until release. But 2 weeks from release and no quarian reveal is too late. 99% of people don't follow mass effect news as people in this forum and won't know about a quarian reveal now. I believe I heard by a developer that there are other civilisations in andromeda that haven't been revealed yet and probably won't be revealed until people start playing the game. But not revealing THESE civiisations is some kind of marketing ploy to not ruin the wonder and exploration of the game. However we already know a lot about quarians so this reasoning doesn't really apply to this case. Just to play devils advocate, let's assume it was the fan reaction that caused them to change the setting. Consider an alternative universe where the endings as they were originally released are universally loved fans and praised by critics for their brilliance. It's still split about equally as to which is your favorite, but everyone has at least one they love. There are no flame wars or protests, so we're all still talking on the official forums. In fact, the devs are stopping by daily to bask in the never ending praise we give them there. Okay, scenario set up. It's time for the next Mass Effect game. Where do we go? What do we do? The endings are still vastly different outcomes, which the writers were careful to point out are all equally valid choices, with no real "good" or "bad" choice. Choosing one as canon will displease (to put put lightly) 2/3's of the fanbase. Setting aside the ending, several choices within the game have wildly different outcomes. Several civilizations can be effectively eradicated depending on the outcome of your choices including the geth, quarians, krogan, drell. hanar and batarains. Any direct continuation of the story is impossible without establishing a canon story that will displease the vast majority of fans. So, to put it bluntly, you are wrong. Regardless of the fan reaction to the endings, the writers are left in the same quagmire when it comes to continuing the story. If you want to blame anyone for the situation that the present writers found themselves in, blame the ME3 writers who ensured it would be virtually impossible to make a direct continuation of their story. The writers were the ones that "doomed" the quarians and, fittingly, they are the only ones that can "save" them, if they so choose. So you're telling me that I'm wrong because the fans would be angry at the endings and possibly choosing one as canon to continue the franchise in the milky way. Is that not just an extension of the anger the fans had anyway about the original endings? I'm not saying the writers are blameless. They did write themselves into a corner, but the fan base overreacted so negatively that they had to change the setting. Its not really playing devils advocate or making an assumption to say thats the reason they changed the setting. That was the reason they changed the setting. The developers have basically stated this a long time ago. The trilogy finished 5 years ago, does it really matter if they chose a canon ending now and learned from their mistakes for future games? I personally don't care too much about that myself because everyone played all three endings. We all need to move on. And if push came to shove, you could have had the next mass effect game so far into the future that eventually all three endings would merge. Mass effect are great at creating the illusion of choice in video games. For example, it didn't matter if you destroyed the collectors base or not in ME2. The IM was still using reaper tech in ME3. 1. The reapers were destroyed but the relays were repaired. Life continues and maybe some geth that were offline (maybe the heretics) escapted the destruction of artificial life or (insert technobabble here), not all quarian ships choose to join the fleet in engaging the geth, the krogan still had the genophage and they wouldnt be wiped out because of that. Thr genophage maintains a low population, it does not make the krogan go extinct. We don;t know anything about the hanar or drell (actually the drell were gonig to go exitnct no matter what) and some batarians didn't live in batarian space, such as the ones we see on the citadel in ME3. 2. Shepard takes control of the reapers and they rebuild the mass relay network and the rest of the galaxy. But eventually the reapers are dismantled because they are no longer needed and the shepard AI went offline once galactic peace was reestablished. You can dress it up, I can't really go into it in a few lines on this post. 3. Artifical and organic life merge and they understand each other completely. If you put the story far enough into the future, this will happen anyway. That ending was so vague as to what the merging of artificial and organic life meant that we don't really know what that means to the ME galaxy. I mean don't expect me to go into massive details to address every single item of minutia in this post about how they could have continued the game after the ME3 endings. Its not impossible. If you go 1,000 or 2,000 years into the future anything can happen. Look whats happened in the last 2000 years of our own civilisation. Were roman philosophers writing about how one day man would walk on the moon and establish colonies on mars and fly faster then sound? But the idea of starting the franchise in an entirely new galaxy was to escape the endings because of the fan reaction. And now thats what we got. A galaxy without quarians. A franchise possibly without quarians? If thats true, then they might as well be extinct because fans will not see them again.
