Yes. Please make this more like ME1 and put more RPG elements in it. ME2 was barely an RPG at all.
Wait. I just looked at the summary for this... if it's true, you'll be rallying more people together in this game to fight the Reapers -_-
That's basically the exact same thing you did in ME2. Let's hope this is only true to some degree.
Mass Effect 3
Game » consists of 19 releases. Released Mar 06, 2012
When Earth begins to fall in an ancient cycle of destruction, Commander Shepard must unite the forces of the galaxy to stop the Reapers in the final chapter of the original Mass Effect trilogy.
"Earth Is Burning" In Mass Effect 3
Hot damn I had a feeling Earth was going to come under attack in this one. I knew there was a reason they never let you visit there and only gave you teasing images.
Here's hoping that the world doesn't look as pre-fab and mass-produced as the rest of the Mass Effect planets. I wanna see some old-style architecture.
" and actually kind of gets me interested in reading some of the Mass Effect books... "I can really recommend the Mass Effect books. Often videogame related books feels like paid fan-fiction, but following Saren and Anderson in the first book felt 'Mass Effect-y'.
I'm actually hoping they copy Assassin's Creed Brotherhood a bit and let us use the very large supporting cast on missions (the post-game in Shadow Broker plays with this somewhat, but not very deeply). That way we could be involved in all those other places without actually having to be there. As for Earth, though ... I'm unsure about this. We've always been able to visit, but other than a short mission on the Moon and a dumb Uranus joke, there's never been much to do there. I'm not opposed to this, but I'd rather not have a large amount of the game on Earth.
Now, immediately my mind is already working, and I'm wondering ... would they be bold enough to destroy Earth outright at the beginning? Leave the off-world humans the only ones left to survive? I mean, this is the team that blew up the Normandy and spaced Commander Shepard in the first few minutes of Mass Effect 2. That would be a great setup for future non-Shepard Mass Effect games. But no, they won't do that. That's be pretty cool, though. Humans could save the day and yet be removed from their dominant position at the same time...
Considering my love for the previous games I actually feel like I'm already at peak excitement for the third one. In fact, I was excited about ME3 before I had even finished ME2, although I suppose that's just another reflection of my love for the series (have I mentioned that?).
It always seemed a bit strange that you could never have any interaction with the home worlds (apart from the Moon mission in ME1), although I suppose it just wasn't necessary or relevant to the story, so the idea that we will have the chance to see Earth, whatever state it's in, would be an exciting addition to the series. Looking forward to hearing more info in the future. Don't let us down, Bioware!
Also,
@FreakAche said:
What he said! :)" @DoomedMello12 said:
" @PlasmaBeam44: I assume they are referring to the Collectors, considering they are a race of machines. "Do you mean the Reapers? The Collectors weren't machines, they were genetically modified Protheans. "
Not exactly unannounced considering that they said a trailer would be shown for this game at the VGA's a few weeks ago.
That should be pretty fun, yea espeically because nobody really cared about the Council after the first game. Heck, I didn't even care about them in the first game anyways :)
Renegade FTW!
"Very hyped for this game but it better not involve recruiting new teammates because I've already done that twice now. "
Nope. This time, I bet you, you are going to recruit entitre civilizations to join your side.
As far as I remember humans are in no way in a dominant position, in fact they tend to get bitched on quite a bit by the other races in the Mass Effect universe. They're more like young upstarts. Also, the game description says Shepherd must mount an attack to re-take Earth, it won't get destroyed in the first few minutes. On top of that, the Bioware guys seems intelligent enough not to use the same game starting hook again, like you said we've already seen a main character die in the first 2 minutes.
As for my opinion of this, I'm stoked. It's a little weak to learn plot this way instead of an epic trailer, but any info about Mass Effect is good info to have.
@mracoon said:
" Very hyped for this game but it better not involve recruiting new teammates because I've already done that twice now. "I think it will be more along the lines of using people you already recruited to help convince other races to join the fight. The setup is pretty transparent: we know the races in play, their conflicts, and have allies in each of them. The question will be how to resolve, say, the Quarian-Geth conflict (three obvious options: recruit either by aiding one against the other, resulting in either the Quarians or Geth as allies, or somehow resolving the situation that allies both of them with you). This structure has been pretty clear from the beginning of the first game.
I know there's a lot of disappointment with this structure, and I suppose they could have changed things up a bit, but it's not all that different from most other games, where we're forced through the motions of recruiting/persuading people to join up for a final battle. In fact, just about every RPG is like this. Collect the Eight Sacred Objects so as to destroy the Big Bad Guy. Yadda yadda. Not terribly original, I know.
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