Mass Effect. Galaxy Edition || Walkthrough No Commentary - Part 26 [Credits]

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Published on October 12, 2014 9:13:43 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcu0QXjZ68Y

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Mass Effect (2007)

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8. The game's developers spend a lot of time looking at Mass Effect fan-art on Deviant Art
Hudson says he hasn't read much Mass Effect fan-fic, but when he's working, "sometimes I'll open up a window on DeviantArt and go through the Mass Effect fan art." And he says it's more than just idle curiosity that has him flipping through fan-made images — "going back to Star Wars, I've always thought that the things that people draw are the things they remember. You can't draw something you don't remember." So when he looks at fan-art on DeviantArt, it tells him "what designs resonate with people, or what moments resonate. It shows what people are interested in and what worked for them."

So what does he see a lot of on DeviantArt? The Shepard-Garrus romance. As you might already know, Garrus wasn't originally going to be a love interest for Shepard, because Garrus is an exoskeleton-wearing alien. But the fans demanded it, so Bioware added a Shepard-Garrus romance in ME2. Says Hudson:

It sort of culminates in a really sweet scene where Shepard is forehead to forehead with Garrus, with the blue fish tank in the background in this beautiful little scene. That seems to be one of the most duplicated moments in fan art that I've seen-many, many recreations of their particular Commander Shepard with Garrus. It's really neat to see a scene like that obviously meant a lot to people.

9. They always planned Mass Effect as a trilogy — and there are no plans for a further continuation right now.
You might already know that Mass Effect was always conceived as a trilogy, actually. Says Hudson:

The nice thing about a trilogy is that it's more than one, so you know you've got a few games to look forward to, and there's something big that's going to happen. But, it's also finite. You know that there's an ending, and you know when the ending is coming. You can look forward to it, and you can get excited, and when the ending comes, you can be satisfied with a conclusion to things.

10. They considered having a different actor be the voice of the male Shepard.
If your Commander Shepard is a dude, then you're hearing the voice of Mark Meer coming out of his mouth. Originally, Meer's voice was just a temporary fill-in, doing some demo stuff "to help us work through the prototype process," says Hudson. Meer is "a theater actor in Edmonton, that we had used for other demo stuff for previous games," but the developers fully intended to hire a different actor to go back and re-record Shepard's voice. In the end, though, having the voice of Shepard be local to Edmonton was a huge advantage, since they didn't know how much "redo and scratch track and iteration" they'd need to. Meer got to become the permanent voice of Shepard, because they decided, "Let's give someone local a chance," says Hudson. Plus they realized, "He's doing a really good job, and he does have this Harrison Ford, everyman-kind of voice." Also, Shohreh Aghdashloo was originally going to voice Liara's mother in the first game, but she wasn't available — so instead, she became the voice of a Quarian admiral in ME2.

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