@Boomaga: Yeah, but at least you were able to experience that. The reason why I'm so pissed about it is that I KNOW it would have blind-sided me completely, and I would have loved the game more for it.
I mean, every other game on here is at least 3-4+ years old, but Portal 2 JUST came out. I love the franchise dearly, but I just haven't had the cash to pick up the game yet, so to have such an awesome moment ruined for me feels like an even greater betrayal from the GR staff.
The best way I can put it is this: Having someone tell you that Aerith gets killed by Sephiroth RIGHT BEFORE you yourself are there in the game. You cannot begin to fathom the amount of nerdrage I witnessed because of that.
Fuck! You know, I understand you put the spoiler tag in the beginning and it's my own god damn fault for reading, but come on! Portal 2 JUST came out! I mean, what the fuck?! Not even a, "Hey, this has some recently released video games in the mix, so be warned."
@Hitman: I don't think that's a drell. It has four eyes and is much meatier than a drell would account for.
Anyways, I'm super excited about this. I hope they didn't make the serious changes to the HUD that they were talking about. I love my Mass Effect exactly as it is.
I think that the Reapers are the best bet here. Point a) they created the mass relays. Point b) they have survived for millions of years and are the only "known" species able to do so and bring the really old dust and brave the gravity wells and survive and... yadda yadda.
The names of the trophies themselves seems to invoke the images of a major military action. Maybe the Reapers have entered the known galaxy and started decimating everything in their path? Perhaps Shepherd plans to try and fight them BEFORE they reach Earth, but still hasn't gained the support of the Council? Maybe Dr. Kenson has made some breakthrough regarding the Reapers and it's up to Shepherd to protect her?
I'm surprised no one's mentioned what looks like the addition of some type of tag team system. I don't know if anyone else noticed it or if it was already a part of the first game, but that looks new to me.
A couple things: A) HE DOES HAVE WHITE HAIR! The top of his head is not a reflection of the light. Black hair when met with the sun does not have a reflection that pale. That top portion of his head IS white hair.
B) This is being made by Ninja Theory. So the first thing that comes to mind for me? -- 'Is Andy Serkis working on this?' And low and behold that familiar voice comes up in the trailer. If you cross reference the voice from the beginning of the trailer with the trailers of Monkey from NT's new game Enslaved (which Serkis also is working on as the lead role) you'll hear the same New York, Bronx, deep ruffian accent. And honestly? I think he's really going to become a huge name in video games.
C) To the comment about the Gothic architecture: You can clearly see there's still Gothic-influenced buildings both in the end of the trailer and the screenshot posted in this article. Another thing to consider: Dante is half demon, we really don't know how old he is, do we? This could honestly be twenty, thirty, maybe fourty years in the past, where more modern buildings were still existant.
And D) Something I just thought of: This may not even be the real Dante. This kid's obviously in a mental hospital being experimented on and if you look at the part of the trailer where it flashes quickly between "Dante" and the chained up person, Dante starts swaying like he just had a violent head rush. Is this all an illusion? Or is he somehow linked with the chained up guy?
A little off the wall, but worth considering when details are so scarce.