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Post by bshep on Mar 5, 2017 22:50:17 GMT
They can. Ship captains can choose to leave the Quarian Fleet if they wish. This is even part of the plot from one of the books, ME Ascension. So there is no lore break in this case. Can they leave permanently the Migrant Fleet permanently, taking with them a sizable population and never return, just like that? As far I know based on general in-game lore, each and every Quarian individual is committed to the Fleet, and one only leaves (with the promise of coming back) during the Pilgrimage. I believe this is the understanding that most people who have played the trilogy have. But since I have never read the books, I am unaware of what subjects within ME universe they deal with. Yes they can. The quarian ships crews have freedom to choose to stay or to go. There is even mention about this inside the game in codex lore and during some cutscenes both in ME2 (talking with the Rayya's captain during Tali's judgement) and ME3 (when the civilian fleet tries to flee the fight if Admiral Zaal'Koris isn't present to convice them to stay).
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Post by dcal31 on Mar 6, 2017 0:35:10 GMT
Just to play devils advocate, let's assume it was the fan reaction that caused them to change the setting. Consider an alternative universe where the endings as they were originally released are universally loved fans and praised by critics for their brilliance. It's still split about equally as to which is your favorite, but everyone has at least one they love. There are no flame wars or protests, so we're all still talking on the official forums. In fact, the devs are stopping by daily to bask in the never ending praise we give them there. Okay, scenario set up. It's time for the next Mass Effect game. Where do we go? What do we do? The endings are still vastly different outcomes, which the writers were careful to point out are all equally valid choices, with no real "good" or "bad" choice. Choosing one as canon will displease (to put put lightly) 2/3's of the fanbase. Setting aside the ending, several choices within the game have wildly different outcomes. Several civilizations can be effectively eradicated depending on the outcome of your choices including the geth, quarians, krogan, drell. hanar and batarains. Any direct continuation of the story is impossible without establishing a canon story that will displease the vast majority of fans. So, to put it bluntly, you are wrong. Regardless of the fan reaction to the endings, the writers are left in the same quagmire when it comes to continuing the story. If you want to blame anyone for the situation that the present writers found themselves in, blame the ME3 writers who ensured it would be virtually impossible to make a direct continuation of their story. The writers were the ones that "doomed" the quarians and, fittingly, they are the only ones that can "save" them, if they so choose. So you're telling me that I'm wrong because the fans would be angry at the endings and possibly choosing one as canon to continue the franchise in the milky way. Is that not just an extension of the anger the fans had anyway about the original endings? I'm not saying the writers are blameless. They did write themselves into a corner, but the fan base overreacted so negatively that they had to change the setting. Its not really playing devils advocate or making an assumption to say thats the reason they changed the setting. That was the reason they changed the setting. The developers have basically stated this a long time ago. The trilogy finished 5 years ago, does it really matter if they chose a canon ending now and learned from their mistakes for future games? I personally don't care too much about that myself because everyone played all three endings. We all need to move on. And if push came to shove, you could have had the next mass effect game so far into the future that eventually all three endings would merge. Mass effect are great at creating the illusion of choice in video games. For example, it didn't matter if you destroyed the collectors base or not in ME2. The IM was still using reaper tech in ME3. 1. The reapers were destroyed but the relays were repaired. Life continues and maybe some geth that were offline (maybe the heretics) escapted the destruction of artificial life or (insert technobabble here), not all quarian ships choose to join the fleet in engaging the geth, the krogan still had the genophage and they wouldnt be wiped out because of that. Thr genophage maintains a low population, it does not make the krogan go extinct. We don;t know anything about the hanar or drell (actually the drell were gonig to go exitnct no matter what) and some batarians didn't live in batarian space, such as the ones we see on the citadel in ME3. 