Talking about Mass Effect 3 With Spoilers

[Kerensky287]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

...I'm kind of confused as to how that works exactly with Bioware's earlier pronouncement that no new characters introduced would be LI options.

What they said was that the earlier pronouncement was made at an earlier stage in development. I mean, that's the official word I heard. It confuses me too.

So I dunno, maybe they said it and then a few weeks later went "Eeeeeeehhhhhh... lesbians."

[Aerozord]

thats one of the reasons you normally dont hear much about a game until very late in development. If you follow commentaries and interviews with developers things get added and removed all the time, and I dont mean minor things, sometimes entire mechanics.

Originally they probably felt adding more love interests would be too much on the programmers but later found out they could manage it

[Melfice]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

...I'm kind of confused as to how that works exactly with Bioware's earlier pronouncement that no new characters introduced would be LI options.

Originally Posted by Casey Hudson's Twitter

.@trickfred "no new LI's" was an oversimplification of an answer I gave back in early Apr. And things always evolve in mid-production.

Source: http://twitter.com/#!/CaseyDHudson/s...60485537947648

[Solid Snake]

Heh. So maybe you can mack it up with this new James character.

I'm still waiting to hear which ME2 characters will be back as permanent squaddies.

[Osterbaum]

At one point there was some talk about how squad mates would've changed, not only in appearance but their character aswell. They used Jack as an example; something about maybe she'd have some hair and put on a bit more clothing and would be a bit less of a psycho. Anyway, the fact that they used Jack as an example seemed to imply she'd have a big role which I suspect would be as a squad mate.

e: I'm just going to speculate here for a bit. Just a complete guess, mostly. But let's say you get 8 team members (since they said you would have less than before): Kaidan/Ashley, Liara, Tali, Garrus, Grunt, Jack, James whoever and Miranda. Of course 10 squad mates would still be less than in ME2, so let's add two more: Mordin, Legion.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Osterbaum

e: I'm just going to speculate here for a bit. Just a complete guess, mostly. But let's say you get 8 team members (since they said you would have less than before): Kaidan/Ashley, Liara, Tali, Garrus, Grunt, Jack, James whoever and Miranda. Of course 10 squad mates would still be less than in ME2, so let's add two more: Mordin, Legion.

Definitely think there will be more than one new teammate, and I also think Legion and Jack are almost definitely permanent squadmates based on Bioware's frequent prattling on how they "updated" them.

The more I hear the less I'm convinced Miranda will actually be permanent squaddie material, actually. Though I'm sure she'll join you when you finally take on the Illusive Man.

[Osterbaum]

Yeah and there was also some talk about how some team mates might be with you but not participate in missions and such?

Personally I hope they don't add more than two new squad mates because we already have enough good ones to choose from. Also I'd much rather see more time spent on a growing relationships with the team mates you already know instead of building new ones.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Osterbaum

Yeah and there was also some talk about how some team mates might be with you but not participate in missions and such?

personaly I think it should be possible to have everyone of your old squadmates on your side even if they aren't mission choices. This should be so hard to pull off its unlikely unless you go back and play both with the intent of getting that result, but still I'd like it to be possible

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Osterbaum

Yeah and there was also some talk about how some team mates might be with you but not participate in missions and such?

Don't have the link on me but Bioware pretty much confirmed that Mordin (if alive) was going to hang on the Normandy as your scientist, but not join in any missions.
(I've speculated before as to the possibility that Mordin might still "pull a Liara" from Shadow Broker and join Shepard on a specific mission to the Salarian homeworld or something, but that's just my speculation.)

[Krylo]

Mordin may be side lined because he's old as fuck. Salarians don't live that long, remember, and he was already old enough to be considered a retiree at the beginning of ME2.