Mass Effect 3 Review

[Frostbite3789]

Eh, fair enough. I figure that's what's going to happen, anyway, so I guess Origin is the way to go in my case. I mean I don't have a 360 or even a PS3 copy of ME2, so that's out of the question. Just to be sure, though, does anyone here have an Origin account, and can they verify that it's safe?

Yeah, and it's fine. Got it for BF3, was able to download some other that I had CD keys but no discs for, so that was a bonus.

Well, that's a relief. I've been anxious to try BF3 as well, so I think I'll pick that up at some point. Now I just have to wait until I get some cash...

Yeah, I find it best to kind of take things the Internet Hate Machine says with a grain of salt. There was a time when everyone hated Steam, and we all see how that is now.

 

[Doug]

Want. Now. Bring it to me my minions. Assuming direct control.

*Several hours later*

You have failed. We will find another way (i.e. wait until release in the UK).

 

[Danial]

The game has a 93 Meta Crit score, Wow EA must have payed off EVERY SINGLE GAME MAG WITHOUT ANY OF THEM REPORTING ON IT FOR A MASSIVE SCOOP! SUSAN YOU TURN COAT!

You do realize that only 5 critic reviews are posted there, yet, right?

31 Meta Critic Scores, even if you take out all of the Random sites people ignore, the "real" critics are all still in the high 90s, the lowest respected score there is Destructoid with 85, Why should Susan feel the need to Lie or even get bribed when everyone else is giving it the high score? DA2 proved people will give the games a lower score, I can't see why you're throwing these accusations around, possibly its just a really good game?

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Good to know how good it is. I'm CE copy from Amazon has said it has been out for delivery in my area for the last 5 hours, carried by UPS, so it should be here sometime soon. Having been 5 hours, my address must be last on the list for delivery or something.

 

[Lizardon]

Well I'm glad that despite all the pessimism leading up to the launch, people are enjoying the game. Susan hasn't steered me wrong yet so I'll definitely be getting ME3 when it comes out here in Australia (2 days to go I think). Of course I made up my mind to buy it months ago, but knowing she liked it is reassuring.

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If they haven't been claimed, I'd like one of those codes. It appears your generosity has been lost between, as Gavan put it, "the butthurt bitching and moaning"

 

[PingoBlack]

I guess we'll just take your word for it then.

Author and editor lower themselves to actively trying to belittle people that express rather widely held concern about state of the media and industry? If you have nothing to hide, act with dignity. But the way you are reacting so severely to what is to all intent and purpose just another post on forums is ... Bad.

At least it smells to me that way. Perhaps you will enjoy your "fans" cheering you on, but you just made me make consider weather another year's subscription here is money well spent.

There are much better ways of insuring your journalistic integrity. At least have the balls to admit your scores are complete publisher service, since we have not seen a game get 2 or 3 in ages, hm?
No offense Susan, but your defense just made me lose a good ton of my own belief in your integrity. You are obviously a fan of the series, which is in itself a problem when you are supposed to score things objectively.

 

[Callate]

Damn you, EA, for Origin. Damn you to hell.

(sigh)

I want this one. I do. And they know it.

Still hoping that somewhere, somehow, cooler heads (or at least heads not so determined to make ME3 the cornerstone of their emergence into the digital market) will prevail.

And the problems mentioned with 64-bit operating systems aren't helping me either.

 

[Marshall Honorof]

I guess we'll just take your word for it then.

Author and editor lower themselves to actively trying to belittle people that express rather widely held concern about state of the media and industry? If you have nothing to hide, act with dignity. But the way you are reacting so severely to what is to all intent and purpose just another post on forums is ... Bad.

Acting with dignity also involves not indicting a proven author's journalistic integrity in the first place.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Ponder and you shall be informed. [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/mass-effect-3/user-reviews]
If the haters had posted these things a few days after release, I might have been concerned that there were actually genuine problems with the game, but spontaneously bursting into a legion of 0 scores on the same day of release smacks of nothing but a really terrible attempt at trolling.

If Origin delivers on genuinely good product such as ME3, (or more accurately in my experience, the ME3 demo), I have no qualms with using it.
I've had it installed on my computer for a month now, and I haven't seen any noticeable change on my computer, whether or not it be spyware, adware, the thought police, my privacy instantly ruined and distributed to a hundred billion internet companies, or whatever people are getting butthurt about.

I'm not about to avoid something on some extremist principle, if that something involves a genuinely entertaining gaming experience.

Seriously, this is just sad. Metacritic seriously needs some policing of these scores and what really aren't reviews.

The PC list is horrible at 2.5. I'm getting it on the 360 and it's at 4.3, but look at the top negative comment listed on the 360 that gave the game a zero.

EA and their DLC, if you people will just understand that if you keep buying DLC then publishers will continue to rip you off, you only have your self to blame, playstation didnt start this and the PC community didnt start it ( they had fully fleded exspansion packs), XBOX users let this DLC stuff get out of hand. STOP buying DLC.

It isn't even a review, it is just boo-hooing about DLC. If I ran Metacritice that that comment and score would be erased from the system.

I feel sorry for people that actually use metacritic for purchasing decisions, because with the way these rabid mobs 0 bomb the games, it gives a horrible slant that might make people not pick up a great game.

I'm definitely going to speak my mind on this matter when I make my properly done review of the game after I play through it.

Let's show one more:

To view this review, it will cost you $10 as premium DLC. But seriously, Bioware really ended the trilogy on a bad note. So much day 1 DLC, it's ridiculous. The Cerberus system discourages buying the game used. Please, do yourself a favor, and just end the ME series at 2.