2. Shepard takes control of the reapers and they rebuild the mass relay network and the rest of the galaxy. But eventually the reapers are dismantled because they are no longer needed and the shepard AI went offline once galactic peace was reestablished. You can dress it up, I can't really go into it in a few lines on this post. 3. Artifical and organic life merge and they understand each other completely. If you put the story far enough into the future, this will happen anyway. That ending was so vague as to what the merging of artificial and organic life meant that we don't really know what that means to the ME galaxy. I mean don't expect me to go into massive details to address every single item of minutia in this post about how they could have continued the game after the ME3 endings. Its not impossible. If you go 1,000 or 2,000 years into the future anything can happen. Look whats happened in the last 2000 years of our own civilisation. Were roman philosophers writing about how one day man would walk on the moon and establish colonies on mars and fly faster then sound? But the idea of starting the franchise in an entirely new galaxy was to escape the endings because of the fan reaction. And now thats what we got. A galaxy without quarians. A franchise possibly without quarians? If thats true, then they might as well be extinct because fans will not see them again. I think you missed the point, since you spent 95% of your response addressing things we actually agree on. I've never seen them specifically address it, so could you please link to where any of the devs have said fan reaction to the endings was the definitive reason they changed settings? Unless you are one of the developers or process clairvoyance, such a declarative statement is usually backed up by evidence. Otherwise, it is by definition an assumption. It makes much more sense logically that the reason they would be forced drastically change settings is because they wrote themselves into a corner making it virtually impossible to continue the current storyline. Regardless of fan reaction to the original endings, this would have been necessary because of the way they chose to write ME3. You may not care what happened in your storyline, but in my observations, the majority of the fanbase does, deeply so. Could they have continued it the way you described? Yes. Could they have continued it without invalidating the indivifual stories of a vast majority of their fanbase? No. They picked what was likely the best of their limited options. This leaves everyone's individual stories intact while continuing the franchise down a tangent path that is unaffected by anything that came afterward. Did the response to the endings make this decision more likely than the alternates? Probably. But even without it, this was likely the path the series would have gone anyways.
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Post by Cypher on Mar 6, 2017 3:38:25 GMT
1. 20k Quarians don't need to go. 2. Seeing as Krogan are clearly present, everyone going doesn't need and doesn't have their own Ark. 1. If you ever wanted to establish colonies, it would help if you had enough colonists to establish even one colony. 2. I doubt the krogen are there to establish long term colonies seeing as they still have the genophage and don't have a colony ship. They are probably along for the adventure. Its only a single clan are going. 1. Viability of a species is only something like 200 individuals. Even 5000 Quarians is ovekill. 2. Survivability of the Krogan isn't dependent on the Genophage, but the removal of their warlike culture. Pre-Genophage, Krogan would pop out hundreds, if not thousands of children at a time. After the Genophage, their viable birthrate is closer to human, turian, and asari. That's 1-3 children per birth. Krogan would be just fine. And if you think the Krogan aren't there to establish long term colonies, then you have some ridiculous expectations.
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Post by armass81 on Mar 6, 2017 3:58:55 GMT
They would have the same problem as turians, finding a dextro dna livable planet among Heleus's few choices(which seem to be dwindling down), and how much rations does the Ai really have for these species, if a suitable planet is not found, I ask?
Ofc if they find the planet, they could live there among turians, unless theres a huge star radiation or something thats tolerable to the turians but not quarian, unless they wanna continue to live in those suits.
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Post by bshep on Mar 6, 2017 4:31:26 GMT
They would have the same problem as turians, finding a dextro dna livable planet among Heleus's few choices(which seem to be dwindling down), and how much rations does the Ai really have for these species, if a suitable planet is not found, I ask? Ofc if they find the planet, they could live there among turians, unless theres a huge star radiation or something thats tolerable to the turians but not quarian, unless they wanna continue to live in those suits. Hydroponics farming would solve the problem. The Quarian fleet proved this already. Besides one of the briefings did said there was a world with dextro-amino acids life forms between the seven habitat locations.
