UK Xbox Magazine Teases "Killer New Feature" For Mass Effect 3

[Vitagen]

I say this to anyone who brings up the issue: NO MULTIPLAYER IN MASS EFFECT. This series is about ME and MY choices. I have NO interest in playing with a friend. If I want multiplayer, I'll turn to Team Fortress 2 or Starcraft or Left4Dead, but not Mass Effect.

Really, I (and probably many others) think multiplayer is best when it's the (TF2) or a (Starcraft) core attraction of the game, not something tacked on as an afterthought.

 

[Vitagen]

Mako... Mako... Mako... Mako... Mako... Mako...

What? A man can dream.

The Mako was far from perfect, but it's a step up from scanning for minerals. Perhaps it isn't too much to hope that we get ME3 has planetary exploration that's actually, you know, fun?

Then again, they'll probably just make us stare at the magic plant.

*EDIT* Note to self: Read WHOLE thread before posting, so as to avoid embarrassing, well, not quite double posts, but you see what I mean.

 

[Levethian]

RPGs are a single player experience? You poor antisocial sod.

Meh. Not convinced multiplayer enhances narrative, just as I don't want a friend over my shoulder while I'm reading a book.

Just like EA to pander to the masses. Ew.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

*Bangs head against a wall*

BioWare, please just release ME3 as a singleplayer game and wrap up the trilogy nice and tight. Afterwards you and EA can stuff all the multiplayer you want into the subsequent games because I won't give a shit anymore.

Just please do this one right. Your final swansong in Shepard's story arc.

Hold your horses, if they cash in their much vaunted and well deserved reputation after ME3 (collectos ed preordered ) then how will I ever get my sequel to Jade Empire

 

[GeorgW]

RPGs are a single player experience? You poor antisocial sod.

Meh. Not convinced multiplayer enhances narrative, just as I don't want a friend over my shoulder while I'm reading a book.

Just like EA to pander to the masses. Ew.

Yet again a misquote. What is it in this thread that makes people quote me with other people's comments?

 

[Levethian]

RPGs are a single player experience? You poor antisocial sod.

Meh. Not convinced multiplayer enhances narrative, just as I don't want a friend over my shoulder while I'm reading a book.

Just like EA to pander to the masses. Ew.

Yet again a misquote. What is it in this thread that makes people quote me with other people's comments?

Whoops
Apologies, corrected.

The rage instilled by EA has crippled my quoting abilities, I guess.

 

[GeorgW]

RPGs are a single player experience? You poor antisocial sod.

Meh. Not convinced multiplayer enhances narrative, just as I don't want a friend over my shoulder while I'm reading a book.

Just like EA to pander to the masses. Ew.

Yet again a misquote. What is it in this thread that makes people quote me with other people's comments?

Whoops
Apologies, corrected.

The rage instilled by EA has crippled my quoting abilities, I guess.

It's no bother, it's just weird when it happens twice in the same thread.

 

[Squilookle]

Does Mass Effect already have starfighter combat?

If not, then that's what it should be. Bogeys filling the screen and tearing up space. And each other. For fun and profit.

There's no point to star fighter combat. The normandy is a big ship, but it isn't a super vessle, and it has 2 guns on it, that fire slowly. All ship to ship combat that is needed is shown in cutsceens, epically. Anything else would just be boring. It's more of a land and rape everything on ground.

So you're saying we have a big ship that isn't well stocked with weapons and therefore has the possibility to be overwhelmed by more agressive, more heavily armed vessels out there...

How does that not necessitate having a screen of starfighters to balance out defences? If anything, it makes them all the more important and useful. Plus I can't comprehend where you get the idea that it would be boring- whether it's Star Wars WW2 in space style or Battlestar Galactica inertia based combat, It's all still fantastic stuff to behold.

 

[Ridgemo]

I thought Bioware already confirmed "no multiplayer"?

Anyway...

While I wish that people would leave multiplayer to the people that can actually do multiplayer really well (Epic, Infinity Ward, Bungie), I don't think it's a bad thing to include it. Besides, it might actually be really fun. Remember Uncharted 2 had a multiplayer? And it was actually pretty damn good? If ME3 has one and it turns out good, then great! If it has one and it turns out shit, then oh well, we'll get back to single player where it matters and no one will miss out on it.

There's no reason to rage and panic over it...

Assassin's Creed is another good example. When it was announced i couldn't help thinking it was a complelty pointless edition to what i considered a "single-player" game. Little did i know the multiplayer on Assassin's Creed would be some of the best i've ever played.

EDIT: When i could find a server that is...