BioWare Says PS3 Mass Effect 2 Will Be Better, Incites Flame Wars

[Sarah Kerrigan]

i can see why. bioware did amazing with the xbox version and of course say 'oh look ps3 is bluray! were gonna make it better! '

 

[dystopiaINC]

This really grinds my gears, and don't jump the gun and call me an Xbox fanboy. I'm mad that they get all the DLC and the improved graphics and bug fixes! They call them the "fans that waited" but that makes no sense! They haven't played it before (unless they also have an Xbox or PC) so therefore they aren't "fans" to begin with! Secondly, and the part that makes most sense, they get the DLC for free! I spent at least $100 on Mass Effect 2 between the game and then like $30-$40 worth of DLC, and these bastards that never played the series before get that shit for the price of a new game? Fuck you Bioware!

^this...is what i mean, i'm in the same boat dude

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I tried finding one with no luck. And tweaking the .ini files to get it to work (all I could do was get close up textures to not stream in properly when I told it to use higher resolutions... That is, it takes the low res texture and filters it at higher resolutions, or that's what it should have done, but it just displayed black instead...)

So you tried to manually work in an anisotropic texture filter in the .ini files when the game's configuration utility already lets you set AF up to 16x? Why?

 

[xchurchx]

this is not surprising as
1) EA now own bioware and they have a better releationship with sony
2) it will give the bioware team a chance to test out the new engine

 

[zfactor]

I tried finding one with no luck. And tweaking the .ini files to get it to work (all I could do was get close up textures to not stream in properly when I told it to use higher resolutions... That is, it takes the low res texture and filters it at higher resolutions, or that's what it should have done, but it just displayed black instead...)

So you tried to manually work in an anisotropic texture filter in the .ini files when the game's configuration utility already lets you set AF up to 16x? Why?

I was not manually setting up AF. I set AF at x16 and, up close, textures looked pretty much the same. (AF tends to really only effect far away textures by making them less blurry) This is because the resolution the game was working with (and filtering) was too low. I could see the individual pixels on the people's armor and they are freaking massive. It is not a blurry problem, but a resolution problem. I was attempting to tell the game to import the low res textures (say about 512 x 512) as high res textures (2048 x 2048). This cuts each low res pixel into 4 high res pixels, filters them, and displays textures at a higher resolution. At least, it should have, all I got was black as the texture, which means the game was not streaming them in properly, which means it wasn't scaling up the textures how I wanted them to... So I gave up and heard that ME3 will use a new engine, so I can work with that when it comes out next year.

 

[The Cake Is Annoying]

As someone who's played ME and ME2 (on the 360) I welcome this news. Its a great opportunity to give the engine for ME3 a test, and the comic (as opposed to porting ME1) does seem like a more practical solution.

AS much as I enjoyed playing ME1, the parts that were changed were changed for good reasons, and I think it would be hard to justify releasing (rereleasing really) that game again. ME2 certainly has its headaches too (yes I'm looking at you Mr. Planet Scanner Minigame).

Also, if I'm not mistaken not all of the choices from ME1 import perfectly into ME2 - Conrad Verner always claiming Shepard intimidated him even if you didn't shove a gun in his face.

So... yeah. I'm never going to play on a PS3 but I'm delighted for PS3 owners. I think this will really help up the quality control for Mass Effect 3 when its released on PC/ Xbox360 and PS3.

Sorry, did I interrupt a flame war? Excuse me, carry on.



*cough*Megadrive was better than SNES*cough*

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

I've never been able to notice a difference between the Xbox and the PS3 so long as we don't nit pick about the dashboards, blu-ray verus HD-DVD, operating system, memory or whatever. they both play games, they both make their predessors look ancient and they both have groups of people who say theirs is the best. I own both and the only distinction i make between them is "I play halo on this one and CoD on that one"

so far as this game goes, Bioware can shove it up their ****, I'm not paying for a game I already own

 

[Church256]

Well atleast now some of my friends can play ME2, shame no ME1. I do think it's a bit unfair to update the engine just for PS3.

The big question should be. Is ME3 releasing for 360 and PS3 at the same time?

 

[SG Xibalba]

The one thing I wanted on ME2, the ONE thing I wanted, was tha ability to choose what happens in ME1. My save corrupted itself and I couldn't recover it, so I wanted Council alive and Anderson ON the council.

So replay it.

 

[Aesir23]

Oh joy, the console wars. The competition to see who has the shiniest toy. You'd think some of the fanboys would settle down a little this long after the consoles' initial release.

 

[Lacsapix]

This..... Could be fun.

that is simply put but acurate.

