Not to get too nitpicky, but ME1 didn't have dice roll aiming. I only say this because I see a lot of people talking about "Mass Effect's dice roll combat," but it's just not true. If a target was in your crosshairs, you'd hit it, end of story. There was no RNG to determine whether you actually hit it or not, like there was in Morrowind, for example. I'd like this misconception to die.
Mass Effect's art wasn't completely shiny and optimistic. I think it was more about grandeur than optimism. Even the run-down parts of ME1 were sprawling and majestic.
I'm not saying otherwise. I'm saying that if your target took up the entirety of your reticule (i.e., if every part of your reticule overlapped with the target), you were guaranteed to hit it. The paths of a bullet were random, but only within the reticule. This is not like true dice-roll aiming, where, even if you were literally inches from a target, whether or not you hit it was determined by a dice roll.
I'm fine with having a limited inventory... it just has to make sense in terms of the context and what it adds to the game and for ME1, that boiled down to "tons of useless shit you can sell for money that people with four gun slots on their armor somehow stuff into hammerspace." Having an old school inventory added nothing to the overall design of ME1 besides tedious menus and redundant items that should've been automatically replaced when you got the higher level versions (ME3 style). I get the whole appeal of managing an inventory, but when the player character and squadmates only have four/five slots for guns, I don't think the usual rules of inventory systems apply and something different needs to be used.
I miss the neon colors and metallic flares so bad. It used to be all over that sleek looking game. That was part of the vision and they killed it because of that standard shooter appeal.
The three biggest wild omissions. I don't know how they thought it was a good move to throw these away. Clearly they have some sense of their mistake because the ambition of the first game deserved improvement.
I miss the neon colors and metallic flares so bad. It used to be all over that sleek looking game. That was part of the vision and they killed it because of that standard shooter appeal.
The three biggest wild omissions. I don't know how they thought it was a good move to throw these away. Clearly they have some sense of their mistake because the ambition of the first game deserved improvement.
The closest they ever came to matching that colorful sci-fi look was with the Silversun Strip in Mass Effect 3. It made most of the other locations (ME1 included) look like a dead lifeless closet.
Requisition quests are totally skippable (I did almost none of them) with few consequences (i.e. power points). And they are finite. The map does not automatically tell you where all quest givers are as you first have to explore the area and get within the range of the quest itself. And some quests only appear via dialogue options and can be missed otherwise.
Again, I'm all for refinement, which the inventory system clearly needed. But instead of refinements, BioWare threw the baby out with the bathwater.
My money's on that.
Yeah, I know they're probably just excited, but the end result is (inadvertent?) massive and brutal trolling to those of us sitting here overflowing with anticipation. It's really obnoxious.
They better show it at E3 with a Q4 2015 release after all these infuriating teases
Nah.They better show it at E3 with a Q4 2015 release after all these infuriating teases
That's too short. Hopefully people are right that they'll do a Game Informer reveal in Spring and then repeat the release dates again too by releasing Q1 2016.They better show it at E3 with a Q4 2015 release after all these infuriating teases