Ha, so much day 1 DLC. Let's see, there is the From Ashes and all the cosmetic stuff and weapons and robot dog. Oh boo-hoo, all this stuff was known since November, plenty of time for people to make the decision to get the CE. If you didn't get it, you didn't get it, you are only entitled to what you pay for and what the company determines what that is.

 

[PingoBlack]

Acting with dignity also involves not indicting a proven author's journalistic integrity in the first place.

No. It does not.

If you are in position of power, you have to take criticism well. Even when it is not justified, you should take it. Then provide a neutral explanation addressing those concerns.

That's the reason why I for one have less belief in Escapist integrity now than before. Integrity is something you have to cultivate and maintain, it's never proven for a lifetime.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Well, the review is accurate.....except for a few things.

1 - A significant amount of your choices from the previous two games have no impact on the ultimate outcome, even the seemingly important choices. Most things are relegated to one-liner acknowledgements.

2 - Your squad pool is stupidly small, and definitely limits you a lot more in composition than ME2 or even ME1.

3 - All of the game's ending's suck. Every. single. one. Not only are they terribly written, each of them causing massive plot holes/inconsistencies by their existence or implied outcomes (Hint: One of the biggest bombs in the game comes right at the end, where it makes everything that made sense before not make sense any more, ever), but exactly none of them are fulfilling and one is likely to leave people frothing with rage because it is so bad.

4 - The story assumes the player knows a lot more about ME than many will - a shit ton of players who didn't read all of the books are going to be confused as the why Anderson is no longer Councilor even though they picked him in ME1.

5 - There are several annoying glitches, including one that often causes the game to not be able to read your face gen date from ME2 characters, meaning you have to have the code written down or memorized exactly how to customize your character.

because I really CBA to read the novels before Friday, what happened to Anderson?

Other than that, I think I may literally explode with hype if I hear just one more good thing about this game before I get it.

 

[ECasThat]

Meh... :-/
Still not going to buy it.
Maybe...
Maybe if a GOTY edition or other form of game + all dlc pack comes up in a steam sale... Maybe...

 

[The Pinray]

This game has blown my mind... I actually LIKE Udina in it! Also, he dyed his hair. Random.

And Diana Allers? Yeah, she's sorta annoying.

 

[mxfox408]

One warning:

The PC version of this game has some serious problems right out of the box. I ordered my Collector's edition from Amazon.com (still en-route) but my dad who didn't want a CE just got his from Gamestop and has been trying to get it to run behind me. The problem is Origin won't launch the game on windows 7 systems saying it's not compadible with 64 bit tech. He spent some time getting ahold of one of their customer service guys in a chat mode who told him that ME3 will not run under the current version of the Origin software, implying there was an update needed, the problem being that the most recent version of Origin availible is the same one he happens to be using.

I am not going to say ALL PC users will run into this problem, if you've gotten it running, good for you, but he has run into this problem and has a pretty good rig (and it's not a hardware issue, the CS Rep even said it's Origin). To save yourself some frustration if your still waiting to install it, you might give it a day or two despite the massive anticipation because it seems EA apparently has some things to iron out with Origin... which is absolutly insane with a release like this.

If you happen to have hit this wall, your not alone, and apparently they are working on resolving it whenever they get that "new version" of Origin out there.

mine worked just fine but I updated origin prior to launch and made sure ally settings were set. I'm playing the pc version.

 

[HannesPascal]

Well the greatest question of them all is: Are you able to finger quote the turian councilor?

 

[Fifty-One]

I guess we'll just take your word for it then.

Author and editor lower themselves to actively trying to belittle people that express rather widely held concern about state of the media and industry? If you have nothing to hide, act with dignity. But the way you are reacting so severely to what is to all intent and purpose just another post on forums is ... Bad.

At least it smells to me that way. Perhaps you will enjoy your "fans" cheering you on, but you just made me make consider weather another year's subscription here is money well spent.

There are much better ways of insuring your journalistic integrity. At least have the balls to admit your scores are complete publisher service, since we have not seen a game get 2 or 3 in ages, hm?
No offense Susan, but your defense just made me lose a good ton of my own belief in your integrity. You are obviously a fan of the series, which is in itself a problem when you are supposed to score things objectively.

I didn't realize "expressing rather widely held concerns about the state of the media and industry" is what we're calling trolling these days.

Also, it's the third game of the series. You're either a fan or you aren't.

 

[Coreless]

Wow, you know things are getting absolutely ludicrous when just about every positive review, on any site, about any game (big or small) is automatically branded as "bought" by the publishers and the reviewers integrity immediately called into question. I think people are getting way to overzealous about gaming these days and seriously need to have their heads and priorities examined.

 

[PingoBlack]

Also, it's the third game of the series. You're either a fan or you aren't.

Fans are just by definition not objective. From that perspective it would be better for someone who is not a fan to do a review.

Unless you equate not being a fan with the concept of "hater". Your quick use of term "trolling"
somewhat supports this notion. I hope I am wrong of course.

But I will hereby claim this:
Not being a fan does not equal being a "hater".

 

[Susan Arendt]

I was really hoping this review would tell me whether or not I would like the game, but it left out a pressing question: if someone hated ME2, but loved ME1, would they enjoy ME3?

Hmm....depends on why you hated ME2, I think. Can you expand on that a bit?

 

[CrazyBlaze]

I won't be joining the contingent of whiners and naysayers.

I'm sure there will be faults, there always are, but the overall experience is bound to be worth it.

I salute you. There is no game that doesn't have any faults. Everyone needs to sit back, take a chill pill and just enjoy the game they want to play. If they don't think they will like it, will no one is holding a gun to their head.