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Post by Qui-Gon GlenN7 on Aug 4, 2016 22:21:56 GMT
Interesting read. Thank you for sharing!
The first link is broken and is just a redirect to the thread, fyi.
[MOD-EDIT: Thanks, that link's fixed now. SJ]
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Post by capn233 on Aug 4, 2016 22:29:43 GMT
I am told that MP money actually comes from the donut budget.
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Post by Gecko on Aug 4, 2016 22:35:06 GMT
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Post by Nightman on Aug 4, 2016 22:35:41 GMT
I wouldn't say it takes anything away. If nothing else, it adds something to the SP campaign. Before I had tried MP, I had done 7 single player runs, and I was ready to shelve ME3...when one day, I gave MP a shot. I spent that entire day playing MP....and the next day. I got really into MP and found there was so much content here..that I have stayed with it since. At one point, I took a break from MP and went back to playing SP and the game was completely different to me..from what I learned thru playing MP. I played the SP like I played the MP and I found that my MP experience / knowledge gained from MP had actually enhanced my new SP playthrough.
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Post by TopTrog on Aug 5, 2016 11:53:47 GMT
Thank you for sharing this . So game companies pretty much use what is standard practice in the management of product development projects - anything else would have been quite surprising. |
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Post by Pounce de León on Aug 5, 2016 12:00:18 GMT
Thank you for sharing this . So game companies pretty much use what is standard practice in the management of product development projects - anything else would have been quite surprising. Yea, and just like that - the magic is gone.  |
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Post by GruntKitterhand on Aug 5, 2016 13:05:16 GMT
I wouldn't say it takes anything away. If nothing else, it adds something to the SP campaign. Before I had tried MP, I had done 7 single player runs, and I was ready to shelve ME3...when one day, I gave MP a shot. I spent that entire day playing MP....and the next day. I got really into MP and found there was so much content here..that I have stayed with it since. At one point, I took a break from MP and went back to playing SP and the game was completely different to me..from what I learned thru playing MP. I played the SP like I played the MP and I found that my MP experience / knowledge gained from MP had actually enhanced my new SP playthrough. This was exactly my experience too, right down to the 7 SP runs before trying MP. I also ended up buying another console to play it there, and always have one eye on gamer-spec PCs. Are you me, dude?  I bought an Xbox magazine yesterday (because I'm old and still buy mags from time to time) as it had a feature on ME:A. Unless I missed something, there wasn't a single mention of Multiplayer in development. I know those of us here all kind of assume there will be MP, but has anyone seen or heard it being confirmed? |
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Post by Pounce de León on Aug 5, 2016 13:30:41 GMT
I wouldn't say it takes anything away. If nothing else, it adds something to the SP campaign. Before I had tried MP, I had done 7 single player runs, and I was ready to shelve ME3...when one day, I gave MP a shot. I spent that entire day playing MP....and the next day. I got really into MP and found there was so much content here..that I have stayed with it since. At one point, I took a break from MP and went back to playing SP and the game was completely different to me..from what I learned thru playing MP. I played the SP like I played the MP and I found that my MP experience / knowledge gained from MP had actually enhanced my new SP playthrough. This was exactly my experience too, right down to the 7 SP runs before trying MP. I also ended up buying another console to play it there, and always have one eye on gamer-spec PCs. Are you me, dude? I bought an Xbox magazine yesterday (because I'm old and still buy mags from time to time) as it had a feature on ME:A. Unless I missed something, there wasn't a single mention of Multiplayer in development. I know those of us here all kind of assume there will be MP, but has anyone seen or heard it being confirmed? No, afaik MP isn't confirmed. |
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Post by GruntKitterhand on Aug 5, 2016 13:50:21 GMT
This was exactly my experience too, right down to the 7 SP runs before trying MP. I also ended up buying another console to play it there, and always have one eye on gamer-spec PCs. Are you me, dude? I bought an Xbox magazine yesterday (because I'm old and still buy mags from time to time) as it had a feature on ME:A. Unless I missed something, there wasn't a single mention of Multiplayer in development. I know those of us here all kind of assume there will be MP, but has anyone seen or heard it being confirmed? No, afaik MP isn't confirmed. Cheers, I thought not. Well, my pre-order was metaphorically cancelled when I thought Bioware had permabanned DragonRacer, but even though that was sorted out, the timing of when I buy ME:A will be dependent on it having MP. If it's MP-free, I really will be waiting till it's the price DA:I is now - a few bucks. I was quite worried by the dev talk in the article, which more or less makes it sound as if the game is being co-developed with the DA:I team. I've never played an DA games because I don't really do Tolkein-type games. Or books. Or films. But it's the structure they seem to be planning to copy in some ways, reading between the lines. |
