Mass Effect 3 - Page 5

Eh, sounds a bit gimmicky to me.

I think I would feel a bit silly yelling at my TV over the course of a 40 hour game.

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Originally Posted by The Rain Dog 

Eh, sounds a bit gimmicky to me.

Sure it's gimmicky.  I mean, it's for Kinect so by nature it'll be gimmicky.  I just don't see gimmicky as automatically bad, especially when it's a purely optional feature.

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Originally Posted by grubstreeter 

I think I would feel a bit silly yelling at my TV over the course of a 40 hour game.

So just speak instead of yelling.  But your point is valid.  Some people will feel silly, others might not.  Can it be that much worse than screaming obscenities at 11 year olds in online FPS deathmatches?  (I'm kidding, as I have no idea if you do that or not, but still...)

I suspect it will become a generational thing. Voice command will become quite common, and old farts like me will feel silly doing it, but it will be natural for the kids to just say 'Computer, bring up the whatever', like on Star Trek. I can see it becoming a default interface. At least when we're alone. Listening to multiple cell phone conversations in public is obnoxious enough already.

That bitch is pre-ordered as soon as Amazon puts it up.

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Originally Posted by grubstreeter 

I think I would feel a bit silly yelling at my TV over the course of a 40 hour game.

They should turn the sex scenes into a voice activated mini-game. Time your "UNF, UNF, UNF" to Shepard's on screen thrusts and when prompted yell "Smack that ass!" to smack Liara's ass, for maximum XP.

They're now officially up at Amazon.

GameStop, too.

As with all recent BioWare LCEs, however, they probably won't be for too much longer.

Are the metal tins these collector's editions come in the same height as normal cases, or are they larger?

Height-wise, exactly the same as the regular 360 cases. Width-wise, about three or so placed together, give or take.

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Originally Posted by grubstreeter 

I think I would feel a bit silly yelling at my TV over the course of a 40 hour game.

What seems worse in my mind is hearing Sheppard constantly elaborating on my brief statements all the time. In text I dont really think about it but if I were actually doing the next best thing to acting it out only to have him repeat what I just said doesnt really sound like fun. Directing the team looked pretty slick but I wonder how much it slows things down compared to commands through the menu. I've only played the Mass Effects games on PC where you can map it to a number button so I dont have a good reference for what its like picking a teammates power through the wheel.

Adding Kinect would be totally worth it if you could only select the Renegade option by yelling "FUCK YOU!!!" every time.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-08-mass-effect-3-preview

Interesting preview from Eurogamer. From what they're describing it sounds like they've only really played the opening, introductory, mission. It seems that getting the hell off Earth is going to be the Eden Prime of this game.

Poll to see what female Shepard model will be the the default: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150244340101645.322035.85811091644&type=1

I really like number 4 and my next favorite would be 1.

I have Kinect. I will alternate between feeling like a tool and feeling like a badass.

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Originally Posted by thecallahan 

Poll to see what female Shepard model will be the the default: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150244340101645.322035.85811091644&type=1

 

I really like number 4 and my next favorite would be 1.

4 is definitely the best.  With 1 they really went Full Portman.

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Originally Posted by thecallahan 

Poll to see what female Shepard model will be the the default: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150244340101645.322035.85811091644&type=1

 

I really like number 4 and my next favorite would be 1.

Hmmmm.....none of those seem to fit Jennifer Hale's voice to me. I think they all kind of suck.  I'll stick with my kickass redhead, thank you very much Bioware.

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Originally Posted by Polygon_Wizard 

Hmmmm.....none of those seem to fit Jennifer Hale's voice to me. I think they all kind of suck.  I'll stick with my kickass redhead, thank you very much Bioware.

A lot of people in the comments there are decrying the lack of red-headed FemSheps. Myself included. Mine ended up looking like a red-headed goth Linda Fiorentino.

Blonde Portman's way in the lead, though. Which, considering the non-#4 alternatives, I'm mildly okay with, since she kinda looks like Samus Aran, and hey, I'm just glad the female Shepard's getting her due, period. But it's still disappointing.

I was a sniper-whore in the first two games as well, but I'm hoping that additional melee and grenade options will make close combat a more viable option.  On the harder difficulties, the shotgun never even worked all that well because you had to expose yourself too much to get close enough to do real damage. 

It looks like actual combat will have cinematic flourishes if I'm reading that video right, looks great, I'm pumped.

