[PC/PS3/360/WiiU] Mass Effect 3

[killer3000ad]

Freddie Prinze Jnr featurette

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ja...-effect/726004

[GN0010 Nosferatu]

Was that Harbinger charging a fleet? YES YES YES!!

[Alchemist007]

I swear everyone's trying to spoil everything about the game.

[Keroko]

Well, you are reading a Mass Effect 3 thread...

[killer3000ad]

German mag, Gamestar's February issue has some juicy new info. Slightly spoilerish but nothing on the scale of the stuff leaked in the leaked demo last year.

Spoiler:

1) On Mars, Shepard will be looking for a Prothean secret weapon which may be useful against the Reapers. Casey Hudson is quoted with saying that this doesn't mean the story is about THE McGuffin what will win the war, but more about "searching the whole galaxy for pieces of useful knowledge and war assets".

(2) At the start, people on the Citadel will believe that the war isn't their problem. This will drastically change in the course of the story.

(3) War assets can be all kinds of things from fleets to single people. Their contribution will of course be of drastically different sizes.

(4) If you enter Reaper-controlled territory, there's a chance the Reapers will try to hunt you down and you must do something to avoid them. That's referred to as a minigame.

(5) Reaper-controlled territory will change as the story progresses, but only main plot decisions trigger these changes. You'll have all the time you need for sidequests.

(6) Some missions are mutually exclusive. Which one you choose from a set of options might affect the fate of civilizations and the loyalty of NPCs.

(7) Some optional missions may become unavailable if you don't finish them before certain story events happen. That might adversely affect your campaign.

(8) All missions may influence your reputation with NPCs (unclear whether this only refers to team members). That in turn may influence your interaction with them in future. NPCs differ in what they prefer, some may be more impressed by Renegade decisions, some more by Paragon decisions, but all will be influenced by decisions affecting their species.

(9) If old team members are dead, different things may happen depending on the character. Sometimes a story arc will be completely lost, sometimes there will be a replacement character, sometimes the story will develop in a totally different way.

(10) There will be no "Reapers win" scenario, based on the reasoning that such an ending is unsatisfying for players and would lead to re-loading a saved game anyway. There will, however, be endings where whole species become extinct and many worlds are destroyed, including Earth.

(11) The Collector base decision will become important at some point, but whatever you did with it will not have any negative repercussions (How they'll manage that and make it still be important I'm curious to see).

(12) How the war progresses will also affect the Normandy somehow.

(13) The Citadel will be bigger than ever before and you'll meet many characters you know from the first two games. Many loose ends from the first games will be tied up, including the mystery of the Keepers. (I hope I'll meet Chorban again).

(14) Casey Hudson is quoted as saying that it is "a good idea to stick to your principles" with regard to your style of action, i.e.

PS i didn't read the magazine, someone else did and posted this on the BSN.

[com_gwp]

Originally Posted by Alchemist007

I swear everyone's trying to spoil everything about the game.

Implying they didn't do the same during ME2.
Hell, first thing they did coming out of the whole thing was spoiling that your teammates can die in the endgame.

[Who]

As expected, number 11 is going to start a shitstorm on BSN.

Edit:
Crap, meant number 10. I'm going blind...

[Darkbeat]

Originally Posted by Who

As expected, number 11 is going to start a shitstorm on BSN.

That was my first thought when I saw it, though it takes very little to send BSN into meltdown

Other than that, I'd say there wasn't much there we either didn't already know or was not always likely to be the case.

[Flying Dagger]

@10, but I still want my shepard controlling reapers and taking over the galaxy option...

[Alchemist007]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Well, you are reading a Mass Effect 3 thread...

It's disturbing because the bloody game isn't even out.I best use my light stepper perk.

[GN0010 Nosferatu]

Originally Posted by killer3000ad

German mag, Gamestar's February issue has some juicy new info. Slightly spoilerish but nothing on the scale of the stuff leaked in the leaked demo last year.

Spoiler:

1) On Mars, Shepard will be looking for a Prothean secret weapon which may be useful against the Reapers. Casey Hudson is quoted with saying that this doesn't mean the story is about THE McGuffin what will win the war, but more about "searching the whole galaxy for pieces of useful knowledge and war assets".

(2) At the start, people on the Citadel will believe that the war isn't their problem. This will drastically change in the course of the story.

(3) War assets can be all kinds of things from fleets to single people. Their contribution will of course be of drastically different sizes.

(4) If you enter Reaper-controlled territory, there's a chance the Reapers will try to hunt you down and you must do something to avoid them. That's referred to as a minigame.

(5) Reaper-controlled territory will change as the story progresses, but only main plot decisions trigger these changes. You'll have all the time you need for sidequests.

(6) Some missions are mutually exclusive. Which one you choose from a set of options might affect the fate of civilizations and the loyalty of NPCs.

(7) Some optional missions may become unavailable if you don't finish them before certain story events happen. That might adversely affect your campaign.

(8) All missions may influence your reputation with NPCs (unclear whether this only refers to team members). That in turn may influence your interaction with them in future. NPCs differ in what they prefer, some may be more impressed by Renegade decisions, some more by Paragon decisions, but all will be influenced by decisions affecting their species.

(9) If old team members are dead, different things may happen depending on the character. Sometimes a story arc will be completely lost, sometimes there will be a replacement character, sometimes the story will develop in a totally different way.

