Chill Zone (The Tavetaan)

I know!! Ihhh.... All the hype all the time     I'm just giddy. Still moving forward with my PT just to keep from watching all the vids. Happy happy joy joy!

Cool

In another post you said there was 7 planets shown. Are these 7 planets the only planets in the game? Or did the video hint at the possibility of more?

Summoning Hrungr -- you may have already discussed this in the main ME twitter thread, but since I've been in the no-spoilers bunker for quite some time, I undoubtedly missed it. You've talked a bit about marketing of new games and roll-out strategies, favoring Bethesda's tight lid until 1 month before release.

How would you score Bioware for MEA so far?

I think they seem to have the lid on a little looser and also seem to have dumped a lot more gameplay on game journalists earlier than Bethesda did with FO4. Do you suppose that's to mitigate any fears people might have in buying the Part 2 of a franchise? Or maybe an adjustment for No Man's Sky tight lid that led to unfulfilled expectations? I mean, you have to try really hard not to be exposed to all sorts of reveals, and we're still 2+ weeks from launch. Is the flood of reveals mainly to set expectations at a more reasonable level? In other words, mostly defensive?

Looks like someone posted an MEA spoiler in the DA Twitter thread. I didn't read the whole thing but just caught a glimpse of what might be an Easter egg. Hope someone tells them to spoiler tag it, or they do on their own. I would, but that would involve going back to the thread. It's at the top of the last page, I think.

Only 2 more weeks.

Two more weeks, we can do it. We lasted this long

I believe melbella was referring to this post (and replies):

bsn.boards.net/post/360763/thread

I was expecting they would ramp up the content reveals and media involvement in the home stretch. At this point, they want to be in your face, in every major gaming news site, every day (or as close to that as possible). And gently nudge people to finish up those Horizon & Zelda playthroughs...

We have Pax this weekend, then Early Access in a little over a week, and then reviews, so I'm sure there were things they'd like to show now before the real deluge. But as you point out, marketing will adjust where they can to either try to address larger concerns, or (try to) turn people's attention to theseshinythingsoverhere!

Since they haven't tried this Bethesda-style of marketing before, I suspect this is also a kind of experiment for them (and maybe trying to improve on it). They're trying to figure out the sweet spot in pacing out content reveals so that the hype peaks at the just the right time, without going over and having people crash from hype fatigue. At the same time, while MEA is being released on more platforms, they're having to compete for media attention with 2 other games which they knew would be big, but then wound up being mega-hits. So, it's an interesting juggling act for the spotlight.

I do appreciate that BioWare is still keeping certain things under wraps (so far) for us to discover in-game. Hopefully, they'll stick to their guns on this.

I do think the gameplay reveals absolutely help manage people's expectations, especially since it was done late in development. And I'm so glad we didn't have a ton of vertical slices preceding this because you know it would have set all kinds of unrealistic expectations and probably gameplay that wouldn't have made the final cut.

So setting aside how I feel about the content itself, I think the pacing of the content reveals so far has been... pretty good. It's not an unmanageable amount to get your head around (yet). That said, I wish they hadn't allowed the media to show off the very beginning of the game though. I'd rather they held off until Early Access had started.

The final push is gonna be a bit more nebulous though. It is ramping up quite heavily and I think it's a safe bet we'll be buried under more content than we'll know what to do with in the last week & a half.

I'm a little curious how the released content has been received so far. I miss reading all of the salty threads.

I know! I miss reading all the threads, I miss talking about companions with other people. I miss watching fun videos from the people I follow on twitter. It is going to be complete Mass Effect overload to just be able to do all the fun things again!!



Ha ha, speaking of salty. I am still quite mad at Jacob for ME3, lol

Now it's been a few years. I just did the mission with saving the scientist last night. Current FemShep was there with Garrus who she is romancing and I am still salty, ha ha. Before you go to fix the com-towers you run past the room where Jacob is and he calls out "Shepard, I'm in here" and my FemShep goes "Nope nope nope" and just head straight for the towers. Being dumped by Jacob was just so much worse than when Alistair or Fenris dumped my little avatars.

Wonder what kind of trouble I will get into in Andromeda, really look forward to meeting the new crew. Considering how much I have enjoyed the romances with both Samantha Traynor and Cullen my favorite romance might very well be stationed on the ship. At least that leaves you free to bring any comp you wish to the current mission. If I am romancing one of the ones who comes with you I will drag them along to every single mission just to see if they get a extra romance-line.

Naturally.

I love X character, so of course I'm going to drag them into every stressful, grimy, terrifying, life-threatening situation that I can. :dumb:

That was something a bit freeing about non-squad/companion romances. Although I do miss just having them with me, it did help me drag somebody else along. And at least with Cullen/Steve I didn't feel like I was being cheated out of content either. Steve is even the shuttle pilot, so, you get him part-way on missions.

Fortunately, I also often work really well with the squad/companion LIs of my choosing so having them with me is also just smart.