 

[teutonicman]

You can now see Miranda's ass in BLU RAY! 1080p ASS! It's funny the only thing about this that bothers me is that they'll get to play it on 1 disk the lucky bastards.....

 

[Hap2]

I saw a few comparisons of the games, there really is little difference between the two versions in terms of graphical appearance. If anything the PS3 version looks like a saturation brush was taken to it (Jacob's face was shiny for some reason, and IGN said that was more 'realistic', for C-3PO maybe) although it is a bit sharper. The only major update I expect from using the newer engine is that the game will perform a bit smoother than the 360 version. Honestly people are making a 'mountain out of a mole-hill' here.

The only key difference I have found is that the PS3 version has all of the DLC in it, while the 360 has yet to receive a GOTY edition or something of the sort to do the same. Hopefully Bioware does make something of the sort for 360 fans too.

 

[Josh123914]

NOOO the Ps3 fanboys are taking over COME MY XBOX 360 BRETHERN WE MUST KEEP THE BLOODLINE PURE WE MUST BURN ALL PS3 COPY OF ME2 TO KEPP THE GLORIOUS XBOX360 EXCLUSIVES FORM BEING TAINTED.


PRAISE MS

yeah, nice grammar there buddy.

 

[Josh123914]

I saw a few comparisons of the games, there really is little difference between the two versions in terms of graphical appearance. If anything the PS3 version looks like a saturation brush was taken to it (Jacob's face was shiny for some reason, and IGN said that was more 'realistic', for C-3PO maybe) although it is a bit sharper. The only major update I expect from using the newer engine is that the game will perform a bit smoother than the 360 version. Honestly people are making a 'mountain out of a mole-hill' here.

The only key difference I have found is that the PS3 version has all of the DLC in it, while the 360 has yet to receive a GOTY edition or something of the sort to do the same. Hopefully Bioware does make something of the sort for 360 fans too.

I thought the PS3 version WAS the GOTY edition, if not, maybe in a few years they'll do to mass effect what Sony did with god of War, just re-release the trilogy on 1 disc

 

[MrJKapowey]

So replay it.

Sold it.

 

[Wes1180]

I had both on the 360, finished them a few times but now I have them on steam, yey, I haven't played it on the pc yet, want to finish the first one on pc before I go on it and I haven't had much time to play games due to minecraft

 

[goliath6711]

I personally hate feeding into this moronic debate, but I will just share with you some facts that I happened upon.

Mass Effect 2 on Playstation 3 = $59.99 new

Mass Effect 2 on Xbox 360 (as of today on EA's Online Store) = $19.95 new
Cerberus Network (Normandy Crash Site, Zaeed - The Price of Revenge, Cerberus Weapon and Armor, Arc Projector, Firewalker Pack) = free
Blood Dragon Armor = $2.00 (160 Microsoft Points)
Alternate Appearance Pack (Garrus, Jack, Thane) = $2.00 (160 Microsoft Points)
Kasumi - Stolen Memory = $7.00 (560 Microsoft Points)
Equalizer Pack = $2.00 (160 Microsoft Points)
Project Overlord = $7.00 (560 Microsoft Points)
Aegis Pack = $2.00 (160 Microsoft Points)
Firepower Pack = $2.00 (160 Microsoft Points)
Lair of the Shadow Broker = $7.00 (560 Microsoft Points)
Grand Total = $50.95

As you can see, the ones who are ultimately saving money on January 18th are the 360 owners who buy it then.

Here is the EA Store link if you're wondering:
http://eastore.ea.com/DRHM/store?Action=DisplayProductDetailsPage&SiteID=ea&Locale=en_US&Env=BASE&productID=108007000

I also just wanted to add this.

You've taken this stellar epic you released in 2007 and reduced it to a 15 minute interactive comic? Well that's great...
IF you have absolutely NO other way financially of getting the first game in ANY way, shape or form.

I mean, come on. Seriously? That's it? This is how you're going to introduce this franchise to a new audience? From what I've read, you are not offering anything different that isn't already available. At least Virtua Figher 5 offered online play when it came to the 360.

And speaking of Sega, when they ported Shenmue II over from the Dreamcast to the Xbox, they included a 90 minute movie of cutscenes from the first game to tell the story up to that point, and even that showed more effort than this. And that was the only option for those who wanted an official English dubbed version of that game. (And yes, I did prefer the dubbed version.)

If I only owned a Playstation 3 and I read this, I would have, in all seriousness, walked out the door, went to the closest game store to my house, bought an Xbox 360, bought both the first and second Mass Effect games for it, and played them both on it as they were intended. It may cost more, but sometimes you have to pay more for quality.