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post #1 of 1721
12/11/10 at 3:29pm
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Earth is burning. Striking from beyond known space, a race of terrifying machines have begun their destruction of the human race. As Commander Shepard, an Alliance Marine, your only hope for saving mankind is to rally the civilizations of the galaxy and launch one final mission to take back the Earth.
Unbridled joy: this is the best announcement since Mass Effect 2.

Healthy skepticism: There are rumors of multiplayer.

Intentionally turn on the Spike channel for once to catch tonight's announcement at the VGA awards.

Announcement.
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post #2 of 1721
12/11/10 at 3:39pm
I can't believe they missed the opportunity to say 'The Heat is on for Commander Shephard'.

Love Mass Effect so I'm excited although I'm going to wait until we get more details before I really start geeking out. I kind of hope that the weird teaser trailers that got released last month don't point towards an Earth Centric entry in the series.
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post #3 of 1721
12/11/10 at 3:47pm
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Hopefully the teaser with the sniper commando doesn't portend a gray, washed-out, killzone-y Earth focus, but honestly, they'd have to pull some insanely left field shit for this to fail.

I really do hope it gets a 2011 release date. I'm actually debating going back and getting Pinnacle Station for an interim fix.
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post #4 of 1721
12/11/10 at 3:48pm
I think the ME2 story and common sense dictate an Earth-heavy entry in the series.

Although it's a relative scale, since a big part of the appeal is having a huge galaxy to explore. But I'd be expecting Earth to be comparable to the Citadel in ME1, or at the very least Eden Prime.
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post #5 of 1721
12/11/10 at 4:14pm
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I'm wondering how the race against time will factor into my leisurely galaxy exploration and femshep alien red shoe diary encounters.
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post #6 of 1721
12/11/10 at 4:17pm
Probably just like in ME2; you can take all the time to knock prszzl-kckijitts as you want as long as you steer clear of the main story missions.
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post #7 of 1721
12/11/10 at 4:29pm
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But in ME2, the story missions leading up to the relay weren't too time driven. The Normandy spent more time hunting down the collectors than vice versa. It's going to feel weird gathering Eezo with reapers tearing stuff up.
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post #8 of 1721
12/11/10 at 6:44pm
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I can't believe they missed the opportunity to say 'The Heat is on for Commander Shephard'.

Love Mass Effect so I'm excited although I'm going to wait until we get more details before I really start geeking out. I kind of hope that the weird teaser trailers that got released last month don't point towards an Earth Centric entry in the series.
It's clear that they've been saving Earth for some sort of final, cataclysmic endgame-thing (going to the Moon in ME1 notwithstanding), and the Reapers would possess far less of a dramatic threat if Earth wasn't directly endangered at some point in the trilogy.

Already making plans to fake a workplace illness for whatever week the release-date turns out to be. Is "dripping syphilis" too lightweight an excuse?
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post #9 of 1721
12/11/10 at 6:52pm
Hopefully it's better than Mass Effect 2! The multi-player rumors have me worried though. Who wants that?
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post #10 of 1721
12/11/10 at 8:14pm
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Hopefully it's better than Mass Effect 2!
If I could press a right trigger to renegade your ass right now, I would.
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post #11 of 1721
12/11/10 at 10:59pm
I won't step on the Chud news team's toes by linking to the trailer, but HOLYFUCKINGSHIT$*#$&%(*#$&@&%#!!!!!!

Mass Effect 3, Elder Scrolls V and Arkham City are all coming fall/holiday 2011?! I need time to have a life, damn it!
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post #12 of 1721
12/11/10 at 11:00pm
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vg...-effect/708363

CGI VGA awards announcement trailer, needs a Boris Johnson voice over.
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post #13 of 1721
12/11/10 at 11:19pm
Doubt the game will spend much time on earth if it is "burning"

Probably will be more like Chicago in DEUS EX 2, used to establish the threat and the stakes
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post #14 of 1721
12/11/10 at 11:39pm
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Doubt the game will spend much time on earth if it is "burning"

Probably will be more like Chicago in DEUS EX 2, used to establish the threat and the stakes
I hope so. It would be pretty awesome if Earth got atomized in the first hours of the game. Definitely do not want to be spending the bulk of a friggin' ME game on Earth.
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post #15 of 1721
12/11/10 at 11:47pm
So Shepard is going to have to go around recruiting species to help humanity? Seems kind of lame. I was promised a Galactic War damn't.
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post #16 of 1721
12/12/10 at 12:37am
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If I could press a right trigger to renegade your ass right now, I would.
Haha.

