Mass Effect 3

Staff_Sergeant · 2012-03-03T16:38:16.000Z

Jason Townsend:

…like Wrex?

I dunno if there are plain adepts but Battlemasters are biotic hybrids. Wrex had Warp, Throw, Barrier etc.

Yeah Wrex was basically a Vanguard if memory serves. I forget, did the Krogan clone thing from ME2 have biotics?

Delta · 2012-03-03T16:43:45.000Z

Oh, yeah, Battlemasters. I think I’d just blocked them out out of trauma.

Jason_Townsend · 2012-03-03T17:04:50.000Z

Staff Sergeant:

did the Krogan clone thing from ME2 have biotics?

Nope.

Fortitudo · 2012-03-03T17:26:11.000Z

When starting a new game of any game I find it will take maybe about half the game to become familiar with all the features and gameplay mechanics to use them effectively. For example stealth games, it takes a good while to figure out how reactive the AI is.

Will playing the ME3 demo get me up to speed with the game so I can have a running start once it’s finally out?

Ryan_Markel · 2012-03-03T17:31:41.000Z

Fortitudo:

When starting a new game of any game I find it will take maybe about half the game to become familiar with all the features and gameplay mechanics to use them effectively. For example stealth games, it takes a good while to figure out how reactive the AI is.

Will playing the ME3 demo get me up to speed with the game so I can have a running start once it’s finally out?

If you have never played Mass Effect before you will probably do just fine with the opening sequence and then be nearly completely mystified by the second half of the demo the first time you play it.

Honestly, I’m not sure that just playing the game when it comes out and getting used to the progression naturally wouldn’t be a better move.

rei · 2012-03-03T22:54:26.000Z

Bioware…for real? Still no WASD control for dialogue and menus?

Hammet · 2012-03-04T02:59:30.000Z

and, as a bonus, no scroll-wheel either!

Ah yes. People playing Mass Effect on a “Personal Computer.” We have dismissed that claim.

Chris_Gwinn · 2012-03-04T05:55:16.000Z

What bugged me the most was that ME2 would get all confused if you changed your password and make you log in every time instead of updating the stored password. And then it wouldn’t let you tab between the username and password fields - you had to click with the mouse.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-03-04T06:26:29.000Z

Casey Hudson:

…But it’s always optional. We would never take stuff out of the core game and only have it in DLC."

Really? So I don’t need to have played The Arrival DLC to know WTF is happening at the start of ME3?

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/mass-effect-3/1219950p1.html

Joe_M · 2012-03-04T07:35:28.000Z

Well, no, unless I’m imagining the fleet of Reapers I saw at the end of ME2, which was an obvious foreshadowing of ME3.

fourfs · 2012-03-04T07:58:10.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

Really? So I don’t need to have played The Arrival DLC to know WTF is happening at the start of ME3?

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/mass-effect-3/1219950p1.html

The events of Arrival are why Shepherd is on Earth and under guard by an Alliance officer. Can’t imagine they won’t cover those events during the intro, though.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-03-04T08:08:29.000Z

fourfs:

The events of Arrival are why Shepherd is on Earth and under guard by an Alliance officer. Can’t imagine they won’t cover those events during the intro, though.

They didn’t in the demo, I had to ask what happened and a buddy filled me in. I assme the demo intro and the full game intro will be largely the same.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-03-04T08:08:57.000Z

Joe M.:

Well, no, unless I’m imagining the fleet of Reapers I saw at the end of ME2, which was an obvious foreshadowing of ME3.

Did you play the Arrival? It’s pretty important.

rei · 2012-03-04T09:03:49.000Z

Chris Gwinn:

What bugged me the most was that ME2 would get all confused if you changed your password and make you log in every time instead of updating the stored password. And then it wouldn’t let you tab between the username and password fields - you had to click with the mouse.

this happens with all ea - origin/ea.com integrated games including battlefield bad company 2, shift, shift 2. you’d have to reinstall the entire game.

ea is incompetent.

TimJames · 2012-03-04T10:01:27.000Z

The last part of the dissertation is out. It’s more questions than answers, but there are a couple of interesting reminders.

idrisz · 2012-03-04T12:06:47.000Z

What do you call when a Turian get killed by a spiky monster.

joke spoiler

Friendly fire.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-03-04T13:55:14.000Z

What does a nosy pepper do?

punchline

Gets jalapeno business

liminal · 2012-03-04T19:54:30.000Z

Tim James:

The last part of the dissertation is out. It’s more questions than answers, but there are a couple of interesting reminders.

Well done. I feel like you just came frighteningly close to explaining the Reapers, and because I might actually play Mass Effect 3, I really wish I wouldn’t have read that.

<blog SPOILERS> It’s easy to expect that they’ll be revealed as potential saviors of the galaxy, and not space monsters, come to whisk all of us away to Matrix-machine-utopia before we or the universe have a chance to do something cataclysmic that will inevitably happen right at year 50,001 of every cycle. And for extra unexpectedness, you can choose to defend the Reaper cause and assist them with their plans. Heck, you could become the next Saren.</blog SPOILERS>

OTOH, Tom said the plot throws some curve balls. Hope he’s right that certain events are so hard to predict.

Mike_O_Malley · 2012-03-04T20:03:31.000Z

I always thought the Reapers were up to the same thing as Alastair Reynolds’ Inhibitors- keeping life under a particular population threshold to ensure that it survived an impending galactic collision.

Similar methodologies, as the Inhibitors “pruned” any species which achieved starflight.

Murbella · 2012-03-04T20:14:22.000Z

I’m pretty sure they completely wipe out of the group of species and start with new ones each time.