Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Trailer Goes "Special Forces"

[putowtin]

Hopefully by then I'll be able to figure out why Shepard's omni-blade makes that metallic "shink" sound when he turns it on.

Cause he's Commander Shepard!
(I'd have mine set to play Miracle of Sound's Commander Shepard)

 

[Legion]

*yawns at trailer* Typical EA/Bioware advertisement, and does nothing to make me excited for the game. The story/characters of Mass Effect is what drew me in, and as they don't seem to like discussing that (despite it only being around a month away now) means the games really not on my mind much at the moment.

Mass Effect 3 is going to have multiplayer? Bioshock and Dead Space had multiplayer squeezed into their games and it didn't work out. Why should this be any different?

Because the mulitplayer aspects in both BioShock 2 and Dead Space 2 were truly just tacked on for the hell of it.

Mass Effect 3's multiplayer is actually part of the story. It's what's going on while Shepard is out shooting aliens and endorsing his favorite shops. It's every bit as canonical to the main story as the singleplayer, though it's completely optional.

It's merely there to help anyone willing to use it. The best ending can still be achieved completely within singleplayer.

That's why it should be different. And when the game comes out, we'll see how it goes.

Bioshock's is as well. It's Atlas' army versus Ryan's (which happened in the Bioshock story). Dead Space 2 is security forces versus necromorphs (which again, is something that happened).

Just because the links are shown doesn't make it more or less canon. It's still "generic soldier versus generic enemy", it's not like the characters you play as have any direct impact or characterisation in the main game. If I fail a mission in my multiplayer game, it's not going to be mentioned in my single player one.

 

[Arina Love]

Say, Bioware, why don't you talk about what you've done to EDI, hmm?

http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q625/chassan1/scan0001.jpg

So Tricia Helfer resumes her typecasting as a robotic femme fatale. What's your point here?

and i absolutely LOVE it! Good job bioware she is so hot. what so bad about it? i just don't get people.

 

[goliath6711]

Say, Bioware, why don't you talk about what you've done to EDI, hmm?

http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q625/chassan1/scan0001.jpg

So Tricia Helfer resumes her typecasting as a robotic femme fatale. What's your point here?

and i absolutely LOVE it! Good job bioware she is so hot. what so bad about it? i just don't get people.

Because it's completely against the characters that the previous games have set up? Because it undermines what has happened before in the story? Because it gives in to horny fanboys and their wet dreams instead of having the backbone to continue with a platonic, adult relationship? Because it's ridiculous and stupid? Take your pick.

Then again, judging by the leaked script and what has been confirmed to be true, Mass Effect 3 is shaping up to be such a colossal trainwreck that it might, just might be intriguing to play through - only to see how horribly misguided the efforts of Bioware/EA are.

In the long run, if things like this are enough turn you away from what I believe will be Game of the Year, then do everyone a favor, leave and don't come back. No one will miss any of you.

 

[Savber]

So, let's get this straight: you're so blinded by your decision to buy the game that any other opinions (especially opinions formed from reading up on FACTS), are easily dismissed by attempting to reduce valid concerns (massive plot and character changes, EA forced game modes and total tonal shift compared to previous installments) into a wave of the hand scoff, as if they were people complaining about Shepard having blue armor instead of red?

Does that not strike you as being a bit off?

Plot changes? Character changes? Do you have the game or something? I've read the leaked script with all it's so-called horrors and I can honestly say you're overreacting.

Also the tonal shift is silly to state... Why? Mainly because you're basing this on MARKETING. Even then, ME3 WILL be tonally different since it's really not the same "space-faring epic" but an all-out war. It's not a tonal difference that is unreasonable.

Last, the game modes are not forced upon on us at all. You can play the way you want. Simple as that. The action mode simply auto-dialogues BETWEEN both Paragon and Renegades dialogue. It's hardly a win button where only the best options will succeed.

 

[Arina Love]

Say, Bioware, why don't you talk about what you've done to EDI, hmm?

http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q625/chassan1/scan0001.jpg

So Tricia Helfer resumes her typecasting as a robotic femme fatale. What's your point here?

and i absolutely LOVE it! Good job bioware she is so hot. what so bad about it? i just don't get people.

Because it's completely against the characters that the previous games have set up? Because it undermines what has happened before in the story? Because it gives in to horny fanboys and their wet dreams instead of having the backbone to continue with a platonic, adult relationship? Because it's ridiculous and stupid? Take your pick.

Then again, judging by the leaked script and what has been confirmed to be true, Mass Effect 3 is shaping up to be such a colossal trainwreck that it might, just might be intriguing to play through - only to see how horribly misguided the efforts of Bioware/EA are.

