so for sake of discussion before I buy this game, how’s it compare to ME2? I honestly don’t even remember anything about ME1 lol, so I won’t bring that up. Any gripes? As long as that mining thing on other planets from ME2 is gone, I think I’ll be happy, lol.
[quote]Stern wrote:
I can’t seem to get a clear answer on this guy’s - but is the multiplayer 4 person only? Mrs Stern and I were considering this for Co-op, but we generally like to exclude randoms. WOuld be great if we could play it 2 person co-op…
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I haven’t attempted the multiplayer yet but what I know so far is there isn’t any offline co-op option.
It’s a big shame since some people may not have enough bandwidth for online gaming and would rather play with relatives/friends under the same roof.
[quote]Stern wrote:
I can’t seem to get a clear answer on this guy’s - but is the multiplayer 4 person only? Mrs Stern and I were considering this for Co-op, but we generally like to exclude randoms. WOuld be great if we could play it 2 person co-op…
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Its 4 players but I think you can just go ahead with two people if you start it early enough…
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
so for sake of discussion before I buy this game, how’s it compare to ME2? I honestly don’t even remember anything about ME1 lol, so I won’t bring that up. Any gripes? As long as that mining thing on other planets from ME2 is gone, I think I’ll be happy, lol.[/quote]
I like ME2 better and look forward to doing another playthrough of ME2 and ME3. I have the comic where you can make the decisions in ME1 so I’m not worried about that.
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
God I hate phantoms. [/quote]
Annoying ninjas aren’t they?
Just like me…
Ehehehe…
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Adrenalin Rush + Gun Fu = Dead Banshee.
I keep going back to the soldier type, backed up by biotics. I don’t enable the squadmates to auto cast powers, so I am constantly pausing - having Liara and Garrus wreck shit - then unloading on it.
Regards,
Robert A
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
They don’t come back in ME3.
And damn, I hate Banshees. The hardest foes I ever had to deal with. It took me about an hour to finish that simple freaking mission at the Asari monastery, 'cos them bitches kept on killing me. After completing it, I threw my controller against the wall in a victorious rage and swore that I’d never play ME3 again.
I haven’t played it for the past five days now. I know I’m missing on the awesome but I still need more time to recover…
Great game. I still Love it. Can get quite addictive if you ain’t too careful.[/quote]
I have been out of town and then got surgery yesterday just realized it was released last week, dont even know if I can play after surgery to my wrist.
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Got it on both, just to check on the PS3 image quality.
Started playing on the Xbox though.
What happened to your wrist? Hope your recovery is going smoothly.
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Had a ganglion cyst removed that I have had for past 15 years.
Picked it up yesterday on PS3, played a couple of hours, kind of hard with the brace on feels weird. [/quote]
I hope you make a speedy recovery.
Regards,
Robert A
^ Thanks
[quote]steadfastred wrote:
I’m going to give you some impressions of the ending (having played through ME1 and 2 numerous times).
Some spoilers (generalities) so don’t read my post until you’ve beaten the game.
SPOILER ALERT
It sucks and is a complete failure. A real shame that the last 10 minutes ruin 100’s of hours of epic gaming. There is no closure. This reviewer put it better than I could http://www.gamefront.com/mass-effect-3-ending-hatred-5-reasons-the-fans-are-right/
Suffice it to say, the choices you make over the course of three games matter not. The ending will be slightly different but its basically a copy of Dues Ex Machina or the Matrix. It doesn’t fit the game at all. And then we don’t find out what happens to everyone else after the big battle. I’m as big as a ME fan you’ll find, I love sci-fi and these games are excellent - but wow did that ending just completely fail.
I get that the whole Citadel scene could be a battle against indoctrination, but this is never explained and just an internet theory. It would also mean we’ll have to pay for DLC to explain what the f happened.[/quote]
That was a very well written article. I am probably going to wind up agreeing.
I am hoping for a DLC like Broken Steel for Fallout 3 that fixes the damn ending.
Regards,
Robert A
[quote]Robert A wrote:
I don’t enable the squadmates to auto cast powers, so I am constantly pausing - having Liara and Garrus wreck shit - then unloading on it.
Regards,
Robert A
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Yup. That’s what I’d been doing too. It can get tiresome but it’s worth it in the end.
I am only about 20 hours in, but I just read horrible headline, after horror story, after parodied example of the ending.
