Friday, December 18, 2009

Mass Effect 3 Ends The Savegame Continuity - Because It Is A Trilogy



UPDATE: Blame it on me. Understood it completely wrong. Mass Effect will be a trilogy and with the end in the third game, no one has to worry about saves to implement in a fourth game. Silly me.

Interesting news I found. I quote:
Project Director Casey Hudson. Speaking to the press before showing off the game at a recent event in Edmonton Hudson said, "We're looking forward to it [Mass Effect 3] and it should be more fun for us."

This comment came after Hudson went into some detail about the challenges faced during development with perfecting the system for carrying over saves from the first game. Managing all the potential player choices and their outcomes took such a commitment to making it work that he said, "I'd be really surprised if anyone else tried to do it."

"Mass Effect 3," Hudson said, "will be easier because we don't have to worry about continuity into the next one." While no one ever expected the Mass Effect world to go away after the Shepard trilogy, it sounds like they're pretty dead set to wrap the current story arc up in the third game.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

was it really necessary to end your article with that last paragraph? All Hudson is saying is that there is no direct sequel to Shepard's story AFTER ME3, so they don't have to worry about continuity going through to another game. Seems a bit of sloppy journalism to get readers. Have some respect for your profession

Anonymous said...

Also, I found this link, someone's been compiling all the links for the new ME2 information in one Google Text Document, pretty handy. THere are also GameInformer scans of the New Normandy SR-2

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd78xshh_22fvjpmzcj

Hans said...

Sorry, man. Got it wrong. I'm a blogger and not a journalist. Some posts I do contain only a sentence, some are longer. If you can deal with that, feel free to subscribe.