What do you want in mass effect 3?

[AK47Marine]

Tali, Legion, Garrus and Grunt.

a return to the original game's ammo method, screw thermal clips. Maybe have them in limited numbers, and you can eject and replace in dire straights but their harder to get a hold of so it's a harder decision. Also keep the simplified weapons/item/armor system, the first game was just stupid with that.

I'd also like to see a battle sequence maybe on Earth's surface or something, where you field the entire team in combat.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

I posted this list on Bioware's forum

- Squad banter would entail minor conversations invoked by your squad commenting upon the area you are in and more openly talking to one another and not always Shepard. For example, bring Garrus to Tuchunka and neither he nor Wrex so much as blink at one another. Additionally, the conflict aboard the Normandy was a nice touch. It does not always have to be conflict, yet something, even just a few lines of dialogue between the characters would be nice.

- While I never complained about elevators, frankly because I never did find the delay as irritating as some would suggest. I certain hold them superior to the alternative and yes in disguising loading screens, especially on the Normandy.

- Never disliked the Mako, although I did eventually find the tediousness mount upon exploring barren planets with copy/pasted designs with slightly altered mountains or a swapped color palette. Meanwhile, the Hammerhead is a pain. Between the incessant beeping and the horrid lack of defense. I dread having to use that machine. I would propose a merger of the two and more developed side missions with actual dialogue. I always enjoyed assignments such as Major Kyle where you had a brief conversation and in some cases could elude combat. The N7 missions in ME2 are mostly monotonous. I do however fancy the non combative ones for their originality. Walking along a ship teetering on the edge of a cliff was intriguing.

- For the romance scenes. The conclusion was weak, especially in comparison to Mass Effect. The predecessor was tasteful and mature, the successor was cheap and PG. If games can get away with enough blood to flood a city. They can get away with what ME allowed. For ME3 I would rather see a focus on developing the existing romance and/or the conflict if you cheated. Yes, that entails no new romances. Developing a romance beyond sex is a rarity in games and I would love to see it. When Jack's appearance is more R rated than the romances. That is relatively embarrassing.

- Customization should be appended upon, wherein perhaps we can affix our weapons with a variety of different mods to impact one aspect, yet not any other. One concept I had would begin us with a single type of gun (Pistol, Shotgun and etc) with differential initial statistics and subsequent modifications would determine their end game potential with positives and negative features. For example, if you purchased mods (each through cash or resources) and focused entirely on compensating for the shotgun's lack of range and accuracy. You would have a high powered shotgun similar to the GPS, yet the trade off would be it was less powerful than someone who opted to force on creating a death gun.

Beyond weaponry, additional armor and casual wear would be nice. Most importantly, a helmet toggle or do not bother with armor we cannot pick apart. If the forums on the variety of sites I visit are any indication. Virtually no one uses those armors unless they play a joke run or wish to giggle when Shepard kisses through his/her helmet.

- Separate animations for Femshep or... just have her cross her legs. Seriously, the clipping I can handle but presenting Garrus with a wide shot up her dress while hilarious, sort of takes you out of the game. Like the abovementioned helmet kissing.

- Have biotics be capable of targeting through protection and perhaps weaken over time so they use more usage. Ditching the global cooldown so we are not spamming Charge, Cloak, AR, Singualrity and Tech Armor at least 75% would be nice.

- While most things I say could be repaired. Just remove Mission Complete screens. The gathering of the squad (ME) or Miranda and Jacob talking in the assembly room should suffice. Just please no Mission Complete screen. Use the email for an overview of the mission summary.

- Choices having an impact and returning squad mates in active (join your party) roles but these two have been beaten to death in other threads. So we shall just leave it at that.

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Now adding to the above would be squad mates returning to active duty (not necessarily all and some from ME) and no bloody multiplayer component in any capacity. No, not a co-op and no not online. Furthermore, how about a main plot that is not bare bones and horrendously riddled with holes? ME2's Loyalty/Recruitment missions are fantastic with some exceptions (Grunt's, Jack's, Samara's) but the main plot was weak.

