Mass Effect 3 Trailer Confirms Earth is Screwed

[sagacious]

A few million in the first week?

Doesn't anyone else find that weird? It's a planet extermination, and all they could do in a week is a few million out of several billion?

He's just talking about losses in london

Anywho, as long as the game isn't set on earth in it's majority i'll be happy. like maybe have earth be about 10-15% of the game would be right in my mind.

Though, it makes since that the reapers would go after earth first considering that sovereign was basically taken out soley by alliance 5th fleet (all human) and normandy's crew (mostly human)

 

[Flying-Emu]

Oh wow, they're going to Earth. Big shocker, amirite?

Really, did anyone not see this coming?

I honestly didn't, if only because it doesn't make much sense to me. I don't get how the Reapers, considering the position they have been knocked into due to Shepard's destruction of their saboteurs, could launch a surprise attack. Let alone a well coordinated one on earth itself.

Now I'm wondering how they're going to justify the council inevitably not doing anything for the majority of the game when a major planet is under attack.

I knew Bioware in all their glory would find some stupidly incomprehensible way for it to happen. Because it's totally logical that gigantic synthetic warships would be able to get all the way through Citadel space without any sort of knowledge, and would attack EARTH rather than destroying the center of galactic trade, politics, and culture.

The council won't do anything because they're fucking cowards and "they don't want to anger their new alien overlords."

Calling it.

I guess Harbinger really wants to make that human reaper.

Reaper: "Hey Harbinger, I had an idea."
Harbinger: "Yes?"
Reaper: "Instead of attacking earth to capture humans right away, maybe we should just hold off on that?"
Harbinger: "What, why?"
Reaper: "Well, I just think it would be better to take out the citadel, crippling the galactic trade and travel network, allowing us to pick of each civilization one by one. You know, like we usually do. What do you think?"
Harbinger: "RRRREEEEAAAAAPPPPPEEEEERRRRR!!!!!!"

I find it amusing that the eldritch abomination from beyond the galacxy can still be portrayed as an incompetent fuck. Oh Bioware, it's rare to find a company that produces writing you both love and hate at the same time.

That's the thing for me. Bioware does relationships and in-party dialogue like a piece of fuckin' art, but they can't do ANYTHING else. Overall, their plots tend to leave much to be desired.

 

[Tahmoh]

Well from the way the galactic map shows it earth is sorta on the edge so probably an easier target than trying to gain access to the citadel again, plus it personalises the story abit more. the turian homeworld will probably be attacked aswell at some point as theres is one of the only major races planet we havent seen so far(besides the salarians and hanar)so ive got a feeling that the annoying ambassador will get humbled by "the reapers"

Im just hoping they release a nice big shivering isles style piece of dlc for the second game that serves as a nice prequel/lead in for mass effect 3.

 

[Littlee300]

Oh wow, they're going to Earth. Big shocker, amirite?

Really, did anyone not see this coming?

I honestly didn't, if only because it doesn't make much sense to me. I don't get how the Reapers, considering the position they have been knocked into due to Shepard's destruction of their saboteurs, could launch a surprise attack. Let alone a well coordinated one on earth itself.

Now I'm wondering how they're going to justify the council inevitably not doing anything for the majority of the game when a major planet is under attack.

I knew Bioware in all their glory would find some stupidly incomprehensible way for it to happen. Because it's totally logical that gigantic synthetic warships would be able to get all the way through Citadel space without any sort of knowledge, and would attack EARTH rather than destroying the center of galactic trade, politics, and culture.

The council won't do anything because they're fucking cowards and "they don't want to anger their new alien overlords."

Calling it.

I guess Harbinger really wants to make that human reaper.

Reaper: "Hey Harbinger, I had an idea."
Harbinger: "Yes?"
Reaper: "Instead of attacking earth to capture humans right away, maybe we should just hold off on that?"
Harbinger: "What, why?"
Reaper: "Well, I just think it would be better to take out the citadel, crippling the galactic trade and travel network, allowing us to pick of each civilization one by one. You know, like we usually do. What do you think?"
Harbinger: "RRRREEEEAAAAAPPPPPEEEEERRRRR!!!!!!"

