Mass Effect 3

Zero-Cool · 24-03-2012 11:34pm

Just missing 4 trophies, the 2 insanity ones, gun upgrade and 5000 kills. Gonna start insanity tonight. Anyone play through that yet? Is it just as fun as it was in me 2

degrassinoel · 25-03-2012 11:26am

Lame Lantern wrote: »

Anyone doing any MP this weekend? Dunno how boards.ie organises its live community but wouldn't mind getting some silvers done with capable folks.

yep, just add me, sprucelee76

Theres a few of us playing here and there, just send a whisper or an invite

cloud493 · 25-03-2012 1:01pm

I am enjoying the game

not the best game I've ever seen run on the PS3, but still good.

Varik · 25-03-2012 2:18pm

degrassinoel wrote: »

yep, just add me, sprucelee76

Theres a few of us playing here and there, just send a whisper or an invite

Is there a way to know if someone is playing MP or SP through Origin, every time i see someone playing ME3 i assume is SP and don't want to bother them.

cloud493 · 25-03-2012 2:19pm

Holy ****, Jessica Chobot is in this game

25-03-2012 3:04pm

I loved the codex update just after you romanced her "Desperate Measures"

Zillah · 25-03-2012 3:07pm

cloud493 wrote: »

Holy ****, Jessica Chobot is in this game

And she is horrible and annoying.

KilOit · 25-03-2012 6:30pm

Zillah wrote: »

And she is horrible and annoying.

She seems completely out of place

Kirby · 25-03-2012 6:33pm

I realise she was a fan and it's good business for IGN and EA alike, but it was a bad idea and they shouldn't have done it.

The problem is....she can't act. Her voice is so leaden and dead-pan. It's very distracting.

Zero-Cool · 25-03-2012 6:53pm

agreed, just met her on my renegade run through but see there is no 'eagle punch' button so just had to settle for refusing her to board my ship.

G.J. · 25-03-2012 7:26pm

Ugh, that character was horrible, I've never cared less about a character in the Mass Effect series. Going to talk to her was a chore more than anything.

Why couldn't we chuck her out the airlock?

cloud493 · 25-03-2012 7:30pm

I thought it was rocking y'know :pac:

Lordhogo · 25-03-2012 9:44pm

Not as decent the ones he makes for Oblivion but I thought it was still funny.

Josey Wales · 25-03-2012 10:20pm

I've just gotten to a point in the story where I feel I have to stop and play the multiplayer to get my Galactic Readiness rating up. I'm so glad I've been using the iPhone app for the past three days. I've used it increase by 30% without playing the multiplayer. Hopefully it won't take many games to get to 100% or near enough.

degrassinoel · 25-03-2012 10:30pm

Varik wrote: »

Is there a way to know if someone is playing MP or SP through Origin, every time i see someone playing ME3 i assume is SP and don't want to bother them.

not that i'm aware of no

cloud493 · 25-03-2012 11:13pm

Hang about, I've levelled up like, 3 times, but I haven't had any level up points?

degrassinoel · 26-03-2012 12:06am

in single or multiplayer?

cloud493 · 26-03-2012 8:08am

degrassinoel wrote: »

in single or multiplayer?

In single?

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Jester252 · 26-03-2012 8:39am

cloud493 wrote: »

Holy ****, Jessica Chobot is in this game

Anne Doyle would have been better.

Zero-Cool · 26-03-2012 9:10am

Jester252 wrote: »

Anne Doyle would have been better.

Anne Doyle romance scene eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww

gordoz · 26-03-2012 10:08am

God I love this game. Only just started playing and it's addictive as hell

AnCapaillMor · 26-03-2012 10:31am

I must say the multiplayer is surprisingly not bad, its quite enjoyable actually. Playing through again now as a sentinel, never really bothered with powers in the others, just went with soldier and shot everything. Feels totally different this time.

Zillah · 26-03-2012 11:10am

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

I must say the multiplayer is surprisingly not bad, its quite enjoyable actually. Playing through again now as a sentinel, never really bothered with powers in the others, just went with soldier and shot everything. Feels totally different this time.

For a truly different play experience, I would suggest a vanguard. Just remember, Biotic Charge regenerates your shields, so unless facing something very tough, like a Banshee or Atlas, you should be charging at every opportunity possible, with liberal Novas in between. I carry nothing but a pistol to ensure the charges can be fired off near constantly. Charged into a group of enemies too tough for you and now you're dying? Just charge into them again and your shields are back! This can work against something like an Atlas but you need to keep circling around it to avoid getting squished. There's also a bug where every now and then Biotic Charge simply will not fire and you die needlessly and it is absolutely infuriating, but that's rare enough.