There are more (such as an overhaul of the morality system, which now sucks) however the list is long enough.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

Legion. I want Legion.

Oh yeah, definitely this, he is always on my squad.

And to see what a quarian looks like.
And a turian female.
And a salarian female.
And a krogan female.
And a batarian female.

Wha.. There are rarely any females in mass effect?? WHAT SAUSAGE FEST IS THIS???

THIS IS SPARTA.

Yea i did a comic, movie, AND historical joke. You're welcome.

0_0

There aren't allot of women in Sparta, are there? (Never watched 300, my parents would get worried if I looked at... those guys)

Well done, sir.

 

[Steampunk Viking]

I loved Mass Effect 2, but I don't think it was perfect. I got a few things that I want them to have in Mass Effect 3.

1) Let's start from the top. Companions. I want (as possibilities as some can die in Mass Effect 2): Garrus, Tali, Liara, Wrex, Mordin and Legion. The rest I don't particularly care about.

2) More roleplaying elements! Mass Effect 2 severely lacked in this and sometimes felt like a level based shooter with optional missions, something that Mass Effect 1 didn't have. Keep the awesome controls from Mass Effect 2 and make it feel like Mass Effect 1!

3) Get rid of the god awful mining missions. Urgh. Seriously, I prefered Mass Effect 1's approach, and that's saying something.

4) I loved the fact that they removed the inventory system from Mass Effect 1, because it was awful having to sell everything or reduce it to omni-gel. Having said that, the fact you could find weapons laying around Mass Effect 2 and couldn't use them unless you researched them was a bit suspect. I think we should be allowed to swap weapons if we find them, but limit it to one person until researched, that'd make more sense to me.

5) Don't make paragon/renegade points the pure basis for intimidate/diplomacy, whoever came up with that idea needs shooting, seriously. There are some really good people in the world who are rubbish diplomats and really nasty ones who are good are it and not intimidating. I liked in Mass Effect 1 that these were skills that were boosted by your renegade/paragon rating, that made more sense to me (since if you're a complete bastard, you damage your diplomatic credibility, but you can still be pretty good at it).

6) Give us back the option to add grain to the video. Don't have to make it default because I know most people didn't like it in Mass Effect 1, but I did! It made it feel more like a gritty sci-fi film!

7) More Blasto: The first Haanar SPECTRE. Can I meet him? Pretty please?

 

[Gruevy]

I suspect that Bioware might be doing a test-run with the conversation wheel in DA2 so they can refine the system for ME3. I'd be slightly disappointed if they didn't do anything about it because I can see the potential in having more options on the right side of the wheel.

To tie it up with the morality bar, it could be something like:
Angry [Renegade]
Sarcastic [Renegade]
Angry [Paragon]
Sarcastic [Paragon]

So yeah, that would be pretty cool but I'll have to revisit this possibility after I've played DA2 first.

 

[Windcaler]

First off I want all characters from the previous games to be playable, except in a few cases that go along with the story. For example in ME2 if you didnt do that job for Liara she cant join due to previous obligations. While Im on that note, Legion must make a reappearance. I never felt like he was given a chance to shine since he was with the group so little in ME2

I would also like to see a few new characters for those races that didnt get a character to represent them and talk about their species' culture/history. Such as a Volus infiltrator, Elcor soldier, Batarian anything, and a hanar biotic.

I would also like to see the other spectre's play a larger role in the game. In the first one we saw Nihlis and Saren, in the second we didnt really see any other spectres. Now that the security of galactic civilization is without a doubt in jeapordy we should see a lot more spectres getting involved as they try to aid shepard or even try to steal the credit from him/her

On a romantic note, I would like to see the chance for Shepard to romance anyone as any sex, giving the player the most options to actually roleplay their character however they want.

