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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.

SaveFerris3498d ago

Show us. Don't just tell us.

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otherZinc3498d ago

@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!

SaveFerris3498d ago

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

Tito083498d ago

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

Smok913497d ago (Edited 3497d ago )

"Although I believe them"

Of course you do.

CaptainObvious8783498d ago

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.

mixelon3498d ago

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

Romance all of the things!

wietkacz3497d ago

i cant wait that long :(

ChrisW3498d ago

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!!!

garrettbobbyferguson3498d ago

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

HonestDragon3498d ago

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

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Software_Lover3498d ago

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

slasaru013498d ago

They will give you the choices: homosexual of straight

Software_Lover3498d ago

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

Aloren3498d ago

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)...

Halo2ODST23498d ago

ME3 had less rpg elements than any of the previous games

Aloren3498d ago

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.

AndrewLB3497d ago

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.

showtimefolks3498d ago

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

Ikki_Phoenix3498d ago

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

showtimefolks3498d ago

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

CorndogBurglar3498d ago

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

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CloudRap3498d ago (Edited 3498d ago )

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.

WitWolfy3498d ago (Edited 3498d ago )

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

Dewitt3498d ago

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

Kingdomcome2473498d ago

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)

Killz4Twinkies3498d ago

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.

Kingdomcome2473498d ago

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.

zidane13413498d ago

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.

jznrpg3498d ago

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.

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Mass Effect 4 and The Challenges of Canonicity in Choice-Based Games

Game Rant Writes "Canonicity can be a tricky nut to crack in franchises with continuing narratives, and that's something Mass Effect 4 will need to contend with."

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just_looken467d ago (Edited 467d ago )

wow gamerant forgot mass effect 4 came out years ago number 6 and 7 were cancelled.

The new mass effect which can be called number 5 will not have any of your choices why you might ask?

Well dragon age keep were your choices from number one can been seen in number 3 got unplugged from number one and number 2 is finicky.

Dragon age on pc requires a mod to get past the server login and non of your choices get uploaded to the keep even the dlc no longer works sense it needs a server check.

On xbox i teseted this only though local saves i was able to transfer choices from one to too but 0 of one dlc would work.

So if the more popular dragon age series is in this state why would they care about your mass effect choices?

Oh and that remaster that was tossed out still has day one issues and number 3 is still hard to play on pc do to lighting issues and ram limits imposed from 2014.

My expectations for the next bioware 2.0 titles is very low.

phoenixwing467d ago

They should redo the main trilogy

just_looken467d ago (Edited 467d ago )

They should redo the dragon age trilogy for sure on pc DA1 the ui is messed up sense it was for 4080p/720i days back in 2005. Getting to run is also very hard

The only way to play dragon age one is via xbox one backwards compatable state.

The ps3 version of dragon age one is pre throphy/ in game xmb so it has the freezing/crashing issues or just will not run.

just_looken467d ago

Well i am not American so please enlighten me on usa education before your country invades mine and forces us into your society

GhostScholar467d ago (Edited 467d ago )

@ just_looken

Did I mention education? Never said America did have negative points. I know for all you “enlightened” people you think everything is either all good or all bad, but in reality that’s not how life works. We have a government that traded a known terrorist for a basketball player who moonlights as a drug dealer. We aren’t perfect by a long shot. If you want to go political though how about your leader leaving his own country when the truck driver strike happened?

porkChop467d ago

Dragon Age is not more popular than Mass Effect.

shinoff2183467d ago

Yea I read that and was like I've heard way more people talk mass effect compared to dragon age. Personally I'm more into mass effect. It's got the whole dope ass sci fi thing going on while dragon age has the same old medieval thing

gold_drake467d ago

andromeda is a spin off tjo and not considerd a numvered title. as it has to 99% nothing to do with the trilogy.

i think they need to make the destroy perfect ending canon.
we need more of shepard. haha.

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Mass Effect 4 Can Explore Post-Apocalyptic Themes

Game Rant Writes "Mass Effect 4 will likely treat Mass Effect 3’s Destroy ending as canon, and this gives it an opportunity to explore a post-apocalyptic galaxy."

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Rebel_Scum620d ago

Destroy is the best choice. Bring the relays back over the course of a new trilogy, maybe right at the end of the first game. Say it was Cerberus, Salarians or a bunch of keepers that created a relay.

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Mass Effect 4 Needs to Make One Major Change with the Protagonist

Game Rant Writes "Mass Effect 4 has plenty of opportunities to change a lot about the franchise, particularly in the protagonist players can create."

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BrainSyphoned620d ago

Tons of opportunities since most anyone who made it special is long gone

ClayRules2012620d ago

“Mass Effect 4 Needs to Make One Major Change with the Protagonist“

To make sure the main characters face isn’t tired with the released game?