BioWare: Mass Effect MMO "makes sense"

By Robert Purchese Published 11 April, 2011

Would be "amazing" to "live there".

A Mass Effect MMO is not only a possibility, teased BioWare series overlord Casey Hudson - it "makes sense".

"We've been trying to think of a way that makes sense for people to experience Mass Effect with their friends. We haven't yet come up with a way to do that, so we don't have anything to announce at this time. But, obviously, multiplayer is something we want to do more of in the future as a company," Hudson told Game Informer (via VG247).

"A lot of people say that they want to see an MMO - that kind of makes sense for this universe.

"Part of what you're trying to do is save the universe so you can live in it. That's part of the promise for any great IP. It has to be a world worth saving. Mass Effect has that quality to it.

"If you get rid of the Reapers and win that," he added, "wouldn't it be amazing to just live on the Citadel or just take a ship to Omega? That makes sense."

His comments were made as BioWare announced that there will be no multiplayer in Mass Effect 3.

There will, however, be deeper RPG and equipment/weapon customisation elements in the third game. You'll also witness the return of familiar faces - Ashley Williams and Kaidan Alenko included.

The Reapers: grim.

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  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #1 1 year ago

    You'd pretty much have to cannibalise the market from your ostensibly quite similar Star Wars MMO, though, wouldn't you?

  • karooo #2 1 year ago

    Just concentrate on Mass Effect 3, thanks.

  • Erinan #3 1 year ago

    I for one would love this.

  • Eraysor #4 1 year ago

    Wouldn't sell as well as Old Republic, but I think it'd be better.

  • StolenGlory #5 1 year ago

    It would be more 'amazing' if you resisted the urge to be honest.

  • vx-chemical #6 1 year ago

    It would suck!

    Stop destroying great franchises by making them MMO

  • ChthonicEcho #7 1 year ago

    If you get rid of the Reapers and win that...

    Cute.

  • InternetRed #8 1 year ago

    it would be interesting, but I'm slowly going off MMO's.

    "Oh no! Our colony on X is being attacked! Please go kill 3 Krogan Warlords, and I will give you a shiny gun!."

    If they can do it right (and I'm not sure how to do an MMO right, it's always a grind-fest with quests that seem silly when you consider that you and thousands of other people will do the same quest), then I'd love it.

  • metalangel #9 1 year ago

    Would you still try and nickel and dime us in the MMO Ass Effect, though?

    Sorry, you can't use this vendor unless you buy the DLC. You can't go on this raid unless you buy the DLC.

  • Whitster #10 1 year ago

    Personally I like the idea, if only because it's be a MMORPG that wouldn't involve endless clicking on things.

  • Markitron #11 1 year ago

    I'll reserve judgement until TOR comes out. If they can actually deliver a story-based MMO then it makes sense that Mass Effect should follow.

  • HenryFitz #12 1 year ago

    Say no to MMOs, kids.

    The elusive unified field theory of sci-fi gaming is some combination of Elite, Mass Effect and fighting people with glowing swords. Also, extra-terrestrial rumpy-pumpy. Bioware could merge sci-fi gaming's greatest genres into one synergistic masterwork.

    Presumably they'll ditch that in favour of space-armour DLC, credit farming and microtransactions.

  • AphoticCosmos #13 1 year ago

    How about you continue to make non-MMO Mass Effect games, and we get on with our lives?

  • jstar #14 1 year ago

    The day Bioware woke up thinking that Mass Effect was an amazing new sci fi world was a fucking shit day.

    It's the only sci fi rpg in the market. The only one. It has no competition. It's like saying Barrack Obama is the best Barrack Obama ever.

    I hate that you lot seem to like it, I hate that you think it has a good story and I hate that Bioware now wear an air of superiority because they think they have created a modern day classic. It's not. It's shit. I cry blood whenever I hear a whisper of Bioware's dialogue or have to expose myself to their ponderous, tired and unoriginal storytelling. It is frankly laughable that as a company they are heralded as the kings of storytelling in the games industry.

    The shooting's good though. Shame they got everything else from the RPGs for Dummies book.

