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Mass Effect 3 Demo Impressions [Online Open To All]
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Blake'sGrave
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toastyToast
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You know this sounds completely like something BioWare would say.
Maybe it's just from playing a bunch of Gears of War, it didn't strike me as a huge problem. Vaulting over cover at a sprint seems like it could be a huge problem though, when you're trying to move quickly from cover-to-cover. I'd rather err on the side of caution than accidentally send myself into the wrong side of cover when it's most needed
You can double tap to vault over, it works fine.
The Xtortionist
Member
Engineer is really fun and versatile. Incinerate for unarmed enemies, Overload for shielded enemies and Atlas mechs, and the combat drone for shield enemies (draws their fire). Incinerate is nuts when you get it to max damage.
HarryHengst
Member
Got to love that using a not-American accent is enough to bring out all the 'THATS RACIST' people. But god forbid not having not-American people in your game, thats racist too! Its almost like people are simply searching for things to complain about.
I've studied at a college which had a shitload of international students and guess what: the people from west-Africa mostly really had such an accent. But nope, its simply racist because white people on forums dont know how not-white people sound, but do love to be all political correct!
I've studied at a college which had a shitload of international students and guess what: the people from west-Africa mostly really had such an accent. But nope, its simply racist because white people on forums dont know how not-white people sound, but do love to be all political correct!
...who are you talking to?
I know you can, and no, it really doesn't. ME's big issue has always been its movement. They've made great strides with ME3, but adding the ability to vault over cover in a sprint doesn't only make combat a lot faster, it gives you more level design options since you don't have to worry about "not putting this there because you couldn't get around it" tomfoolery.
It WOULD make it faster, but I imagine if they had it vault straight out of sprint, it would make it a lot harder to navigate in the more condensed areas without accidentally going on the wrong side.
ScreenSplitter
Member
The hell's wrong with all of you?
Is it inconceivable that in a huge galaxy, accents outside of American & English might exist?
Is it inconceivable that in a huge galaxy, accents outside of American & English might exist?
SilentProtagonist
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British space aliens? A-okay
Middle Eastern space aliens? Yeah, we got TONS
Anything else? NOOOOOO!!!! They ruined the series!
Middle Eastern space aliens? Yeah, we got TONS
Anything else? NOOOOOO!!!! They ruined the series!
ScreenSplitter
Member
I love how hordes of angry BSN creepers have disliked that video into oblivion. I think he sounds cool. He will be my favourite, next to Liara & Garrus.
Blue Ninja
Member
That guy's the downloadable character, right?
Not sure if I'll download him. :lol
Not so much the accent, but just... Well, the fact he exists.
Not sure if I'll download him. :lol
Not so much the accent, but just... Well, the fact he exists.
Bruce Lee Kicks
Member
A bit off subject here, but am I the only one that wishes they'd put maybe 1 or 2 new classes in the game? I want a "tech" version of Vanguard...sure Infiltrator can do it but it's not as chaotic.
BigTnaples
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Wonko_C
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That's right, people also need to remember that the aliens aren't actually speaking in English, rather they're being translated in real time to Shepard so glitches can occur like the "siha" thing with Thane, so the "accents" are probably another translator quirk.
WrenchNinja
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Tried the 360 demo, seems fine. I do miss not being able to holster weapons but whatever.
Tried the PS3 demo, single player framerate is super awful. Multiplayer is surprisingly stable though. And actually pretty fun.
Tried the PS3 demo, single player framerate is super awful. Multiplayer is surprisingly stable though. And actually pretty fun.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
I'm really enjoying multi, but good God single has some vomit inducing framerate issues on 360.
Made me more than a little queasy.
Made me more than a little queasy.
The Librarian
Banned
It sounds ridiculous and completely clashes with what we know of the character's species.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Why?
Too many spoiler tags everywhere now, lol, games apparently being out there, EA throwing copies into the sky a week before release and the EU date being 3 days later than the US.
Think I am gonna have to start staying away from a bunch of places and topic from here onwards, people on the internet find it far to easy to spoil something for someone else that is ignoring those who enjoy ruining stuff for others.
Think I am gonna have to start staying away from a bunch of places and topic from here onwards, people on the internet find it far to easy to spoil something for someone else that is ignoring those who enjoy ruining stuff for others.
dragonelite
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I think you are confused with Halo.
Jibbajabbawockky
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I recall the scanned pages from the art book on the prothean made mention of the statues on Ilos of the protheans and that when BioWare made those, they had no clue as to what the Protheans might actually look like and was more or less something they just stuck in the game.
Remember ME1?
There is that one side quest on some uncharted world with the glowing orb in the Prothean ruin, that gives you the little text sequence of having the 2001 style flashback to cavemen seeing the presumably Prothean ship in the sky
Blake'sGrave
Member
The character looks really cool, after my initial disbelief I think he's gonna be awesome. And no, the accent didn't bother me, I don't know why it should be a problem that he doesn't sound American/British/Russian
The Librarian
Banned
You're really going to tell me that when you first think of the
Protheans
I think you are confused about Halo.
