Psychoward
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Yeah, I'm glad it's only 15 hours in, whew.
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Mass Effect 3 |OT| Space Jesus Returns (tag all spoilers)
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Easily, and nope. 20 hours is far from a speed-run.
I don´t think people are claiming that there are no dialogue choices... just that there are so very few of them, and those that are there have few choices.
ScreenSplitter
Member
Sorry, I completed ME2, all loyalty missions, only main quest, no side missions in 24 hours. And it was like, my fourth playthrough, so I wasn't exactly taking my time.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
One of my ME2 saves is 60 hours.
Sixty.
At least 30 of those were spent with Tali.
~uguuu
Sixty.
At least 30 of those were spent with Tali.
~uguuu
Don't know what to tell you.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Just got spoiled on something I didn't know before.
And it made me...
...extremely happy.
Me.
And it made me...
...extremely happy.
Me.
I bet you have a closet filled with unedited tali fan fic manuscripts...
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Ooo do tell.
EmCeeGramr
Member
It's not anything huge plotwise (in the grand scheme it's probably relatively minor), but it's very close to something I have jokingly suggested in past ME-bitching threads as a pie-in-the-sky scenario.
My last playthrough was 17 hours long, with most of the dlc content, all loyalty missions, and a few of the n7 side missions.
It always surprised me when people said they spent 40+ hours on this game--was half of that spent scanning planets?
Bruce Lee Kicks
Member
Lying or trolling?
How about option C, neither?
Same. Bout 50-60 so here.
Also, post a link to your Tali pics/fics folder. You know you want to.
michaeltraps
Member
This is good news. I'll ask what it is after the game is out since I don't want to be spoiled but several people have had reactions like this to various things ME3 which makes me really excited.
EmCeeGramr
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Ventilaator
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Hey, while I'm here. I hate when people start their questions with "Am I the only one who..." but this time I feel like I might actually be the only one.
Am I the only one with a virgin Shepard? When I play RPGs I get into the actual roleplaying and don't select the good option for the good points and the good trophy, I choose the one that makes more sense to me considering the situation I'm in. So I didn't want to just have a sex scene for the sake of having it. In ME1 Liara was way too eager to get it on, and I said no because I wanted to find out more about the Asari before. Who knows what kinky shit her race is into. In ME2 Miranda wanted to get it on just as I was about to do a dangerous mission to save the galaxy, so I was like "WTF woman, priorities"
So yeah, two games down and no sex scene. Anyone else?
Am I the only one with a virgin Shepard? When I play RPGs I get into the actual roleplaying and don't select the good option for the good points and the good trophy, I choose the one that makes more sense to me considering the situation I'm in. So I didn't want to just have a sex scene for the sake of having it. In ME1 Liara was way too eager to get it on, and I said no because I wanted to find out more about the Asari before. Who knows what kinky shit her race is into. In ME2 Miranda wanted to get it on just as I was about to do a dangerous mission to save the galaxy, so I was like "WTF woman, priorities"
So yeah, two games down and no sex scene. Anyone else?
shinobi602
Member
Yea I gotta agree with the others here, 20 hours to do everything in either game? On your first playthroughs?
That's nuts.
Lifejumper
Member
Man, I am ready for some reviews to come out...
Knowing what your ME collection is I shudder to think what your ME fanart folder is like.
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
I really don't understand why companies put a hold on reviews until release. As a critical consumer, that spells "very troubled shit" for me and going in blind is not preferable either. As far as avoiding spoilers (reviewers tend to fail avoiding them) I can imagine, but I don't see how this is beneficial for any party involved.
If I were running a reviewing site or outlet, why would I even bother dealing with the company if I cannot publish anything until release day? Simply acquiring the game early would have me beat everyone and potentially make my review the most read... so, why put it on release day?
Just something that bothers me a bit.
@current discussion:
Less dialogue trees might seem like a problem, but then again the first few hours of ME2 were hardly eventful in a moral sense either. Mostly it was just rebuilding shepard, getting a few teammembers and then Horizon. Which is the also the point were you switch to disk 2, if memory of my Xbox360 version serves me right.
The sidequest thing worries me a lot more actually. I am a completionist after all.
Tony Redgrave
Member
HAHAHAHAHA! F*ck yeah, I knew BioWare would let get our revenge on that one.
Psychoward
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Mass Effect 3 |OT| Space Jesus Returns (tag all spoilers)
kthxbai
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Red Blaster
Member
Well Bioware lied about the hi-res textures as well as "the demo has less dialogue than the full game!", of course those crazies are gonna be mad.
Bruce Lee Kicks
Member
ME1, maybe, but ME2, hell no. The only way I would believe that is if you skipped everything; planet scanning, loyalty missions, and assignments.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Hmmmmm.