News flash: dynamic story line and characters. Characters change with time and story develops. Your bias stench can be recognised a mile away.
It's doesn't "undermine" anything, just expands and develops.
but anyway don't like it don't play it. Bioware will not even notice.
"FACTS" haha show me proof that leaked script was final OR was every possible outcome of decisions. you can't because it's vague and incomplete.
PS i have read every spoiler leaked too. you are not special.

 

[mad825]

Oooooooh, how original, Special Forces huh? Very lame. If you don't mind me saying so; COD.

I still don't understand people who want to play as [insert species], it's not like you can bloody role-play in multiplayer. It's just a re-texture.

 

[Erttheking]

Uh people, you do know that this thread is supposed to be about the multiplayer, not leaked plot points right? Also you're being a little premature, you can't really rip these things apart just yet, for all you know they're absolutely brilliant in context, just do me a favor and wait until the game is actually out and play through it before you tear these things apart. Also, I'M TRYING TO AVOID SPOILERS! PLEASE STOP POSTING THEM ON EVERYTHING MASS EFFECT RELATED! IT'S GETTING IRRITATING! If you really want to talk about them is it too hard to bring it to gaming discussion on a thread made just for that?

OT: Multiplayer looks awesome, I really don't get the naysayers who think the second you step outside of your safe zone the game degrades in quality. I love how Bioware is expanding the game personally.

 

[Suave Charlie]

Say, Bioware, why don't you talk about what you've done to EDI, hmm?

http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q625/chassan1/scan0001.jpg

What the dick? When did this happen :|

 

[Agent Monocle]

They should allow you to play the Geth as well, but it requires at least 30 players to form a consensus for one Geth character.

 

[darth gditch]

Hmmm. I gotta say, if this is gameplay footage of combat in general, I am pleased. However, they better not have compromised the single player story to improve said combat and shoehorn in the multiplayer. I will withhold final judgement until I have played the game.

 

[VulakAerr]

Doesn't anybody else read this stuff...? It was a different team. The singleplayer will not have been hurt by this.

 

[Arina Love]

So, let's get this straight: you're so blinded by your decision to buy the game that any other opinions (especially opinions formed from reading up on FACTS), are easily dismissed by attempting to reduce valid concerns (massive plot and character changes, EA forced game modes and total tonal shift compared to previous installments) into a wave of the hand scoff, as if they were people complaining about Shepard having blue armor instead of red?

Does that not strike you as being a bit off?

Plot changes? Character changes? Do you have the game or something? I've read the leaked script with all it's so-called horrors and I can honestly say you're overreacting.

Really? You did read all the way to the ridiculous and pointless ending?

News flash: dynamic story line and characters. Characters change with time and story develops. Your bias stench can be recognised a mile away.
It's doesn't "undermine" anything, just expands and develops.
but anyway don't like it don't play it. Bioware will not even notice.
"FACTS" haha show me proof that leaked script was final OR was every possible outcome of decisions. you can't because it's vague and incomplete.
PS i have read every spoiler leaked too. you are not special.

Oh, I forgot, EA and Bioware today attract kids with little sense of actual understanding of story. You do understand that "dynamic" story lines and character changes do not mean that the game makers can make all other choices void to suit a poorly constructed ending.

That script? It was very much confirmed to be true. It was all even clearer when EA started with the good old "this isn't ready" act, just some four months before release. Even voice actors have confirmed that they had stopped recording stuff at that point. While some things arguably may be cut, that script, for better or (in this case) for worse, is what we'll be getting. Unless they suddenly decide to delay the game for six months and re-write and script and direct the entire conclusion over again.

Developers have all right to do all the changes they think best. If you don't like it don't play it your crying all over forums will not get you anywhere. "this isn't ready" means it's was not full script and it was not ready and you have no other option or proof to say that script was complete until you played the game.

 

[MarsProbe]

Say, Bioware, why don't you talk about what you've done to EDI, hmm?

http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q625/chassan1/scan0001.jpg

I wasn't going to click that, as I don't really want any ME3 spoilers, but eventually succumbed after reading other peoples responses. I agree, I do hope this isn't the case. Surely part of the appeal to the banter between Joker and EDI was one being a human and the other being portrayed as a holographic "ball on a stick"? Also, not sure where giving EDI a

Spoiler

physical body

fits into the story of ME3. Ok, so the war hadn't kicked off in ME2 and anyway, spending what may have been billions of credits to bring back Shepard and the Normandy was fairly necessary. But at the time of an all out galactic war (one that sees Earth overrun by Reapers, no less), would resources really be getting pumped into a rather frivolous update to an AI (or should that be "Synthetic"?)

