Mass Effect 4 Is Extremely Diverse And Beautiful

Mass Effect is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most beautifully realised pieces of fiction ever created. Be it the huge sweeping landscapes of a distant moon that would suck the air from your lungs, or the mind blowing arches of the Presidium, there’s no denying its near tangible beauty.

[SaveFerris]

Show us. Don't just tell us.

[otherZinc]

@SaveFerris,
Agreed, talk is cheap! Although I believe them.

However,
Make it like Mass Effect 2. Where I can recruit assassins & others that will fight with me to the death!

[SaveFerris]

Yes! Also with the option to romance said assassins if you want.

[Tito08]

Nah, they should make it like Mass Effect 4, it's own game.

[Smok91]

"Although I believe them"

Of course you do.

[CaptainObvious878]

For a moment their I thought they meant SJW diverse, not location wise diverse.

Good to know they're not listening to a group of people where most of them have no intention of buying the game.

[mixelon]

Umm.. Bioware? It'll be ridiculously diverse in that way too. It's sort of their thing.

Romance all of the things!

[wietkacz]

i cant wait that long :(

[ChrisW]

Seriously! Show us! But if you're only going to tell us, don't use Twatter with it's limited letter count. Tell us more!!!

[garrettbobbyferguson]

Why are we even approving a twitter post? It's not a news source.

[HonestDragon]

Agreed. This message is like EA's conference at E3 all over again. You need to walk the walk, BioWare.

[Software_Lover]

RPG please. I want my weapon and ammo choices to actually matter in battle. Thank you.

[slasaru01]

They will give you the choices: homosexual of straight

[Software_Lover]

It's sad, but that is probably more important to them lol.

[Aloren]

They did actually matter in 3. Maybe not so much in 2, but ME3 actually put back in a lot of RPG elements : a lot more guns than in 2, weapon mods, weapon upgrades, weapon weight that changed cooldown of powers, and all these while keeping ammo mods like in ME2 (thought in a slightly different form)...

[Halo2ODST2]

ME3 had less rpg elements than any of the previous games

[Aloren]

Well, I don't know what you call "RPG elements", but the leveling system, the armor customization, the weapons, the mods, were better in 3 than in 2.

[AndrewLB]

And in Mass Effect 3, Bioware managed to take all those hundreds of painstakingly calculated decisions you made to ensure the best possible outcome.... and threw them all into the garbage can, gave gamers the middle finger, and released a DLC that only made people more angry that they decided to forget about you fighting the reapers, made the illusive man the antagonist, then introduced the space brat as the MAIN antagonist... followed by picking one of three endings.

A friend who I grew up with works for Bioware and told me that Casey Hudson literally sent home most of the development team AND the writers... and he and a few developers hacked together the final parts of the game starting with the assault on Illusive Man's space station. Why? Because their master Electronic Arts needed the game released "no matter what" to help pad the quarterly profit numbers.

I've always maintained that those last sections of the game seemed as if the entire development team went on vacation and told the new intern who had not played either ME1 or ME2, that he is in charge and has to finish things up.

[showtimefolks]

please don't tease us, just show something meaningful soon. btw when will this most likely come out fall 2015 or spring 2016

[Ikki_Phoenix]

we need something alright...i just cant sit and wait till summer its too dam long

[showtimefolks]

true and i also believe that ME4 has been in development for a while, ME3 came out in March 2012. SO a big part of the team was done with ME in October-November 2011

so they started thinking about ME4 in 2011 and most likely had plans even before than. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if ME4 is a fall 2015 or very early 2016 title

[CorndogBurglar]

Considering we haven't seen anything aside from concept art, i'm guessing 2016 sometime. Probably late 2016.

[CloudRap]

I dont understand the praise Inquisition got its worse than DA2 imo. Too much filler quest and primitive combat make it feel like a cheap korean mmo. Kill 10 rams to feed a bunch of lazy villagers, they would
put socialist propaganda in a video game lol.

[Ikki_Phoenix]

is this guy serious ?

[WitWolfy]

Yes Im like 3 hours in and THE WHOLE GAME IS A SIDE QUEST. They shouldve called it SIDE QUEST Inqusition.

[Dewitt]

Wit...Leave the Hinterlands before you day anything.

