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Mass Effect 3

harmattan said:
Agreed. Itend to play as the standard female character first.

While I think both voice actors did a killer job, the female voice work and standard character just seems cooler and more sympathetic somehow. Being a pretty normal, red-blooded dude, I don't think playing as the female shepard is weird at all. Any respect, they should definitely keep both in for the finale, would be a real shame if not.
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You're gay if you play female characters.




Just kidding. I like to myself. My wife actually seems to like it too. Having the female character option is even a little extra motivation for me to buy a game. Yeah, Jennifer Hale really is awesome. You'd be surprised how many games (and maybe commercials) you've heard her in.
 
King Icewind said:
98% of Mass Effects player base is male, hence Shepard being male, also Shepard is a mans name, and one more thing the female Shepard was thrown in last just to appeal to the females/weird guys that do play.
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Simply put i don't want to watch a guys ass bouncing around on my monitor for 20+ hours. I don't think that makes me odd at all. :D
 
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite trailer on the internets.
 
spugnor said:
Simply put i don't want to watch a guys ass bouncing around on my monitor for 20+ hours. I don't think that makes me odd at all. :D
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Hah! I never thought about it like that, but subconsiously, yes, that's probably one of the reasons I play as a female shepard.
 
spugnor said:
Simply put i don't want to watch a guys ass bouncing around on my monitor for 20+ hours. I don't think that makes me odd at all. :D
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No, the real problem is that you're *noticing* his ass during that 20+ hours. I played through ME and ME2 as male and female Shepards - both great, prefer female for the voice acting - and I never noticed male Shep's ass.
 
KatalDT said:
No, the real problem is that you're *noticing* his ass during that 20+ hours. I played through ME and ME2 as male and female Shepards - both great, prefer female for the voice acting - and I never noticed male Shep's ass.
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I think you might need to turn in your man card! :D I am all about dat shapely female ass. Sucks that in ME2, there was no hawt girl on girl action like there was in the first one. I was so dissapointed by that.
 
spugnor said:
I think you might need to turn in your man card! :D I am all about dat shapely female ass. Sucks that in ME2, there was no hawt girl on girl action like there was in the first one. I was so dissapointed by that.
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Oh I certainly noticed female Shep's ass... I never noticed MALE Shep's ass. :) You apparently noticed it so much that it detracted from your game play.

Just saying.
 
I really like the idea of carrying the same guy through all 3. My guy *seems* shorter than the commercial while being a white guy with a big scar running down one side of his face. No one else really has that guy as their "shepard" and it kinda makes me buy into the game a bit more because of that little extra custom touch.

I'm stoked for ME3.
 
JayteeBates said:
I really like the idea of carrying the same guy through all 3. My guy *seems* shorter than the commercial while being a white guy with a big scar running down one side of his face. No one else really has that guy as their "shepard" and it kinda makes me buy into the game a bit more because of that little extra custom touch.

I'm stoked for ME3.
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I never played with default Shep. I always opted towards a more Elephant Man approach.
 
Can't wait for it,especially after playing ME1 for 4 times and another 6 times for ME2. :D
And am i the only one who like the Reapers accent?
 
northrop said:
I am excited to see this game slowly approaching release (another year? no big deal) However, I do hope that it's better than the second installment. Of the two, I must say I did enjoy the first one a lot better.
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+1 same here ...
 
Derangel said:
I doubt they'll play a huge role, just due to the nature of the choice they had you make. If it was too much of an involvement it would be akin to punishing players for not playing the game as a paragon, which would be bad.
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I think it's a cumulative thing; there seems to be a choice for multiple races along those lines, one way or another. You can save the Rachni Queen, save Wrex, be mindful of Tali's father's legacy, the choice with the "Heretics"... plus, there's still the question of Hackett and the Alliance, as well as Cerberus. If you screw yourself out of all of those theoretical Cavalry options, considering what's at stake, you deserve to get killed gruesomely. :p

I liked ME more than ME2, but the reasons I disliked the sequel had mostly to do with the gameplay mechanics rather than the story. Except for the choice at the end; that was just shit.
 
I first got ME1 last year, just out of interest on steam. WOW did it surprise me or what! I had no idea it would be that good, now im beating the second one and im so addicted to the universe. I cannot wait for this one, on a side note... I hope SWTOR takes a lot of elements and uses them.
 
Yeah, I am eager to see it...although I am wondering if it will truly be a trilogy. Will that be it for ME? Or will they find some contrived way to keep it going? Hopefully they can take the best from the first two games and fix the bad from each and come out with an excellent conclusion.
 
