Mass Effect

[Vargras]

The full music team for Mass Effect 3 just got revealed. It looks incredible.

• Clint Mansell, Golden Globe nominatedHollywood composer recognized for scoring celebrated films including Black Swan, The Wrestler and Requiem for a Dream.

• Christopher Lennertz, Emmy nominated Hollywood composer known for his work on the recent movie Horrible Bosses, also composed Mass Effect 2: Overlord, Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker, and won the Interactive Academy Award for Medal of Honor.

• Cris Velasco, known for composing the God of War series’ score, has also worked on downloadable content Mass Effect 2: Kasumi and Mass Effect 2: Arrival.

• Sam Hulick, veteran to the Mass Effect series having composed the score for Mass Effect, Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky and Mass Effect 2.

• Sascha Dikiciyan, video game industry veteran, known for composing the score for TRON: Evolution and the scores of Mass Effect 2: Kasumi and Mass Effect 2: Arrival.

 

This was the music snippit included with the music team reveal. You can hear a bit of the ME2 theme/Suicide Mission theme towards the end there.

http://na.llnet.bioware.cdn.ea.com/u/f/eagames/bioware/masseffect3/resources/assets/home/me3-music_press_release.mp3

Edited December 19, 2011 by Vargras

[TheMightyEthan]

All of those composers may be great, but that list makes me start to worry about too many cooks...

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

I really doubt they're working together, just doing different music for different parts. Besides good ol' Clint, everyone else has worked on Mass Effect before.

[Hot Heart]

Yeah, Hulick is the sous-chef, Velasco could be the Chef de partiee and Mansell is the Chef de cuisine. Magnifique!

[Vargras]

Even more stuff now. Considering I already pre-ordered my Collector's Edition at Gamestop, I'm gonna end up with a ton of stuff before this is all said and done.

[Hot Heart]

I kinda really want the CE of Mass Effect 3 but I'm a bit miffed that the PC price is exactly the same as the console ones. I mean, there's no real reason why it shouldn't be, but you come to expect PC games to be a little cheaper.

[Vargras]

I kinda really want the CE of Mass Effect 3 but I'm a bit miffed that the PC price is exactly the same as the console ones. I mean, there's no real reason why it shouldn't be, but you come to expect PC games to be a little cheaper.

 

True, but you're still getting a lot of content compared to the price. It's been one of the few Collector's Editions I've seen over the past few years that has actually looked like it's been worth buying.

[Hot Heart]

Well, it's nice having some extra stuff but I've got a lot of this sort of thing in LEs before for £15-20 less. Plus, it just feels a bit wrong paying so much extra for little digital extras.

 

The main part is probably that I've never spent £70 on a game before, no matter how much I like it or the series.

[Waldorf and Statler]

I'll say this again, it feels great to be an Adept in terms of not having to worry about all the pre-order goodies that aren't extra party members.

 

The "heavy" armor and the nice weapons are very nice and all, but I'm a pistol guy.

[TheMightyEthan]

It's £70* for the collector's edition? That is a ripoff, it's only $80 for us.

 

*According to Google £70 = $110.

[Vargras]

It's £70* for the collector's edition? That is a ripoff, it's only $80 for us.

 

*According to Google £70 = $110.

 

At least it wasn't the TOR Collector's Edition. That thing was... what? 130 bucks?

 

Part of the reason why I even wanted the ME3 CE was the art book and the soundtrack. The rest was just bonus stuff.

[TheMightyEthan]

[Hot Heart]

A 'reap us' edition sounds more like it.

[deanb]

http://gamingbolt.com/origin-is-required-for-all-pc-editions-of-mass-effect-3

 

Origin needed for all versions of Mass Effect 3, retail, digital, collectors, etc. (Is it worth pointing out my last 2 copies of ME are retail n therefore came with nothing) Thing is Origin still provides jack shit reason to make it a compulsory service to tie in. At least Steam has Steamworks, server browser, cloud saves, achievements etc. Origin has none of those, it's a downloader and store front. But I'm using a disc based game so what am I needing to download or buy? Bleurgh. (Not that Biowares store stuff was much better mind, at least Origin doesn't have a shitty MS points style system that Bioware adopted for DLC on PC)

[TheMightyEthan]

But I'm using a disc based game so what am I needing to download or buy? Bleurgh.

DLC.

[deanb]

http://social.bioware.com/page/me2-dlc

 

As I said, it all ran through Bioware and they have a points based system.

[Vargras]

Not much of a surprise anymore that ME3 will require Origin, but I'm still a little disappointed by it. I pre-ordered ME3 through retail so I could try and avoid using it.

[TheMightyEthan]

http://social.bioware.com/page/me2-dlc

 

As I said, it all ran through Bioware and they have a points based system.

But that's ME2, ME3 might use Origin rather than Bioware's system.

[toxicitizen]

Yeah, totally saw this coming. Pretty glad I switched to PS3 a few months back.

Edited January 14, 2012 by FLD

[deanb]

http://social.bioware.com/page/me2-dlc

 

As I said, it all ran through Bioware and they have a points based system.

But that's ME2, ME3 might use Origin rather than Bioware's system.

I know that's ME2, was giving example

 

Either way would be retarded. It's either making Origin a forced thing with ME3 and not running anything through it. Or having ME and ME2 (as well as DA:O n DA2) have their DLC through Biowares site, then with ME3 making it require DLC purchasing through Origin.

[Hot Heart]

'Steam has adopted a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers interact with customers to deliver patches and other downloadable content.'

 

Read as: 'Steam allows PC users to buy DLC at discounted prices during sales. Potentially, people could be paying half price for two-year-old DLC. THE MADNESS!'

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

So sounds like a one-time activation... that's not a killer for me, but definitely going to sit it out and see how it goes.

[Waldorf and Statler]

I have the 360 copy. so unless I'm forced to make an Origin account to even play my god damn game it's all good. This isn't Ubisoft [i hope]

[toxicitizen]

'Steam has adopted a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers interact with customers to deliver patches and other downloadable content.'

 

Read as: 'Steam allows PC users to buy DLC at discounted prices during sales. Potentially, people could be paying half price for two-year-old DLC. THE MADNESS!'

Thing is, Valve can't put EA's content on sale if they don't want them to.

 

I think it has more to do with them not wanting to give a cut to Valve. Also, I heard something about Valve requiring that DLC for a game be available through Steam, essentially forcing them to do so. I have no idea if the last part is bs or not, though, but it does kind of make sense when you consider that both Dragon Age 2 and Crysis 2 disappeared from Steam right around the time their first DLC came out.

[TheMightyEthan]

But remember that ME2 is still on Steam and its DLC is not. That's actually the thing that's kept me from buying ME1 & 2 when they've been $5 on the Steam sale. I'd like to have them on PC but I don't want to have to buy the DLC again.

 

*Edit* - I just realized I haven't played a game on console since Skyward Sword and I probably won't until ME3.

Edited January 14, 2012 by TheMightyEthan