The ending seems to be getting slammed in just about every corner of the internet.
I am not too excited to finish.
Yeap I’ve been told that the endings is a disappointing sack of balls.
I’ve been avoiding all the spoilers like plague. I even saw a headline about how to get a better ending. I still have no idea what the hell is going on though. I want to enjoy this game without worrying about the ending.
50+ hours of gaming + crap ending = Fuck you Bioware.
I bought it, played for about 30 mins, then my computer shut down from blue screen of death. hahaha. gay.
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
Yeap I’ve been told that the endings is a disappointing sack of balls.
I’ve been avoiding all the spoilers like plague. I even saw a headline about how to get a better ending. I still have no idea what the hell is going on though. I want to enjoy this game without worrying about the ending.
50+ hours of gaming + crap ending = Fuck you Bioware.
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I think it’s probably more EAs fault. They fuck up everything they touch.
It’s a miracle BF3 is as polished a game as it is.
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
I am only about 20 hours in, but I just read horrible headline, after horror story, after parodied example of the ending.
The ending seems to be getting slammed in just about every corner of the internet.
I am not too excited to finish.
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I dusted of my xbox and got the game when it came out and just recently finished it. Awesome game and series. The story rivals anything in the science fiction genre in any medium. Movie, book, whatever. IMO, the ending does not come close to ruining the game or the series.
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
I bought it, played for about 30 mins, then my computer shut down from blue screen of death. hahaha. gay.[/quote]
Lol!
Are you feeling any withdrawal symptoms yet?
By the way what was the issue with your pc?
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
I bought it, played for about 30 mins, then my computer shut down from blue screen of death. hahaha. gay.[/quote]
Lol!
Are you feeling any withdrawal symptoms yet?
By the way what was the issue with your pc?
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I’m already addicted to Counter-Strike so I play that shit all the time. but it’s probably the defective fourth core I unlocked on my cpu recently, since the CPU temp seems to be running cool.
Thanks for the advice DarkNinjaa & Robert A., I started with ME2 beat it yesterday and it was one of the best games ive played in a long time. just kinda sad that i lost miranda… 
started ME3 tonight only 30mins in and im already impressed i love the new controls shepard is so much faster all most feels like gears of war.
Finished my first playthrough as my renegade shep last night, just breezed through it on casual in about 22ish hours, I think. First things first, I always want to really experience the story, and not have to worry about dying every time I pop out of cover for more than a half second; I’ll ramp up the difficulty later. Well, maybe.
Going to try to keep this spoiler free . . .
Thoroughly enjoyed the journey. The story, the atmosphere, the characters, the choices you were forced to make, I thought was all incredibly well done. Several choices/scenes really had a huge emotional impact to them, and I loved seeing so many of the characters my Shepard has forged relationships with over the course of 100’s of hours spent in the first two installments have a part to play in this game, however small. But the ending may have killed it for me. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still an exceptional game. But when I finished ME1, as those credits were rolling, I couldn’t wait to start up an entirely new game with a different character, to see how the game played out with a different moral perspective and a different skill set, and was ready to experience the journey all over again. Same thing with ME2 (coupled with an urge to find a way to ensure my entire squad survived to see the end of the game). I just didn’t have that with ME3. Which leaves me in the odd position of, after 100’s of hours spent on this incredible franchise and losing myself in this world and the characters I’ve created, being disappointed with the end result of the experience due to the last 10-15 minutes. And that’s a damn shame.
Not to mention I’m a little pissed the face I created for my Shepard in ME1 and carried over to ME2 somehow wouldn’t load into ME3, forcing me to try to recreate it, failing miserably and being stuck with a weird looking Shepard all game. And my From Ashes DLC glitched or something and I never got to play it (was so wrapped up in the game I didn’t realize this until I got to the end and thought “Hey, where’s my Prothean?!?!?!”).
If you’ve played through mass effect 3, watch this for some laughs.
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
I bought it, played for about 30 mins, then my computer shut down from blue screen of death. hahaha. gay.[/quote]
Lol!
Are you feeling any withdrawal symptoms yet?
By the way what was the issue with your pc?
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but it’s probably the defective fourth core I unlocked on my cpu recently, since the CPU temp seems to be running cool.[/quote]
Hahaha! You’re one of them guys, eh?
How many cores did your CPU come with?
Hope you’ve managed to fix the prob.