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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    GTA Citadel

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    Metalbourne
  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Dark Souls Tuchanka

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    X-Com First Contact War

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    We don't have all of the milky way explored, why would i want to leave it? it's like heading into space before discovering the Americas.

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    First Contact War was lame and small and like 2 people died and it was like 1 week long and I don't know why people keep thinking it's Halo Reach

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    Assassin's Creed 75: Nope, We Still Haven't Resolved the Main Plot

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    A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Melding wrote: »
    We don't have all of the milky way explored, why would i want to leave it? it's like heading into space before discovering the Americas.
    so that we don't have to deal with the aftermath of the ending

    if it takes place entirely outside of the milky way what happened at the end doesnt have to be touched on

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    True, Melding

    No need to change galaxies

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Ninja Gaiden Kai Leng

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    Melding wrote: »
    We don't have all of the milky way explored, why would i want to leave it? it's like heading into space before discovering the Americas.
    so that we don't have to deal with the aftermath of the ending

    if it takes place entirely outside of the milky way what happened at the end doesnt have to be touched on

    two thirds of the possible endings would still have impact on anything after the ending, milky way or not.

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    a 2D cooperative platformer

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    i dont know what two you're thinking of

    thinking about it, i know that reject would affect things so you had better redo your fraction

  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    krogan kart racing

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Super Metroid Omega

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    simcitadel

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    i dont know what two you're thinking of

    thinking about it, i know that reject would affect things so you had better redo your fraction

    I never redid the game after the Please Stop Being Mad At Us DLC came out, so i forgot about the 4th option. It too has far reaching consequences.
    Everyone cyborgs, reapers come to help. Destroy would kind of be a big deal as well with all the mass effect relays exploding.

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    a game where you don't kill anybody and it's all just about traveling the galaxy and helping people rebuild

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    Turns out Bioware's licensed out the ME4 property to Japan

    And it's set in a space high school

    Will you date the hot-blooded Wrex-sempai or the sweet but shy Elcor-tan?

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    A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    no see here's how it should go
    you're the overseer of a space station located between the batarians and wherever those human colonies were they attacked- the skyllian verge?
    tensions are high between the humans and batarians
    you have your loyal crew, including a few minor characters from the prior games made into main characters (the "funny bumps" citadel groundskeeper, that elcor with the cigar)
    a batarian tailor, a volus bartender

    I could go on

    A single tear of joy rolls down my cheek at this idea

  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    Yo, does anyone have an xbox live trial they wouldn't mind giving away?

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    apart from the ending, there's another element of mass effect 3 that i think hurts the series going forward, even though i wouldn't necessarily call it a flaw

    in mass effect 1, you're thrown into this massive universe that has a ton of politics and history and lore and you're just one small part of an impossibly complex machine. But by Mass Effect 3, you're suddenly dealing with all of the major issues of the galaxy as parts of your story. The universe went from expanding far beyond the scope of Shepard's story to shrinking to exactly small enough to contain Shepard's story. So if they, say, set a game during the Morning War, it loses some oomph because you already know how the conflict between the Geth and the Quarians ends.

    If the series was always going to be nothing but a trilogy that would've been fine. But now that they're talking about a fourth game I think it's sort of problematic, and it would've behooved them to leave some elements of the universe in the background and allow future games to examine them more thoroughly without integrating them into the story of Shepard fighting the Reapers.

    Melding
  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    Why are we assuming that its going to be a direct sequel set immediately after the end of 3?

    Give it a few generations, new problems can arise.

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    In the new Mass Effect game you eat salarian eggs and send asteroids into their planets. Then you engage in a prolonged assassination campaign across the galaxy to eliminate them as a species.

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  • BugBoyBugBoy boy.EXE has stopped functioning. only bugs remainRegistered User regular
    So if they, say, set a game during the Morning War, it loses some oomph because you already know how the conflict between the Geth and the Quarians ends.

    they could always do a What If? scenario

    I would completely pay money for what if the quarians blew those stupid machines out of the sky forever

    I'd pay a bunch of money for that

    I bet dich would too

  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    a game set during the morning war would be incomprehensibly dark

    just cinematic after cinematic of geth platforms busting into quarian homes and slaughtering families
    exterminating entire crowds of refugees and leaving the bodies to rot

    opening being the camera slowly moving in towards a geth head wreathed in flames before cutting to shots of burning quarian cities filled with corpses

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    a game set during the morning war would be incomprehensibly dark

    just cinematic after cinematic of geth platforms busting into quarian homes and slaughtering families
    exterminating entire crowds of refugees and leaving the bodies to rot

    opening being the camera slowly moving in towards a geth head wreathed in flames before cutting to shots of burning quarian cities filled with corpses

