KamikazeCanuck wrote:Is ME3 Preorderable now or something?

Yes, you can pre-order collectors edition. It's around 70 - 80 dollars, I am not sure.
Check the Amazon.

Brother Coa wrote:

metallifan wrote:

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:For those in the UK who are interested the Collector's Edition has gone up on GAME.

Just pre-ordered mine a few mins ago.

ME3 at GAME

Am. Disappoint.

I WANTED A SHEPARD HELMET!

You can always make one

You missed the point, lapped it around, and missed it a second time.

Bioware promised us "something really big" for the preorder. I believe they even used Master Chief's helmet in the Halo 3 Limited Edition as a comparison. There is -nothing- that I would call 'big' in that Collector's Edition preorder. If I'm paying $80 plus shipping, I want something worth it. Duke Nukem: Balls of Steel Edition comes with a faux stone bust of 'The Duke'. I want a Shepard helmet for him to wear. Well, at least we can be sure that the game will be better than the preorder content.

metallifan wrote:
Bioware promised us "something really big" for the preorder. I believe they even used Master Chief's helmet in the Halo 3 Limited Edition as a comparison. There is -nothing- that I would call 'big' in that Collector's Edition preorder. If I'm paying $80 plus shipping, I want something worth it. Duke Nukem: Balls of Steel Edition comes with a faux stone bust of 'The Duke'. I want a Shepard helmet for him to wear. Well, at least we can be sure that the game will be better than the preorder content.

Maybe they where refering to the book

Anyway, I now want Avenger riffle replica in Collectors edition.

What is in the collector's addition anyway?

Of the content that actually matters? A couple alternate character costumes and I think I read that there was an extra squadmember. Not really anything worthwhile like they promised.

Yep, it is. So gunna get the collector's edition!!!!

I want them to delete every line of code and forget about the project because the entire series is garbage. After about the 20th collar grab, Mass Effect was old and boring.

Movac wrote:I want them to delete every line of code and forget about the project because the entire series is garbage. After about the 20th collar grab, Mass Effect was old and boring.

Oh look, it's you again!

Aren't you just the -cutest- thing! *Pinches cheek*

Movac wrote:I want them to delete every line of code and forget about the project because the entire series is garbage. After about the 20th collar grab, Mass Effect was old and boring.

You must not like good games I guess :/

Movac wrote:I want them to delete every line of code and forget about the project because the entire series is garbage. After about the 20th collar grab, Mass Effect was old and boring.

Your life must be boring if you don't like Mass Effect...

No no, I can see where someone might not like the game. It is, after all, more like a playable movie with really long loading screens than it is a hack-n'-slash like Halo, where the shooting and pistol-whipping is only interrupted every couple hours for story.

Anvildude wrote:No no, I can see where someone might not like the game. It is, after all, more like a playable movie with really long loading screens than it is a hack-n'-slash like Halo, where the shooting and pistol-whipping is only interrupted every couple hours for story.

"I'm Master Chief, Herpa Derp! I'mma kill me aliens and don't afraid of anything!"

metallifan wrote:

Anvildude wrote:No no, I can see where someone might not like the game. It is, after all, more like a playable movie with really long loading screens than it is a hack-n'-slash like Halo, where the shooting and pistol-whipping is only interrupted every couple hours for story.

"I'm Master Chief, Herpa Derp! I'mma kill me aliens and don't afraid of anything!"

Agreed. But Halo is still a good game. But I say we should boot this troll out.

'cause all I'm readin' is "TROLL TROLL TROLL HERP TROLL DERP TROLL TROLL GAY TROLL FAKE"

Movac wrote:I want them to delete every line of code and forget about the project because the entire series is garbage. After about the 20th collar grab, Mass Effect was old and boring.

Lol Fail troll

Seriously, if you can actually get into the story the games are the awesome.

Games I am looking forward to in this order: Mass Effect 3, Skyrim, Halo 4.

*in a burst of light thread-omancy happens*
What are you guys looking forward to most?
How do you think certain romances will play out (or hopefully play out)?

Do you think that we'll be able to build Tali a house on the home world?

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:*in a burst of light thread-omancy happens*
What are you guys looking forward to most?
How do you think certain romances will play out (or hopefully play out)?

Do you think that we'll be able to build Tali a house on the home world?

That all depend's on what have you done in the game so far...