    Lean forwards, lean back. Do I need to say anything more? I'm not 12.

    Get some fucking taste!!!

    Edited by jstar at 11/04/11 @ 10:59

  • tomjoadsghost #15 1 year ago

    It is a great idea and the universe is certainly expansive enough to support it, its just worth remembering that a huge proportion of the people who play traditional ME games wont want to play an MMO version and they'll be starting from square one with everyone else.

    or more succinctly: MEh

  • Eraysor #16 1 year ago

    "I'm not 12."

    You sure about that? It's cool to hate!

  • Whitster #17 1 year ago

    @jstar

    Ever heard of Phantasy Star, Lost Planet, etc?
    Edited by Whitster at 11/04/11 @ 11:38

  • tomjoadsghost #18 1 year ago

    @jstar: i can understand that kind of reaction when you've enjoyed a few games in a series and then it goes off the rails, but i just dont get how you could have had so much invested in this series to be this bitter form the onset.

  • jstar #19 1 year ago

    No Eraysor I don't think it's cool to hate.

    I just think it's frankly very sad that a game with a bog standard and dull sci fi setting, a frankly terrible story populated with bland characters and sub standard 3rd person shooting mechanics has become the darling of the industry. it tells me that the people who champion it have no taste and have never read a good book.

    Go and read some Roger Zelazny, Alistair Reynolds and some Azimov and then come back to me.

    If like me you have played pretty much every major RPG that has been made in the last 15 years or so you will realise that apart from some pretty graphics, a rather over used morality meter and actual voice acting (from shocking actors) the game of Mass Effect is indistinguishable from those I played when I was yet to grow any hair on my balls.

    The quests are the same, the conversations are the same, the structure of the game is the same. You still have to do the same inane tasks so you can make it to the back room of the club. There is still the same awkward adolescent depiction of the night club complete with 'strippers' and still the same red shirt characters that you know are going to die.

    It's not fucking good enough. I'm not 12, I'm 30. The genre has not progressed at all in nearly a decade. I've had enough, I want more. I think we as gamers deserve it and it fucks me off that you lot seem happy to repeatedly play the same thing over and over again.
    Edited by jstar at 11/04/11 @ 11:19

  • MojoDex #20 1 year ago

    Not sure about this myself, I of course don't like multiplayer at all. Am i imagining things or did they mention a Mass Effect fps was possible a while back in similar fashion?

  • jstar #21 1 year ago

    @tomjoadsghost

    My investment is in the rpg genre as a whole. ME is just the focus of my ire at this specific moment. And to be honest many other moments because of it's current status in the industry.

  • geeza2020 #22 1 year ago

    jstar "I hate that you lot seem to like it, I hate that you think it has a good story and I hate that Bioware now wear an air of superiority because they think they have created a modern day classic"

    Guy's got anger management issues. Its a multi-million selling video-game franchise, its not someone getting off with your girlfirend or anything. Get over it.

    Oh and had to get this in:

    "It's not fucking good enough. I'm not 12, I'm 30. The genre has not progressed at all in nearly a decade. I've had enough, I want more. I think we as gamers deserve it and it fucks me off that you lot seem happy to repeatedly play the same thing over and over again"

    Shall I call you a waaaambulance? You dont "deserve" anything you fuckwit, how much have you put into the running and growth of Bioware? Nothing? if you dont like it, dont buy it and keep your opinions to yourself.
    Edited by geeza2020 at 11/04/11 @ 11:25

  • silversun #23 1 year ago

    Im not so sure about this to be honest , mmo games are a risk and when you get a game like mass effect done well as a great game , or knight of old republic (stars wars one) and suddenly want turn them into mmo games when it would be better to make a new non mmo game , i will try out starwars when it comes out but this is a bad long term stratagy for successful games im my view.
    Edited by silversun at 11/04/11 @ 11:23

  • bdc #24 1 year ago

    KACHING! $_$; more money for the money god

  • jstar #25 1 year ago

    @geeza2020

    "Guy's got anger management issues. Its a multi-million selling video-game franchise, its not someone getting off with your girlfirend or anything. Get over it."