(10) There will be no "Reapers win" scenario, based on the reasoning that such an ending is unsatisfying for players and would lead to re-loading a saved game anyway. There will, however, be endings where whole species become extinct and many worlds are destroyed, including Earth.

(11) The Collector base decision will become important at some point, but whatever you did with it will not have any negative repercussions (How they'll manage that and make it still be important I'm curious to see).

(12) How the war progresses will also affect the Normandy somehow.

(13) The Citadel will be bigger than ever before and you'll meet many characters you know from the first two games. Many loose ends from the first games will be tied up, including the mystery of the Keepers. (I hope I'll meet Chorban again).

(14) Casey Hudson is quoted as saying that it is "a good idea to stick to your principles" with regard to your style of action, i.e.

PS i didn't read the magazine, someone else did and posted this on the BSN.

Just gets better and better. I can't wait to see how the Council reacts when they finally see that the Reapers fucking real.

[MeoTwister5]

Feels more and more like an open world RPG that Bioware also makes. Tons of choices from past games affecting this one. All in all my priority is to keep as much of everyone alive as I can.

Worst to worst the Batarians and the Vorchas can burn. I'll try and save everyone else.

[GN0010 Nosferatu]

Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

Feels more and more like an open world RPG that Bioware also makes. Tons of choices from past games affecting this one. All in all my priority is to keep as much of everyone alive as I can.

Worst to worst the Batarians and the Vorchas can burn. I'll try and save everyone else.

Those are two species I think the galaxy will be better off without.

[DonQuigleone]

An interesting ending might be if you let everyone but humanity go extinct...

Jackass ending?

[SoldierOfDarkness]

Originally Posted by GN0010 Nosferatu

Just gets better and better. I can't wait to see how the Council reacts when they finally see that the Reapers fucking real.

Simple.

They'll just stick their heads in the sand and go lalalallalalalalallala I can't hear you.

Or they'll just assume it's a massive geth fleet.

Or even worse they'll try to make a deal with the reapers

An interesting ending might be if you let everyone but humanity go extinct...

Jackass ending?

How is that a jackass ending? Humanity's been fighting against this alone for quite some time but does anyone else listen? noooooooo.

I mean aside from Shepard and Cerebus even the Alliance had covert operations in dealing with the reapers.

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by SoldierOfDarkness

How is that a jackass ending? Humanity's been fighting against this alone for quite some time but does anyone else listen? noooooooo.

I mean aside from Shepard and Cerebus even the Alliance had covert operations in dealing with the reapers.

The Geth did, or at least the right faction. 1183 of them even risked their lives for him.

[Skane]

So how many of you are actually going to start ME3 with the council dead? The legacy game I am playing is based on my main Shephard, whose decisions were based on what felt right at the moment, and when I didn't know what the consequences would be, or how the game mechanics fully worked. It felt the most natural to me, versus the guided best possible outcome paths I also played.

Cheers.

[Tiresias]

The council lives in my save games for two reason:
1. I like the way the Turian weapons dealer goes "OMG Shepard you're my hero!" (finally, some real respect!)
2. I want to see the Turian chancellor suck-it

I think I'm gonna make one more play with them dead though, because I'm interested in the dialogues. I hope I still have time.

[DarkLordOfkichiku]

For me, number 10 above raises (for me, at least) the question about what the possible "best ending" would be for ME 3 then? I mean, in ME2, the obviously best ending is "everyone survives", but what would the best ending in ME3 be then? Number 6 on that list implies that like it or not, we WILL be forced to make a few sacrifies here and there during the course of the story, meaning a few species being wiped out may be unavoidable...

... Or, perhaps not, depending on past game decisions and other factors. For example, if we acquired the cure for the genophage, then I could see the Krogan rebound even if their homeworld is devasted. The Asari and Salarians might also rebound simple enough (or at least stay around) given their nature... The Turians, the humans and other minor races may be another matter though...

Most people'll probably feel like leaving the Batarians and Vorchas to their fate (and maybe at least one or two of the minor races too), courtesty of their Always Chaotic Evil status so far <_<, but it wouldn't surpise me if the devs have thought of this too by making saving them worth your times (the Vorcha are numberous and the Batarians are said to have an impressive enough military might, I think?).

Ah well, I guess it'll all make for quite the replayable game!

[Key Board]

Originally Posted by DarkLordOfkichiku

Most people'll probably feel like leaving the Batarians and Vorchas to their fate (and maybe at least one or two of the minor races too), courtesty of their Always Chaotic Evil status so far <_<, but it wouldn't surpise me if the devs have thought of this too by making saving them worth your times (the Vorcha are numberous and the Batarians are said to have an impressive enough military might, I think?).

Ah well, I guess it'll all make for quite the replayable game!

I'm not sure I can pigeon-hole my Shepard into one category

He let the rachni queen go
He kept sensitive Cerberus data to himself to be decrypted later
He told Mordin to salvage his disciple's research on a genophage cure
He had Legion rewrite the heretic geth
He salvaged the Collector base

I guess this Shepard likes having as many bargaining chips on his table whether they are risky or not?

So he's curious, maybe reckless ambitious with a slight hint of being immoral?

The real non-roleplaying answer is that I want to be this final game to be as chaotic (read: interesting) as possible with several elements clashing into each other.