@TearsandScreams:

I agree with a lot of what your saying. I definitely don't think games don't "belong" to a system.
HOwever, An extreme way to illustrate my point would be to imagine if Mass Effect 2 was on the PS3, then Mass Effect 3 was on the 360 again- everyone would hate that.

I realize the handheld games are usually side stories. But I like to get all the depth I can out of IP's that create cool universes.

Minigote

This is awful. Imagine how great it would look or the amount of openness and extra missions possible /sarcasm.

Make it on PSP if anything so that it keeps the same spirit of the console version. Nice graphics, similar controls and what I believe is a bigger storage capacity than DS.

karasu is my homeboy

@Skeezy727: You work for bioware? Any news on the KOTOR mmo?

Methusalah

I just cant make myself to like BioWare anymore...

@LittleBigPlaneteer: I guess its more likely than the 360 version being patched.
Then again, that does not say much about the PS3 version.

uzivatel

I just can't imagine being able to fit that crazy-big of a game into a portable and still do it justice. Nothing against the DS - it just doesn't seem easily "portable-ized".

Good example Blizzardjesus! Some games just aren't translatable to the smaller screen...

Taurus_McGee

@LittleBigPlaneteer:
no

Skeezy727

No thanks.

Dexyn

Make it Contra with dialog trees and I'll bite.

Wolfers

MOAR Mass Effect, Bioware. The internets have spoken.

BlackdogGT

@Minigote: It's always been that way though, Kingdom Hearts did it, Final Fantasy does it frequently, Metal Gear Solid, Killzone, God of War, Mario, Sonic etc. What if you just own a handheld? Should they not have made sequels to any handheld games on consoles for the same reason? Games don't 'belong' to any system, it's as the developers see fit. We all miss out on games (except the exceedingly rich). Just enjoy what you have.

If their Sonic RPG turs out good, I won't rule this out. I loved the original though, the numerous issues couldn't stand in the way of my total enjoyment. I know this won't be anything like it, but no reason why it can't be good.

TearsandScreams

I'm pretty sure if they brought Mass Effect to the DS, it would have to be a traditional RPG.
That would mean standard RPG combat, coupled with standard RPG linearity.

Simply put, it would have to remove all the things that make Mass Effect great.
It wouldn't be bad, per se. It would just be another generic game.

Ad-hominem

@mphz: @Doomstink:

Have you seen Assassins Creed DS. Taking the concept of a full experience and watering it down is a bad idea.

blizzardjesus

Psst Bioware, can we get a PS3 version?

LittleBigPlaneteer

after picking up an elite last month, i FINALLY popped my alien sex cherry on wednesday!

mister_shhh

Commander Shepard: Ace Spectre.

...No. Just no.

space trickfred

@blizzardjesus:

Mass Effect is shovelware? What are you talking about?

TF2Soldier914

@Mr. Fluffykins: More importantly, can the DS make people shut up with their opinions-as-facts?

Ashurahori

Touch Blue Aliens!

SigmundTheSeaMonster

Virtual orgasmic rape, now with touch controls

Struct09

@blizzardjesus: I hope to god that that was sarcasm.

Doomstink

I can see the Mass Effect control scheme working quite nicely on the DS.

Boozerz

@blizzardjesus: I wouldn't jump to conclusions. Now, if Mass Effect were to come to the Wii, well... I think we'd all let out a collective "meh".

mphz

This can't be good. Why don't they just think of new great IP's for the DS. That way we don't have to compare and complain over lost features. i.e. The cinematic dialogue we all loved will lose its effect when we are just reading everything.

I don't mind multiplatform releases. But I don't like it when sub-stories are on handhelds, what if I don't own that hand held? I shouldn't miss out on the story.

Minigote

Yay more shovelware.

blizzardjesus

Can the DS make the combat in Mass Effect not suck?

Mr. Fluffykins

@MistaJeff:
I was thinking the same thing. You wonder why Bioware would not make a PSP game. Heck they could market it to the people over in Japan and Bioware would make a load of cash. Seeing as the PSP systems are selling really well right now you would think that Bioware would want a piece of the pie. Also how many people will buy Mass Effect for the DS. I like the DS and all but only the childish games sell. So I see no kids picking this up. I would pick this up but I would prefer a PSP version more. I think if Bioware wants to make more DS games they should make new IPs. That way at least it is some thing new. Plus you could cater more for that market too.

