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« Reply #60 on: February 10, 2012, 10:57:32 PM »
I thought the "Story" and "Action" modes were actual modes like Casual Automatic in Bayonetta/Vanquish.  Every detail within those modes seems modifiable in the options.

Story has its own difficulty level under below casual/easy.  You're basically invincible, stronger, and even if you don't fire a shot, your teammates seem more effective.  It automatically levels you up too.  Action mode makes all the dialog choices into cutscenes

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« Reply #61 on: February 10, 2012, 11:39:40 PM »
My femshep is half-Irish (red hair, freckles) half-Asian (face)

it's truuue

femshep is Jodie Foster

it's canonical in my fanfics

If thats true, all aliens should look like her dad
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« Reply #62 on: February 11, 2012, 12:18:41 AM »
grudgingly installing Origin
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Re: MASS EFFECT 3 |OT|
« Reply #63 on: February 11, 2012, 12:43:09 AM »
grudgingly installing Origin

is the demo out?
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« Reply #64 on: February 11, 2012, 12:48:09 AM »
Is this the same demo that was released months ago that was in Alpha state? That was a good demo. I mean, considering.

Multi is actually really fun despite the wah wah-ing and the game has enough rpg depth to resemble an rpg this time.  The problem is, Shepherd doesn't really make dialogue choices as often now, and this was on "RPG mode".
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« Reply #65 on: February 11, 2012, 11:35:27 AM »
you can try to get the code here
http://apps.facebook.com/xboxmasseffect/uk

some distinguished mentally-challenged app,based on luck,you have three tries,if you fail like me--try again in 2 hours

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will try again in 70 minutes or so :'(

app asks you to enter your gamertag btw

pixel counters say that the game is 720p+FXAA
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« Reply #66 on: February 11, 2012, 02:18:38 PM »
Pretty easy.

I got a code this morning through that facebook.

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« Reply #67 on: February 11, 2012, 02:28:31 PM »
i got some shitty avatar prop :(

will try again
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« Reply #68 on: February 11, 2012, 06:08:45 PM »
Played through the demo. It's Mass Effect. Can't wait for the real thing.

My observations.
Played on Hardcore. That felt about right. Probably what I will play the real thing on. I didn't see Veteran which is what I played ME 2 on but that difficulty was too easy. This felt right without forcing me to play in a very boring overly cautious manner.
Grendades are a welcome addition although I have a feeling it will get kind of annoying like in most shooters when the enemies spam them. At least they make you move around a bit which is a nice change of pace.
Played as solider just to try out the weapons but I'll play through the demo with all the classes to see what I'll play with in the real game. The weapons have better sound and a little more weight behind them. They felt better than in prior games where they often lacked impact and felt and sounded very weak.
New Health system. It segements your health into like 4 pieces and you can only regenerate your combat bar unless you use a med pack. I like the change.
I liked the roll but I often did it by accident. This happens in other 3rd based cover shooters also but thought I would mention.
The melee system now has the light melee from the old games and a more powerful melee if you hold the button. The way they were hyping up the melee stuff its not that big a deal although the more powerful melee looks nice.

Other than that its Mass Effect 2 tweaked. Next go around I'll mess with the level up tree. For the first time I just auto-leveled it. 
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« Reply #69 on: February 11, 2012, 10:57:48 PM »
Played against as an adept.

Each skill can now be leveled up to Rank 6. At Rank 4, 5, and 6 you get the option to pick in one of two ways about how it levels up for that skill.

Like for an adept level 4 you can increase force by 40% or increase impact by 2 meters. Then at Rank 5 you can pick between increase force and damage of biotic detonations by 50% and reset recharge time after a biotic combo denotates. Its that way for all abilities for all classes.

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« Reply #70 on: February 12, 2012, 02:20:35 AM »
Yeah, this is the same demo we played months back that was in Alpha but with more polish, less bugs, and better graphics.

And I have the same opinion now as I did then: fucking awesome and fuck the haters.
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« Reply #71 on: February 12, 2012, 02:40:01 AM »
yep it's still mass effect and it's still fucking awesome.

CAN'T WAIT
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« Reply #72 on: February 12, 2012, 04:27:23 AM »
man I'm so keen for a demo code, I've had no luck with the online promotions.

