Mass Effect 3 Details Arrive Like Reapers

[Undead Dragon King]

so either way, the illusive man is a moron now. depending on how you finished ME2 and apparently how ME3 starts, either his incredibly iffy plan to spend millions of dollars on reviving one soldier with free reign over the mission really was an immensely stupid and disadvantageous move for him, or he has chronic backstabbing syndrome and is stupidly trying to kill his best operative who did everything he wanted. im sure bioware will contrive some explanation as to why TIM would be trying to kill a renegade shepard, but we all know its just a ploy to make the final ME2 decision moot.

There's a single word that makes sense: indoctrination.

IM: Wow, Shepard did a great job in keeping this base operational. Just think of how humanity could-ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL... KEEEL SHEPARD...

 

[bushwhacker2k]

Players will have a greater amount of freedom with character skills in Mass Effect 3, with larger skill trees and powers that evolve more than once. The weapon system is similar to Mass Effect 2, but weapons can be modded with various parts such as barrels and scopes. Every character can equip every type of weapon, but with limited slots tied to character class. The soldier can carry everything, while other classes might only have two or three weapon slots

Sounds interesting, I liked ME2 but it felt a little too mindless at times (meaning I didn't really have to think about what I'm doing and instead I just shoot everything to death), so the idea that skills and weapons will have more customization and depth sounds good.

 

[Mysten]

I wish it was Council trial and not an Alliance one.

Turian Councillor: How do you explain your actions, Shepard?
Shepard: I had to destroy the relay, the Reapers could've used it to jump right here, to the Citadel.
Turian Councillor: Ah yes, "Reapers." We have di-
C-Sec Command: We're under attack. It's the Reapers!
Turian Councillor: -dismissed that claim.
Harbinger (hi-jacked comm channel): Your destruction is imminent. We are Reapers; your end has come.
Turian Councillor: Lalala! I'm not listening! Dismissed that claim!

 

[Epic Fail 1977]

Liara, hell yes.

Ashley looks a ton better in the shot as well.

Looking good right now.

Yeah, Ash finally looks like a female instead of a shemale.

 

[Android2137]

Eh, I don't buy the Illusive Man bit.

There is no good reason for him to want to kill you, even if you did choose to piss him off at the end of ME2. Sure, you told him you're quitting and perhaps gave him the finger to boot. Sure, your reputation's in the mud thanks to him, so the galaxy as a whole might not be as happy with you as it used to be (if it ever was). But he's already poured so many resources into you and your team. You've already done the impossible. No matter how mad he is, he knows you're the most qualified and has the best chance of preventing galactic genocide. He knows you're as worried about the Reapers as he is, if not more so. It just doesn't make sense that he'd try to kill you after all that trouble and with the stakes so high.

Well it says Shepard is on trial, so maybe he spilled some information about Cerberus that made the Illusive Man unhappy. It's also possible that between 2 and 3 he gets indoctrinated, and uses his resources to kill Shepard. Just thinking.

Even if Shepard spilled info on Cerberus that made him unhappy, he STILL doesn't have good reason to kill him. All space flight life in the galaxy are in danger of extermination/indoctrination, humans included. What use is there in killing an info leak if the entire human race is destroyed otherwise?

Point 2, however, does make sense. I can see that happening, especially if you decide to give the Illusive Man that present he wanted so much.

 

[CosmicSpiral]

All I think about is that one guy on the Bioware forums who perfectly predicted the opening, and how everyone at the time thought he was just bonkers.

 

[D Moness]

And that JAmes Sanders guy? I'm betting heavily it was the guy in the clocktower during the trailer.

Already shot down by BioWare, apparently. (Drat, should've taken your money first.)

My money is on this theory, brought up by the LJ fan community; the tie-in novels feature the character Kahlee Sanders, and James might be a relative of hers.

-- Steve

I would love that idea. Though can not really be close family since the novels never tells about at least a brother.

Spoiler: it is from the novels

Her mother dies when Kahlee is still young if it is family it would be at least cousins etc.

