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Mass Effect 4 to be shown off at Comic Con?

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Every year in San Diego, Comic Con descends on the city and promises to bring plenty of geeks to town. Lately, though, it has become more about series and movies than actual comic books, and sometimes even big video games. This time, it looks like Mass Effect 4 might get shown off, too.

In a session on Saturday at San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) titled “Charting a Course: Developing the Next Mass Effect” we get the following description:

Mass Effect developers from the Edmonton and Montreal studios discuss what it’s like to expand on a well-established and beloved video game franchise. Panelists Carl Boulay (lead animator), Fabrice Condominas (producer), Mike Gamble (producer), Noel Lukasewich (senior artist), and Jessica Merizan (community manager), share their experiences in shaping the next Mass Effect game with new possibilities while staying true to the critically acclaimed series. Moderated by Nerdist.com.

Producers and artists talking about making the new Mass Effect game? Awesome! That should hopefully mean that we get to see some new concept art, at least, and maybe get some choice tidbits about gameplay, development and when we will actually see more. The SDCC panel takes place 26 July, so it’s not too much longer to wait for some more news.

I don’t want to distract from my excitement for Dragon Age: Inquisition – that game looks far too beautiful. I really am curious what they will do with the new Mass Effect, though. We’ve been told it won’t just be a reboot of Shepard’s story, so how will they approach that universe in a new way? I trust Bioware to make an awesome epic out of it, here’s just hoping that they have an ending already planned.

Last Updated: July 15, 2014

52 Comments

  1. Alien Emperor Trevor

    July 15, 2014 at 08:13

    I’d wait & see what DA:I is like before getting excited about ME4, although it’s looking good now. While I liked the last DA & ME games they were just average really.

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    • Umar Fong Wong

      July 15, 2014 at 08:19

      #TrueTalk

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      • Rince&pop

        July 15, 2014 at 08:21

        ME was average? You two on tik?

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        • Umar Fong Wong

          July 15, 2014 at 08:22

          ME 3 was overrated. DA 2 wasn’t NEARLY as good as DA 1, far from it infact

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          • Rince&pop

            July 15, 2014 at 08:22

            DA 2 was crap ya. But The ME series were brilliant, the second being the best.

          • Umar Fong Wong

            July 15, 2014 at 08:24

            Trev said the LAST ME game, The series as a whole is great yes, but ME 3 was way overrated

          • Rince&pop

            July 15, 2014 at 08:24

            Still loved ME 3, especially with the DLC 😛

          • Umar Fong Wong

            July 15, 2014 at 08:25

            YOU DESTROYED THIS INDUSTRY!

          • Rince&pop

            July 15, 2014 at 08:25

            *SMILES

          • Umar Fong Wong

            July 15, 2014 at 08:26

            Truthfully though, we say we hate EA and their practices, how many of us are willing to skip ME 4 to not support EA?

          • Rince&pop

            July 15, 2014 at 08:29

            Agreed. Sadly they do make some decent games…

          • Umar Fong Wong

            July 15, 2014 at 08:31

            Yeah no. They do, thus the cycle will always continue

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            July 15, 2014 at 08:31

            Me. I’m skipping DA:I too.

          • Umar Fong Wong

            July 15, 2014 at 08:32

            I wonder how much DLC will be released with that game

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            July 15, 2014 at 08:34

            Me too. They’ve been suspiciously quiet about it.

          • Umar Fong Wong

            July 15, 2014 at 08:37

            Yup, but we all know that we’re gonna be hit with them item packs and extra story content soon after the game is released

          • Hammersteyn

            July 15, 2014 at 08:40

            Buying it secondhand, that way no money for EA.

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            July 15, 2014 at 08:54

            I can’t do that. Win some / lose some.

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 15, 2014 at 08:35

            “You have run out of ammo. Please hand us $12.50 for a full clip.”
            Sadly, that is something I can picture too EAsily.

          • Willem Swanepoel

            July 15, 2014 at 08:39

            are you judging ME 3 because of the poor ending ?

            If you ignore the last 10minutes of ME3 then it is actually a brilliant game.

          • Hammersteyn

            July 15, 2014 at 08:40

            Agreed, but we can’t. Send moar cupcakes!

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 15, 2014 at 08:48

            So what you are saying is that you were playing a great game until the ending. Then it ruined the whole experience for you? Isn’t that a bit petty, my good sir?

          • Hammersteyn

            July 15, 2014 at 08:55

            Well I enjoyed the third Matrix right up until the end. A bad ending can ruin any good story

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 15, 2014 at 08:58

            No. It simply means the ending was bad. The rest of the story up until that point was still great.

          • Hammersteyn

            July 15, 2014 at 09:08

            So we should play/watch up until the shitty part?