I find it amusing that the eldritch abomination from beyond the galacxy can still be portrayed as an incompetent fuck. Oh Bioware, it's rare to find a company that produces writing you both love and hate at the same time.

That's the thing for me. Bioware does relationships and in-party dialogue like a piece of fuckin' art, but they can't do ANYTHING else. Overall, their plots tend to leave much to be desired.

What do you want? A prequel in a earlier war in Mass effect lore? Hmm... that sounds interesting... maybe you could play as Anderson too o;

 

[Flying-Emu]

Oh wow, they're going to Earth. Big shocker, amirite?

Really, did anyone not see this coming?

I honestly didn't, if only because it doesn't make much sense to me. I don't get how the Reapers, considering the position they have been knocked into due to Shepard's destruction of their saboteurs, could launch a surprise attack. Let alone a well coordinated one on earth itself.

Now I'm wondering how they're going to justify the council inevitably not doing anything for the majority of the game when a major planet is under attack.

I knew Bioware in all their glory would find some stupidly incomprehensible way for it to happen. Because it's totally logical that gigantic synthetic warships would be able to get all the way through Citadel space without any sort of knowledge, and would attack EARTH rather than destroying the center of galactic trade, politics, and culture.

The council won't do anything because they're fucking cowards and "they don't want to anger their new alien overlords."

Calling it.

I guess Harbinger really wants to make that human reaper.

Reaper: "Hey Harbinger, I had an idea."
Harbinger: "Yes?"
Reaper: "Instead of attacking earth to capture humans right away, maybe we should just hold off on that?"
Harbinger: "What, why?"
Reaper: "Well, I just think it would be better to take out the citadel, crippling the galactic trade and travel network, allowing us to pick of each civilization one by one. You know, like we usually do. What do you think?"
Harbinger: "RRRREEEEAAAAAPPPPPEEEEERRRRR!!!!!!"

I find it amusing that the eldritch abomination from beyond the galacxy can still be portrayed as an incompetent fuck. Oh Bioware, it's rare to find a company that produces writing you both love and hate at the same time.

That's the thing for me. Bioware does relationships and in-party dialogue like a piece of fuckin' art, but they can't do ANYTHING else. Overall, their plots tend to leave much to be desired.

What do you want? A prequel in a earlier war in Mass effect lore? Hmm... that sounds interesting... maybe you could play as Anderson too o;

I want something that isn't as cliched as "ZOMG I'M UR FATHER."

*EDIT*

Especially since it makes absolutely no fuckin' sense

 

[Upbeat Zombie]

A few million in the first week?

Doesn't anyone else find that weird? It's a planet extermination, and all they could do in a week is a few million out of several billion?

I think they mean just in London.

Anyway can't wait for this game to come out.

 

[Internet Kraken]

That's the thing for me. Bioware does relationships and in-party dialogue like a piece of fuckin' art, but they can't do ANYTHING else. Overall, their plots tend to leave much to be desired.

Agreed. I'm going to buy Mass Effect 3 for a lot of reasons, but I honestly could buy it just to here more dialogue from Mordin and Legion. If they get pushed into some minor side-role, I will be crushed.

Especially since it makes absolutely no fuckin' sense

You know, the more I think about it the less sense it really does make. Didn't the AI in the first game say the reason the Reapers were so effective was because they always took out the Citadel first, crippling the ability for each galactic community to defend each other? Thus the Reapers could wipe them out at their leisure. But here they're attacking a major civilizations home world right away. Harbinger might as well be saying "HEY GALAXY, WE'RE ATTACKING NOW! ARE YOU READY? BECAUSE WE'RE HERE! JUST THOUGHT WE'D LET YOU KNOW!".

I guess without Sovereign to keep him in check, Harbinger's collection fetish is clouding his judgment.

 

[Warachia]

Spoiler

****MASS EFFECT 1 & 2 SPOILERS****

I'm amused how the Reapers' logic goes from "destroy all life in the galaxy with one, fell swoop" to "aww, screw it, let's just do the 'invade earth' thing."

Especially considering their "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em phase" in the middle.

It just seems like they're getting incrementally less competant.

