EA: Something 'far-reaching' coming for Mass Effect in early 2011

It's going to be DLC that's reaching far into your pocket.

ME1+2 on PS3 maybe?.. lol

I dont know how much much they can expect from bioware production. DA, ME2, DA:A all released within half a year, and apparently 2 titles to be released ~Jan 2011, and entire time ToR has been in development.

So far the games have been great, I just hope they don't try to force releases to make money and lose quality.

An MMO perhaps?

They could always announce it at that date though.
I doubt it will be exclusive forever honestly not that it changes anything.

Just look at GTA DLC; everyone pretty much forgot about it when it finally got announced on PS3 and PC lol

No way it is an MMO with SWTOR right around the corner.

Mass Effect MMO. I haven't played, only watched people play them, but it seems like ME could easily lend itself to that genre.

ME2 will eventually come to PS3. It's inevitable now that it's in the hands of EA. There's probably just a timed exlcusivity.

The news: Development for Mass Effect 3 was happening at the same time as 2, and will be here much sooner than anticipated.

I'm far into Mass Effect 2, but I don't want to finish it just yet.

Mass Effect and Dragon Age...

I'd pay a full game's worth to have a standalone expansion which loads both of your savegames, in which you can play as Sheppard or your DA character.
Having the Normandy pay a visit to Thedas, with Spectres and Grey Wardens joining against a fusion of Geth and Blight, which requires both technology and magic to be defeated.
Along the way you'd kill dragons with guns in dungeons and robots with medieval weapons and magic in alien bases.
The quest wouldn't be without spoils. High tech equips for DA and magical medieval equips for ME2.

Space Battles!

Finally I will be able to put into practice the ship-to-ship combat protocols the Codex has taught me!

far reaching eh?

thats what she said!

HIYOOOOOOO

It's referring to a Natal adaptatiion.

Probably an expansion pack. Either with Commander Shepard, or maybe one where you play someone completely different.

RUSHING OUT SEQUELS FTW!

Wow. I didn't realize we took a step back into last generation where it was acceptable for AAA games to get development cycles that are well under two years. We already had Left 4 Dead 2 and I guess we can put Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2 right next to the next Assassin's Creed if this is true. Hell, if that Uncharted 3 in 2010 rumor some have been toying around with is true that just adds another guest to the party.

I thought the oversaturation of the market had taught publishers that this was a bad idea. The downfall of Tony Hawk, Need for Speed, and the music game genre are evidence of that. Apparently not.

Cool so they'll use Dragon Age as fluff for Mass Effect again. You know what that means: a mediocre game teetering on being horrible coming shortly before a refined and sleek game that has a potential to be "game of the year".

Bioware - "making dreams come true"

I'd love to see DICE team up with Bioware to do a multiplayer only Mass Effect game in the style of Battlefield. It'd be a nice spin off, and all of the assets are already there. Instead of an APC, you could roll in a Mako. Instead of a helicopter, you get that Mercenary gunship. I feel really attached to the ME universe, so they could easily launch "Sims: Mass Effect" or "Battlefield: Mass Effect" or "Command and Conquer: Mass Effect" and I would probably them all. I can easily see a "Spore: Mass Effect" game working, too.

On another note, I don't get why the combat of ME2 is so B grade when EA has DICE's experience on the payroll. It's way improved over the C or D grade ME1 combat, but it still feels like a poor man's Rainbow Six Vegas (or Gears). The maps feel very small and linear, and the combat is not very deep (I suppose it is better than most FPS games though). Can't Bioware and DICE coordinate somehow? I've been playing the Bad Company 2 demo and it's really amazing how huge the battle environments are in that game. They feel more natural and realistic than the hallway-like battle environments of ME2.

I guess I just wanted to see a bigger scope to the combat, considering the grand scope of the story. RS Vegas seems like a good game for ME to emulate in the future, since the Rainbow operatives are commando-type folks like Shepherd's crew. In Vegas, you get to do a variety of activities, and actually have more "sci-fi" style equipment than Shepherd's team does. Night and heat vision, wire cameras, etc... and you get to plan how you want to attack a room, rapple through windows...

Man, why do they have to be so cryptic all the time? Can't they just tell us if it's a real sequel or a spin off? Damn

Word of advice to ps3 fanboys: GET IT ON PC ALREADY.. jesus christ.