The Mass Effect 3/BioWare Thread

[Andyman Messiah]

But I don't hate ME3 either. It's just that they took Mass Effect 2 and made it more like Mass Effect 1, in other words NOT FUN TO PLAY. Most of my complaints are petty but then this is a petty game. And it breaks my heart every time I have to take the elevator down to level 5 to outfit my retarded team and then take the elevator up to level 2 to start a new mission JUST BECAUSE BIOWARE THOUGHT HAVING EVERYTHING YOU NEEDED IN ONE PLACE WAS ILLOGICAL. IN A FUCKING VIDEO GAME.

Dude, I tried to play ME1 after ME3 and it didn't feel all that similar. If anything, ME3 plays a lot like ME2 except with further improvements. Slightly better controls, like actually being able to make turns when sprinting, rolling around move proved useful as well. A little more diverse character system, a lot more weapon choices and upgrades plus I liked weight becoming a stat. Also, non regenerating health is an improvement, right? Well it is to me anyway. If I gave more of a shit about the story I might be raging about this game here too, but now it seems the best in the series to me because of actual gameplay. I don't recall your complaint about outfiting team being true either, I'm pretty sure I was allowed to choose everything before starting every mission, just like in ME2. Shit, you don't even have to visit shops more than once because they're all linked to your ship's terminal. How much more convenient can it get?

Combat is ME2 and not a problem.

When I say petty, I mean really petty things. Anal things. The game simply annoys me in precisely the same ways ME1 did. It has all these horrible design choices that makes the game slow as shit. I admit, I fucked up about the armory thing and you're right but I still don't care one bit for it and my complaint is still valid according to the design law of horsieness. Level 2 is where everything gets done. ME2 understood that. You had absolutely every single terminal except armor customization on that level, perfectly in reach. Don't waste my time. Don't drag this shit out. Absolutely fantastic. Now in ME3 I have to go to level 5 to mod weapons, purchase overpriced shit (unless I want to travel to the stores) and upgrade weapons and I have to go to level 3 to fuck around with a whole bunch of shit terminals. I can equip my squad as usual before a mission but the rest is exclusive to level 5 unless I find a workbench on the mission. I don't like it and I don't care if I'm alone in not liking it.


Also the Citadel now has elevators installed again! Seriously, FUCK THAT SHIT. Elevators equals loading screens! ME2 had stairs and no loading screens. Why was that such a bad thing, BioWare? The levels are just as small, why loading? Fuck you.

Man, I'm gonna copypaste this into my doc-file.

Also Dragon Age 3 hahahahahahahahaaaa

 

[Sulimo]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-21-mass-effect-3-dlc-coming-to-final-fantasy-13-2

UPDATE: The new Mass Effect 3 Final Fantasy 13-2 costumes will launch 27th March 27, priced 240 Microsoft Points, according to Andriasang.

ORIGINAL STORY: Fresh DLC for Final Fantasy 13-2 will feature costumes from Mass Effect 3, developer Square Enix has revealed.
Final Fantasy 13-2 heroes Serah and Noel will both recieve new outfits themed around BioWare's space opera finale, Famitsu reports (via Andriasang).
How is such a crossover possible? The heroes recieve them by entering the HistoriaCrux for a trip far into the future, of course.
Pictures of the new wardrobe items lie below.
The pack follows the previously announced Assassin's Creed: Revelations crossover, which adds Ezio's Constantinople costume for Noel.

... This shit keeps getting better. The two games these past months that have been criticized for not having a decent ending actually joining up forces. The world has gone fucking mad.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

Why just bring suits back? Why not a summon Normandy signal? Do FF games still have summons and have they even made anything more badass than knights of the round

I look forward to final fantasy N7 armor related hentai doujinshi.

seriously bros in case you didn't know you could get metal gear solid raiden armor for ezio in AC:Brotherhood

 

[Freelance Henchman]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-21-mass-effect-3-dlc-coming-to-final-fantasy-13-2

...that is not an April fool's?

 

[Malpercio]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-21-mass-effect-3-dlc-coming-to-final-fantasy-13-2

UPDATE: The new Mass Effect 3 Final Fantasy 13-2 costumes will launch 27th March 27, priced 240 Microsoft Points, according to Andriasang.

ORIGINAL STORY: Fresh DLC for Final Fantasy 13-2 will feature costumes from Mass Effect 3, developer Square Enix has revealed.
Final Fantasy 13-2 heroes Serah and Noel will both recieve new outfits themed around BioWare's space opera finale, Famitsu reports (via Andriasang).
How is such a crossover possible? The heroes recieve them by entering the HistoriaCrux for a trip far into the future, of course.
Pictures of the new wardrobe items lie below.
The pack follows the previously announced Assassin's Creed: Revelations crossover, which adds Ezio's Constantinople costume for Noel.

I'd play a Mass Effect 3-2 written by Motomu Toriyama.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

They honestly look better there than they do in Mass Effect 3. Better proportions, doesn't look out place...

Could very well be authentic and made by actual, decent designers.

 

[skuphundaku]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-21-mass-effect-3-dlc-coming-to-final-fantasy-13-2

UPDATE: The new Mass Effect 3 Final Fantasy 13-2 costumes will launch 27th March 27, priced 240 Microsoft Points, according to Andriasang.

