Mass Effect 3
 

Launch Trailer

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I'm still on one. Need. To. Find. Time.

I'm actually a little surprised the third installment in coming out less than 2 years after the second one.

Looks sweet.

I hope they take out mineral mining. I hate that.

I hated it from multiple perspectives, mechanically it was clunky and the controls were too dead so it would take forever on a console, from a gameplay perspective it was worse than the constantly driving around in the Mako in reskinned versions of mostly the same landscapes. Why they didn't just give us the new tank and the old method but with better landscapes I will never understand. It felt like it existed only to try and extend how long the game took without adding any kind of depth which is dumb since the game has a bunch of replayability just to see what happens if you do things differently. And finally from a game mechanics standpoint, the constantly having to go buy fuel and probes crap was just way too fiddly, nobody wants to play "Mass Effect: The logistics of space exploration."

On Topic: JIMP, will be sweet and will be sweet to see what they do with the last DLC or two that is going to bridge 2 and 3.

I'M STOKED!!!!!!!!!!!! :rockon:

Nice. Looking forward to wrapping up the story. It's been a hell of a ride so far.

I really very rarely play the 360. Always mean to, but never get around to it. These Mass Effect games have been the exception. I played 1 and 2 steadily to the end. Can't wait for #3.

I've still gotta finish Red Dead. I love that game... it's just always something I'm "gonna do", but not right now.

After finishing Bioshock last month, I finally got around to ordering Mass Effect 1 and 2 today. Winter down time gives me more opportunity to play these games.

Be sure to play some of the DLC too. Bring Down the Sky for ME1 and Overlord/Shadow Broker for ME2. All three are very worth it.

Will do. Thanks for the tip.

As much as I'm anticipating The Old Republic, I really wish BioWare were developing a Mass Effect MMO instead of a Star Wars one. It's such a great universe.

I was thinking the same thing the other day, man. But I think Star Wars is just a much safer IP for them to pour all those resources into. I never liked Star Wars, but I loved KOTOR so I will probably enjoy TOR. Can you imagine all the fanboys spending the money on it that otherwise probably wouldn't, though?

Yeah, there's no doubt that Star Wars is a bigger and more lucrative IP, so I completely understand BioWare's decision. I'm just saying that I personally would enjoy a Mass Effect MMO more.

I agree with that sentiment.

Knights of the Old Republic was Mass Effect before Mass Effect was cool. This is not a "Star Wars" IP as much as it's a BioWare one. They're working with Lucas, but most of it comes from them.

And I really wouldn't want an ME mmo, because it would end up being an FPS. And that's just not my thing.

I still wouldn't mind an KOTOR (like the first one) running on Mass Effect's engine. I don't care much for MMO's.

I agree that I wouldn't want an FPS MMO, but I don't think that an ME MMO would necessarily be FPS. Between biotics and tech powers, Mass Effect has the framework for the "magic" click powers around which most MMOs revolve. Compared to The Old Republic, which will feature melee/ranged combat plus force powers, I don't see much of a difference beyond the setting.

They could make it 3rd person in lieu of the ranged classes you see in TOR. And yeah, I would never consider playing a Star Wars Galaxies type MMO, but since it's Bioware, I don't care what universe it's set in, I'll be giving it a try. But to discount the pull of the Star Wars brand is silly, IMO.

I'm not discounting the pull of the brand, but it's not a Star Wars IP in the traditional sense. It's basically a universe created by bioware overseen by lucas to make sure that it doesn't conflict with the 'official' lore events thousands of years later. The game is essentially going to be Knights of the Old Republic 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.

You're right. Lucas should be ****ing grateful too, because the shit they write is a million times better than Star Wars (in my humble opinion).

I have such good memories of KOTOR that I'll probably give SWTOR a shot. I was on direct2drive and saw they were selling KOTOR for like 10 bucks. I almost impulse bought it, but it came out so long ago I'm not sure how into it I could get.

KOTOR is one of the top 10 RPGs of all time IMO. I think I've beat it like six times.

I wish they would make another sequel, but I know it'll never happen.

I loved KOTOR and bought it again for $1 during a Steam sale last Thanksgiving. I'll give it another shot soon and see how it holds up.

Some news in the last day. Jack Wall will not be scoring Mass Effect 3 (he did the first two for those who don't recognize the name...). However, Clint Mansell will, the fellow who scored a bunch of Darren Aronofsky's films (Pi, Requem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan) as well as a number of others (Smokin' Aces, Moon, etc.).

