Mass Effect 3 Appears on EA Store, Disappears Very Quickly

[NLS]

Bleh, was sorta hoping it would be something other than Mass Effect 3, since we already know that game is coming out.

 

[Yassen]

Ahh yes, "mass Effect 3". The supposed game that Bioware is teasing its fans with. We have dismissed that claim.

In all seriousness this seems a bit too convenient, I'm thinking it's just a distraction. But god damn I just want to know already.

 

[Undead Dragon King]

I'm really not worried at all about the quality of Mass Effect 3 if it's going to be announced today. Usually games that are just announced are still in the initial stages of their development. You can bet we're going to be seeing at least another year of developing for Mass Effect 3. Sure, the plot may already be solidified (damn you, EA online store!) but there's a lot that needs to be done between putting words on paper and making a full game.

And you can also bet that EA will NOT cock this up in terms of rushing development. BioWare is EA's marquis studio, and Mass Effect is easily BioWare's most popular modern series. After we hit solid gold with Mass Effect 2, expections are justifiably sky-high for Mass Effect 3. Some people want ME3 to be the greatest RPG they've ever played, and EA knows full-well that what happens in ME3 will reflect, for better of worse, on the rest of the trilogy.

As I said, I'm not worried at all with the state of ME3 if it's announced tonight. And if it's not, all the better. The more time BioWare has to work on it, the better the chances that it will be one of the best games ever made.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

OH, DAMN YOU. I didn't put those together, but now the teaser trailer makes perfect sense.

It's Mass Effect 3. This is so bittersweet, on one hand IT'S FREAKIN' MASS EFFECT 3! On the other, that's so anticlimactic, Mass Effect 3 isn't a surprise, it's an inevitability.

I heard a rumour.

A nasty, evil rumour.

The rumour was that the ME3 trailer is going to announce that they have included..

..shudder....

...multiplayer.

I am currently praying to the gods of gaming and sending pleading letters to the Citadel Council to ensure multiplayer stays the fuck away from my beloved Bioware games.

 

[manythings]

It's focus on story just means it's a story driven game. There are still a good number of those (Even some that do it better than Bioware) And i'm not quite sure what you meant by lip service, but I'll give you that the choices carrying over is ambitious, it's just not very ambitious since the consequences of your choices make very little impact on the game. If the choices still carry through I still doubt they'd do much to change things at all.

So I guess I'm saying it's unambitious in it's ambitiousness? It's not reaching for the sky so much as it's reaching for the top of a very tall building. KOTOR2 (and from what I hear Baldur's Gate 2, though I never finished the first one) carried over the three or four most important parts of your first-game play through, and it seemed to make them matter more than ME1's did with it's two dozen carry-over choices basically amounting to "Hi Shepard I'm [name here], remember that time you did [x or y]? Well, see ya!"

There's a very long list of spoilers that can be used to show the monumental differences between each playthrough. Urdnot Wrex is the best one. Him living or dying on Virmire changes the path of the entire Krogan race, either the first signs of reform and possibly emerging from their savage nature or continuing on their path to self-annihilation with Urdnot Wreav.

The Geth? You help legion and you protect the true geth and gain a powerful ally in the fight against the reapers, an army of potentially billions. You send legion to the cerberus lab? The heretics reprogramme the true geth without your knowledge and you have to face that army in the future all the way to extinction.

Saving or destroying the council? That shapes the galactic political landscape and means the difference between the Turians becoming humanities allies and an unchecked militant aggressor.

The point of the choices carrying over is divergence, you move a single degree off course at the beginning and travel a thousand miles without correcting and you will end up in the wrong part of the world.

Also KotOR 2 wasn't BioWare, it was Atari and their story changes had to basically fuck everything out of the window if BioWare had made it. Hence Revan going off into deep space for no apparent reason.

 

[manythings]

how is mass effect's story unique? they use the same 'lets all band together for the final battle" for years. Want mass effect 3's ending? play dragon age.

I'll just let you re-read my posts and search for the word "unique" being used once...

