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Who's Commanding Shepard in Mass Effect?
🕑 Added 2020-06-15 17:36:59 +0000 UTCHi everyone! Thanks for your patience on this one. I've spent the last few weeks working on the biggest, longest, most analytical video in GMTK's history: Who's Commanding Shepard in Mass Effect?
Faced with the prospect of being stuck inside for months on end, I decided that I might as well focus my extra free time on a worthwhile project - so decided to make a big video about a franchise that has always intrigued me: Mass Effect.
This video has gone through many changes. At one point it was going to be a miniseries, at another point it was going to be a typical game-by-game analysis. But everything came together when I found the focus for the video: the shared ownership of Commander Shepard.
What does it mean for an RPG where both the player and the character jostle for control over the character's personality, identity, and decisions?
(I know I said before that I was planning to release multiple videos, but ultimately decided that it was better as just one. Things change a lot when I'm making stuff, sorry!)
Anyhoo. It was a big project but I really enjoyed the whole process. I'm certainly not going to shift to being one of these YouTubers who cranks out 4 hour vids on the regular (I'll leave that to Joseph, Noah, etc!) but I'd like to do one of these a year, maybe. In 2019 it was 40 minutes on Hollow Knight, in 2020 it was 50 minutes on Mass Effect, in 2021... we'll see.
I'm going to take a week off now. I haven't really stopped since the beginning of the year, and so I need a quick breather. Play some Last of Us 2, catch up on some other games, and hopefully see some family and friends... at a safe distance, naturally.
And then I'll be back for the Game Jam, and normal GMTK service.
Cheers, speak soon, thanks for your support
Mark
Comments
sean
I was sceptical of the length of the video but you did an amazing job with it :D thank you for the fantastic videos :)
Roberto Pascual González
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzOCkXsyIqo
Richard Skolek
Awesome video. I wonder, though, why you continue to stay away from Witcher 3 - a fascinating game that would certainly be great material for a video on morality, world-building etc.
Alex Moffatt
Great video. One thing though - in ME2, you do occasionally get opportunities to go against Cerberus - they just don't actually seem to do much. One example would be the Lost Operative assignment. It's lip service, but it was better than nothing
Very awesome. I like long videos since they feel like a movie.
