BioWare Finally Confirms and Details Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer

[koroem]

No adverse effect? You just said it would effect the ending.
I just hope that not doing it won't effect my playthroughs in a negative way.

No, it'll help you unfuck an otherwise shafted campaign I think is what they were saying.

Which is stupid because the game's end result should be based on your decisions, as the game was founded on. Not on easy modeing it up in multiplayer because people with ADD who can't keep themselves occupied for 2 minutes alone absolutely HAVE to have a multiplayer mode to justify the purchase or replay value.

I think Bioware is making a mistake on this. They should have held off an made a multiplayer stand alone game, or implemented it in a future game. Not fuck with the end of a trilogy that has an established single player history. It will effect the single player no matter how much they claim it won't. I'm preparing for a possible turd...

 

[Jungy 365]

What a min... what is this, "Galactic Readiness" meter and what is the utter CRAP about muiltiplayer impacting my single player ending... that's how i read it. You do this MP stuff and it effects your readiness for the perfect ending? Not to mention the fact that if these coop missions have story elements in them, i want to play them, but i DON'T like dealing with xbox live goons to have to do it. I don't HAVE 3 buddies that are into mass effect like i am. I don't have many gaming friends in general, I'm a bit of the odd ball in my circle of friends in that respect... I can't say I'm too happy with what i'm reading so far...

I wouldn't worry about that, as the gamesradar (am I allowed to mention them?) article on the same subject had a quote which said that this was only one of several ways to get your 'galactic readiness' metre up, so the multiplayer is entirely optional, and won't impact on the singleplayer.
Speaking for myself, this sounds pretty damn good. It's in context with the rest of the game, it doesn't alienate those who don't do online gaming, and it focuses on co-op rather than competitive gaming, so sign me up for my Geth Engineer!

 

[Grey_Focks]

....awesome. Sounds completely awesome, I have faith, and haters need to remember Bioware has done things like this before, with Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, and co-op in both those series worked out just fine.

Now let me make a stealthy krogan infiltrator, dammit.

 

[goliath6711]

Yeah, Mass Effect 2 was famously screwed-up. Oh wait, no. The other thing.

It was quite bad actually.

I guess I am one of the few people out there that actually prefer both DA2 and ME2 to the originals then?

There's nothing wrong with liking bad games. I admit I enjoy playing WoW even though it's lacking in quality.

You mean "I found Mass Effect 2 quite bad actually", factoring sales and views you're objectively wrong. At some point using statistics an opinion can be proved to be a wrong fact : D

No, you are wrong. EA has already been caught with their hand in the cookie jar so to speak with soliciting positive review scores, so there goes that argument. As for your other one, ME2 was a sequel. A large portion of the game sales were due to pre-orders based on such a great first game. You can't point to the sales figures and make any conclusion. I for one bought the second game based on expectations of a great story and a full RPG, but was left with a watered down holding pattern of a story with no customization other than basic skins. I will be playing ME3, just because I'm committed to the ME universe by now, but ME2 was terrible and designed by committee with the focus on most sales rather than best game.

OT: Multiplayer in a ME game is stupid. It's designed for the lowest common denominator of player who cares little for anything other than combat.

Do me a favor and don't try to pass your crappy opinions off as universal fact, because IT IS NOT! Both Mass Effect games are my two most beloved games that I continue to play today and I will be playing the third alongside them long after it comes out. So that already disproves whatever the hell point you were trying to make.

Time to cancel my pre order. I'll wait till it's second hand if I get it at all. Good bye bioware, it was fun.

Go on and leave, then. 'Cause Kadijah don't need ya.


Oh, one more thing: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/119/1199462p1.html
For those that seem to not want to read or don't understand the original article.

 

[The Bandit]

Here is the problem: it just doesn't matter. ME multiplayer will be a flash in the pan, here today; gone tomorrow. In its place will be the CoDs and the Battlefields, games designed around multiplayer and perfectly capable of holding that position in the gamerspace. And ME3 will have an empty lobby and nobody playing as soon as the next big thing comes along.
This decision was born in a meeting, I guarantee you - born of me-too policies and mega-market strategizing. The problem, as always, is that people can only play one multiplayer game at a time; chances are, it's not gonna be yours.

People are still playing Halo 3 online- a game that came out four years ago. Not to mention all of the insanely old PC games that still have plenty of traffic.

 

[The Bandit]

Yeah, Mass Effect 2 was famously screwed-up. Oh wait, no. The other thing.

It was quite bad actually.

I guess I am one of the few people out there that actually prefer both DA2 and ME2 to the originals then?

There's nothing wrong with liking bad games. I admit I enjoy playing WoW even though it's lacking in quality.