    So when things sell over a million copies it then becomes illegal to have an opinion about them. Prick.

    "Shall I call you a waaaambulance? You dont "deserve" anything you fuckwit, how much have you put into the running and growth of Bioware? Nothing? if you dont like it, dont buy it and keep your opinions to yourself. "

    WE deserve. WE, not I you fucking moronic troll. We as gamers who are being spoon fed the same shit over and over again. Shit that you seem perfectly happy to keep slapping down your gappy aids ridden mouth.

    And this is a fucking comments forum you decrepit retard. A place where people go to share opinions. What the fuck are you doing here? Take a wrong turn at scatlovers and doggers r us? Piss off you thick twat.
    Edited by jstar at 11/04/11 @ 11:32

  • Anciegher #26 1 year ago

    Just make sure it's open world and action and you'll have a customer in me.

  • Markitron #27 1 year ago

    @jstar

    I'm not trying to rile you up or anything, but hating the fact that other people enjoy something is completely immature. And an awful lot of people like Mass Effect. To each his own

  • StolenGlory #28 1 year ago

    "What the fuck are you doing here? Take a wrong turn at scatlovers and doggers r us? Piss off you thick twat."

    Stay classy.

  • Razz #29 1 year ago

    Jstar I agree with some of your conclusions, but you need to show more opinion and less anger from the outset should you wish to be taken seriously here. Eraysor et al are mostly responding to your anger.

  • spekkeh #30 1 year ago

    I like the idea of persistent online worlds, but I don't like MMORPGs for some reason.

    L'enfer c'est les autres. There's always a bigger neckbeard that does everything you do only better, making it a worthless endeavor for time-challenged people like me. If only they'd make an MMO game where leveling meant specializing (so getting better at one thing, but getting markedly worse at another), I would be interested. After all, you don't see the people from the council melee fighting with a Krogan.

  • Whitster #31 1 year ago

    Personally I think WE deserve a better class of comment.

  • geeza2020 #32 1 year ago

    Like I said, anger management dude, anger management.

  • spekkeh #33 1 year ago

    [snobbery] .. Go and read some Roger Zelazny, Alistair Reynolds and some Azimov and then come back to me.

    Not sure if trolling...

  • Zomeguy #34 1 year ago

    Not everyone had the chance to experience Bard's Tale, Might and Magic, Ultima, Eye of the Beholder, Lands of Lore, Pool of Radiance, Wizardry, Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment at release.

    You have to forgive those people that actually believe DA and ME to be good games...

    Oh and who remembers killing the beholder in Eye of the Beholder 1 and immediately getting dumped to DOS, lol?
    Edited by Zomeguy at 11/04/11 @ 12:07

  • jstar #35 1 year ago

    @Markitron and Razz

    Good points well made.

    My anger is 50% exaggerated for effect and 50% built up over time hence it seeming so over the top. Either way, rage never wins you an argument. Sure makes you feel better though.

  • ShiroBen #36 1 year ago

    Ugh, no. Just keep telling us great stories, guys, keep giving us great characters. The Mass Effect universe does not need a thousand guys named in variations of DaRealShepard yelling "NE1 NEED TANK?".

  • jstar #37 1 year ago

    @gezza2020

    When you've explained why it makes sense to admonish someone for sharing an opinion in an environment specifically designed for sharing opinions maybe I could take you even a little bit seriously.

    Also I quite like being angry. Presumably you are not angry and you're a bit thick so maybe a bit of anger helps out.

  • jstar #38 1 year ago

    @Stolenglory

    He called me a fuckwit. Going to scatlovers level is a perfectly reasonable response.

  • spekkeh #39 1 year ago

    @Zomeguy

    Everyone who truly understands anything about games knows it all went down hill from Spacewar! onwards.

  • jstar #40 1 year ago

    @spekkah

    [snobbery] .. Go and read some Roger Zelazny, Alistair Reynolds and some Azimov and then come back to me.

    Not sure if trolling...

