I enjoyed ME1 and ME2. If Mass Effect 3 is ruined FOREVER, this does not retroactively make me hate the previous game.
Ugh, regarding Miranda [sp]It is the end of civilization as we know it, mass extinction... and going after her father is more important. Your sister is safe, fucking help Shepard.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Zeos;34575814]Ugh, regarding Miranda [sp]It is the end of civilization as we know it, mass extinction... and going after her father is more important. Your sister is safe, fucking help Shepard.[/sp][/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure her sister actually isn't safe.
Which is the whole point.
[QUOTE=doommarine23;34575820]I'm pretty sure her sister actually isn't safe.
Which is the whole point.[/QUOTE]
[sp]It's a galactic fucking war, she'd never be safe. Miranda gets sidelined for the weakest plot hook, loyalty mission V2. [/sp]
I don't know, I'm just reserving judgement till I play the full game to see how I feel about the plot.
[QUOTE=doommarine23;34575710]Personally I'm not even gonna bother with litographs.
Posters of all the ME Characters though? :pwn:[/QUOTE]
But litographs are amazing, they are basically really good quality posters.
Well, time to play some ME2 (I hope this game is longer that the first one).
[QUOTE=Dumb Dog;34575839][sp]It's a galactic fucking war, she'd never be safe. Miranda gets sidelined for the weakest plot hook, loyalty mission V2. [/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]Maybe she's just incredibly genre savvy and is starting to catch on that Shephard can do literally anything the plot needs him to.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Caragolpe;34575856]But litographs are amazing, they are basically really good quality posters.
Well, time to play some ME2 (I hope this game is longer that the first one).[/QUOTE]
Yeah but they're hard to get and expensive as fuck.
Also ME2 took me about 30+ hours, I think ME1 around 25-30. So its about the same length.
Another annoying thing is Liara has probably one of the biggest excuses for not returning, [sp]being the fucking shadow borker and all[/sp] but yet she managed to tear herself away to help Shepard.
[QUOTE=tommo400;34576017]Another annoying thing is Liara has probably one of the biggest excuses for not returning, [sp]being the fucking shadow borker and all[/sp] but yet she managed to tear herself away to help Shepard.[/QUOTE]
Liara is up there, but I think tali wins the priiize with that, [sp]being an admiral and all [/sp]
[QUOTE=ironman17;34575292]I don't understand what that is, but it's cool anyway.
Also, if ME3 DOES turn out as bad storywise as the leaks suggest, we can always disavow it's relevance like how hardcore Terminator fans disavowed the canonicity of Terminator 3.[/QUOTE]
The apollo justice to ace attorney, you could say.
In other news, holy crap, I've just realised ME3 will be released in 1 month
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[QUOTE=doommarine23;34575874]Yeah but they're hard to get and expensive as fuck.
Also ME2 took me about 30+ hours, I think ME1 around 25-30. So its about the same length.[/QUOTE]
My latest playthroughs peg Mass Effect 1 at 16-20 hours and Mass Effect 2 at ~35 hours. They're hoping for the latter with ME3.
Personally, all I'm hoping for now is that ME3 is entertaining. I'm doing my best to lower my expectations so I don't feel too much disappointment.
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[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;34576071]My latest playthroughs peg Mass Effect 1 at 16-20 hours and Mass Effect 2 at ~35 hours. They're hoping for the latter with ME3.
Personally, all I'm hoping for now is that ME3 is entertaining. I'm doing my best to lower my expectations so I don't feel too much disappointment.[/QUOTE]
Personally I have no expectations, if its good its good, if its bad its bad.
No need to get too worked up :v:
[QUOTE=doommarine23;34576115]Personally I have no expectations, if its good its good, if its bad its bad.
No need to get too worked up :v:[/QUOTE]
I have certain expectations of how I thought the story would pan out after the end of ME2 and from the snippets I know about squaddies and stuff I seem to be close to target for most so I aint gonna be too bothered unless I play the game and Wrex takes a shit on the floor or something :v:
I heard somewhere that the max level on ME3 is 60, can someone confirm this?
[QUOTE=guicool-BR-;34576341]I heard somewhere that the max level on ME3 is 60, can someone confirm this?[/QUOTE]
Achievements confirmed it.
[QUOTE=MajorMattem;34575405]Yeah, but then Shepard would turn out to be a wierd old man living on the citadel.
"THE REAPERS ARE COMING."
"Come on Mr Shepard, lets go get your meds."
"B-BUT THE REAPERSSSS!..."[/QUOTE]
Actually it'd be more like Mass Effect: The Commander Shepard Chronicles (it would be to Mass Effect 3, what The Sarah Connor Chronicles were to Terminator 3; an alternate continuity that didn't screw up the series as much as the "official" one), which essentially acts as an alternate sequel to ME2 with better writing and a story that spans DECADES as Shepard and his [B]whole[/B] crew (most of Shepard's allies didn't end up elsewhere in the Commander Shepard Chronicles, Miranda[sp]wouldn't have swanned off to fight her father[/sp], Legion [sp]wouldn't end up dead for no good reason[/sp], Thane [sp]would die with some honour at Shepard's side instead of other things[/sp], and pretty much [sp]most other squadmates who had no good reason to leave would probably end up staying[/sp], meaning that the team would still be more or less as big as it was in ME2) fight their own war against the few remaining Reapers in the dark future of the galaxy where there are no more relays (all blown up as a last-ditch attempt to stop the spread of the Reapers), galactic society has been reduced to a multitude of mostly-isolated nation-states, and FTL travel has been restricted to ship drives.