****END SPOILERS****

That said, next year's Christmas can't come quickly enough...

first, quote me to learn how to do spoiler tags

Spoiler

figured it out?

secondly, invasion has always been thier strategy, they come, destroy the military, take slaves, make more, then leave.

 

[Vrex360]

It looks so different to the other Mass Effect games, so much less cartoony I guess is the word if that makes sense.
Whatever, I imagine it will be epic and my paragon Shepard will save the world and the galaxy from the Reapers or my (user)name isn't Vrex360!!

 

[tacolishish]

I'm gonna call the story right now, shepards "friends" are the aliens that turned into the collectors, more specificly a group of them that went into stasis pods and had found out the reapers weakness to be i don't know a banana cream pie launcher and he must collect the parts to this device like an intergalactic version of a scavenger hunt and save humans from reaper death as well. and near the end the reapers find ut about this and send a reaper and escort to stop you. you kill the reaper get the rest of the parts and go to earth(by this time new space capital of reapers) and use this weapon in a fish in a barrel being shot by a departicalization-ray way. the reapers die shepard has victory sex and the game says you win.

 

[tthor]

forgive me, but this just seems pathetic on the Reaper's part. only 9 million dead in a week? if i were commanding an army of giant godlike robotships, i would have atleast 90million dead by the first day i would hope. i mean come on, its an entire dam army of reapers! and i specificly remember mention of a ship cannon in Mass Effect 2 who's impact is 3 the amount of energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima; why not just fire those all over the planet? am i the only one that thinks its sad that the reapers could only manage to kill less than 1% of the earth population in a week? you disappoint me, robotic demigods >.>

 

[Kizna]

EDIT: If I get the chance to abandon Earth, I TOTALLY would. You guys can't say that you wouldn't like to see the home of human stupidity brought to perfection blown away.

Insert joke about Sarah Palin here.

 

[tthor]

I'm gonna call the story right now, shepards "friends" are the aliens that turned into the collectors, more specificly a group of them that went into stasis pods and had found out the reapers weakness to be i don't know a banana cream pie launcher and he must collect the parts to this device like an intergalactic version of a scavenger hunt and save humans from reaper death as well. and near the end the reapers find ut about this and send a reaper and escort to stop you. you kill the reaper get the rest of the parts and go to earth(by this time new space capital of reapers) and use this weapon in a fish in a barrel being shot by a departicalization-ray way. the reapers die shepard has victory sex and the game says you win.

stasis pods for 50000 years? the ones in the stasis pods on that one planet from Mass Effect 1 didn't even have enough energy to keep any of them alive for even a few hundred years.

 

[Warachia]

That's the thing for me. Bioware does relationships and in-party dialogue like a piece of fuckin' art, but they can't do ANYTHING else. Overall, their plots tend to leave much to be desired.

Agreed. I'm going to buy Mass Effect 3 for a lot of reasons, but I honestly could buy it just to here more dialogue from Mordin and Legion. If they get pushed into some minor side-role, I will be crushed.

Especially since it makes absolutely no fuckin' sense

You know, the more I think about it the less sense it really does make. Didn't the AI in the first game say the reason the Reapers were so effective was because they always took out the Citadel first, crippling the ability for each galactic community to defend each other? Thus the Reapers could wipe them out at their leisure. But here they're attacking a major civilizations home world right away. Harbinger might as well be saying "HEY GALAXY, WE'RE ATTACKING NOW! ARE YOU READY? BECAUSE WE'RE HERE! JUST THOUGHT WE'D LET YOU KNOW!".

I guess without Sovereign to keep him in check, Harbinger's collection fetish is clouding his judgment.

No, the reapers were effective because nobody knew they were there until it was too late, crippling the citadel only stopped them from sending transmissions about the reapers, these races would have counter measures set up to make sure this type of thing doesn't happen.

Also, the galaxy is already on watch, the alliance (humans) because cerberus has strong ties to them, the geth, rachni, quarian, and krogan as well, how would the reapers sneak in? Also, it was established in the past that humanity is one of the weakest (if most numerous) of the galactic races. Who would you attack first? And a little final point, the reapers ONLY attack major civilizations, they wait until a civilization is in its prime, then attack it, doing anything else here would be out of the reapers character.

