Mass Effect 3's Shepard Isn't Afraid of a Good Brawl

[OManoghue]

Hopefully sped up combat means quicker cooldowns for biotic and tech powers. And not unrealistically fast animations like DA2.

 

[teebeeohh]

damn you bioware, i have other things to do than play your games.
now i have to play through ME3 at least 3 times: with my paragon adept, my renegade soldier and i just have to play the class that can built turrets, 200 hours of turret-building in TF2 can't be wrong.

the changes do sound nice, space battles and weapon mods are two things pretty much everyone would have liked in ME2, more variations to go from cover to cover sound nice since ME2 was a little too static for my taste.I generally don't like 3rd person chest-high wall shooters but the abilities of the different classes (even if it's just bullet time) really made shit more interesting. Now if they just add a little more RPG elements(meaning opportunities to pend my points after leveling up) maybe some passive skills for weapon handling and xp for killing enemies i will be happy.

 

[Stevepinto3]

And what about that age old adage "never punch a Krogan"?

You are Commander-Mother-Fuckin-Shepard. You eat Krogans for breakfast.

But even Commander Shepard does so with modern weaponry and for all his/her cybernetics, his/her fists don't count as ones.

Heavy Skinweave 5/5

Actually it's maximum is 7/7 if you have all the DLC.
But anyway, while I used melee somewhat in ME2, melee-centric class seems out of place to me. If there are long range weapons that work well, why bother with kickking, punching and stabbing the enemy to death when just shooting them is an option?

Why NOT?

 

[RA92]

Way to only say 360 and PS3. Let's forget about us folks who prefer our Mass Effect on the PC.

Hmm, whenever I see a game that doesn't have A PC version (which is a lot of them these days) it is all but guaranteed that someone will come along and say "WHY AREN'T WE GETTING A PC VERSION?!?!?!
It used to be a bit funny to watch people get in a twist about it, but now it is just seeming so damn prevalent that it is actually getting annoying, end of the day, PC isn't bringing in the money it used to, consoles are a sure bet, and a comparatively small portion of the console crowd gets in peoples face about things.

God's Clown pointed a genuine mistake, since, you know, there's a PC version as well (it's in the Eurogamer link itself). No need to act like such a smart ass. Honestly, you console trolls are as bad as the PC elitists.

 

[sofaspud]

... turrets?

*sob*

I'm... I'm so happy!

It would be just perfect if you could somehow cross-class... my infiltrator/engineer Shepard could finally come to glorious life! And pshaw -- pshaw, I say! -- on the enhanced melee abilities. While you melee-loving miscreants are murdering with your meathooks, I'll be sniping and cackling over the downed corpses of my enemies who never saw me coming. Hah haha hah!

... I need to play through the first two games. Again.

 

[rsvp42]

Are you trying to round about accuse me of having no friends in the real world? I'm not entirely clear about the point of that part of your response was.

Wha? No, I just meant that sometimes I make a big stink about things online, but then I just give into them anyway because no one would know, since I don't have the same conversations/debates online that I do with my friends, many of which are not avid gamers. Like how I bought Rift despite saying I wouldn't due to it being a bland WoW stepchild. I wasn't trying to insult you.

But I digress.

Well random internet people are who convinced me to begin with. I don't vote republican, I buy eggs milk and meat directly from farms who I know don't leave their animals wallowing in their on feces or sadistically cruel small cages like the way mega corporation farms do, I sure as hell don't buy from Walmart the way they treat their Chinese workers is so bad that it's illegal even in China not to mention the dozens of worker rights violations they're being sued for right here in America, and I do not buy games from EA because their marketing department is a bunch of rabid monkeys and the rest of the corporation is either too arrogant or too stupid to fire them.

I, and my friends, go against the generation x way of doing things.... which would be complaining about Walmart being evil racist, sexist, and soul crushing and how someone should do something... while shopping in a Walmart store.

