Mass Effect 3: DAM* IT ALL!!

[OManoghue]

I'm still looking forward to it. They've been saying they are adding more customization to ME3 than there was in ME3 and skill trees, which is fine by me.

As long as squad mates from ME2 don't die between games or in cinematics I'm down as fuck for ME3.

 

[spartan231490]

I almost felt this way, but I'm just gonna watch my friends play instead. then maybe, maybe, I'll buy a copy used.
The Role playing parts of ME2 were an insult, they truly had absolutely no impact on anything.

Spoiler

Because he is (and he is) a dick and because he will do anything to ensure tha humanity dominates (see Mass Effect Evolution comics for more details) he will betray you. I believe Bioware already announced this and thats why you're pissed. He will betray you if you handed him the collector base or not because (probably) you're the only threat left to him. Did you see the way you end your last conversation with him?

No. Having important details of the games and the game's characters revealed in a different medium does not cut it.

It didn't cut it with Halo and its novels, it doesn't cut it with whatever Mass Effect is doing.

Unless telling people to read other forms of media for important things to know in-game is accepted now, in which case I now have a new argument for people who say Halo's story isn't too deep.

Oh, Bioware's writers write the comics, so I'm just assuming that they all have connections with ingame plots because (at least) the Mass Effect Redemption comic directly relates to Liara and the Shadowbroker dlc as well as the beginning of Mass Effect 2. Matter of fact on the cover of both Redemption and Evolution it says "from the lead writer of Mass Effect 2".
I'm assuming that whoever did Halo's other form of media that you're talking about wasn't one of the writer?

Meh, as an RPG series, Mass Effect was never very good, but looking at them as action games they are great.

I think something is backwards here.

No, they aren't good. I don't how you can call them good RPGs, because BioWare remove any pretensions of being more of an RPG than an action game once they released 2.

It's not any more of an RPG than an action game. Bioware are trying to combine both Action and RPG elements in Mass Effect. Which is why people like (and/or hate) it so much.
RPG = Role Playing Game
You are definately PLAYING a ROLE in the Mass Effect GAMES.

But if we're going to argue about it read these:
http://missmokushiroku.tumblr.com/post/6307829109/mass-effect-2-isnt-an-rpg
http://www.gamerswithcasts.com/the-mass-effect-effect-a-game-changer-for-rpgs/
http://www.nowgamer.com/news/5952/is-mass-effect-3-an-rpg-x360-has-the-answer

But as far as I'm concerned ME2 wasn't any less of a RPG than ME1 just because they added better gameplay mechanics.

By you're logic, Halo was an RPG. You're playing a role in that too, the role of a military trump card. You even get to pick which weapons you carry, and which grenades you use.