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Lord-Draco
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Date Posted:
10/5/05 6:16am
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Mass Effect -- Action RPG Title made by Bioware
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Yup, thats right! The creators of our beloved KOTOR 1 game is back at it again this time taking a spin on the 360. Mass Effect, the new Action RPG game set in the 23rd Century is promised to bring us the same love and joy we have experienced with KOTOR and Jade Empire.
Here is the official Site
Discuss....
Unlocking for DFA.
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Raven
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Date Posted:
10/5/05 6:28am
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All things being equal, I'd rather they just gave me Dragon Age. It's not so much that I don't have any interest in it at all. I'll probably get it eventually. But if "eventually" means five years from now, I'm not too concerned. But I want Dragon Age as soon as it's humanly possible to release it as the awesome game it looks like.
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plo_koom
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10/5/05 6:29am
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That looked like a cross between a Halo grunt and those ancient aliens from the fifth element.
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Pooja
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10/5/05 6:33am
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This will be awesome.
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Lord-Draco
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10/5/05 6:40am
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Pooja posted:
This will be awesome.
Yes it will indeed and I can't wait to play this at E3 next year, assuming that it won't be out by then and that there will be a playable demo.
The fact that this is made by Bioware as well (Without LucasArts looking over their shoulders) also gives me some warm pleasure seeing how Microsoft is Publishing the title.
As for the core story, we don't know that yet. Also as for the tentative release date, we don't know that either but I can say that it would probably be here sometime late 2006 or early 2007.
Also considering that this is made by Bioware, the creators of KOTOR/Jade Empire. I wonder if there will be a Bad Side/Good Side type of story. You guys know what I mean, or will it just be 1 linear story with you not being able to "choose your side".
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Jedi_Matt
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10/5/05 11:24am
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if it's an rpg, i'd imagine there'd be as much choice as there was with kotor, neverwinter nights, and all the rest of them...
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Lord-Draco
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10/5/05 11:26am
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Jedi_Matt posted:
if it's an rpg, i'd imagine there'd be as much choice as there was with kotor, neverwinter nights, and all the rest of them...
Lets just hope. This game is going to be something that I'm going to follow for some time.
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Jedi_Matt
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i can't think of any stinker they've made...
nothing comes to my mind as having got less than 7 on gamespot or IGN, so the media support has always been encouraging.
bioware unrushed can do little wrong in my book, i want a modernised fallout game though... i used to hate turn based stuff, but with kotor, NWN (to an extent, due to its D&D rules), and Fallout 2 changed my mind
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If Microsoft is publishing this, it will be years before it gets to PC! 
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Pooja
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10/5/05 12:23pm
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This is seriously one of the most ambitious projects I've heard of in my long career of gaming. Announcing it as a trilogy right off the bat is pretty large - but I know they'll do it, and do it good.
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Lord-Draco
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10/5/05 1:06pm
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Pooja posted:
This is seriously one of the most ambitious projects I've heard of in my long career of gaming. Announcing it as a trilogy right off the bat is pretty large - but I know they'll do it, and do it good.
Its announced as a start of a trilogy? Where did you read that? Link? lol
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Pooja
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Date Posted:
10/5/05 1:09pm
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Bioware X05 Conference Press Release: posted:
Mass Effect (MGS-BioWare Corp.). Set 200 years in the future in an epic universe, Mass Effect places gamers in a vast galactic community in danger of being conquered by a legendary agent gone rogue. A spectacular new vision from legendary developers BioWare, Mass Effect challenges players to lead a squad of freedom fighters as they struggle against threatening armies to restore peace in the land. Mass Effect is the first in a trilogy of games with an overarching story, where the real conflict between organic beings and artificial intelligence comes to life in startling clarity.
And the fact sheet:
Title: "Mass Effect"
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Developer: BioWare Corp.
