MEA vs Star Citizen vs Elite Dangerous

Sooooo, comparing one space sim that is out to a space sim that isn't out, and a third-person shooter space opera that also isn't out?

There is no milestone called alpha beta.  It's either in alpha or beta.  You're comparing different games across vastly different genres.  Don't expect the answer you want. 

bioware guys compare MEA with No Man's Sky.
They talk about "no loading screen" in No Man's Sky.

Yeah, I heard. It'll be limited of course but I'd rather keep my sub. I get new deals via email at least once every 90 days.

they talk about No Man's Sky.just for the the idea "no loading screen".
when ship fly from space to planet,then ship landing,no loading screen at all.

in DA:I we got so many loading screen,& ME3 too.
So they study how other game to it.

i like the star citizen's idea,from space to landing,then player walk out from the ship,then go into underground complex.
no loading screen at all.

& i think we may see that in MEA also.

From this German Inside PlayStation interview (just Flynn)

This guy endlessly says stupid shit. I can't believe he's worked at Bioware for so long.

ME is third person squad shooter. Wtf does VR have to do with that.

from e3 2016 video,1:08~1:09.We saw mako came out from Tempest.
So i think they can do the same as Star Citizen Alpha 3.0 video.

I think technically speaking these are very different things.

When you drive the Mako out of the Tempest in MEA, you'll likely be controlling the Mako on a map that has the Tempest on it, but that Tempest will just be a big object, a feature of the map, not a functional in-game entity. You could interact with the Tempest's door which then would load the map "Tempest Interior" and let you walk around inside it. The outside map and the Tempest's interior will likely be separate "levels" that will have a brief loading screen during transition.

In Star Citizen, big ships (i.e. anything bigger than a single seater) are functional objects have their own internal physics grid (so the inside can have artificial gravity), and the game engine needs to seamlessly switch your character between physics grids whenever you enter or exit a ship.

There's a reason they made such a big deal about the character waving from the elevator and the Freelancer pilot turning his ship around and them being able to see each other doing it. The Freelancer pilot was sitting in the Freelancer's internal physics grid, the guy on the elevator was inside the outpost's physics grid, and in between them was the "outside" grid (space and planet surface). It required a heavy modification of the CryEngine to make that possible in addition to seemingly small stuff like 64 bit coordinates (because space is huge and you need big numbers).

As far as I know, Frostbite doesn't support any of that, and frankly, it doesn't need to, it handles games that aren't Star Citizen just fine. It is likely possible to make something in MEA that *looks* like the SC Alpha 3.0 planetary surface demo, but it will likely be a scripted sequence, not functional gameplay.

And plus, having no loading screens has nothing to do with two pieces of software being similar. What it has to do with is how much horsepower the hardware has.

lol, this is like saying will my future pet dog be more cute than my future pet cat and pet rabbit...

E:D while very well executed is still an empty, shallow shell and will take years of content/feature updates to round it out.

We still know barely anything about SQ42, although I am willing to bet a lot that it will totally destroy the singleplayer story of MEA. If MEA even has a half decent story to begin with...

SC Persistent Universe will also totally destroy MEA in most areas - already with alpha 2.5 and previews to 2.6 and 3.0 it is shaping up to be all it has been promised to be. Exploration in MEA... lol... I have no expectations regarding this. Granted we still know very little if anything about the Pioneer (exploration) profession and associated gameplay in SC PU, however I am confident that MEA's "exploration" will be nothing in comparison. The only advantage is that we will have MEA to play before those mechanics are properly implemented in SC, which is a good thing otherwise it might be difficult to enjoy if both were fully fledged side by side.

The only things MEA might have that neither SC or ED will is:
- action rpg/fps power based combat (tech/biotic), especially biotic which won't exist in those games.
- multiplayer as alien characters (ok we might get playable Xi'An or Banu in several years time, but I like Mass Effect's alien species better)
- be available as a complete game sooner (because neither ED nor SC PU will be anywhere near "finished" by the time MEA comes out. SQ42 might be released by Q1/Q2 2017 however)

I also expect MEA's supporting characters in the story to be as good as Bioware usually does (ie Mordin, Legion, Wrex...), and so will be as good as, if not better than any supporting characters in SQ42 cast.

Otherwise I fully expect SC Persistent Universe to totally eclipse both ED and MEA as time continues to move onwards.

I'm still certain that if I buy MEA, it will 99% be for the multiplayer combat (could never imagine saying that with this franchise what is it since ME1, nearly 9 years ago?...)

In this comparison Mass Effect feels the odd man out. It's always been about story and characters.

Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous are space sims that are meant to be universes for you to play around in. Between those two as an exploration fan Elite never really did much for me. It had some nice looking stuff in the systems, but you quickly see just about everything there is to see.

Star Citizen is promising a lot right now. More than any game ever has probably. If it can actually pull that off to a decent degree it's going to be absolutely amazing.

However it's a fine line between pulling it off and screwing it up in an epic fashion.