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Post by armass81 on Mar 6, 2017 4:38:46 GMT
They would have the same problem as turians, finding a dextro dna livable planet among Heleus's few choices(which seem to be dwindling down), and how much rations does the Ai really have for these species, if a suitable planet is not found, I ask? Ofc if they find the planet, they could live there among turians, unless theres a huge star radiation or something thats tolerable to the turians but not quarian, unless they wanna continue to live in those suits. Hydroponics farming would solve the problem. The Quarian fleet proved this already. Besides one of the briefings did said there was a world with dextro-amino acids life forms between the seven habitat locations. Oh yeah forgot about that farming. Considering their immune systems they will still have hard time getting to live on any planet they find thats not Rannoch without those suits, maybe centuries. Also considering populations, im pretty sure AI has prepared something like artificial means, embryos and such, and growing them in tanks, so its just not going to be normal baby making.
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Post by SalMasRac on Mar 6, 2017 6:49:13 GMT
Just to play devils advocate, let's assume it was the fan reaction that caused them to change the setting. Consider an alternative universe where the endings as they were originally released are universally loved fans and praised by critics for their brilliance. It's still split about equally as to which is your favorite, but everyone has at least one they love. There are no flame wars or protests, so we're all still talking on the official forums. In fact, the devs are stopping by daily to bask in the never ending praise we give them there. Okay, scenario set up. It's time for the next Mass Effect game. Where do we go? What do we do? The endings are still vastly different outcomes, which the writers were careful to point out are all equally valid choices, with no real "good" or "bad" choice. Choosing one as canon will displease (to put put lightly) 2/3's of the fanbase. Setting aside the ending, several choices within the game have wildly different outcomes. Several civilizations can be effectively eradicated depending on the outcome of your choices including the geth, quarians, krogan, drell. hanar and batarains. Any direct continuation of the story is impossible without establishing a canon story that will displease the vast majority of fans. So, to put it bluntly, you are wrong. Regardless of the fan reaction to the endings, the writers are left in the same quagmire when it comes to continuing the story. If you want to blame anyone for the situation that the present writers found themselves in, blame the ME3 writers who ensured it would be virtually impossible to make a direct continuation of their story. The writers were the ones that "doomed" the quarians and, fittingly, they are the only ones that can "save" them, if they so choose. So you're telling me that I'm wrong because the fans would be angry at the endings and possibly choosing one as canon to continue the franchise in the milky way. Is that not just an extension of the anger the fans had anyway about the original endings? I'm not saying the writers are blameless. They did write themselves into a corner, but the fan base overreacted so negatively that they had to change the setting. Its not really playing devils advocate or making an assumption to say thats the reason they changed the setting. That was the reason they changed the setting. The developers have basically stated this a long time ago. The trilogy finished 5 years ago, does it really matter if they chose a canon ending now and learned from their mistakes for future games? I personally don't care too much about that myself because everyone played all three endings. We all need to move on. And if push came to shove, you could have had the next mass effect game so far into the future that eventually all three endings would merge. Mass effect are great at creating the illusion of choice in video games. For example, it didn't matter if you destroyed the collectors base or not in ME2. The IM was still using reaper tech in ME3. 1. The reapers were destroyed but the relays were repaired. Life continues and maybe some geth that were offline (maybe the heretics) escapted the destruction of artificial life or (insert technobabble here), not all quarian ships choose to join the fleet in engaging the geth, the krogan still had the genophage and they wouldnt be wiped out because of that. Thr genophage maintains a low population, it does not make the krogan go extinct. We don;t know anything about the hanar or drell (actually the drell were gonig to go exitnct no matter what) and some batarians didn't live in batarian space, such as the ones we see on the citadel in ME3. 2. Shepard takes control of the reapers and they rebuild the mass relay network and the rest of the galaxy. But eventually the reapers are dismantled because they are no longer needed and the shepard AI went offline once galactic peace was reestablished. You can dress it up, I can't really go into it in a few lines on this post. 3. Artifical and organic life merge and they understand each other completely. If you put the story far enough into the future, this will happen anyway. That ending was so vague as to what the merging of artificial and organic life meant that we don't really know what that means to the ME galaxy. I mean don't expect me to go into massive details to address every single item of minutia in this post about how they could have continued the game after the ME3 endings. Its not impossible. If you go 1,000 or 2,000 years into the future anything can happen. Look whats happened in the last 2000 years of our own civilisation. Were roman philosophers writing about how one day man would walk on the moon and establish colonies on mars and fly faster then sound? But the idea of starting the franchise in an entirely new galaxy was to escape the endings because of the fan reaction. And now thats what we got. A galaxy without quarians. A franchise possibly without quarians? If thats true, then they might as well be extinct because fans will not see them again. That's a heck of a lot of justification to insist that you were right about something that you were wrong about.
