Shepard gets more extreme - summary executions!

[Annonchinil]

What makes some games great is that even the minor characters have their own unique personality or atleast have a personality that is coherent to their standing in life or what place they inhabit. The two sub-characters you choose not kill are just drones.

 

[Annonchinil]

BTW, if you guys thought that was extreme, wait till you see this:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24935.html

"You assume I give a damn. That's cute."
"We find a way out. Someone up there needs my boot up his ass."

lol. Right when I was wondering if the vehicle could run enemies over it did... And then got caught on the tent... Hahaha.

At least the turds got something interesting

Anyways I just saw Shooter, comparisons are justified.

 

[Elhoim]

Couldn't they find a better voice actor for Shepard. He.just.reads.the.lines.

 

[roshan]

We can already tell from the videos that Biowares dialogue system is nothing but lies and hype. Supposedly you can interrupt people while they are saying and will get different lines if you take too long to reply.

But we can tell from the videos that the dialogue options normally only show up when the characters have already finished saying their previous lines, or are about to finish. So interrupting people while they speak is probably limited to just a few selected sequences.

 

[thesheeep]

But we can tell from the videos that the dialogue options normally only show up when the characters have already finished saying their previous lines, or are about to finish. So interrupting people while they speak is probably limited to just a few selected sequences.

Which is not a bad thing, or do you remember ANY game, where something like this was possible in recent years?

I don't want to defend Mass Effect, but some of those comments here are nothing more but bitching for the sake of bitching....

 

[MetalCraze]

Which is not a bad thing, or do you remember ANY game, where something like this was possible in recent years?

I don't want to defend Mass Effect, but some of those comments here are nothing more but bitching for the sake of bitching....

that's no excuse. Because if this was possible long time ago when 3D engines were only for chosen ones and budgets were small why can't they make it today? Or today's technologies won't be able to do this? Bioware has enough money - their recent titles are very successful, and I suppose that the budget is much higher than the one for PS:T f. e.

Also that new trailer proves that voice-acting of Shepard is really poor. I can't believe he is a badass. He just... talks. Without emotions and expressions.
How to make character's personality believable? Either with outstanding writing and no voice-overs (like in PS:T) or with outstanding voice-overs and writing(Kreia is a good example). Voice-over actor of Shepard ruins his personality with his mediocrity.

 

[thesheeep]

I agree. Really ^^

As I said, I don't want to defend this game...
I just don't like like some of this senseless bitching going on here.

 

[Claw]

Which is not a bad thing, or do you remember ANY game, where something like this was possible in recent years?

I could always interrupt the NPCs in Gothic. Sure, it made no difference, but I've yet got to see any evidence that it matters in ME, so...

Also, in Gothic I found a glitch that allowed me to walk away from a talking NPC. You know the saying, it's not a bug, it's a feature.

 

[dagorkan]

How does levelling up work in ME?

Do you get XP per enemy type killed, for completing quests, for using your skills effectively, or what?

 

[Dark Matter]

How does levelling up work in ME?

Do you get XP per enemy type killed, for completing quests, for using your skills effectively, or what?

I'd presume that it's all of the above, just like KOTOR.

 

[aries202]

Just wanted you to point you all in this direction:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMRi8tYYnEs

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOLIERS. VIEW AT OWN RISK!!! :!: :!:

Basically, this video, originally from MTV, shows how you need to make a tough choice which is between bad or worse - at least according to my morals& ethics - fairly on in the game, Mass Éffect.

Yes, the combat may look FPSish, or even like a third person shooter, but in the RPG departmen, I really think Bioware hasd delievered this time. And by that I mean, not the typicall D&D choices of good, neutral and evening, but interesting choice&consequences.

I just hope that regardless of what choice you make, thie choice you made as CMD Shepard will haunt you forever, and even in your dreams as well as the consequences first being clear to you many months later (in the game)= several hours into the game as well as affecting the ending you get.

Now, about thist -ahem- game for pc, bioware...

Please

make it so

 

[Elhoim]

Pretty interesting video!

 

[fastpunk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMRi8tYYnEs

Fuck! That was actually interesting. The whole situation is quite difficult. The dialog system itself isn't bad (certainly not revolutionary), it's just a shame for the stiff voice acting because that whole scene flowed nicely.

 

[spacemoose]

I couldn't make it out - do you actually get an option to steal the cure for the alien (as opposed to destroying it) or do you only get several options to convince him to go along with destroying it.

because if its the latter, we're looking at the same old shit

as an aside "destroying" some chemical is silly if you don't kill everyone who knows how to make it - otherwise they'll just make more. so yeah

 

[Claw]

Yes, the combat may look FPSish, or even like a third person shooter, but in the RPG departmen, I really think Bioware hasd delievered this time. And by that I mean, not the typicall D&D choices of good, neutral and evening, but interesting choice&consequences.

The combat looks like this, that is the problem, not the perspective. As for the "RPG department" if this scene really offers the implied choice, then it's so much better than anything in ME I've seen before that it's hard to even believe it's the same game.
In fact, this scene is the best I've seen even without a choice. Which is just to emphasize how shitty the game looks to me.

I couldn't make it out - do you actually get an option to steal the cure for the alien (as opposed to destroying it) or do you only get several options to convince him to go along with destroying it.

because if its the latter, we're looking at the same old shit

Exactly. From the options I've seen in the video, I can't detect any clear choice. The dialogie options mostly seem to be different lines to calm him down. I only saw one line that might lead to an alternative outcome. The others just seem to determine (if possible) whether or not it comes to a fight.

 

[Pegultagol]

Will the female version of Shepherd have the same kind of bravado as the male one so well beloved around here?

 

[Keender_surprise]

Option A: Kill the party member, and destroy the cure
Option B: Persuade the party member, and destroy the cure anyway.

I'd be surprised if there was more to it than that, and if that's all there is to it then it's already been seen in KOTOR.

 

[elander_]

ME is a linear game until proof otherwise. Whatever we do, the ending and the middle and everything won't dodge much from the written plot line, just like DeusEx i presume.

There are also great pseudo-choices in DeusEx, like if you save your brother or don't, or if you kill the rebel leader or not. Eventually it doesn't matter. It's only the illusion of choice. Something is presented to the player that appears it will modify the game drastically but it won't. Even the ton of DeusEx endings don't depend on anything the player has done before.