By Jim Rossignol on November 17th, 2010 at 1:49 pm.
They said it couldn’t be done, but Bioware did it anyway. Their next – as yet unrevealed – game will feature a man with a gun. We at Rock, Paper, Shotgun have often said that more games should feature a) men, or b) guns, but to combine the two in a single videogame product is something we had hardly dared to dream of.
I can scarcely contain myself for the full announcement of what this teaser image is implying about the future of videogames. I’m crying here. Crying.
Teaser below. Update: also an ode to men with guns. Thanks, internet.
Also this:
I don’t believe it. You must have made a mistake, with current technology it’s simply impossible to have both men and guns in the same game.
Next time maybe do some basic research rather than print your insane flights of fancy.
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I agree. The decline of RPS is shocking. Now they’re even breaching the laws of what’s physically possible!
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What? Are we to expect them to pioneer a whole new genre of game? Pffack, good luck with that! A sure flop!
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Hold on to your breech’s… but i hear it would also include cover-based combat and regenerating health…
*sob*
We truly are living in an age of wonders…
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Ironically, Age of Wonders remains one of the awesomest games ever.
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I just can’t express how appropriate this song is right now.
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AWESOME.
KG
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I agree with KG.
Also, thing I remember Press Play On tape for mostly is that live performance of Cannon Fodder they have on the net somewhere.
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Gosh that’s absolutely terrific! Thanks.
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@CMaster
It’s their YouTube channel so both videos are there.
In case you are too lazy to look… CLICK
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So good it got added to the article…
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You made my day. My sincere thanks, friend!
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Lesuire Suit Larry did not need no steeenking gun
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Oh man. I’d forgotten how awesome Press Play on Tape were.
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That song is beyond awesome. Absolutely sums up the main reason I love gaming.
Thanks for the link mlaskus!
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THAT. WAS. FANTASTIC.
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Shock! They’ve even made him look mean and unfriendly and given him an asshole haircut too! Imagine that.
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Well he’s not bald, so that’s got to count for something.
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I’ve heard you’ll be tasked with growing a beard.
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He appears to be sporting a Kermodian quiff. A clue?
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Now who’s the badass biotic bitch now? Man with gun pah…
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And who said innovation was dead?
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MEN OF GUNS II: MENNIER AND GUNNIER.
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It’s… it’s beautiful! HOLD ME!!!1
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MoH the action / Rpg?
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*giggle* Well played.
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I reckon it’s Femshep’s repressed gay brother at his coming out party.
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In a couple of generations time I’m willing to bet we’ll see games with men and guns driving vehicles.
Watch this space!
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Whoa-whoa-whoa!
Men with guns driving vehicles in SPACE?
I think you’ve jumped ahead a couple of generations, my friend.
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They gave a gun to a man! The videogame crysis has begun!
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More like they’ve given a man to a gun!
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“LOOK CLOSER”
Anyone else catch that bit at the end? Probably just something useless, though.
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Probably the first breadcrumb for a huge ARG. I can never be bothered to mess with those though.
Unless – UNLESS! – EA is bringing back StarFlight with BioWare. Then I’d stay up all night sifting for Uhlek transmissions.
Yeah, that’ll happen.
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Starflight… I’d kill for a new version of it (For I am a man, and I can get a gun)
But it will probably rot in the EA crypt before being reinvented as a FPS
:(
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A new version of Starflight, done properly, would be the most life-devouring thing ever. Damn Veloxi, I bow before no bug!
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I must have already spent all of my excitement on the news about Aerosoft’s new Bus Simulator.
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For shame, RPS! This isn’t a man with a gun, but a gun with a man. A common mistake I’m sure, but I expect better from you guys (well, except John).
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That’s already been done by Rogue Trooper.
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Heh, though that’s more a man with a gun with a man (with a hat with a man and a bag with a man).
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I dare to speculate on the name:
“Gun-The origins”
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Not enough colons to be a game title.
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Dragon Age 2 just totally jumped the shark.
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Next they’ll have a woman with a gun. What a glorious future that will be!
