Given Dragon Age: Inquisition's critical success, it wasn't long before BioWare fans began to wonder how the title's formula would affect the studio's sci-fi property, Mass Effect. Distancing itself from previous games in the series, Inquisition's foundation is built upon open, explorable maps, and a whole lot of side quests, along with features that we've come to expect such as branching storylines and a hefty dollop of player choice.
Taking into consideration the concerns that the next Mass Effect game would simply follow the same template, BioWare bigwig Aaryn Flynn took to the NeoGAF forums, where he posted his thoughts on the matter. "We've said the next Mass Effect uses some of the technology from DAI," the executive wrote, adding that: "We've been enjoying building larger areas that you can explore with less friction, so that'll be there as well."
"But after that, the next Mass Effect will be (and should be) drawing on its own rich and successful past more than what DAI would say it should do," Flynn continues, hinting that the future release won't just follow in the fantasy RPG's footsteps. He then goes on to say that the evolution of hardware is probably a more important focal point when creating something new, adding: "In fact, I'd go so far as to say that dropping the older consoles has had more impact on the overall gameplay goals of the next Mass Effect game than what DAI successfully accomplished." That's that, then.
The BioWare representative then concludes the post by writing that "we're very proud of what DAI has achieved, but that does not set a 'template' for what every other game we make needs to be — each game franchise needs to innovate and improve their experience based on what's best for it." We're not sure we could have put it better ourselves.
Despite Flynn's words, though, we still reckon that the next instalment in the Mass Effect franchise will draw comparisons with Inquisition, but perhaps not to the extent that many originally thought. Nevertheless, what do you want from the upcoming space adventure? Do you think that it could learn a thing or two from Dragon Age? Jet off into the stars with us in the comments section below.
[source neogaf.com, via eurogamer.net]
Comments 13
But, Autobot Dragons...
Mass effect should do mass effect, it's a much better series imo
The next Mass Effect needs to be BIG! By the time its released we would have waited a good few years since ME3... Thats more than enough time to make it "its own game". Dont get lazy Bioware.
The foundations of ME are solid enough that it can stand on it's own. The main thing for it to improve would be the loading times, which PS4 should eliminate anyway. Outside of that I guess larger hub world environments to explore, with more meaningful stuff to do in them, would be nice but only within reason. Environments on the same scale as DA:I probably wouldn't fit the series v well and would likely end up detrimental to it unless executed incredibly well.
To be honest, apart from a horrible ending (yes, I know they supposedly fixed that, but the damage was already done for me and I'd moved on, so haven't had time to go back to see the new endings yet), and the fact that all my favourite characters died, I thought ME3 was pretty perfect.
Id personally like to see some form of playable space travel. You could hyper jump close to a desired planet and then fly in the rest of the way or into orbit then take a shuttle.
@SteveButler2210 they didn't fix the ending, really. They just tried to explain everything better. I only saw the updated ending and it was still really weird and not very good.
@Maxamus No Mass Sky if you will.
Easily my favorite trilogy last gen. I would put Mass Effect 2 in my top 5 favorite games of all time. I played it through three times from start to finish before I even touched any other game.
They might have fumbled the ending but I still really enjoyed ME3 and can't wait for the next.
I hope they have more attractive characters in this one.. Dragon Age Inquisition characters are not handsome/pretty at all....
"we're very proud of what DAI has achieved, but that does not set a 'template' for what every other game we make needs to be — each game franchise needs to innovate and improve their experience based on what's best for it."
I reckon thats a direct jab at ubisoft.. and rightfully so.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi I'm confused, what does Transformers have to do with either game franchise/series?
@ToddlerNaruto the tagline is 'Dragons can't even breathe in space'
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi D'oh, how did I miss that.
Thanks for clearing that up heh XD.
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