The series would've benefited a lot more if it didn't revolve around Reapers
The series would've benefited a lot more if it didn't revolve around Reapers
Connor Moore
Julian Jackson
Yes. That's why Mass Effect 2 is the best.
Dominic Morris
Should have been about big krogan cocks
James Hughes
Agreed. After ME1, the Reapers should have just remained stuck in dark space for thousands of years and we should have had different conflicts to deal with.
Elijah Martinez
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Elijah Cruz
Mass effects IP is the biggest sin in gaming. They could easily milk 1 game a year on the ME3 engine and instead we got that terrible andromeda game then nothing.
>no first contact game
>no selarian special task force stealth game
>no krogan v rachni war rts
>no dialogue based space diplomacy game
>no asari porn game
Biggest blunder in gaming.
Hunter Howard
Forget about that, where's my XCOM Mass Effect game!?
Dylan Cruz
Reapers could have been handled better and given a motivation that made sense but yeah. It's hard to write a game about 3 chucklefucks on the ground fighting against giant spaceships.
Owen Torres
I thought the reapers were kinda cool until they tried to actually explain them in 3, and then it was just fully retarded. Should have just left their motivations a mystery desu.
Wyatt Rodriguez
>given a motivation that made sense
They should have never been given one
Julian Kelly
They definitely wrote themselves into a wall with 3. You can't do ANYTHING past 3 without making some choices meaningless. The destruction ending is the best one when it comes to continuing the story but still feels restrictive. If anything I think Dragon Age, for all it's flaws, has managed to keep itself in better shape when it comes to sequels than ME did with 3.
Alexander Sanders
reapers were cool in 1 and 2. 3 just shat the bed. Although I would have preferred if the games had just been about improving and enhancing mankinds power rather than the alliance being useless cunts
Jacob Hernandez
That's exactly the reason ME2 failed miserable and ruined the series forever.
Adam Perry
>They could easily milk 1 game a year on the ME3 engine
i don't think you can fathom how much work that would have been. ubisoft is spreading the work on an AC game across dozens of studios to have one game every 3 years and that with relatively little story content(cut scenes, dialogue, world reactivity). ME1-3 are only that short(30-40 hours) because they are so linear, if they were open world those games would be bigger and longer than witcher 3 and no publisher, no matter how many studios they have, can crank out one of those games every year.
Hudson Ortiz
No, ME1 is
Nathan Flores
>The series would've benefited a lot more if you removed the entire plot
Mason Gray
ME2 is
Nicholas Mitchell
But it didn't fail. It focused on the only thing that the series had going for it. The characters.
Adam Howard
by removing the most important characters from 1?
Logan Lewis
>by removing the most important characters from 1?
Such as who? Kaidan and Ashley? Everyone else, from Garrus, Tali, Liara, and even Wrex were there, even if some weren't squadmates.
Wyatt Davis
Agreed.
I had the impression the original concept was to have a different big bad each game. Like the Collectors would have been a stand-alone race OR, if connected to the Reapers, there woudln't be any Reapers active in ME2.
They should have stuck with their original plotline of Dark Energy destroying the universe, so you'd have to go with some Deus Ex ending's, isolate civilizations to preserve everything or let it keep running knowing you're dooming everyone.
Making every game about the Reapers, retconning ME1's plot, was a big mistake.