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Will computer game companies never learn?! The last time somebody tried to sell a game that involved a Man with a Gun, Activision’s Aim Controller, it not only bankrupted the company, it almost brought down the entire gaming industry. If we’ve learned anything these past few decades it’s that no matter how much we try, we’re not going to get boys to play videogames by appealing to “boy things.” Pony-stroking simulators have always been the most popular type of game on any platform and there’s no reason to think that’s going to change. Instead of worrying about low male participation in gaming, let’s make it a friendlier place for those of us boys who already are here. I stopped playing World of Horsecraft because I got tired of jackasses constantly asking me to “show my dick.” I know that’s keeping in character for the Jackass-class, but really, it’s not going to make me, or any other men, want to play games online.
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Tell me about it. Sometimes I sit for hours watching my wife play, wishing they’d make a game that was aimed at me!
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It’s actually Mass Effect 3. My geuss says that it is, at least.
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Would be weird to advertise it like that though. “Mass Effect 3, from the makers of the Mass Effect series!” Yeah no shit.
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WARNING: INTERNET SARCASM AND IRONY REACTOR IS IN DANGER OF OVERLOAD, PLEASE PROVIDE MORE BLUNT AND PAINFULLY DIRECT SOCIAL COMMENTARY TO RESTORE BALANCE
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We need more games featuring men with guns in this world like we need more cancer
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Thinternet.
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Every day is better with a Look Around You reference.
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Just for the record, the gun is an Incisor from ME2 with a gritty texture on it. They are either re-using textures or it’s a game set in the ME universe, if not ME3.
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If guns were never invented, would it be man with a crossbow?
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No! I think it would be a man with a you know what.
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It’s not just a man with any gun, it’s a man with the incisor sniper rifle from ME2.
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Those are not guns!
Its just a swiss knife resembling a gun!
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I’ve always dreamed about the day Bioware would go for the man with gun idea. Sure, it’s obscure and a bit too sophisticated for most people, but with someone like Bioware behind it, I’m sure the idea can gain traction and maybe finally find a prominent place in the cultural landscape.
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Clearly it is not a gun, but a watering can, and this is going to be Bioware’s new gardening RPG.
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Plants vs. Zombies – the FPS?
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This will never sell. No one wants to play a game featuring a man with a gun. It’s all well and good trying to be innovative, but by combining a man and a gun in the same game, they’ve really reduced it’s potential audience.
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RPS comments
day = made
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I dare to speculate:
It will be Biowares return to turn based , isometric, strategy RPG !
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I don’t get it.
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/--- Caress Trigger
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Investigate ------(0)------ Fire at Presidential Motorcade
--- Fondle Barrel
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No, I DIDN’T mess up an ASCII rendering of a Mass Effect-style conversation tree. This is ACTUALLY how the conversation trees will look in Man With Gun.
Because conversations are an AFTERTHOUGHT.
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does the pre keyword work?
/ screw that
0 - it doesn't
\ sure does
nbsps are our only ally.
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Meh. I used the ‘code’ tag. But now I see that we have edit capabilities, so perhaps…
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That’s okay, Corporate Dog.
You know why?
YOUR CONVERSATION TREE LOOKS LIKE A GUN.
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Jim, I’m sensing a deep, underlying anger here.
Do you have some kind of unresolved past issue with one or more men with one or more guns?
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I’m going to break the monotony of the joke that died about 20 posts back yet keeps returning, and say that I find these news interesting and look forward to the reveal of the game. Mainly because it’s Bioware. A quick blurry image of man-with-gun is ever so slightly too vague to make anything about. I like the look of the gun!?
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Is that Alpha Protocol 2? Now it’s Obsidian doing the original and Bioware doing the sequel. The end is nigh!
Well there’s no way it could be a Call of Duty clone instead of an RPG, right?
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Guns? In MY video games?
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It is far, far more likely than you think.
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So Mass Effect 3 really is gonna be Space Adventures of Male Space Marine RPG?
(yes I know I’m inferring a lot from a 3 second teaser, but face it: this is what for most of the ME1 and 2 players the game looked like)
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So am I the only one that noticed it looks almost identical to the Mass Effect Incisor snipe rifle?
