Who else thinks that ME3 will be a dissapointment.

[scorptatious]

I'm sure the game will be good at the very least. Of course I'm not going to hype it up for myself just in case.

Really though, the way Bioware's fanbase seems to work, (in fact any fanbase really) there will always be a portion of it that will be disappointed with the final product. There's no avoiding that.

 

[schtingah]

Two words: "Clint Mansell"

'Nuff said.

 

[NotYetForsaken]

I think it will be a disappointment, rarely a trilogy has a it's 3rd installment be it's best, you know why? expectation will be sky high.

TeS, LotR, SW:OT, Warcraft Trilogy, Diablo Trilogy, Battlefield Trilogy (Well not really in terms of story but gameplay.), Saints Row Trilogy, GTA Franchise, I'm sure there are many I forget, but living up to the hype is not that rare.

 

[OpticalJunction]

The reaction to da2 probably made Bioware much more concerned to make me3 a success, two bad games in a row would look especially bad. So I think it'll be great.

 

[Denariax]

Mass Effect has been crap since the original. It specializes in a story that isn't even that good. Now they're adding multiplayer. It's kind of cute to see all the failing.

 

[Da Orky Man]

I don't play Mass Effect because I want an RPG. That's hat I buy Bethesda games for. I buy Bioware games because of the rich universes, well-written characters and memorable stories.

 

[TheDooD]

I think it will be a disappointment, rarely a trilogy has a it's 3rd installment be it's best, you know why? expectation will be sky high.

ME3 is gonna be like Episode 3 really hyped up, some cool action scenes, something that'll be MEME fuel and of course a troll as twist. When it's all over you'll be like they could have done better.

 

[Vault101]

oh look one of thease threads....

I have no reason to doubt ME3 because I loved ME2, be sad for thr series to end though

 

[Jnat]

I expect the worst. Almost all the trailers have been about Shepard shooting people.

 

[Vrex360]

The sad thing is, even if the shooting overshadows all the rpg elements and the single player gets shortened drastically to allow for multiplayer focus and all the female characters are made to dress in a sexually exploitative way and the plot ends with a really dumb deus ex machina.... if it lets me finish off the story and get closure with beloved characters (Ashley, Garrus, Wrex, Jack, Mordin, Legion, Tali etc) I will still call it a great game regardless.

I've been emotionally invested in the character's stories and their relationship with Shepard for almost six years now and I want to see the conclusion to that and get my closure so that I can just add 'Mass Effect' to the list of games that I've completed.
It was the same with Halo, the same with Gears of War and pretty soon it'll be the same with Mass Effect. I just want to see how it all ends and hope that it ends the way I want it to.
Everything else, is secondary.

 

[craftomega]

Im not saying I wont like the game only that it will not be as good as I wish it could be.

I am going to buy this game.
I am going to like this game.
I dont think ill like it near as much as I could.
I blame EA for making stupid release dates.
I think EA is a greedy whore.

I think EA will make the quality of this game suffer ALOT.

 

[NickCaligo42]

If you think it'll be a disappointment, then it won't be, unless it's even more of a disappointment than you imagine.

Dragon Age 2. I didn't have positive expectations for it. Didn't HATE the first game, but I really didn't like it either. Somehow they managed to botch it far worse than I could possibly have imagined, to the point that I've come to appreciate the first one a lot more for at least doing well at being a type of game I don't much like.

From what I've seen of ME3, the beta leak and everything... yeeeah. Expectations are pretty low.

 

[Wonderland]

Maybe it will be a disappointment because it won't be innovative enough..?

 

[Zhukov]

I'm going to be so horribly disappointed that I'll only play it six times.

 

[longboardfan]

Mass Effect 3 will be yet another boring 3rd person shooter with minimal plot, day one dlc, and a cumbersome combat system. Why? Because making ammo scarce, weapons weak, abilities useless (except on easy/normal), and chest high walls as far as the eye can see is what people want.

I've been watching the lets plays of Modern Warfare 3, and its duck and cover 10 minute long running fire fights followed by either a cut scene or some dialog followed by a short mission intro for the next mission.

I watched Battlefield 3's story mode and its the same thing. Snorefest minimalist plot that no one cares about with lots of infinite spawn enemies until you move a few feet forward, with wooden dialog and texture pop-ins.