Also: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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post #17 of 1721
12/12/10 at 12:53am
Normally, I don't bother watching the awards show, but it was worth it to catch those trailers tonight. Just wondering how much time will be spent on Earth, or if Shepard will be busy getting help form somewhere (or maybe that'll be where the rumored multiplayer will be set). Although not sure how many fleets they would need to take on that kind of attack, but it definitely looks epic -- now just have to wait for holiday 2011 (man, BioWare is going to have a fucking busy year).

The way I see it, Earth needs to blow up more. It almost never happens, and we always get stuck with the exact same save-the-planet plot. But how great would it be if Earth was blown up, despite Humanity's best efforts? Shepard then needs to mobilize the rest of the galaxy to protect the Council, and the Human colonies in the Terminus Systems.

It would be great; after everything humanity has sought to preserve is annihilated in a matter of days, the survivors work to protect what they have left, and offer themselves to aid the galactic community.


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I won't step on the Chud news team's toes by linking to the trailer, but HOLYFUCKINGSHIT$*#$&%(*#$&@&%#!!!!!!

Mass Effect 3, Elder Scrolls V and Arkham City are all coming fall/holiday 2011?! I need time to have a life, damn it!
This. Could we please get an official CHUD Skyrim thread going, guys? I pretty much shat myself in joy when Todd Howard stepped onto that stage.
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post #18 of 1721
12/12/10 at 1:48am
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The way I see it, Earth needs to blow up more. It almost never happens, and we always get stuck with the exact same save-the-planet plot. But how great would it be if Earth was blown up, despite Humanity's best efforts? Shepard then needs to mobilize the rest of the galaxy to protect the Council, and the Human colonies in the Terminus Systems.

It would be great; after everything humanity has sought to preserve is annihilated in a matter of days, the survivors work to protect what they have left, and offer themselves to aid the galactic community.
This. Im calling it right now, the big ass, crushing decision of ME3 will be (in some way) choosing between saving earth or sacrificing it for the greater good of all life in the galaxy.
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post #19 of 1721
12/12/10 at 11:37am
Any chance this lands on the PS3 at the same time? Pretty please?
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post #20 of 1721
12/12/10 at 2:43pm
Probably. BioWare's likely doing simultaneous cross-plat development for this one, for a same-day release window.

Rewatching the trailer again, I'm almost certain the casualty figures refer only to London -- if they're attacking the entire planet, and there've only been nine million deaths in a week, then every single human being on Earth is Shepard.

As for the objective, I'm not so sure the Reapers are "harvesting" at that moment. In ME2, they tried to do it out of sight from the bulk of human strength, and lost big. Right now, I'd guess their plan is to annihilate humanity's capacity to make war, then harvest the survivors. What I wonder, though, is if the Reapers are attacking only Earth, or are engaging in a coordinated assault on all the other major galactic strongholds?

I mean, they have to know that it'd be extremely easy for the rest of the Alliance fleet, the Asari, Turians, Salarians, and the Krogan (and Rachni?) to converge on them at Earth.
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post #21 of 1721
12/12/10 at 3:49pm
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YEEEEEAH.

Is that a husk getting sniped?
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post #22 of 1721
12/12/10 at 3:58pm
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The Mass Effect 3 announcement gave me situational amnesia about the Elder Scrolls V reveal, which is a feat in and of itself. Oh man this year.
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post #23 of 1721
12/12/10 at 4:32pm
Finding time to hit on Kelly Chambers isn't going to be a problem, since that chick is dead on account of my lazy, "I'll save the universe and my crew when I get around to it" ass.
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post #24 of 1721
12/12/10 at 4:34pm
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Oh you bastard.
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post #25 of 1721
12/12/10 at 4:41pm
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Oh you bastard.
Hey, at least Dr. Chakwas is still kickin'. She's got kind of a Helen Mirren thing going on. My Shepard could be up for a fling with an experienced woman. How 'bout it, Bioware?
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post #26 of 1721
12/12/10 at 5:23pm
It's Bioware, where every female had a rockin' bod. Remember Wynn?
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post #27 of 1721
12/12/10 at 5:33pm
It's not like Bioware invented it. Every video game ever has done it, just like every superhero comic did before them.
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post #28 of 1721
12/12/10 at 5:43pm
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It's Bioware, where every female had a rockin' bod.
Somewhere, the Rachni Queen feels inexplicably pretty.
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post #29 of 1721
12/12/10 at 5:43pm
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It's Bioware, where every female had a rockin' bod. Remember Wynn?
You know ... technically, Shale is a woman.

Although, now that I think about it, "her" body is indeed "rock"in'.

Thank you. I'll be here all week.
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post #30 of 1721
12/12/10 at 5:43pm
Oh, *I* Remember Wynne. Paradoxically, probably the finest ass and rack in the game. Only Eleanor Cousland is hotter than Wynne.