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Nope, someone else already pointed that out upthread (it’s hardly surprising not many have noticed as it’s a pretty generic looking DLC-only gun). If it is Mass Effect 3 I’ll be somewhat disappointed. It’s just not Mass Effect if the armour isn’t all form-fitting smooth clean lines with lots of sexy neon tubing.
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Not just ANY man, it’s Ben Affleck with a gun.
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I think you are all mistaken. He is clearly an expert optometrist, on an epic quest to assemble seven superior glasses from the lenses of sniper rifle scopes.
Although based on the frame at the top, he may just be nervously having a poo in an abandoned factory.
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I really hope to see more posts using the second tag in future.
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It also looks like he sports one of these bitchin’ hairdoes.
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I was going to make a post about people looking too far into things, ’cause that doesnt look at all like an me3 game. But a quick image search and that *does* look very much like the Incisor. Almost exactly the same in fact, apart from the texture and the stand at the front.
Recycled assets?
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….”Thinternet”.
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Obvious game reveal is …. well, obvious.
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What about Mass Effect 3? :(
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I don’t want to get your hopes up, but if you look closely at one or two frames in the video where we can see out the shattered window a bit, you can see an urban environment that may or may not be reminiscent of the citadel.
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Nah, this isn’t Mass Effect 3, it’s either a Shatter Steel reboot or a new IP, either way what with Dragon Age 2 on the way, and The Old Republic with it, surely they don’t have enough people to have a teem working solidly on the next ME game, which is a shame.
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Gunman: Origins.
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It looks like they gave Michael Rooker a gun.
Actually, I think he comes with a gun when you hire him.
EDIT: Pff, the first time I try an href tag under the new comment system and I have to get it right. Now I’ll never have a legitimate reason to use the edit function.
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Men of Guns: Guns of War
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Maybe it is a Mass Effect prequel showing Shephard’s great grand daddy. Or Baldur’s Gate 3 which is set in modern times and with guns!
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Thinternet.
Comment too short? Bwah?
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Its ME guys. Come on. I may have been wrong about the heavy in Poker Night, but I’m right here.
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It says “Look closer” right at the end. I tried stepping through, but YouTube makes that really difficult. I’m sure I saw some odd text flash up during the bit where the Spike logo rolls across the screen, but it was obscured and blurry and I couldn’t really read it. Can’t get the vid to stop in the same place again now, though. There’s also an image of some sort before the “Look closer”, all yellowy and over-exposed, and I couldn’t work out what it’s supposed to be.
Or maybe I’m just imagining things while grasping at straws.
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It’s a gun with a man – what will they think of next.
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I love how the teaser emphasizes Mass Effect 2, the action game highly successful on all platforms, and Dragon Age 2, the unreleased, “consolized” sequel to their RPG highly successful on PC – as opposed to DA: Origins. Seems they just want everyone to forget about that.
Of course, this is probably just me being massively paranoid. BUT STILL.
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…or they prefer to mention their newer game because if someone wanted to buy Origins he or she probably did it already.
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I’m calling it right now.
Mass Age: Dragon Effect.
You heard it here first, people.
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Oh my GOD. A man with a gun!
GOTY.
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It’s slightly disturbing that they say ‘creators of Mass Effect and Dragon Age’ and then show Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age II. This is surely a shift away from the traditional Bioware RPG to this wild new ‘men with guns’ genre!
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LOL nice try. I call faked.
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Uh, well. Hmmm. A few people have picked up on the similarities to Mass Effect, and apparently that’s a very good guess. Kotaku is saying that this is a spin-off of Mass Effect that is only multiplayer: http://kotaku.com/5692552/rumor-biowares-new-mass-effect-is-a-multiplayer-spin+off
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@pattom
Noooo, no multiplayer! Why?!? First The Old Republic and now this? I’m sorry, but I hope you’re wrong.
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Guys. It’s confirmed(semi officially)! Mass Effect 3.
http://www.destructoid.com/sony-reveals-mass-effect-3-hides-evidence-188252.phtml
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It’s mass erect 3.
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