BlackIceJoe

@uzivatel: Why would it need to be patched? Theres nothing that is broken about it. Better inventory system, longer main plot, reduced texture pop-ins will come in sequels (hopefully).

TheHun

I picked blue alien hottie too.

Did they deliberately make her way more appealing or am I just being (very successfully) profiled?

Dammit. Failed the Voigt-Kampff test again.

Yonderboy

@Mr. Fluffykins: Probably not, but the Xbox and PC were able to. I thought the combat was almost perfect once I got used to it.

FreakyFavabean

@Struct09: Ok, my bad, I missed that.

Crawl to China

I think one of the things that appealed to me about Mass Effect was the amount of 'quests', the large scope and the pretty.

I don't see that on DS.

Ryumeka

@blizzardjesus: What about Ninja Gaiden? That game is blazing on the handheld.

Bottom line, its all about the guys making it and what they want to do. The DS absolutely can make a game worthy of Mass Effect on the platform, and hell I am sure it'd be better than the original in a few ways (mostly interface).

Remember complainers, Bioware is wrapping up work on an RPG for the DS. They know what they can do on it.

chantastic

Portable virtual orgasmic rape, now with more Alien touching!
Go go Nintendo DS!

Crawl to China

Touching alien lesbians to see if they're witches? Hell yeah!

CockroachMan

Tonight, on Fox News: "DSEXXX RAPE, TERRORIST 9/11!?" A new game for the Nintendo DS called Mass Erect lets you digitally rape women and children and small animals and rewards you with points in the game. AND THAT'S JUST LEVEL 1.

We welcome video game rape expert, Cooper Laurence, and liberal commie faggot terrorist fist jabber rape apologist video gamer, Geoff Keighly. Is it true, Geoff, that you like men? Sexually?

"..No.."

That's gay for yes, for our audience out there. Now Cooper, isn't this game mind filth and corruption and didn't Iran make it to convert our childrens to radical Islam?

"Yes, yes, that's all true. It has full frontal digital HD surround sound Blu Ray GT V8 911 orgasmic rape. You can rape anything you see."

Geoff: "Have you even played the game."

Cooper: "No, but even if I had, I would still regurgitate whatever the Fox producers told me to say.. So there."

Time for our fair and balanced round table discussion, on a scale from one to ten, one being you're gay, and 10 being this game is, in fact, a left-wing terrorist, what would you guys rate it?

Random talking head: "It's terrible, this game is an 11. Some people say, and by some people, I mean our producers, that if the game doesn't convert you to a radical islam, or worse, a democrat, it blows up and kills your child. This is fact."

Talking head 2: "I've actually played this game and within minutes, I was raping everything I saw. IN REAL LIFE. Power of suggestion here, folks."

There you have it folks, our experts have weighed in. Next on Fox News, is Obama, Satan himself? New polls suggest yes, yes he is.

GiantEnemyCrab

they should make a game for the psp. i dunno what they have against sony.

MistaJeff

href="#c7123871">Shadowace:

Now your talking! That would be great expecially if it was a good 20 hour sub-plot or side story. I'd pay the cost of a DS game for that.

Minigote

as long as it was done in the style of monkey island, or the dig.

jigglypoofs

I rather have more DLC for mass effect 1

Shadowace

Why not bring it to the PSP as well? Or PS3 for that matter.

canchegundam

@bigman88zz: Maybe in the long run. But if they're offering a handheld ME, PSP is the handheld to do it on.

karasu is my homeboy

@LittleBigPlaneteer: has bioware ever done sony a favour? I think not but keep them hopes up!

MysteriousStranger

@Mr. Fluffykins: lmao. o, you're seriously

MysteriousStranger

@bigman88zz: There's no edit button because Kotaku doesn't want people getting into arguments, and then going back and changing their posts to support their arguments.

It's essentially to keep people from lying about what they said.

Ad-hominem

I kinda dislike it when companies make handheld versions of console games in which they are inferior in most ways to. Even if Mass Effect DS is great, why not just make a great original game for the DS? Ohhh right, Marketing.