I've only played the co-op on PS3 but I'm hoping that the SP framerate gets a boost by the time the final game is out. The fact that co-op is fine makes me have hope. The past few Bioware games on PS3 have all had noticeable improvements from demo to launch so hopefully that applies here too.
True. I played the PS3 demo all night. It was smooth as butter and the netcode was also very good. MP is also missing a lot of effects present in SP though.
So I finally played the PC demo. Performance is way better than the 360 version. Though I was surprised I could only get 60 fps if I played at 1080p with no AA (AMD 6960 and Core i5 2500k) otherwise I would get stuttering between 30 and 50 when I tried native 2560 x 1440 res or even AA at 1080p.
anyway, control with the mouse and kb felt better than the swimmy 360 thumbstick controls. Having played big chunks of ME and ME2 on PC, I think Ill be fine with this arrangement.
PC version couldnt work miracles and fix the stilted dialog, though.
anyway, control with the mouse and kb felt better than the swimmy 360 thumbstick controls. Having played big chunks of ME and ME2 on PC, I think Ill be fine with this arrangement.
PC version couldnt work miracles and fix the stilted dialog, though.
Man, the SP portion of the demo was so lukewarm, IMO. If it wasn't for the MP and my obligation to Finish the Fight™ (after 2 games using the same character) I don't even think I'd be getting this. I know it's tough to demo something like ME, but damn... I just wish they had gone with an MP-only demo. I thought it was hilarious that BioWare thought including a "defend the Krogan female elevator pod" thing -- we've already done this in ME2, IIRC.
The faces still animate like shit too, which is kind of a bummer. The game does control much better, however, which is super nice. Not really worried about the frame rate since it's only a demo.
The faces still animate like shit too, which is kind of a bummer. The game does control much better, however, which is super nice. Not really worried about the frame rate since it's only a demo.
Randy Lanzarote
Member
Controls and gunplay feel a lot better, seems a lot more fluid, something that has gotten better with every release (going back to ME1 now is painful).
I'm hoping that since its the demo they've skipped a few cutscenes and conversations, as as it stands its pretty much:
Knock Knock
Who's Th....
ITS THE REAPERS AND WE ALREADY OUTSIDE SMASHING YOU TO BITS
For what should've been a real dramatic moment, they were just sort of thrown in there in a sort of 'Deal with it' sort of way.
Mass Effect 1 is my favourite game of the generation, heck maybe even all time, and although ME2 did bring some improvements in gameplay, I felt the story and everything they setup in ME1 took a backwards step. I really like the characters they introduced in ME2 and I hope that they all return (except Jack) to help me finish the fight, but I'm hoping that the story is something worthy of what they began in ME1.
Roll on March 9th.
I'm hoping that since its the demo they've skipped a few cutscenes and conversations, as as it stands its pretty much:
Knock Knock
Who's Th....
ITS THE REAPERS AND WE ALREADY OUTSIDE SMASHING YOU TO BITS
For what should've been a real dramatic moment, they were just sort of thrown in there in a sort of 'Deal with it' sort of way.
Mass Effect 1 is my favourite game of the generation, heck maybe even all time, and although ME2 did bring some improvements in gameplay, I felt the story and everything they setup in ME1 took a backwards step. I really like the characters they introduced in ME2 and I hope that they all return (except Jack) to help me finish the fight, but I'm hoping that the story is something worthy of what they began in ME1.
Roll on March 9th.
You're only saying that because you think they sound Jamaican. The voice sounds good.
Blue Ninja
Member
And, perhaps...
Shepard can understand the Prothean language because of the Cypher he got during ME1. It would be pretty cool if he'd be the only one that could understand the new squadmate initially.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
I don't think I had a preconceived notion of what a prothean should sound like, and even if I had then so what, I'd be wrong. I didn't think a quarian would sound eastern european when I first saw one either. If you think the voice sounds ridiculous then that's fine, but in no way does it "completely clash with what we know of the character's species."
That would be very cool,
would be nice to get some more use from the Cypher again, don't remember if it ever came up in ME2.
ToyMachine228
Member
Are there any unlocks for the full game that you obtain from playing the demo? I might skip it if not.
SilentProtagonist
Member
I, personally, don't really have expectations for what human-earth accent space aliens should have. Is this just a personal thing about the specific accent they picked, because like I said earlier there are several 'Earth' accents used for aliens in this game already.
Now, I thought about this from another perspective to try and understand the backlash and thought "Well, how would I feel if he had a different very distinct 'Earth' accent like... Scottish?" And honestly, so long as they kept specific stereotypical scottish phrases out of the dialogue, it wouldn't bother me.
Dark Octave
Banned
So it would be better if he spoke with a British accent?
HarryHengst
Member
Wasnt that male mechanic in ME2, below deck next to Tali, Scottish?
SilentProtagonist
Member
Yeah, but he wasn't an alien.