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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #120 on: Sunday, February 26, 2012, 09:08:57 PM »

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #121 on: Sunday, February 26, 2012, 09:59:09 PM »
Live action?  Why would I even bother?

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #122 on: Sunday, February 26, 2012, 10:01:17 PM »
BECAUSE IT'S MASS EFFECT! 



Alright, but why is Earth the most ghetto planet of them all?  They really shouldn't have gone live action.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #123 on: Sunday, February 26, 2012, 11:31:06 PM »
I think they're going with the trend. They saw the FEAR3 live action trailer, then the Skyrim one.. etc.

I'd love to see a Borderlands live action trailer just because I know I know Randy Pitchford would have fun with it.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #124 on: Monday, February 27, 2012, 01:52:14 AM »
You just reminded me that I have to watch that again.  And again.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #125 on: Monday, February 27, 2012, 04:34:12 AM »
It's cool, but it's very much in the vein of a lot of Halo trailers. I know people are going to hold that against the game... of course, it seems the internets are happy to hold everything against the game lately.


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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #129 on: Friday, March 02, 2012, 01:12:15 PM »
Final (?) launch trailer in the vein of last ME2 trailer (Remember how sweet that was?)



And it ended with the right sound. I'm set. Bring on the end.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #130 on: Friday, March 02, 2012, 03:17:22 PM »
By the same dudes who did the other trailer music too. I remember listening to this music when I was checking out their latest work.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #131 on: Friday, March 02, 2012, 04:15:36 PM »
"Two Steps from Hell" makes some decent music.  They're featured in a lot of trailers.  Between them and Audiomachine, you can find a lot of 'epic' music for use in previews.

Anyway, looks amazing.  I'll have to wait until April to play it though and won't be able to get it on launch day.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #132 on: Friday, March 02, 2012, 11:58:01 PM »


Somebody strung together all three launch trailers.  You can see the awesomeness and the evolution of the game.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #133 on: Saturday, March 03, 2012, 04:05:10 AM »
I can't believe I'm this ridiculously excited for the game.  I don't know if I've ever been this pumped.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #134 on: Saturday, March 03, 2012, 08:44:37 AM »
That new ME3 trailer is AMAZING.

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Awesome @ That person that strung together all 3 ME games' launch trailers!

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #135 on: Saturday, March 03, 2012, 12:42:13 PM »
Pre-load downloaded!

Now the anticipation is building at an accelerated pace.

Damn. In retrospect this may have made things worse on my ability to wait.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #136 on: Saturday, March 03, 2012, 01:44:32 PM »
I haven't bought ME3 simply because my computer got formatted and I lost all my old saves. Now, I want to play ME1 and ME2 first. It is silly, I know.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #137 on: Saturday, March 03, 2012, 01:51:50 PM »
Once you see it...


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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #138 on: Saturday, March 03, 2012, 11:29:09 PM »
Bahaha. 


So, everyone playing this on the PC:  What are your Origin names or whatever we need to add each other?  You know we're going to have to get some MP going at some time. 

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #139 on: Saturday, March 03, 2012, 11:35:48 PM »
I can't say I'm seeing it.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #140 on: Saturday, March 03, 2012, 11:43:17 PM »

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #142 on: Monday, March 05, 2012, 11:54:24 PM »
PRetty sure this shit just went live!

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #144 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 12:46:33 AM »
Wow the responses with people being fine with that is rather striking. I always went with default sheppard, that's the character I played with for the passed 2 games. If I had to change his appearance I would be pissed.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #145 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 01:00:14 AM »
I'm not pumped about it.  I had this kinda ugly, but totally badass Sheppard that won't import and I can't even come close to making him again with the options in this one. I just played through the first 20 min and decided to restart because the guy I ended up making looked like Vin Disel and fuck that.

I guess I'm going with default Sheps from now on.  If I can't use my character, I might as well use one that some thought went into I guess.

Also, tech armour blows now so I guess I'm going Vanguard.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #146 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 03:24:56 AM »
I always go with default Shepard.

But yes Pyro, people on that forum always 'fine' with many things. After some investigation, I realized a lot of people who tend to agree with everything Bioware say are just Bioware employees!

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #147 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 03:26:18 AM »
Visual makeovers I don't mind so much, mainly because I've even gotten better at the details (thank you Oblivion & Skyrim). Honestly though, I've just been using the default Shepard appearance since it's the most visually impressive (better resolution skin texture, higher poly-count etc.)

It sucks when I have to re-spec my character's class but I've gotten used to it since in ME2 I lost my ME1 saves anyway.

This time around I may import my ME2 saves since I hung on to them.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #148 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 08:54:49 AM »
Yeah, you need to import those saves, yo.  I don't mind the stock Sheppard now that I'm using it - and yet, I totally see why it's a huge a deal to most people.  I mean, I'm not really OCD at all and Sheppard just doesn't seem right without the hideous hook nose I gave him years ago.