    I don't understand this comment. Is this a quote from a comment that I can't see? Or am I being called a snob for suggesting people read a little before judging the merits of ME's story and universe?

  • spekkeh #41 1 year ago

    For trying to be a literate snob, yet misspelling the names of Alastair Reynolds and Asimov.

  • geeza2020 #42 1 year ago

    Yeah, the thing is not everybody has got time to read all this highbrow sci-fi (stop laughing at the back!) literature your referring to. Why cant you just respect the fact that a lot of people like Mass Effect 1/2 because the stories and characters in them are broad enough to appeal to as many people and their space fantasies as possible? Whats wrong with this?

    And yes, I did call you a fuckwit, but I hardy think that warrants the absolute torrent of abuse you have then thrown out at me and others here. For a 30 year old, it seems you really need to work on your self control.

  • jstar #43 1 year ago

    @Spekkeh

    I wasn't trying to be a literary snob. And last I checked this wasn't a spelling contest. The fact that you knew who I was talking about means my point was conveyed perfectly well. Though you'll have to tell me when bringing up sci novelists became literary snobbery. last time I checked in we were still relying on the classics for indications of that.

    You seem to suggesting that reading good sci fi books and then judging Mass Effect in light of what you have read is a bad idea... not sure what to say to that.

    Actually yes I do, you're a fucking moron.





  • jstar #44 1 year ago

    @geeza2020

    'We don't have time to read any of your stupid books.'

    ..........




  • jstar #45 1 year ago

    @geeza2020

    The only person who has received a torrent of abuse is you. Because you said something so unbelievably stupid I couldn't stop myself.

    And while you are up on that high horse of yours I think you will find that it was actually you who started with the personal attacks first. Because I criticised a silly game that you only like because you lack the mental acuity to see it for what it is.
    Edited by jstar at 11/04/11 @ 12:33

  • Daeltaja #46 1 year ago

    Lets see how your Star Wars MMO does first, before jumping in with Mass Effect, shall we Bioware?

  • tomjoadsghost #47 1 year ago

    I kind of like Asimov, though i sometimes wonder whether unifying all his major series into a single coherent universe worked out as well as he thought it would. I dislike intensely, the irony, in the fact that he contracted AIDS in a blood transfusion way before the epidemic really took hold meaning that he was effectively killed by, what was then, a futuristic disease.

    I enjoy Mass effect, the universe although a little bland has the benefit of not being gritty (i'm sick of gritty) i have had a pleasant time whiling away several hours in both the existing games. I have heard there are plans to make an MMO in the same universe.

    Gosh, i wonder how that will turn out.

  • jstar #48 1 year ago

    You know you've lost the argument when some prick called stalefart calls you a bellend.

  • retr0gamer #49 1 year ago

    If they want to finsh the story in an MMO game they can fuck right off in fairness.

  • spekkeh #50 1 year ago

    I wasn't trying to be a literary snob.

    Yes you were, you were deriding people for not having the same standards as you when it comes to scifi storytelling, which is in turn due to you having a more sophisticated taste and broader knowledge base. Then spelling the name of the people you champion wrong is ironic.

    I actually agree with most of what you are saying (apart from me being a fucking moron, god knows I'm more of a tossing retard), but still really liked Mass Effect 1/2. Yes the storytelling is classic messianic hero bollocks, the setting is mostly derivative of Star Wars and Trek and other space operas, and no it can't hold a candle to Asimov. However, Mass Effect is the first to do a space opera computer game right, and actually I do think Bioware has improved the genre in that your actions feel like they matter, something that I've found lacking in most other classic RPGs. It may just be smokes and mirrors, but I'm fine with that.
    Edited by spekkeh at 11/04/11 @ 12:44

  • 5h1nj1 #51 1 year ago

    Some sort of MP/MMORPG in ME universe is inevitable. Sadly.
    They made the universe too complex to not make more use of it that way.

  • icematt12 #52 1 year ago

    MMO - perhaps not, too grindy for me as they are

    Playing as a C-Sec officer in a SP spinoff, take my money BioWare.

