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

[Who]

Good news, everyone!

More confirmation on the game info including 1 more returning squadmate and one who's probably not.

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/to...ndex/7307598/1

Edit:
Page 2 of that thread, they said to take it lightly until Casey Hudson says it's true. For now, it's legit for the most part.

[Riga92]

Yes Tali is confirmed as a returning squadmate! That alone makes my day. Too bad Wrex probably won't be a squadmate...but atleast it sounds like he has an important role in the game.

[DingoEnderZOE2]

Tali's still a full time squad member?

Can I get a YAY?

YAAAY!!!

But I'm also curious how they're gonna handle the ones who didn't survive in your playthrough of Mass Effect 2.

[FlareKnight]

Originally Posted by DingoEnderZOE2

Tali's still a full time squad member?

Can I get a YAY?

YAAAY!!!

But I'm also curious how they're gonna handle the ones who didn't survive in your playthrough of Mass Effect 2.

YAY !

But really that's good news. I was kind of assuming she'd be there, but glad to have a bit of confirmation to make the wait easier.

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by Who

Spoiler for One of the decisions in ME1 in 3:

Rachni Husk?

Nah, just a Dead Space screenshot.

[Who]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Nah, just a Dead Space screenshot.

Oh. Now I just feel dumb. Time to rent that game.

[NorthernFallout]

I am severely disappointed I cannot charge into battle with my favourite frog-turtle, Wrex. At least I can go with Garrus and some other random~~

[Kyral]

Now that Tali is confirmed, it looks like my standard ME trio is not going to seperate anytime soon.

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by DingoEnderZOE2

Tali's still a full time squad member?

Can I get a YAY?

YAAAY!!!

But I'm also curious how they're gonna handle the ones who didn't survive in your playthrough of Mass Effect 2.

Theres only one thing to do after hearin such good news.
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[synaesthetic]

So... basically most of ME1's cast comes back.

Nice to have Liara back, I really missed not having Singularity unless I was playing an Adept Shepard. Tali is nice but... I didn't really find her useful as a squad member in either ME1 or ME2.

The Cerberus explanation smells suspiciously like bullshit, which makes me doubt the validity of the rest of the article. Cerberus working with the Reapers, after destroying a Reaper, after sending Shepard to wipe out the Reapers' prized slave race... yeah, it doesn't really jive very well.

I know Bioware wants Cerberus to be hunting Shepard again, so I don't understand why they didn't just play off the argument at the end of ME2 when the Collector base is destroyed (Paragon choice ending)--allowing Renegade players to save the station seemingly removes any reason for Cerberus to want to kill Shepard... especially after all the money they spent rebuilding her.

I swear I really did like ME2 better than ME1, but Bioware, this whole Cerberus thing has been a gigantic plot-hole mess. Really should not have done it.

[TigerII]

Never understood what everyone obsession with Tali was. I just hope Legion is back.

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by TigerII

Never understood what everyone obsession with Tali was. I just hope Legion is back.

really? its not hard to understand, people have diffrent tastes. hell i know someone who likes hitler =\

[kujoe]

Wow, not even a heated argument yet, and someone already invokes Godwin's Law.

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by kujoe

Wow, not even a heated argument yet, and someone already invokes Godwin's Law.

is this about my post? .. or somethin else... sorry you completely lost me XD

I'm not trying to "invoke" anything, just sayin

Never understood everyones obsession over Legion.. or garrus.. or maranda

[Keroko]

Godwin's Law. : "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

Don't really care about Tali myself. Never used her in ME1, rarely used her in ME2 (and even then mostly for the Tali/Legion banter).

Speaking of which... I hope we get Legion again. I still find the Geth to be the most interesting alien culture in Mass Effect.

[Riga92]

Originally Posted by Kyero Fox

Never understood everyones obsession over Legion.. or garrus.. or maranda

Legion is a robot, and he can dance WHILE beat-boxing. Who doesn't love dancing, beat-boxing robots?

Everyone loves Garrus because he's always "in the middle of calibrations."

I don't really like Miranda but she's kinda self-explanatory lol.

