ME3 First Impressions *Spoiler Free*

[boag]

I don't have the game but my brother picked it up. From what he has told me (spolier free of course) my fears seem to be coming true about this game. He's about a day in and there still is no explianation as to why your suddenly on earth, why or even how your stripped of command and why you have a new normanday, and what the heck even happened to your crew from the second game. These are huge things that should have been thought of before the game came out. Yet they seem to be more focused on just trying to get more sales from non mass effect fans.

He'll tell me later if these questions get answered but right now I'm not liking any of the single player stuff I'm hearing so far and I'm pretty pissed about it.

All that gets explained pretty early except for the ME2 crew. You've been out of touch with them for 6-months so its just a matter of finding where they are as the story progresses. An example:

Spoiler

I met with Thane on the Citadel pretty early on.

one more question.

Have you had any trouble giving squadmates only 1 gun?

 

[Fappy]

I don't have the game but my brother picked it up. From what he has told me (spolier free of course) my fears seem to be coming true about this game. He's about a day in and there still is no explianation as to why your suddenly on earth, why or even how your stripped of command and why you have a new normanday, and what the heck even happened to your crew from the second game. These are huge things that should have been thought of before the game came out. Yet they seem to be more focused on just trying to get more sales from non mass effect fans.

He'll tell me later if these questions get answered but right now I'm not liking any of the single player stuff I'm hearing so far and I'm pretty pissed about it.

All that gets explained pretty early except for the ME2 crew. You've been out of touch with them for 6-months so its just a matter of finding where they are as the story progresses. An example:

Spoiler

I met with Thane on the Citadel pretty early on.

one more question.

Have you had any trouble giving squadmates only 1 gun?

I don't think I tried that... though I don't see why you wouldn't want them to have two. As far as I can tell they don't actually have weight meters so their cooldowns are not affected by what weapons they have. If it actually does then I am at a loss for why the meter isn't displayed for your squaddies. I am sure you probably can give them one weapon if you want, regardless.

 

[Lilani]

-snip-

Question: When you make a new character, do you have several options for the decisions you made in the past (who lived/died that sort of thing), or is it still only Ashley or Kaiden like it was in the demo? Because I wasn't able to import my character from ME1 and if the demo tricked me and I have to go without Wrex again I will not be a happy camper :-\

 

[boag]

I don't have the game but my brother picked it up. From what he has told me (spolier free of course) my fears seem to be coming true about this game. He's about a day in and there still is no explianation as to why your suddenly on earth, why or even how your stripped of command and why you have a new normanday, and what the heck even happened to your crew from the second game. These are huge things that should have been thought of before the game came out. Yet they seem to be more focused on just trying to get more sales from non mass effect fans.

He'll tell me later if these questions get answered but right now I'm not liking any of the single player stuff I'm hearing so far and I'm pretty pissed about it.

All that gets explained pretty early except for the ME2 crew. You've been out of touch with them for 6-months so its just a matter of finding where they are as the story progresses. An example:

Spoiler

I met with Thane on the Citadel pretty early on.

one more question.

Have you had any trouble giving squadmates only 1 gun?

I don't think I tried that... though I don't see why you wouldn't want them to have two. As far as I can tell they don't actually have weight meters so their cooldowns are not affected by what weapons they have. If it actually does then I am at a loss for why the meter isn't displayed for your squaddies. I am sure you probably can give them one weapon if you want, regardless.

can you test it out and give some feedback please?

 

[Fappy]

-snip-

Question: When you make a new character, do you have several options for the decisions you made in the past (who lived/died that sort of thing), or is it still only Ashley or Kaiden like it was in the demo? Because I wasn't able to import my character from ME1 and if the demo tricked me and I have to go without Wrex again I will not be a happy camper :-\

This a quote that's been floating around on BSN, "By default, Wrex and Kaidan died on Virmire, Shepard killed the rachni queen, and the council died in Sovereign's attack on the Citadel. From ME2, only Mordin, Garrus, Tali, Miranda, and Jacob are left standing."

I haven't tried making a new Shepard myself and if this statement is true I would definitely recommend playing ME2 if you can.

 

[Fappy]

I don't have the game but my brother picked it up. From what he has told me (spolier free of course) my fears seem to be coming true about this game. He's about a day in and there still is no explianation as to why your suddenly on earth, why or even how your stripped of command and why you have a new normanday, and what the heck even happened to your crew from the second game. These are huge things that should have been thought of before the game came out. Yet they seem to be more focused on just trying to get more sales from non mass effect fans.