Anybody got a spare code they can hook a brother up with?
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« Reply #73 on: February 12, 2012, 09:35:41 PM »
boo no codes left from the Facebook promo.

FUCK THE DEMO

I'm just gonna wait until the game comes out. I don't really want to spoil anything.

This is the first game in ages where I've REALLY wanted the CE too. Need that extra content and N7 patch for my man bag
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« Reply #74 on: February 13, 2012, 04:24:12 AM »
best thing about the demo is that the music isn't overproduced pap of ME2

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« Reply #75 on: February 13, 2012, 10:34:48 AM »
That bit of music is actually done by the same group that composed the end credits music for ME1.

Here are some of the other tracks:





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« Reply #76 on: February 13, 2012, 01:01:59 PM »
This is not Mass Effect music... what is this crap?
You shut the fuck up about Clint Mansell's music, bitch. :gun
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« Reply #77 on: February 13, 2012, 01:25:36 PM »
any idea when the multiplayer portion goes up, and is there going to be a PC demo?

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« Reply #78 on: February 13, 2012, 01:57:35 PM »
This is not Mass Effect music... what is this crap?
You shut the fuck up about Clint Mansell's music, bitch. :gun

That track is done by Faunts, actually:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faunts
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« Reply #79 on: February 13, 2012, 04:54:02 PM »
MP is up in the demo

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« Reply #80 on: February 13, 2012, 05:19:03 PM »
It's fun enough. I mean it doesn't reinvent the wheel or anything. This is another horde/survival mode but its fun enough to play mass effect with other people in this environment. Game I played didn't have any lag and the matchmaking was pain free.


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« Reply #81 on: February 13, 2012, 06:23:38 PM »
I like the store.  Reminds me of buying a pack of cards, wondering what you'd find inside.  I'm gonna play more on the PC demo, but there was a more expensive pack.  I'm guessing there's greater reward there for buying that one instead of four 5k credit packs.

I played as a drell vanguard briefly and I like that animations are changed up.  The drell does backflips for dodge and kung fu kicks for melee.

One thing it might have over normal horde modes is that it seems to shuffle objectives for each wave.  At least that's how it came off in the one or two rounds I played.  It would've been nice if it had point to point co-op levels too, like Uncharted 2/3, Battlefield 3, MW2, and a couple other games.

And I dislike how close the camera is to the character.  I lost track of the enemy I attacked after doing my vanguard boost, even though he was right next to me.

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« Reply #82 on: February 13, 2012, 06:31:49 PM »
I'm going to cum in my pants when this releases.

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« Reply #83 on: February 13, 2012, 06:32:53 PM »
I miss a radar. I don't mind not having it in single player but for some reason in a mode like that where it feels like people can come from anywhere I would like to have a radar.


Other than I like it. I agree about the baseball card buying packs things. In fact I would have went even more in that direction.

EA has been going that way a lot recently with their ultimate team mode in Madden and FIFA.

Himu

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« Reply #84 on: February 13, 2012, 06:45:12 PM »
Has the multi been improved since the alpha demo
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« Reply #85 on: February 14, 2012, 04:06:54 PM »
no more gun holstering apparently

console memory issue,saves them 2-4MB

smh

next gen please
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« Reply #86 on: February 15, 2012, 03:41:52 AM »


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« Reply #87 on: February 15, 2012, 03:44:30 AM »
Yeah GAF is all hot and bothered about this but 1 nor 2 had it either. And I thought all "real" pc gamers preferred mouse and keyboard for shooters anyway.

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« Reply #88 on: February 15, 2012, 03:46:37 AM »
No such thing as GAF PC gamers.

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« Reply #89 on: February 15, 2012, 04:40:18 AM »
Yeah GAF is all hot and bothered about this but 1 nor 2 had it either. And I thought all "real" pc gamers preferred mouse and keyboard for shooters anyway.

Because 1 or 2 didn't have it isn't an excuse. It's not really a shooter anyway.
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« Reply #90 on: February 15, 2012, 08:38:09 AM »
the demo screens look fucking awful. super low res everything. ugh.
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« Reply #91 on: February 15, 2012, 08:39:47 AM »
No such thing as GAF PC gamers.

Seems like 90% of the mod staff are hardcore PC gamers nowadays.
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« Reply #92 on: February 15, 2012, 08:41:34 AM »
Yeah GAF is all hot and bothered about this but 1 nor 2 had it either. And I thought all "real" pc gamers preferred mouse and keyboard for shooters anyway.

