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Developer launches survey in hopes of making the next Mass Effect game "the best one yet."

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BioWare has launched a fan survey asking fans to provide feedback to help make the next Mass Effect game "the best one yet." Producer Mike Gamble tweeted a link to the survey, which asks players what games they have played recently and what aspects of a new Mass Effect game they are most looking forward to. The options include Story, Exploration, Combat, and Customization. You can rank those choices from 1 (least) to 7 (most). The survey also asks you to elaborate on your choices and mention if BioWare left anything out.

The Mass Effect survey also asks how many hours you spend per week playing role-playing games and asks you to rank your top three RPG activities; options include engaging in combat, leveling up, and exploring alternative story outcomes, among others. In addition, the survey asks if you are planning to attend San Diego Comic Con (July), Gamescom (August), or PAX Prime (August-September), and if you enjoy cosplaying.

Not long after the survey was distributed last night, Gamble said BioWare has seen an "overwhelming response to the survey so far." He went on to say that he has "reading material for a month" and that he doesn't want responses to stop yet. "Keep 'em coming," he said.

If you're eager for more news about the next Mass Effect game, you don't have much longer to wait, as BioWare designers will talk about the project at San Diego Comic-Con next week. The new Mass Effect game does not have a release date yet and platforms have not been announced.

What we do know is that it leaves the story of Commander Shepard and the first three games behind. BioWare began teasing images from the new game in November 2013, and shortly thereafter we learned it is already playable. Overall, the next Mass Effect game is described as "fresh but recognizable."

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I clicked on the survey, but all the options were colors....

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@4kgamer_lmxxx No need to hate on g@y people. They have a place in video games too. I could care less if a toon that happens to be male hits on me in game. It's not to be taken seriously.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> In Fable, I would lead them out into the woods. Then punch them mercilessly until they ran. So I didn't mind either.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> ...I feel like I should share that with the police :P

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@unreal849 @ezioismyname @AzureBonds76 It was just a game. In real life I just ignore them. Them being those of the homosexual community. I could care less about them. Go be your happy selves. Just leave me alone

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@AzureBonds76 I have nothing against g@y/lesbians. I just don't like when the game forces homosexually suggestive content on me.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Hey I like the hot lesbian action.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I chose to play as a female Shepard for that reason. lol


Am I pathetic ? maybe...:D

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Witcher 2 nakedness or not uncancelled

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I'll have both. I just experienced the second nakedness scene in Witcher 2 for the first time. * SMILES*

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I knew there was adult content in The Witcher 2. LOL, was not prepared for the full frontal in the first or second cut scene.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Pre-order now and get 10 hours of Triss

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I picked red, and it told me I picked pink.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Not purple?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> With very similar answers? Like


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And the last one was Refuse.

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Rut roh...another Bioware thread getting hijacked by angry people with no interest in the games anymore. If they can't please you by listening to their fans and trying to fix what was broken, perhaps it is time to move on. Some people will never be happy I suppose.


I'm looking forward to seeing what they have created and there is forgiveness for me if they just make a good game. So much awesomeness in the IP and neat things that could be done,

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I don't know why they need to put up a survey. If Bioware need a Survey that bad, then that tells me you don't have faith in making your own game without the fans opinions.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Listening to people is overrated.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Not some, everyone. Even you won't be happy.

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4 color choices this time instead of 3.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Indeed! The "No Dialogue Decisions" mode on ME3 was a joke!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Screw having decisions, just pick "good guy story" or "bad guy story" at the start of the game.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Any decent RPG wouldn't have a good and bad thing besides each choice, the idea of decisions should be just what you personally feel it should be regardless of consequence. ME3 for example forced you to be the "good" guy in order to play co-op properly which was completely stupid.

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ME3 was utter and complete shit. Enjoyed the first two, but the story in ME3 was just horrible, even looking past the ending. Please let me shoot the space brat in ME4? Like right in the face?!!?

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Here's an idea for you, Bioware.... make the game YOU want to make, and don't listen to the immature, unimaginative fanboys who need to have everything wrapped up in neat little ribbons for them because they like their worlds to be cosy and predictable and nonthreatening.


I swear to God fans are the worst thing to ever happen to anything :)

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You're absolutely ret@rded for saying that. Devs have a tendency to f*** up their games that's why they NEED their fans feedback to keep their games good. Heck even if we talk solely about Mass Effect, the first two games were great, but the third one was a major step back, the point being that devs need to be kept in check by their fans or the series will die, be it ME or otherwise.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Disagree. Artists don't need to do what fans tell them; they need to do what they want to do, and take risks. It's better to be an honourable failure on your own terms than a dishonourable success on someone else's. Original ME3 ending was waaay more artistically interesting than the predictable neat-little-package fans demanded.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Games are a business not art.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> So it's the player's fault that Bioware decided to end a trilogy (which people sank hundreds of hours into) by allowing the player to choose between the colors red, blue and purple? Some random star child? Basically telling the player that everything they've done in the past 2 games were meaningless... and it's OUR FAULT?

