Mass Effect 3

[Tarage]

Holy shit @ Tali. They better show her without her mask this time damn it. Like as in so we can all see her square on, not on a glared picture.

Glared is all you get, unless you want

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cracked helmet suicide

mode.

[Tyrath]

EDI is fucking hilarious. Her dialogues with people are so good.

[Brill Weave]

Well that sucks.

[BadKarma]

Well that sucks.

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[Brill Weave]

Leave me alone!

[BadKarma]

Kalros vs Reaper. So epic.

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Mordin. You were one of the greatest characters in video games, its been an honor serving with you''



Good night, sweet prince.

[Uzor]

So yeah, Tali is hot

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http://i43.tinypic.com/2n6zrso.jpg

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That's what she looks like under the helmet?

She is hot.

[Arelian]

So, uh... about Tali?

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[Insanecyclone]

So, uh... about Tali?

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[BadKarma]

Your point is.

[Insanecyclone]

http://gamepolitics.com/2012/03/06/m...-participation


Mass Effect 3's Ending Tied to Forced Multiplayer Participation

According to PC Gamer, you'll get a pretty lousy ending if you don't play multiplayer in Mass effect 3. Apparently BioWare decided that the best way to "encourage" co-op play in the game was to tie it to the single-player ending. As the player engages in a war with the Reapers, he or she earns what the game calls "War Assets" and "Readiness."

You accumulate these War Assets from a culmination of sources, but the most prominent are the decisions you've made in the previous games and the ones you make in this one. Basically War Assets are the people and armies whose help you earn. PC Gamer has a bit more detail on the complexities of this system, but the end of it is that the way BioWare designed the game is questionable. Not everyone wants to play the four-player cooperative mode, and yet the game punishes you for not doing so by giving you an ending that is less than inspirational.

Some have suggested that BioWare did this because of piracy in that pirated versions of games don't tend to use online play at all because users are easily identified as having and using a pirated version of the game. Some pirated releases often strip out or disable multiplayer altogether.

Here's some of what PC Gamer's Tom Francis says:

"I did every proper quest I could find in Mass Effect 3, made sensible decisions that didn’t conflict with my choices in the previous games, and brought people together. But I still got a gallingly bleak ending.

That’s because I’d never played the multiplayer. It’s a co-op mode where you and up to three other players have to survive waves of AI enemies and complete objectives. If you succeed, you get an increase to your Readiness rating – a percentage by which your single player War Assets are multiplied by. These are specific to each sector of the galaxy, so if you have a lot of War Assets in the Terminus Systems, you’ll gain more by playing on a multiplayer map set in the Terminus Systems.

It’s all rather… dirty. Presumably they’re trying to encourage you to try the multiplayer because to do well in it, you have to buy or earn unlockable items, and you can get these for real money. But they’re doing it by hurting your single player game, slapping a good playthrough with a bad ending as a penalty for not playing co-op. Even if you like co-op, it’s not unreasonable to want to play through the single player first."

You can read the whole thing here.

[Noobta]

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Don't forget this

Tali spoilers

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[Rulke]

Chiming in: Have the PC version, no problems with any ME2 imports, all faces are good to go, all save files easy to see and access.

@Insanecyclone: If this is true, what a pile of BS. Many times BW said that players could receive the "optimal" ending without any mutliplayer. Perhaps Tom Francis didn't do as well as he thought he did? I'm sure more will come to surface in the coming days.

Lastly: Wtf happened to the whole "Sheppard is on Earth and on trial?" I guess I missed the part where somehow that all became "happened before the game".

[Insanecyclone]

That may have been in the "old script".

[Souj]

@Insanecyclone: If this is true, what a pile of BS. Many times BW said that players could receive the "optimal" ending without any mutliplayer. Perhaps Tom Francis didn't do as well as he thought he did? I'm sure more will come to surface in the coming days.

They also said there was going to be an RPG, Story, and Action mode that changes the way the game played. And that was like less than a month ago they were still saying that. Then game came out with none of that and they didnt say anything?

[Galkaeater]

So, uh... about Tali?

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Big fucking deal
game developers use stock images and photos from places like CG textures all the time
And theres nothing wrong with it
Lemme guess the internets turning it self inside out over this like it discovered some big art scam
I would expect no less from ignorant plebs

[Insanecyclone]

The mystery surrounding Tali's face was one the main things the people were wanting. And to have it all be a stock image is rage inducing for the Tali faithful out there.

[Kyo]

They also said there was going to be an RPG, Story, and Action mode that changes the way the game played. And that was like less than a month ago they were still saying that. Then game came out with none of that and they didnt say anything?

Those options are in place for new games, not imported characters from what I have seen.

[jmc]

Amazon has all of the cc declined copies in stock again too, CE for all platforms atm.

Thanks for posting this..... grabbed a PS3 CE earlier.

[Rulke]

So I've decided not to nerd rage if it turns out that even the "good endings" aren't all that um.. good. I can't commit myself to looking at spoilers but I keep getting a baaad vibe about endings; good, bad or otherwise. I'll have to hold back the reigns of my desire to have the "American dream" ending with everything being flowers and puppies.