The Amazon Prime series The Expanse is great. It’s really excellent sci-fi, and shares many parallels with one of my most loved game series, Mass Effect. Today, I would like to tell you about how The Expanse made me less annoyed at one of the major plot points in the very first Mass Effect.
Fair warning, I’m about to drop some spoilers for The Expanse here (not for Season 5 though! I haven’t seen any of that myself just yet), so read on at your own risk.
The teaser trailer for Mass Effect 5 - or whatever it ends up being called - answered some questions while raising many more. One thing that stood out to many fans is that we see multiple galaxies in the opening of the trailer, which seemed to hint that the new game would follow up on both Mass Effect 3 and Andromeda. Now, BioWare is stoking the fires of speculation directly.
In response to fans on social media speculating that this would be a single sequel to both games based on the multi-galactic intro, project director Mike Gamble tweets that the presence of two galaxies there was very much "intentional". He follows up to say "Who knows. Maybe not? But we show both for a reason."
Gamble is certainly encouraging fans to keep up the speculation, but it looks like we're going to have a long wait ahead for answers. In a blog post, BioWare says that "we've got a long runway ahead of us before we'll be ready to show you more", and given how much time has passed since the new Dragon Age made its debut, you should probably take that warning very seriously.
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The trailer has us moving through several galaxies before ending up on an icy planet, where we see the remains of a dead Reaper in the background. An Asari woman digs up a piece of N7 gear, perhaps hinting that Shepard still has a part to play.
The Game Awards is an annual showcase of both the year's best games and upcoming titles from publishers and developers across the industry. The evening promises news on everything from Among Us to the next Dragon Age game, and PCGamesN will be here to provide the biggest news as it happens.
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There's been a lot of talk about Mass Effect lately, and not just for the usual reason that Mass Effect is great. The Mass Effect: Legendary Edition remasters are on the way, Mass Effect 5 is early in development, and times are looking good for fans of one of BioWare's biggest series of RPG games. Well, there's extra reason to celebrate today, friends: it's Mass Effect's birthday.
Yes, the original Mass Effect first launched precisely 13 years ago in North America, on November 20, 2007. Australian and European launches for the Xbox 360 version followed a few days later, but it wasn't until May 28, 2008 that the PC version became available. (Remember the days of having to wait months for not just some, but most PC versions of major games?)
The Mass Effect remaster has been rumoured for the better part of a year, and fans have been clamouring for it even longer - and it's easy to see why. BioWare's shooter-RPG hybrids have some intricately detailed sci-fi world-building, a cast of lovable recurring characters, and enough controversies to ensure there's enough bad to make us treasure the good.
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