HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
It happens. As they said in The Wolf Man, "during all of the confusion and excitment, mistakes were made".
Mass Effect 3 Demo Impressions [Online Open To All]
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It happens. As they said in The Wolf Man, "during all of the confusion and excitment, mistakes were made".
Blue Ninja
Member
Hmm, anybody have a Normandy code left? I tried nabbing a few more codes to share last night, but failed. Looks like they're out.
Can't wait to get home and play this thing again. :lol
Can't wait to get home and play this thing again. :lol
mewarmo990
Neo Member
Well... I have idealistic expectations for ME3 but it probably won't meet most of them.
In the end I'd like to see a return to focus on the world/lore and role playing elements of ME1, but with the vastly improved shooting mechanics in ME2. However, from the way the story has gone and the way the game is being marketed, it's looking to be more of a Michael Bay roller coaster than ever.
While I think it's unrealistic to demand that Bioware "return to its roots" as long as EA is exerting its influence to produce the most mass marketable games possible, I do really miss the feel of everything Mass Effect and older, and they seem to keep getting farther away from that.
Eagerly awaiting the demo!
In the end I'd like to see a return to focus on the world/lore and role playing elements of ME1, but with the vastly improved shooting mechanics in ME2. However, from the way the story has gone and the way the game is being marketed, it's looking to be more of a Michael Bay roller coaster than ever.
While I think it's unrealistic to demand that Bioware "return to its roots" as long as EA is exerting its influence to produce the most mass marketable games possible, I do really miss the feel of everything Mass Effect and older, and they seem to keep getting farther away from that.
Eagerly awaiting the demo!
From what I see, the game has just as much RPG elements as ME1, if not more. The larger skill tree, weapon and armor customization, etc. The shooting mechanics are much better than ME2 also. Maybe your unrealistic thoughts aren't so unrealistic after all?
I guess you'll get a taste on Tuesday. Even though I did the xbox 360 demo, I eagerly await the PC version.
Im glad it looks like they have put more RPG back in, thats what i didnt like about ME2!
I liked the demo. Graphically the game looked better than ever (especially in the distance from where you are, in the first part of the demo); full movement when sprinting was a much needed improvement, though in the second part it began to piss me off when I sticked to walks when sprinting; combat felt the same as ME2, so good; and the 'RPG elements', in my opinion, didn't seem that different to ME2. Yes you can choose two different trees, but it's hardly a radically difference.
FYI, I played as a Vanguard. Will play again as male Shepard and as a different class.
Definitely re-hyped for this game. Looking forward to multiplayer next week.
Edit: can you customise armour in the demo?
FYI, I played as a Vanguard. Will play again as male Shepard and as a different class.
Definitely re-hyped for this game. Looking forward to multiplayer next week.
Edit: can you customise armour in the demo?
Lifejumper
Member
Its AWESOME man.
Here listen to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdZqaf-e6Y&list=UUWePuGh_BExmdPx__zun-Aw&index=1&feature=plcp
Another great one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HRC...xt=C37e589eUDOEgsToPDskJcozR5uxYkIfdoING6rHoi
Really goes back to the ME1 feeling.
universalmind
Member
It was like 70% of the game.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Hey man thanks again for this, finally getting a chance to listen to these tracks this morning and damn this game is going to have some great music.
Lifejumper
Member
Yes.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Yup extremely impressed by what's in these files, hot damn.
Very good from what I've heard. Got a big playlist of a bunch the music in the demo, thanks to Rozay. You can check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA0DCE24A79B351D2
Some highlights:
Main Menu - http://youtu.be/TPlGk2Obnm8
Character Creation - http://youtu.be/7cdZqaf-e6Y
Clint Mansell piece 1 - http://youtu.be/D8coPpuYaF4
Clint Mansell piece 2 - http://youtu.be/GcLQiE5Ghv0
Music from the Sur'Kesh part of demo:
first battle themes - http://youtu.be/MieOuOUvy_Y and http://youtu.be/Zrjhk4L9rdE
second battle themes - http://youtu.be/FjmL_4JPW3U and http://youtu.be/zSGpEboOois
Atlas battle themes - http://youtu.be/zw3H7vTMRSw and http://youtu.be/CjAFk6ljUTI
some other highlights:
love interest theme? - http://youtu.be/oRTTlEk4NeA
faunts song - http://youtu.be/Z3lVO9_HW0w
there's a ton more in there. Find some good ones GAF. Haven't got the chance to listen to them all.
Lifejumper
Member
No offence man, but I think you should spoiler that.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
gotcha
This app is really ridiculous - I've tried three times today and STILL nothing, while I think after one try, a friend of mine got a code an hour ago.
I'm so lucky that CrazyDude gave me a code yesterday, because I think the app either straight up doesn't like me, or I should probably close it - I've had this tab open since yesterday.
I'm so lucky that CrazyDude gave me a code yesterday, because I think the app either straight up doesn't like me, or I should probably close it - I've had this tab open since yesterday.
I already have some movie OST by Mansell so I knew he would get the job done.
Will probably be the game OST of the year. 
You're making the incorrect assumption these people think they only put out one bad game. Not to mention all of the awful quotes and forum posts they've racked up in the last few years. It's not because they're owned by EA, they've earned their hate.