[RRW]

Spoiler for new info:

-Tali is a confirmed squadmate
"Garrus, Liara, Kaidan, Ashley and (newly confirmed) Tali are all full
time members of your team if they survived the previous games."

-Wrex?
"I asked point blank about Wrex and got as close to a 'no' as I think Bioware will come at this early stage: exceutive producer Casey Hudson simply re-emphasised that such characters canplay a role and fight alongside you without necessarily being permanent squad members."

-No new Romance in ME3

-Biotics are more potent in combat
"Biotics can use their Pull ability to rip a shield out of someone's hands"

-Multi Layered combat areas
"The games combat spaces have graduated from the often-familiar open areas dotted with low walls. They're now multi layed encouraging you to seek high ground for a better vantage point...[the rest is about Cerberus rocket boot dudes using this to their advantage]

-class Specific Melee attacks
Engineer: Omni-tool fire lash attack
Adept: Melee (biotic) attack that knocks everyone near them away and stuns

-Powers Evolve more than once
"In ME3 this is just the start. A Vanguard player can customise their devastating Charge move first to slam people harder, then do more damage, then to reduce the cooldown.

-Powers combine
Example given with Soldier: "Soldier still has an arcing attack called Concussive Shot, but it now behaves differently depending on the ammo ugrade he/she is using. Cryo ammo lets you use that same trajectory to deliver a blast of ice that canfreeze every enemy in the area."

-Story is more like ME1 than ME2

-Places being visited (at least what the Magazine reports):
[...]mission takes you to the Salarian homeworld, the Quarian homeworld, the Asari homeworld, and the human homeworld - Earth. You'll even go to Mars [...]

-Every major character you have met will play a role in the last game

-Why is Cerberus after Shepard? They are working with the Reapers
"If your wondering why we were fighting Cerberus, having worked closely with this shadowy organisation in Mass Effect 2, the answer just raises further questions. They are wokring with the Reapers"

-Reaperized enemies include Asari, Krogan, Rachni
"In Mass Effect 3 we'll fight the Reapers other experiments, with other species.
One is a hideously bloated pregnant Asari, her gums stripped away and a robot skeleton showing through her rotting flesh"

"The Reapers take on the Rachni, who were already viscious insect monsters,are covered with bulging savs of lesser creatures. Rather than hitting their weak spot for massive damage, you want to avoid it like the plague: bursting any of these sacs before the creature is dead wit will unleash a swarm of horrible mini-rachni that crawl all over your body"

"The Reaperised Krogan wears heavy armor plates that can shear off with enough focused fire. Once you do the creature changes its behaviour to be more defensive clutching its lurid blue intestines to its stomach as its lumbers towards you"

"One Reaper creature draws life force from anything that dies near it.
The time-honoured strategy of taking out the easy enemies first ends up
being counter-productive: you make the creature stronger than it would
have been with its allies alive."

Casey Hudson summarizing ME3 (This is an article quote):
"Casey sums up Mass Effect 3 as being about victory through sacrifice, the scale of that sacrifice has been increasing with each new chapter" [Rest is authors speculation about saving(or not saving) Wrex and Rachni consequences]

[Kyero Fox]

god every time i read " No new romances" i instantly think "no romance" and freakin RAGE for a milisecond.

Originally Posted by Keroko

Godwin's Law. : "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

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oh snap XD I did not know that XD but really, I do know someone who liked hitler >_>

[kujoe]

Yeah... I gotta agree with synaesthetic about the Cerberus hunting Shepard thing... The story better explain that.

TIM spends a lot of resources to bring Shepard back only to work with the Reapers and hunt him/her down? What a waste of time and money.

Will it be the same even if Shepard chooses to keep the base for Cerberus?

[Irkalla]

Rpg elements my ass if they make Cerberus hunt Shepard, why in the nine hells would Tim want to hunt down my loyal renegade Shepard, this just stinks. And Cerberus working with the reapers? Whose ass are they pulling this out? I HATE when games go all black-white and force you to be on what the developers consider the moral high horse. I can go play dead space or halo for that kinda gameplay.