Forgive me, but EA having lame marketing doesn't sound as bad as those other things. I'm not suggesting you change your stance, I'm just saying I probably would have picked some examples that made EA look worse in comparison, not better.

 

[RagnorakTres]

... I need to play through the first two games. Again.

Of course you do! That's part of the point of this article, to excite you about the game and make you recreate the save files that you lost when you installed Windows 7 without backing THEM UP.

*deep breaths*

Sorry, got a liiiitle worked up there.

 

[Mad Hamish]

Oh goodie. We get to go to another god damn New York City.

I'm fucking sick of New York. Can we please explore other destroyed cities please? Like Berlin, or Paris, or Chicago, or Montreal, or anyplace else?

Bah, my bitching aside, better melee combat makes me excited. And hopefully they make Soldier/Adept/Engineer/Sentinal more interesting to play. Engie turret sounds neat, but I hope the others have more interesting abilities.

The article picture shows London being destroyed, so I'm guessing the game won't feature just NYC.

 

[Canid117]

The Illusive Man is pissed at you for unexplained reasons.

Maybe because I blew up his favorite station, recruited his hot Australian second in command and stole his super expensive private warship.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

GAH!!! I cant wait, and engineers can make turrets. YES! I truly can't wait for this year, and November is going to make me go broke.

 

[Drago-Morph]

Oh goodie. We get to go to another god damn New York City.

I'm fucking sick of New York. Can we please explore other destroyed cities please? Like Berlin, or Paris, or Chicago, or Montreal, or anyplace else?

Bah, my bitching aside, better melee combat makes me excited. And hopefully they make Soldier/Adept/Engineer/Sentinal more interesting to play. Engie turret sounds neat, but I hope the others have more interesting abilities.

I wish Boston would get attacked. Boston's awesome.

 

[Brockyman]

Will there be Space Ducks? Can we go to Space Australia?

(Go Space Broncos!)

I'm hoping the new combat works well 'cause, I gotta say, I was pleased enough with 2's. Sounds like there are a ton of changes... hope they're good.

Quack!

"Oh, it's just a space duck, such a majestic creature..."

 

[Android2137]

Speaking of Cerberus, the pro-human qasi-terrorist organization is back, and chain-smoking head honcho The Illusive Man is pissed at you for unexplained reasons. So along with fighting Reapers, Husks, and who-knows-what else, you're going to have to contend with Cerberus mechs, assault units, and shock troops bearing a striking resemblance to ninjas.

Ugh, I hope he's not trying to kill me. That would really clash against story. He has no good reason to kill me. If he just wants to catch me so he can implant that control chip Miranda suggested into my head, then I'm satisfied. If he turns out to be indoctrinated, I have to confess its plausibility, but it wouldn't satisfy me.

 

[Godhead]

Garrus has always been one for snappy combat dialogue ("Impressive! Scoped and dropped!"), I wonder if he's going to be getting a new line to add to his repertoire for dealing with Cerberus walkers...

"Massive damage!"

I still think they should get Garrus to spout out random Unreal Tournament quotes.

 

[Solid Reece]

Dear EA:

Why not give it to me. I'll make sure EA gets it. (Gives to Bioware)

 

[Spacecat-V]

Will I be able to do a wind up biotic punch kinda like what jack looked like she was gonna do when you first see her in me2? If yes, will I be able to do it on space ninjas? Wait...did you say space combat...as in combat in space?? I should of reserved this game yesterday

 

[Spacecat-V]

sure give it to Bioware, EA will simply give them more, after why did bioware got bought by them? Creative freedom? HA!

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

i fucking htae getting overhyped..

but man everything i'm reading about this game is getting me hyped! i'm so intrigued on every aspect of me3...GIMMEE!

 

[Shadow Geo]

Whooooaa whoa... If we can't change classes in Mass Effect 3, then how are we supposed to get into this new awesome 'heavy melee' class? Start a new game?

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

This game is going to be the Return of the Jedi of our Generation......Just wait and see.