Quote from: x-M-x on Apr 15, 2012, 01:28:00 AM
The Alien franchise is OLDER than Mass Effect...
But the design philosophy of '
Mass Effect' has matured over a greater period of time than the production of '
Prometheus', specifically. Similarities are relevant for discussion.
I don't know for a fact whether or not a lot of the new hardware was influenced by those games, but it was certainly among my first impressions upon seeing a lot of it - and the first impression of several designers I know, too. Either it's deliberate or coincidental, but it
is there. At the very
least you could say that the stuff we've seen so far could easily be put in one of the games and would completely fit in (whereas the reverse isn't true; you couldn't put the Normandy in '
Aliens' and expect it to look like it's a logical progression of the same technological style behind the Sulaco, dropship and APC).
When the book of the film's art gets released, we'll hopefully have some quotes which can verify or disprove whether the '
Mass Effect' designs had been one of the inspirations.