@GiantEnemyCrab: lmfao

Refused

@bigman88zz: +s.

we can add disemvoweling, but not a simple edit button? come on kotaku. hell, id rather not have disemvoweling. its always fun to play with trolls.

bigman88zz

Why the DS? I would much rather have it on the PSP. I love it how NA developers talk like the PSP is dead and buried.

Baka_Survivor

@bigman88zz: *psp port

bigman88zz

@karasu is my homeboy: if they were going to do that, they might as well put it on the ps2 or the wii, since they get ps2 ports and all

bigman88zz

That's the second entry for Bioware & ME on Kotaku today. Are they about to make some kind of announcement or is it pure coincidence ?

Fabrice

@Doomstink: And just because EA owns BioWare doesn't mean it is going to be the same case. As stated, BioWare handheld games will be developed by BioWare, not some crappy company EA outsources the license to like Ubisoft does with their franchises.

Doomstink

@blizzardjesus: Ubisoft is a whole different beast than BioWare. Ubisoft routinely releases shovelware ports to handhelds, plus the handheld Assassins' Creed was not developed in house at the same studio that did the real game. The two companies are hardly comparable.

Doomstink

@blizzardjesus: You do know that Assasins Creed DS was made by Gameloft who make mobile phone games right? What about games that have translated to the DS greatly like Ninja Gaiden?

excel_excel

How about they finish the "episodic DLC" they promised us, first.

siempre

I love Mass Effect, but they already have a trilogy planned and I think I'd rather see them stick to it while it's still excellent on it's own.

If they're going to start experimenting on the DS, they should start with Dragon Age or another new IP. Or someone else's IP that's already currently crap like they're doing with Sonic.

Samutz

@canchegundam: NO, they want money, and the DS is where the money is...

TOCATL

@Ad-hominem: awww, but i like lying.

bigman88zz

Yeah they could keep interest alive by bringing the damn game to the PS3.

I wouldn't complain about a DS version if it was good... But I'd love to actually be able to play this!

2NinjasTapedTogether

@karasu is my homeboy: i dont know, they could go the iphone route...

bigman88zz

@blizzardjesus: Yeah, but that was Ubisoft... the KING of shovelware. This is Bioware.

Spiffyness

@GiantEnemyCrab: I think I love you! Y'know, as a friend. FRIENDED.

Kazzahdrane

@Hiatsu2k8:
yeah, those gameplay videos and screens really looked terrible -_-

roflwaffles

@TheHun: I dont expect them to fix the performance issues and inventory, no matter how bad it is. I am not sure they even admit there is anything wrong with the game.
But I do want patch - while not common, there are some bugs, that can only be "fixed" by starting new game ... and then there is that "too many skill to fit into the skill-gui" thing with Liara and some Shepard builds.

I hope you are right about sequels ... but I doubt it.

uzivatel

@mphz:

Meh for what? Most the places you visit is barren enough.

NiGHTSSTUDiO

I suggest they fix the Mass Effect PC sound issues first, before going out on new escapades.

Eruanno

Imagine now. The sex scene in the DS. Fox going to say that
kids can control the action with the stylus D=
Yep, I can see it now.

So...now Sonic is being used as a guinea pig? Oh well, might
as well use it for something good =/

Hades

Another amazing game with a shitty hand held spin off!?!?!

What a concept >.>

Hiatsu2k8

Do it!

hagridore

@blizzardjesus: How is Mass Effect shovelware? Or is that your bit at being "funny" or "cool" or whatever?

@chantastic: Good point. It's not the franchise that matters but who develops said game. Heck Mario would be crap if Titus had their hands on it.

@Hiatsu2k8: How do you know it's going to be shitty? They haven't even announced that they're going to make it. Sheesh judgmental much?

@Doomstink:
@excel_excel:
Good point! Seems like people like to bash things which aren't even ANNOUNCED yet. At least wait for the scrrenshots or trailers till you judge it as sub-par or "meh" or whatever.

excaliburps

@hagridore:

Do it right now!

don't even hesitate. Its a great idea make a good Mature rated DS game which it desperate needs

HannibalKing

I would buy it in an instant.

zgreenwell

o hai ther, im juzt playn mai psp, dun wurry i wuddnt want ur awesomely kewl gamee on my portable!

pandafresh

Can you just give us some fucking info on ME2?