Because 1 or 2 didn't have it isn't an excuse. It's not really a shooter anyway.

I shot a lot of robots in the head in 2...

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« Reply #93 on: February 15, 2012, 10:14:17 AM »
Embarrassing confession of the day. I'm thinking about picking up a used Kinect because I think being able to shout shotgun to switch weapons or Liara shockwave is kinda cool...

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« Reply #94 on: February 15, 2012, 10:28:08 AM »
hmmm

Kinect is very likely to blame for "no holster" incident  :maf
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« Reply #95 on: February 15, 2012, 04:02:42 PM »
got a kinect for v-day

first thing i told the missus is that i hope she's excited to hear me yell "KINETIC BARRIER! FLAME AMMO! FORCE PUSH! LEVITATE!" over and over at the t.v. again.  she is not. :lol
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« Reply #96 on: February 15, 2012, 04:07:05 PM »
Yeah I have no interest in speaking the lines but actually speaking to have them do stuff  or move or switch weapons strikes my inner nerd core as being cool and somewhat actually useful.

We'll see if this passing fancy leaves me as otherwise I have no interest in owning a Kinect so its an utter waste of money.

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« Reply #97 on: February 15, 2012, 10:31:11 PM »
why do you need kinect, rather than just a headset?

The lack of controller support is lame. I played 2 for a while with mouse and k/b on PC but much preferred the controller set up. Eventually it got hacked in but it was a hassle, and menus weren't supported...i guess 3 will be the same.
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« Reply #98 on: February 15, 2012, 10:37:26 PM »
why do you need kinect, rather than just a headset?

Because MS want them dollars yo!

I know. Voice Commands could easily be done with a headset. I think Endwar did it earlier this gen. They are just trying to sucker some Kinect money since people have the device and no other real use for it. That's what makes me not want to do it because its a scam. I detest the current tech and version of Kinect. It's garbage. But god damn I can't help but think it would be cool to do the voice command stuff in a game I already really like.



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« Reply #99 on: February 15, 2012, 10:41:03 PM »
hell, Rainbow Six did it LAST GEN. Was awesome too.
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« Reply #100 on: February 15, 2012, 10:43:32 PM »
oh yeah, random Kinect-is-bullshit post:

My system menu randomly changes back and forth between English and Japanese. After this many years, I've given up on asking why. Even when it displays in English though, Kinect doesn't recognize my voice input unless I speak in Japanese. :derp

It also is horrible at detecting kids, just horrible.
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Re: MASS EFFECT 3 |OT|
« Reply #101 on: February 15, 2012, 11:04:14 PM »
Yeah fuck it. As much as I like the idea I don't want to support that bogus bullshit. I'll do without.

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« Reply #102 on: February 15, 2012, 11:05:51 PM »
For Mass Effect 2 DLC, when does it take place (specifically Shadow...I'm blanking on the name).  I don't have the time to go through the entire ME2 again.

Also, does anyone remember if ME2 let you change your ME1 imported character's class?

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« Reply #103 on: February 15, 2012, 11:07:17 PM »
For Mass Effect 2 DLC, when does it take place (specifically Shadow...I'm blanking on the name).  I don't have the time to go through the entire ME2 again.

It's all in the middle of the game except for the last DLC, which takes place after the ending.
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« Reply #104 on: February 15, 2012, 11:23:31 PM »
For Mass Effect 2 DLC, when does it take place (specifically Shadow...I'm blanking on the name).  I don't have the time to go through the entire ME2 again.

Also, does anyone remember if ME2 let you change your ME1 imported character's class?

Lair of the Shadow Broker.

I actually googled a FAQ and got a page (which I can't remember) detailing exactly how to kick it off with minimum fuss. Go find Liara, basically.
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« Reply #105 on: February 15, 2012, 11:31:05 PM »
thanks

by middle of the game, is that right before the point of no return, or before the latter set of companions to collect (Thane, et al)? I save like crazy, so it shouldn't be a big issue.

