The only DLC I want is "Lightning is now the main character". I'll buy the game just for that.
[b]"If you go back and dust off the transcripts of when Steam first came out, it had the same reaction"[/b]
Yeah, but that can mean one of two things.
1. You didn't learn a thing about the mistakes Valve made when it came to Steam's launch, which means you were more interested in making a competitive product than one that tries to be better than the competition.
2. You did learn from the mistakes the Valve made, but created more as a result of, well. The obvious. You're fighting a war with the pre-owned market, and you want to make every available means of getting your games through you. This is less about the gamers, and more about control over your own product AFTER it's been sold. If that wasn't the case, you wouldn't have pulled your recent titles off of Steam. Limiting where we can buy our games is NOT creating opportunity.
All those railings.... think of the possibilities....
I'm hoping that the imports play out differently than this, since the demo starts out with the "New Game" option instead of using any imports. This is probably what Bioware was talking about when they said the narrative would be different if players started a new game rather than importing. They did say the narrative would be different, but than again, they did say there was going to be a trial (biggest disappointment so far). If my Shepard acts like the "New Game" Shepard from the demo by worrying about Earth (My canon is a spacer) over all the lives in the universe, it's going to be one annoying ride.
That would have been an interesting thing to develop. The Reapers, even the dead ones, are known to inflict certain hallucinations upon their victims. Maybe a younger Shepard when life was at an all time low, or a friend from Shepard's past who was a part of something Shepard wants to forget. Crap, now that I think of it, this could be used to broaden the origin aspects of Shepard rather than just being two bits of dialogue here and there. Earth born, spacer, colonist, you name it.
....I hope to see Hannah Shepard in ME3. *cries*
Yeah, but having plots centered around humanity being the focal point of the universe is just boring and over done. Mass Effect 1 played it pretty well in depicting humanity not as the smartest species in the galaxy, but just a species that shares the galaxy like every other race. Sure, your Shepard can be so pro-human that you can diss the council, abandon them to die and take the citadel for yourself, but there's also the option to state that humanity is working with other races and the goals that Shepard seeks is simply the goals of making sure every race in the galaxy is better off, not just humans.
That's not what we're getting here in ME3, where the attitude is "Earth or nothing".
And to think that I gave the opening of Mass Effect 3 a slap on the wrist for including that boy for the sole purpose of pathos. No real character, no real development, and no real attachment to Shepard in any way. He's there, he's innocent, and he's... dead. Now we have Shepard reacting to this with a pained look on her face when she didn't so much as give a one to any of the crew that (depending if they did) die on the suicide mission.
And than we have the same thing all over again. Only this time it's another innocent child doing innocent things until a Reaper shows up. It's like Bioware forgot that Earth didn't play a major role (let alone any role) in the previous games, so now they're resorting to this cheap story telling trope in order to try and get us to care. This almost feels like something Michael Bay would do.
Not to mention a universe that has it's own planets, species and cultures unique to the Mass Effect universe. Earth is in just about in every science fiction works made, let alone every scifi action game. Halo is about protecting Earth, Resistance is about fighting for Earth, even Gears of War 3 had a "End of the World" plot that ME3 seems to be following.
And let's not forget the multiple planets humans can walk and breath on.
The first G.I. Joe movie felt like someone playing with toys and not having a clue as to who any of the characters are.
Duke and Baroness were boyfriend and girlfriend! And Duke and Cobra Commander were good buddies! Oh! And the evil doctor is also Cobra Commander! And Scarlett cries after losing a battle! And General Hawk says "We're the best! We don't fail!" and he immediately gets taken out the same day!
"who TRON decides he is going to train to be the next TRON."
Memories of Hot Rod... not good.
So Legion gets the rifle I normally assign Garrus to use, and Garrus gets the rifle that ONLY Legion can use. That is weird.
Klingon Battle Cruiser. Not warbird.
The Aquaria soundtrack is kind of a .... well. Mixed bag for me. The music is fantastic, but the way it's structured in the soundtrack is questionable. For instance, almost every track starts with a fade in that didn't exist in the game itself. I've checked the files from the game itself.
I take it that's a good thing?
Hehe. What an article to post after the Femshep trailer was just released. EA/Bioware have more sense than Santorum. *shrug*
$1,400,000.00 - $70,000 = $1,330,000.
We earn over a million, and we keep over a million. That's certainly fair.
Nothing like a story teller telling his audience of over 30 years that their views don't matter. If we're not allowed to interpret what's going on, let alone just come to the conclusion that is clearly there on screen, what's the point of letting us watch it? You're a movie lover Lucas. Surely you must have great opinions on the great works of old. You've fought against the colorization of black and white films for god's sake.
And before anyone says "it's his product. He can do whatever he wants with it", this is the same man who had unlimited power and resources during the making of Episode One, and that film has had about as much post-release altering as the original trilogy has had for each of their films. 100% control, and he's still not happy. I understand and accept that Lucas has the right to do whatever he wants, but if I'm going to continue to support his product, there's got to be a point where he says he's finished. I don't think it's right to release one thing and say that one no longer counts because this newer one has a better Obi-Wan scream in A New Hope or that Vader now says "No! NOOO!" in Return of the Jedi. With this 3D re-release, I don't think he'll ever be happy with anything he does.
Hence why having Femshep's look be voted by the fans was a bad idea. No matter which one gets chosen, not everyone will be happy. After all, the original plan was to have only one round of votes to determine what Femshep would look like, until the blonde backlash came up and instigated another vote for her hair color.
All I care about is that Femshep and Jennifer Hale are finally a part of Mass Effect's life outside of the game itself. How or why this Femshep came into being doesn't matter, because my Femshep is what's going to be doing the real playing.
Hey, I'm one of those guys who gave a low, barely audible "meh" to the line "If Shepard doesn't bring help soon, there won't be an Earth left to save". You remember Earth in Mass Effect 1 and 2, right? That planet you never visited. After all, about 80% of planets Shepard could visit were all inhabitable and there's even one close by the Citadel that actually has historical Earth artifacts!
Let Earth rot. I want to save the Assari! I want to save the Quarians and find them a new home! I want to spar with the Turians!
I think it has more to do with EA's bad rap. Origin just doesn't sit right when Steam was already doing everything well.