Note: I do genuinly want an answer(s), not an argument, because I'd like to know how you came to those conclusions, and what you would do.

 

[mjc0961]

I thought the trailer confirms that the Reapers are screwed. I guess I have more faith in Shepard than Tom does.

Looks like that fish...
Was a red herring.


YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

I was hoping it would be something different, but hey, ME3 is still cool.

 

[mjc0961]

You know, the more I think about it the less sense it really does make. Didn't the AI in the first game say the reason the Reapers were so effective was because they always took out the Citadel first, crippling the ability for each galactic community to defend each other? Thus the Reapers could wipe them out at their leisure. But here they're attacking a major civilizations home world right away. Harbinger might as well be saying "HEY GALAXY, WE'RE ATTACKING NOW! ARE YOU READY? BECAUSE WE'RE HERE! JUST THOUGHT WE'D LET YOU KNOW!".

Yeah they said something like that. But see after the AI in the first game told you that, you promptly go and stop that from happening. The Reapers can't come through the Citadel like the AI told you because they already tried and Shepard ruined their shit. So they have to try another approach.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

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.

Quite wrong you are about that last statement. Talk to any one of my friends, this is probably all I've been talking about since ME2 came out.

 

[Canid117]

What did the sniper in the tower shoot again?

Looks like a collector. Or maybe another indoctrinated victim?

OT: Is it me or does mr pommy there looks slightly like jason statham?

Looked like a husk to me.

 

[Internet Kraken]

No, the reapers were effective because nobody knew they were there until it was too late, crippling the citadel only stopped them from sending transmissions about the reapers, these races would have counter measures set up to make sure this type of thing doesn't happen.

The Citadel is the center of the mass relay network. All roads lead to it, and subsequently depend on it. If it gets taken out, huge portions of the galaxy are isolated. Taking something like that out should be the first priority in the Reaper's invasion, and according to the games themselves it always has been. Why they suddenly switched over to invading major planets first rather than crippling to travel network doesn't make much sense. That just allows all the species to gang up on the Reapers before they can isolate them.

Which is exactly what this trailer suggests we will be doing.

Also, the galaxy is already on watch, the alliance (humans) because cerberus has strong ties to them, the geth, rachni, quarian, and krogan as well, how would the reapers sneak in?

That's a good point. So explain how they managed to get to Earth, which is even deeper in the relay network than the Citadel.

Also, it was established in the past that humanity is one of the weakest (if most numerous) of the galactic races. Who would you attack first?

That's completley wrong. Humans are one of the strongest species. They are newcomers, but they have already created a strong presence across the galaxy. I'm not saying the other races aren't powerful, but humans definitely aren't considerably weaker than the other 3 major players (salarians, turians, and asari). But even if they were, attacking them doesn't make much sense since it would give the stronger species more time to prepare.

And a little final point, the reapers ONLY attack major civilizations, they wait until a civilization is in its prime, then attack it, doing anything else here would be out of the reapers character.

What does that have to do with anything I said? I'm not seeing the relevance.

Yeah they said something like that. But see after the AI in the first game told you that, you promptly go and stop that from happening. The Reapers can't come through the Citadel like the AI told you because they already tried and Shepard ruined their shit. So they have to try another approach.

Just because their first plan didn't work doesn't change the fact that the Citadel is still a priority target. The role it plays in the overall scheme of things is the same, thus it should have the same importance in the Reaper's plan. I just don't see the tactical benefit to taking out Earth and giving each species time to prepare and team up in the process as opposed to separating them all from each other by seizing the citadel.

People here are making story judgments awfully quick for a trailer that doesn't give away the details of the invasion. If Vigil is anything to go by, Bioware pays careful attention to the details. Who says they didn't shut down the Mass Relays that lead to Earth? Disabling Relays is part of their invasion strategies. It's how they divide and conquer.

Eh, I know I'm being unfair to the game by judging it on the trailer alone. But because one of the main aspects of Bioware game's is the story, I immediately start thinking about that. Even when very little has actually been revealed yet.

Not saying the game will suck mind you. Just examining what little I know about the story from the trailer.