Mass Effect News Thread

Still can't believe the game is less than two months away and we still haven't seen uncut game play footage.

Julien Adriano ‏@bwjulien
@gamblemike Best part in all this is how a Dev from BF1 spotted this tweet and sent us a fix, as the same bug was found during their dev.

Fabrice Condominas @faburisu

@bwjulien @gamblemike We are crowdfixing the bugs thru twitter

I feel I've mentioned it as many times as you'll hear the words "Witcher 3" by now but Resident Evil 6 was in my opinion a game where I totally enjoyed my usual habits of video games whilist playing the entire thing with a stranger. I specifically want no voice-chat and I turn off player names in the menus so I get the illusion that the other player is a real character in the world that is assisting me, but I find some kind of joy in knowing that there's a human being on the other end of the line, and being a campaign-co-op game he can't really get in my way unless he's a bad player. Fortunately I found one stranger and played the entire thing with him and we posted reactions over PSN messages afterwards and then talking about about the game, much like we'd do here on a board. I really fucking liked that experience. It reminded me of when I was a kid and I still had friends that wanted to look at me playing a single player game or vice versa instead of the competitive MP games that I have never found enjoyment in.

I'm thinking that the RE6-type game is the overall approach BioWare is going for but maybe in a semi-MMO setting. I actually liked SWTOR for the way it integrated the social aspect and it worked fine whenever I played and only focused on questing and story as well as one flashpoint or two. It feels cool to enter another player's ship and travel to a distant freighter to oversee his character's story missions before you return to whatever you were doing, and it's never overly "social" where you have to chat or be bros and shit. I find myself wanting to "introvert" when I play video games too and I felt both RE6 and SWTOR let me do that while still technically playing with other people. That's all I need.

However, I hope the new IP doesn't feel too dumbed down. I expect more than a RE6-type rollercoaster experience from BioWare. I've come to expect branching paths and freedom of choice to some degree -- they'd better not drop that now that it isn't an "RPG" anymore.

I'm not joking, but I felt a wave of unesiness at thinking of playng an ENTIRE game with a stranger!   I would HATE such a thing! I don't want any kind of people around while I play! I want to be able to play as bad as I want, explore around as I want, without having to worry about the scrutiny-other player pleasure. I can (for little time, and not frequently) only have a few selected friends in the same room when I'm playng, and sometime enjoy a spar at mortal combact or other game like that with them.

Videogames for me are a small pleasure to enjoy alone. Is my ME time. In a way, is like reading a book. I have to enjoy it alone. Possibly with only the game sounds.
I've recently played at the last of us with a friend so she could give a look at the game and try it. I couldn't go around finding stuff, or try a stealth approach because she became bored easily and wanted to progress the game. And I lost some dialogues while talking to her. It was frustrating. If she wasn't such a dear friend to me, I would have or snapped at her, or offed the PS4.

Plus, I don't have always a internet connection ready to play: so playng online is sometime simply not always possible for me.

I personally think the whole reasons for going to Andromeda is debated over too often.

It's a reset of the franchise, plain and simple. Any and all reasons given for going to Andromeda, save maybe the idea of fleeing Reapers, is silly in comparison to the costs and uncertainties faced in that galaxy (especially considering humanities incredibly brief period in this space community).

well Shinobi I think said Bioware aer planning something Big in mid Feb so that's only 2 weeks away. Don't know if he can be trusted but in his defence he was right about last weeks trailer.

Also they stlil haven't done a big 20 minute showcase thing of the game yet like they normally do so I'm hoping that is the big thing. We'll only know in time though

How dare you. I always have some fries with my salt. 

The question I have is we know for sure that BioWare will show off one fairly substantial GP reveal before the game comes out, and it has been strongly intimated that they will also be talking about crafting and...other similar gameplay things. (I forget which), so will these be seperate videos or apart of the same very big video?

Cori Nicole May ‏@genevrael
@conalpierse: "There's no wrong way to use a semicolon," standing carefully outside the editors' room. @bengelinas @karinweekes @el_cormier

Could anyone with twitter ask the devs is we can know anything about the existence of high power semi auto NON SNIPER weapons like the n7 crusader or the M99 Saber?


Also inquire about the existence of a range where we can try the guns out like in ME3