You mean "I found Mass Effect 2 quite bad actually", factoring sales and views you're objectively wrong. At some point using statistics an opinion can be proved to be a wrong fact : D

Well if you think sales determine quality, then the Sims is the best game ever created. But coming from someone who can be so eloquent as to say something as weird as "wrong fact", I can see exactly who Bioware is pandering to with their titles.

I enjoyed ME, yet gave up ME2 halfway in from being bored to death by the lack of immersion. I just haven't seen two products from a developer change up as much as DA2 and ME2 honestly. If you enjoy being a part of the action demographic that loves a heaping of simplicity with their drawl, then enjoy the next offerings from Bioware/EA. I however sadly have to withdraw my interest from this company after so many great titles up until the recent sequels which show a lack of interest in making a thinking mans game.

Aw well, you can't win em all. Just keep moving on. I have alot of Indie titles to bide my time which cost a fraction as a AAA title. You know something has changed when The Binding of Isaac is ten times the RPG that ME2 is. Give Isaac a try though, it's great fun.

I don't think I've ever seen any more pretentiousness in one post.

 

[Gizmo1990]

My solution, start the co-op have the second charactor take cover, put down the second controller and do all the work my self with the first player.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

Here is the problem: it just doesn't matter. ME multiplayer will be a flash in the pan, here today; gone tomorrow. In its place will be the CoDs and the Battlefields, games designed around multiplayer and perfectly capable of holding that position in the gamerspace. And ME3 will have an empty lobby and nobody playing as soon as the next big thing comes along.
This decision was born in a meeting, I guarantee you - born of me-too policies and mega-market strategizing. The problem, as always, is that people can only play one multiplayer game at a time; chances are, it's not gonna be yours.

It's Co-op. The kind of thing you play with friends. There won't be empty lobbies, it'll just be waiting for your friend to get his arse online. You're thinking of competitive multiplayer.

 

[themerrygambit]

A role playing game with multiplayer?!!! That'll Never Take! What an abomination! Who would think of such a thing! Well enough of this I'm going to go play World of Warcraft now then maybe some Rift, Eve online, Darkfall and Aion. God the Nerve EA! *shakes head*

 

[nonl33t m4st3r]

I like this. It's an optional, alternate way to unlock the best ending. It's rewarding to those who do it, yet doesn't punish those who don't, expands the universe some, and it just adds more free content. Solutions through content are generally better in my mind. I just hope it's cross platform, so I can play with my friends who can't drop a grand on a good PC.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

GOD DAMN IT!

I was determined to hate this but now I can't because it actually makes sense, is relevant to the single player story and, most importantly, lets me play as a krogan or turian.

 

[Paragon Fury]

So......is Bioware telling me that I can't get a good/perfect ending in ME3 because I don't have friends to play ME with?

 

[DarkhoIlow]

As long as this multiplayer co-op doesn't ruin the single player experience,I really couldn't care less what they are doing with it.

That said,can't wait to see how they finish this last game of the trilogy.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

So......is Bioware telling me that I can't get a good/perfect ending in ME3 because I don't have friends to play ME with?

Not exactly but it will be easier to get the perfect ending. The co-op part of the game will also feature story elements so if you want the full experience you're going to have to play it.

 

[Bayushi_Kouya]

My opinion of this hinges on exactly one thing.

Split Screen.

If I can't play ME co-op in the same room with my friends, Gears style, then this mode can go divide itself by zero. I do not want the success or failure of my mission to hinge on what Hunter the 12-year-old yuppie puppie in Scranton thinks is cool. My squad will have to be tight, and that's only possible if they're in the same room as me and I can punch them in the dick if they fuck up.

 

[Frostbite3789]

A role playing game with multiplayer?!!! That'll Never Take! What an abomination! Who would think of such a thing! Well enough of this I'm going to go play World of Warcraft now then maybe some Rift, Eve online, Darkfall and Aion. God the Nerve EA! *shakes head*

And some pen and paper RPGs with friends that these games are based off of! Because RPGs shouldn't have multiplayer, it just isn't natural! And it's some new fangled idea, that is ruining the purity of the RPG experience!

Sir! The Sarcasm Meter is reaching critical! It's gonna blow!

 

[Frostbite3789]

So......is Bioware telling me that I can't get a good/perfect ending in ME3 because I don't have friends to play ME with?

Not exactly but it will be easier to get the perfect ending. The co-op part of the game will also feature story elements so if you want the full experience you're going to have to play it.

Guess I better cancel my BF3 pre-order, because it too assumes I might have one friend in the entire world who shares a similar gaming interest as myself, and has included a side-story in a co-operative campaign.

How dare they make such assumptions about me!

 

[M920CAIN]

I hope it supports LAN connection...