I would very much NOT like to see Mass Effect 3 with multiplayer. I was told CoD4:MW was a brilliant game with a stong multiplayer scene. No, it was a SHORT game with a multiplayer scene that was primarily populated with complete fuckwits whose only claim to being well-balanced is that they had a chip on both shoulders.
Multiplayer detracts from the single player aspects and attracts more idiots than American churches.
They could do with getting rid of the planet-scanning stuff and bring back the Mako (shut up, it's easy once you get the hang of it!) though.
Addressing some other concerns voiced here, Earth would be a key target because it's still the centre of humanity. There's nothing to say it gets hit first or even early on in proceedings. True there's nothing to say anywhere else gets hit either but it would be bordering on the ridiculous to even consider the notion that nowhere else gets hit.
The way I would imagine things happen, the Reapers would go for the jugular first and mop up the rest later. You can pull the leaves off a weed but unless you eradiate the root, they will grow back. Earth might be hit early on because it's close (in galactic terms) to The Citadel - this is assuming that the Reapers use it, and not some other method, to travel from dark space. Plus I assume the Reaper fleet is vast enough to attack many targets at once. It was certainly big enough at the end of ME2 to raise a nervous "prrp" from my exhaust pipe.
I agree that ME2 was somewhat human-centred comapred to ME1. The in-game argument that humans were being picked on because Shepard killed a Reaper doesn't hold that much weight as it was a team effort. OK so it was a human that pulled the team together in both games and, depending on how you played ME1, humanity is on a roll one way or another but there are other races that would make for a stiffer challenge. Considering that a large amount of the aliens encountered in ME1 and ME2 seem to have no love for humanity then it's incredible Shepard got anywhere at all! Sure the Reapers would recognise Shepard and his crew as a threat because I'm guessing that they've never met such resistance before.
What I am curious about is what happens with regards to Shepard's "alliance" with Cerberus. It's clear that he has no love for them and stresses he was working with and not for them in ME2. Again I suppose it will come down to the decision made at the end of ME2. Personally I reckon the Illusive Man is in cahoots with The Reapers...he has that look in his eyes.
Wardy
Multiplayer detracts from the single player aspects and attracts more idiots than American churches.
They could do with getting rid of the planet-scanning stuff and bring back the Mako (shut up, it's easy once you get the hang of it!) though.
Addressing some other concerns voiced here, Earth would be a key target because it's still the centre of humanity. There's nothing to say it gets hit first or even early on in proceedings. True there's nothing to say anywhere else gets hit either but it would be bordering on the ridiculous to even consider the notion that nowhere else gets hit.
The way I would imagine things happen, the Reapers would go for the jugular first and mop up the rest later. You can pull the leaves off a weed but unless you eradiate the root, they will grow back. Earth might be hit early on because it's close (in galactic terms) to The Citadel - this is assuming that the Reapers use it, and not some other method, to travel from dark space. Plus I assume the Reaper fleet is vast enough to attack many targets at once. It was certainly big enough at the end of ME2 to raise a nervous "prrp" from my exhaust pipe.
I agree that ME2 was somewhat human-centred comapred to ME1. The in-game argument that humans were being picked on because Shepard killed a Reaper doesn't hold that much weight as it was a team effort. OK so it was a human that pulled the team together in both games and, depending on how you played ME1, humanity is on a roll one way or another but there are other races that would make for a stiffer challenge. Considering that a large amount of the aliens encountered in ME1 and ME2 seem to have no love for humanity then it's incredible Shepard got anywhere at all! Sure the Reapers would recognise Shepard and his crew as a threat because I'm guessing that they've never met such resistance before.
What I am curious about is what happens with regards to Shepard's "alliance" with Cerberus. It's clear that he has no love for them and stresses he was working with and not for them in ME2. Again I suppose it will come down to the decision made at the end of ME2. Personally I reckon the Illusive Man is in cahoots with The Reapers...he has that look in his eyes.
Wardy