And lets not forget Gears of War 3, lots of chest high walls, more walls, and more walls, and bad dialog/acting/story.

But you see, the difference is those games I just mentioned are $60(US) multiplayer platforms and few buy them for the story, they buy the games for the multiplayer.

Mass Effect 3 doesn't have that excuse. Its going to be linear corridors filled with chest high walls, with an even more stripped down combat system. My best guess is they'll make it so you have one maybe two guns and no special weapons this time. Perhaps you'll even be able to pick up enemy weapons when you run out of ammo because they won't drop any. Maybe even "streamline" combat even further by removing psionics all-together. I mean whats the point of playing an Adept if all the enemies are immune to your abilities if they have shields or armour or barrier up or all three.

I have played the first game in all difficulty modes and most classes almost a dozen times since its release. I've played ME2 once on easy because I hated the combat so much. And if I ever scan another planet ever again, I'll break my game disks.

I'm not buying the game. I'm going to watch a lets play of it and forget the series continued past the first one.

 

[Wonderland]

*facepalm*

I thought we were talking about MW3 not ME3!

lol.

 

[TheCowman]

I can't imagine it'd be that bad. Of course, I am on my third playthrough of Dragon Age 2, so I must be a retard!

Join the retard club. WE ALL GET PURTY HATS!

Sign up one more member, cause I had great fun with DA2.

According to the OP, this invalidates any opinion I might have, but I'll give it anyway.

No, I don't think I'll be disappointed in ME3. Which is the only statement I can make. Asking if I think the game will be a disappointment in general is an unanswerable question.

Of course, I liked all the changes made in ME2. And not just story points either. In the first ME, I never touched my special abilities. I dumped all my points into Assault Rifles and Charm/Intimidate, set my companions power usage to "whenever they feel like it", and just went to town.

Compare that to ME2 where Adrenaline Boost was my new best friend and I was swapping in and out ammo types at least once in every firefight, and I ended up using the "RPG" elements much more in the sequel. Plus the ending is always an edge-of-your-seat ride for me. Even on my sixth playthrough I'm constantly convincing myself that I've forgotten to do SOMETHING, and one of my beloved squad mates is going to die.

Also, romance characters all got their own unique scenes instead of just pasting a character model into the same one. And not only were they actually tamer than the scene in ME, in one you don't even have sex. You just cuddle on the bed. Not to mention that in ME I didn't even realize I HAD a cabin until I stumbled across it on one of my repeat playthroughs. In ME2, I was constantly going upstairs to check out Shepard's crib.

I've never played a Call of Duty game. I don't like multiplayer. I liked the combat in ME2 better and am not worried in the slightest about ME3's co-op multiplayer. In the realm of game development, you really are damned if you do, damned if you don't. If ME2 had been the same game as ME, people would have accused Bioware of going downhill because they didn't innovate. So they changed it and people said they were going downhill because they "sold out" and "dumbed it down" or any other of the hot button phrases people use when complaining about a sequel. Many probably wouldn't be happy unless Mass Effect was from a top-down perspective and you clicked on enemies to shoot at them.

So, while I can't say whether or not it'll be a disappointment for you, I doubt it will disappoint me. But, as mentioned above, I'm apparantly in the retard club for liking DA2 just as much as DA. So take that for what you will.

 

[D Moness]

I can't imagine it'd be that bad. Of course, I am on my third playthrough of Dragon Age 2, so I must be a retard!

Join the retard club. WE ALL GET PURTY HATS!

Sign up one more member, cause I had great fun with DA2.

Let me join 4 playthoughs (around 140 hours put into DA 2).

For me ME 3 won't be a disappointment because i play it for the lore/universe. I really like the world. I wouldn't even mind a the universe loses ending after giving it all. Me3 for me is one of the 2 games i really look forward atm(the other being Zelda SS).

 

[Crazy]

Look im not trying to troll but ever since DA2 I dont trust bioware anymore, bluntly ever since EA took over I feel that the Bioware that brought us NWN 1, KOTOR 1, and ME 1 Is dead.

Thank goodness, I thought I'd have to survive more annoyances. But anyway...

I'm not getting ME3 anytime soon, nor will I probably get it.

 

[Abedeus]

I also think that game I've never played before and haven't even seen a beta or demo will be bad!

Stop generalising, I've played a demo. It's pretty disappointing, though not in an entirely bad way.

Didn't realize they released a demo already.