My ME2 runs always take around 30 hours. But that's because i do every single missions, scan planets when i need minerals, listen to most dialogues without skipping anything and sometimes read planet descriptions just "because". And that's with normal difficulty!
I dunno what people are skipping for doing it in less than 20.
I dunno what people are skipping for doing it in less than 20.
Fimbulvetr
Member
shinobi602
Member
EmCeeGramr please no more...
I do, but it was an accident. I chose the wrong dialogue option and cut off my romance with Garrus in ME2.M y only other save was 15 hours earlier and I had everything else perfect.
Didn't care for the romance options in 1. I had gotten them before but when I switched over to the PS3 version I just chose neither during the comic.
Garrus and femshep will be getting together in ME3 though, as long as it's possible. I chose femshep's love interests based off of who deserves to get laid most in the crew and that's Garrus.
Agreed. Not sure what everyone else seems to know but I don't want to know any more.
No, you are confusing two things here. I said that Ive not gone beyond 20 hours with either game, and that Ive done a do-everything run under 20 hours. I did not say I did a sub 20 hour, do everything run on my first playthrough.
no shit right?
2 is a shorter game if you don't do a lot of planet scanning.
My recent full completion run took me 22 hours and that's with Kasumi, Zaeed, Shadow Broker, Hammerhead, Normandy and Arrival DLCs. My imported ME1 character had all the elements and level 60 so I started with like 50,000 of each element in 2. That ends up paying for a lot of stuff and eliminates probably a couple of hours of scanning.
I should note that my sub 20 hour do-everything runs don't include DLC. Solo don't play that game.
Fimbulvetr
Member
Tony Redgrave said:
EmCee suggested the opposite, actually.
I was honestly not expecting such blatant lying from their part, the high res thing was incredible, going as far as to state on reddit (more than once) that the game would have higher res textures.
Also, claiming that the demo was an earlier incomplete build... seriously *sigh*
Cpt.Underpants
Member
Though its still the 5th of March here in the Uk
Im out
See you all in the 9th
Im out
See you all in the 9th
BabeSlayer
Member
The ANN tweets are putting me into a fever pitch of excitement...so ready to get after the reapers...
WrenchNinja
Member
I forget which moment this is.
Mr Scrufff
Neo Member
Alright I'm about 14 hours in and I can confirm that the dialogue does get better. Through the first few hours I was getting a little worried. The introduction is not too good, it feels rushed with bad dialogue, and the next two missions don't get much
better. They only give you two dialogue options in situations where you should have more. I felt the first 4 hours just kinda seemed like a Micheal Bay movie and I was getting a little worried that Mass Effect 3 was gonna end up like gears of war. But
DO NOT PANIC the dialogue does in fact get much better particularly after you start to recruit crew members.
After the first initial missions and after you get to explore the Citadel and start some side missions the game starts to feel like good ole Mass Effect again. The weapon customization and upgrade system is awesome, feels alot like ME1. I think they did a good job again at polishing the combat and cover system, and the skill point system is definitely better than ME2, but still not amazing. Most of the technical things they changed/added I really cannot complain about.
Overall I think they did a great job at combining the good parts of ME1 and ME2. You have to take the game for what it is, and its really good. It may not be your typical in-depth, spreadsheet type RPG, but so far I am liking this better than ME2 and am really enjoying it. It is definitely a quality game you just have to let go of your strict definitions of Shooter and RPG and just enjoy the last episode of a trilogy that the gaming community won't soon forget.
better. They only give you two dialogue options in situations where you should have more. I felt the first 4 hours just kinda seemed like a Micheal Bay movie and I was getting a little worried that Mass Effect 3 was gonna end up like gears of war. But
DO NOT PANIC the dialogue does in fact get much better particularly after you start to recruit crew members.
After the first initial missions and after you get to explore the Citadel and start some side missions the game starts to feel like good ole Mass Effect again. The weapon customization and upgrade system is awesome, feels alot like ME1. I think they did a good job again at polishing the combat and cover system, and the skill point system is definitely better than ME2, but still not amazing. Most of the technical things they changed/added I really cannot complain about.
Overall I think they did a great job at combining the good parts of ME1 and ME2. You have to take the game for what it is, and its really good. It may not be your typical in-depth, spreadsheet type RPG, but so far I am liking this better than ME2 and am really enjoying it. It is definitely a quality game you just have to let go of your strict definitions of Shooter and RPG and just enjoy the last episode of a trilogy that the gaming community won't soon forget.
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Freeza Under The Shower
Member
Shepard's recent purchases:
Asari confessions: True Blue 27.
But what cutscene did you get before the Collector Suicide mission?
shinobi602
Member
Ok sounds good to me.