The answer to your first qestion is here.
For your second qestion, the new Mass Effect game is only announced, there is practically no info available about this game, that includes if it will use character import or not.
@Psychotps Rumor mill was they had a major story leak near end of production and changed the endings after that. By rumor a couple of the bigwigs went into a room and hammered out the new endings and then went to the team and said make this now.
Don't know if that is true but it sounds like it could have happened, but then that is what makes the best tall tales too.
@Psychotps wrote:
@mcsupersport
Lol! EA? Spending money to change the entire ending of the game just so they could release something the public didn't know about?
Even if the ending was still unfinished, it would still entail re-designing a major portion of the game to support it otherwise there would be holes all throughout the game.
Yeah, that is NOT what happened. That sounds more like a story they might have "leaked" to cover up the fact that they ran out of time. It's not like that's the first time nor the last time that's happened.
I think you are thinking of the Extended Cut endings, along with the Leviathan DLC, and not the original game and ending. There wasn't anything other than the Catalyst throughout 99% of the original game, and then at the very end "POOF" here is Space Boy and your choices are Red Blue Green......it went about that fast, so no real rewrite needed, depending on when it all went down. Literally, nowhere in the original game release was info on the endings other than the Catalyst and it has to be used to defeat the Reapers.
The whole Leviathan DLC was created to explain the endings, and they delayed all this and created an Extended Cut endings to help sooth the outrage from players. People were so outraged by the original endings they raised money and sent like 400 cupcakes in Red Blue and Green icing to Bioware offices. The leaked endings were actually better than what we got in my opinion.
You may be exactly correct, and like I said, the best Tall Tales are things you want to be true and sound like they could be.....well I added the want part, lol....but it is true.
@mcsupersport wrote:
@Psychotps Rumor mill was they had a major story leak near end of production and changed the endings after that. By rumor a couple of the bigwigs went into a room and hammered out the new endings and then went to the team and said make this now.
Don't know if that is true but it sounds like it could have happened, but then that is what makes the best tall tales too.
Almost the entire script leaked, but I don't know if the leaks caused the rewrites. I think that part was fan speculation.
The story about lead writer Mac Walters and project lead Casey Hudson writing the ending without input from the other writers seems to be true. It originated from a post on the Penny Arcade from by writer Patrick Weekes (now the lead writer of Dragon Age).
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Maybe, maybe not, but then I was extremely happy to see Andromeda because they showed they didn't want to overwrite the choices of people who played their game. ME5 may well disappoint me, games have before, and will again. It's not fatal, so I will get over it, and depending on the story, may or may not buy the game, again not fatal
That we agree on, in the end, it is just a freaking game. 😄
