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[DarkTreader]

Mass Effect 3 rocks your socks.

*pregnant pause...*

aaaaaand Discuss!

[Catamount]

I can't get it to import my ME2 saves; I still have the Documents/Bioware/Mass Effect 2/Save folder, and it's got a soldier folder with a save game, but apparently some people have reported that it won't import without ME2 actually installed

Long story short, I apparently have to wait through a huge ME2 download before I can play ME3 (not the worst game hickup I've ever been through though)

Edited by Catamount, 06 March 2012 - 08:15 AM.

[Aegis Kleais]

As much as I'd LOVE to play Mass Effect 3, like Battlefield 3, I am refusing purchase because EA is heavy-handing consumers by forcing them to use the Origin client for AAA titles that they are publishing on.

So it pretty much ends at ME2 for me.

[TheRulesLawyer]

Unlocked last night. Enjoying the game so far. Conversations are still emotionless and sterile as ever though. I understand that's way it has to happen with the choose your own adventure style cut scenes, but it leaves Shepard feeling like a souless husk.

[NameTheftVictim]

I only got an hour and a half with it before I had to leave for class.

And I'm not getting back home until 11:30 tonight. Boo-hoo.

[DarkTreader]

Yeah, I only got about an hour and a half in this morning before I had to pass out. Blasted Origin install. >_<

[Carebear]

Boycott EA. EA needs to go away, nothing to give for game industry, go make money elsewhere.

[D34K]

Really liking the multiplayer, very nice surprise.

[GDL Germ]

I'm not really impressed with it so far to be honest I liked the first two better. It feels like a awful console port the only graphic settings are AA on/off and dynamic shadows on/off . Looks terrible plays terrible and haven't been able to get into the story line.Yesterday I entered a solar system was scouting some planets, then these corny looking little pictures of reaper ships started following me around. They were impossible to outrun and when they got to me it just said you dead homie game over, at that point I stopped playing.
It feels like a rushed game to me, like they could have made it better. But they just wanted to make some moneyz quickly so they can push out the next game, kinda like battlefield 3

Edited by GDL Germ, 09 March 2012 - 09:23 AM.

[Coralld]

I enjoyed the game greatly. The last part where you attempt to take back Earth after you gathered all the forces and stuff is badass. I have already beaten it. The multi player is very fun and addictive. Just one problem with it...

HUGE SPOILER ALERT!!




















There is really only one major flaw with it that bothers me as well as many others out there and that is THE ENDING CHOICES SUCK!! No happy ending... Not really any way and leaves a very bad taste in your mouth and feels just so wrong. You have to nearly max out your military readiness and have to have a point count over 5000 to make sure Shep survives, other wise your Shep dies but no matter what every one in the galaxy is screwed if you chose to blow up the Reapers because it blows up all the Mass Relays and the Citadel. Which is the Renegade option. The Synthesis thing was just weird and makes no sense what so ever. Or you can take control of the Reapers, witch is the Paragon option of all things and you become the new Harbinger or Shep-binger in this case and take all the Reapers back into Dark Space. Crappy, crappy, and crappy!!

I was so hopeing that I would be able to end it with my Shep, and Tali who I romanced, and would be on the Quarion home world with all my friends and crew sipping on Margaritas. Give me a DLC for this Bioware!! Give me something even remotely like this or I will cry like no person on god's green Earth has cried before.

Edited by Coralld, 09 March 2012 - 10:59 PM.

[Trogusaur]

So what's with the user reviews crapping all over ME3? I still haven't had the chance to pick it up, but I find it hard to believe that the conclusion to two of the best games for Xbox360 could be this bad.

[Coralld]

Lord Trogus, on 09 March 2012 - 10:56 PM, said:

So what's with the user reviews crapping all over ME3? I still haven't had the chance to pick it up, but I find it hard to believe that the conclusion to two of the best games for Xbox360 could be this bad.

Sadly it is. There is a huge backlash about it and the hopes are that Bioware comes out with a DLC that changes that.