If you romanced only one member ( like I with Liara ) then in the end I imagine building a home, raise kids and die happily.
If you cheated your partner... I imagine some Mortal Combat scene between those two ( your option from the first and your option from the 2'nd part ).

And Tali might be dead, love, hate Shepard. Quarians might lose fleet save it...
In the end - it all depends on how you play the game.

( My personal guess in if you left Council to die then Asari, Turians and Salarians will show you middle finger and left Mankind to die ).

Brother Coa wrote:

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:*in a burst of light thread-omancy happens*
What are you guys looking forward to most?
How do you think certain romances will play out (or hopefully play out)?

Do you think that we'll be able to build Tali a house on the home world?

That all depend's on what have you done in the game so far...

If you romanced only one member ( like I with Liara ) then in the end I imagine building a home, raise kids and die happily.
If you cheated your partner... I imagine some Mortal Combat scene between those two ( your option from the first and your option from the 2'nd part ).

And Tali might be dead, love, hate Shepard. Quarians might lose fleet save it...
In the end - it all depends on how you play the game.

( My personal guess in if you left Council to die then Asari, Turians and Salarians will show you middle finger and left Mankind to die ).

Good point, bro.

Does it really count as cheating on Liara if when you see her again she says she has no time for you? pfff. She ended I say.

That's a different story. You see, when someone die, you let him go - you don't mourn him until you die.

She didn't expect for Shepard to return even after she give him/her to Cerberus. And by the time Shepard meet her things changed - Shepard has it's mission of destroying the Collectors and Liara has her mission of defeating Shadow Broker.

Only after all was finished, they were able to enjoy with one another. Even that is short since Reapers have already entered the galaxy...

The Relationship ended when you die, and only if you want it to continue it will... Same goes for Ashley and Kaidan.

Yah, but they were a little bit of ass holes, like seriously, I romanced Ashley in #1 and when I ported over to #2, she didn't give a f@ck! The first thing she said was: "Why didnt you try to contact me?". Like, what the hell? I even told her I died and all that, but she continued to be a b!tch.

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:Yah, but they were a little bit of ass holes, like seriously, I romanced Ashley in #1 and when I ported over to #2, she didn't give a f@ck! The first thing she said was: "Why didnt you try to contact me?". Like, what the hell? I even told her I died and all that, but she continued to be a b!tch.

Gee, sorry that Bioware tried to make the emotions feel a little more realistic and down-to-earth. Next time, hopefully they'll water it down and take the fairy-tale route

I don't think Ashley, Liara and Kaiden acting so nonchalant about your resurrection is that realistic.

I agree they could've been a little more shocked, but I was more referring to WGT's concerns over them being pissed that Shep suddenly comes back and never stopped to tell them he was alive, and how they don't drop everything to get back with you. If anything, I think they weren't emotional enough, no. But the end result was exactly what it should've been.

Liara's thing isn't realistic. You're saving the galaxy and were possibly where significant other and she can't be bothered to leave her office because she has to save some Drell jackass.
The Liar of The Shadow Broker DLC fixes it a bit but that is of course an add-on.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Liara's thing isn't realistic. You're saving the galaxy and were possibly where significant other and she can't be bothered to leave her office because she has to save some Drell jackass.
The Liar of The Shadow Broker DLC fixes it a bit but that is of course an add-on.

To be fair, Liara was never a romantic interest for my Shep, so this concern does not apply to me. I did think Liara was off, but I think they did Ashley/Kaidan well enough to work. And besides, it's not just the Drell. She's trying to protect herself after she stole Shep's charred arse from the Shadowbroker.

The best way to do that would be to join up with shepard's A-Team. Anyways, LotSB DLC fixed it.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Liara's thing isn't realistic. You're saving the galaxy and were possibly where significant other and she can't be bothered to leave her office because she has to save some Drell jackass.
The Liar of The Shadow Broker DLC fixes it a bit but that is of course an add-on.

Well realistically, of not for that drell jackass there would be no Shepard to.
Did you read Mass Effect Redemption?
And that DLC along with Arrival are the 2 most important DLC's because things that you did in them mattered the most.

Anyway, we shall see in part 3 what they will do, I love the idea that they present a "human" side of Shepard.

Brother Coa wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Liara's thing isn't realistic. You're saving the galaxy and were possibly where significant other and she can't be bothered to leave her office because she has to save some Drell jackass.
The Liar of The Shadow Broker DLC fixes it a bit but that is of course an add-on.