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Post by meeeps on Mar 6, 2017 11:12:17 GMT
Be aware of one fact, you could theoretically meet every other species from milky way. Who said, only the Andromeda Initiative got people there. Maybe we will also meet a Prophean colony. ;-)
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Mar 6, 2017 15:14:03 GMT
Because the ME3 ending was just fabulous Comments such as this for example killed off the quarian species and ensured their extinction in ME franchise. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Not necessarily as let's not forget that the Andromeda initiative set off before the Reaper war began so the quarian could show up we just don't know yet.
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Post by sgtsteel91 on Mar 6, 2017 17:40:20 GMT
The newest briefing mentions one of the Golden Worlds being Detro-Amino for Turian and Quarian colonists.
So expect to see Quarians on that planet.
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Post by maximusarael020 on Mar 6, 2017 18:23:45 GMT
The newest briefing mentions one of the Golden Worlds being Detro-Amino for Turian and Quarian colonists. So expect to see Quarians on that planet. Quarians confirmed!!
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Post by IllustriousT on Mar 6, 2017 18:32:32 GMT
Confirmed! WHOO HOO!
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Post by kino on Mar 6, 2017 18:39:57 GMT
Yeah, same here. While I was watching the briefing and I heard that part about Quarian colonists I almost started to clap...well, and I imagined the flurry it would cause on BSN.
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Post by Beerfish on Mar 6, 2017 18:41:52 GMT
I might be a bit cautious on this confirmation....we did see one Ark going down in flames in one screen shot did we not?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 18:42:54 GMT
I might be a bit cautious on this confirmation....we did see one Ark going down in flames in one screen shot did we not? I thought that was the Asari?
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Post by Beerfish on Mar 6, 2017 18:43:40 GMT
I might be a bit cautious on this confirmation....we did see one Ark going down in flames in one screen shot did we not? I thought that was the Asari? Was it? I didn't know if we ever got info on which one it was and who was on it.
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Post by IllustriousT on Mar 6, 2017 18:44:28 GMT
I might be a bit cautious on this confirmation....we did see one Ark going down in flames in one screen shot did we not? But...but...they have suffered enough. Don't do it Bioware!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 18:44:42 GMT
I thought that was the Asari? Was it? I didn't know if we ever got info on which one it was and who was on it. Yeah I'm a bit confused myself. I remember hearing it was the Asari that went down, but I'm not sure anymore.
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Post by legacyshep on Mar 6, 2017 19:01:41 GMT
I wonder if this confirmation today was just to get it out of the way that they will, in fact, be simply appearing in the game or if there will be a prominent Quarian character in the game?
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Post by Croatsky on Mar 6, 2017 19:13:02 GMT
I wonder if this confirmation today was just to get it out of the way that they will, in fact, be simply appearing in the game or if there will be a prominent Quarian character in the game? They outright stated in briefing video there are Quarian colonists. So more then one.
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