User blog comment:Crimpycracker/New ME3 details that could make you very angry/@comment-3268946-20111106183347

Why does everyone worry that ME3 will become like Dragon Age 2? Do you know why that game is thought of as terrible: because they tried to make it like Mass Effect. Every time it looks like something changes in ME3, the forums explode with "This is just like what happened to DA2!" And every time I roll my eyes at people who complain that changing the formula in anyway will be a disaster. Improving combat: disaster. Adding multiplayer: atrocity. Optional modes for singleplayer: sacrilege. This is why most of can't be designers, because when we have something amazing we want further iterations to emulate instead of transcend. If you don't try to improve in any way, then you get stagnation in a series that isn't going anywhere and doesn't add anything new; like like what happened to COD. The reason I HATE the Call of Duty franchise isn't for it's fairly mediocre campaign or the fact they charge $10 for three maps that don't add anything to the game (though these are certainly factors), but the fact that nothing changes: same run and gun shooting, same multiplayer experience, same disappointed feeling at the fact that I just payed full price for a game that I hated. And that is why Mass Effect could never be COD, because at the very least they are changing the formula, giving us a chance to experience something beyond what we have already played. There is nothing wrong with wanting to appeal to a larger crowd, because Bioware is still a business. It will only hurt once they stop trying to do anything to the singleplayer in order to appeal to the masses that we something to worry about.

On a completely unrelated note, did anyone else see in some of the beta pics that Quarians appeared in the character select screen for multiplayer?