Spike VGA awards Mass Effect 3 reveal

[Vrex360]

Looks awesome, for now that's all I can really say. That said, it doesn't look much like prior Mass Effect games, but hey it'll probably still be as good.
I just hope there's still lots of space travel and I really hope all the prior characters from past games show up.

 

[Caligulove]

Not surprised, but who cares, Mass Effect 3 is coming a lot sooner than I thought it was going to!

I'd like to think the Limey was a new Squad member... but, that guy is fucked

 

[Warachia]

Why would the Reapers invade Earth instead of just nuking it from orbit like any other smart being would do?

Because against reaper technology earth weapons are next to useless. Alos, they need organic or mechanical beings (or hybrids) to buld more of and maintain themselves.

But there's a whole galaxy full of those. It'd be easier to just finish off humans. Would make their job much easier. I think they'd be able to advance without humans.

I think it would be easier to capture your quota so you can nuke more dangerous species like turians from orbit. Not to mention

Spoiler

they probably would like to make more reapers out of humans like the they did in the last game.

Spoiler

But they'd be able to do that with many other species that would put up less of a fight. And if its for a human reaper again, I'll be pissed. What's a human reaper going to do besides look completely absurd? Walk around in space and punch ships? Its just silly is what I'm saying.

Still, as someone said, they may be doing it to bait Shepard so they can kill 2 birds with 1 stone, so to speak.

Atually, I just realized that never once have the reapers ever nuked a planet from orbit, in ME 1 you are told that they ALWAYS go down to the planet to harvest. I guess this is no different.

But they do nuke planets from orbit. In Mass Effect 2 you come across planets that have had their major population centers blasted into giant craters, and their atmospheres were destroyed. The only beings capable of total destruction like this are the Reapers, as any other race would try to preserve the planet. Not really "nuking" but I'm just saying that for ease of use.

They probably invade planets to harvest races they deem worthy though. Guess they would just go to Earth first, then nuke all the other colonies.

Hmmm... I must have missed all of that, I'm not looking for an argument, but if you remember, according to that ME 2 drill seargent, each round from a devastator has the force of an a-bomb, not to mention they use minor mass effects on their weapons, increasing their mass before hitting something, which is why soveriegn slaughtered everything in the first game. I wouldn't say that reapers are the only ones who could do this, look what the krogan did to their own planet, and they never explicitly say it was the reapers.

 

[Daedalus1942]

The sight of London being torn to pieces was really impactful. It was expected, but I'm still disappointed.

I agree, It was an "Oh Crap" moment, but for a minute I had a flashback to Resistance-Fall of Man.

That's because it would seem this installation plans to completely rip off Grayson's story. I wonder if Shepherd somehow gets infected by one of the husks or something to that extent and begins regenerating health...
I really wanted this series to get better and better, but it really does seem like I got my hopes up for nothing. it just gets worse and worse...
-tabs<3-

 

[Irridium]

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Why would the Reapers invade Earth instead of just nuking it from orbit like any other smart being would do?

Because intercepting nukes or losing Earth the second the game starts isn't entertaining.

But it completely goes against what the Reapers are, creating quite a big contradiction of who they are. Just rubs me the wrong way is all.

Erm, no, it doesn't. They've never done that. They harvest sentient races, as they did with the Protheans.

They return from dark space, harvest system by system. We saw what happened to the Protheans in ME1, and saw that they still do it in ME2 via the Collectors and the Human-Reaper.

As I said above, there are planets you come across that have had all their major population centers turned into giant craters, and their atmosphere's destroyed. The only beings we know of that would do that are the Reapers.

From what I gather, they only harvest the races they deem worthy, and destroy the rest. They probably tried to harvest the Protheans, but couldn't for some reason, so they just mutated them into what the collectors are now.

 

[Daedalus1942]

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Why would the Reapers invade Earth instead of just nuking it from orbit like any other smart being would do?

Because intercepting nukes or losing Earth the second the game starts isn't entertaining.

But it completely goes against what the Reapers are, creating quite a big contradiction of who they are. Just rubs me the wrong way is all.

Erm, no, it doesn't. They've never done that. They harvest sentient races, as they did with the Protheans.

They return from dark space, harvest system by system. We saw what happened to the Protheans in ME1, and saw that they still do it in ME2 via the Collectors and the Human-Reaper.

As I said above, there are planets you come across that have had all their major population centers turned into giant craters, and their atmosphere's destroyed. The only beings we know of that would do that are the Reapers.

From what I gather, they only harvest the races they deem worthy, and destroy the rest. They probably tried to harvest the Protheans, but couldn't for some reason, so they just mutated them into what the collectors are now.

Yeah... I'm pretty sure the protheans haven't been mutated. I think they've only been indoctrinated. I don't recall anything in the game mentioning mutations or anything of that ilk. I think they have just been brainwashed by the reapers to do their bidding.
-Tabs<3-

 

[xXDeMoNiCXx]

I decided long ago that I was gonna pre-order this game. Loved the reveal.