Well realistically, of not for that drell jackass there would be no Shepard to.
Did you read Mass Effect Redemption?
And that DLC along with Arrival are the 2 most important DLC's because things that you did in them mattered the most.

Anyway, we shall see in part 3 what they will do, I love the idea that they present a "human" side of Shepard.

Yes I did read it actually and it's quite bad. She dedicates her life to finding this guy she like knew for a day and backstabs her twice or something like that. It was very forgettable.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Liara's thing isn't realistic. You're saving the galaxy and were possibly where significant other and she can't be bothered to leave her office because she has to save some Drell jackass.
The Liar of The Shadow Broker DLC fixes it a bit but that is of course an add-on.

Well realistically, of not for that drell jackass there would be no Shepard to.
Did you read Mass Effect Redemption?
And that DLC along with Arrival are the 2 most important DLC's because things that you did in them mattered the most.

Anyway, we shall see in part 3 what they will do, I love the idea that they present a "human" side of Shepard.

Yes I did read it actually and it's quite bad. She dedicates her life to finding this guy she like knew for a day and backstabs her twice or something like that. It was very forgettable.

In the end, because of that guy Shepard body was with Cerberus. And she saved her life to when he left to keep the Shadow Broker people busy.

I was quite touched by the story. But then again, not all Humans have the same opinion.
And that is what I like in Mass Effect, the sheer number of decisions.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:The best way to do that would be to join up with shepard's A-Team. Anyways, LotSB DLC fixed it.

She would've needed time to find it. It probably would've taken her further years if she'd have gone with Shep.

Shepard's mission is to save the entire galaxy. Liara's quest is pointless if the galaxy gets destroyed. Priorities lady!

She knew that. But I imagine that she would only go with Shepard if Reapers actually attacked the galaxy. Then you would eventually do loyalty mission for her.

Collector were not major threat ( like the Reapers ). That is why she didn't went with Shepard. But it turned all right at the end ( Shepard totally kick Collector ass alive or dead and together with Liara kill the most powerful person in the galaxy ).

And now Shepard is in possession of all the information in the galaxy. That's quite the PRIZZZZZZZEEEEEEEEEEE would you agree? ( if you were not killed of course ).

Yes, it's fine now. Like I said, LotSB fixed it.

It was never broken to begin with. Bioware said since day one that Liara would be expanded upon. It was just a matter of waiting.

It's debatable whether someone telling you they'll fix it later means its not bad now.

What does dakka want in Mass Effect 3?

More dakka!

Goddard wrote:What does dakka want in Mass Effect 3?

More dakka!

And bigger enemies ti kill...
And more female aliens...
And more naked Asari

Brother Coa wrote:

Goddard wrote:What does dakka want in Mass Effect 3?

More dakka!

And bigger enemies ti kill...
And more female aliens...
And more naked Asari

Yeah...that too.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:It's debatable whether someone telling you they'll fix it later means its not bad now.

That would be true, if Liara's initial spotlight in the game could really be considered bad at all. 'Mediocre', at worst, but certainly not -bad-.

It's a matter of taste obviously but I felt the Liara/Kaiden/Ashely reaction of "It's been so long I don't feel like saving the galaxy anymore" wasn't strong writing but a game design choice of them wanting to use some different squad members.

Well Ashley despised Cerberus. She would've gone with him if it wasn't for them. Her response made sense for me because she was in my squad during all the 'Hunting Cerberus' missions in ME1, so she saw what they really were. Kaiden I always killed. Useless turd he was. And Liara I've covered.

WHat sucks is that I chose not to save the council because I thought it would get the sovereign destroyed faster and save the citadel, but now all of the aliens will think I am ultra pro human or something.

GalacticDefender wrote:WHat sucks is that I chose not to save the council because I thought it would get the sovereign destroyed faster and save the citadel, but now all of the aliens will think I am ultra pro human or something.

We shall see, but acording to rumors - if you let council to die Asari, Turians and Salarians will all show you "the bird" when you came to ask help for Earth.

Anyway, Collectors edition and new uniforms:



Kaidan, Ashley, Vego and Liara.

More RPG. I mean, the weaponry and armour customization of the previous game, with the emphasis on shooting that the last one had. Tech upgrades for The Normandy that have an impact outside of the final mission. More planets with bigger environments, and not the same barren land-scape, but actual cities, towns, back-water tatooine-esque places with a stupid number of side-quests that don't necessarily have anything to do with the main storyline.

iproxtaco wrote:More RPG. I mean, the weaponry and armour customization of the previous game, with the emphasis on shooting that the last one had. Tech upgrades for The Normandy that have an impact outside of the final mission. More planets with bigger environments, and not the same barren land-scape, but actual cities, towns, back-water tatooine-esque places with a stupid number of side-quests that don't necessarily have anything to do with the main storyline.