Theres only one big addition, or rather readdition, I would like with ME3's combat gameplay. That being grenades. We had them in ME1 and while they werent perfect I still missed them in ME2. Theres just something great about destroying a small group of bad guys with a single grenade. Perhaps make them one of the heavy weapons shepard can use? Then theres the fact that we could really use some more biotic and engineering powers too. I would also like the looting style of ME1 to return but keep the ME2 loadout choices. I really liked being able to just choose my loadout at the start of a mission in ME2 but I think there needs to be more weapon variety to keep it fresh which is why I think looting various weapons and armor would help

 

[ChipSandwich]

I think they should keep the inventory out of the game. It makes money have much more worth. How many people here ended up with 9,999,999 credits at the end of Mass Effect 1 after selling off all of their useless weaponry? Pretty much any game where you can sell weapons that you find lying on the ground have this problem. So yeah, make sure money is still worth it.

Also, gameplay and/or story consequences for both Paragon and Renegade.

I guess what I really want to see is the element of painful choice, where you can't have everything you want.

 

[MCDeltaT]

Hawt Krogan Sex!!!!!!!!!!

 

[fix-the-spade]

a baby Salarian singing Gilbert and Sulivan...

Nuts to that, I want to see Mordin and his STG crew re-united. Then we could have a whole chorus line!

One
Two
Three
I am the very model of a scientist Salarian!

 

[SNIPERFOX ft. Harry P.Ness]

Overheat system.

Fuck thermal clips. Am I the only one that thinks Recharger ammo > thermal clips.

nope.

i want romance conversations that have dialoug options that make you not sound like a pussy. i also want the abilaty to fly the hammerhead around earth ,or any planet of my choice. and female and male turians and krogan and elcor.AND JETPACKS! WHILE FIGHTING WOLVES THAT SHOOT LASERS!

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

Legion. I want Legion.

Oh yeah, definitely this, he is always on my squad.

And to see what a quarian looks like.
And a turian female.
And a salarian female.
And a krogan female.
And a batarian female.

Wha.. There are rarely any females in mass effect?? WHAT SAUSAGE FEST IS THIS???

THIS IS SPARTA.

Yea i did a comic, movie, AND historical joke. You're welcome.

0_0

There aren't allot of women in Sparta, are there? (Never watched 300, my parents would get worried if I looked at... those guys)

Well done, sir.

Women in Sparta were basically kept at the house (like the aliens do with their females, they keep them in the homeworld). The men would mate with each other and even children.

So what you're saying is that the krogan are gay?
I knew it, bunch of jocks.

 

[Techmech]

Whores

 

[Whippoorwill]

All I want is the ability to push Jack out of an airlock and into a sun.

 

[FFHAuthor]

i want the mako. i dont care how bad the handling was, it was a kick-a$$ vehicle!
i wanna see the rachni fighting the reapers with us, all squad mates from both games on my team, the geth joining the quarians and everyone else in the fight. cerberus to join us and stop being self-centered babies. anderson in combat, udina dead, the turian councellor to facepalm when he sees the reapers attack, then his head to explode. i want ship combat, more spectres, awesome firefights, baby krogans, female turians and krogans, close-quarters weapons, stealth missions, ground assault on a reaper and successfully taking it out, more thresher maws, more people to screw, a wider variety of fricking hairstyles, for crying out loud! WALK ON PLANET FREAKING EARTH FOR ONCE INSTEAD OF READING ABOUT IT FROM SPACE!!!!!
maybe a laser-chainsaw.

and a planet for the quarians to settle on. I <3 you Tali!

Seconded.

 

[Eacaraxe_v1legacy]

Regarding inventory systems...

ME1 was very excessive. I'm all about in-depth RPG systems with oodles of customization and lots of items, but ME1 was over the top even for me. Even before you breached the subject of upgrades, the number of possible items was in the dozens if not hundreds...and the overwhelming majority of them were flat-out useless as anything but vendor and omni-gel bait. Especially for the fact that you could only carry 150 items in inventory at a time and you received so many items over the course of the game you were purging your inventory at least once per mission and assignment. When you hit the omni-gel and cred cap by the end of a level 1 playthrough (and in the case of NG+ playthroughs, back at the cap by the time you leave the Citadel), it's just too much.

