Very underwhelming trailer. I think they have done a pretty good job with Inquisition, it started to rebuild my faith in them...but the new DLC is a bit pricey for the content. My love will always be the ME trilogy...
For me, my love will always go to the first and original game. It had a much broader scale of adventure while laying down the foundation for something really new and potentially dark setting. Even more darker than the darkest moments of Star Wars! You can tell that BioWare had such an enormous success with Knights of the Old Republic that they wanted to create their own IP so they could exploit their ideas in a Star Wars like setting without having to surrender their whole work to a studio that would not only keep it, but also abandon it. What BioWare could do they could claim as their own, and it was fantastic!... until they were bought out by EA and now EA owns their IP. Fudge.
ME2 was a decent follow-up, but it took many steps in the wrong direction. One of the most notable being the exclusion of same-sex romances. I know Liara tried to argue this point by saying her species is mono-gendered, but come on. Even with female Shepard, she would still be the one fulfilling the female biology role of being the one to carry and give birth to their kids. While the Liara romance could be continued in the side missions, it's was just that. Things on the side that are not as big as the main ones, who are all straight. BUT! I will give Mass Effect 2 some high points for giving us the best DLC I've seen in the game, Lair of the Shadow Broker. If you were with Liara, this felt like the perfect apology from those who had shied away from it. Plus it had good production values, great settings and an ending that was so good I save the DLC for the very end because it makes for a much better overall ending than the real one, and thank god the DLC acknowledges that it can take place after the real ending to make it more legit.
It's sad when you look at ME3 and how BioWare not only moved on from the Fox shaming from the first game, but they took the relationships to a whole new level! While ME1 and ME2 had same-sex romances, they were all bi-sexual in nature and only with women (again, sorry Liara). ME3 not only introduced characters who you could romance if you were the same sex, but would turn you down if you were the opposite sex! That macho manly male Shepard thinks he can save the galaxy and get any woman he wants? Not with Samantha Traynor he doesn't. God, Samantha. By far the only great thing that Mass Effect 3 introduced. Sure, she was quick to get into bed with female Shep, but you realize that not only is this girl not flinging around, but the moments with her and Shepard are some of the most genuine and well acted moments in the whole series. Seriously, I love Samantha Traynor so much that I'm willing to skip romancing Liara throughout ME1 and ME2 just to romance her. Now you could say that I could dump Liara and go for Samantha, but I'm not hurter.... Well, maybe I'd romance Kaiden in ME1 and get him killed, then Jacob in ME2 and get him killed! I'll mourn for Kaiden, but if you've played ME3 with a Shepard who romanced Jacob, you will not mourn Jacob. Seriously, six months after being separated and he not only fell head over heals with a Cerberus scientist, but also got her knocked up! That Jacob is terrible.
