Wai…wait... Fangirls find Vega attractive!? He looks like a chimp-man.
Mass Effect 3
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In other news, Kai Leng's voice actor has been confirmed as Troy Baker! The same guy who voiced everyone's favorite character from Final Fantasy XIII!
Seems like Troy is in everything these days he is even now Ryu Hayabusa which is pretty cool
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Wai…wait... Fangirls find Vega attractive!? He looks like a chimp-man.
They think he's "scruffy-cute", and are happy to have a guy with muscles and a tattoo for variety. The Freddie Prinze Jr. voice might be a part of it . . .
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Wow just watched the trailer, that girl looks weird… uncanny valley much?
Also tested out multiplayer it's more fun than I thought (and I was very anti mp). Let's see how long it will survive.
@the beast: thanks for the article it was a very interesting read.
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Also, just in case anyone's unaware, the DLC character doesn't come with 'new' games. He only comes with CE editions. You have to pay an extra $10 to get him…..pretty sleazy money-grab move imo. He should at least come with 'new' editions.
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Yeah. Heard about that. Not sure how much I want him.
Sebastian at least came with new editions of DA2.
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I keep hearing about people liking the multiplayer but I did not. Hm.
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It has a hoard mode sort of feel to it… well... that's exactly what it is to be exact. A hoard mode with wavecap that you can actually get to. And the final wave is a time limit of you and your partners getting extracted.
Gameplay is pretty simplistic and the enemy AI is pretty lame... but I find the unlocks and potential for customization to be quite fun and a good time waster.
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Whichever Mass Effect this guy played, I really want to play it.
Does anyone even care about this except me though lol
The article does bring up some good points, but I agree with you… while the universe of Mass Effect does put humanity on a lower totem, the story and plot do not.
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The article does bring up some good points, but I agree with you… while the universe of Mass Effect does put humanity on a lower totem, the story and plot do not.
Like how even though it took an entire armada of human, turaian and asari ships to kill a single reaper, with the killing blow going to a half turain/human ship that's been modified by a quarian, that must mean humans are now so important to the reapers they "hired" the collectors to snatch humans up, melt them down and convert them to a 3 eyed half human/prothean reaper with a mouth laser.
With the footage of reapers from the trailers can you imagine how goofy the human reaper would have been if it was completed.
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Apparently, Target delayed my order…..which means they most likely ran out and won't get anymore.....great. :getlost:
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Wha… they can do that?
goes to check on his own order status
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Well, I guess I'll just wait and see if GS or Amazon have another day where they take on more pre-orders due to cancellations. If not, I'll just hope Target doesn't cancel.
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Wha… they can do that?
goes to check on his own order status
Did you order from Target too? If you ordered before February 5-14, I would think you're okay.
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You hoping on an N7 edition Zack? If not, i'm sure gamestop will have plenty of copies of the standard edition.
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You hoping on an N7 edition Zack? If not, i'm sure gamestop will have plenty of copies of the standard edition.
Well, that's what I pre-ordered. I figure I'll keep my eyes peeled on any opening, and I'll call around local retailers for any the day after release. If none of that works, I'll just hope Target doesn't end up cancelling.
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I did mine thru Bestbuy in January, and it looks like it's OK.
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! I've been playing the multiplayer demo, and I'm sort of mixed on it really. I like that it actually forces you to work together, but the downside is a lot of people really don't want to do it. You can make it 5-6 waves easily by going off on your own, but after that it's almost a requirment that all 4 players work together, or you'll get picked off one by one. Plus anytime there's less than 4 players it really gets harder, with no join in feature, so it's almost better off to quit in a situation like that. The level up and points system works good though. The enemies can be really tough, especially the phantoms and turrets, which count for about 90% of my deaths, and can easily pick off an entire team if left alone.
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I don't think that needed to be in spoiler tags .
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Well I just wanted to make sure, so I didn't accidentally let someone see something they didn't want to.
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One thing I wish they'd fix is the AI's execution animation, bit lazy if you ask me.
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Maybe it's because of console system limitations just like not being able to holster your weapon :ninja: .
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^ I'm talking about when the computer kills you or your teammates when you're down it's just as lazy-ass stomp animation that plays when it happens.