Antonius said:
Yeah, I am eager to see it...although I am wondering if it will truly be a trilogy. Will that be it for ME? Or will they find some contrived way to keep it going? Hopefully they can take the best from the first two games and fix the bad from each and come out with an excellent conclusion.
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DLC intil 2015.
 
As badly as I want to play Mass Effect 3, I'm going to see if I can hold myself off for the "Ultimate Edition." ME1 and ME2 was awesome, but I haven't purchased a single DLC. I payed more for ME2 (pre-ordered) than others have payed for the all inclusive DLC pack. Awesome series, but this DLC business makes me itch.
 
In RPGs I always play as male characters. When I play, I try to place myself into the game world and become the character. I just can't RP a woman. Especially in games that have romance options.
 
I need to get ready to replay 2. I really had soaked that thing up and I did a pretty damned good job on my first playthrough. I got the best ending and everyone lived. I was mostly Mr. Goody Two Shoes.

I thinking replay 2 will be something where I disregard my save from 1, pick wildly different stuff, and basically play the Queen Bitch of the Universe. :)
 
Q-BZ said:
I need to get ready to replay 2. I really had soaked that thing up and I did a pretty damned good job on my first playthrough. I got the best ending and everyone lived. I was mostly Mr. Goody Two Shoes.

I thinking replay 2 will be something where I disregard my save from 1, pick wildly different stuff, and basically play the Queen Bitch of the Universe. :)
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Hah! That is funny. I played twice so I could have a goody two-shoes Sheppard and an asshole Sheppard but I never thought of playing as the chick and just being a galaxy class BITCH... hahahaha
 
KenG10 said:
In RPGs I always play as male characters. When I play, I try to place myself into the game world and become the character. I just can't RP a woman. Especially in games that have romance options.
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That's why they put the Asari in there, to give the "non gay" option for male players.

I ran through as Chick-Paragon in my first playthrough, and now I'm debating running through as Dude-Renegade. Well, it's not really a debate, I'm just thinking about playing through before ME3 comes out, instead of waiting until I finish the trilogy as a Chick-Paragon first.
 
wrangler said:
Hah! That is funny. I played twice so I could have a goody two-shoes Sheppard and an asshole Sheppard but I never thought of playing as the chick and just being a galaxy class BITCH... hahahaha
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It's as far removed from my first playthrough that I can imagine. It's going to be great. :D
 
My paragon is a dude my renigade is a chick, named after my ex-wife ...
 
Playing through Mass Effect 2 i finally realized what is really missing.

MassEffect's 2 exploration and hacking 99% of the time involves credits.

in ME1, when you would hack a computer or screen etc you would actually maybe get a message or some side store or something.

in ME2 is almost 99% of the time credits, hack a PDA - credits. Hack a security console - credits. Hack almost anything - credits.

hopefully in ME3 they fix this and actually bring back some of the story elements and bits and pieces you pick up along the way.

Ohh and bring back the Mako and planet exploration over probes and scanning any day of the week. (have to constantly go back to refill probes gets really upsetting.
 
H-street said:
in ME2 is almost 99% of the time credits, hack a PDA - credits. Hack a security console - credits. Hack almost anything - credits.
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It's because Shepard wasn't getting shitty gear for re-sale. Other than that, the research is friggin' expensive, and the fact that you have to continually buy both probes and fuel is a major drain.

But yeah, it's annoying. The only real extra story bits are on the planet synopses, and I'm guessing most people skip past those because they want to get the mining out of the way. Though there was one interesting bit (though this could have been in ME) about one of the planets having a dreadnought-sized biological ship that mysteriously disappeared one day. I doubt it (completely) validates the end of ME2, but it's something in that direction.
 
eh, mako was tedious, just like mining was tedious. I mean it was all cool concepts but mosty it was time wasting filler.
 
I would take Mako driving over mining if the planets were more varied and interesting to explore, but as-is they're pretty much equally tedious. Although you would have thought Shepard would be able to delegate the mining to some junior crew member.
My main concern for ME3 is that it could end up being little more than a storyline expansion for ME2, rather than a new game with new features.
 
Mako>Mining

I just hacked my save file so that I didn't have to mine the planets. Didn't break up gameplay at all.
 
wrangler said:
Hah! That is funny. I played twice so I could have a goody two-shoes Sheppard and an asshole Sheppard but I never thought of playing as the chick and just being a galaxy class BITCH... hahahaha
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That's pretty much how I played through mine too.

I played ME1 after ME2 so I still have to import my Shepard and play through again, I just don't know which career/sex/char type to play yet. I still have to complete the Shadow Broker DLC.