[Carebear]

Bioware is history. Couple month and the grim truth of Star Wars come out. SWTOR still sells but they lose customers rapidly. Over-rated dev in my opinion. Nothing awesome.

Edited by Carebear, 10 March 2012 - 06:35 AM.

[pursang]

Carebear, on 10 March 2012 - 03:14 AM, said:

Bioware is history. Couple month and the grim truth of Star Wars come out. SWTOR still sells but they lose customers rapidly. Over-rated devs in my opinion .

I can't tell if you're being serious or not... BioWare is making more money then ever.

[Carebear]

pursang, on 10 March 2012 - 03:17 AM, said:

I can't tell if you're being serious or not... BioWare is making more money then ever.

You mean EA? And Im having hard time to believe they get their money back from SWTOR. If I remember correctly EA paid 860mill of Bioware, they never get them back.

Edited by Carebear, 10 March 2012 - 03:28 AM.

[Alan Grant]

I understand the stuff about Origins, it's no less than have a virus on your computer. But this is probably the last EA title I buy for some years to come. Unless Bioware pull out of EA's grasp, or the next DA game is monumental, I'm probably not gonna be playing their games for ages to come. Thank god we have a new mechwarrior game coming out then. What lucky timing, it's almost as if it was planned to happen just now.

[Refizul]

I have to say that should Bioware actually release DLC where you have to PAY for a better ending than I will never touch another game of theirs again. And I'm pretty shocked that people ("fans") want to throw even more money at Bioware/EA to punish them for not giving the game/trilogy a proper end.

Personally I would be more interrested in knowing what consequences my choices over all the games have for the universe and the characters I have met. But that is probably also something that has to be bought seperatly in form of other games or DLC. It is not really such a huge suprise that Bioware wants to keep things somewhat vague. There is after all more money to be made by milking the franchise.

Edited by Refizul, 10 March 2012 - 05:44 AM.

[Cake Bandit]

Aegis Kleais™, on 06 March 2012 - 10:28 AM, said:

As much as I'd LOVE to play Mass Effect 3, like Battlefield 3, I am refusing purchase because EA is heavy-handing consumers by forcing them to use the Origin client for AAA titles that they are publishing on.

So it pretty much ends at ME2 for me.

Let us also not forget the fiascos regarding Day one DLC featuring content merely ripped out of the game to gouge another ten bucks out of their players.'

*Plot Critical Content*

Edited by Cake Bandit, 10 March 2012 - 09:34 AM.

[Cake Bandit]

Aegis Kleais™, on 10 March 2012 - 09:36 AM, said:

The more often people pay for this kinda stuff, the more common we're gonna see this kinda of disrespect to the community. EA is just forcing developers whom they publish (DICE for BF3, Bioware for ME3) to not allow them to sell on the Steam platform in an obvious attempt to increase their user base. It's the core reason I won't touch BF3 or ME3. We can definitely expect to see more of this down the line.

You vote with your dollars, and every cent spent buying into these scummy business models is another vote for more of them. I won't be participating in any of EA's business either. I don't mind a little competition with Steam, I do mind it when I'm being sold incomplete games purely so I can be charged later to get completed content added back in. This goes the same for On-Disc DLC.

The fact that we didn't laugh the guys who started that crap out of the industry is a mystery to me.

Extra campaigns? Yeah, sure. Map Packs? Sure, I guess. Plot critical content pulled from the game at launch to make an extra ten bucks off of anyone actually invested in the plot? Screeeewwwwww youuuuuuuu.

[Coralld]

The only reason why I am willing to pay a few extra bucks for a proper ending to ME3 is because I love the ME universe, its was fantastic up until the final ending in ME3 which just insults the entire ME universe. So fine, take my extra 10 to 20 bucks so I can finely have the proper closer that this franchise rightfully deserves and I hope EA chokes on my money.

Now I am worried for Dead Space 3.

Edited by Coralld, 10 March 2012 - 10:35 AM.