Zevran thinks that her bosom is the best he's ever seen, and there have been many bosoms in his past. Sure wish BioWare had released a "Grab-a-Granny Night" DLC. Or an option to give her some Rohypnol, at least.

So what would the Wynne-initiated romance scenes be like?

"Great-Great-Grandma has an itch that only you, 'The Hero,' can cure!"
"My cauldron is missing a nice, long pole to stir..."

...Wait, that last one sounds like something Flemeth would say.
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post #31 of 1721
12/12/10 at 5:59pm
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Somewhere, the Rachni Queen feels inexplicably pretty.
In the future, people are more open to such relationships.
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post #32 of 1721
12/12/10 at 6:06pm
Also, I'm still waiting for an optional romance with Witherfang and Barkspawn.

Is that bad?
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post #33 of 1721
12/12/10 at 6:12pm
No, but where does the Broodmother come into this?
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post #34 of 1721
12/12/10 at 9:31pm
Ya know, I'm glad I play these games with the "default" Shepard. That way, whenever Shepard shows up in artwork or a trailer for the new installment, he's my Shepard and not just some strange-looking dude I only know from the box art. So my excitement is pure and unblemished by issues of identity.

Admission: This is probably the single geekiest thing I've ever released from my head and into the wild.
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post #35 of 1721
12/12/10 at 9:39pm
In a perfect world Brad Millette's Shepard would be the poster child of the franchise.
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post #36 of 1721
12/12/10 at 9:46pm
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In a perfect world Brad Millette's Shepard would be the poster child of the franchise.
I can't remember his Shepard, just an awesome Wrex or two.

It is interesting how important the image of "default" Shepard is to the advertising of the MASS EFFECT series. I designed my own character in DRAGON AGE, FALLOUT 3, OBLIVION ... and when it comes to those games, why wouldn't you? It's not like any of those brands are actively promoted with an image of the central character.

But MASS EFFECT as a property is tied heavily to that Matthew Fox-looking motherfucker. (Although I did notice his face is somewhat shadowed out in the ME3 teaser.) I almost want to say it's counter-productive to let the player get attached to a user-created Shepard.
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post #37 of 1721
12/12/10 at 9:58pm
Odd how the "default" Shepard isn't based on anybody really known, even though they could have just based it on Matthew Fox given how similar they ended up looking, while they ended up modeling one of the secondary characters after her voice actress.

Dragon Age's trailers actually did have something of a single image for the character. It was a human warrior, as seen in the Andraste's Ashes trailer. Of course, that wasn't the default image for the character in the game, and I don't know how close you could even get the character to look like that so I imagine it surprised some people when they first played the game that that wasn't what you looked like.
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post #38 of 1721
12/12/10 at 10:13pm
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I can't remember his Shepard, just an awesome Wrex or two.
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post #39 of 1721
12/12/10 at 10:44pm
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YEEEEEAH.

Is that a husk getting sniped?
Anyone else recognise the voice actor playing the soldier in that trailer? Sounds to me like the same guy that played Shaun Hastings in Assassins Creed 2.
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post #40 of 1721
12/12/10 at 11:26pm
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I hope so. It would be pretty awesome if Earth got atomized in the first hours of the game. Definitely do not want to be spending the bulk of a friggin' ME game on Earth.
Yes, I want to get to see what it looks like in the ME universe at least once from a location closer than the moon (though that was great), but I don't want the bulk of the game to take place there. Explode it and move on


PS How do you get an image capture of your Shepard? Also, I wish the game let you keep your old Shep but just add scars or a new hairstyle. It is lame to have to reboot your whole look just to add gnarly scarring
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post #41 of 1721
12/13/10 at 12:16am
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PS How do you get an image capture of your Shepard?

PC version.
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post #42 of 1721
12/13/10 at 10:07am
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This. Im calling it right now, the big ass, crushing decision of ME3 will be (in some way) choosing between saving earth or sacrificing it for the greater good of all life in the galaxy.
That'd be a brilliant subversion of the Renegade/Paragon dynamic if sacrificing the planet was the "Paragon" decision. A moral quandary that people might actually wrestle with.

I'm betting it won't be that clear-cut, though. If the marketing says "Save the earth" I'm betting you save the Earth regardless of the path you choose.

I'm hoping the actual attack on Earth is a mid-late game development (ala the crew-kidnapping in ME2) though...because as others have noted, it's going to feel REALLY weird running sidequests, sexing up crewmembers, and gathering resources (if resource gathering is even in this game) while "Earth is under attack!" A lot of folks mentioned the "lack of urgency" in ME2 and if not handled properly this could really amplify it.