  • jstar #53 1 year ago

    Well if you're going to go all reasonable on me then I have to apologise for being unnecessarily abusive.

    You're right, it came across as desrision. Not what I intended. Rather I was trying to illustrate why I would think less of Mass Effect than others.

    Aside from all the hilarious internet banter and name calling (yes yes I know, primarily from me) the point I am trying to make is a serious one.

    There is no doubt that compared to other computer games that Mass Effect is a more thought out, richer, character full universe with a solid game at it's core. But that's compared to other games. When you start to compare it to other mediums - film, books, comics etc then it starts to fall down for me. Now ten years ago it may well have been acceptable for something to be good compared to other games but I think that it's about time that the big sci fi opera game we are all talking about is good compared to the best the genre has to offer across the various mediums where sci fi is represented.

    There is no reason why this is not possible. Well actually there is one; the need for good writing. Currently the best writers in the world do not work in games. The industry makes occasional overtures to established writers but they are not properly involved in the creative process. You only have to look at Crysis 2 to see how a great author (Richard Morgan) who was supposedly to have been involved in the story clearly had very little imput into anything. As can been see by Cevat Yerli's (sp?) 'a game by' credit at he beginning of the game he clearly had a very tight hold over the creative process. But the narrative in Crysis 2 is embarrassingly poor. Woeful and frankly I think unacceptable in a AAA game. The result, I would argue, of a game developer running the ship creatively speaking, rather than working more collaboratively with a writer of Morgans caliber.

    Cevat Yerli is a game developer, he is not a writer or a director no matter how much he wishes it. Until game developers realise that they need proper creative talent rather than just a programmer with an idea this situation will continue.

    Like I said before, I don't think it's good enough.





    Edited by jstar at 11/04/11 @ 12:58

  • Scopeh #54 1 year ago

    "If you get rid of the Reapers and win that... "

    Thats not how MMO's work, you kill it first time, then it comes back again next expansion...

  • RevanNL #55 1 year ago

    It wouldn't make sense actually, because not all Mass Effect players want to play an MMO. In fact, a lot of ME fans were outraged when multiplayer rumors started to emerge. Same goes with The Old Republic, I'm a huge fan of KOTOR and I was pissed when they announced an MMO instead of KOTOR 3
    Edited by RevanNL at 11/04/11 @ 14:47

  • jstar #56 1 year ago

    @geeza2020

    You silly little child.

  • Kazzahdrane #57 1 year ago

    If I can play an MMO where kicking a player from my party is visualised by my character kicking theirs out of a window then I fully support this idea.

  • TopKatt #58 1 year ago

    Not sure about an MMO, but give me an Elite style single player game set in the ME universe and I'm in.

  • misinformed #59 1 year ago

    Dosnt have enough in the way of plot to work with, "save the world" ok lets do that again.

  • sirtacos #60 1 year ago

    Just as long as BioWare don't pull a KotOR on us and announce that ME3 is actually going to be an MMORPG.
    Make however MMOs you want after wrapping up the trilogy; I don't care. I'm not part of your multiplayer customer base anyway. I hate MMOs and will continue to view them as tedious timesinks akin to having a part-time job (albeit an addictive one - so I guess to make the analogy work, it's like having a part-time job that pays you in crack. Every MMO I've ever played has made me feel like a crack whore: dirty, violated, ashamed, ultimately hollow and filled with self-loathing).

    Not that single-player games don't operate according to the same 'hamster wheel'/'carrot+stick+donkey' mechanisms, but at least you can fucking finish those.

    (I'm still curious about SWTOR though, so if that somehow manages to change the genre paradigm somewhat, I may change my mind about MMOs in general.)

  • MaybeLater #61 1 year ago

    @jstar

    First of all thanks for fulfilling the obligatory Monday morning righteous indignation quota. Secondly I agree with a lot of your points if not their delivery. ME2 does seem to get a lot more credit than it is maybe due in certain areas and I for one don't think it lived up to the legacy of ME1.
    The games industry is in it's relative infancy, or at least adolescence, and writing for a game is not the same as writing a book. Finding a balance with game play and marketability isn't easy, but hopefully the popularity of ME as a series will lead to more games of this type being created and thereby engender an environment within which better writing can be practised.

