Mass Effect

[Vargras]

In other news, there's another event this week - Operation Resurgence. Folks playing on the two new maps will get bonus exp, and as long as you play on either of the new maps over the weekend, you'll get a pack the following week that has one of the new races in it, guaranteed.

 

Are PS3 players getting screwed again? I hate these events not coming to the PS3, due to some technical issues re PSN apparently.

 

Bioware actually specifically mentioned that in the post about this weekend's event. Apparently, you guys haven't been getting them because Sony hasn't approved the promotions, and until they do, you guys are left out in the cold.

[TheMightyEthan]

Sony was quoted as saying, "Take that, our customers!"

[Johnny]

Sony was quoted as saying, "Take that, our customers!"

 

Which is the exact impression I get from everyone in the AAA console space once in a while.

[Waldorf and Statler]

Pretty much. Microsoft says that everytime it fucks over a first-party developer or loses an exclusive.

 

 

Which isn't many times seeing how everybody and their mums at this point is making multiplat games. Sony has the advantage of actually owning first party studios or having long-term contracts with them.

[TheMightyEthan]

MS would own more if they didn't keep closing them.

[Mister Jack]

Yeah, what's up with that? My ps3 used to be a barely touched machine because all the cool first party games were on the Xbox, but for the last few years it's been the other way around. In the last six months, I've played....three new games on my 360, I believe, and one of them was Mass Effect 3.

[deanb]

MS carry on closing studios down or telling studios they can't do certain things with their games when they come out on Xbox. Thus studios don't exactly deal with them that much. It's end of generation too, which means PC starts to really start to make consoles look old n awkward, and devs start to hold back on newer bigger games in the hopes of knocking them out for next gen.

[Hot Heart]

BackTrack series looking at the music of ME1 and 2.

Episode 1

Episode 2

[Waldorf and Statler]

More and more people are playing PC now too.

[Hot Heart]

Mass Effect 2 in a nutshell. Courtesy of YouTube audio transcriptions.

 

[CorgiShinobi]

Blue Suns Merc: Who the hell are you?! C'mon, show yourself!

 

Commander Shepard: *steps into light* I'm just your friendly neighborhood Jesus.

[deanb]

 

I threw this up on Twitter last night. Gotta say, they sure no how to spin a story.

[Vargras]

 

I threw this up on Twitter last night. Gotta say, they sure no how to spin a story.

 

Brb loling.

[deanb]

[Strangelove]

Was anyone here able to get both the quarians and the geth to join you? Youre supposed to have enough reputation to get the option to do that, ive played the game twice and didnt get it either time. And ive done pretty much every mission and side mission and talked to everyone before I went to Rannoch, still didnt get it. Ugh.

[Hot Heart]

 

Was anyone here able to get both the quarians and the geth to join you? Youre supposed to have enough reputation to get the option to do that, ive played the game twice and didnt get it either time. And ive done pretty much every mission and side mission and talked to everyone before I went to Rannoch, still didnt get it. Ugh.

 

 

I did. But there are quite a few prerequisites.

 

 

Fans have tried to piece it together here. Maybe you're one of the unlucky anomalies.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Priority:_Rannoch#Aftermath

 

[Eleven]

Didn't realize that was so hard! I got it twice on my playthrough!

[CorgiShinobi]

I think it's heavily dependent on your actions from ME2, followed by simple dialogue choices in ME3. If you didn't do your best in ME2, chances are it would be rather difficult to receive that outcome by making up for it in the third game.

[Strangelove]

Dear God....yeah, Tali was exile din my ME2 playthrough.

 

Also, kind of unrelated, but My Shepard didnt know Liara was the Shadow Broker. She acted like I didnt do that mission with her. Im pretty sure I did. What a weird bug.

[Strangelove]

Well, I just got my platinum in ME3. Id do ME2, but insanity seems harder in that game.

I have a feeling the the ending dlc is holding back the single player dlc. Ugh.

 

BTW, getting all or most of the assets really forces you to do the most deplorable acts in the game. Id did some awful, awful stuff.

[Hot Heart]

http://fronttowardsgamer.com/2012/05/01/mass-effect-3-dlc-rebellion-pack-info-leaked/

Interesting if true. Of course, dose of NaCl and all that.

[TheMightyEthan]

Boo, where's our singleplayer story DLC? (Not even talking about the 'Epilogue' DLC)

[Hot Heart]

I think when they said the 'extended cut' stuff would delay other DLC plans, it probably meant singleplayer stuff (perhaps another team is doing multiplayer?).

 

The general mood seems to be that no one cares about story DLC given the current state of the endings. Not that everyone agrees, but there's also the fact that the EC probably does need to get squared away first.

[TheMightyEthan]

Their random drop system crushed all my interest in the multiplayer. I never felt like I was getting anywhere.

[Eleven]

Yeah. It got tiring because of that. Then they released the resurgence pack! In which you get one of the new classes in the Resurgence DLC, guaranteed!

 

And then it doesn't work on the PSN. Bastards.