I'm mixed on this news. On one hand, I think Jack Wall's ME scores are iconic. Sad to see this happen. But on the other hand...it's Clint Mansell...

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It's happening and it's called Star Wars: The Old Republic. Except it's not a sequel, it's like KOTOR made 100 times bigger. :D

First major ME3 details are hitting, it's the cover story in May's gameinformer. This is all spoiler, obviously, but I'll only tag the stuff that's directly story-related:

• No multiplayer (thank god)
• Multiple endings, both good and bad, and companion choices will impact it
• Expanded RPG elements, somewhere between ME1 and ME2 (larger skill trees, powers can evolve multiple times)
• Liara, Ashley/Kaiden, Garrus are all in the game and "playable to some extent"
• Wrex, Mordin, Legion and Anderson are in the game.
• All classes can use all weapons, but only Soldiers can have a full load-out on missions (other classes choose what to take)
• Weapon Mods return, although different than ME1 (supposed can swap out components like barrels and scopes) - it will affect the look of the weapon

Reading on the BioWare forums, it sounds like they're going to try not to spoil the entire game before release the way that ME2 was basically spoiled by trailers and articles...

Stumbled across one more thing from the article (supposedly):

Bit o' Q&A:

I always thought that the background behind the Illusive Man was Sol?

Huge, huge, huge article in PS3 Magazine, I'll link to some scans. The biggest deal is that one of the pages specifically states that Kaiden/Ashley are squadmates, as are Garrus and Liara. Not just cameos, but squadmates. They also show an image with the new squaddie James Sanders, and it's a still of the guy with the sniper rifle from the London trailer (I thought Bioware had already debunked this?).

http://lo-ping.org/2011/04/21/mass-e...admate-reveal/

The only clues I remember seeing were from Mass Effect: Retribution.

"The unnamed space station he used as his base was orbiting a red giant-class M star."

Looks like it's been delayed just a shade. Which is probably a good thinglink

(The first picture at that link is ****ing AWESOME)

ME3's the cover story in June's PC Gamer. I've heard (cough) you may find scans here. Here are details borrowed from elsewhere on the net:

Write up on IGN about ME3 combat: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/117/1172200p1.html

Might have to catch this...

Another IGN read, this time on decisions from ME1 and 2 impacting 3: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/117/1172194p1.html

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First info hitting about Day 1 dlc: apparently we'll have a prothean companion.

And there's going to be an $80 N7 Collector's Edition that I'm seriously contemplating.

http://masseffect.bioware.com/me3/game/order/

:drool: :eek:

This is going to be amazing! I can't wait.

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LMAO

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This thread should be labeled NSFW ... keg be fapping all over the place to it.



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That would be the TOR thread. ME3 is too far off to get too excited.

EA's running a livestream ME3 demo in 20 minutes for anybody else looking to distract themselves from doing actual work (/innocent whistle). Probably the same stuff they've already demoed, but these are usually the best demos (the TOR one yesterday was great).

http://live-event.ea.com/e3/chat/mass-effect

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At this point I think I'd trade Mass Effect 3 for Skate servers that aren't always down.

I hate you so much, EA. :deevee:

They're finally demoing the Atlas fight at PAX prime. Just watched one on biowaretv, and it's like the YMIR mech on steroids.

Somehow I missed this bit of news last week.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

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There's going to be a demo...

A lot of people don't like the multiplayer addition, but since it is co-op I'm totally down with it. I think Mass Effect would make a great co-op game. The fact that it ties in with the single player is even better.

I didn't like it until I understood that it's done by a separate developer and that the development of the singleplayer aspect of the game shouldn't be hindered at all by it. That was really all I was worried about.

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Guess I get to mention that it went Gold last night.

https://twitter.com/#!/CaseyDHudson/...34352154136576

Anyone played the demo yet? Downloading it now.

Played through it Vanguard which was my fav class in 1+2 seemed underpowered, Sentinel was okay and Infiltrator's cloak is really fun in combination with their sticky grenades which don't turn the cloak off. Overall its basically ME2 combat but more Gears of War-y but I still despise the ammo system both because its annoyingly small arbitrary ammo limits for certain weapons and the simple fact that it makes neither logical nor narrative sense for the thermal clips to be universal enough that you can pick them up off bads using different weapons but not universal enough that you can use the same ****ing one in an SMG and an assault rifle.

I played through as a sentinel. It seems harder than ME2 was. I really love the changes to the way you level up powers.

