Mass Effect 3

i simultaneously loved/hated the level system of ME2...yeah its cool recruiting everyone for the one big mission, but at the same time it felt like that was all that I was doing, checking off a checklist in preparation for the final battle or whatevs.

maybe im being too hard on it, its still a damn fun game.

Me and a few of my buddies have pretty much become fucking legendary super L337 pwnsters at ME3 MP co-op, soo good. I fucking pray they have at least 6 or 8 co-op maps, more than 2 opposing forces and some more variety in the missions etc... If MP co-op has enough variety in the full release it's gonna be gang busters. The combat, cover controls, weapon moding, leveling system is much more satisfying this time around.

Yeah, combat has improved this time as much as it did from me1 to me2, and that's a lot. Probably the best feeling third person shooter I've played. Have you done the gold chalenge already Bfc? I've been trying few times but either people are noobs who don't know what is gold chalenge or they are vanguards who kill themselves on third waves, I need a good team.

Word, let's make it happen. My origin name is Stenotic, we usually use steam voice chat because one of the people we play with doesn't have Battlefield 3 to use battlelog voice.

Added you. I don't use steam usually ,but that's not a problem i guesss.

Why does every single game now seem to feature a zombie/borgification type thing?

I just completed the Arrival DLC for ME2. Totally forgot about it.

But i'm glad I completed it so close to the release of ME3. It made the opening of the ME3 demo make a lot more sense. A very good prologue.

i caved and signed up to origin and downloaded the demo. then i found out you couldn't import your character into the demo, so i uninstalled all that shit.

http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/article/sv-interview-mass-effect-3-audio-lead-rob-blake

Great interview with the audio lead about the music and the sound design of ME3.

i'm ready to spend the next week saving the milky way galaxy :3

Me too, just finished the first two mass effects again building a perfect save file.

  On 3/5/2012 at 9:08 PM, Adam Beker said:

Me too, just finished the first two mass effects again building a perfect save file.

fck i need to probably do this a few more times

I need to restart the suicide mission. Mordin died for no reason. :/

99/100

or something like that. It's incredible, way beyond what I expected.

UM WOW.

SO GOOD.

edit: actually, i think it's a solid 6/10. good, but it's definitely lacking in some areas. i HATE all the constant self-references to me1 and me2 in attempts to be funny. holy shit, how juvenile. in general, the writing is severely lacking this time around. for instance, at one point, joker is talking about how the normandy is stealth and won't alert certain people and he says, "they won't see us unless we all start singing the russian national anthem."

that is not funny and it doesn't even make sense. the writers really dropped the ball on some parts. as a result, some of the characters act very oddly compared to their personalities in the other two games.

i hate how everywhere you go, shepard stumbles upon like three people she talked to in previous games. she can't even go into the shitter without having someone be like "sup, you saved my life two games ago. i appreciate it."

another critique with the writing:

also, the graphics are TERRIBLE. the textures are so low res. i definitely do not have high standards for graphics. it's just that i've been playing skyrim with the hd texture pack before i started me3 and, holy shit, the difference is huge. you know, i don't even think that me2 was that bad with graphics. but me3... it's jarring at some points! for instance, when shepard is talking to the asari councilor, i noticed the pattern on her shirt is pixelated. i'm not talking little pixels, i'm talking about her shirt looking like it's from fucking mario, which is weird because her face is so detailed. it just pulls you out of the game.

this is most visible when looking up at the sky in the presidium... it looks really, really awful. like a win98 screensaver awful.

and the plot. oh geez. i haven't finished the game yet, but

it's disappointing, because the plot of the first one is really creative and intriguing (me2 didn't really have a plot so no point in mentioning it).

i do like a lot of parts of the game.

as for the combat mechanics... i'm playing as vanguard. the class is pretty broken once you get the upgrade where a biotic charge refills your shields and once you get the attack "nova" which drains your shields to damage your enemies. combined with a quick cooldown, you're almost invincible (charge, nova, shoot, repeat). sorta boring. i'm playing on normal difficulty; maybe i should kick it up a notch?

another thing about combat: is it just me or do they abuse the whole "waves and waves" of enemies thing way too much? some battles just take soooo long--not because i'm not effective at killing the goons, but because there seems like there's five waves of enemies almost each time you encounter a chest-high wall. i heard similar complaints about dragon age 2 :/

also, who the fuck made the interact button the same as the sprint/roll button?! i'm not sure if it was like that in the previous games, but it is definitely annoying me in this one.

the new inventory might be one of the things that bioware perfected. it's a really good compromise between me1 and me2. it's not cluttered at all, but there's still a degree of customization. i think it was influenced a lot by dead space.

as for the music... everyone was jizzing themselves over clint mansell composing and i haven't heard anything that's blown me away. in fact, most of the music in the game is music from the first and second game. pretty disappointing. i was really listening hard for some new tracks that would blow me away as much as the galaxy map music did the first time i heard it.