Liara died. The best bit was the flaming logo.

Remember when BioWare used to give us screenshots of characters shootin' the breeze, instead of just shootin'?

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Originally Posted by Trevor 

I'd probably have a hard time on Insanity without a sniper rifle - for me, the Widow really is the game's super weapon. I'm glad they're beefing up close combat, but I can see that getting tricky, because the control scheme always made ME 1&2's melee an option of last resort.

 

Is anybody here excited about new squad command options? Except for the one or two obvious ambush set pieces (like waiting outside of an elevator door), move commands almost always ended in instant death for my squadmates on ME2's higher difficulties.

While I thought the Widow was great, the super weapon to me was the Mattock Rifle. That thing was death incarnate (especially with warp ammo) to my enemies and when I was my soldier, I usually only brought out the sniper rifle for the bigger enemies. Thankfully from the pictures and video's they've shown of this game it looks like it's making it's return in the third game as a standard gun (ie: not dlc like in 2).

Round 2 Fem Shep voting.

And now, there is redhead.

Red-Headed FemShep is officially the winner.

Women with red hair are either the hottest or the ugliest girls in the room. Thankfully, this female Shepard is the former. (Likewise, with a rusty roof, comes a wet basement.)

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Originally Posted by The Dark Shape 

Haven't read Game Informer.  Has the Illusive Man been indoctrinated by Harbinger?  That'd explain Cerberus having a hard-on for killing Shepard.

I'm just disappointed that Cerberus might be the primary opposition this time around.

My main Shep was a "Humanity-Must-Prove-Themselves"-type peace/hippie group-hugger, but my FemShep had her family and friends killed off by alien slavers, and then witnessed her entire squad getting slaughtered by aliens in front of her during her first real off-world mission in the Alliance Military.

I played her with a very xenophobic mentality towards aliens and siding with human interests. Both ME games accommodated both play styles perfectly, especially ME2, where she ended up being a bigger Cerberus cheerleader than Miranda (I totally holo high-five'd the Illusive Man at the end).

I didn't expect to work directly under them in Part 3 by any means, but the second game at least gave you a clear path of being a full-fledged supporter of them, if you chose.

That's great to hear.  Shephard is my baby, and cameos in future games could only de-personalize the experience retroactively.  Plus, I'm hoping there's a way to give him a proper heroic sacrifice in ME3; sure, the option to bump him off was there in 2, but only as a consequence of utterly failing the entire endgame.  I'd prefer to see the reverse in 3, where the only way to save your entire team is take the loss yourself. 

I hope I'll be able to do that. I loved I was able to do it in Dragon Age. My Warden dying at the end made it so much more satisfying. 

Or, knowing my FemShep, shooting everyone else on her team in the back of the head, just to show the fucking Reapers she means business. Whichever.

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Originally Posted by Justin Clark 

Or, knowing my FemShep, shooting everyone else on her team in the back of the head, just to show the fucking Reapers she means business. Whichever.

Well, I certainly want that option as well.  After all, my Shep can't really be better than your Shep (which he totally is) unless he has the opportunity to be just as bad.

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This game should only use TWO buttons.

The KILL-ALIENS-AND-CUM-ON SPACE-TITTIES ACTION button;

and:

The PUSSY-PONYTAILED-MANBITCH-FEELINGS button.

My Shep ain't sacrificing herself for no motherfuckers. My Shep's totally gonna go join her alien girlfriend in their taken over crime-syndicate and murder peeps for fun.

I can't have it any other way.

Multiplayer seemingly confirmed:

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/119/1197662p1.html

I can truthfully state, after 150+ combined hours in Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, that I never once said to myself, "This game would be so much better with multiplayer."

I can't really pretend to be bothered. Some sort of optional multiplayer mode, whether it be cooperative, competitive, or somewhere in between -- *shrug*. As long as I can finish out Shepard's story, and I'm satisfied with the conclusion, whatever.

I'm so sick of multiplayer being shoe-horned into every fucking title regardless of its appropriateness or otherwise.

Not every fucking game needs multiplayer for chrissake. Spend that dev time and money on making a better single player game.

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Originally Posted by The Rain Dog 

Not every fucking game needs multiplayer for chrissake.

Tell that to the marketing team.

Until otherwise, I'm going to assume the Online Pass is this games version of the Cerebrus network. I just can't see them putting in multiplayer into this game... Please don't...

