• ytsedude@lemmy.world
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    Looking like Mass Effect is not a bad thing. ME rules. If the gameplay is just as fun and characters/story just as interesting, then I’m absolutely down. That said, the NPCs are giving me cliche, overly-talkative, super annoying vibes. Hopefully that’s just from the editing. After the utter failure of Starfield, a solid sci-fi RPG would be very welcome, even if it’s a little derivative or overly reminiscent of its predecessors.

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    every single bit of dialogue in that trailer sounded awful.

    “I’m not just a pretty face” like, male Shepard was based off a super model, but it was never addressed in the games, they made him look rugged enough. This guy just seems like a glammed up clown.

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    I don’t know about the game, but the book is good.

    The devs are working on the game and recently they released a book from the game’s world.

    I really thought it would be shit, but then I saw that it was written by a known scifi author, so I thought it would be at least readable. I was pleasantly surprised and the book is actually really good.

    The book in question is:

    Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton

    StoryGraph

    Goodreads

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    but I’m back to feeling rather ambivalent about the whole thing, which to my eye looks like nothing so much as an alt-universe Mass Effect.

    And that’s supposed to be a bad thing?

    More Mass Effect is always a win in my book.

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    I loved Mass Effect but I ain’t so enthusiastic about what I’m seeing for now…

    Clearly the main protagonist looks a bit cheesy…

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    Looks pretty boring.

    I’ll just wait for Outer Worlds 2 to scratch my sci-fi rpg itch.