Or if it's a mid-game, just make the entire back-half of the game a balls-to-the-wall battle on/around Earth (and most of the "side quests" involving rescuing survivors and/or securing resources that will help in the defense or eventual rebuilding).
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post #43 of 1721
12/13/10 at 10:50am
The entire point of the MASS EFFECT series is to fly around the galaxy visiting other worlds. I'd be shocked if more than 10 percent of this game took place on Earth.
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post #44 of 1721
12/13/10 at 11:02am
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Mass Effect 3, Elder Scrolls V and Arkham City are all coming fall/holiday 2011?! I need time to have a life, damn it!
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Already making plans to fake a workplace illness for whatever week the release-date turns out to be. Is "dripping syphilis" too lightweight an excuse?
I think we're gonna have to come up with a disease to last from....let's say August 2011 until January or February 2012 at the very least with all the games that are coming out next fall. Realistically, I expect at least a couple of them to see delays, but if everything manages to come out on time, holy shit. ME3, Elder Scrolls V, Arkham City, Uncharted 3, and a new SSX all within the span of a few months, but mostly in November? That's gonna kill me.
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post #45 of 1721
12/13/10 at 11:03am
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Amazing.

Actually, if you normalise his lower-jaw / cheekbones, that's almost exactly what my own Shepard looked like. Minus the awesome scar. Damn you all, high-end PC owners!

Also, that trailer made me a little wet.
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post #46 of 1721
12/13/10 at 12:35pm
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The entire point of the MASS EFFECT series is to fly around the galaxy visiting other worlds. I'd be shocked if more than 10 percent of this game took place on Earth.
Absolutely. The game won't start with Earth already under attack. It'll be known that the Reapers are on their way, and it'll be a "race against time" to gather resources, upgrades and allies for the impending attack. And then choices you make along the way will probably shape how the final battle on Earth plays out, much like the attack on the enemy base at the end of Mass Effect 2.

And I think the decision to preserve or destroy the base at the end of ME2 will probably have some sort of effect. And I'd like to see The Elusive Man come back in some capacity.
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post #47 of 1721
12/13/10 at 12:56pm
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And I think the decision to preserve or destroy the base at the end of ME2 will probably have some sort of effect. And I'd like to see The Elusive Man come back in some capacity.
I dunno...if it plays into the scenario as much as the "keep the Council Alive/Kill 'em off" decision did in ME2 it'll likely basically be a throwaway. Then again, that decision in ME1 could potentially have a bigger payoff in ME3, as well.

I was kind of hoping the Citadel would get attacked again/maybe even destroyed...just to be able to rub the Council's noses in it (if they survived).
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post #48 of 1721
12/13/10 at 1:19pm
Sorry about the dumb question here, but with 2 being the first and only ME game I've played, how does what happened in it translate into a sequel? Is it just a case of whatever I did with my Shepherd being transported or are there character carryovers as well, as in people who lived/died (realizing, of course, that had I done a couple of things differently nobody would have died)? Would 3 just assume that everybody made it? Would those characters not even be involved? I'm mainly just curious.

Also - with all this talk about hitting on Kelly in 3, I'm assuming there was a way to have her NOT die? I kinda screwed up Miranda's stuff and she bit it, but I thought that Kelly's going was scripted. Anyway, this is kind of a derail, apologies.

So, yeah - that trailer for 3 is hot shit.
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post #49 of 1721
12/13/10 at 1:21pm
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Absolutely. The game won't start with Earth already under attack. It'll be known that the Reapers are on their way, and it'll be a "race against time" to gather resources, upgrades and allies for the impending attack. And then choices you make along the way will probably shape how the final battle on Earth plays out, much like the attack on the enemy base at the end of Mass Effect 2.

And I think the decision to preserve or destroy the base at the end of ME2 will probably have some sort of effect. And I'd like to see The Elusive Man come back in some capacity.
I would hope that the Earth-battle is not the final be-all/end-all sequence of the trilogy, though -- the defense of Earth should be just that, a defense, with wherever the origins of the Reapers themselves is (and their greater plans) still needing to be dealt with forever.

I'm expecting the Earth-siege to play a major role in the storyline, no question, but unless BioWare's secretly planning to artificially extend the storyline into a Mass Effect 4, the whole Reaper-thing needs to get wrapped up permanently. And in an absolutely stunning, epic, mind-blowing way. It's what they promised us. For some reason, I don't necessarily see that taking place at Earth, though.
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post #50 of 1721
12/13/10 at 1:23pm
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You can save everybody, or (almost) everybody can die. I think Kasumi is protected by slinky bodysuit sexmagics. If the story translation from 1 --> 2 is any indication, any choices you make and characters who die will carry over into the third game, with varying impact.
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