Anyway, neat trailer, though really, I'm still waiting on that FemShep trailer we were promised. Just over a month now, people! Get it done!

 

[Frostbite3789]

lack of Budget.

Yeah, EA didn't just drop a pretty penny on a Bioware game recently. I'm sure budget is such a huge concern and they didn't essentially get a check that may as well have read "Infinity Dollars" from EA to make the third installment in a wildly successful franchise.

 

[Savber]

Really? You did read all the way to the ridiculous and pointless ending?

What? You mean the endings where there is NO clear cut good or bad endings?

Honestly that sounds great to me! It's about time that Bioware quits pandering to people that always demand a lovely rainbow and sunshine ending (as seen in almost all Bioware games).

I honestly don't see the issues with the endings here. Care to explain what I missed?

 

[Terminal Blue]

I'm actually really interested to see if this works without detracting from the core game. I've seen no evidence that it won't, but I know enough to know that multiplayer raises a whole new series of technical challenges which, of course, take up time and resources.

And if we're talking about terrifying race/class combos, I have to say.. Krogan Sentinel. :S

Ok, so the war hadn't kicked off in ME2 and anyway, spending what may have been billions of credits to bring back Shepard and the Normandy was fairly necessary. But at the time of an all out galactic war (one that sees Earth overrun by Reapers, no less), would resources really be getting pumped into a rather frivolous update to an AI (or should that be "Synthetic"?)

Spoiler: Fairly big spoilers for ME2

I'm not 100% behind this decision either, but I think it does reflect EDIs growth throughout ME2. At the beginning, she's shackled and treated as very much a single-use tool, whereas by the end as far as I can see she still has unfettered access to every system on the ship (there's certainly no scene where she's ever reshackled) and is treated much more like a person. Since AIs in mass effect are tied to a unique quantum computer which forms their 'brain', the only way for the (now free) EDI to get out and explore the world in a more meaningful way would be to have some kind of body in which to do it.

In many ways having a body kind of represents her transformation from overgrown electronic warfare suite to full personhood. Thus, while I think the sexbot 3000 seems a little excessive, I'm not adverse to the idea of EDI having a robot body with which to explore the world. Heck, humanoid robots seem to be all over the place in ME2, they can't be that hard to build.

 

[salinv]

Hopefully by then I'll be able to figure out why Shepard's omni-blade makes that metallic "shink" sound when he turns it on.

The same reason that point and shoot cameras make a shutter noise - it'll have been based on a peice of tech that did once make that noise and now people expect it

/smartass

In other words, it's a "feature."

 

[MarsProbe]

I'm actually really interested to see if this works without detracting from the core game. I've seen no evidence that it won't, but I know enough to know that multiplayer raises a whole new series of technical challenges which, of course, take up time and resources.

And if we're talking about terrifying race/class combos, I have to say.. Krogan Sentinel. :S

Ok, so the war hadn't kicked off in ME2 and anyway, spending what may have been billions of credits to bring back Shepard and the Normandy was fairly necessary. But at the time of an all out galactic war (one that sees Earth overrun by Reapers, no less), would resources really be getting pumped into a rather frivolous update to an AI (or should that be "Synthetic"?)

Spoiler: Fairly big spoilers for ME2

I'm not 100% behind this decision either, but I think it does reflect EDIs growth throughout ME2. At the beginning, she's shackled and treated as very much a single-use tool, whereas by the end as far as I can see she still has unfettered access to every system on the ship (there's certainly no scene where she's ever reshackled) and is treated much more like a person. Since AIs in mass effect are tied to a unique quantum computer which forms their 'brain', the only way for the (now free) EDI to get out and explore the world in a more meaningful way would be to have some kind of body in which to do it.

In many ways having a body kind of represents her transformation from overgrown electronic warfare suite to full personhood. Thus, while I think the sexbot 3000 seems a little excessive, I'm not adverse to the idea of EDI having a robot body with which to explore the world. Heck, humanoid robots seem to be all over the place in ME2, they can't be that hard to build.

Ah, looking at it that way, it does then seem like a natural progression for EDI. I guess she will be playing the second tech-based sqaud member in ME3, as unless I'm mistaken, it looks like Legion will be filling a supporting role this time around. After all, it's not like they could sideline Tali now, right?

 

[guitarsniper]

I am now officially only playing a Krogan Infiltrator, as a screw you to bioware. Also a quarian vanguard. And a salarian soldier specced as a tank.