[Kingdomcome247]

I really like the game. I'm making a concerted effort to get into RPGs this gen. I have minimal experience with games like this. I don't know what I'm doing a lot of the time with my party's gear, though. I feel like I spend more time managing inventory, etc... than I do actively playing. Am I just playing it wrong? (Extremely probable)

[Killz4Twinkies]

I wouldnt say that you are playing them wrong. To make a great RPG - the player should have the option to play the way they want to play. For example i will spend forever tinkering with armor/weapon customization while the next person may just equip the newest item then be on their way to continue the story/exploring/harvesting whatever their preference is.

[Kingdomcome247]

Thanks man. I'm starting to notice that there are areas I probably shouldn't go just yet lol. I guess I gain XP and then swing back. A run of the mill dragon (I think. Fereldan Frostback) tore me up. I'm a level 9 mage currently, I believe.

[zidane1341]

okay DA2 was a boring snoozefest. You are ovviously not past the first area if you think the gam is full of things like "kill 10 rams" nonstop. 100 hours in and about halfway through the story, and it is NOWHERE NEAR that bad, stop being a drama queen. The combat also gets better when your past the first few levels. not the best combat ever but its the same damn thing as the first couple.

[jznrpg]

DA2 was close to garbage, I really enjoy Inquisition , 100 hours in on massacre difficulty and still going. The ere are some things I would change but overall I am happy.

[Kingdomcome247]

I have one hype train ticket at will call.

[Roccetarius]

Sites creating hype where there is none, because nothing has been shown off so far to justify it. Let's just wait and see before diving into it, shall we?

[Ikki_Phoenix]

after inquisition i have no doubt mass effect 4 will be epic grand scale

just let bioware do their thing ea just like inquisition..dont break their ball let them work

[Linkz973]

This is pretty much the "just the tip" version of a teaser not even a screen shot???

[WitWolfy]

Typical internet click bait BS promising everything but showing abosultely NOTHING.

[GravelerMagnitude9]

Yes there are a lot of side quest but it's cool. The characters are done well too, especially Sera and her "Too many Breeches".
I'm playing as a rogue elf with daggers, though I hate daggers. Wish I was a Mage .

[JoeMcCallister]

Is it too much to get the grenades from ME1 back? Love those death frisbees

[Fez]

I would love to see no man's sky style exploration coupled with mass effect's great combat, missions and story. That sort of fluidity is what 'next gen' should be about!

[Ninver]

My wallet will be the judge of that.

[Reefskye]

After DA:I I have higher hopes for the new Mass effect, going to be hard to top Shepard though.

[Godmars290]

So long as the story comes off as being complete, rather than hobbled together.

[Knuckle Duster]

All games are astonishingly beautiful until the final product!

[Godmars290]

Because modern games are oversold with CG renders and high rez monitors most people don't own.

Not that 8 to 32 bit commercials where any better. But then again the worst they ever did was show reaction to games while not actually showing the games.

[Ryan741]

Looking forward to playing this early thanks to ea access.

[LightDiego]

Let's wait, but Dragon Age: Inquisition it's a great game, a masterpiece from Bioware.
I really hate EA, but i like and respect Bioware.

[GeisT]

Lets not butcher this game with a hair brained ending kthanx

[Agent_hitman]

Mass Effect 1-2-3, one of my favorite games of all time. With that being said, I'm excited for this game too.

[aLiEnViSiToR]

We need some visual information, like short (non-CGI) trailer :D !!!

[Kal853]

I don't give a damn if it's beautiful - poisonus fish are beautiful. Is the game good? I give them MAJOR props for turning things around with how excellent DA:I is, but it'l be harder with ME 4. They dumbed that way down to appeal to the casual shooter fans, and I wonder how much reign EA will give them to move away from that, and toward the ME 1 style, rpg dominant shooter. ME 3, beyond having a terrible ending, had almost zero rpg elements. It was basically Gears of War Lite. BioWare have some pretty smart people, and they've been taking of our concerns and complaints to heart lately, so I'm hopeful for a reinvigorated ME 4, but the proof is in the pudding. They're definitely headed in the right direction, though.

[hockeyglory]

Hey EA, anything can look beautiful..... in a screenshot.

ME, BF, even that god awful MoH Warfighter looked good in bullshot images. Put the games in motion and it's a grainy, stuttering, screen tearing mess.

And don't forget Mass Effect's texture pop in.

I'd swear in Mass Effect 1, I could literally count the frames per second when driving in the Mako.

[susanto1228]

The hype machine is in full gear.....ohhh we just can't wait EA for you to SHOW us how great ME4 will be just like ME3 right....right