[Megathread] Mass Effect 3

**Nerraw** · 2013-01-04, 12:13 AM

Originally Posted by Grokan

Do we really have to bash Microsoft for keeping their own IP on their system?

As the avid Halo fan that I am, yes.

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From a business standpoint I fully understand why they're doing it. It gives them complete control over the franchise, it ensures a steady amount of 360s will continue to be sold, AND they rake in a ton of cash from people wanting to play the game online on Live. That does not mean I have to like it.

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Originally Posted by orissa

Do I have to tell you who voices Sara Palmer too?

That one, embarrassingly enough, took me a lot longer to figure out. All thanks to them using an actual actress for her face. I was thoroughly confused for a while.

**Adam Jensen** · 2013-01-04, 01:38 AM

Now Nerraw's got me watching both videos with Harbinger and the Didact to compare lol

**Grizzly Willy** · 2013-01-04, 01:39 AM

I would assume that "avid Halo fan" and "owns a 360" would go hand in hand, to be honest. Not liking it is fine, but saying that they're being a greedy evil company (not your exact wording, I know) is a bit of a stretch.

On a tangential note, is anybody bothered by the All Story trope? That is to say, when the antagonistic force turns out to be an ancient alien race. The notable games, as Giant Bomb pointed out in their end of the year awards, were Halo 4, Assassin's Creed 3, and Mass Effect 3. The All Story trope extends further than just those games, and while it can be interesting if done well, I find it a bit tiresome. Mass Effect 3 pulled it off well, I think, because it wasn't really that big of a mystery that the Reapers filled the "ancient evil" mold, and they had a reason to be as ancient as they are.

**Nerraw** · 2013-01-04, 01:46 AM

Played 1 and 2 on PC, played 3 at a friend's place, and have read all the books, excluding the Forerunner saga which I haven't picked up yet. Just finished The Thursday War a couple of days ago, which was what led me to watch 4 on Youtube.

You can be a fan without owning the console.

**rhorle** · 2013-01-04, 01:56 AM

Originally Posted by Nerraw

Played 1 and 2 on PC

Though they didn't release PC versions until years after. Halo 1 PC port was about two years after the release, and Halo 2 was about 3 years after release. Three and Four will likely both be released for PC at some point. So no reason to call them any greedier then they were for the original Halo. You just played them on PC way after they were relevant and thus used a port to gain more money from an older product.

It never gained traction beyond Xbox. Unlike Mass Effect which started out as a Xbox only game and exploded into much more when the PC port happened. Heck it wasn't even a Bioware original game.

**Nerraw** · 2013-01-04, 02:09 AM

I bought and played them on PC because I played them on Xbox at a friend's place and got interested in the series. I'd rather play something myself at my own leisure rather than being dependant on the availability of others.

I suspect that the only reason for them to get Gearbox to port the first game to PC was to gain an additional playerbase. And the only reason why they ported Halo 2 was because Game for Windows Live required a Gold subscription at the time of the game's release on PC.

I very much doubt we'll be playing Halo 3+ on PC until someone gets an actual 360 emulator up and running.

**Buu** · 2013-01-04, 02:19 AM

Originally Posted by orissa

That's because the guy voicing the Didact is the guy who voiced Harbinger.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843775/

Good to see Szarabajtka is being called for people capable of appreciate him. Since the company that got a lot of fame on his expense, simply didn't want to have him anymore.

Originally Posted by orissa

Do I have to tell you who voices Sara Palmer too?

Could it be.... MAZZY FENTAN?

**Leonard McCoy** · 2013-01-04, 02:35 AM

Originally Posted by rhorle

Though they didn't release PC versions until years after. Halo 1 PC port was about two years after the release, and Halo 2 was about 3 years after release. Three and Four will likely both be released for PC at some point. So no reason to call them any greedier then they were for the original Halo. You just played them on PC way after they were relevant and thus used a port to gain more money from an older product.

It never gained traction beyond Xbox. Unlike Mass Effect which started out as a Xbox only game and exploded into much more when the PC port happened. Heck it wasn't even a Bioware original game.

Halo 3 and 4 will not likely ever be released for PC. I hate to bust your bubble. Not enough money for them to do it and if they did it wouldn't run on that many computers. The halo 1 pc port was abysmall for bugs and system requirements. Shit I remember when that game came out, they added a flame thrower to the pc version and like 10 computers in the world could run it.

**Gravath** · 2013-01-04, 11:57 AM

And you guys accuse me of going offtopic.
Where are the biased mods now?
No doubt waiting to harass me.

**Nerraw** · 2013-01-04, 02:19 PM

I never accused you for going off-topic. Such things happen in our micro-cosmos.

**RoboA** · 2013-01-04, 06:12 PM

All this talk about other games in the mass effect 3 thread makes me very confused.

**Grizzly Willy** · 2013-01-04, 06:41 PM

Apologies. I drove it off topic by pursuing a comment on Halo and Microsoft.

**Gravath** · 2013-01-04, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by RoboA

All this talk about other games in the mass effect 3 thread makes me very confused.

Have you played Deus Ex: Human Revolutions yet?
Marvelous game.

**Nerraw** · 2013-01-04, 06:57 PM

Blame 343 for hiring awesome voice actors.

**Yakobro** · 2013-01-05, 05:47 PM

ORIGIIIIN
Let me shoot reapers

**RoboA** · 2013-01-07, 06:49 AM

Something strange is going on with the EA servers. They should really get back to work soon.
The games i host keeps disconnecting me at wave 9 and in other peoples games i get this weird bug where i can be damaged but i cant do any damage or reload ammo.

**Oerba Yun Fang** · 2013-01-07, 12:31 PM

Just watched Paragon Lost and I must say... the ending confused the fuck out of me. Someone help me out here. I thought Vega didn't "join" the N7 program until ME3 when he spoke to Shepard about it, but at the end of the movie he's doing what appears to be an N7 mission. Was that a flash-forward to after the events of ME3? Did I understand the scene with him and Shepard in ME3 incorrectly? Trying to figure out if I just derped or if it was a plot inconsistency. x.x

**Nerraw** · 2013-01-07, 01:16 PM

According to ME3 he definitely wasn't N7 prior to the game.

I haven't watched the movie myself, but is it possible he was merely tagging along?

**Oerba Yun Fang** · 2013-01-07, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by Nerraw

According to ME3 he definitely wasn't N7 prior to the game.

I haven't watched the movie myself, but is it possible he was merely tagging along?

Maybe but he had the N7 insignia on his armor and he had received the invitation from Hackett and Anderson before the scene.

**Nazrark** · 2013-01-07, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by Moontalon

Maybe but he had the N7 insignia on his armor and he had received the invitation from Hackett and Anderson before the scene.

Well he still has the chip on his shoulder about letting all those colonists die. He could of turned it down not thinking himself worthy of it. Then Shep gave him a pep talk and got him back into the program. That is what I am thinking.

Like RL, botched the mission and was offered a promotion. His conscious could not let him take it.

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