    Nah, it'd be the second renaissance.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    no what you do is model it after terminator two

    minor rannoch spoilers

    that geth unit that fought to defend other quarians teams up with an adolescent quarian to fight their way to safety

    play as the geth until somepoint halfway through where the kid manages to barely save him, and then play as the kid quarian

    obviously it ends with the geth sacrificing itself to get the quarian to one of the escape ships, giving a thumbs up before being obliterated by an orbital laser

    and then if you want to be a dumb fucking asshole about it have the final twist be that that quarian's brain was analyzed by the geth and became the basis for Legion's AI structure or whatever stupid bullshit you want to make it important to the main plot in a spirit that suits Mass Effect 3's ending

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Sherlock Holmes is woken from his glass-walled, honey-filled coffin in the 22nd century and goes around solving mysteries

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    a game set during the morning war would be incomprehensibly dark

    just cinematic after cinematic of geth platforms busting into quarian homes and slaughtering families
    exterminating entire crowds of refugees and leaving the bodies to rot

    opening being the camera slowly moving in towards a geth head wreathed in flames before cutting to shots of burning quarian cities filled with corpses

    Nah, it'd be the second renaissance.

    that would be more in line with the quality of writing displayed re: the geth in ME3

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    Sherlock Holmes is woken from his glass-walled, honey-filled coffin in the 22nd century and goes around solving mysteries

    You joke

    But yes I would play this game

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    if they did set a game after mass effect 3 what i'd want is a second set of three games

    but not a trilogy

    instead, each game is the same basic thing, but each one reflects a different ending being taken

    same basic plot, many of the same characters, but things are vastly shuffled around in each version

    the main villain of Control Edition might be a squadmate in Synthesis Edition

    Travel in the Destroy Edition is difficult and challenging because the Mass Relays haven't been fully repaired yet, and you'll stumble upon star systems that have been severed from the galaxy for hundreds of years

    whereas in Control you can just hitch a ride on a Reaper

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    uh so with all these hypothetical games committing so much genocide I'm assuming the batarians have already been destroyed??

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Sherlock Holmes is woken from his glass-walled, honey-filled coffin in the 22nd century and goes around solving mysteries

    You joke

    But yes I would play this game

    I do not joke about these things, sir

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    if they did set a game after mass effect 3 what i'd want is a second set of three games

    but not a trilogy

    instead, each game is the same basic thing, but each one reflects a different ending being taken

    same basic plot, many of the same characters, but things are vastly shuffled around in each version

    the main villain of Control Edition might be a squadmate in Synthesis Edition

    Travel in the Destroy Edition is difficult and challenging because the Mass Relays haven't been fully repaired yet, and you'll stumble upon star systems that have been severed from the galaxy for hundreds of years

    whereas in Control you can just hitch a ride on a Reaper
    Mass Effect Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow

  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    they should just do a thing I think dubh suggested

    just base a game off of the multiplayer, which clearly takes place in a world similar in many respects to the one portrayed in the ME3 singleplayer but is distinctly different (always including friendly geth, these weird and superheroic N7 forces, turians with goddamn jetpacks)

    in this universe a long, bloody war against the reapers was ultimately won due to the tireless efforts of the galaxy's allied forces

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    no what you do is model it after terminator two

    minor rannoch spoilers

    that geth unit that fought to defend other quarians teams up with an adolescent quarian to fight their way to safety

    play as the geth until somepoint halfway through where the kid manages to barely save him, and then play as the kid quarian

    obviously it ends with the geth sacrificing itself to get the quarian to one of the escape ships, giving a thumbs up before being obliterated by an orbital laser

    and then if you want to be a dumb fucking asshole about it have the final twist be that that quarian's brain was analyzed by the geth and became the basis for Legion's AI structure or whatever stupid bullshit you want to make it important to the main plot in a spirit that suits Mass Effect 3's ending

    ok the more i think about this the more i want it to be real

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    yeah

    dubh and dich you guys should run this

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    they should just do a thing I think dubh suggested

    just base a game off of the multiplayer, which clearly takes place in a world similar in many respects to the one portrayed in the ME3 singleplayer but is distinctly different (always including friendly geth, these weird and superheroic N7 forces, turians with goddamn jetpacks)

    yes
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    in this universe a long, bloody war against the reapers was ultimately won due to the tireless efforts of the galaxy's allied forces

    lmao

    the game should have no win condition, also Shepard died at the end of ME2

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    the point of divergence is that in the multiplayer universe there is no shepard, although events played out mostly the same

    ultimately it was garrus who tracked down saren, discovered ilos, and that whole deal

    as there was no lazarus project, cerberus was free to spend its vast resources on swarms of giant robots and space ninjas


    the collectors were defeated by firing a single N7 destroyer through the omega 4 relay

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