Especially for the fact that especially armor was so character-specific and randomized. Great, Wrex just got his third Colossus X armor; so why is Tali still stuck in a Titan VII and Shepard running a close second to Wrex on armor quality having only gotten a light Colossus VIII? That actually happened to me once...on a vanguard playthrough of all things.

Likewise, ME2 was too scant. The weapon and armor DLC packs helped a lot for Shepard's armor customization and for weapon variety, and cutting out the massive amount of chaff and garbage gear was fantastic (not to mention eliminating omni-gel altogether), but in an RPG I would like to have a little more control over my characters' loadouts than what ME2 had. Not to mention the horrid, horrid idea of ammo as a class skill rather than item.

I would love for ME3 to have a happy middle ground between the two previous games.

Shepard gets full customization over their armor, ME2 style; companion NPC's start with a generic, middle-ground armor and in the course of the game gets maybe two or three alternate armors which emphasize one character facet or another. For example, Tali starts with a jack-of-all trades armor but later gets one which buffs shields and another which buffs tech attacks, or Miranda later gets one which buffs squad damage and another which buffs her biotic/tech. Have some fun with it; don't just make the extra armors palette swaps. Each weapon class gets 3-5 different weapons which get a single upgrade and ammo slot which are filled by upgrade items you find/buy in the course of the game.

Or heck, chuck the "you find and buy stuff as the game progresses" aspect of it out the window and give the player full customization among all armor and weapon/upgrade types from the onset. Here's an even better chance for consequence from ME1/2: make the availability of certain weapons and upgrades dependent upon who's still alive and working with Shepard; for example, if none of the big-league biotics aren't around, nobody has the expertise to provide warp ammo. Unless Bioware is planning a reset button of some kind, it makes no sense that the arsenal, expertise and capital Shepard has stockpiled over the course of the game would disappear overnight.

 

[vadagar1]

Daystar Clarion:
I want to see a day-care center. A little Quarian rolling around in a bubble, a tiny Krogan bullying the other children, a baby Salarian singing Gilbert and Sulivan...

It would be awesome...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mr. you just made me join the site XD
the cuteness was too much to bare.

anyway hi all and I would love to see:

1-space battles.

2-vehicles (mako, space fighter, hover tank, battle walker....anything)

3-planet exploring but with more hazerds and awesome secrets even if it means less planets to land on or smaller maps, think huge canyons miles deep, lost underground temples, volcano exploding, secret enemy base ...etc

4-more customization for weapons and looks, the armor coloring was great but I want also more armor options to be added, also the weapon mods in ME1 were great, the old inventory was annoying though.

5-thermal clip + overheat hybred.

6-gay/bi option for Shepard.

7-Tali face

8-more bad-assness for paragon in between talking (like why renegade can shot the gas pipe near the Krogan and paragon can't!! its war)

9-more more more missions

10-more rpg elements in regards of abilities and technology and more effective biotics/engineering, in ME2 they were useless on higher difficulties above normal.

11-NO MORE SCANNING

12-resolve all the lose ends like the Geth, the Qaurian home world, Cerberus fate, Krogan Genophage....etc

13-romance with other aliens... yes even Krogan, yes ewwww but more options makes life/game more fun.

14-more conversations MORE MORE a lot more.

15-more gear of war like ducking and rolling since they adapted the system why not prefect it (only movement wise)??!!!

16-SPACE COMBAT

anyway those are the major ones

 

[DustyDrB]

Elevator rides!

If we're gonna have loading screens, they might as well be ones that feature news reports or banter between members of the team. Think of the missed opportunity for smack talk between Jack and Miranda. Or the dialogue between Garrus (who spent two years killing mercs) and Zaeed (who spent his life being a merc).

 

[vadagar1]

Whores

LOL

classy, I love this site.

 

[LaMer]

A complete absence of anything resembling multiplayer.

This... I feel it would ruin the experience.
Also:
-Less linear environments
-Longer length
-Let us see Tali's true face

 

[Rough Sausage]

Mass Effect 3 requires a bigger rifle than the widowmaker, and I'll be satisfied. I care not about the logistics of such a rifle, just make it so