But it's kinda cool how the MP and SP tie together a bit. I didn't know anything about it before and don't know exactly how it works, but it seems that the overall war effort is directly impacted by how you do in the mp portion.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #149 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 09:00:54 AM »
That's fucking weak. I liked my Shep. He was totally military, looked like a marine. Pretty boilerplate, but I was fond of him.

Regardless, how do you fuck that up when that's one of the selling points? That's pretty stupid. Way to go, Bioware.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #150 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 02:49:33 PM »
Man, this game seems to be getting a ton of internet hate.  Well, half the internet seems to love it, half seems to hate it.   Metacritic user reviews are all 0-3/10 citing how the game continues the downward spiral of the series which stated with ME2.


WHAAAT?  Honestly, who the fuck could possibly think that ME2 wasn't an overall improvement over ME1?  I'm chalking this up to kids trying to get all political about Origin and day 1 dlc.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #151 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 03:33:32 PM »
Honestly, I feel like the only person who doesn't give even the slightest fuck about ME3. I just don't care. At all.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #152 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 03:38:35 PM »
Man, this game seems to be getting a ton of internet hate.  Well, half the internet seems to love it, half seems to hate it.   Metacritic user reviews are all 0-3/10 citing how the game continues the downward spiral of the series which stated with ME2.
This is what has happened w/ many Bioware games since NWN.

Many who loved BG games, hated NWN. Many who loved NWN, hated BG games.
Many who who loved DAO, hated DA2. Many who hated DAO, loved DA2.
Many who loved ME1, hated ME2. Many who loved ME2, hated ME1.

I'm explain more, after your next quote...

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WHAAAT?  Honestly, who the fuck could possibly think that ME2 wasn't an overall improvement over ME1?  I'm chalking this up to kids trying to get all political about Origin and day 1 dlc.
While Origin is part of the possible hate, I think it's more so the fact that Bioware's sequels over get MAJOR overhauled in some formation from 1 to 2 or 2 to 3.
Look at the trend - their sequels become less RPG-like [in some ways], more action-orientated, & more console-orientated - and some gamers just can't friggin' handle it.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #154 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 05:07:57 PM »
I'm loving it so far!

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #156 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 07:32:22 PM »
This is what has happened w/ many Bioware games since NWN.

Many who loved BG games, hated NWN. Many who loved NWN, hated BG games.
Many who who loved DAO, hated DA2. Many who hated DAO, loved DA2.
Many who loved ME1, hated ME2. Many who loved ME2, hated ME1.

I'm explain more, after your next quote...
While Origin is part of the possible hate, I think it's more so the fact that Bioware's sequels over get MAJOR overhauled in some formation from 1 to 2 or 2 to 3.
Look at the trend - their sequels become less RPG-like [in some ways], more action-orientated, & more console-orientated - and some gamers just can't friggin' handle it.


Honestly, I think the elements that they did away with in ME1 were some of the worst parts of that game. The millions of pieces of weapons and armour, for instance that were all repeats or at least functionally the same.  That's just me, however. 

So, really - who's playing this on PC?

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #157 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 07:54:40 PM »
The level of bile the game is getting is way above even the usual Bioware hate. Really, I think a lot of it was the backlash from Dragon Age 2. I'm sure that game made all sorts of money but it didn't earn Bioware any goodwill favors.

I'm about to start (on the PC) in a minute. Just got everything installed and my character imported just fine. I think I made a slight adjustment to my character's face when I imported into ME2 so I got through that just fine. Now I need to get moving.

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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #158 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 08:10:28 PM »
Honestly, I think the elements that they did away with in ME1 were some of the worst parts of that game. The millions of pieces of weapons and armour, for instance that were all repeats or at least functionally the same.  That's just me, however.  
Oh, I agree w/ you.
I've always felt ME1 leaned heavily on shooter mechanics for gameplay, yet didn't really play like a shooter. Damn dice-rolls...those should NEVER be involved, when aiming down the sights.
And the Inventory and weapon-naming were all "bleh."

I thought ME2 was a MAJOR improvement on ME1, in terms of how the combat played. Plus, most of the missions and/or side-missions were great.
If I recall, one of ME1's weaknesses were its side-quests...


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Re: Mass Effect 3 to be more of an RPG?
« Reply #159 on: Tuesday, March 06, 2012, 10:14:58 PM »
Metacritic's user reviews are becoming a joke.  So many big release sequels just get bombed with negative reviews for little to no reason.  I guess it is still useful for aggregating official reviews, though.

ME2 was a huge improvement over ME1 in almost every way.  2 minute elevator rides?  No thanks.  People who seriously contend that ME2 ruined the series or whatever need to hop off the nostalgia train.

I'm excited for 3.  Just need to wait till I have the funds to get it.
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