“Obviously I can’t say anything,” he said, “but it wouldn’t be a bad idea.”
Rock, Paper Shotgun‘s John Walker had some fun with this, floating theories about the meaning behind Gamble’s statement — perhaps the save-game code contains some Great Untold Secret! Perhaps it is because the code has become self-aware and this would be tantamount to murder!
Maybe this calls for a more detailed analysis of Gamble’s language. After all, “It’s not a bad idea to keep your saves” is different from “It’s a good idea to keep your saves.” It’s not a bad idea — if it were a bad idea to keep your saves, Gamble would have warned us. Therefore, we can conclude that it is safe to keep our Mass Effect 3 saves, that they won’t corrupt or destroy our hard drives. Also, is it ever a bad idea to delete save games? Maybe he just means that it’ll be good to keep in them in case we ever want to play Mass Effect 3 again.
Or, you know, it could just be that EA and BioWare are planning to make more games in their hugely successful, rapidly growing video game franchise rather than arbitrarily ending it forever after the third game. Time will tell!
Hang on to your Mass Effect 3 saves, suggests BioWare [GamerZines via Rock, Paper Shotgun]
AerintheADEQUATE
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 8:00 AMDLC dénouement?
Zparks
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 8:20 AMCould mean a game not based on Shepard, but set in the world (s)he’s had an affect on??
warcroft
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 9:06 AMSo how do we roll our ME saves from the Xbox 360 to the new console? If thats what they have planned.
I wish I could use my ME1&2 Xbox saves on my PC. Then I would definitely get ME3 for the PC.
McGarnical
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 9:22 AMYeah that’d be pretty cool. Should be pretty easy for them the implement.
I wonder if CD Project Red will look into this for people who played Witcher 1 on PC but want to Xbox their Witcher 2 experience.
That Teemo
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 10:04 AMI’d say there would be a option for the Cloud.
Richard
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 2:37 PMI recently just preordered mass effect 3 on the PC.. even though both ME1 and 2 were played on the xbox. Just looking at the difference in graphics, mods etc. was compelling enough for me to change.
There is a website called http://www.massefectsaves.com or something.. you can download other peoples saved ME1 & 2 Games from there. Only reason I made the change. You should check it out.
Bait
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 10:23 AMThere’s been talk of more Mass Effect universe games in the future. Why not the future of your Shepard? Or why not Zoidberg?
Joshy206
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 11:14 AMThis is them saying “it might happen. Maybe not. But future games might use data from Mass Effect 3.” It’s not a confirmation, really.
weresmurf
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 12:00 PMBioware confirmed years back there would definitely be ME games beyond 3. They just wouldnt be about Shepherd directly. I love the idea of a persistently affected universe based on your actions carrying over :)
Jacky
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 12:41 PManother trilogy game that goes beyond the trilogy…..who would have thought….
Joshy206
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 1:57 PMWhen Mass Effect 2 came out we were told that Mass Effect was Shepard’s trilogy, not the Universe’s. Shepard won’t appear again, but the world will, which is awesome! :D
Lucas
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 5:06 PMIt’ll just be a trilogy in 4 parts ;)
BZAGENIUS
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 1:05 PMObviously DLC
Baskerville
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 10:56 PMThey will give us a shit tonne of it. All really cheaply made.
Crispus
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 1:35 PMGood….post Reaper Mass Effect is what I am most looking forward to.
DrBeach
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 4:11 PMand then the milk another game series until its dead. inb4 COD 2.0
Mawt
Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 12:39 PMYou’ll be able to export your Shepard to the new Mass Effect Sims expansion – now that the galaxy no longer needs saving, you can focus your efforts on the “story” surrounding your “relationships”.
Matt
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 6:16 PMI’m betting it will be cross promotion, much in the same way playing the Kingdom of Amalur demo rewards an item for Mass Effect 3