The Mass Effect 3/BioWare Thread

get fucked or git gud you homo.

 

Its not that it is bad per se, but that the lead designer is replaying the whole series now...ya i think that´s an odd chronological order considering ME4 is supposed to be playable right now.

 

I´ve been clear its not the replaying of it. Its he is doing it now. has he even played it before? I dont know, but if its his first time then that´s even worse. Another thing is i replayed the series, racing through it and it still took like probably almost 100 hours in total. He´s got a lot of time on his hands as lead designer...

 

I agree. Any new galaxy saving storyline is just going to be overshadowed by the Reaper saga, and it will be even more funny if they refuse to mention the Reaper saga and its outcome. I bet they are getting their knickers in a proper twist, all because of their stupid savegame spaghetti junction.

 

DA2 was awful, but the story concept was one of the better ideas. Of course, Bioware might lack the writing capacity to implement that idea, but I'm not against them spending a few games working on it.

 

The new enemy: The RAPERS, an ancient secret organization made up entirely of white, heterosexual men. They aim to maintain the patriarchy at all costs, and must be stopped!

 

Sounds like something Gaydar would come up with. IIRC, he inserted a tranny into toilet paper branded as dragon age comics.

 

Lambchop19 i had more fun with daggerfall than i ever had with mass effect, so yeah, daggerfall is in fact a better game and a better rpg.

The roots of rpgs can be traced back to disposable characters and simple, easy to follow stories that were more an excuse to kill stuff and grow in power than anything else. In that respect daggerfall is truer to the origins of the genre.

Fuck, i remember when having a lvl 15 mage was a fucking life achievement, the survival rate of a thing that had 1d4 hit points per level and a couple shit spells that could be resisted by most dangerous creatures was low, really low.

Nowadays you are expected to succed, you cannot lose, games dont punish your stupidity or ignorance.

Gonna go out for a breather.

 

Would it really be asking to much to have a plot similar to Mass Effect 1 without ANY Reapers/Evil Gods/Cthulhu thingys? I liked Saren as a villain.

Playing a special ops space cop/detective was actually kinda fun. Having to save the universe from a great evil one is banal and shit.

 

Yeah, exactly. Return to the small scale of ME1 or go even smaller, with either detective work with a rogue agent like Saren or a terrorist group trying to blow up the citadel, AKA that spinoff game where you play as Jacob, except better and the size of a Mass Effect game.

Because otherwise I fear that they're going to pull a Halo 4 and break open a different can of world-ending nasties, which makes the Reapers feel less threatening.

He did, and it was posted about on the Codex. They said they did it to be more inclusive, but that person in question was (of course) not very interestingly written in the first place.

 

People trying to score points with the SJW groups are a bunch of fucking losers.

 

"Your family, the Hawkser's, fled Eden Prime during the geth invasion and sought refuge at the Citadel.

Amidst the desolation and chaos caused by the Reaper Wars, you and your family must do whatever is necessary to survive, even it means teaming up with shady characters and getting your hands dirty."

Brought by BiowarEA™, the creators of award winning Dragon Age and Mass Effect series, live the raise to power of Hawkser and immerse yourself in a plot of treachery and political play among powerful factions within the Citadel.

blahblah blah, something along those lines.

 

Inclusiveness only works when what you include is actually worth including. The person they wrote about (male-to-female trans) was treated like Bioware treats all their non-cishet characters: oversexed caricatures who jump from genitals to genitals. Because you know, all LGBTQI folks do that.

 

I´d like something like that where you have a dynamic and more open galaxy, without being led by the nose through the horrendously linear levels. Also more landable planets for exploration, they could make a cool open world rpg along with clues, lots of detective work, image enahancement finding buried clues etc...and they could still do their Bioware storyline. Hopefully this time they don´t over complicate themselves so much that they have to retire the star of the show at the end of it.

yes i miss Shepard...

 

Git gud with trolling, son!

 

Daggerfall was a unique game. Heck, I even said it was a better experience, but it was buggy as hell, had shit graphics, cookie cutter fedex quests etc. It's a great game and a great experience, but Mass Effect is clearly miles ahead of it in terms of being an actual polished playthrough. Take the rose tinted glasses off for a minute and realize that brilliant though it was, it's an immensely flawed diamond compared to Bioware's near perfectly cut sapphire.

 

A sapphire is an aluminum oxide crystal, often used to make scratch resistant glass for a watch. The brown thing that is expelled from the anus of an animal or a human is called faeces.

 

Mass Effect = Sapphire, Daggerfall (or anything else Bethesda ever made) = Faeces

Yeah, that sounds about right.

 

My memory may be failing me, but didn't it look pretty great when it came out?

Whatever, I kind of agree with you. Yet to me, Mass Effect didn't actually play all that well compared to games with similar gameplay that preceded it. The gameplay involved in the conversation system was underwhelming, to be kind, and the core combat gameplay was kind of mushy, floaty, sluggish and ... Not even up to par with console shooters IMO, with a extremely weak squad system, crap level design, and a couple of minigames that felt completely disconnected from the activities they were supposedly representing, and which simply weren't any fun.

Daggerfall doesn't exactly have outstanding gameplay by today's standards. But at least it wasn't less than mediocre by the standards of its time. OR at least, I didn't think so at the time (though ffs it was buggy).

 

I thought it was meant the other way around since, well... faeces can only be associated with mass defect - since it is utter shit.

 

*shrug*

I like shooters too, and Mass Effect is a pretty good RPG light shooter IMO. Mass Effect 3 is shit though.

 

Mass Effect is one of the most boring games I've played in my life. It makes WoW play like a drug-fueled rave party. ME2 at least tried to spice things a bit, but you still can't salvage the template.

The thing I found the most baffling about ME1 is how the story wrapped up so soon compared to KOTOR, but still it took an eternity of a snoozefest. This temporal dissonance also manifested in guilt of wasting 10x more time than I did.

 

Mass Effect WAS perfectly cut. A perfectly cut piece of manure where everything interesting has been surgically removed.

 

Mass defect 1 was barely a mediocre game. Very lousy arpg - shooter hybrid with more then one facepalm moment. The only thing it had working for it - really - was that it was something new. A sort of novelty - which is where any interest in it originated from.
I played pretty much all shooters myself. Thats not a problem here at all.

The second was so laughably stupid that i deleted the demo actually laughing out loud and the third was - is, such a imbecile pile of utter nonsensical crap that it deserves a special place on the list of all super stupid games ever made.