Mass Effect 3

[Tamas]

Thanks Legbiter, I guess I ended up buying it anyways But for naught, as the UK version can't be preloaded yet apparently.
Aaand, looks like some arseholes are using FlyVPN on my ISP's internal network or something, because it keeps claiming I am exceeding the available sessions.

[Neil]

Don't condone Tamas' action, but doing away with differing release dates would be a good way to reduce piracy.  It's a stupid practice and I have no idea why publishers do it.

It is entirely a product of DVD/CD release dates.  'New Media Day' in North America is Tuesday, in Europe it's Friday.  So long as games are tied to brick-and-mortar retailers who sell games and other media, you're going to see street dates.  That's a big part of the reason that a lot of people in the industry who deal with international development are excited about digital distribution.

[katmai]

@ tamas

[Razgovory]

Ah

[Legbiter]

Been giving it a spin. Wow, the galaxy sure is getting curbstomped. The Batarian Hegemony has been all but destroyed, Earthlings, turians and asari are getting pounded so hard it's depressing. Cerberus is a wildcard it seems. Playing an import so great to see how your decisions from the previous games pop up every now and again.

If you like the previous Mass Effects, you'll love this one. Music's great as well. Combat is a lot of fun and if you try to stay still in one place for too long the enemies will flank you, smoke you out of cover and make mincemeat out of you.

[Legbiter]

One quibble, that ANN war correspondent is an eyesore, she looks like a mutated version of Snooki. 

[katmai]

She is based on a real "journalist" from network on cable here iirc.

[katmai]

Any DLC available at release?

Besides the one you get from buying CE/DD?

[Tamas]

ama playin' da game. Legally, even, FU katmai

No spoilerz plz

[Razgovory]

I never played past the first level of the first one.

[katmai]

Yikes, just stopped playing after 7 hours

I'll keep quiet for your sake Tamas.

[Scipio]

I logged 3 hours this morning.  Enjoying it a lot, so far.  Trying to get used to the changed from 2, though.  I've logged more hours in ME2 than any modern-era game I've played, even Dragon Age, where I've hit 133 hours on one character with all the DLC.

[viper37]

I've played through the first missions on Earth, Mars&the Citadel.
I explored the Normandy from the bottom to the top.  Nice upgrades to the ship, btw.

I was disapointed with ME2 when I first played it.  I got to like the game after I'd played all the DLCs, but it still felt like a console game.  Simple action, simple dialogues, very short.

With ME3 however, I feel there's a story being told and I'm part of it, making my own choices on how it will evolve.  The characters feel like they have a story, their own story, they're not just there waiting for me to speak to them.

The graphics are nice.  The game loads fast, faster than ME2.

It seems they kept the best from ME2 and improved upon it, so far, at least.

I haven't got my pre-order bonuses thouhg   Fucking EA.

[viper37]

Any DLC available at release?

Besides the one you get from buying CE/DD?

Only "From Ashes" wich is included in the Collector's Edition, but available seperatly for 10$.

[FunkMonk]

Does the combat still consist of fumbling around from cover to cover with terrible controls? I couldn't get into either of the first two because of it. I've been watching a couple of live streams and it seems very similar.