Format: DVD for the Xbox 360 video game system
ESRB Rating: Pending
Availability: TBD
Pricing: TBD
Product Overview:
"Mass Effect" is a science fiction action-RPG created by BioWare Corp., the commercially and critically acclaimed RPG developer of "Jade Empire," "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic," "Neverwinter Nights," and the "Baldur's Gate" series. "Mass Effect" will deliver an immersive story driven gameplay experience with stunning visual fidelity. Published by Microsoft Game Studios, "Mass Effect" will be exclusively for the Xbox 360 video game system.
As the first human Specter - sworn defenders of galactic peace - your mission is to halt the advancing armies of a legendary agent gone rogue. But as you lead your elite team across hostile alien worlds, you will discover the true threat is far greater than anyone imagined.
Key Features:
* Immersive RPG: Determine the fate of mankind as you lead an elite tactical strike force as an epic galaxy-wide conflict unfolds. "Mass Effect" will take the player into new depths of an action-roleplaying game, with choice-based gameplay.
* Rich and engaging storyline: While defending galactic peace and earning a position of respect for humanity in the community, gamers will discover that a greater conflict between organic life and artificial intelligence exists. Players' decisions and actions will serve to shape the destiny of all life in the galaxy as you become absorbed in the story that is "Mass Effect," the first game in an epic trilogy from BioWare. They will become the center of an engrossing story as they battle against alien life forms to save the galaxy from threatening armies.
* Player controls the ultimate fate of the galaxy: The player's decisions and actions will serve to shape the destiny of all life in the galaxy, while raising humanity to the pinnacle of galactic civilization via noble means or via tyranny.
* Real-time squad based combat: "Mass Effect" employs a real-time, squad based, tactical combat system. Players will be immersed in intense, challenging and exciting combat.
* Explore uncharted worlds: In addition to the main story arc of the game, players will be able to visit a large number of uncharted, unexplored planets which are not directly tied to the main story. At any time during the campaign, a player can choose to explore one of these planets in an all-terrain rover in order to discover new alien life, resources, ruined civilizations and powerful technologies.
* Digital actors: "Mass Effect" features a huge cast of in-engine digital actors that you will encounter as NPCs, enemies or as party members. Each will have life-like facial and body movements, and an advanced dialogue system will give them engaging personalities.
* Character customization: Players will be able to choose from a variety of stunning, photo-realistic character appearances at the start of the game, and throughout the game can increase various statistics which will have an impact on their performance during gameplay. Equipment, weapons and armor that are acquired during the course of the story will change the appearance of the characters.
* Next-generation gaming defined: "Mass Effect" takes advantage of Xbox 360's hardware providing gamers with exciting new experiences, including photo-realistic, high definition graphics on an epic scale. As the future of gaming goes online, Xbox360 live features, including premium downloadable content and recognition of achievement will be available via the Xbox Live service.
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Lord-Draco
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Then you really are right Pooja and I agree with you. I mean .//hack was announced as a quadrilogy right off the bat, but it never reached a scale of epicness and they came out like 3 months after each other. Mass Effect seems like this is really going to be revolutionary.
Thanks for the info man and I hope many others gathers to this thread to discuss this game.
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Pooja
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10/5/05 1:33pm
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No problem. I love it when developers are confident in themselves like this. Bioware is no slouch either. They'll deliver.
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Lord-Draco
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10/5/05 1:34pm
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Pooja posted:
No problem. I love it when developers are confident in themselves like this. Bioware is no slouch either. They'll deliver.
If its a trilogy, then I'm starting to believe that maybe they're simultaneously working on all 3 games right now. Do you believe that to be a possiblity?
Sort of like how the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy was conducted. So maybe we'll see this game in Fall 2006. With the 2nd coming in Fall 2007, and 3rd coming Fall 2008.
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Pooja
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10/5/05 1:37pm
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Perhaps. This sounds like a massive project so I'm sure they're at least working on some aspects of it simultaneously.
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