  • hiddenranbir #62 1 year ago

    It would not be interesting to live in a static world where npcs can't move and repeat the same line over. Down with the old fashioned!

  • Yuroko #63 1 year ago

    Don't milk the franchise, Bioware. Get the third one out the door then let it rest. Most people will then remember it as a great series of games.

  • zoweewowee #64 1 year ago

    I played ME2 expecting a lot after all the comments and reviews I had read, I expected a 9/10 game and I was really excited at start. Then I finished it (Adept, +40 hours, started on veteran, quickly switched to hardcore and then insanity after the first collector fight) and to me it's a 7/10. The gameplay is nice, far from perfect but pretty good, realisation is top notch but the story is not good, too short and too simple, it lacks complexity, intrigue, suspens... The rpg components do feel like they've been borrowed from super famicom rpgs, and then there's the ending...you get cutscenes that should be dramatic but that only last a few seconds and then the game goes on as if nothing happened, you realise all the decisions you made just didn't matter. May you be a paragon or a renegade (or a very undecided person), at the end you're just a puppet… Let your friends die or save them all, it doesn't matter (at least not in ME2). Choose to finally say no to the Illusive Man and it once again won't matter, he'll just go on blowing smoke to your face, preventing you from seeing that behind all the cheap soap-opera drama and special effects, there's just another average game for the mass.

    Edited by zoweewowee at 11/04/11 @ 13:49

  • dirtysteve #65 1 year ago

    would definitely NOT get the same level of investment as Star Wars, and a mentioned by others here, would suffer from the comparison.
    Edited by dirtysteve at 11/04/11 @ 13:50

  • Gastrian #66 1 year ago

    Post deleted at 17:56:43 13-04-2012

  • zoweewowee #67 1 year ago

    @tomjoadsghost Saying it's a 7 is indeed quite harsh, it just reflects how big my disappointment was when I finished the game. I really liked it at first, then I realised all the recruiting/loyalty missions were the 'big part' of the game, when I got the team done I was looking forward to an epic adventure that was just not there. You could make me say 7.5, but not more.

  • Sodding_Gamer #68 1 year ago

    jstar. stop trying to be a gstar and go troll the Bioware forum. I have ended up reading all these comments in disbelief at a 30 year old swearing like a immature teenage brat. Go get your commordore and f**k off.

    Oh and ME is amazing even if its generic. However I agree the first is way better than the second (story-wise) Like Spekkeh said. It does it RIGHT.

    Rant over
    Edited by Sodding_Gamer at 11/04/11 @ 14:09

  • Climhazzard #69 1 year ago

    Well i personally love Mass Effect, prefer the overall atmosphere of the first game but still loved the second game. Probably the best opening scene of a game in ages also. Cant wait for ME3.

    On the MMO front, if they did it right (whatever that means) then it should be done. More Mass Effect for me the better.

  • Headless_Monkey_Boy #70 1 year ago

    I agree a mass effect mmo might be good.....

    might, i'll repeat that with italics and bold, might
    which is all welll BUT we know (see what i did there?) that a Jade Empire 2 would be great, and if you reallly HAVE to go down the online road could, i don't know, feature co-op or something like that or maybe just some dlc.

    Make with the Jade!

  • Tonne #71 1 year ago

    why rape an amazing franchise like Mass effect like that. i thought that the mmohype was finally over.
    i

  • jstar #72 1 year ago

    @Sodding_Gamer

    Oh shut up. You can't berate someone for swearing and then swear. You thick idiot. And your argument that 'Mass Effect is amazing' is lucidly put and interestingly debated but ultimately I entirely disagree with you. The fact you think it is tells me you have woefully low standards and no taste whatsoever.

    And you can accuse me of trolling as much as you want. At least I have put forth a somewhat more comprehensive argument than just 'it's amazing.' But then that's about as much as I'd expect from a ME fanboy.