God vanguards are fun.

Gbear · 26-03-2012 11:27am

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

I must say the multiplayer is surprisingly not bad, its quite enjoyable actually. Playing through again now as a sentinel, never really bothered with powers in the others, just went with soldier and shot everything. Feels totally different this time.

I dunno if it's been mentioned but there's a problem with spending your credits in multiplayer. I forked out 60k on one of the items in the "Store" where you buy your gear, and it took my money and didn't give me anything.

Apparently it's a known issue but they can't give me my credits back (about 2 hours worth of play).

Could be even worse because you can spend your "Bioware points" for those items and lose them aswell and they're actually representative of real money.

It's still fun though. Get a Krogan soldier and you can just run around the place punching anything and everything to death.

AnCapaillMor · 26-03-2012 11:31am

Yeah got that problem but i eventually got the item pack a few games later.

FutureGuy · 26-03-2012 11:39am

cloud493 wrote: »

In single?

So very very true.

noodler · 26-03-2012 1:45pm

Okay, just finished the bit at Pavledin (or whatever you call that moon).

Best bit of the game so far for me - really love the Turians.

Just as a side:

The whole setting I was expecting from the game has completely changed (now bear in mind I am not very far in so no spoilers please!) but we were led to believe that Earth was being hit first and that all other races should help us to help them.

Now you find

the Batarian were annihlated before Earth and the Turians are currently being bombarded to ****!

It was obviously a very clever way to market the game but I feel (ever so slightly) lied to!

cloud493 · 26-03-2012 3:13pm

I'm enjoying it loads more than I intially thought. Biotic powers are mega

Otacon · 26-03-2012 3:33pm

noodler wrote: »

Now you find
the Batarian were annihlated before Earth and the Turians are currently being bombarded to ****!

It was obviously a very clever way to market the game but I feel (ever so slightly) lied to!

That was explained in the Arrival DLC for ME2

Zero-Cool · 26-03-2012 3:35pm

Otacon wrote: »

That was explained in the Arrival DLC for ME2

Ya, Shep's finger slipped and hit a renegade interrupt. He'll tell you the reapers did it tho :rolleyes:

Kiith · 26-03-2012 3:54pm

That was only one system that was destroyed in Arrival. The Reapers wipe them out at a later date. You'd think someone would have heard about the mass extermination of nearly an entire species.

Otacon · 26-03-2012 4:05pm

Kiith wrote: »

That was only one system that was destroyed in Arrival. The Reapers wipe them out at a later date. You'd think someone would have heard about the mass extermination of nearly an entire species.

Didn't the explosion wipe out their entire homeworld though?

Zillah · 26-03-2012 4:14pm

Otacon wrote: »

Didn't the explosion wipe out their entire homeworld though?

It was a colony, not their homeworld.

I would imagine that the timeline goes something like this:
- Reapers appear in Batarian space, attack homeworld.
- After a day 90% of the Reapers move on and start blowing up their next targets, leaving the rest to holocaust the Batarians.
- Day 2, the Reapers arrive at Earth.
- Day 3, Palaven.
- Day 6, Thessia.
etc.

Just a vague impression from playing it.

Kiith · 26-03-2012 4:24pm

And then the Reapers stopped doing anything on Earth while i went around finding Artifacts for random people on the Citadel. Which was nice of them.

Zillah · 26-03-2012 4:45pm

Kiith wrote: »

And then the Reapers stopped doing anything on Earth while i went around finding Artifacts for random people on the Citadel. Which was nice of them.

Uhm, no, they were killing millions of people every single day by abducting them from the surface, herding them into harvester ships and then systemically melting them into goo. Don't you read the codex? There was the equivalent of the holocaust every three days that you delayed attacking Earth.

Kiith · 26-03-2012 5:03pm

I didn't read it...was too busy collecting Artifacts :pac:

No, i knew that. It's just always funny in games like this when, as Anderson puts it, "every minute the reapers are here, more innocent people are dying" and then i go and take as long as possible to actually try and save the world. Taking your time almost never matters.

Zillah · 26-03-2012 5:09pm

Except that one time in Mass Effect 2 where I was like "Time never actually matters in computer games" and then I find my crew all melted.