So if all their recent and upcoming games are good, is it still justified to hate them?
It depends if they're good to the people who hate them. Even then good games aren't going to make people forget about their shitty attitude.
AlimNassor
Banned
Nope. It was awesome/ The mass effect games have always had great combat. Mass Effect 1 was the best in terms of story, Saren was awesome as hell.
I don't consider Bioware a single entity. Just look at the TOR devs. Just recently they announced that they were going to invite a bunch of players around the world to discuss the game and what they would like to see.
Yes, some Bioware devs have said shitty things in the past, but I don't consider the whole company shitty because of it.
PjotrStroganov
Member
I didn't expect this demo to pull me right in. Like!
I wonder how these levels would have played out if I had let die everybody form the previous games. Is there going to be a complete replacement cast to fill up the empty spaces?
I wonder how these levels would have played out if I had let die everybody form the previous games. Is there going to be a complete replacement cast to fill up the empty spaces?
That is true, but the Dragon age team has got to step it up. :| DA2 is easily one of the worst game made by the company and the DLC was also meh. Heck, even the expansion to DA:O was a buggy mess which can rival or surpass Bethesda efforts.
ShockingAlberto
Member
They do not seem to be under the belief that Dragon Age 2 is bad, so I have little hope they will improve on it.
I disagree on all three counts. For me, Saren was just a typical "evil" antagonist, and not a particularly memorable one either. Though I liked his design, he was about as interesting as a floral napkin.
Check my post history, it's extremely easy to goback and forth with the PC and 360 games. I'd give you a direct link but I'm on my phone right now
At least ME1 had an antagonist. ME2 really was a game with no beginning and no end. Combat in ME1 is great on the PC. Pretty lousy on the 360 though.
So you're saying he was a colorful character?
In case you guys didn't know, StickTwiddlers is giving away codes on Twitter via direct messages so they won't get snatched up - all you have to do is follow them and they send you a code.
These are the same guys that I overreacted on a few days ago about the ME3 Achievement spoiler, they did get rid of the tweet right away, but the stupid Chrome extension still made it pop up like four hours later with the old tweet. I apologized to the guy personally a while ago, especially after feeling bad right now knowing that he apologized immediately after my tweet last week and I never responded. He sent me a code to show there was no hard feelings after all that too, so I respected that and re-followed.
So Drewfonse, check your PM's - I finally got a code for you bro - respond back if you didn't get one yet!
These are the same guys that I overreacted on a few days ago about the ME3 Achievement spoiler, they did get rid of the tweet right away, but the stupid Chrome extension still made it pop up like four hours later with the old tweet. I apologized to the guy personally a while ago, especially after feeling bad right now knowing that he apologized immediately after my tweet last week and I never responded. He sent me a code to show there was no hard feelings after all that too, so I respected that and re-followed.
So Drewfonse, check your PM's - I finally got a code for you bro - respond back if you didn't get one yet!
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Anyone else try running the demo with somesort of motion enhancing mode on thier TV as I did?
I can't stress how large a difference it made for me.
My "auto motion plus" options were Off Standard or Smooth.
Off is what resulted in my initial impressions, standard looks great, a huge improvment, smooth was a just a little too janky for gameplay.
I can't stress how large a difference it made for me.
My "auto motion plus" options were Off Standard or Smooth.
Off is what resulted in my initial impressions, standard looks great, a huge improvment, smooth was a just a little too janky for gameplay.
Blue Ninja
Member
The remark someone made that Shepard feels like he's ice-skating is spot on. That's the one part of the demo that feels worse than ME2.
Normandy codes?
Coolbgdog12
Member
Yes!! It feel too icey while in cover. It needs to be tightened. EA needs a screwdriver and screw Shepard in more on the battlefield.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
I'm looking forward to seeing how fast a vanguard recharges with just a shotgun and an SMG.
Wow, thanks a lot for sharing. Less than two seconds were enough to convince me about its beauty.
Hope he puts some string-based scores in there as well, but we'll see.
That Facebook app really is worthless - I STILL didn't get a thing off of it, glad I won a code off Twitter for Drewfonse, which was the only reason why I kept trying.
No problem man - I felt bad that you had your hopes up to get that code and you didn't because of me being late - it's all good now.
I JUST got finished beating the game again focusing on just using the shotgun and cloak - plus it's so juicy that you can get headshots with it as well. To top it off, one of the max choices with the cloak even lets you use a power while cloaked so I'm loving Infiltrator even more than I used to in ME2.
No problem man - I felt bad that you had your hopes up to get that code and you didn't because of me being late - it's all good now.
I JUST got finished beating the game again focusing on just using the shotgun and cloak - plus it's so juicy that you can get headshots with it as well. To top it off, one of the max choices with the cloak even lets you use a power while cloaked so I'm loving Infiltrator even more than I used to in ME2.
Psychoward
Banned
I LOVE how in Insanity, enemies will shoot wildly when you cloak, it adds a nice touch that really should have been in 2.
Diablohead
Member
I was hoping wrex could come with me in the 2nd part of the demo if I acted like a bitch but one different dialog line later nothing else changed.
So annoying when what you say does nothing apart from give you paragon points...
So annoying when what you say does nothing apart from give you paragon points...
Do they still immediately find where you are when you uncloak?