I really liked both versions of the game; I found the planet mining less tedious than Mako exploration. I'm REALLY looking forward to ME3 and DA2 - I'm probably just a sucker for these Bioware titles but they are usually hugely entertaining for me.
 
LOL i had to share, i read this over at sarcastic gamer.


sarcasticgamer.com said:
If Bioware wanted scanning planets for minerals to be easy and/or fun they wouldn’t have replaced the kickass Rover truck with an act roughly equivalent to coloring a basketball with a Sharpie.
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Pretty much sums it up..
 
eh, what I hate most in games is huge mandatory time wasting activities that are pretty much not fun
both counted in that regard
 
Well, if it's anything like the Dragon Age 2 launch... it'll be $60, you will pay extra for release day DLC if you want it on Steam, and you'll have to pre-order months beforehand to get the release day DLC. And if it's anything like Mass Effect 1-2, there will be plot threads started, rehashed, but that only get resolved in paid DLC (Shadow Broker; or not resolved in Witch Hunt's case).

I love Bioware's games, but with EA controlling them they are really working your wallet over. They are releasing games with the intention of having DLC costs take the "complete" game to over $100. I'll definitely wait for an all inclusive version for Dragon Age 2 on sale, and maybe even for Mass Effect... if they release one. They may decide to force you to buy DLC piecemeal and for full price now that they've gotten gamers used to it. Time will tell. I think we'd all benefit if devs didn't have monolithic publishers like Activision and EA, and instead took the risk of self-publishing. A studio like Bioware has a pretty reliable source of repeat buyers for their releases, combined with an actual pre-order should help fund the dev cycle. Smaller studios would work off of games like Magicka to increase their prestige until they can bankroll a triple-A game.

All the publishers and dev studios got to where they were today from a much smaller user base, using more costly tools (you usually had to roll your own engine back in the day, and seamless integration with content creation programs was not available), as well not having solid API's to work with (gotta figure out physics and things like speedtree by yourself, and handle code paths for OpenGL AND Direct3D, AND Glide). Yet today with full engines available, full APIs available, faster and cheaper hardware, content generation programs available, more trained workers available (there are colleges that teach game programming these days) and a larger userbase buying their products, and options for low cost self publishing (Steam, bandwidth is cheap if you want to do your own Direct Download)... they can no longer make a profit?

Something is funny with games these days.
 
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I'm really hoping ME3 brings back gear options. I liked being able to have noticeable upgrades in guns as was present in the first one. I also liked the lack of ammo in ME1. Playing a sniper the ammo shortage (there is not enough ammo to snipe) really got on my nerves in number 2. Other then that I thought #2 was a great game and I hope they combine stuff from both games for a truly epic experience.
 
Ryom said:
Well, if it's anything like the Dragon Age 2 launch... it'll be $60, you will pay extra for release day DLC if you want it on Steam, and you'll have to pre-order months beforehand to get the release day DLC. And if it's anything like Mass Effect 1-2, there will be plot threads started, rehashed, but that only get resolved in paid DLC (Shadow Broker; or not resolved in Witch Hunt's case).

I love Bioware's games, but with EA controlling them they are really working your wallet over. They are releasing games with the intention of having DLC costs take the "complete" game to over $100. I'll definitely wait for an all inclusive version for Dragon Age 2 on sale, and maybe even for Mass Effect... if they release one. They may decide to force you to buy DLC piecemeal and for full price now that they've gotten gamers used to it. Time will tell. I think we'd all benefit if devs didn't have monolithic publishers like Activision and EA, and instead took the risk of self-publishing. A studio like Bioware has a pretty reliable source of repeat buyers for their releases, combined with an actual pre-order should help fund the dev cycle. Smaller studios would work off of games like Magicka to increase their prestige until they can bankroll a triple-A game.

All the publishers and dev studios got to where they were today from a much smaller user base, using more costly tools (you usually had to roll your own engine back in the day, and seamless integration with content creation programs was not available), as well not having solid API's to work with (gotta figure out physics and things like speedtree by yourself, and handle code paths for OpenGL AND Direct3D, AND Glide). Yet today with full engines available, full APIs available, faster and cheaper hardware, content generation programs available, more trained workers available (there are colleges that teach game programming these days) and a larger userbase buying their products, and options for low cost self publishing (Steam, bandwidth is cheap if you want to do your own Direct Download)... they can no longer make a profit?

Something is funny with games these days.
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Yeah, I'm skipping on the $60 for dragon age. I'll definitely be getting ME3 and DA 2 no matter what the reviews say. But I'll be playing the patient game. I'm waiting for the hot deal 6 months to a year after release for both these. I'll probably hold off until they release the complete package.
 
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