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 15, 2014 at 09:15

            Look, you know the shitty part is there. Nothing you can do about it. Unless you download the DLC ending. And no, this is not a license to rant about DLC, because in my mind, at least EA was ballsy enough to admit to fans they fucked up the ending.
            But the point being: Shooting down a great game because of a shitty ending is kind of petty to me. Negative even. Reminds me of a spoilt brat yelling obscenities at his mom because the beans in his plate touched the rice or something.

          • Rags

            July 15, 2014 at 10:22

            The original ending was fucking epic imo. The only thing I can criticise bioware is their lack of commitment to of fixing these damn bugs; the missing textures in the citadel on npc’s, and Aria speech warping. God knows even Quake Live still gets patched and Quake 3 is now 14 years old.

          • Umar Fong Wong

            July 15, 2014 at 08:47

            Not quite, I’m one of the few people that didn’t actually mind the ending

          • JHN

            July 15, 2014 at 09:47

            I will second that, as much as I hate DLC getting all the ME3 DLC then playing it again are well worth it.

          • Andre116

            July 15, 2014 at 13:46

            And the multiplayer. Ahh…many a evening spent with a team of drunken Krogans, all dressed in yellow for some reason.

          • Rince&pop

            July 15, 2014 at 13:49

            Ah man, dem memories! We need to jam that again! Only OvG refuses to play online now… Dam twit that he is.

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            July 15, 2014 at 08:31

            He can like to read good.

          • Rince&pop

            July 15, 2014 at 08:40

            Sorry, I got as far as you saying you enjoyed DA2 and then everything you wrote made no sense.

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            July 15, 2014 at 08:43

            That’s what the ham sandwich told the chicken after Iran refused it’s entry visa.

          • Rince&pop

            July 15, 2014 at 08:43

            Exactly. And we all know how that ended…

          • Hammersteyn

            July 15, 2014 at 08:42

            But we wanted to know how it all ended. ME2 left us hungry for closure. We were promised choices. The game was good but the ending was worst than the third Matrix

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            July 15, 2014 at 08:48

            When it comes to choices affecting the game The Witcher delivered where ME quite honestly failed to live up to its promises. I was quite fine with the original ending of ME too – when I first heard the raging about it I was like… huh?

          • Umar Fong Wong

            July 15, 2014 at 08:50

            Same here! Don’t get why everyone raged liked that….But I do also get the player’s who thought their choices ACTUALLY mattered were disappointed

          • Hammersteyn

            July 15, 2014 at 08:57

            Did you not find them a bit samey? Also all the decisions made in the game were for naught. You could be a turd the whole game but still pick any conclusion. All the lies about how your choices over the three games would affect the outcome was bull.

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            July 15, 2014 at 09:05

            I only played ME3 once & went with synergy, never looked at the other endings.

          • Hammersteyn

            July 15, 2014 at 09:07

            Same, but when the rage started I Youtubed the other ones, then I saw what the fuss was about

          • Umar Fong Wong

            July 15, 2014 at 08:51

            Matrix ending……*shudder*……………..Trinity…Poor Trinity

          • Hammersteyn

            July 15, 2014 at 08:59

            Described in one word. Bullshit

          • Umar Fong Wong

            July 15, 2014 at 08:59

            AGREE!

        • Viking Of Science

          July 15, 2014 at 08:56

          After Bioware were bought out by EA their games became “safe” for lack of a better term, I played 10 hours into the first Dragon Age and realised it was just a waste of time… With Mass Effect, I got bird within the first 4 hours of the first game…. Their games are just so bland…. But that’s my opinion…

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          • Viking Of Science

            July 15, 2014 at 08:58

            What I’m saying is they’ve done High Fantasy better with Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights, and Sci-Fi Better with KOTOR and KOTOR 2. Even if you strip the licenses away, They were just better games….

    • Dutch Matrix

      July 15, 2014 at 08:26

      Average = Gears of War 3.

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      • Rince&pop

        July 15, 2014 at 08:29

        But, but, DOOOOOOM!

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        • Dutch Matrix

          July 15, 2014 at 08:38

          I will be honest and say that the deaths of the Brothers Carmine in the previous two games were more tear jerking than Dom’s death.

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    • Matthew Holliday

      July 15, 2014 at 10:28

      Im trying not to get too hyped on ME4, but theyv had an alpha out since December, which they sent home with their Devs for the holiday.
      So either Bioware have put their foot down against EA rushing them, or EA are, cross fingers, learning.

      DA:I, well, atm Im happy, when i pre-ordered it, it was R450, its now up to R540, so it feels like I already have it on special =D

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        July 15, 2014 at 10:35

        I hope so. My main objection against EA is their crappy business practices, so if that’s changing I’m happy – I’ve always enjoyed their games. Nice saving too 😀

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  2. Hammersteyn

    July 15, 2014 at 08:46

    “We’ve been told it won’t just be a reboot of Shepard’s story” Yeah they tell us a lot of things. Like every decision is crucial. Fuck off EA

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