a whole squad of just absolutely insufferable pieces of shit who make everything about their own issues and you literally can't even tell them you dont like them
Without the Mass Effect Relays, transit between systems is much slower, big carrier ships ferry hundreds of small ships like pre-rail caravans - as smaller ships take thousands of jumps to cross the void, and are easy prey for pirates.
You are a Spectre in the Terminus Systems, where a new threat is brewing. Alliance command does what they can to keep the peace, but their ships take weeks to traverse their patrol routes, the Batarians are preparing for a new war, and an enigmatic new movement demands freedom from the systems alliance.
The game is a sci-fi roleplaying action game with old west Marshal vibes, central governance is tepid, civilization comes every month with the caravan
Yeah, I've always hated the idea in media that you have to always be raising the stakes for sequels/follow-ups. Make a compelling story in an interesting world, and the stakes are merely a byproduct of the setting, not the main draw. I don't need to always fight Universe Destroying Threat #17 to enjoy a game.
Threats don't need to be galaxy-ending to be interesting or tell interesting stories. That was even the point of Dragon Age 2 and what part of the plan for DA4 was before they had to change it; setting a story in a persistent place that changed over time.
For Mass Effect obviously you do need to have some kind of space travel but you can focus it on smaller, more intimate stakes.
Me4 is andromeda. It wasn’t that good. You can really just play any other BioWare game that was made in the last ten years to see how me5 was most likely going to be
I wasnt even thinking of ME5, i was still holding out hope for ME4.
Mainly because they FAFO that Andromeda sucked, so going back to numbered games made me think they saw what they did wrong and were locking in to bring a real ME game to us.
Don't worry. Someone will buy the IP and sell it to everybody who wants to make a mobile or gacha game out of it. In the end you will beg for them to let it die.
The trilogy's recent collection is good enough on its own. The ending was initially controversial, but is more or less fine as is now. Time to let it go.
I mean, it wasn't an awful game. Just mediocre with some highlights. Still, after the OG trilogy it felt like a spin-off at best. Which, I guess, it was.
Then you should be happy this BioWare is not making a sequel. Remember dragon age veilguard was not just a bad game, it was so bad it killed all interest in its franchise
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u/MookiTheHamster 8h ago
I don't want mass effect to die..