 

[Jfswift]

Oooooooo, awesome. Now I have something to look forward to

 

[Joshimodo]

As I said above, there are planets you come across that have had all their major population centers turned into giant craters, and their atmosphere's destroyed. The only beings we know of that would do that are the Reapers.

From what I gather, they only harvest the races they deem worthy, and destroy the rest. They probably tried to harvest the Protheans, but couldn't for some reason, so they just mutated them into what the collectors are now.

Not entirely. How do you think the derelict Reaper came to be? It's entirely possible that previous civilisations were able to develop weapons powerful enough to eradicate cities. If I recall, one planet in ME1 described a race doing just that.

 

[VivaciousDeimos]

Wow... Now Karpyshyn's writing about how the reapers attack Earth...
I should have known, he ripped off Authur C Clarke for the plot of the first game, then the 2nnd plot was batshit insane, and made no sense next to the first game.
Now he goes and pulls this shit...
Karpysyhn really is a hack and he's run out of ideas.
In all honesty... this looks shit, and if it's anything like the 2nd game, I will not be buying it (or even pirating it).
-Tabs<3-

It is very hard to make anything original nowadays, this is more of an adaptation than a ripoff, if you think the second plot was insane, than you just didn't understand or weren't paying attention, I challenge you to come up with plot holes that can't be explained away, and I must have missed that war of the worlds bit where sentient spaceships descend from past the galaxy and screw everything over (I know that isn't in this post, but you did say so in others.)

I always assumed the games were one giant homage to the space opera genre; relishing in some, and deconstructing other themes and cliches and tropes of the genre. That some of the plot points or story elements were supposed to make you think of other works.

 

[Irridium]

Why would the Reapers invade Earth instead of just nuking it from orbit like any other smart being would do?

Because against reaper technology earth weapons are next to useless. Alos, they need organic or mechanical beings (or hybrids) to buld more of and maintain themselves.

But there's a whole galaxy full of those. It'd be easier to just finish off humans. Would make their job much easier. I think they'd be able to advance without humans.

I think it would be easier to capture your quota so you can nuke more dangerous species like turians from orbit. Not to mention

Spoiler

they probably would like to make more reapers out of humans like the they did in the last game.

Spoiler

But they'd be able to do that with many other species that would put up less of a fight. And if its for a human reaper again, I'll be pissed. What's a human reaper going to do besides look completely absurd? Walk around in space and punch ships? Its just silly is what I'm saying.

Still, as someone said, they may be doing it to bait Shepard so they can kill 2 birds with 1 stone, so to speak.

Atually, I just realized that never once have the reapers ever nuked a planet from orbit, in ME 1 you are told that they ALWAYS go down to the planet to harvest. I guess this is no different.

But they do nuke planets from orbit. In Mass Effect 2 you come across planets that have had their major population centers blasted into giant craters, and their atmospheres were destroyed. The only beings capable of total destruction like this are the Reapers, as any other race would try to preserve the planet. Not really "nuking" but I'm just saying that for ease of use.

They probably invade planets to harvest races they deem worthy though. Guess they would just go to Earth first, then nuke all the other colonies.

Hmmm... I must have missed all of that, I'm not looking for an argument, but if you remember, according to that ME 2 drill seargent, each round from a devastator has the force of an a-bomb, not to mention they use minor mass effects on their weapons, increasing their mass before hitting something, which is why soveriegn slaughtered everything in the first game. I wouldn't say that reapers are the only ones who could do this, look what the krogan did to their own planet, and they never explicitly say it was the reapers.

Yes, but the Krogan homeworld is still habitable(if just barely). The other planets aren't. If I could remember what systems these planets were in, I'd tell you, but I can't remember. But they do explain how messed up the bombarded planets are.

And thats true, they don't say it was the Reapers. But so far, they're the only race that would willingly cause such destruction to a planet. Unless something else comes up, thats what I'm going with.

 

[VulakAerr]

Cannot wait. Unlike some people I felt that Mass Effect 2 was a vast improvement over the original (which now feels a little old and clunky). I trust Bioware to put out their best game ever in this.

 

[minarri]

... Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this means that Bioware is releasing Dragon Age 2, The Old Republic, AND Mass Effect 3 in the same year. And I just used those 3 games in the same sentence. The amount of epicness is truly overwhelming.

Those three, and Elder Scrolls 5? Next holiday season is going to be mindblowingly epic.

OT: I don't even care if we all knew ME3 was coming, it's still exciting. Still I, like probably almost everyone else, kind of want to know who that dude in the trailer is.

 

[Irridium]

As I said above, there are planets you come across that have had all their major population centers turned into giant craters, and their atmosphere's destroyed. The only beings we know of that would do that are the Reapers.

From what I gather, they only harvest the races they deem worthy, and destroy the rest. They probably tried to harvest the Protheans, but couldn't for some reason, so they just mutated them into what the collectors are now.

Not entirely. How do you think the derelict Reaper came to be? It's entirely possible that previous civilisations were able to develop weapons powerful enough to eradicate cities. If I recall, one planet in ME1 described a race doing just that.

