This aired during a commercial break of tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead on AMC. It’s the final trailer for Mass Effect 3, the demo for which has been receiving rave reviews.
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Mass Effect 3: Take Earth Back
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I love the games but EA’s marketing drives me up the fuckin wall
Because it makes the games look like something they aren’t. The themes portrayed in the advertisements just don’t match the themes in the games. It’s all so artificial. Instead of trying to sell the game on the game’s merits (gameplay, story, characters) it’s like EA’s marketing has to create something entirely different to get people interested and it’s so unnecessary
the demo is what did it for me, as in changed my mind from getting it from tpb to actually buying it. i have had the demo for a while now and the single player stuff was just like ME2 but the multiplayer has had me playing the demo for many hours.
As Yahtzee says, trailers are for movies and demos are for games. and i totally agree, and this is proof as i will be shelling out my hard earned cash for this one.
Even tho i don’t like the Origin only release, that shit can go to hell.
Origin is the nail in the coffin for Bioware games for me. They used to be my favourite developer, but now it’s just EA with a phoney name. Like Maxis before, they’ve bought a successful developer, ignored what made them successful and ploughed them into the ground*.
Never used to matter before, you’d wring whatever you could out of a name, kill it, then buy a new developer. Each one creating a false notion that EA brand was getting stronger. Trouble is, we’re starting to run out of strong independent developers EA, what are you going to do then?
*MA3 might be a good game, it’s no longer a great game. It’s Mass Effect 1 without the deep plot and character design. RPG-Lite. Great if you like shooters, shit if you like RPG’s.
You obviously didn’t play the demo.
No, because I need to install Origin. That was part of my point. But I have been watching other people playing it on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zRLwo-wAvI
After the 8 minute non-interactive (unless you count the 2 yes/no dialogue options – why are we down to 2 responses now?) movie intro, we then get led around on a leash and instructed on every action we must take (“shoot them”), remind me, who’s supposed to be the all conquering hero again, me or Anderson? Then after some cringe worthy dialogue about the losses of war (This is Bioware making this game? right?) we go through some incredibly forced platform sections before finally being given control of the game after 20 minutes.
Hey, I know it’s a tutorial section, but this is ME3, we know how to play the game by now. Stop treating me like a moron, game. I know I’m supposed to shoot bad things. By making the tutorial out of the invasion of Earth, it’s detracted from the experience, making what should be an emotionally distressing experience, into the easiest part of the game (and the part you least pay attention to as you are concentrating on the technical aspects of the controls). These are very basic mistakes in story structure that are far beneath the par of Bioware of old.
Compare how the first two games start. You are given immediate control of your character, you get to establish wither you are a bad ass/cocky/saint type of character right away and you feel important and powerful from the get go.
ME1, you are eased into the game by the slow wander through your new ship meeting the crew, then put on a planet into a slowly evolving story which builds.
ME2, you are eased into the game by giving you a slow spacewalk through your destroyed ship, giving you time to get used to the controls and break up the story into fast moving sections followed by “safe moments”
ME3, IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD1!! Oh, wait a bit, read this tool tip, OH NOOOOOes! Wait, tool tip, OH JEOPARDY! An emotional bit with a kid, followed by some script written by another kid, then a big shooty bit, followed by a long conversation as the ship (that was previously nearly being blasted out of the sky suddenly stops being attacked for some reason so Anderson can have his monologue..
It just doesn’t strike me that this game was made with storyline being it’s main focus. Had it not been for Dragon Age 2 (which did the same thing with the bad writing and pacing of the intro), I might have given this game the benefit of the doubt, but they don’t seem to have learned a thing.
Or go to ‘em and pirate it, imho.
I still haven’t played my way through ME1 and ME2, despite owning both. I just never really got sucked into ME1 and ME2 came free because I bought DA2 on release day and EA gave you ME2 free if you were willing to download Origin for it.
Really, though, fuck the ‘Origin’ required bullshit.
I’m in the same boat as far as owning to first two games but not playing them, yet. I will say, however, that I’ve had nothing but good experiences with Origin and BF3 so far. I haven’t encountered any of the problems others have had.
You can probably play ME2 without playing ME1, you aren’t really missing much. Also ME2′s combat is much more action orientated than the original.
Yes, but you see, I prefer the RPG style elements of combat. That’s part of what I disliked about ME over DragonAge.
Just play Renegade to get the most hilarious possible playthrough.
http://youtu.be/sy-eRfupYbA