Bioware Appeals For Calm Regarding Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer
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It's not that I thought I'd be forced to play co-op, it's that them spending money to add multiplayer features means that the overall game quality will be reduced so they can afford it.
Very few games with a co-op feature have a genuinely good single player campaign.
Very few games with a co-op feature have a genuinely good single player campaign.
I'm all for co-op myself. I've personally wished that when Shepard went down, instead of a game over you take temporary control of your closest squadmate. Then, you have like thirty seconds or something to revive Shepard, THEN you get a game over if you fail to do that. I ALWAYS hated that in some games the game ends if the MC is incapacitated, but as long as you have the resources you can pick your allies back back ad infinity but they can't do the same for you.
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Sorry, a little off-topic, ahem.
OT: As long as you aren't forced to play multiplayer to fully enjoy the single player aspect of the game and the single player doesn't suffer because someone insisted on MP, I'm fine with it myself. Sorry, one more off-topic, who else feels that Pinnacle Station would have done much better in Mass Effect 2?
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Sorry, a little off-topic, ahem.
OT: As long as you aren't forced to play multiplayer to fully enjoy the single player aspect of the game and the single player doesn't suffer because someone insisted on MP, I'm fine with it myself. Sorry, one more off-topic, who else feels that Pinnacle Station would have done much better in Mass Effect 2?
From what I understand, you would need to do all the side quests to complete the main story. Now, instead, you can grind your way around the awesome story filled side quests. This bothers me, because now I don't feel like I have as much of an incentive to do those side quests. What keeps tearing at me is the idea of what this would've been like in ME2 - someone's doing all the crew's missions, gets to, say, Jacob's, and says "You know what, I'll give multiplayer a try" and never gets to see Jacob's missions, which is the best mission by far imo.Tin Man said:
Although it occurs to me that all this is based on the rather silly assumption that people will play the game only once. I guess the option could be pretty nice if there's a quest or two that just bugs you and you don't feel like going through a second time.
Dreamworks face, lol!
Well about the multiplayer, cost money to make and money don't grow in trees, it's have to come from somewhere.
Well about the multiplayer, cost money to make and money don't grow in trees, it's have to come from somewhere.
On the contrary, the Co-op actually looks pretty good, but that doesn't make it any more relevant.
Multiplayer is the go to option for developers unsure of how to advance their design, it's also expensive and time consuming.
I'm not worried that the multiplayer will get in the way, I'm worried that this was all they could think of.
There were numerous problems with Mass Effect 2 that I don't see being addressed, without the omni-blade you'd be forgiven for taking a look at the gameplay and mistaking it for DLC.
After Dragon Age II,(the worst game BioWare's ever made) I'm wary of their state. They don't seem to be doing much with Mass Effect 3, a couple of them even expressed distaste for the RPG genre in general. With the introduction of something as off message as multiplayer, it's starting to seem like they'd rather be doing something else, like they're running out of ideas.
Multiplayer is the go to option for developers unsure of how to advance their design, it's also expensive and time consuming.
I'm not worried that the multiplayer will get in the way, I'm worried that this was all they could think of.
There were numerous problems with Mass Effect 2 that I don't see being addressed, without the omni-blade you'd be forgiven for taking a look at the gameplay and mistaking it for DLC.
After Dragon Age II,(the worst game BioWare's ever made) I'm wary of their state. They don't seem to be doing much with Mass Effect 3, a couple of them even expressed distaste for the RPG genre in general. With the introduction of something as off message as multiplayer, it's starting to seem like they'd rather be doing something else, like they're running out of ideas.
Did you quote Metacritic and expect anyone to take you seriously? You do realize that people were zero-bombing that game in a fit of nerd-rage, don't you? I have never once played a game for which a rating of zero could be justified, and I've played some stinkers. Dragon Age 2 was a fun game that had some tragic flaws due to lazy design and a short development cycle. Despite that limitation, it still managed to surpass Origins in some aspects, mainly due to it not following the Bioware Formula as strictly as practically every game they've made since Baldur's Gate 2.FelixG said:
I really can't bring myself to care if multiplayer and co-op are added to a single-player franchise, so long as the single-player doesn't suffer. With that in mind, I'm going to reserve any opinion until I find out whether or not it negatively impacted the single-player experience.
What's frustrating is that far too many of the people who are complaining about this will continue to complain even if the single-player is excellent, or, God forbid, the co-op is genuinely fun. People love to complain, that'll never change.
What's frustrating is that far too many of the people who are complaining about this will continue to complain even if the single-player is excellent, or, God forbid, the co-op is genuinely fun. People love to complain, that'll never change.
...they meant it in the sense that you don't have to play the multiplayer to unlock certain content or reach certain endings. Everything in the single-player is accessible via the single-player. The multiplayer is connected to it in the sense that it offers more options, but they have stated that the "Galactic Readiness Scale" can be brought up through exclusively single player means, so you don't have to touch the multiplayer.Kakulukia said:
This is all information that was readily available.
Don't worry, you don't have to play our games multiplayer. You should, because we spent all our money on multiplayer mechanics instead of single player, so you would feel pretty ripped off if you only played single player. Also, you can't play multiplayer on PC, because EA has it's hand up our ass and we are only releasing the game on origin.
I must admit I was one of those people throwing chairs across the room when I first read about it, however the more I read about it the more I like where they are taking the multi-player component.