Yes, the derelict Reaper was nailed by a huge weapon, but that may have been an isolated case. Sure plenty races posses the weapons to cause that much destruction, but very few would be willing to actually cause that much to a habitable planet.

 

[Irridium]

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Why would the Reapers invade Earth instead of just nuking it from orbit like any other smart being would do?

Because intercepting nukes or losing Earth the second the game starts isn't entertaining.

But it completely goes against what the Reapers are, creating quite a big contradiction of who they are. Just rubs me the wrong way is all.

Erm, no, it doesn't. They've never done that. They harvest sentient races, as they did with the Protheans.

They return from dark space, harvest system by system. We saw what happened to the Protheans in ME1, and saw that they still do it in ME2 via the Collectors and the Human-Reaper.

As I said above, there are planets you come across that have had all their major population centers turned into giant craters, and their atmosphere's destroyed. The only beings we know of that would do that are the Reapers.

From what I gather, they only harvest the races they deem worthy, and destroy the rest. They probably tried to harvest the Protheans, but couldn't for some reason, so they just mutated them into what the collectors are now.

Yeah... I'm pretty sure the protheans haven't been mutated. I think they've only been indoctrinated. I don't recall anything in the game mentioning mutations or anything of that ilk. I think they have just been brainwashed by the reapers to do their bidding.
-Tabs<3-

When you do the mission where your on the Collector ship, EDI mentions how the collector body you find is massively mutated. And Mordin mentions somewhere that they've been mutated and almost all functions were replaced with cybernetic implants or something like that.

 

[MisterShine]

Yeah... I'm pretty sure the protheans haven't been mutated. I think they've only been indoctrinated. I don't recall anything in the game mentioning mutations or anything of that ilk. I think they have just been brainwashed by the reapers to do their bidding.
-Tabs<3-

They mention specifically during the Collector Ship mission that the Protheans were genetically engineered to turn them into the Collectors.

I think the guy in the trailer is the guy you'd take over as if Shepard died on your ass in ME2. Still it was the best non-surprise of the show. I'm way more stoked about TES:V though, because let's face it. I had no idea it was coming, and ME3, was a given.

You cannot import a save file where Shep is dead. He/she is the only playable character for the main series. If you have no non-dead Shep file to import, you're playing the "default".

 

[Daedalus1942]

Wow... Now Karpyshyn's writing about how the reapers attack Earth...
I should have known, he ripped off Authur C Clarke for the plot of the first game, then the 2nnd plot was batshit insane, and made no sense next to the first game.
Now he goes and pulls this shit...
Karpysyhn really is a hack and he's run out of ideas.
In all honesty... this looks shit, and if it's anything like the 2nd game, I will not be buying it (or even pirating it).
-Tabs<3-

It is very hard to make anything original nowadays, this is more of an adaptation than a ripoff, if you think the second plot was insane, than you just didn't understand or weren't paying attention, I challenge you to come up with plot holes that can't be explained away, and I must have missed that war of the worlds bit where sentient spaceships descend from past the galaxy and screw everything over (I know that isn't in this post, but you did say so in others.)

Here you are. This guy echoes nearly everything I thought about the mass Effect series and I agree with him wholeheartedly.
-Tabs<3-
-edit- it might help if I'd actually posted the link yeah...? >.<
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=7004

 

[meowman]

I know that the ME2 trailer was a bit of a cliche, classic space opera trailer and all, but it actually made me a lot more excited then this. It teased aspects of the game rather then telling us what looks like it may even be the main plot line (although we all knew a reaper invasion was coming but still) and gave more pictures and more variety. I just think it was a better trailer.
Here's looking forward to a great game though!

 

[Daedalus1942]

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Why would the Reapers invade Earth instead of just nuking it from orbit like any other smart being would do?

Because intercepting nukes or losing Earth the second the game starts isn't entertaining.

But it completely goes against what the Reapers are, creating quite a big contradiction of who they are. Just rubs me the wrong way is all.

Erm, no, it doesn't. They've never done that. They harvest sentient races, as they did with the Protheans.

They return from dark space, harvest system by system. We saw what happened to the Protheans in ME1, and saw that they still do it in ME2 via the Collectors and the Human-Reaper.

As I said above, there are planets you come across that have had all their major population centers turned into giant craters, and their atmosphere's destroyed. The only beings we know of that would do that are the Reapers.

From what I gather, they only harvest the races they deem worthy, and destroy the rest. They probably tried to harvest the Protheans, but couldn't for some reason, so they just mutated them into what the collectors are now.

Yeah... I'm pretty sure the protheans haven't been mutated. I think they've only been indoctrinated. I don't recall anything in the game mentioning mutations or anything of that ilk. I think they have just been brainwashed by the reapers to do their bidding.
-Tabs<3-

When you do the mission where your on the Collector ship, EDI mentions how the collector body you find is massively mutated. And Mordin mentions somewhere that they've been mutated and almost all functions were replaced with cybernetic implants or something like that.

Alrighty. You're correct then. I didn't really pay much attention to mordin or most of the characters towards the end anyways.
But, you are right, my apologies.
-Tabs<3-