Spiffy_1st
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I can't wait to download Mass Effect 3 map packs.
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Mass Effect 3 Multi Not Announced
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Blue Ninja
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weeaboo said:
The day may come, but it's not here yet.
UnlovedJew said:
I'm not really on the hate boat (at least not yet) but I think the concern is that it appears resources are being diverted away from what is supposed to be the climax of what was originally going to be a very grand and ambitious trilogy of games. ME1 was scaled down a bit from the outset, but you can really see where ME2 was scaled down even further. So now we're at ME3, the grand finale, and it's just... concerning, I guess.
ME2 was such a large game that the developers had to jump through a lot of hoops to get the content to fit onto two DVDs (some of that was due to some content needing to exist on both discs). So to hear that ME3, which should be the most dialogue and story rich of the series, may end up having a feature that's going to burn up space on the disks (not to mention consuming budget and human resources) for something other than the campaign is kind of a letdown, at least if it turns out to be true.
R_thanatos
Member
i dunno about you but is it acceptable in this day and age to go front page with a rumour ??
i though written publications were more than that ..
i though written publications were more than that ..
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I could have sworn that Hoarde style multi was confirmed like four months ago. Maybe not.
MaddenNFL64
Member
Not a dealbreaker, but please no Mass Of War (outside of horde mode, I love that shit).
Co-ops plz.
Co-ops plz.
Lostconfused
Member
I don't get it. Why am I one of the few people that think that its ok for Mass Effect 3 to have multiplayer? They barely need to do any work to tack on multiplayer. If they actually devote any time or resources to it then it might not even be terrible.
Dollar Yen
Neo Member
The_Technomancer said:
I'd actually play that sort of thing NOW since the Husks are not just limited to the human race.
Moaradin said:
Uncharted's not a rpg at all and is not made by rpg devs. Plus I still maintain my position that multiplayer in Uncharted was a huge waste, the campaign was just the right length and was considered near perfect by almost everyone. Why people need more deathmatch in every game is what I don't understand, I get more than enough of that in Battlefield and Call of Duty.
A horde style would work fine, deathmatch/PvP will need some significant reworking to balance it, if they include powers.
I think people are pissed off because they think multiplayer will take disc space, manpower and budget away from the single player campaign, and because it continues heading away from why they liked the original mass effect.
I think people are pissed off because they think multiplayer will take disc space, manpower and budget away from the single player campaign, and because it continues heading away from why they liked the original mass effect.
I remember multiplayer in Dark Messiah: Might and Magic and I loved it. It even had skill trees in multiplayer that let you unlock new spells for your class whenever you got enough experience. That wasn't even a big game. Something like Mass Effect and it's budget could do it much better.
Monocle
Member
How the hell is this a good idea? Was there a single person or being or autonomous nexus of ethereal life in the whole of the cosmos that finished Mass Effect and then said to themselves, "That was pretty good, but it would have been a lot better if I'd been able to stand behind crates while my fellow dudebro got shot in the head"?
ME3's multiplayer will prove to be a waste of resources that should have been used to make the campaign a better single player experience.
No, there was not. I checked.
ME3's multiplayer will prove to be a waste of resources that should have been used to make the campaign a better single player experience.
Haha, basically this.Plywood said:Bioware:
Me:
Dont see the big problem. I think it'd actually be interesting to make the entire game co-op. You've already got two companions with you - why not have an actual person playing the role rather than the sometimes braindead computer AI?
I remember having a lot of fun with Secret of Mana co-op, for instance.
I remember having a lot of fun with Secret of Mana co-op, for instance.
PedroLumpy
Member
MNC said:
Yeah I had that thought too. You spend the entire game running around with 2 squadmates, of course it would be cool to have those be controlled by your buds. Hell I'd be perfectly fine shooting them too, you're all nuts to flip out this early.
Lostconfused said:
I'm okay with it because it's been clear from the start that EA and Bioware want the Mass Effect series to be third-person shooter from a gameplay standpoint, and so nothing they ever do to take further steps in that direction surprises me. It's the reason I enjoyed Mass Effect 2; vastly lowered expectations relative to Mass Effect 1, which stands along with Spore and FFXIII as my most starkly disappointing games of this generation.