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Post by TopTrog on Aug 5, 2016 14:29:54 GMT
I´m confident it will have MP. The developer interview snippets in this article linkseem to imply this. So there is definitely a chance of another 1000+ hours of life going down the drain  . |
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Post by Pounce de León on Aug 5, 2016 15:10:05 GMT
I´m confident it will have MP. The developer interview snippets in this article linkseem to imply this. So there is definitely a chance of another 1000+ hours of life going down the drain . Yes "online component". That's the thing EA wants to have included in every of their games. I guess we all hope it's another MP. But it's a funny way to name it, unless you do so to make a cut go largely unnoticed. I do believe they work on a MP, but like always it might be "subject to change". |
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Post by GruntKitterhand on Aug 5, 2016 15:32:52 GMT
I´m confident it will have MP. The developer interview snippets in this article linkseem to imply this. So there is definitely a chance of another 1000+ hours of life going down the drain . Thanks for that - it reassured me a little after what I read, or rather didn't read, yesterday. Nice to see some love for MP in the comments too. Overall it still sounds like they're making it up as they go along though! |
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Post by Kenny Bania on Aug 5, 2016 18:26:33 GMT
Yes. That's why I was against MP for ME3, and against it for Andromeda also.
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Post by PATPATPATlol on Aug 6, 2016 1:05:19 GMT
I'm pretty sure it's both SP and MP that takes money away from me, the consumer.  |
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Post by lonerenforcer9 on Aug 6, 2016 6:49:07 GMT
Yes. That's why I was against MP for ME3, and against it for Andromeda also. One need only look at the rush job of ME3s general plot (and esp. ending) to see this is at least partially true. To think, we could have had a whole rainbow of plotlines to explore! I will, however, admit to enjoying the MP - for the most part - as well as a decent portion of the single player game. It's just my opinion though, there's really no need to go spreading it around. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 8:40:06 GMT
Yes. That's why I was against MP for ME3, and against it for Andromeda also. One need only look at the rush job of ME3s general plot (and esp. ending) to see this is at least partially true. To think, we could have had a whole rainbow of plotlines to explore! I will, however, admit to enjoying the MP - for the most part - as well as a decent portion of the single player game. It's just my opinion though, there's really no need to go spreading it around. Youre a good player but you are always veering off to the left. like 29 yards off to the left........ |
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Post by Cyonan on Aug 6, 2016 9:05:31 GMT
A good read, and a far more detailed account of the point I've made numerous times on many forums over the years. I´m confident it will have MP. The developer interview snippets in this article linkseem to imply this. So there is definitely a chance of another 1000+ hours of life going down the drain . Yes "online component". That's the thing EA wants to have included in every of their games. I guess we all hope it's another MP. But it's a funny way to name it, unless you do so to make a cut go largely unnoticed. I do believe they work on a MP, but like always it might be "subject to change". It is worth noting that BioWare mentioned during DA:I's development that the Dragon Age Keep actually alone would have fulfilled that "online component" requirement. It seems that EA isn't all that strict on what it's supposed to be. That said, I fully expect another MP in ME:A simply because of how successful ME3 MP was. |
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Post by lonerenforcer9 on Aug 6, 2016 14:58:12 GMT
One need only look at the rush job of ME3s general plot (and esp. ending) to see this is at least partially true. To think, we could have had a whole rainbow of plotlines to explore! I will, however, admit to enjoying the MP - for the most part - as well as a decent portion of the single player game. It's just my opinion though, there's really no need to go spreading it around. Youre a good player but you are always veering off to the left. like 29 yards off to the left........ What can I say? I'm a consummate flanker. |
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Post by Darth Dennis on Aug 7, 2016 13:08:49 GMT
Who cares? ME3's SP is terrible, anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 13:35:16 GMT
I enjoyed the SP and the Extended Cut Ending - it seemed appropriate to me that there had to be some metaphysical, philosophical resolution to the conflict.
In all honesty, after those millions of people died horribly in Reaper slaughterships to be reduced to goo - who actually thought that there would be a triumphant victory with Shepard being lauded as a hero in a grand medal ceremony or whatever?
I never expected a happy ending, so I wasn't really disappointed by the new ending - but that's only my personal opinion.
Hoping for a grand MP-Experience in ME:A, though I'm certainly not pre-ordering anything.
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