As Shepard and his allies hunt down the last of the Reapers, they have to contend with rising powers vying for dominance in the galaxy, including the threat of the Greater Batarian Hegemony (oppressive militant empire seeking to enslave and conquer what they can to expand their dominion), a massive Hanar Crusade (not nearly as laughable as it sounds; actually something to be genuinely feared), opportunistic Cerberus cells seeking to lay the foundations for human dominance in the galaxy, and a rather influential volus merchant-prince who's making an absolute killing in what's left of the galactic economy, among other things. Essentially it'd be a dark galactic dystopia where the future of the galaxy is uncertain and the Reapers prey upon what little remains of galactic civilisation, with Shepard and his crew being amongst the few who know how to hunt and destroy the Reaper threat, for though the Reapers are fewer in number (thanks to the mass destruction of the relays), they are nonetheless dangerous and nearly-impossible to defeat, given the weakened state of galactic life. Both are on their last legs, and neither are certain that victory can be achieved, but nonetheless the Reapers seek to continue the cycle regardless, whilst the surviving peoples of the galaxy seek simply to survive. But without either side having true fleets or easy access to the rest of the galaxy, who can say that victory will ever be assured?
These are dark times for the galaxy, but Shepard might not be able to bring the galaxy together this time. Is survival for anyone even a possibility anymore? Only time will tell...
I'm still wondering whether or not the CSC (Commander Shepard Chronicles) would include the beginnings of a new kind of high-power FTL to replace the relays, something along the lines of using mass effect fields to rip open spacetime and use the "Outside" as a shortcut to other parts of the "Inside" universe, which pretty much includes the galaxy and possibly other things (giving the opportunity for an easter egg). It'd solve the relay problem, but there may be the possibility of there being something from the "Outside" that takes interest with the "Inside", so long as it isn't cliche or a lousy attempt to introduce a new influence that's just as dangerous as the Reapers, even if it's interests aren't intentionally harmful (essentially travelling through certain parts of the Outside would attract the attention of an extradimensional tentacle thing that may or may not end up squeezing through wormholes to investigate what's going on on the Inside, so keep those portholes shut).
You decide whether or not the Outside thing would have any place in the dark future of the galaxy, Shepard probably wouldn't need to use extradimensional travel anyway; Joker would probably take a wrong turn and end up crashing the Normandy into Ferelden or Baldur's Gate. Otherwise ME: tCSC would be a dark alternate setting for Mass Effect, doing away with most of the nonsense of what's been written for ME3 and making it less likely for similar ass-pulls to be had.
[QUOTE=doommarine23;34576360]Achievements confirmed it.[/QUOTE]
Awesome, can't wait to buy a goddamn physical copy, because Amazon wants to charge me $299, $111 being the import taxes.
$299?! Is that for the main game or for a super-special ultra-mega edition? $299's nearly the price of the Xbox 360 on launch in North America! Damn expensive if you ask me.
Is it me or ME2 loves to give you renegade point for nothing? I constantly get +2 renegade with no reason.
[QUOTE=Caragolpe;34576483]Is it me or ME2 loves to give you renegade point for nothing? I constantly get +2 renegade with no reason.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure dialog options that seem to not really matter sometimes give small amounts of paragon/renegade.
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[QUOTE]my best to lower my expectations
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The combat looks fine, which is large chunk of actual gameplay to begin with.
Point of fact since this particular group here is pretty self interested to begin with, I expect to see quite a few reversals to "oh it wasn't all that bad" simply because simply because of the self absorbed nature of a lot of folks here, and now that THEY are playing the game it magically becomes better; pretty much Republic Commando/The Force Unleashed Syndrome.
Republic Commando's story wasn't all that great, it was literally go here and shoot this guy, go here and blow this thing up and yet the same people who BAW forever and to the heavens about how bad the prequels are love the fuck out of the game... cause they were [b]personally invested[/b], and the combat was fucking brilliantly handled.
This game will be no different.
[b]Objectively[/b] speaking, the story is both rote and simply bad in places when compared to products of the same vein and in the same genre. Subjectively, speaking it will probably be much the same as 2 where people don't even pay attention to the meat of things until well after the game is out, they're just content they put their epeen in their digital waifu and shot all the bad guys wit teh glowy wepunz. Yay, story.
MP looks solid and combat looks fine, and Bro*Force I and II will be re-united for one mission each. Expecting anything else to be above and beyond when everything is a known quantity and has been for a while is folly.
OK, I'll now leave this forum.
It become too spoilery do to my weakness to not click spoiler tag.
[QUOTE=CroGamer002;34576673]OK, I'll now leave this forum.
It become too spoilery do to my weakness to not click spoiler tag.[/QUOTE]
Says the guy who revealed pretty much the biggest surprise of the game to begin with. Your sliding scale of values seems a little off there.
[QUOTE=Dumb Dog;34573360][sp]This shit is as cheap as cheap gets. [/sp][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=WeekendWarrior;34573394]Hooray for Bioware fucking shit up majorly.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;34573925]I mean, come on. What kind of bullshit is this.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Goldenboy;34574697]you've just wasted everyone's time.[/QUOTE]
I'm flat out amazed that you guys are getting bent out of shape about this [i]now[/i]. They've been doing this shit for months, and we've known about the leaked info for awhile.
This thread was up in arms in defense over Bioware's storytelling and marketing (maybe not marketing as much, but I certainly didn't see many people complaining about it, instead I saw people using it as an excuse 'Oh well, it's probably just marketing') in the [i]last thread[/i], why is it that you guys are suddenly angry about this information now, like it's new or surprising?
[QUOTE=27X;34576705]Says the guy who revealed pretty much the biggest surprise of the game to begin with. Your sliding scale of values seems a little off there.[/QUOTE]
I was spoiled by that guy long before I knew Facepunch existed. :-P
From the spoilers that I've read, I can see why some people are upset, but I really think it'll be good regardless. I enjoyed quite a few of the spoilers, but only some squad spoilers I disliked.
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