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Well it might be what I said, a limitation. Apparently ME3 is running on the fringe of the RAM system limitations of the consoles and so they can't add in holster animations. If the enemy's stomp animation is the same as another animation in the game (I'm not sure if it is or not) then it would help them save memory to use that duplicate animation rather than create a new one for them.
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Can't add holster animations? Where is it saying that they didn't add that because of console limitations?
The character holsters their weapon when switching to a different weapon. That's a holster animation. But they always leave their gun drawn in a combat situation or area, and will holster it when leaving one… and well... in multiplayer, you're ALWAYS in a combat situation.
The lack of holstering weapon when in these situations seems to be more of a design choice. I played all the way through 2 without knowing select was what holstered your gun.
[update] Hmm, I am seeing a few forums talking about it being a memory issue, but no solid link or source.
Kinda seems odd, considering all the animations they have added to the game (different omni-tool kill animations for different classes. Phantom grab-kill animations, Atlus mech player kill. tweaked directional recoil animations… etc.)
Plus you can roll now.
Which i'd gladly take over holstering my gun.
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http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/9234315/4
Twelfth post down.It's a runtime memory cost, not a disk space issue. You need those anims for the non-combat areas… so they're going to be on disk regardless.
In order to support exploration in the combat areas, you'd need to have all the anims loaded in memory... so that would be things like the 8-way walks, runs, incline anims, idles, idle twitches, male/female variant overrides, eye noise... etc.
All in all (iirc) it came out to around 2-4MB, which is relatively significant. Also, as you've guessed, yes - I'm referring to the main game (as well as the demo).
It'd be even more retarded if it were a design choice.
Edit: There are going to be holstering animations, it's just you can't holster your weapon on command in a combat area. Like you said, the switching weapons animation is similar to a holster one, and I'm not exactly sure what the deal with that is.
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Yeah. The inability to holster your weapon sucks since that was one of the best way to get good views of the environment, and the current setup makes it fairly easy to accidentally miss med-pacs and other items.
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Not to mention the fact that you apparently now have to point at whatever you want to investigate/open.
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Eh. Sucks to not be able to holster your weapon in a combat situation, but honestly it's not something that I would consider to be a game-breaking experience. Minor annoyance at best.
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I don't know but if this becomes a trend because the hardware can't keep up I'm going to be mad.
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Shepard ain't dropping his piece when there's hater baterians afoot.
The danger ain't over until he says so.
He means business.
I don't know but if this becomes a trend because the hardware can't keep up I'm going to be mad.
Oh you!
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I am completely serious.
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It looks like what Shepard wears at the beginning of the retail game changes from what was on the demo.
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….whaaaaaa? Shep's gonna be runnin around in skivvies for the first level?
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Mass Effect manga being serialized meant to introduce the characters, their races, and background.
http://kotaku.com/mass-effect-3/
Warning: NSFW pic in the comment section.Translated Version: http://18thcenturyfrenchlesbos.tumblr.com/post/18239183040/translated-version-of-this-comic-brought-to-you-by
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One final warning: Avoid the Mass Effect forums and maybe other forums discussing it as well. Spoiler group is getting a ton more of traffic, spoilers are getting confirmed, and there's going to be a lot of spoilers showing up from now until release.
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At this point, I just want to know if Tali officially joins the crew or not. I'm gonna kinda peeved if not. (already salty about Mordin)
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At this point, I just want to know if Tali officially joins the crew or not. I'm gonna kinda peeved if not. (already salty about Mordin)
! She does.
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I sadly got spoilered:
! Goddammit, if these endings really are true I will be ROYALLY pissed off. I already feel like I've been punched in the gut. I never expected a sunshine and rainbows ending, but THIS? You couldn't give me ONE ending where I survive with my friends? I wouldn't even mind rebuilding civilization, but couldn't I do it with my friends and LI? Fans spend, what, 8 years invested in this franchise story, and we get an ending where everyone's fucked and you either die or don't die, and even if you don't die (max ending), you won't be with your friends and LI. They're doomed too, no matter what. Why bother if it's all for naught?
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I sadly got spoilered:
! Goddammit, if these endings really are true I will be ROYALLY pissed off. I already feel like I've been punched in the gut. I never expected a sunshine and rainbows ending, but THIS? You couldn't give me ONE ending where I survive with my friends? I wouldn't even mind rebuilding civilization, but couldn't I do it with my friends and LI? Fans spend, what, 8 years invested in this franchise story, and we get an ending where everyone's fucked and you either die or don't die, and even if you don't die (max ending), you won't be with your friends and LI. They're doomed too, no matter what. Why bother if it's all for naught?
! Oh well, there's always fanfic.! Yeah….the mods are going to have their hands full on ME3 release date. As far as the endings go, I'll certainly need to see the execution when actually playing the game to have final judgement. The way I see is that even if your friends on the Normandy die from crashing, Garrus and Tali are almost guaranteed to die since they probably can't eat the same food. Personally, I think it would have been better if they crashed on Earth at least since they would probably have food. Also, if Shepard lives, is he stuck in the same place by himself for the rest of his life? I didn't look too detailed into the latest spoilers. I also never really got the "merge" ending since I'm not sure how you would convert every person in the universe into some type of cyborg.....Personally, I think I'm preferring the control ending at the moment. Surprisingly, I don't think I'll mind the endings as much as others though they do seem to lack a bit of variation and lacking that 'How did everything I accomplish go?' if they don't do epilogue slides like DAO. I still think DAO's done endings best since I loved the Ultimate Sacrifice ending as well as the Dark Ritual while still giving you those final moments before you leave to talk to your companions about their plans in the future.
! Also, to let it known how unplanned the trilogy was.....the original storyline for ME3 was completely different. In that story, it had to do with dark energy gathering up to destroy the galaxy or something. I think the ending then was to destroy the reapers and let nature do its course, or continue the cycle seeing it as an inevitability(I think. I don't remember the details too much.) This was foreshadowed by Haestrom.
! Also, with the devs already saying not everyone's going to like the endings, and saying the LI's are "About the journey, and not the destination" shows they're already preparing for damage control. They should probably go ahead and open up the registered game thread since that seems likely to happen anyway.
! It should be pretty hilarious anyway to see how things go since there are already a lot of people who are ticked off at Bioware after DAII. I do feel a bit sorry for the devs in that it seems like more and more of them seem to be much more gloomy these days. Priestly seems more sarcastically rude than usual. DAII's rushed nature and reception seems to have put a big damper on a lot of the writers' and devs' mood.
! Also, do you want to know the status of the romances or the Vega one?
! Reposted from one of my BSN posts(My username is HiroVoid): Yeah....I think my two main problems with the ending is
1. The Normandy crashing like it does.
2. Essentially, the entire universe being rewritten and destroyed on a societal level.
! This means any discussion about how the Alliance could have been co-working with Cerberus in some parts, the Council's corrupted influence, and a ton of other storyline threads are vanished, and mean nothing anymore. This is honestly one of those endings you feel the writers make simply to do their best at trying to make it so their publisher doesn't force them to make sequels.
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! Yeah….the mods are going to have their hands full on ME3 release date. As far as the endings go, I'll certainly need to see the execution when actually playing the game to have final judgement. The way I see is that even if your friends on the Normandy die from crashing, Garrus and Tali are almost guaranteed to die since they probably can't eat the same food. Personally, I think it would have been better if they crashed on Earth at least since they would probably have food. Also, if Shepard lives, is he stuck in the same place by himself for the rest of his life? I didn't look too detailed into the latest spoilers. I also never really got the "merge" ending since I'm not sure how you would convert every person in the universe into some type of cyborg.....Personally, I think I'm preferring the control ending at the moment. Surprisingly, I don't think I'll mind the endings as much as others though they do seem to lack a bit of variation and lacking that 'How did everything I accomplish go?' if they don't do epilogue slides like DAO. I still think DAO's done endings best since I loved the Ultimate Sacrifice ending as well as the Dark Ritual while still giving you those final moments before you leave to talk to your companions about their plans in the future.
! Also, to let it known how unplanned the trilogy was.....the original storyline for ME3 was completely different. In that story, it had to do with dark energy gathering up to destroy the galaxy or something. I think the ending then was to destroy the reapers and let nature do its course, or continue the cycle seeing it as an inevitability(I think. I don't remember the details too much.) This was foreshadowed by Haestrom.
! Also, with the devs already saying not everyone's going to like the endings, and saying the LI's are "About the journey, and not the destination" shows they're already preparing for damage control. They should probably go ahead and open up the registered game thread since that seems likely to happen anyway.
! It should be pretty hilarious anyway to see how things go since there are already a lot of people who are ticked off at Bioware after DAII. I do feel a bit sorry for the devs in that it seems like more and more of them seem to be much more gloomy these days. Priestly seems more sarcastically rude than usual. DAII's rushed nature and reception seems to have put a big damper on a lot of the writers' and devs' mood.
! Also, do you want to know the status of the romances or the Vega one?
! Reposted from one of my BSN posts(My username is HiroVoid): Yeah....I think my two main problems with the ending is
1. The Normandy crashing like it does.
2. Essentially, the entire universe being rewritten and destroyed on a societal level.
! This means any discussion about how the Alliance could have been co-working with Cerberus in some parts, the Council's corrupted influence, and a ton of other storyline threads are vanished, and mean nothing anymore. This is honestly one of those endings you feel the writers make simply to do their best at trying to make it so their publisher doesn't force them to make sequels.
! Just out of curiosity, do you have a BSN account as well?! Jesus, how hard would it be to make just ONE happy ending? Yeah yeah, it's a "dark sci-fi" game, but considering how many people die and how much is destroyed already by the Reapers, isn't that enough? We can't have an ending where the Reapers are destroyed, our friends live, and the relays are kept? I don't care if it's a really hard ending to get, but SOMETHING! These endings (except maybe Control, but still) feel like they have NO hope in them. In none of these do I feel like a Big Goddamn Hero, I just feel depressed.
! I feel a little sorry for the devs, but what did they expect? Their fans feel BETRAYED, and even after DA2 there was quasi-happy stuff (running off with your LI, for example), and there's still DA3-4-5 to keep the story going. (that an in DA you always have a new player character, so they can switch things up as needed). I understand not wanting to be controlled by EA, but you can make more ME games without Shepard, and you don't need to kill him/her to do it. Hell, they said they WANTED to make more ME games in the future, but how can you do that WHEN CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT IS FUCKED?!
! Yeah, sure, spoil me on the romances. Everything's fucked anyway. I was faithful to Kaidan for NOTHING! -
! Jesus, how hard would it be to make just ONE happy ending? Yeah yeah, it's a "dark sci-fi" game, but considering how many people die and how much is destroyed already by the Reapers, isn't that enough? We can't have an ending where the Reapers are destroyed, our friends live, and the relays are kept? I don't care if it's a really hard ending to get, but SOMETHING! These endings (except maybe Control, but still) feel like they have NO hope in them. In none of these do I feel like a Big Goddamn Hero, I just feel depressed.
! I feel a little sorry for the devs, but what did they expect? Their fans feel BETRAYED, and even after DA2 there was quasi-happy stuff (running off with your LI, for example), and there's still DA3-4-5 to keep the story going. (that an in DA you always have a new player character, so they can switch things up as needed). I understand not wanting to be controlled by EA, but you can make more ME games without Shepard, and you don't need to kill him/her to do it. Hell, they said they WANTED to make more ME games in the future, but how can you do that WHEN CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT IS FUCKED?!
! Yeah, sure, spoil me on the romances. Everything's fucked anyway. I was faithful to Kaidan for NOTHING!! Vega's not romancable. I think VS and Liara get special flashbacks that the other LI's don't as well as the VS being BI. There's two strictly homosexual options. Chobot's character is BI I believe. And yeah….I feel for a game that constantly praises itself on having its choices matter between games....having the ending be decided by one choice and GAW(Galaxy at war) points that you can get in multiplayer feels like a pretty cheap way to end the series. Especially after involving so many people in the story for around 5 years now. Plus, unlike those who thought that DAII's ending was too depressing only had that singular experience which was in development for about a year and a half.
! It also doesn't help they talked about a perfect ending when that doesn't actually exist unless they thought people cared more about Earth then the relationships with the characters they've had for the entire series. If the tone of Mass Effect was a tragic one, I could understand, but this isn't Song of Fire and Ice or Gears of War where it has an overall depressive tone. Maybe it fits the tone of ME3, but not the tone of Mass Effect as a trilogy. Each game ended with a defeating the impossible odds tone. While I expected at most a bittersweet ending, this one's very heavy on the bitter side. -
Clicked yer spoiler tag above satsuki and briefly saw the word "endings"
Looked away like the wind.
sooooo i'll be avoiding this thread like the plague now.
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Clicked yer spoiler tag above satsuki and briefly saw the word "endings"
Looked away like the wind.
sooooo i'll be avoiding this thread like the plague now.
Well, that's why they're spoiler tagged. Like I said with my warning though, now's definitely the time to avoid Mass Effect focused areas.
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Clicked yer spoiler tag above satsuki and briefly saw the word "endings"
Looked away like the wind.
sooooo i'll be avoiding this thread like the plague now.
Tsk tsk. Spoiler tags exist for a reason, you know that. I even said, "I got spoilered" above it. Sheesh.
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! Vega's not romancable. I think VS and Liara get special flashbacks that the other LI's don't as well as the VS being BI. There's two strictly homosexual options. Chobot's character is BI I believe. And yeah….I feel for a game that constantly praises itself on having its choices matter between games....having the ending be decided by one choice and GAW(Galaxy at war) points that you can get in multiplayer feels like a pretty cheap way to end the series. Especially after involving so many people in the story for around 5 years now. Plus, unlike those who thought that DAII's ending was too depressing only had that singular experience which was in development for about a year and a half.
! It also doesn't help they talked about a perfect ending when that doesn't actually exist unless they thought people cared more about Earth then the relationships with the characters they've had for the entire series. If the tone of Mass Effect was a tragic one, I could understand, but this isn't Song of Fire and Ice or Gears of War where it has an overall depressive tone. Maybe it fits the tone of ME3, but not the tone of Mass Effect as a trilogy. Each game ended with a defeating the impossible odds tone. While I expected at most a bittersweet ending, this one's very heavy on the bitter side.! Yeah, I heard that about Vega. Although I've also heard that there's flirting and a sort of "light" romance, but Vega puts the mission before relationships. Still given the endings, WHO CARES!?
! Yeah, forget bittersweet, this is just BITTER. The first two games always left you with a sense of hope. Here's there's nothing. -
I can handle particular spoilers. And already know a few.
Yeah curiosity gets me sometimes lol. I wasn't blaming you. You warned me and all.
But yah'll are already on the endings, which i'm particularly avoiding, so i'll be extra careful from now on.
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OK, I'm trying to avoid all spoilers other than romantic ones. My main Shepard file romanced Miranda only, and I just want to know what options are available, both gay and straight, to a male Shepard. If anyone knows could they please put the answer in spoiler tags? I can't find anything that isn't wrapped in other spoilers.
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OK, I'm trying to avoid all spoilers other than romantic ones. My main Shepard file romanced Miranda only, and I just want to know what options are available, both gay and straight, to a male Shepard. If anyone knows could they please put the answer in spoiler tags? I can't find anything that isn't wrapped in other spoilers.
! Liara, Ashley, Chobot Reporter chick, and there's two side members who are strictly homosexual for both genders.
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! It's okay, you can tell me their names. And really, two strictly homosexual characters? You can't romance Tali as a male anymore? Just give me a full list of options for both genders, your answer doesn't make sense.
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! It's okay, you can tell me their names. And really, two strictly homosexual characters? You can't romance Tali as a male anymore? Just give me a full list of options for both genders, your answer doesn't make sense.
! Err….You're spoiler tag's not working.
! I don't remember names. The reporter chick was in a recent characters trailer. The homosexual characters are kind of like Kelly. I know the guy's a pilot. You can only continue a romance with Tali if you romanced her in ME2 it seems.
! Straight Male - Liara, Ashley, Reporter, Pilot guy, Tali(if romanced in ME2), and any ME2 character(romance is mentioned in scene with them.)
Homosexual Male - Pilot guy, Kaidan.
Straight Female - Kaidan, Garrus(if romanced in ME2), and Any ME2 character(romance is mentioned in scene with them.)
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Huh, okay. Thanks for the info. I was just confused by "homosexual for both genders."