The enemies are less dumb than in ME2, I mean don't forget that you're getting stuck into a mission that normally you'd have had some learning curve for before you hit it. Just remember that you can roll around and dodge now while you sprint for the nearest convenient hip high wall between you and people shooting at you.

The challenging part for me was the atlas walker at the very end. The first time I tried it, I ran up to the area on the side so I could snipe it from safety, not realizing that all of Cerberus was going to drop in on top of me. It was pretty funny.

What'd you do, not play lair of the shadow broker? lol

What the **** does that have to do with the price of tea in china?

I don't think I've played Mass Effect 2 at all since Arrival was released, which would have been nearly a year ago (end of March 2011 IIRC).

Like every firefight in that they do that shit to you is all, at least on insanity.

I just didn't expect it there, being the first look at the Atlas. But who knows, that might not even be the first look at the Atlas. Who knows how far into the game that actually is.

Either way, I'm not saying it was a bad thing; it was funny. I ran up there, got all comfy with my assault rifle and then all of a sudden I'm getting knifed from behind. That to me is high comedy. As long as I'm not having to roll back a half hour.

I been thinking lately about whether I'm going to play through the first two games again. Can't quite decide. Part of me wants to, but another part of me doesn't want to stop playing SWTOR. I guess theoretically I can finish ME1 in about 15 hours, and then get through ME2 in probably 20. I finished all the achievements for both games years ago, so it's not like I need to play any of it on insanity again.

Hah, I think I died 4 times in Lair on insanity and every time it was a rocket drone spawn behind/next to where I'd moved for cover.

Yeah, that's kinda how I feel. I'm not even going to buy ME3 when it comes out because I'm WAY into SWTOR right now. Way to cannibalize yourself, BioWare. :D

I finally pre-ordered it this morning.

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I've been playing the multiplayer this evening, kinda fun. No real shortage of ammo in there as there are ammo dumps liberally spaced in the maps. Its co-op randomly selected waves that get progressively harder, mostly its defend against a wave of attackers but some of the waves you have to go secure objectives before a timer runs out or go find specific enemies and kill them before time runs out. Rather than the radar hud your teammates basically glow blue and you can see them through walls to keep track of everyone. Its pretty fun all in all I thought.

Loved the demo, but especially loved the voice commands with my Kinect.

I cannot put into words how awesome it was to blaze through those firefights and not have to pause the action a single time for the ability wheel. I could just call out "Stasis", and Liara would have my target stunned so I could commence to raping.

Being able to just call out those abilities, including my own really made it feel like I was actually leading this team and not just playing a game. Hell, I cleared one section without even pressing any buttons. Just saying stuff like "Grenade", "Proximity Mine", "Singularity", and just watching the carnage unfold.

Being able to call out ammo type and watch my character instantly change ammo was just super sweet. Usually with voice commands, games Ive played with just AI tend to falter and you end up repeating and stuff, but not this time. I didnt even have to raise my voice. It actually changed my ammo type for me when I was explaining to my brother about what each ammo type does.

Such a badass use of the Kinect for this game. Cant wait for it to release.

Played some multiplayer with two of my friends tonight and had a blast. Never made it through 10 waves, though one match we got to wave 10 and got about halfway through it.

I must have missed a tutorial for the Kinect features or something. I actually forgot they were even there until the very end. Even then I had no clue what commands to use.

When you get one of those hunt the target waves on wave 10 its so lame. Almost without fail you get an Atlas as your first target and you really need the right party setup to rape an Atlas in under a minute or whatever they give you.

No tutorial needed. You simply say the name of the ability you want executed.

Hold down the bumper to display your action wheel, and all of the abilities have their names above them.

Want to heal while sprinting your ass off? Just say "First Aid".

In the full game, when you have multiple characters with the same ability, you will have to say their name and then the ability. For instance if you are a biotic, and you have Liara on your team, and both of you have Singularity you will have to say "Liara: Singularity" if you want her to use it. Otherwise, it will be your character performing the action.

All of the commands and abilities used through voice will be targetted at where your crosshair is pointing. If you want your team to engage other enemies, with the ability so you can focus elsewhere, you can still go to the radial menu and select targets/abilities. This will probably be necessary in places where there are just so many enemies that you need all 3 of your actions to happen instantly, instead of just one at a time.


The biggest problem this alleviates for me is the lack of hotkeys for abilities. Ill be able to use whatever ability I want just by simply saying its name. It will also cut down on the time spent interrupting the flow of combat by entering the radial menu to issue ability commands to my teammates.

After playing a bunch of the multiplayer I have to say its probably gotten me more excited about the game than the campaign demo.