While BioWare has already outlined a pretty substantial run of post-release content for Mass Effect 3, most of that DLC will feature storylines that run concurrent to the game’s main campaign rather than after the game’s extremely controversial ending(s). However that isn’t stopping one Mass Effect fan from following up BioWare’s highly anticipated sequel with a game of their own.
Unlike Mass Effect 3, though, this game, titled Finding Shepard is a point-and-click adventure in the same vein as many of the 8-bit titles of yesteryear. The game is still currently in development, but some screenshots from Finding Shepard have been released on the Adventure Game Studios forums to give fans a taste of what user Nightfable is up to.
The story of Finding Shepard, since it follows the ending of Mass Effect 3, could be considered a spoiler, so turn back now if you’ve yet to figure out why everyone is upset and sending cupcakes.
In Finding Shepard, players will assume the role of Jack, one of the main squad mates from Mass Effect 2, who played a smaller role in Mass Effect 3. Jack is on a mission to find out what befell Shepard after choosing to wipe out the Reaper fleet, all the while pointing and clicking their way through some iconic Mass Effect scenery, only rendered in 16-bit.
The canon created for Finding Shepard works in the universe where the ‘destroy ending’ is what the player chose, and thus Commander Shepard has some chance of being alive. Nightfable promises that along with Jack, Finding Shepard will also feature some other familiar faces like Miranda, Wrex, and Kasumi (I’m guessing in their play through those characters survived).
Essentially Finding Shepard is one Mass Effect fan’s way of coping with the unsatisfying resolution that was the ending to Mass Effect 3. While BioWare has already released the Extended Cut DLC in an effort to placate those disgruntled fans, it could be argued that even a few extra scenes wasn’t enough.
We like what Nightfable is doing, and look forward to playing through their version of some post-game DLC.
What do you think of Finding Shepard, the point-and-click, fan-created adventure set after the events of Mass Effect 3? Will you be seeking this game out when it releases?
Source: AGS Forums
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No. ME3 disapointed me so much I have completely discarded it. One of the biggest let downs ever (strictly the ending and new characters, ME2 characters not in the game enough). Haven’t even got the extended thing. Don’t want it, don’t need it. The endings were crap. Choices were crap. New characters were crap. ME will be forgotten for me.
Yes. Even though the ending was a letdown, I think the extended cut took terrible and made it passable. And if this helps get closure for those fans who felt betrayed by bioware, then have at it hoss. Personally, I’m a sucker for this franchise and I would love to play this game.I kind of wish someone would do an IT indie game though. I’m really disappointed Bioware didn’t explore indoctrination theory.
Defo have to agree with dan. An IT indie game is exactly what i wish someone would make. I just wish i could make indie games just for the people who want a proper ending to a gaming franchise we all love (you know you love it)
Yes. I am with Dan, in that the extended cut took the ending from being embarassingly awful to bare-minimum acceptable. The biggest thing for me was that, even with EC, you STILL don’t know what the aftermath of your squad was (for the most part) with the exception of some characters getting second long slideshows. This looks like it could fill in the gaps as to what happened to people, and to Shepard. I mean, seriously, characters like Garrus and Tali and Liara, who have been with as major characters through all 3 games, get no closure at all. Did Tali go back to the flotilla, or Garrus back to Omega? Hopefully this game will fill in some of those gaps, seeing as BioWare clearly isn’t.
Reminds me of Space Quest. Oh how I miss Roger Wilco and his adventures.
I never finished the game without the extended DLC. I am very willing to give this a try.
Pretty cool…really excited for it got the previous games and also got a few airsoft guns from those games http://www.airsplat.com/airsoft-video-games.htm and its def exciting to play new editions.
So… 7 months later… any updates?