ORIGINAL STORY: Fresh DLC for Final Fantasy 13-2 will feature costumes from Mass Effect 3, developer Square Enix has revealed.
Final Fantasy 13-2 heroes Serah and Noel will both recieve new outfits themed around BioWare's space opera finale, Famitsu reports (via Andriasang).
How is such a crossover possible? The heroes recieve them by entering the HistoriaCrux for a trip far into the future, of course.
Pictures of the new wardrobe items lie below.
The pack follows the previously announced Assassin's Creed: Revelations crossover, which adds Ezio's Constantinople costume for Noel.

 

[Sulimo]

Our first instinct is to defend our work and point to the high ratings offered by critics...

This said with a straight face

"The National Socialist party has won with 105% of the votes in Germany, so it's clear the people want us to govern. Any complaints by the people are null and void because the people have proven they support us 100%"

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Our first instinct is to defend our work and point to the high ratings offered by critics...

This said with a straight face

"The National Socialist party has won with 105% of the votes in Germany, so it's clear the people want us to govern. Any complaints by the people are null and void because the people have proven they support us 100%"

Touché.

 

[Oriebam]

Why just bring suits back? Why not a summon Normandy signal? Do FF games still have summons and have they even made anything more badass than knights of the round

is that directed at someone

a normandy summon would be too much work and





oh, I think I get it, if there's anything to get

you're kind of mean, can't we just brofist

seriously bros in case you didn't know you could get metal gear solid raiden armor for ezio in AC:Brotherhood

and altaïr burkha in MGS4

 

[Menckenstein]

Our first instinct is to defend our work and point to the high ratings offered by critics – but out of respect to our fans, we need to accept the criticism and feedback with humility.

rofl sure.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

is that directed at someone
a normandy summon would be too much work and

A normandy summon would be cinematic work, and square-enix is in the business of cinematic gaming like bioware.

You people aren't designers so I will explain this great design move right now: By adding Shepard and Final Fantasy together they have DOUBLE LORE. That means twice the possibilities, and Bioware games have so many already.

Why can't I have my shepard use attack and magic in final fantasy games, or have the two final fantasy guys come into realtime galaxy and hide behind crates and speak to kasumi in japanese

Look I don't know about all you racist stormfront grognards but roleplaying is about more options and more things to do, and the option for Commander Shepard to romance final fantasy women and collar grab their men is compelling and creative design

and I guess the final fantasy people can help with the reaper-

OH SHIIIT GOOD ME3 ENDING DLC WILL FEATURE FINAL FANTASY HEROES COMING TO SAVE OUR UNIVERSE TOGETHER WITH SHEPARD IN EXPLOSION OF MODERN STORYTELLING

FRIENDS YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST ON RPGCODEX.NET

and altaïr burkha in MGS4

are u srs, that sounds silly

 

[Hamster]

Okay, i know this is fantasy in space, but come one! Radiation is a green gas that has to be ventilated from the room? The fuck?

Edit:

Add to that Javik constantly rambling about "evolution" when it's clear that author's understanding of it is on the creationist theme park level.

Hardest sci-fi known to man!

 

[Sulimo]

It's a shame nobody at bioware read The Night's dawn trilogy, that amused me a great deal 7 years ago. Al capone coming back from the dead because of space magic? Awesome. Retarded reapers? Not so awesome.

 

[kazgar]

So if they 'fix' the ending, how do they do it? Do they go with the indoctrination version? Or something else?

If they go with the obvious, are all the biotards just going to say "you just stole our ending, xxlovetalixx wrote that exact post 3 weeks ago here!"

If they go with something else, will they just fuck it up more?

Maybe they should just buy the animal house ending youtube and stick it on as a cutscene video.

 

[hiver]

Just one small thing. Is there any whatsoever, real, actual collar grabbing done by Shepard in any of the games?

-of course they will fuck it up even worse. at this point they can only go with indoctrination in order to make any sense at all.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

They're going to go with indoctrination, and they're going to act like it was like that from the beginning and the detractors were too stoopid to understand their subtle brilliance. Biodrones will lap it up and media whores will taut it as awesomest writing ever.

 

[Oriebam]

not silly at all

Just one small thing. Is there any whatsoever, real, actual collar grabbing done by Shepard in any of the games?

P. sure there was one instance of collar grabbing in ME1

I think there was another in ME2

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Didn't the whole collargrab meme evolve from a PR bullshit line for ME1 in the first place?

 

[treave]

But Biodrones will not admit this is a money grab. They will not see that by this logic, Bioware could have made every single companion a day one DLC.

Silly man, Bioware didn't do so (make every single companion a day one DLC, that is) because they cared for the artistic integrity of their game and respected their fanbase!

 

[pocahaunted]

Didn't the whole collargrab meme evolve from a PR bullshit line for ME1 in the first place?

Think so, that's how they described one of Shepherd's renegade interactions with some random guard in ME2.

 

[Grimlorn]

http://au.pc.gamespy.com/pc/dragon-age-iii/1221093p1.html​

UPDATE: BioWare Seeking Fan Feedback for Dragon Age 3, Confirms DA II Expansion is Cancelled​

One of the reasons Bioware's games are so terrible is because they listen too much to fan feedback. It's like they can't decide what to do on their own, so they just take their fans' ideas and put them into the game.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

IIRC, during ME1 hype they talked about how you could press a button to interrupt any NPC and collargrab them to show you're in charge.

 

[Ion Prothon II]

IIRC, during ME1 hype they talked about how you could press a button to interrupt any NPC and collargrab them to show you're in charge.

During ME1 hype they've been talking also how ME1 will be the best thing since brothers' Lumiere moving images.

 

[Mrowak]

It's probably been posted, but:

Yeah, the punchline does not deliver.