Mass Effect 3 Trailer Confirms Earth is Screwed

[HT_Black]

As long as they don't make us fight that thing from the end of 2001 again, I'm really looking forward to this one.

what thing?

OT: wow, I was dissapointed that you killed

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the shadow broker in ME2 because I thought he deserved to be a big villiain in number 3

*nervous laugh* never mind this is enough.

You know...that thing. The space fetus. The stupidest boss fight and plot twist ever rolled into one.

 

[Bitter_one13]

Well, part of the reason weapons were designed to use low-mass, mass effect accelerated rounds was to prevent decompressions in space (if I remember correctly), and it could be that the rifle was made by an armoury that manufactures weapons that are made for forces that'd never have reason to leave a planet.

That way they'd never have the restrictions of the Citadel's legislation of mass effect weapons that way, and using older and cruder techniques (20th/21st century) might be easier to churn out at short notice, in an emergency.

Or it could be they're completely illegal and since the citadel is doing nothing to help earth, the attitude at the armoury is "Screw the law, give the men something that'll put craters in those metal bastards."

Hell, if it was combining a round that size with a mass accelerator it could hit like a WMD, if the accelerator could get it fast enough. Remember the speach from ME2 about not shooting the giant space ship weapons "from the hip" because "you are ruining someone's day"?

I'm sorry, I don't see how that explains why he's ejecting something from his rifle, though.

Unless they had a hybridized design, like a gunpowder blast gets the round started, and there's an ME generator inside the bullet itself which cranks the mass way down, it gets accelerated down the barrel even faster with magnetic coils, and at the last second the round either turns off its field, or reverses the polarity so its mass gets cranked way the hell up.

 

[pluizig]

To everyone saying the Reapers shoud've attacked the Citadel first: who is to say the haven't already?

 

[Double A]

HOOOOOOOOOLY CRAAAAAAP!

Must... get... I hope that you can get Wrex in your party again!

Watch the Reapers leave Tuchanka alone. Heh.

The funny thing about this trailer is that someone with no prior knowledge of the Mass Effect series would watch this and think that it's another grey futuristic shooter about Earth being taken over by aliens. I'm willing to bet that very little of the game will actually be set there, as the implications toward the end of the trailer are that Shepard will be off doing his own thing, possibly rallying an attack force Dragon Age-style or battling Reapers in other parts of the galaxy as well, since I highly doubt the Reapers are only attacking Earth.

But anyway, yeah, I don't think anyone on the face of the planet has ever been more excited for anything than I am for this game.

Yeah, but then they'd notice the 3 on the end.

But really, people who don't know what Mass Effect is, and have had plenty of time to find out, don't deserve to know. It's pretty much a flagship series of the current RPG genre.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

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The biggest problem with the trailer though is why the guy would still have a British accent..

I'd be more concerned with asking why every species in the Citadel speaks English and why so many are humanoid in shape, size and vocal chord.

 

[gl1koz3]

Oh please, can we stop the "gather a team" thing. I'd much rather "do the critical missions". Oh and "let these punks come along".

 

[MiracleOfSound]

You know...that thing. The space fetus. The stupidest boss fight and plot twist ever rolled into one.

Why was it a stupid plot twist?

It made sense to me - the Reapers wanted to

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mix thier DNA with human DNA to create something more than the sum of both

 

[Druyn]

God dammit. I want this game so bad already, I am looing forward to it so much... But really? They have to bring it to earth. Way to take an excetional, fantastic, universal series and localize it so hard that the trailer looks like a standard FPS game with a standard plot. HOnestly, this is just disappointing. I know Bioware had to come up with something that would be somewhat climactic for the trailer, considering the circumstances and Shepards actual race, but just walking around earth makes it so disappointing. Why not the Turian Homeworld? Or some other heretofor unnanounced world of importance? why bring humanity to center stage? There are so many other places to go than going to earth.
I really, really, REALLY want this game. I know it will be epic, and ne f the best games Ive ever played. I just hope Earth isnt as huge a deal in the actual game as is implied in the trailer.

 

[Souplex]

The real question: If there is multiplayer, will it be local? If not it doesn't matter.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

ME2 perfectly ended. It shouldn't continue because it's going to ruin the story... Well for me.

The perfect ending is leaving the entire army of enemies that you've been building up to fight alive and ready to attack?

I too thought it was a rather stupid statement.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

God dammit. I want this game so bad already, I am looing forward to it so much... But really? They have to bring it to earth. .

Dude don't worry, it'll probably just be the opening.

Both ME games let you travel between a tonne of worlds at your will, I doubt ME3 is going to be completely focused on Earth.

 

[SturmDolch]

Looks like I have to get started on the first one. I bought it off Steam one year ago. I got to the first major city, and spent hours exploring it and talking to everyone. After that, I was so burnt out that I couldn't finish the game. But it should be exactly the type of game I like.

 

[Echo136]

Who here was actually surprised it was Mass Effect 3. Anyone?

Anyways, I know what Im asking for christmas next year.

 

[The Cake Is Annoying]

Thanks Bioware for spoiling yet again what will happened in the later stages of the main mission.
No build up or anything just POW! REAPERS INVADING, GATHER PEOPLE TO PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE,
THEN FIND THE DEUS EX MACHINEMA AND WHIPE THEM OUT ( unless they go for the rumored dark energy plot line.).

Eh... Like Reapers invading wasn't going to happen. Anyone who's played ME1 pretty much called that.

Thespian is absolutely right here. There's been foreshadowing. As for an attack on earth? More foreshadowing. Nothing that has happened is mindblowing or without simple explanations.

Also your attitude to spoilers is stunningly wrongheaded

If you don't like spoilers, you share at least as much blame for choosing watching the trailer as BioWare do for putting that information in there.

Hell, "rumored dark energy plot line." - you're even listening to rumors on the off chance you can find even more spoilers? If you don't like spoilers, *at least don't go hunting for rumors in the off chance you'll find some more*!

tl;dr IF DON'T LIKE SPOILERS; DON'T GO HUNT SPOILERS.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Is that Sean Bean? That would be awesome.

 

[The Cake Is Annoying]

The real question: If there is multiplayer, will it be local? If not it doesn't matter.

Why would they introduce multiplayer now, so late into the series, of a narrative driven RPG? That's like complaining that a book isn't multiplayer to me.

"Hurry up and skip the cutscene!"

Why would they work so hard - from scratch - to add a problem (it is not a feature) like that?

 

[InevitableFate]

Interesting that they've choson London. I mean, if it were me I'd have guessed they'd go for New York or some other major American city. Of course, being English I have no complaints, it's just a bit strange.

Also strange that the rather delicate, now well over a century old Millenium Wheel is still standing despite the Reaper's massive weapons. Also I'd have thought the UK's centre of government would have been one of the first targets. Apparently not.

Still, crazy Reapers, with all the rain we get they'll be rusted husks before the day is out.

 

[Vladimir Francois Tchaikovski]

That wasnt a scottish accent, dont you mean price or ghost/gaz?

Should be amazing but its a bit dissapointing that all those cryptic clues were just leading up to the announcement of a game we already knew was on it's way.