Poll: Mass Effect 3 doomed?

[Snotnarok]

Nothing can be done besides speculation which just leads to bad things. Just relax see what happens, then you can get the torches out if they screw up badly.

 

[hydrahh]

OH MY GOD, MORE TIME TO POLISH A GAME!!!


EA isn't the big evil demon that everyone makes it out to be. Calm down

 

[Daedalus1942]

The franchise was doomed when Mass Effect II came out.
There, I said it. It can't be taken back!
-Tabs<3-

 

[Awexsome]

Want to make it for a larger market? Y'know... my guess is that they're just preparing for a massive advertising campaign. Not that they're purposefully out to ruin one of, if not, the best game series they make.

 

[butterkniferampage]

Yes. Not because of the delay, but because of the plot of Mass Effect 2.

 

[BreakfastMan]

No, of course not. That would be a very bad business move. If they did that, they would loose most (if not all) of the loyal fans of the series, and considering how many Mass Effect fans there are, well... Yeah I do not think we have much to worry about.

 

[Luthir Fontaine]

people always gash thier teeth and claim the sky is falling with one commment by ea/bioware. Im goin to wait intill its out before i hate it/love it

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!

Oh, Escapist. You're so predictable, yet so entertaining.

And no. The only info we have is a few screenshots. It's obviously far too early to make any judgements.

 

[badgersprite]

I think everyone is misinterpreting this.

Surely by "appeal to a larger market" what they really mean is they will now give us the option of same sex romancing, because everyone wants a lesbian Shepard... right?

Right?

I think they're going to have more kittens. Everyone likes kittens. That would appeal to everyone, right?

I'm with you, though. For all we know, "appealing to a larger market" just means they're going to have localisations that aren't rubbish, or maybe include more countries and major cities on Earth so Mass Effect will have more appeal in non-English speaking countries. Maybe they want ME to sell better in Japan. We have no idea at this point.

 

[Saintcole]

Well game play wise I think its getting better, but the plot I don't know. Mass effect 3 could be great if they can keep the story and characters in line. (Plz Bioware no more daddy issues for like every character)

 

[duchaked]

uh no why?

if this is a complaint about it becoming too FPS-y...well I think it has a long way to go if the jump from 2 to 3 totally drops all RPG elements and goes straight up FPS (ME2 had a good mix IMHO but I suppose some are inclined to disagree)

 

[johnnnny guitar]

At least wait until E3 before you break out the whine.

We have very little information about this game so far.

[sub]I'm more worried about the plot.[/sub]

Agreed the plot is where most of my concern lies. There are a lot of variables that BioWare has to account for. I'm wondering how they're going to handle things like

Spoiler

how all your team mates in Mass Effect 2 are killable, the genophage cure, the heretics, status of the council and the Rachni

. I'm trying to not get my expectations too high in that regard.

Yeah they said that fan favorites like Mordin,garrus and liara will return but yeah more than likely it going to be a oh I got sick of the normandy and left then an email from them is all we get thanks

 

[freaper]

Honestly, I'm a little pissed about them continuing to talk about stream lining and making it more accessible to anyone, when Mass Effect 2 was streamlined so badly that it was hardly an RPG anymore.

Though, this is giving me deja vu about Dragon Age 2.

Personally I got ME2 because I enjoyed the story and action from ME1, definitely not because of the excessive amounts of RPG elements, even though I consider myself an all-round gamer.

I will agree that widening the scope of a game usually results in disgruntled fans, and a dumber crowd.

 

[Thunderhorse31]

You do know that nothing about ME3 will live up to your lofty expectations, right? Like, at all.

Somewhere in the last few months everyone has gone completely off the deep end; if one or two things in a game don't meet our exact criteria, we immediately flock to Metacritic or Amazon, review-bomb the shit out of it, and label the devs "sellouts" and the game "utter trash."

Seriously guys (and gals? Nah), you're just embarrassing yourselves.

 

[mechanixis]

I'll buy it, I'll play it, I'll sigh sadly at every action movie plot hole and stripped-out RPG element.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Does it strike anyone else as fairly obvious that for their 'final battle' Bioware was gonna want to ramp up the combat?