A video game is not art. The Godfather is not art. It's entertainment. And when entertainment is rubbish, people voice their opinion.

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@simsumre @tom_cat_01 @4kgamer_lmxxx The idea that everything the player has done for 2 games is meaningless is a GREAT idea of an ending. It's different, challenging, it presents a cold-universe anti-hero nihilistic philosophy; it's unexpected, it's open-ended and it invites questions.


I'm so sick of the same THE SAME THE SAME when it comes to heroes and rewards for their valiance and neat endings and etc. etc.


(and videogames ARE art: they have music written by composers, visual art created by trained artists, vocal and physical actor performances, scripts, narrative etc. all of which are, IMHO artistic things).

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> No, it's a slap in the face. Bioware could have still completely destroyed the entire universe and I would have been okay with it. The laziness that was seen here is my issue... taking a stock photo and using it as Tali? Color coded endings? Random star kid because eh why not? These are my issues, not that everything didn't end in a field or roses and sunshine.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I wish more writers would slap their audiences in the face. It might wake them up. :)

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I wish more writers would understand that they have no audience and thus no career when they go around slapping paying customers. They have a roof over their head and food on their table because they need an audience, their audience does not need them.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> That's such a capitalistic approach to art. The goal of great art isn't making money and feeding the writer, it's to do something original, to say something about the world, to NOT play it safe, to be a maverick and a risk taker and actually f*ucking feel something beyond the desire to make money. Just because Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books make her more money than Michael Cisco's avant-garde experimental fiction doesn't mean that she's a better writer than he his. It's not all about the market.



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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I actually looked up what nihilism was yesturday. Wondered for years what it meant. I can also safely say that nihilism is a huge pile of tosh! This is why Alien 3 sucked as well. My main hobby is writing, I'm doing my own thing on it, yet I like it to make sense, take as much time as possible to iron out any plot holes and not resort to any sudden deus ex machinas' -which star child so clearly was. I also posit that if people do not deried any joy from what you have created, then what was the point in the undertaking? The whole point of art is to satisfy both the creator and those who encounter it, other wise somebody scraping their nails across a black board is arguably as great as Holst, Strauss or Tchaikovsky.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> It's always about money, it always has been. Pope Julius II commisioned Michelangelo to pain the ceiling of the sistine chapel. As much emotion and talent goes into true art, it's rarely done without charge.

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@simsumre @tom_cat_01 @4kgamer_lmxxx ^ THIS IS A FACT! PROPS TO YOU GUY!

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> You like half-assed endings, good for you. But actual PROPER gamers don't like to be fed with bullshit conclusions in their games and that's why the MAJORITY of ME fans disliked ME3 ending. And also, the ending wasn't the only shitty thing about ME3 either but you're the kind of fanboy who wouldn't even look at the flaws of their favorite game...

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Problem is, this is Bioware. The last time people were upset they blamed them because they didn't enjoy their masterpiece. It's not about voicing an opinion when it comes to giants like EA, the only language they understand is money. When you stop feeding the beast it begins to listen. You boycott the product until it either improves or goes away completely.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Yeah, you're right... I guess we just gotta deal with it eh?

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No artistic integrity please!

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And in related news, Bioware is immediately inundated by right-wing homophobes submitting surveys demanding "No gays!"

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@nparks So all homophobes are right-wing now? Interesting theory. I have another! Less than 1% of the world's population identify themselves as homosexual, yet 99% of the entertainment and media in the western world shoves this "lifestyle" down the rest of our collective throats. Simply asking whom this is being pushed towards now makes one "homophobic", I suppose.

But enjoy your modern day witch hunt, labeling anyone with an opinion that differs from your own as racist, sexist and/or homophobic. Censorship is a beautiful thing when it's only aimed at that which you disagree with.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I was going to disagree, but I can't argue with your made-up stats. Look ma, no facts!

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@konstantinxy I guess they also use it for the events on the last page.

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I did it. Took three minutes and even though it is likely to be ignored completely I still want to put my vote down for an open world Mass Effect game that actually has dialogue choices that aren't just pointless and transparent.

Sick of Bioware games with their corridor running missions.

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I'm not gonna bother with this survey as if Casey Hudson and his master EA will give a damn about the fans survey.

Is Mass Effect trilogy still coming to PS4 and Xbox One, if they can fix Mass Effect 3 to not suck, me and my wallet will look into it.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Once DA:I completely fails, and I'm sure it will, Bioware will have zero credibility left. Nobody will even care about Mass Effect and we can all finally move on.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Would be a shame though, DA:O and Mass Effect where awesome.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Yes they were. And they were also the last games made by Bioware before EA bought them out. Now look at the garbage we have to deal with. EA is cancer.

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