He'll tell me later if these questions get answered but right now I'm not liking any of the single player stuff I'm hearing so far and I'm pretty pissed about it.

All that gets explained pretty early except for the ME2 crew. You've been out of touch with them for 6-months so its just a matter of finding where they are as the story progresses. An example:

Spoiler

I met with Thane on the Citadel pretty early on.

one more question.

Have you had any trouble giving squadmates only 1 gun?

I don't think I tried that... though I don't see why you wouldn't want them to have two. As far as I can tell they don't actually have weight meters so their cooldowns are not affected by what weapons they have. If it actually does then I am at a loss for why the meter isn't displayed for your squaddies. I am sure you probably can give them one weapon if you want, regardless.

can you test it out and give some feedback please?

Yeah I will when I get home in an hour or so.

 

[boag]

I don't have the game but my brother picked it up. From what he has told me (spolier free of course) my fears seem to be coming true about this game. He's about a day in and there still is no explianation as to why your suddenly on earth, why or even how your stripped of command and why you have a new normanday, and what the heck even happened to your crew from the second game. These are huge things that should have been thought of before the game came out. Yet they seem to be more focused on just trying to get more sales from non mass effect fans.

He'll tell me later if these questions get answered but right now I'm not liking any of the single player stuff I'm hearing so far and I'm pretty pissed about it.

All that gets explained pretty early except for the ME2 crew. You've been out of touch with them for 6-months so its just a matter of finding where they are as the story progresses. An example:

Spoiler

I met with Thane on the Citadel pretty early on.

one more question.

Have you had any trouble giving squadmates only 1 gun?

I don't think I tried that... though I don't see why you wouldn't want them to have two. As far as I can tell they don't actually have weight meters so their cooldowns are not affected by what weapons they have. If it actually does then I am at a loss for why the meter isn't displayed for your squaddies. I am sure you probably can give them one weapon if you want, regardless.

can you test it out and give some feedback please?

Yeah I will when I get home in an hour or so.

awesome, will be waiting for info since I probably wont be playing it till tomorrow

 

[gigastrike]

Pros: I love the added customization for both weapons and skill trees.

Cons: The cover system is tough to use.

 

[Fappy]

Pros: I love the added customization for both weapons and skill trees.

Cons: The cover system is tough to use.

As an adapt I barely ever use cover. I think I need to turn the difficulty up to Hardcore because I am one-shotting half of the mob waves with single biotic explosions.

 

[Keava]

- Character models/animations/etc: I don't know what happened between games, but some characters look completely different now. Whether they are prettier now or uglier I think Admiral Hackett is the only human character that doesn't look different from ME1 and 2. Liara looks weird and it bothers me. Some of the animations, as I am sure you guys have heard or seen in the demo, are just straight up goofy.

From disappointing things I've seen really is the fact that PC version don't have high resolution pack. We get the same, visually subpar, version as consoles and That's a huge minus.

In cutscenes/dialogue it's just painful to look at the pixels poking out at you, like they could certainly use one or two more subdivision levels. There is also the fact that some important NPCs have higher quality and detail face textures than Shepard and the "random human NPCs". making the player character stand out on close-ups in a bad way (compare Ashley's face detail to Shepard's)

Pretty much everything looks like it looked in demo. Big disappointment. Hoping for either BW or community to come out with high-rez pack at some point.

 

[Amax29]

Man this thread is making me feel soooooo much better about pre-ordering this game, cheers for making it Fappy Anyway so far based on what you have seen where would you rate it compared to the other Mass Effect games? Also how do the Biotic abilities control? I had a lot of trouble bending them around cover in the Demo.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Liara does look different. Her face has a weird texture. It doesn't look good.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Admiral Hackett is the only human character that doesn't look different from ME1 and 2.

I could be wrong but we've never seen Admiral Hackett in person up until ME3, unless he was in some DLC.

Also, I noticed that the lip syncing was off in the demo. Is it still as bad in the released version?

 

[Lilani]

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Question: When you make a new character, do you have several options for the decisions you made in the past (who lived/died that sort of thing), or is it still only Ashley or Kaiden like it was in the demo? Because I wasn't able to import my character from ME1 and if the demo tricked me and I have to go without Wrex again I will not be a happy camper :-\

This a quote that's been floating around on BSN, "By default, Wrex and Kaidan died on Virmire, Shepard killed the rachni queen, and the council died in Sovereign's attack on the Citadel. From ME2, only Mordin, Garrus, Tali, Miranda, and Jacob are left standing."

