Mass Effect 3
 

The demo goes live on Valentine's Day, but you can gain early access to it right now.

Anyhow, its two parts, one is the opening/tutorial, and the second part is much further into the game to give you a feel for the combat.

Its an interesting approach.

Won't really spoil anything, but it seems to be Mass Effect. Which means the shooting works, but is nothing special, and biotics are a keen part of combat.

One cool feature that they have is they allow you to pick from 3 different playstyles. One that favors combat and makes dialog choices for you. One that focuses on the story, and makes combat easier for you, and one that combines the two for a more traditional ME experience.

So anyone else try it out?

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Is there a PC demo out? I am currently playing the original for the first time for PC, and I plan to play 2 after I finish 1. I cant imagine going back to the console version after playing them on PC.

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How do you gain early access...?

Not that it matters, I guess. I won't be playing the demo. I know I'm going to buy the game (pre-ordered!) and I don't want to spoil anything. I'm pretty excited though. I've been replaying ME1 and ME2 to gear up for it.

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Same. If any game does not need a demo, it's Mass Effect 3.

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I havent really paid any attention to ME3 on purpose. Tho I know Jessica Chobot (IGN) is in the game. I plaid the last DLC for ME2 tho, to gear myself up for ME3.

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I think every game needs a demo.

In addition, this demo will also give folks a chance to try out the online section of the game, which can be a make it or break it for some.

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There is a mini-game / kinda lottery thing on Facebook that you can only do every 2 hours. You can win the demo code or The Normandy ship as an avatar item. It seems like its for the 360 only.

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I want to play the demo just to see what they did with the gameplay. To see what they took out/ put in, and a little swan told me that weapon mods might be back, which I would like to see. Weapons in ME2 were a joke. They held no meaning, they simply just existed. No one talks about ME2 and says "oh man, this one gun I had set guys on fire and froze them". There was a sniper rifle in ME1 that I fitted with the best explosive mod, so I could only shoot it once before it over heated and had to cool down, but it was so powerful and awesome.

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Could be diff based on class, but only thing I found in the demo was a mod for your pistol. A better scope or something like that.

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Well thats not nearly as elaborate. :( Thanks for crushing my hopes and dreams Earl!

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No codes left.

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Demo is up today.

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Nabbed this exclusive end game photo, notice the Quarian helmet. Probably Tali's cause she sucks so much.

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Played the single player demo, was pretty fun and since I have a Kinect I got to try out yelling things at my TV. Now I just need to remember everyones attacks and everything will be all good. :p

And what happened to Admiral Hackett! If he got casually killed off im gonna be pissed.

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I thought this was real for a minute.

You are mean.

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Have you tried out multi/co-op yet?

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Ya ive been playing it for the past hour or so. Its just a simple wave based mode but its fun, although some of the objectives that appear every 3 waves or so can be really annoying and unnecessarily hard.

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I just finished the original Mass Effect for PC. A great game absolutley, but what are all these people smoking when they say this is a 30 hour game? Took me 17 hours. Maybe it may push 30 hours if you complete every boring side quest. I did a few side quests, and still managed to be at level 40 by the end of the game. Maybe the PC version plays faster?

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There are a few not boring side quests. Im pretty sure I spent more than 30 hours in the game, but thats because I did everything, otherwise no, the main story is not 30 hours long.

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I Think I did absolutely everything and clocked 50 hours on one. I just started up a new ME2 and the profile I imported had 50 hours on it

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Played the demo last night.

What a mistake, now I'm dying to have this game.

My ONLY complaint is that the A button does too much crap. It runs, it rolls, it takes cover, it activates things.

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Says the guy with a Gears of War avatar in his signature...

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Well, in gears of war it runs and takes cover, and activates things. (doesn't roll). Also, you so very rarely ever need to activate things that that function doesn't count as much.

In ME have to interact with stuff constantly, which results into a lot of random rolling and taking cover, especially because the game will highlight something you can interact with when you look at it, but you have to look at it the "right" way in order for the option to activate to come up.

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"A" button is for roll in Gears too. Its the "X" button that is used for activating things though, so almost the same. :p

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That's why I don't like computer games, too much left-mouse-button clicking. ;)
I want a mouse that has 14 buttons, each with an individual contextual purpose that hardly arises so I have to fumble from time to time to remember "What the hell was roll/cover/use/interact/buy/sell/swap/reload/shoot" because it's on a button that never gets used.

If only they can transfer the 40+ individual keys onto a controller so that one button is only reserved for one action! Maybe some type of...keyboard controller. :ohreilly:



Anyways, srsly, I gather this game has blown everyone away so far?
I should really speed up and finish ME2.

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I am really digging everything so far. I was trying not to amp myself up for the game so I wouldn't have to endure the wait, but now I am really excited.

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When watching that video I was expecting a light saber battle to ensue.

Ive been playing ME2 again to get another character file ready for import to ME3, and I keep wondering what kind of ship class the Normandy is. I think its smaller than a frigate, but it might still be classified as one.

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I'm upgrading my alert level to fully pumped now.

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Playing Skyrim is the only thing that has allowed me to ignore my outrageous Mass Effect 3 boner.

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Looks incredibly epic and the graphics appear to be improved over the demo.

"Working" from home on Tuesday is looking more and more appealing ...

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If I had to guess, it's PC footage.

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That makes sense.

Did anyone play the PC demo? The graphics on the 360 demo looked worse than ME2, which was a cause for concern.

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Maybe they cut back on graphics to make the game bigger, and I would be fine with that.

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The demo had some assets cut to reduce the file size. I've played both PC and console and didn't really notice a difference, but I wasn't looking for one.

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So I know I bitched a ton and said I wasn't going to buy this game because of the DLC issue, but I've been super impressed with how they care catering to female fans with a femshep CG trailer and an alternative femshep game cover you can switch to.

More companies need to do stuff like that, so I want to support it.

Buying a video game should not have so many moral dilemma's associated with it!

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Apparently the very first part you play when youre on Earth is in Vancouver.
And I forgot Jessica Chobot was in this game so when I ran into her I was all like "oh my god, im so going to tap that."

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My pre-ordered copy is just fucking sitting at EB.

And I'm not off work for another hour an a half. This is like a situation where a fool gets between a bear and its cub. And work is the fool.

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That's the problem I had with books. Too many things were too static. Same with movies, and older Genesis games. I wanted Annie Skywalker, and Earthworm Jane, damnit! Don't even get me started on Vectorwoman. My NHL 12/MLB 12 game would also be better if it included women's hockey, and softball. Equality across the board! Woo! :lol:


Have fun only playing the online with Taylor! Ha. Haha. Mwahahaha.
dangit.

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I don't even know what point you're making, but I'm pretty sure it's stupid.

It has nothing to do with equality, it has to do with making games more open to women instead of being a boys only club.