  • NewbieZilla #73 1 year ago

    "multiplayer is something we want to do more of in the future as a company,"

    Fuck.

  • Caimbeul #74 1 year ago

    I dont think MMO's work really unless it is a community driven universe like Eve.

    What you would need is essentially a gigantic Co-op game that spanned the entire internet working in all things from the mundane positions to elite operative and all in between all working withing an ongoing and ever evolving storyline that everyone participates in.

  • Caimbeul #75 1 year ago

    @Jstart - "Get some fucking taste!!!"

    I think you will find that taste is subjective therefore if i/we like something, great, if you dont like it, great. Nobody is forcing it on you and it is highly likely that nobody cares if you like it or not.

    Run along now.

  • metalangel #76 1 year ago

    @icematt: Your first case is to find out who is dropping their chewing gum on the Presidium. The Keepers may have been around for countless eons but even they are struggling to scrape it up once it's dried.

  • Gastrian #77 1 year ago

    Post deleted at 17:56:43 13-04-2012

  • Raiftel #78 1 year ago

    Always amused by people who quote Asimov as good literature. Like Lovecraft, Asimov's skill was in his ideas and concepts rather than his style or prose.

    In a lot of ways Asimov is the perfect representation of videogame writing, utilitarian and built around concepts. If I was suggesting for people to read sci-fi which wasn’t just dictated by concepts, but actually demonstrated honest to goodness character and plotting then I’d probably go for Iain M. Banks or Arthur C. Clarke.

    The thing I like about Mass Effect, as a story, is that it’s not beholden to sci-fi. It’s essentially 24 in space, using the setting to expand the scope of the story. I think the thing that Mass Effect has going for, it more than any other game narrative, is propulsion. Even if ultimately the main plot finds you weedling around the galaxy the micro-narratives of each mission are incredibly well paced.

  • icematt12 #79 1 year ago

    @metalangel: Geek moment, but keepers probably wouldn't give a damn about litter no matter the quantity. They would just go through it and do whatever they need to.

    In all seriousness, I would be interested in seeing more of the Citadel (always the planet used in Kasumi DLC as well, it's local and could be done about illegal imports to the Citadel). In particular a C-Sec perspective of the Geth Attack at the end of ME1 and events between the two games. I feel Saren must have had some help being able to get into Citadel Control with a couple of geth before Sovereign showed up. Perhaps there's another traitor somewhere.

  • Inmediasress #80 1 year ago

    Well it would make sense since TOR does not instead KOTOR 3 would and everybody would be happy.

  • curtlikesmeat #81 1 year ago

    LFM to take dwn Sheppard.... 3/4 bosses killed. No achi = no invite.

  • Soton4084 #82 1 year ago

    I'd rather have a new single player Knights of the Old Republic. I know I'm not alone in wishing that Bioware were making a single player follow up to KOTOR as opposed to The Old Republic MMO game they are currently making.

  • antasari #83 1 year ago

    Ashley Williams AND Kaidan Alenko?

    Is that a spoiler?

  • Collymilad #84 1 year ago

    Mass Effect is awesome, and screw anyone who thinks otherwise!

    :p

    Really though.

  • captain_saturn #85 1 year ago

    Please don't.

    While it is a very good universe, the problem with MMOs is that their universes are in a state of inertia. Nothing ever changes. The Mass Effect games are driven by the story, so the MMO just wouldn't have the same charm. Not saying they can't make it work, just that the game would be drastically different to previous Mass Effect games. Bioware just couldn't expect non-MMO players to suddenly play their MMO because they like the other Mass Effect games. Basically, Mass Effect is popular but Bioware can't really expect their MMO to become popular with the same Player base. And we all know that the MMO market is pretty much dominated by WOW.

    Also I don't want this to fail. In the future when I look back on the Mass Effect trilogy I want to say 'what an amazing trilogy' not 'It was pretty good but they messed it up with that crappy MMO'.

  • Caimbeul #86 1 year ago

    @Gastrian. Some valid points. My experience with MMO's is limited at best so i will defer to your greater knowledge on the subject.