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-The menu system and in-game ui is almost exactly the same as Mass Effect 2
-The starting movie is well done and you will notice facial textures are improved for shepard and the main characters, lesser characters are about the same as ME2.
-The game starts off with a "dark" and "real" feel to it. Its sort of like the difference between Batman Begins and the light hearted idiot fest that was Batman and Robin.
-Shepard is MUCH more jaded in both what he says and the actual dialogue choices you select at the start. Even your Paragon responses are jaded, like you are a good asshole.
-Combat is the same as ME2 from what I can see so far.
-The starting area with the Reapers attacking is amazing (in a way), as it finally gives true perspective to how big these things are and how f***ed Humanity and the rest of the Galaxy is. Some of you may remember Mass Effect 1's ending area where you are fighting on the outside of the Citadel where Sovereign is attached to the Citadel's Hull and how big that thing was. This puts it in much more perspective.
-Overall graphics are not much better than ME2 from what I am seeing, but the draw distance appears a bit improved and there is more stuff on the screen.
-The starting "terrain" is much different than previous games, meaning you can "jump" over things and there are things like drop offs and such. ie- not a flat world.
-Character building is like Mass Effect 2 but there is a branching interface to each of your Skills and there are more stats involved now. There are also more skills in general, like Fitness. Some other things I saw was "strength for equipment" which I am not sure about.
-Health, is split into "bars" and only a bar that you are currently damaged in will regenerate, making the game a lot harder. If you lose health, you are using health kits in other words.
-Hard Mode is actually hard, at least on the Mech in the second part of the demo. He owned my ass about 15 times before I gave up.
Overall, pretty damn good. Can not wait to play the final game. Going to be awesome.
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Where can you get the demo?
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http://masseffect.bioware.com/about/demo/
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Whoa, Origin may have its flaws, but it definitely has the bandwidth. 11 MB/sec.
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Skipping the demo, I want to wait until the game is out
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Wolfpaw_We posted:
Whoa, Origin may have its flaws, but it definitely has the bandwidth. 11 MB/sec.
It's not hard when no one uses the service.
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Origin is such a cluster-f***.
Why anyone would use it is beyond me.
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Best PC series of all time.
*turns up chin and walks away ignoring the haters*
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I am going to skip this so I can remain as excited as I am about the actual game.
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Thx dude glad to hear this!
I liked ME2 over ME1 for it's refinements just hoping the story is more open ended in 3
Very curious to see how multiplayer impacts single player games altho I am really not happy about MP should of worked on it once the main game was finished and patched it in later (asking alot) but I always feel single player suffers when multiplayer is involved.
Hope some of the carry over choices end up being good as well been playing through 1&2 doing everything I can think of so I can screw around with the moral choices more in 3.
Part of me feels the system is pretty dinky but maybe by game 3 things will really matter.
SWTOR kind of brought out how limited the system can be for me, the system should be much broader to cover more of a grey area and those neutral people should benifit as well.
Or more tiers of good vs evil choices so you can be marred by sin or redeemed if that makes sense.
Really looking forward to this, Bioshock as well. Wish there was a new Deadspace game as well those 3 really got me excited to play games again.
Looking forward to more games using the same types of technologies but I don't think I'd want the series that are here to continue on endlessly.
Glad to hear the character development is deeper I found ME2 pretty shallow esp. added to the corridor type levels so hopefully the game is more fleshed out that way as well past the demo.
Sorta scared that it might end up being a short experience and I think that's what will end up hurting the games come review time we'll see I guess.
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Do you still have to pick up thermal clips off the ground? That change alone was soo aggravating from ME1 to ME2. If they didn't tweak it at all I am gonna have to play a class other than soldier this time I think.
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Elmador_MoK posted:
Do you still have to pick up thermal clips off the ground? That change alone was soo aggravating from ME1 to ME2. If they didn't tweak it at all I am gonna have to play a class other than soldier this time I think.
Yes, I said the combat is he same as ME2.
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I've never played any of the Mass Effects...
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DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
I've never played any of the Mass Effects...
Im sorry. ME1 on the 360 was one of the best games ever, IMO
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Demo was sweet.
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The AI seems improved and the speed is a fair bit more intense. Gonna be a great game if the length is comparable to the last two games.
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