Mass Effect 3

How Epic is this!!!!

EA will be attaching copies of ME3 to weather baloons and launching them into space a week before the official launch. They will have a GPS tracker which fans can track through masseffect.com and if you find one when it lands, you get a free copy a week early. That is crazy marketing haha

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2012/02/mass-effect-3-becomes-true-space-oddity-/1#.Tz1ni1xOjxb

Publisher Electronic Arts will be launching copies of the game into space using weather balloons that will be released in New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Berlin, London and Paris.

Blatant, there is a hella good chance of them landing in the ocean but I'll have my dinghy ready if the winds carry the London one off course a bit

Freeze ya, IGN really are the last people I listen to about games. I really can't see myself playing it tho when I will be trying to cover every inch of SP.

If i got one unless it's for PC i would throw it on ebay and make a killing .. if they do land in the ocean i bet their would be some fool willing to go swimming for it lol..

Very underwhelmed by the Demo also (PS3)

Not bad for a 3rd person shooter. Played a bit of multiplayer, seemed easy enough, although the maps seemed very small, and what's with only a 4 person squad? Played the single-player a bit, and the cut-scenes were a tad bit too long but meh; the storyline was predictable but I've seen worse (Duke's storyline was better).

Does it get better, I wonder?

What are we meant to be taking back? seems earths already got its **** ruined and most the populations been turned into husks or i guess liquefied to be new reapers not a huge motivation

TAKE BACK EARTH! well the quarter mile of it not currently utterly ruined a

Man, epic trailer!!

funky penguin wrote: »

Why oh why does Ashley look NOTHING like she did in ME1 or 2?

pixelburp wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that's not a regulation haircut.

I think they trying to make her look as good as Miranda, by making her look exactly slightly like Miranda.

Judging by this pre-release buzz with has practically no Miranda in it, I thought she was a great character, will be disappoint if she has been reduced to a cameo.

Can't it be both?, and don't forget that rack either!

Mitch Connor wrote: »

i'm hoping Miranda has a big part to play in it....

Lets hope so....

They seem to be going back to the ME1 squad with this game, leaving out the ME2 gang.

I remember when I started ME2, I just wanted my old squad back. So it was great to finally meet Garrus when playing ME2 then.

I will definitely be leaving Freddy Prince Jnr on the bench anyways in ME3.

Anyone else think Billy the Serial Killer is gonna make an appearance in ME 3? Really hope there is a side mission based around him.

Deleted User wrote: »

Was that Ashley? I thought it was Miranda.

When Ashley made her brief appearance in the Demo, I was there, Oh new female character, no its Miranda, no its Ashley, no its Mir.................oh it is Ashley, serious makeover since 2.

Deleted User wrote: »

I hope the Rachni make an appearance in Mass Effect 3 - possibly coming to your aid against the Reapers.

If you kept them alive in Mass Effect 1 I don't see why not.

whats the story with the origin(pc) europe release date? is it actually the 6th for digi versions or is it the 9th with everyone else?

Full length trailer, even more epic!

Great :rolleyes: more day one DLC BS. This is an entertainment medium NOT a product like a car for example,Bioware if your looking for good reviews and not seem like stingy money grabbing A-holes your cant expect to release a "base model" version of your game. You wouldnt get away with this **** with movies, could you imagine cutting out 20 mins of a movie and asking people to pay more for the full version in the cinema? You'd never get the idea off the bleeding ground. In movies I understand we will see parts cut from the cinema release for pacing and content purposes but at best then what does this say for the content that was developed yet cut? That its sub par and wasnt worthy of the final product.... and thats portraying the developers / publishers in the best light possible. We all know that they wouldnt cut this content for pacing purposes if that was the case they wouldnt have spent the man hours making the content in the first place.

I can understand DLC released a few months after release as a means of revenue generation and adding to an experience but day 1 DLC basically says we had enough staff and resources to complete this and have it in the game as part of an overall richer experience but we decided to cut it out and sell it separately in order to grab more cash. You cant justify day one DLC as content that woudnt have made a release deadline.... it is quite plainly a means to remove non essential content from a game in order to cut down the experience to make more money.

I love racing games but I simply refused to buy Forza for pulling this BS and I am seriously considering bypassing ME3 because of this. The whole thing reeks of cash grab. Politely Bioware and EA.... go fist yourselves, go fist yourselves all the way up to the elbow.


I really hope companies like Nintendo , MS and Sony man up someday and enforce a min period time frame on DLC for games released on their platforms. For example DLC can only be released a month after a games launch. Its in their own best interest as people getting a game on their platform can then be assured that the content wasnt cut in anyway in order to rake more cash.

Nody wrote: »

Don't like day 1 DLCs? Wait for the GOTY edition. You don't HAVE to play a game on release day and it is all the people buying it on day 1 that drives the day 1 DLC attitude as well (have to recover maximum profit in first month).

No we dont HAVE to play it release day, we would like to play it release day and the developers would like us to also. The problem is we would like to play an unabridged version , one that refelcts the top effort of the developers where as the developers clearly want us to play day 1 but also want to charge 75eur for this unabridged version.

"recover maximum profit" - Lets call it by its real name shall we.... cash gouge.

Kiith wrote: »

Isn't this day 1 dlc just a reward for the buying the collectors edition? Doesn't seem to bad to me. It's €65 for the digital deluxe on Gamestop, which is reasonable enough for what you get.

The issue is that similar content was available via the Cerberus Network in Mass Effect 2 which was free for those who pre-ordered it / bought it new. Now it's only included in the higher priced collectors edition.

gizmo wrote: »

Yea, when I finished my first playthrough of Mass Effect 2 after around 40 hours of play the first thing I did was curse those money gouging Bioware *****. :pac:


It's perfectly easy to justify it if you have any idea of how a game goes through the planning, budgeting and development process. What would have happened here is that a design for the game would have been drawn up which would have included content made specifically for DLC. The development time would then have been scheduled and budgeted for and this would have included said content for DLC. If that time and money wasn't allowed for the DLC then it simply would not have been created. Are you suggesting that this content should have been included in the game in the first place? Is 20-40 hours of gameplay and content not enough?

As for the rest of your post, it's pretty much dealt with by the above. Ignorance simply isn't an excuse to spew that kind of bile at companies. They're by no means perfect (far from it in fact) but if you're going to criticise them for something then try and do it for something they've actually done wrong.

In the context of Mass Effect 3, I was incredibly disappointed to find that the extra character and missions weren't pre-order bonuses anymore. As Overheal said in another thread it's this kind of gesture which rewards fans who actually go out and buy the game new and as such, certainly shouldn't be withheld for inclusion in a frankly overpriced CE bundle.

What Im saying is that the developer had the option to use 100% of its recources to making the best experience possible for your 60eur but instead they dedicated a portion of their recources away from the game and into an excersize for cash grabbing....day 1 DLC.

Yes 20-40 hours is reasonible imo but what gets me is that the game COULD have been 40 -50 hours and far richer in terms of content had the developer decided to dedicate all their attention to the overall game rather than devoting some of that to day 1 dlc cash cows. Had this DLC been released a month after release I would understand it as a way to increase the replayability of the title but day 1 DLC is attention deprived from the game dev process in order to get more money.

It feels like watching the dark knight in the cinema and finding they removed scenes not essential to the overall story and those scenes focused on charecter development in order to get you to buy a more expensive ticket to see that content - Non essential content but this was not added in order to increase the price.


I'd alomost be happier they stopped chopping bits off games and tryng to hock them as day 1 DLC in order to bump the price... just make the best game possible with 100% of the developers resourses and charge an increased price if they feel its justified.