People were surprised when Mass Effect 2 redesigned the combat and outright stripped other things out instead of trying to build from the first game, but it seemed to me the only logical progression given what their goals for the series seem to be.
Deified Data
Banned
Hah, yeah, I think I'm done with this series. I was pretty sure a few weeks ago, but now I think I could put it to rest. Oh, well. Shepard rolls into cover from planet to planet, gives an epic speech, and fucks an alien. I already know how the trilogy ends, so i saved myself $60.Derrick01 said:
PairOfFilthySocks
Member
Monocle said:
PREACH.
Man, I barely even give a flying shite about Mass Effect 3 any more. All I want from the game is for the end to go something like this;
Shepard and crew find some ancient Prothean with a super-weapon that wipes out all Reapers.
Ancient Prothean: "To use this weapon, one of you...must...stay behind.
Paragon: Shepard stays
Renegade: Tali stays
Being unable to have both Shep and Tali survive would probably reduce the Bioware forums to the most glorious meltdown the internet has ever seen. It would be even better if, during the scene, some retarded squad member like Grunt was hanging around the background but couldn't be chosen to die.
Yeah, that's the only way Bioware can get me back.
Monocle
Member
I'll slip you a 20 if you lay low until ME3 goes gold.MNC said:
But seriously, I don't follow your reasoning. I think it's unlikely that co-op will make ME3 better unless it has most of that good stuff you mentioned. If the gameplay isn't great, throwing another person into the mix probably won't improve it.
PairOfFilthySocks
Member
niz said:
Haven't you heard? According to Bioware, the third chapter of a trilogy is the perfect time for newcomers to jump in! Coz...well, war and shit.
niz said:
It's another bullet point and it's trendy this gen to do so, particularly in the past couple years. It creates additional profit for EA through their Online Pass system, and additional profit for EA and Bioware through potential multiplayer-related DLC.
I'd like to take the optimistic approach but look at who we're talking about here. They need to do something to deserve the benefit of the doubt.
elrechazado
Banned
Because dudebro vega needs to kill some dudez.rozay said:
To me, any form of co-operative is USUALLY (keyword here! Though I haven't found a game that was worse in any form thanks to co-op) something that enhances the experience. I'm not a fan of forced co-op, but it gives me another game to be enjoyed with a buddy. Though I have to agree with you as well; if the 'good stuff' isn't there, or not correctly implemented and therefor lacking in gameplay the co-op will be a lesser experience as well. That, or having bad co-op like I think Fable 2 did or something (Not being able to use your own character?)Monocle said:
base shagohod
Member
rozay said:
Thanks. Someone with some rationality here. I think that if they wanna throw it in, cool. The more the better. Why worry/complain about something so petty as an added feature?
AlimNassor
Banned
Maybe it'll be good. Like DS2's online or AC:Bs online.
voodoopanda
Member
I think it's interesting, back in the day it was almost standard for PC RPGs to have online multiplayer. Specifically Bioware: the Baldur's Gate series and Neverwinter Night had it. Then Knights of the Old Republic came out, the first of their "console-style" RPGs which dropped a lot of traditional PC features like online multiplayer. Mass Effect is an evolution of the KotoR style, but now it might be getting multiplayer again. But since the KotoR style has become the norm for RPGs, multiplayer is now seen as anti-RPG.
Not that this means MP will be good for Mass Effect, seeing as the series was originally designed not to have it.
Not that this means MP will be good for Mass Effect, seeing as the series was originally designed not to have it.
voodoopanda said:
Difference there is the multiplayer was built in from the start and was a logical development as an attempt at imitating the social pen & paper D&D style. Though I guess this is also the logical development in making the third-person shooteriness of the series more obvious (if they add a Horde-type mode I will laugh at the sheer blatancy.)
I don't have an issue with the notion of MP in an otherwise single-player RPG if done right - and Mass Effect isn't really an RPG anyway - but it's difficult to believe that EA and Bioware have all the best intentions for the consumer behind (possibly) adding it in Mass Effect 3.
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with stopping powerweeaboo said: