I /WANT/ Mass Effect 3!

[DustyDrB]

Yep. I too am experiencing extreme amounts of want.

What day does the demo come out again? Gotta make sure I stay away from gaming sites (including this forum) starting then.

 

[Zhukov]

Yep. I too am experiencing extreme amounts of want.

What day does the demo come out again? Gotta make sure I stay away from gaming sites (including this forum) starting then.

I believe it was Feb 14 for the single player and Feb 17 for the multiplayer.

Some people will have access to both on Feb 14.

 

[Still Life]

For every anti-me3 thread we have like a legion of rapid Bioware fanboys defending it. Even the stupid moves are being defended, it's enough to make me sick. It's a game folks, not the cure for cancer.

You appear to be choking on your own bullshit backwash, friend.

They can't exactly show off much of the story though without people screaming "SPOILERS!!!11!!!" and so on at them so they're promoting what they can - the combat.

That, and you can't really market the conversation wheel.

It has been such an ambitious series and I'm very much looking forward to seeing how it concludes. I doubt it will be able to please everyone, but it's really the journey that matters in the end.

 

[Phlakes]

So do I. The game is going to be great, and everyone bitching about how the series is ruined forever needs to grow up. Yeah, it might have a bit of the third installment curse, but it'll still be great and I plan on playing it very, very many times.

 

[Joccaren]

I've even heard the complaint "Looks like the combat is a lot more like Gears of War." Ummmmmm....have you forgotten the combat from the first to games? Wasn't it all duck-and-cover based combat? Maybe everyone complaining about this played the first two games on super-retarded-easy and thus was able to just wade through combat with the greatest of ease...but personally I recall spending too much time out of cover meant you'd get your face blown off. So what's the complaint here? Shepard can now perform a rolling dodge? How is this a bad thing? Are you so determined to hate this game you haven't even played yet that you're complaining about a new feature in combat? Shepard's omnitool can now turn into a blade too, but I don't see people complaining about that.

Played on highest difficulty in 1. You do NOT have to spend all your time in cover. There are some missions where you have to take cover, with a lot of snipers nearby and such, and there are others where it is pretty much a run and gun show - Virmire was ALWAYS like this for me, being primarily Krogan that wanted to charge me.
Mass Effect 2 was more GoW style, and I hated it. It made the combat bland as there was no juxtaposition in it. It was either in cover, or dead. Vanguard slightly solved this problem, but On anything above normal you would charge then duck back into cover. ME3 looks to be improving this by allowing you to stay out of cover, and have some varied combat again, rather than the same old cover in cover out.
That is the main issue with Mass Effect 2's combat, that is being partially fixed in ME3. It was too samey. Every fight consisted of both teams behind walls shooting each other. ME1 there were run and gun missions, and there were cover missions. This variety gave it an edge of ME2 IMO. Purely run and gun would be just as boring as chest high walls, but having shared between the two is fine. And please Bioware, take out the one ability cooldown - in the name of fun! Seriously, Charge then the Biotic Nova or W/E the Vanguards new move is would be epic. Waiting for a cooldown to use any ability? Not so much. And don't give us only 3 shots worth of health. Just... Don't F*** up like you could.
Anyway, yes, I am hyper excited for ME3 regardless.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Despite all my bashing on Bioware and EA especially, I want to play Mass Effect 3 also. EA just is doing everything in it's power to prevent me from playing it. Why would I spend time complaining about Origin and EA's practices if I didn't want any of the games they published? I would just ignore them completely.
I think you'll find most people who bash on these games, want them, they just aren't happy with how things are going. Myself, its all the EA Origin business.

 

[pearcinator]

Hell yeah I want ME3! Pre-ordered the collectors edition and everything!

Fuck the haters! (especially on this site where they are most prominent)

 

[w@rew0lf]

An anti-***** thread? All for it bro. Preordered in November. Can't wait.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

Why yes, I am excited for Mass Effect 3 despite the stuff that EA is doing. I just think we need to take a step back and realise that very little of the stuff being done is going to have a big impact on the core of the game, ie. the gameplay and the story telling.

*Snip*

Well, to be fair there were plenty of missions in Mass Effect where you faced mainly melee enemies. For example fighting the husks inside the Reaper and plenty of Varren and Krogans on Tuchanka. But since most of the sections where you fought those melee enemies were generally completely separated from areas where you fought ranged enemies I see your point.

 

[psicat]

I can't wait for the game either. I've had the collectors edition pre-ordered for a while.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Summary: 5 paragraphs on why it's bad, 2 on "I'll buy it anyway".

Can you not see how this makes fandom come across as...desperate?

 

[AceTrilby]

*snippy snip*

Woah, calm down. Is it really necessary to insult people? It's not helping your case to rage like this.

I think that until the game is released, we can't know for sure whether the game is going to be good or bad. I'm optimistic, but I know some people aren't.

That said, those people aren't going to find much sympathy in a thread titled "I /WANT/ Mass Effect 3!"

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

I've been looking forward to Mass Effect 3 more than any other game in my gaming history. However each piece of news i hear about it lessens my excitment and makes me worried.

But saying that i still think it'll be good even if it isnt as good as the other 2, i mean if i enjoyed Dragon Age 2 despite its massive flaws surely anything ME3 throws cant put me off.

 

[Frybird]

Whats "interesting" to me is that most of the complaints against Mass Effect 3 are easily resolved for better or worse once the game is out, given that outside of the Issues with Origin, most of the things are pure speculation (as opposed to many other games were the things that people complain about are actually announced or shown).

There's a Demo coming out, and there will be enough reviews, so yeah, why *****/bother about the bitching?

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

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What is your rebuttal to the leaked script? That has me more worried than anything else. And it isn't a nitpick.