ANYWAY, it's a fun game. i've been playing it non-stop, because i'm emotionally invested in commander shepard (i don't care how dumb it sounds, w/e). it's not a great game, though. 6/10.

well, actually, it could be a 9/10... if you're rating it as a dating simulator.

Play on hardcore at least. Agree about the music. Don't agree about the graphics, I mean the textures yeah maybe. Wait for mods or something if that's really important for you. The plot is bad because of the name of a project? LOL. Some discusions are a bit cheesy yes, some things are really funny though.

About people from me1 and 2, yeah that's not realistic, but feels really good though. That's one of the main reasons I love mass effect, I can't really imagine how someone could play me3 without playing the two first ones before that, unless they're cod fans and only care about shooting.

great voice acting... also those facial expressions are superb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVU6vHe5quw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVU6vHe5quw

and whats with all the focus on gay relationships? is that why people like it?

  On 3/8/2012 at 2:44 AM, Hoodie said:

UM WOW.

 

SO GOOD.

 

edit: actually, i think it's a solid 6/10. good, but it's definitely lacking in some areas. i HATE all the constant self-references to me1 and me2 in attempts to be funny. holy shit, how juvenile. in general, the writing is severely lacking this time around. for instance, at one point, joker is talking about how the normandy is stealth and won't alert certain people and he says, "they won't see us unless we all start singing the russian national anthem."

 

that is not funny and it doesn't even make sense. the writers really dropped the ball on some parts. as a result, some of the characters act very oddly compared to their personalities in the other two games.

That Russian national anthem joke is a reference to the Hunt for the Red October, where the crew sings the anthem after the sub activates it's silent propulsion system and the US sonar guy briefly hears singing.

LOL @ Hoodie

You playing on a console? Doubt it but, I only played the ME3 demo, the graphics aren't much better than ME2 but with everything jacked AA n stuff on my 6950 I get like 200FPS (so they obviously weren't sloppy on the optimisation) and as a whole I think it's more aesthetically pleasing than Skyrim. Skyrim had some beautiful moments but the character models, texturing and a lot of stuff was much less visually consistent than any of the Mass Effect games (because Skyrim is open worldish is one factor but just saying) I think they are great looking games

  On 3/8/2012 at 8:32 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

LOL @ Hoodie

 

You playing on a console? Doubt it but, I only played the ME3 demo, the graphics aren't much better than ME2 but with everything jacked AA n stuff on my 6950 I get like 200FPS (so they obviously weren't sloppy on the optimisation) and as a whole I think it's more aesthetically pleasing than Skyrim. Skyrim had some beautiful moments but the character models, texturing and a lot of stuff was much less visually consistent than any of the Mass Effect games (because Skyrim is open worldish is one factor but just saying) I think they are great looking games

no, i'm playing on a pc. i have a gtx570, so i'm playing at the highest settings. some of the textures just look like shit and it pisses me off.

  On 3/8/2012 at 8:16 AM, azatoth said:

  On 3/8/2012 at 2:44 AM, Hoodie said:

UM WOW.

 

SO GOOD.

 

edit: actually, i think it's a solid 6/10. good, but it's definitely lacking in some areas. i HATE all the constant self-references to me1 and me2 in attempts to be funny. holy shit, how juvenile. in general, the writing is severely lacking this time around. for instance, at one point, joker is talking about how the normandy is stealth and won't alert certain people and he says, "they won't see us unless we all start singing the russian national anthem."

 

that is not funny and it doesn't even make sense. the writers really dropped the ball on some parts. as a result, some of the characters act very oddly compared to their personalities in the other two games.

 

That Russian national anthem joke is a reference to the Hunt for the Red October, where the crew sings the anthem after the sub activates it's silent propulsion system and the US sonar guy briefly hears singing.

oh, huh. that makes sense now.

still sounds stupid out of context though.

Question is why would Joker refer to a movie almost 200 years old. The again he has some crippling bone disease and probably watches a lot of movies when he is not cybersexing EDI.

LOL, he's referencing an approximately 200 year old movie because it's a video game trying to not take itself too seriously and because it was made by 35 year old dudes in teh year before or during 2012 thinking they know what makes young adults laugh. HAhah but yea, I would rather games DID take themselves more seriously and this was straight up dark sci fi uncompromising targeted towards mature smart patient people... rather than trying to cater to every demographic all the time. Problem is video games are always trying to spray their uzi wide to reach every got damn market. Video games can actually be pretty good at serious drama at times but it's much more rare that a video game can get comedy right. Stick to what you are actually good at people, don't try to be something you're not, well at least, don't bother anybody with your failures, show us your boobies only when you get yo nipplez right.

so i just finished the game.

So apparently you need to play multi-player to get the "best" ending to the single-player campaign. What the FUCK, Bioware?! Is this some utterly stupid way to curb piracy?

Get 3 friends together and the MP coop is a blast though!