It's confirmed -- online co-op (not necessarily PvP deathmatch):

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2011/10/report-mass-effect-3-to-introduce-multiplayer/1

BioWare is a studio with a fairly long history of doing co-op stuff in their RPGs, so this could be a solid addition. Something like Horde Mode would be okay, too, if not a little boring. Anything else would be big risk, which means I'm hoping their aversion to exactly that will scare them off something stupid like TDM/CTF.

All right, so this is starting to sound slightly more intriguing, and slightly less derp:

http://stickskills.com/2011/10/11/mass-effect-3-multiplayer-details-revealed/

More at the link. It all sounds very ambitious in scope.

Nice also that they throw in, "If you want to avoid the multiplayer, then you have to do EVERYTHING in the campaign that's available to you." To be fair, to get the perfect ending in Mass Effect 2, you had to do almost everything then, too.

I have no problem with this, myself, as I've completed virtually all the side-quests in the previous two games, and was probably going to do it in this one without any incentive.

Would love to RP as a Salarian who's afraid of direct confrontation, who'll never, ever come anywhere near a firefight, and who'll run screaming at the first sight of a Husk. And I definitely want to RP as a Krogan berserker, who'll charge straight in to melee everything in sight, regardless of tactical situation, ignoring all weapons. Why? Because I AM KROGAN. Or will be. You get the idea. Or as an Asari who wants to fight for the winning side. Will friendly fire be enabled?

The idea is definitely growing on me.

Also, "Volus berserker." See: "Krogan berserker," but with "Volus."

SPOILERS about the game's final ending-choices, leaked yesterday to NeoGAF, and since redacted by EA/BioWare:

This is rather interesting. Have the feeling I'm gonna be in some agony over this one, come next spring. Either way, it sets up some nifty sequel possibilities.

I dunno...

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Originally Posted by Leto II 

SPOILERS about the game's final ending-choices, leaked yesterday to NeoGAF, and since redacted by EA/BioWare:

 

Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

You can either choose to stop the Reapers, and the Earth gets destroyed -- totally and forever -- or else you can choose to have Shepard join with the Reapers, and the Earth is spared.

 

This is rather interesting. Have the feeling I'm gonna be in some agony over this one, come next spring. Either way, it sets up some nifty sequel possibilities.

 

 

 

 

Now 50% of my brain is saying, "You idiot! Why did you click on that and ruin it for yourself?"

The other 50% is saying, Emil from Robocop-style, "I LIKE it!"

You know, when the latest link shows up in my gmail, the spoiler tag isn't there, but all the text is. 

I would have clicked it anyway, juts sayin'.

I have a renegade Shep and a paragon Shep saved from ME2. I'll play through twice and choose both. Doesn't everyone do this? 

I keep trying to do Renegade run-throughs but feel like a total asshole and stop early on.  I guess I'm just not cut out to maim and torment in video games.

I'm pretty much the exact opposite. I start out wanting to NOT go renegade but my trigger finger keeps itchin...

I tend to be be nice and trigger happy, but usually go paragon when it comes to the big choices in the series.

I got no problem with capping a motherfucker and being the goddess of death to all manner of baddies, but I also don't give a shit about humans in this game.

This is a Mass Effect 2 tech issue, but I thought I'd throw it on here for opinions as to how to solve it.

So I finished the game, including much of the downloadable content, a long, long time ago.  My wife, who finally finished ME1, started up ME2 last week.  Only none of the existing downloadable content on our Xbox is there for her.  Its still there, I can start the game as me, and there's all the Zaaed, Kusami, Normandy crash site, etc. stuff for me to access, but not for her.  It just keeps prompting her to spend the Microsoft points whenever she clicks on any of it.  And yes, she does have her own activated Cerberus network running. 

For the hell of it, this week I spent a few hours deleting and re-downloading all the DLC.  So all of it is fresh-installed.  As soon as it was all done, I signed in as her and started the game. On the main menu, the following pop-up occurred:

"The following downloadable content is corrupt and cannot be used. Please re-download this downloadable content and try again.", and then goes on to list all the shit I just finished re-downloading.

So, what the hell?  Any suggestions?  If, out of curiosity, I re-download the Cerberus network DLC (the only one I previously did not delete and re-download), will we have to re-enter our activation codes?  Cause mine was entered and the card was otherwise forgotten so long ago, I'm certain I'll never find it. 

Any thoughts?