TK423

Dialogue-intensive RPG + not enough space on the catridge for voice acting = lots and lots of tiny text to read.

Strangelove

I just picked up Mass Effect this past weekend ($30 used). It's probably the first RPG in a while that I'll actually finish. The last attempt was last year with FF XII, and I didn't make it very far.

The voice acting is absolutely top notch, which helps me care a about the plot much more than normal. It's funny that it's making a bit of news the week I started playing it. Maybe they'll start talking more about the sequel soon.... As it is, Mass Effect is getting me pumped to play Fallout 3.

RoboticSpacePenguin

i wonder how they'd port the combat and movement. If it's anything like metroid prime i hope they'll be sending a first aid kit and some massage oil.

Hopefully they'll give it more thought and polish than they did porting Jade Empire to the PC.

Doesn't Bioware have some games that'd suit the DS control style much better?
Kotor, Baldurs Gate, Neverwinter Nights all spring to mind.

leon01

@convercide:

Note to self. Stop playing GTA IV.

convercide

If they did it for either PSP or DS, I win!

I have both.

Genetically different baby! Woo.

convercide

I'm sure I'm in the minority here but I really prefer not having voice acting in games. I read much faster than they speak, I prefer my own voices in my head to their cast. Putting a text heavy game onto the DS is fine by me.

Actually its a lot better than fine, its something I'm eager for. I have probably put more hours in on my DS than on my consoles. (If we discount music, the amount that total shifts drastically to the DS is ridiculous). I really trust Bioware to develop an interesting way to tell a story on the handheld.

ShiningIdeal

Well, hopefully they'd cut the driving parts out. It was bad enough on the 360, and I doubt the DS would make it better. I'd hope they would go with a formula closer to Sonic RPG than an actual shooter though.

formina

I would buy Mass Effect DS and of course ME2. I would buy anything Mass Effect since I loved the first game though, so I might not be a good endorsement if they are looking to poll people. ;)

WPack911

It should be at any rater a prequel, hand-held sequels don't work as well since you are practically expecting that the buyer has previously played the original game.

Fenian

NOOOO!!!!! Spend your time and money on more DLC for Mass Effect or Mass Effect 2!!!!!

Algerian

This...would be interesting. I'd love to see how they do this.

GwennBlackfeather

If they make a portable Mass-Effect, they should have it on PSP so it can be fully voiced. I'd rather they make a Mass Effect 2 and iron out all the graphical, technical, and interface problems, though.

Placentasaurus

What.. no talk of ANYTHING for the Wii?

this is like a backhanded compliment!

Enigma_20XX

I'd be interested, but BioWare haven't proven themselves on handhelds yet. Of course everything they've touched has been golden so far. That Sonic rpg looks kind of lame right now.

krushjudgement

O yea and if they do make it then make it for psp not ds ds graphix suck

ShadowScale

Come on don't do that. Mass Effect is a great title we don't need Nintendo doing to it what they did to sonic.

ShadowScale

@ShadowScale: Nintendo doing what they did to Sonic? what the fuck does that mean? You mean he first decent Sonic game in ages on the DS called Sonic Rush? Your an idiot

excel_excel

You're owned by EA now dog!

zlimness

If it was good then I might play it, because I have a DS, but I don't have a 360 (yet).

.em.

I think it's a great idea, love Mass Effect and I think it would work really well on the DS, laying it bed getting all intimate with the story like a good novel. Do it Bioware!

deathly

Dude...forget Mass Effect, it's not possible (yet) to not screw it up.

Do KotOR! Or even better, KotOR2!
(or even better, K2 and FINISH THE ENDING)

But this raises a good point, I think. While ME and K1-2 may not yet be possible, other RPG's like Baldur's Gate and Planescape:Torment could actually be do-able. Seriously.

eskilla

@ShadowScale:

Nintendo didn't do ANYthing to Sonic... the sega developers did it... if anything, whoever was behind Sonic Rush should be on any future Sonic games...

Enigma_20XX

Bioware is good at what it does. If Sonic Chronicles plays well (regardless the Sonic property aspect) I'll be confident in their abilities.

Ryodestined

@Minigote:
why do people have to complain in the first place when they know it's not going to be the same experience on the handheld!?????????????????

freespeech2