Trailers: Mass Effect 3 - Against All Odds Trailer

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Did you guys notice that all of the latest Mass Effect 3 footage is from PC version? You can tell because of the hotkeys in the upper left corner. Developers usually use Xbox 360 to show off their games. There are several possible reason for showing us PC version. I narrowed it down to 2 most likely possibilities: PC version will be Origin exclusive and they want to hype us PC gamers to give in to the dark side (not gonna happen in my case); PC version looks significantly better than console versions (graphically) so it's normal to advertize the best looking version. Knowing EA it's probably both.

 

[soren7550]

Did you guys notice that all of the latest Mass Effect 3 footage is from PC version? You can tell because of the hotkeys in the upper left corner. Developers usually use Xbox 360 to show off their games. There are several possible reason for showing us PC version. I narrowed it down to 2 most likely possibilities: PC version will be Origin exclusive and they want to hype us PC gamers to give in to the dark side (not gonna happen in my case); PC version looks significantly better than console versions (graphically) so it's normal to advertize the best looking version. Knowing EA it's probably both.

I've played the 360 version, and it looks about the same.

 

[Metalrocks]

pc version or not, origin will not be on my system. they will not get my money until they fix this origin mess.

 

[BlindChance]

Man. The more I learn about this game, the less I like it.

Seriously, I am really hoping we do not "solve" the Reaper problem by just shooting them. There needs to be something else, a sense of something conceptual, a sense of something grander. The first game got that. We didn't beat the Reapers by blowing them up. We beat them by foiling their plans, by stopping the chance to use the Citadel as their gateway back.

The second did not understand this difference. And it really looks like the third one does not either.

 

[Epic Fail 1977]

Spoiler

What bothers me, though, is scale. Either that Thresher is an order of magnitude larger than any other we've seen (and we've seen a lot), or that Reaper is tiny. Granted, nothing we've seen has even really implied that all Reapers are the size of Sovereign (and I've heard theories even a while ago that Sovereign was to other Reapers what Dreadnoughts are to the other fleets), but this still seems like it shouldn't happen. In ME1, you take out Threshers in a tank. In ME2, you take one out on foot. In ME3, a Thresher is a match for a Reaper?

It's both.

Spoiler

The Thresher Maw is a giant - the "Loch Ness" of Tuchanka. The Reaper is a Destroyer Class Reaper, 160m in length (Sovereign, for comparison, was 2km in length).

As for whether it's a match, no. The TM loses the fight without even damaging the Reaper.

 

[Epic Fail 1977]

Man. The more I learn about this game, the less I like it.

Seriously, I am really hoping we do not "solve" the Reaper problem by just shooting them. There needs to be something else, a sense of something conceptual, a sense of something grander. The first game got that. We didn't beat the Reapers by blowing them up. We beat them by foiling their plans, by stopping the chance to use the Citadel as their gateway back.

The second did not understand this difference. And it really looks like the third one does not either.

Minor spoiler:

Spoiler

In ME3 you don't defeat the reapers just by shooting them. They are as tough as ever.

Major spoiler:

Spoiler

The Protheans left plans for a reaper-killing dark energy device. Most of ME3 is spent trying to get it built.

 

[Sexy Devil]

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[Seneschal]

Monster battle royales? Seriously? Like we didn't see enough ME3 trailers that treat pedestrian shooting, knifing people and rolling around as "all new game mechanics". Why don't they just put a monochrome Shepard with an orange blotch on his side and walking towards the camera on the cover?

I'm a bit puzzled as to whom they are trying to sell this game to. I mean, it feels like this was conceived by EA to attract all of its audience. By all means, give the game a broad appeal, but these endless wreckin-stuff-up-Shepard-style trailers are getting pretty patronizing. Does the marketing even realize why most people play ME?

EDIT:

Major spoiler:

Spoiler

The Protheans left plans for a reaper-killing dark energy device. Most of ME3 is spent trying to get it built.

You see, this is the kind of juicy stuff that gets the fans salivating and expecting, and should feature more prominently in the marketing. Obvious connections to the Haestrom mission. *slurp*

 

[Crazy_Dude]

Thresher Maw vs Reaper? While they Geth assist you? This is getting better by the minute.

 

[Epic Fail 1977]

Major spoiler:

Spoiler

The Protheans left plans for a reaper-killing dark energy device. Most of ME3 is spent trying to get it built.

You see, this is the kind of juicy stuff that gets the fans salivating and expecting, and should feature more prominently in the marketing. Obvious connections to the Haestrom mission. *slurp*

We're still a long way from launch. At this stage the marketing is designed to pique interest, nothing more. Also the fans complained a lot about the number of spoilers in the ME2 trailers, so maybe (don't know for sure yet) Bioware will be showing less of the story in trailers this time around.

 

[fnartilter]

I watched the video and my final reaction after "that was cool," was "Did they just spoil the story of an entire mission?"

 

[guise709]

Anyone else not noticed how these trained soldiers wield their weapons like little girls? Seriously they are running around with that machine gun with just one hand. I don't care how light the parts are, the weapons is big enough that they are unwieldly when used one handed even for Krogans. While I enjoyed Mass Effect (especially the first one) I'm of the persuasion that this game should flop to teach Bioware a lesson. They need to take lessons from Skyrim's sucess not COD

 

[TheIronRuler]

Looks good. A bit annoyed at some things, but I'm putting that in spoilers at the bottom of my post because I don't want to give the impression this trailer was bad, I actually rather liked it.

Spoiler

What bothers me, though, is scale. Either that Thresher is an order of magnitude larger than any other we've seen (and we've seen a lot), or that Reaper is tiny. Granted, nothing we've seen has even really implied that all Reapers are the size of Sovereign (and I've heard theories even a while ago that Sovereign was to other Reapers what Dreadnoughts are to the other fleets), but this still seems like it shouldn't happen. In ME1, you take out Threshers in a tank. In ME2, you take one out on foot. In ME3, a Thresher is a match for a Reaper?

.
But you take one on foot... With a KROGAN! RAH!!

 

[GartarkMusik]

In the codex, it says that the Thresher never entirely leaves the ground, just the head does in order to eat. And let's face it, from everything else the codex said about them, they just don't give a fuck. At all

 

[Swyftstar]

Excuse me waiter, can I get a little gameplay in my cinema please.