I hope so since that would intertwine the novels even more.

 

[GaltarDude1138]

Wanting to kill Shepard for unknown reasons? I guess if we're just all of the events of ME2, but it's pretty obvious otherwise. It's either Paragon, you screwed over TIM, or Renegade, you gave TIM what he wants and he wants you out of the way now.

Sir, reading your post makes me believe that the Illusive Man's first name HAS to be Timothy.

OT: Ah yes, "spoilers", the story ruiners that people enjoy telling others to "spoil", their own discovery... We have dismissed that claim.

Really OT: I don't think the universe can wait until Mass Effect 3 is out. Sadly, I most likely won't be able to play it on day one, but maybe over Christmas break...

 

[philosophicalbastard]

Snip

The trial is probably for political reasons. The Human race finally has some power in the galaxy with a Human councilor and Spectre, then all of a sudden the Spectre dies and reappears two years later riding around in a terrorist ship. Then you go and blow up an entire Batarian colony in The Arrival, the Batarians being not all to happy with Humanity before Shepard killed a couple hundred thousand of them.

With this sort of situation any sane goverment would put Shepard on trial.

 

[wrecker77]

Spoiler: Regarding the trial

If you played Arival you know that shepard destroyed a mass relay that the reapers were supposedly going to come through, blowing up an entire star system. You learn that shepard will be forced to face the music on earth sometime in the future. Thats why you go on trial

I could do without the weapon customization. I really don't care, and it was annoying in ME1.

WREX IS BACK ASDFGHJKL:" YES!

Can I still bang Tali? Yes. Okay. When is this available for pre order?

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

I should take bets on whether that "sanders" guy is the sniper from the trailer...

 

[Nmil-ek]

Glad to hear customisations back a little just hope they innovate it past the first ME's crappy system, would love to see some visual changes to weapons from altering them scope on assault rifle etc.

 

[Devil's Due]

I'm surprised people are confused about James Sanders, while not mentioned before, he has the same last name as Kaylee Sanders, one of the main characters from the Mass Effect books, an Alliance officer that helps supervise gifted children with biotic abilities, and highly classified intelligence and work. Probably a brother or such of hers, it's not rocket science, people.

As for the thread: Lets go already! And come on Wrex!

Sheppard.
Wrex.
*Grunts and nods*

 

[michiehoward]

OK VERY VERY VERY EXCITED

On trail hmmmmmm

Spoiler

I knew killing 300,000 Batarians would end badly LMAO

Secondly I swear to God I didn't spend shitloads of ME2 getting a awesome team and keeping every single one of them alive to not have the choice of all of them in ME3. So my squad will have to bunk up and like it.


HOLYSHIT STILL VERY VERY HAPPY

 

[Awexsome]

Yes. This sounds like exactly the kind of gameplay I was hoping for. The powers played much better in 2 compared to 1 by a mile, but the guns needed their attachment customization back. I'm so psyched for this.

 

[Hertzila]

While I must admit that Shepard being on trial at the start makes sense, I had expected that to be at some other point of the game. Though granted, Reapers besieging Earth might have put a stop to that trial.

I'm betting that the lllusive-Man-trying-to-kill-you thing is false though. He has no reason to kill Shepard even of s/he went paragon in ME2 and

Spoiler

quit from Cerberus and blowed up the Collector base.

Shepard's still the best chance for humanity and TIM seems to be fanatic about that idea. Why would that suddenly change?
In the case of renegade ending, TIM's orbiting that strange star/whatever completely safe (almost at least) while one independent Cerberus cell without TIM aboard would "excavate" the

Spoiler

Collector base

so how exactly would indoctrination affect him?

+ They have no reason to keep the story that consistent between the choices anymore. This is the last game about Shepard IIRC so they can go pretty much wild with all the implications and consequences of the things Shepard has done.

 

[gphjr14]

might wait till these are in a trilogy for PC. Upgrade my PC to handle the graphical epicness then buy it. I have a PS3 and haven't gotten 2 because I'd like to have a full grasp of the story from 1.