Kiith · 26-03-2012 6:08pm

Zillah wrote: »

Except that one time in Mass Effect 2 where I was like "Time never actually matters in computer games" and then I find my crew all melted.

Oh yeah...i'd forget about that

Also, Deus Ex: HR and

the hostages that died while i was sneaking through vents in my workplace

. Was a slight bummer when that happened.

Josey Wales · 27-03-2012 9:00am

I was playing ME3 last night and I'm pretty sure I'm near the end of the game. I stopped for a while to play some multiplayer to get my GR rating up to 100% and jumped back into the story. I had just fought my way through

the Cerberus station

and was about to enter the door at what I guessed was the end of the mission.

So I pressed the button to open the door and the game moves into a cut-scene and is autosaving. Then my PS3 froze up. Nothing was responding, not even the PS button so I had no option but to power it down. The PS3 didn't like that and when it came back on it had to check the integrity of the HDD. I was worried that my save file would have gotten corrupted. It felt like a very long wait while the counter slowly went from 0-100%.

I started up ME3 again and thankfully the save was still intact. I was nervous going through that door again but it worked fine the second time. This all happened late at night and delayed me going to be by nearly an hour. My wife wasn't too happy but I could hardly go to work all day today wondering if my save file was gone

AnCapaillMor · 27-03-2012 9:07am

Yeah thats happened to me a few times on the PS3 with ME3. Although it only took about 5 mins to scan the disk.

Zero-Cool · 27-03-2012 9:13am

Ya mine froze the other night on my insanity run. That integrity check sacares the sh*t outta me.

Josey Wales · 27-03-2012 9:26am

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Yeah thats happened to me a few times on the PS3 with ME3. Although it only took about 5 mins to scan the disk.

Yeah, I've had it before and it was quicker the last time. It was much slower last night and at one point it was at 48% for ages. Thought it was dead.

noodler · 27-03-2012 2:40pm

Zillah wrote: »

It was a colony, not their homeworld.

I would imagine that the timeline goes something like this:
- Reapers appear in Batarian space, attack homeworld.
- After a day 90% of the Reapers move on and start blowing up their next targets, leaving the rest to holocaust the Batarians.
- Day 2, the Reapers arrive at Earth.
- Day 3, Palaven.
- Day 6, Thessia.
etc.

Just a vague impression from playing it.

It kinds blows the whole "The Reapers won't stop at Earth..." argument to bits though, doesn't it?

"Eh...they didn't START with Earth Shepard!"

ME3 is a bitch for freezing up the PS3 (not as bad as Fallout but they are the only two games that do it regularly for me). I hate forced resets.

Lordhogo · 27-03-2012 7:23pm

Started my insanity playthrough today and so far it seems easy enough though I know that last mission is gonna be a b****. Anyway how are others finding it and does it get a lot harder farther in.

imitation · 27-03-2012 10:46pm

Kirby wrote: »

I realise she was a fan and it's good business for IGN and EA alike, but it was a bad idea and they shouldn't have done it.

The problem is....she can't act. Her voice is so leaden and dead-pan. It's very distracting.

Not to mention the way Diana Allers dresses you'd think she was rejected from Jersey shore

Zero-Cool · 27-03-2012 11:14pm

Just heading to Palaven (sp) in insanity, not too bad so far but I have yet to fight a Brute or Banshee so we'll see.

What is everyones favoutite AR? I'm using the geth pulse rifle, is there a better one?

Clover · 27-03-2012 11:48pm

Just got my Mass Effect 3 plat tonight

and I found this game to be much easier on Insanity than Mass Effect 2.Also had the system lock up when I was leaving multiplayer tonight ( has done that a few times in the last few days ) .

Zero-Cool · 27-03-2012 11:52pm

Clover wrote: »

Just got my Mass Effect 3 plat tonight and I found this game to be much easier on Insanity than Mass Effect 2.Also had the system lock up when I was leaving multiplayer tonight ( has done that a few times in the last few days ) .

Congrats Clover!

Clover · 28-03-2012 12:01am

Thanks sheehy , enjoyed the two play-throughs , used the Phaeston alot and then added the M-98 Widow towards the end for some extra punch.

Kirby · 28-03-2012 3:19am

The Geth rifle does more damage but I didn't use it as it just feels off. I liked the feel of the phaeston even though it's not as good.

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