Seriously I'm sick of this universe I've discovered many other RPG fans live in where if you try to make the combat in an action RPG flow as smoothly as a shooter that means that all the RPG elements will suffer for it.
(I wish I knew how to do big coloured words but this'll do)

THE ARGUMENT THAT MAKING ONE ASPECT OF A GAME BETTER WILL MAKE ANOTHER ASPECT WORSE IS NONSENSE! THERE IS ROOM FOR POLISHED SHOOTER ELEMENTS AND MEATY RPG ELEMENTS TO EXIST IN THE SAME GAME! THE GENRE'S DO NOT LIVE ON TWO DIFFERENT SIDES OF A CONCRETE WALL! THEY CAN COMPLIMENT EACH OTHER AND MAKE THE WHOLE GAME BETTER THAN THE TWO COMBINED!!!

AND FINALLY, WHAT KIND OF ELITIST GAMING GESTAPO ARE WE PROMOTING HERE WHEN WANTING TO APPEAL TO A WIDER FAN BASE IS CONSIDERED A BAD THING?! WHAT, DO YOU THINK MASS EFFECT BELONGS TO YOU, AND THE DIRTY LITTLE SHOOTER FANS ENJOYING THE FRANCHISE UNDERMINES YOUR SUPERIORITY?!?! GET OVER YOURSELF!

 

[AlternatePFG]

Honestly, I'm a little pissed about them continuing to talk about stream lining and making it more accessible to anyone, when Mass Effect 2 was streamlined so badly that it was hardly an RPG anymore.

Though, this is giving me deja vu about Dragon Age 2.

Personally I got ME2 because I enjoyed the story and action from ME1, definitely not because of the excessive amounts of RPG elements, even though I consider myself an all-round gamer.

I will agree that widening the scope of a game usually results in disgruntled fans, and a dumber crowd.

Oh no, I'm not saying ME1 was any better than ME2, I can't even play ME1 after playing the second. I'm just saying that BioWare, instead of actually fixing the things that were wrong with ME1, just removed them completely instead. I was hoping they would change that with 3 but it doesn't sound like it.

 

[Thatkidnooneknows]

No. This is the third time I've seen this thread. I don't want to see it again.

 

[Polaris19]

If you haven't heard Mass Effect 3 was delayed, and further more it got delayed by EA since they "want to make it for a larger market"

Am i the only who reads this statement as "EA told us to do this or we get the whip again"

Honestly I'm now convinced EA is going to make bioware turn ME3 into "Mass Effect: Future warfare" and it will lose any chance of being the epic ending fans have been waiting years for.

But thats my opinion whats yours

As I said in the other thread about this, I'm not worried.

I figured when they said Holiday 2011 they meant next year in the first place, so all this announcement was for me was a confirmation of what I had already suspected.

As for the "appeal to larger market" statement, for me, means that they want to get more people to play the franchise. So they're brainstorming ways to attract people. I'm not even necessarily sure it will even involve huge changes to the game. I believe Drew Karpyshyn has had this story largely fleshed out for awhile now, so there won't be any changes for the most part there. Casey Hudson has made it pretty clear they will be sticking to a similar formula that Mass Effect 2 had, while brining back some more RPG-like elements. I don't think there's anything to be concerned about.

That said, EA is a money monster, and I wouldn't put it past them to ruin a franchise (sort of did this with Dragon Age II, but thats another story). Up til' now EA has, for the most part, let Bioware do it's thing.

Mass Effect was awesome, Mass Effect 2 was also awesome. As long as Bioware is still behind the third one, then I have no doubt it will keep it up to Bioware's usual standards.

 

[freaper]

Honestly, I'm a little pissed about them continuing to talk about stream lining and making it more accessible to anyone, when Mass Effect 2 was streamlined so badly that it was hardly an RPG anymore.

Though, this is giving me deja vu about Dragon Age 2.

Personally I got ME2 because I enjoyed the story and action from ME1, definitely not because of the excessive amounts of RPG elements, even though I consider myself an all-round gamer.

I will agree that widening the scope of a game usually results in disgruntled fans, and a dumber crowd.

Oh no, I'm not saying ME1 was any better than ME2, I can't even play ME1 after playing the second. I'm just saying that BioWare, instead of actually fixing the things that were wrong with ME1, just removed them completely instead. I was hoping they would change that with 3 but it doesn't sound like it.

As far as I know we only received a trailer and some screenshots, so it's too precocious to be drawing conclusions like that at this point.