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« Reply #107 on: February 15, 2012, 11:40:36 PM »
Middle game as in, before you get all the characters. Because once you get Legion, remember, you're already on your death clock to end game.
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« Reply #108 on: February 16, 2012, 02:36:05 AM »
Mass Effect 3 Demo Analysis X360 vs PS3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFBTuleh7R8&feature=player_embedded

20fps is more cinematic anyway
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« Reply #109 on: February 16, 2012, 04:24:04 AM »
hell, Rainbow Six did it LAST GEN. Was awesome too.

Rainbow Six MP was super cool too

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« Reply #110 on: February 16, 2012, 04:25:43 AM »
Is this coming to Steam?

hell, Rainbow Six did it LAST GEN. Was awesome too.

Rainbow Six MP was super cool too

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« Reply #111 on: February 16, 2012, 04:49:10 AM »
I'm guessing it won't be on Steam, which is why i reluctantly installed Origin.
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« Reply #113 on: February 19, 2012, 11:05:09 PM »
The ME3 trailer during Walking Dead was cool, even though it was nothing by CG. Wife was like "you're buying that, right? Great" with much sarcasm on the great.
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« Reply #114 on: February 19, 2012, 11:21:12 PM »

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« Reply #115 on: February 19, 2012, 11:52:02 PM »
Bioware is all about killing kids

if there are big battles like that in game it could be pretty cool.  some form of space combat would be cool too instead of sticking it all in a cutscene like ME1/2.
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« Reply #116 on: February 19, 2012, 11:55:00 PM »
Kind of a lame add. The computer graphics look goofy. They should have done it with in game graphics or did like Halo does and make it live action.

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« Reply #117 on: February 20, 2012, 02:04:41 AM »
Real ad will come later but will it beat this


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« Reply #118 on: February 20, 2012, 02:39:14 AM »
I don't care about the trailers as much as I do about the tone they set.  Mass Effect 3 has mostly been "Earth is fucked."  It seems like it should matter, but through two games the closest you've come to Earth is the optional Luna mission in ME1.  Depending on your chosen Shepard's history, he might not even have a real connection to Earth.

What ME2 media setup was exploring all these alien worlds to recruit badass space monsters to follow you on a suicide mission.  That's more or less what the game was.  I'm just hoping ME3 is a lot more than the media suggest, and the second mission of the demo kinda shows that it might be.  All these trailers needs to show more of that stuff.  Earth sucks.  More space adventures.

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« Reply #119 on: February 20, 2012, 10:02:52 AM »
http://www.destructoid.com/bioware-writer-s-vagina-versus-the-internet-222206.phtml
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Hepler is a BioWare writer and woke up one day to discover the entire Internet hated her. A number of online communities recently started dogpiling on the lady, accusing her of "ruining" BioWare games with her writing. She's also received a lot of heat for admitting that she doesn't like to play games -- certainly a requirement if your job is to craft narrative (sarcasm).

By far her greatest "crime" was suggesting that games should let the player skip combat, stating: "Games almost always include a way to "button through" dialogue without paying attention, because they understand that some players don't enjoy listening to dialogue and they don't want to stop their fun. Yet they persist in practically coming into your living room and forcing you to play through the combats even if you're a player who only enjoys the dialogue."

Whether you agree or disagree, it's not like she cut a toddler's achilles tendons with a rusty scalpel. Still, however, this is the Internet.



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Everything came to a head a few days ago. Hepler decided to join Twitter, but within fourteen Tweets she has already asked support if she can delete her account. It seems that gamers caught a whiff of her Twitter presence, and everything went to shit.

Hundreds of messages have been sent to Hepler, as a simple Twitter search shows. Many choose to attack her writing and ability to craft characters. A staggering number focus on her physical appearance, choosing to call her such delightful names as "fat bitch" and "obese cunt." Some want to know why she's "obsessed with shoehorning homosexual relationships down gamer's throats."

Poor Hepler did not exactly help her case, publicly stating: "I just figure they're jealous that I get to have both a vagina AND a games industry job, and they can't get either." Unfortunately, that opened the doors for even more spiteful commentary, because everybody knows you can't defend yourself on the Internet -- especially if you mention that you have a vagina.

Everything seemed to come to a head with studio GM Aaryn Flynn getting involved. After one user called Hepler "the cancer that is killing BioWare," Flynn retorted by calling him a "fucking moron." So now BioWare is accused of treating customers disrespectfully, and the moron in question is going on a crusade and talking about his hurt feelings. Nevermind that he started the insulting tone of the conversation. 

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