I haven't tried making a new Shepard myself and if this statement is true I would definitely recommend playing ME2 if you can.

I have played ME2. My problem is ME1--I played ME1 on Steam, but ME2 was from a physical disc. I kept Wrex around, but I wasn't able to transfer my info from ME1 so I had to make a new character in ME2. So now I'm without Wrex by default, and it makes me sad :-\ It's such bullshit, and so easily fixed.

 

[Lilani]

Double post, sorry. Silly captchas.

 

[Keava]

I have played ME2. My problem is ME1--I played ME1 on Steam, but ME2 was from a physical disc. I kept Wrex around, but I wasn't able to transfer my info from ME1 so I had to make a new character in ME2. So now I'm without Wrex by default, and it makes me sad :-\ It's such bullshit, and so easily fixed.

There is always easy solution. Go to www.masseffectsaves.com , pick a save that suits You, eventually tweak it a little bit with save editor, and voila, You can play with all the choices You would make.

 

[Xangba]

Pros: I love the added customization for both weapons and skill trees.

Cons: The cover system is tough to use.

As an adapt I barely ever use cover. I think I need to turn the difficulty up to Hardcore because I am one-shotting half of the mob waves with single biotic explosions.

Adept wrecks things on less than insanity. Always has. On insanity the enemies can actually do enough damage to force you into cover and make you time your attacks better.

 

[mrblakemiller]

Impression of playing only about four hours: Chobot is awful, awful, awful. Glad she wasn't in the first two games.

 

[Lilani]

I have played ME2. My problem is ME1--I played ME1 on Steam, but ME2 was from a physical disc. I kept Wrex around, but I wasn't able to transfer my info from ME1 so I had to make a new character in ME2. So now I'm without Wrex by default, and it makes me sad :-\ It's such bullshit, and so easily fixed.

There is always easy solution. Go to www.masseffectsaves.com , pick a save that suits You, eventually tweak it a little bit with save editor, and voila, You can play with all the choices You would make.

Oh, thank you! Man, I might replay through ME2 with one of those. I loved Wrex, and it pissed me off that I had to lose him just because Bioware was too lazy to put the "choose your past" function in the character creator.

 

[Fappy]

Man this thread is making me feel soooooo much better about pre-ordering this game, cheers for making it Fappy Anyway so far based on what you have seen where would you rate it compared to the other Mass Effect games? Also how do the Biotic abilities control? I had a lot of trouble bending them around cover in the Demo.

I think it's too early for me to rank it among the other two, but I am a huge fanboy of the original so its going to take a lot to beat ME1 (i.e. it probably won't lol).

On biotics: It just takes some getting used to. The biotics have a much higher velocity than they did in ME1&2 so it's just a matter of predicting how and when the biotic power will curve.

Liara does look different. Her face has a weird texture. It doesn't look good.

She looked so much better in Lair of the Shadow Broker

Admiral Hackett is the only human character that doesn't look different from ME1 and 2.

I could be wrong but we've never seen Admiral Hackett in person up until ME3, unless he was in some DLC.

Also, I noticed that the lip syncing was off in the demo. Is it still as bad in the released version?

Yeah he is in the DLC "Arrival". The lip syncing seems to be inconsistent. I believe it may have to do with poor optimization. If the frames lag a bit for a second it goes out of sync with the audio for a tiny bit. Not terrible so far.

-snip-

Question: When you make a new character, do you have several options for the decisions you made in the past (who lived/died that sort of thing), or is it still only Ashley or Kaiden like it was in the demo? Because I wasn't able to import my character from ME1 and if the demo tricked me and I have to go without Wrex again I will not be a happy camper :-\

This a quote that's been floating around on BSN, "By default, Wrex and Kaidan died on Virmire, Shepard killed the rachni queen, and the council died in Sovereign's attack on the Citadel. From ME2, only Mordin, Garrus, Tali, Miranda, and Jacob are left standing."

I haven't tried making a new Shepard myself and if this statement is true I would definitely recommend playing ME2 if you can.

I have played ME2. My problem is ME1--I played ME1 on Steam, but ME2 was from a physical disc. I kept Wrex around, but I wasn't able to transfer my info from ME1 so I had to make a new character in ME2. So now I'm without Wrex by default, and it makes me sad :-\ It's such bullshit, and so easily fixed.

There is a mod you can use that can edit save files. You could go into your ME2 save and change the fact that Wrex had died to him living. I have limited experience with the PC version though so I have never used it. Look around on the BSN.

... Ninja'd as I type this XP