 

[Delusibeta]

I am currently praying to the gods of gaming and sending pleading letters to the Citadel Council to ensure multiplayer stays the fuck away from my beloved Bioware games.

The gods of gaming have gone out to lunch with the Citadel Council. Bioware is making a multiplayer game, and it's called The Old Republic.

 

[Jake the Snake]

Enough with the "Bioware, I am disappoint"s and "ITS A CONSPIRACY I TELL YOU!"s. People, sometimes a goat, is just a goat. ME3. I'm excited. Bring it on.

 

[Delusibeta]

/post eating bug strikes again.

 

[Whateveralot]

Maybe maybe maybe...

Earth IS a reaper.

 

[vrbtny]

I win, I always said it would be 3....

+10 smug

 

[MasterSplinter]

I'm starting to believe all this "we accidentally put this image or game title on the site and then we take it down" is just some new kind of viral advertising. It's cheep like hell and very effective.

 

[szaleniec1000]

I heard a rumour.

A nasty, evil rumour.

The rumour was that the ME3 trailer is going to announce that they have included..

..shudder....

...multiplayer.

I am currently praying to the gods of gaming and sending pleading letters to the Citadel Council to ensure multiplayer stays the fuck away from my beloved Bioware games.

Hopefully any urge Bioware have to develop a multiplayer game they're channelling into The Old Republic. I wouldn't mind seeing a multiplayer game in the Mass Effect universe, even though multiplayer isn't my thing, but not as part of the main series.

 

[manythings]

Killing Wrex changes nothing. Wreav still bands the Krogan together, and they're still your allies because he respects Shepard for killing Wrex.

We don't know what will become of the Geth in Mass Effect 3, but my assumptions are that Legion's loyalty mission was done simply to get the Heretic Geth out of the way, one way or another. There will be new mooks in ME3, and regardless of whether you blew them up or brainwashed them the Geth will most likely be your allies since Legion doesn't mind which choice you make. As far as sending Legion to the lab goes I wouldn't be surprised if this is overlooked and it says that the True Geth just handled the Heretics themselves, sort of how like Conrad Verner says you put a gun in his face no matter what you really did.

Saving or destroying the council also changed nothing. There's still a council, they still don't listen to Shepard. The only difference is whether they give you some face time or not and the possibility of reinstating your Spectre status (Which also had no impact). As far as the Turians, we've seen no evidence that they wont be military allies, except for one disgruntled storekeeper in ME2 (which, I admit, was a nice touch).

I understand the point of the choices, I'm saying Bioware handled them poorly. If there's no tangible consequence for your decisions besides a couple changed lines and a walk-on here and there, why should I even care what choices I make?

Also KOTOR2 was Obsidian, and they gave clear reasons that tied into an overarching storyline for Revan going beyond the Outer Rim. He was going to face the True Sith, something the Jedi Exile then followed him to do.

No, it's basically spelled out that if you don't stop the heretics they WILL use the virus. That whole part where legion links into their systems and discovers that the heretics have a backdoor into the true geth network is laying that plan out.

Wreav is a warlord of the old style who only cares about battle for battles sake while Wrex is a reformer who is trying to pull his people together to survive. I fail to see how this is the same thing.

On the subject of Conrad Verner if you use only the renegade options in ME he doesn't appear in ME2 because he gets himself killed by picking a fight with some turians.

And I was thinking of Neverwinter Nights 2 that was Atari.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

50 bucks says the announcement ISN'T Mass Effect 3

 

[Brotherofwill]

There's gonna be a ME3???? No wai!

In Mass Effect 3, the Reapers have launched a devastating attack on Earth, home world of the human race. Only an alliance of the various races in the galaxy, lead by stalwart hero Commander Shepard, stands a chance of defeating the Reapers and taking back the planet.

Nevermind. What a drag that plotline is. Let me guess, they'll expect us to round up a gang of diverse heroes on our way to save the world, occasionally stopping to have sexual relations with a crewmember? Pass.

I knowa it'd be a heavy risk to change the formula now....but the priiiizzze.