Because honestly, has a single piece of GOOD news come out about the game in recent memory? I mean, it started with the multiplayer confirmation, which has been stated to have some influence over what happens in the singleplayer campaign. I don't know about you, but I don't want my multiplayer to be a mandatory component in getting the most out of my singleplayer campaign, mostly because I've come to realize that 98% of the people that spam the multiplayer servers (on any system) are absolute idiots, and I'd rather jump in front of a cement mixer then interact with them.
Edit: I'll admit that I was wrong about the multiplayer. I didn't know all the settings at the time, I'm sorry.
THEN there's the talk about how it's going to have 3 separate modes, Action mode, Story mode, and RPG mode. If this is news to you, it's basically a matter of Action mode making all the dialogue decisions for you, so that it completely ruins the entire point of playing the game, and then Story mode nerfs the action so that you can just dance through the main story without breaking a sweat. So, if you're any self respecting fan of Mass Effect, you're going to jump right into RPG mode and never look back. This scares me, because it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bioware is trying to coddle every schmuck with an X-box, and it's going to completely ruin any chance of finding competent people to play through the multiplayer with. Makes you wonder what else Bioware has done to make their newest game more idiot friendly, doesn't it? I mean, they've already completely changed the gameplay style to make it more idiot friendly in between ME1 and ME2.
clarification: It's not the multiple play modes themselves that anger me, it's the representation behind them. Bioware's trying to appeal to every idiot who plays Modern Warfare like it's their god, and I highly doubt that this is the extent of their idiot overhaul
AND THEN there's the E-mail my friend got from EA advertising what you'd get if you pre-ordered the game through Origins, the N7 set which includes, if my memory serves me correctly, the N7 Shotgun, the N7 Sniper Rifle, the N7 Pistol, and the N7 SMG. There's a little weapon missing from this list, don't you think? My favorite weapon from both games? Where is my assault rifle!? You can't honestly tell me that bioware has gone 'no, we need to be an ultra-realistic shooter game, we can't have big guns that are fun to use in our game'. I can't wait to see what little write off Bioware does to explain this one away.
THEN FINALLY, and this is the mac daddy issue I'm having with ME3, It's owned by EA, so it has online passes and you are required to sign up for EA Origins in order to play the game. If you don't know the EA origins scandal by now, signing up for an account with them is basically giving EA permission to put spyware on your computer, so that they can watch your online activity whenever you're online, and they can go snooping thorough your hard drive whenever they want to. I know this last part isn't bioware's fault, but it's still a gargantuan issue, and a huge arguing point for why I won't be picking up Mass Effect 3.
Bioware, I love you, I loved mass effect 1 and mass effect 2, but there's simply too much wrong with ME3 for me to go in with high hopes and starry eyes. I don't need your game to live a perfectly normal human life, so it's not worth ruining one of my favorite franchises over, and it's MOST CERTAINLY not worth getting spyware on my computer for.
Anyway, /rant I guess. I'm just sad to see how far downhill ME3 is going. What do you guys think of all the press that ME3 is getting recently? Do you like it? Are you just as angry and skeptical as me? Do you think that I'm just whining too much? Have you heard any good news about ME3 that I haven't?
Edit: I'll admit that I was wrong about the multiplayer. I didn't know all the settings at the time, I'm sorry.
THEN there's the talk about how it's going to have 3 separate modes, Action mode, Story mode, and RPG mode. If this is news to you, it's basically a matter of Action mode making all the dialogue decisions for you, so that it completely ruins the entire point of playing the game, and then Story mode nerfs the action so that you can just dance through the main story without breaking a sweat. So, if you're any self respecting fan of Mass Effect, you're going to jump right into RPG mode and never look back. This scares me, because it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bioware is trying to coddle every schmuck with an X-box, and it's going to completely ruin any chance of finding competent people to play through the multiplayer with. Makes you wonder what else Bioware has done to make their newest game more idiot friendly, doesn't it? I mean, they've already completely changed the gameplay style to make it more idiot friendly in between ME1 and ME2.
clarification: It's not the multiple play modes themselves that anger me, it's the representation behind them. Bioware's trying to appeal to every idiot who plays Modern Warfare like it's their god, and I highly doubt that this is the extent of their idiot overhaul
AND THEN there's the E-mail my friend got from EA advertising what you'd get if you pre-ordered the game through Origins, the N7 set which includes, if my memory serves me correctly, the N7 Shotgun, the N7 Sniper Rifle, the N7 Pistol, and the N7 SMG. There's a little weapon missing from this list, don't you think? My favorite weapon from both games? Where is my assault rifle!? You can't honestly tell me that bioware has gone 'no, we need to be an ultra-realistic shooter game, we can't have big guns that are fun to use in our game'. I can't wait to see what little write off Bioware does to explain this one away.
THEN FINALLY, and this is the mac daddy issue I'm having with ME3, It's owned by EA, so it has online passes and you are required to sign up for EA Origins in order to play the game. If you don't know the EA origins scandal by now, signing up for an account with them is basically giving EA permission to put spyware on your computer, so that they can watch your online activity whenever you're online, and they can go snooping thorough your hard drive whenever they want to. I know this last part isn't bioware's fault, but it's still a gargantuan issue, and a huge arguing point for why I won't be picking up Mass Effect 3.
Bioware, I love you, I loved mass effect 1 and mass effect 2, but there's simply too much wrong with ME3 for me to go in with high hopes and starry eyes. I don't need your game to live a perfectly normal human life, so it's not worth ruining one of my favorite franchises over, and it's MOST CERTAINLY not worth getting spyware on my computer for.
Anyway, /rant I guess. I'm just sad to see how far downhill ME3 is going. What do you guys think of all the press that ME3 is getting recently? Do you like it? Are you just as angry and skeptical as me? Do you think that I'm just whining too much? Have you heard any good news about ME3 that I haven't?
