Yes, its more DRM than technical issue.
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Mass Effect 3 |OT| Space Jesus Returns (tag all spoilers)
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Yes, its more DRM than technical issue.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Haha!
Victory for late adopters!
By the time I play the 360 version each disks missions will be completely and meticulously mapped out. I'll be able to play it without switching much!
Victory for late adopters!
By the time I play the 360 version each disks missions will be completely and meticulously mapped out. I'll be able to play it without switching much!
LowEndTorque
Member
The disc-swapping thing is really starting to turn me off...
Anyone know if/when the full game will hit the XBL Marketplace? I'll gladly forfeit my right to trade or sell the game if it means no disc swapping.
Anyone know if/when the full game will hit the XBL Marketplace? I'll gladly forfeit my right to trade or sell the game if it means no disc swapping.
And that's completely fine as it's a separate mode all together. If they did that stuff in RPG mode, then we can complain.
Also why can't the 360 prevent disk swapping if you install the game? Sounds counter productive to me.
WrenchNinja
Member
Probably never. ME2 isnt on there, I dont think any multidisc game is.
Honestly downloading full games off the 360 marketplace seems like a very bad idea. I doubt Microsoft has intentions to keep that content up like a Steam service when next gens come around.
We will have to wait and see. I stick to retail discs when it comes to the consoles.
Psychoward
Banned
And "x" STILL chooses dialog as well. Hdufhdhdhfufuurbdbxkkxdudididj
This sounds horrible.
I wouldn't mind it so much if I knew if it was getting the Games on Demand treatment, but seeing as how ME2 hasn't made it in because of some policy issue I still don't know about...
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Because psychotic paranoia.
They can't allow it because your friend might have bought it, let you copy a disc like he did and hand you over the second!
That's a whole $60 they might potentially not get!*
*They don't get $60 anyway.
WrenchNinja
Member
Seems like you get a shitty experience with all the versions, be it through origin, disc swapping or crummy performance.
They can make it so you still need disk 1 in the drive. Just have it so you don't need to disk swap.
I don't see how origin effects the game experience at all, and disk swapping is shitty no matter what game, but it's very minor in the overall experience.
I don't see how origin effects the game experience at all, and disk swapping is shitty no matter what game, but it's very minor in the overall experience.
They could have just said that if you want to install and avoid disc swapping you must have a certain disc in at all times. That would prevent any I keep disc 1 and you keep disc 2 and we both play type of thing.
Psychoward
Banned
They cooooouuuuuuld.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Yep.
HadesGigas
Member
Yes, disc two of games require the disc to be in the tray like any other disc would.
LowEndTorque
Member
well, fuck.
someone needs to start a petition to pressure EA/Bioware into patching gamepad support into the PC version. I know I can't be the only person frustrated by this shit...
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Honestly, I'll have to see for myself.
If it irritates me that badly I'll just double or triple dip.
I already have for ME1.
It's not that they can't. MS just doesn't want to.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
It's all about the retail/physical PC version
... Mandatory Origin launch is lame, though.
EDIT: Unless you were talking about lack of gamepad support, then yeah, I agree. Though I played ME2 with KB/M no problem.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
They want to be entirely sure that you have every single disc of the game.
WrenchNinja
Member
Never had a problem with it myself. I also don't post in any EA forum either, so that could be why.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
It might be messy, but I honestly don't see why they don't do something as simple as label each area as Disc 1 and Disc 2. It might break the fourth wall a little... but if they have to do it this way because of limited space, put in the few minutes necessary to not screw over those that play your damn games.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Damn it. Another streamer carrying on the time honored tradition of playing a game they barely care about just to get viewers. "Action Mode", pfft, this is no series fan.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Get ready to see tons and tons of videos on Youtube of just this.
D
Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
Well, I just played the demo.
This has become a definite skip. I might watch a LP in the future.
This has become a definite skip. I might watch a LP in the future.
Just an FYI an updated Gibbed's Save Editor was released just the other day with more options and access to editing ME2 plot stuff more easily.
http://social.bioware.com/project/4373/#files
http://social.bioware.com/project/4373/#files
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Watching Skyrim streams pre-release nearly drove mad. One guy had running commentary as he played and called everyone "Carl". *shudders*.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Reluctant-Hero
Member
My ME1 romance was with Liara. Then I hooked up with Miranda in ME2. But then LotSB was released and it seems I made up with Liara. So I'm not sure what's going to happen in ME3.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Miranda has issues, Jack is broken (though she can get better), and Tali is young and kind of naive.
Two of them have interesting romantic progression. Tali just because of the frailty and earnest angle. Jack because the big romantic scene features no sex. The one that thinks she's some special kind of crazy realizes her crazy was destructive, not exactly special.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Tali realized she could die, but damn if she wasn't pent up.
She needed some damn touch.
She needed some damn touch.
GodfatherX
Member
This is exactly how mine played out
Also, I can deal with disc swaps as long as it either tells me before I try to do a mission I need to before selecting it, or if it is needed I get the option to cancel going to the mission and continue doing stuff on the disc currently in the system
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Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
I liked the general tone of ME1 a lot, it had problems, but it had such an amazing sense of authorship and vision.
I liked ME2 for different reasons. It lost some of ME1's vibe, but I really enjoyed the character-focus. I could take or leave the combat. The combat was better than ME1, I guess.
The demo was just... poor. Embarrassingly bad intro, especially next to ME2's. No sense of scale, urgency or tension regarding an event that the entire series has essentially been a lead up to. Insulting attempt to make the event feel meaningful with the half-assed child thing. Questionable dialogue. I only made it ten minutes into the second combat level before al+f4ing out.
There was literally nothing about the demo that reminded me of the things I liked about Mass Effect in the first place. It was just a crappy version of a cover-shooter mixed with some mediocre dialogue.
I really don't see anyone who liked 2 disliking this game. If you liked 1 but disliked 2, well I can't speak to that cause I thought 2 was great.
The first level of the demo is NOT representative of the game. Everything in ME2 is still here.
In a few months down the line, I'm pretty sure someone will say Action mode's choices are canon.
HadesGigas
Member
I liked how in LotSB if you dumped her for Tali, Liara was like "uhh yeah, it was pretty obvious Tali wanted your junk from day one" and Shepard's all "why didn't anyone point this out to me?!"
The demo cut out a whole "walk around talking to people" section between landing on the salarian planet and fighting off the cerberus. Not sure why they would do that since it was in the leaked beta.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Still pumped for the game, but I agree with this. I was/am hoping the opening was altered for the demo and it will build a bit more than just launching right off the bat 'cause yeah, I didn't feel the impact of it all either.
I would be pissed if they ever established parts as canon or not in the video games. And, I'm sure they never will.
Probably because they wanted to emphasize the "action" part of Mass Effect. For now, they have the previous fanbase, what they want is that juicy COD/GOW market.
really? I didn't get that from the demo.
ThusZarathustra
Member
So glad to see a proper voice of reason in this thread! I agree wholeheartedly with most everything here, though I personally thought the character-focus of ME2 was, well, unfocused and generally done poorly.
...and I disagree with everything here and kinda snicker a bit at the cognitive dissonance needed to create and sustain it. But hey to each his own, right? You're everything Bioware wants from their customers, I guess. They must be doing something right for you, for which I'm glad, I suppose.
UGH... I have such mixed, mixed feelings about this game.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Looks like ME3 has Avatar Awards! An
and an
. I don't know about you guys, but I love it when games have avatar unlocks.
N7 helmet
Omniblade
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
I only buy games with store exclusive pre order bonuses and avatar gear. Day one DLC and $60 PC versions are also a plus.