Mass Effect 3

[brettheaslewood]

whats average play time? for 1/2 ?

never played the games, dunno why they look soo good!
will i need to have played the first two to understand the 3rd d'ya recon ?

obviously a series is better from the start, but don't wanna buy all 3 straight up...

[Electric_Head]

2 was the one

[Reese_Liar]

whats average play time? for 1/2 ?

never played the games, dunno why they look soo good!
will i need to have played the first two to understand the 3rd d'ya recon ?

obviously a series is better from the start, but don't wanna buy all 3 straight up...

I'd guess maybe 20-30 play hours for each game, depending on how many side missions etc you want to complete. It's definitely worth it to start from 1, since importing your character and watching the impact of your decisions is a big part of the appeal

You can get the first two for something like 30€ combined, so it shouldn't be that big of a hit on your wallet. Trust me, you won't regret it

[JBoy]

I thought both were great, preffered the exploration in the first one, prefer the combat in the second one although it feels like gears of war at times. I found the whole storyline quite fascinating.

[Gewze]

loved 2, had it on xbox so no character importing for me
demo not on ps3 yet

[meanmrcustard]

All over this when it comes out. I barely play computer games anymore (bar a quick Fifa here and there), I have tons of no doubt great games that I've played for an hour or so and then never come back to (off the top of my head: Red Dead Redemption, Mario Galaxy 2, Dead Rain, Bioshock 2, the newest Fable) but Mass Effect is one of the few games that has managed to keep my attention all the way through over the last few years.

[Dead Rats]

I hope you all stayed faithfull to ashley haha.

Can't stay faithful to a corpse

[kruptah]

I just beat Mass Effect 2. Hadn't touched it since last spring. Feel good to finish it. There's too many unfinished games in my tv stand that I need to beat.

[Reese_Liar]

I hope you all stayed faithfull to ashley haha.

Can't stay faithful to a corpse

[Devry_Kaneda]

MASS EFFECT 2 WAS LIKE A QUARTER AS GOOD AS THE FIRST ONE.

[Devry_Kaneda]

^ yes, the armor/weapons choices were overwhelming. that was awesome. yes, the storyline wasn't so fucking linear. that was a good thing. yes, the side missions didn't serve the singular purpose of advancing all your companion's storylines. i didn't give a shit about my companions backgrounds. yes, all the planets were the same, albeit with a different color of terrain pasted over. that was alright because driving the mako was fucking rad.

[Reese_Liar]

God, I fucking hated the Mako. The controls and response, at least on Xbox, were so awful. Spent so many hours driving around on various planets trying to overcome simple obstacles while looking for stuff.
It's a shame they got completely rid of it in 2 though, they could have found a better middle ground - like the Firewalker DLC pack if only it had been integrated in the core game.

[Devry_Kaneda]

the jumpjet was so fucking awesome.
the driving sections where you had to break through defenses were always class. only complaint was that the targeting system was terrible.

mass effect 2 - to steal a page from yahtzee, chesthighwalls seriously invaded/ destroyed the free-for-all aspect of the original game's combat system.

honestly, it was just crouching behind a chesthighwall and popping off your enemies from a range conducive to the range of your weapon.

[Devry_Kaneda]

AND DONT GET ME STARTED ABOUT HOW THEY BASICALLY COMPLETELY NIXED THE WEAPON CUSTOMIZATION SHIT.

it's like gamers want the game to be played for them. and I'm not from the generation that grew up on fucking hard games or anything, but at a certain point it just seems playing a game where it seems like a majority of the decisions are made for you/you're lead through the game, holding the game developer's fucking hand.

[Devry_Kaneda]

I said seems twice in one sentence.

[kruptah]

I said seems twice in one sentence.

omgz


eeeeeedit dat shiet son

[Reese_Liar]

I agree that was a problem a lot of the time in ME2, it's like they went too far in the other direction trying to streamline everything and ended up making things way too linear. Combat in itself was way more responsive and fluid in 2 though, in my opinion.

Here's to hoping they learned something from both and 3 will be a combination of, and an improvement upon, all the things that made the previous two great.

With regards to weapon customization I also thought they went a little too far backwards in ME2, but I read that the gear/weapon system in 3 will be a lot more like in the first one..

[Devry_Kaneda]

yeah, considering how i felt about the second one, ME3 is not going to be an insta-cop, though I hope it makes some of the improvements I want it to make.

has the potential to be awesome.

though I honestly think the whole "this time, the battle is on earth" is such a fucking cliche. I better see the outside of the known universe in this one. AND I DO NOT WANT TO FIND SOME FORGOTTEN RELIC IN AFRICA.

[Reese_Liar]

We get to visit both the Quarian, Salarian, Asari and Turian homeworlds, plus some of the planets already visited in the previous games, so I'd venture a guess and say it's probably not gonna be based on Earth that much (at least not like Halo)

[Dead Rats]

I basically played through the whole of 1 without knowing the Mako could fire rockets. I was complaining of the difficulty, trying to shoot a base of Geth from 200 metres with just a machine gun.