Does this mean ME5 was close to completion, or that a trailer can be cobbled together early in production? I suspect it’s the latter seeing how many trailers precede the game by several years.
Have you seen the last Elder Scrolls trailer?
It would most likely have been a cinematic trailer, created by a VFX company hired for the job. ME5 was in early production, likely no game to speak of at this point, just storylines and concept art mostly. Maybe a vertical slice demo, but I doubt it.
It wasn’t
Yeah and they repeatedly said it was in “early stages” of production.
Concepts of early stages of production.
From what everyone was able to cobble together with rumors and hearsay is that they had a core idea ready, but waited till after Veilguard to commit more resources to the project. I guess we can assume it got a bit further along before it was canned.
They started working on art assets, sound and animations at the very least for this WIP trailer but even then the ingame trailer isnt complete (lots of reused assets). My guess is its all paperwork with maybe a few blockouts to prototype new gameplay ideas while the art team worked on the trailer
It looks like it was early production
Not just reportedly. Someone leaked the trailer on reddit.
Oh that actually looks good
Does it? It looks completely generic to me, replace the characters and the alien species and you could have any other franchise in there.
The trailer goes like: boringly obvious convo > spy movie flash cuts > obvious convo > obvious reveal > Liara! > boring fight scene where MC has no challenge (oh look, they used one ability!). There’s nothing that could indicate this being a good successor to the trilogy, enough to warrant a 5. At least with Andromeda it was clearly a spin off. I don’t see how this trailer gives any indication aside from Liara that this matters at all for the Mass Effect mainline story and universe.
Fans are just desperate, and on denial. Mass Effect is a trilogy, it ended with ME3. There are no further stories to tell on the main timeline.
I watched it again on my pc just to see if I had missed anything. The only thing is that they were apparently calling it Mass Effect Universe, not ME5, so it seems this was also supposed to be a spin off. It could’ve been fun, but I doubt it would’ve been more than just an okay game.
Thank you. I wouldn’t have ever known about it
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Cyberpunk 2077 also had a trailer … And then we had to wait 8 years. That doesn’t mean anything
Wait, when did we get Mass Effect 4?
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