And plus plotline that can have xxxxx outcomes + all that you said = some 50GB of hard disc space...
Not much...

iproxtaco wrote:More RPG. I mean, the weaponry and armour customization of the previous game, with the emphasis on shooting that the last one had. Tech upgrades for The Normandy that have an impact outside of the final mission. More planets with bigger environments, and not the same barren land-scape, but actual cities, towns, back-water tatooine-esque places with a stupid number of side-quests that don't necessarily have anything to do with the main storyline.

This. I can't believe that Bioware didn't release any modding tools considering how barren ME1's worlds were. I mean, come on. BLANK CANVAS -RIGHT- there. So much potential for towns and the like, not to mention things like space stations and whatnot.

I too, hope that they do a mixture of ME1's open worlds with plenty of terrain objects, and ME2's more linear, mission oriented worlds.

A map/mission builder and planet renderer would be cool too - add your own worlds/missions and share them with the community. Kind of like what Spore did with 'Adventures', only ME3 would do it with less suck

Brother Coa wrote:And plus plotline that can have xxxxx outcomes + all that you said = some 50GB of hard disc space...
Not much...

Don't be silly. It's not that far of a stretch really, I mean ME2 was only 14Gb's initially, and I think it tops out around 16 or 17 Gbs with all the addons. Plus most off the shelf gaming PCs worth your money will come with at least a 1Tb HD. Mine did, and it cost me barely an arsehair over $1000 CAD. They could easily throw in open worlds with more features these days.

Brother Coa wrote:

iproxtaco wrote:More RPG. I mean, the weaponry and armour customization of the previous game, with the emphasis on shooting that the last one had. Tech upgrades for The Normandy that have an impact outside of the final mission. More planets with bigger environments, and not the same barren land-scape, but actual cities, towns, back-water tatooine-esque places with a stupid number of side-quests that don't necessarily have anything to do with the main storyline.

And plus plotline that can have xxxxx outcomes + all that you said = some 50GB of hard disc space...
Not much...

50gb? I think that may be a slight over-exaggeration. Doesn't bother me anyway, 250gb has done be fine for the 40 plus games I have.

lucky for some, i'm still on a 20gb

also, the only decent costume there is Ashley

iproxtaco wrote:More RPG. I mean, the weaponry and armour customization of the previous game, with the emphasis on shooting that the last one had. Tech upgrades for The Normandy that have an impact outside of the final mission. More planets with bigger environments, and not the same barren land-scape, but actual cities, towns, back-water tatooine-esque places with a stupid number of side-quests that don't necessarily have anything to do with the main storyline.

Agreed. I would've loved to see that in all three, but oh well. Also, I have pre-ordered the collecter's edition!


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metallifan wrote:
A map/mission builder and planet renderer would be cool too - add your own worlds/missions and share them with the community. Kind of like what Spore did with 'Adventures', only ME3 would do it with less suck

That would be amazingly awesome also. *drool*

iproxtaco wrote:
50gb? I think that may be a slight over-exaggeration. Doesn't bother me anyway, 250gb has done be fine for the 40 plus games I have.

I was just kidding
But realistically, first game have 15 GB, the second one 20GB. Mass Effect 3 will have 25 or 30GB for sure...

I would also love at least 100 hours to finish the game, and chance to see more planets and cities then in previous parts ( I love to look around and enjoy the view ).

Brother Coa wrote:

iproxtaco wrote:
50gb? I think that may be a slight over-exaggeration. Doesn't bother me anyway, 250gb has done be fine for the 40 plus games I have.

I was just kidding
But realistically, first game have 15 GB, the second one 20GB. Mass Effect 3 will have 25 or 30GB for sure...

I would also love at least 100 hours to finish the game, and chance to see more planets and cities then in previous parts ( I love to look around and enjoy the view ).

Actually, the first one was 12GBs, the second was 16GBs, and I doubt the third will go any higher than 5 or 6 GBs above ME2. Otherwise, that would be a massive leap for a game fresh out of production. They'll want to leave room for DLC content. Making the game too big right off the bat really gets rid of your chances of selling more DLC, because of users with more outdated PCs not having the space to install such a huge program.

