Yeah. I’m quoting myself. Eat it.
The other thing I thought of is that the longer you wait to jump into the MP game, the harder it will be to find people playing at your level. Just from last night, I wound up in three games with people 10 or more levels above me. Not great at all.
The quest you reference is the worst one so far. As you said, it’s the first one you get, and I avoided doing because it sounded so dull. But once I played the other missions I thought I should check it out. Pretty generic, but there were some events that made it more interesting than the ME1 missions.
“Events”
The lander is attacked, so you have to hold off enemies and wait to get picked up. Yeah, it’s basic, but it feels like someone cared enough to add a dash of drama.
I’m sure there’ll be more arena-style missions as I progress. But at least three of the side missions I’ve done are story-mission quality. Whatever that means. :)
This could be a spoiler; generic relationship anecdote:
ME love interest talk
I made my ME2 love interest cry and the game actually made me feel bad about it.
Does it matter? Are you worried about scaling?
I think the game might even let you start a multiplayer match by yourself. If not, even a single teammate is enough to do a few waves in 10 minutes and boost your readiness 1-2%. I wouldn’t worry about it anytime soon.
What have they actually shut down that anyone cares about? Even Bad Company 1 MP is still up.
The only decent multiplayer game on their list of shut down services is Battle for Middle Earth 2 and that’s a 6 year old game.
The issue was that every game I jumped into was at Silver or above. Kinda hard to hold your own at level 1 or 2 on Gold when the rest of your team is level 16-20.
walTer
1947
Ok well then I am not the only one that noticed that 1) my femshep face did not import 100% and 2) the new femshep face I made did not look like the one in game.
I AM also debating whether to restart or not- I am only in the middle of the first area so it won’t be much of a stretch.
Other than that, ahh, so happy to be back on the Normandy.
I didn’t get too far into my game last night, just up to Citadel, but I already noticed references to the ending of ME 1 & 2 as well as the Lair of the Shadow Broker and Arrival dlcs. No doubt you could jump into ME3 directly with no prior experience but that would have to be confusing as hell.
I believe someone earlier in the thread noted that if you didn’t have the Arrival DLC, the game would on-the-fly replace those lines with some other explanation for the state of the characters/universe. That may be the case for the Lair DLC, too.
As someone who has played no DLC, I haven’t had any confusion. There’s a lot of talk about the shadow broker, but they fill you in on the basics. I think without playing ME2, you will be missing out on a ton, though.
Oh that’s interesting, the game is even more flexible than I thought it was.
I didn’t play the Lair DLC with my character I imported from ME2 and…
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When I talked with Liana about it she told me how she had overthrown the shadow broker using hired mercenaries. I presume the DLC was that you helped her take down the shadow broker.
I’m really loving all the little ways old decisions can come back around to help you in ME3. Things like how I handled New Eden in ME1 having an effect on ME3 is just plain cool.
I’m also really curious to try another run through the games at some point now to see how differently I can get things to unfold. Since there’s so many possibilities about who’s alive from among your old companions and relations it really makes me wonder what happens when certain people aren’t there anymore.
There are differences in the dialogue just in the area where the demo took place that show this (the demo assumed you had not played the first two games I think).
That said, this game would be great but not nearly as personally rewarding if you hadn’t played the previous games in the series.
I’m pretty sure I just missed out on at least one mission because of my romance choices as well. The number of permutations for this game must be staggering.
Yeah, it’s a bit of a problem because on one of my saves only 6 people survived the assault on the collector base, and I’m having a hard time remember which 6 and it doesn’t tell you in the import tool. Pretty sure mordin, and the drell died. I’m pretty sure I never activated or destroyed legion too in that one. I have another save where everyone makes it, but figured I’d play blind a bit. I’m only 3 hours in but it really does make me want to replay the entire series so I have a save that I know all the decisions.
fourfs
1955
I thought the ME3 online pass was only valid for one gamertag per console, so I just bought my partner 1600 spacebucks so I could get him the day one DLC & an online pass as a surprise. I didn’t see an option to buy an online pass when I launched the game under his gamertag, and the game even let me join a multiplayer match. No mention of needing another online pass.
When I first launched the game on my gamertag, I had to input the code and crap. As far as I know it’s activated under my gamertag. What gives?
Everyone who didn’t play LotSB really missed out. Probably the best mission/setpiece from ME1 or ME2 with the possible exception of the last mission of ME1.
@fourfs - Same 360, right? Other games have worked that way as well. The Season Pass, or whatever you call it, works for everyone on the console.
It’s a loophole that I’m sure EA and others will address next gen.
fourfs
1958
Yup, same box. Our Saints Row 3 season pass (e.g.) worked just fine for both of us now that you mention it, but I had it in my head that this one was different. Guess I was thinking of regular DLC. Thanks!
Not sure what’s up, but I can speculate. You’re trying it on the same console that you activated the online pass, right? Whenever you buy or activate anything on Xbox Live, it unlocks it for your gamertag on all consoles as long as you’re logged in, but it also unlocks it for ALL users on that particular console that you bought/unlocked it on. So if you’re using the same console, perhaps the online pass is activated for everyone using that console.
Only played for about 2 hours so far, but I’m really enjoying the Kinect implementation so far. I know it’s easy to just press the back button, but it’s kinda cool to say “quicksave” and have it save. It’s also kind of cool to actually say the dialog choice I want out loud and have the game recognize. But definitely the best part is saying things during combat, especially to my squadmates.
Very cool.