A Developer's goal is to fit as much as possible into as little space as possible. No doubt Bioware is going to be trying just that.

metallifan wrote:
Actually, the first one was 12GBs, the second was 16GBs, and I doubt the third will go any higher than 5 or 6 GBs above ME2. Otherwise, that would be a massive leap for a game fresh out of production. They'll want to leave room for DLC content. Making the game too big right off the bat really gets rid of your chances of selling more DLC, because of users with more outdated PCs not having the space to install such a huge program.

A Developer's goal is to fit as much as possible into as little space as possible. No doubt Bioware is going to be trying just that.

Good point... but I must admit that I thought that there will be no Mass Effect 3 DLC's ( especially when this is the end game ). And I double checked the Hard Disk space: ME 1 = 10.4GB and ME 2 = 18GB. So ME 3 will be around 20 - 25 GB for sure...

Brother Coa wrote:So ME 3 will be around 20 - 25 GB for sure...

20-25GBs is a pretty sizeable difference from the 25-30GBs guessed earlier.

And why would there be no DLC? Sure, it would be mid-game oriented, rather than endgame, but I can't see the possibility of there being no DLC as realistic.

I find it hard to conjure up what the DLC would include, as it is pretty much war in the third game, so no room for little favors for the random chap on the street. Possibly saving a group of soldiers from a cruiser shot down by a Reaper?

Only 8 months until the game arrive...
DLC will probably be some major side mission ( another failed experiment and such... ), most of them will probably be weapons.

I wonder...Because they finished the game almost 90% do you think that some bastard will steal it? ( Like Crysis 2 )

I really hope we get to see Tali's face this time

Got mine pre-ordered since April

well, Nobody has posted in a week so Im guessing this thread is dead?

Not really there just hasn't been that much news at the moment...

FM Ninja 048 wrote:Not really there just hasn't been that much news at the moment...

Oh I see.
Well I heard something of-
oh wait, spoiler alert!

Hmmm bioware sure does have a Renegade fetish. Slippery slope is very slippery

no import saves=TIM gets base

Mac Walters: The Illusive Man [Slight Spoilers for MASS EFFECT 2 Here!] has the base beyond the Omega 4 relay, and that's very important to him, all the research that Shepard was able to obtain for him there in Mass Effect 2.

http://www.newsarama.com/games/mac-walters-mass-effect-3-invasion-interview-110726.html

kenshin620 wrote:Hmmm bioware sure does have a Renegade fetish. Slippery slope is very slippery

no import saves=TIM gets base

Mac Walters: The Illusive Man [Slight Spoilers for MASS EFFECT 2 Here!] has the base beyond the Omega 4 relay, and that's very important to him, all the research that Shepard was able to obtain for him there in Mass Effect 2.

http://www.newsarama.com/games/mac-walters-mass-effect-3-invasion-interview-110726.html

Maybe he built a new Cerberus Base beyond the relay to try and salvage technology from the remains of the collector base. I agree that it's all rather stupid that they just go 'Derp, somethingsomethingsomething base! somethingsomethingsomething Omega 4!" but it's not far off to bet that they would want to study the place whether Shepard blew up the collector station or not.

It sounded like he was talking in a generalized canon sense, not a counteraction of the player's choices within their own save sequence. So someone starts ME3 with no ME2 save, that's the choice they're considered to have made, while everyone else will get whatever they previously chose.

Hey guys, I was wondering if the definitive edition was the same as the Collector's edition for ME3, As I have pre-ordered the Collector's edition

(le link http://masseffect.bioware.com/me3/game/ ).

I am wondering if the Definitive edition is the same as Collector's.
I think they are, but I just wanna be sure.

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:Hey guys, I was wondering if the definitive edition was the same as the Collector's edition for ME3, As I have pre-ordered the Collector's edition

(le link http://masseffect.bioware.com/me3/game/ ).

I am wondering if the Definitive edition is the same as Collector's.
I think they are, but I just wanna be sure.

Either that was a really weak troll, or the world's largest facepalm.

Bit gutted on the base thing, from early interviews they gave, I had the impression we where all getting a comic to make any key decesions for the previous games.

Would have made it more viable just to start up a ME3 character. Now it seems I'll be stuck making up a ME1 character and bringing them all they way through, as I dislike the choices forced on a straight ME2 start as well.

Good job I have three characters finished from ME1/ME2 and another half way through ME1.