So....

Technical issues are my biggest problems with it so far, but some of those can be patched... maybe.

The wailing and gnashing of teeth is mostly Bioware fanbase being Bioware fanbase. Some of them are going on about how this is the end of Mass Effect as a series, but I don't think so. I'm actually meandering through SP at points when I get tired of all the laggy shit in MP and it's... tolerable and sort of fun, past the cringe moments? It's got some really plodding dialogue and horrendous animations, but it's not a bad concept and I'm neither too old nor mature to get some entertainment out of a dumb planetary romance style adventure story and some tacky flirting with the female turian. As far as the MP, when it's not an unplayable piece of lagshit I'm having a decent enough time with my Turian Soldier.

So basically the game may be objectively mediocre, but I still like it more than most of the "highly rated" games in my library and I'm gonna get my $60.00 worth out of both parts of it, probably.

yeah,  I totally get why people don't want to leap right into this and are instead waiting for either a price drop or some major fixes and think that's probably the wisest course of action, since there's a chance a few months down the line it might be a.) cheaper and . in a more fun, polished and playable state (which is not to say that it's unplayable right now, just... frustrating).  

Me personally, I jumped the gun because I'm impatient and want the new Turians, bugs, garbage and all. 

i m pretty sure the sp cant be that bad. I mean, they cant unlearn to write dialogue and character, can they ?
Not that i m excited enough to buy a new rig for it, nor to buy it anyway, anytime soon ;D
And i think i wld be better off the hook of that gaming schedule i have had those last 5 years

Lagwise, u can hope the p2p will be working much better in one or 2 months, like p2p streaming soft getting better after few updates.

About EA: You decide you need a car, you step in front of a dealer, he askes you 3.99$ to test-drive the car (?) and you soon realize there are major transmission, ignition, brake, engine and electronic probems with the car. The dealer asks if you are going to buy the car and support his "business". What do you reply to him?

If people need garbage, feed them garbage. I'm curious if it will sell. And If I was EA, *I* would have shut down BSN in an effort to protect my lol-product.

It's obvious Biovar has been left with no talent, no skill, no management, no coordination, no imagination, no innovation, no writers. Washed up company is washed up. Everything is a circle. It's like comparing today's and 90's Milan/Ajax.

I'm glad ME4 is a comedy though, but besides all the sad/hysterical laughs I believe the Mass Effect as a brand should have ended along with it's main protagonist.







Oh man, life loves irony, because I feel I need to give Mass Effect 3 an apology. 

Holy shit, @vella you should update the forum stats, Mission_Scrubbed's Post:Like Ratio is a whopping 0.1421254801536492

I for one welcome our new Soldier Overlord.

slow start might well be needed to adjust to new galaxy and stuff for old fucks like us . Well, seems they should have step up their stroke speed

It's all in good fun buddy, I got a lot of catching up to do anyway 

I know, lately I'd rather carry brand new platinum pugs than do that challenge. 

Haha, should cross post this to one of the Pig edit:slip? Pug threads. Brand new platinum pugs, like it. Amazing, I no longer dare to go to pug games except with the OP characters.

You can. There is a sprint key. You'll look like somebody shot you in the leg though. At least it looked (and felt) like this or as if one leg was shorter than the other for the Human Vanguard in MP...  

Yes, I just found this out yesterday in single player. Turns out sp was good for something before I got bored and went back to mp. Run on console is awkwardly the L3 Button. But thankfully you don't have to hold it, just tap it once to activate it. Bad thing about this is that it kinda annoying have to press L3 while holding the forward on left analog (wish you could just press L3 to activate then press forward to run instead). Otherwise the good thing about this system is that you can finally run and turn camera at the same time as PC players and no one button does it all.

Anyway, I actually had a few matches yesterday, and guys.... my mind might be changing on mp. Not sure because it's still lolBornze with spaghetti noddle weapons and I still don't have a fully leveled character (not even close. Also because all character seems to be individually leveled up this time around, and when a new alien card drops, I have to choose alien over human. Sorry, I'm racist that way). But so far I'm getting caught into the grind of making money so I can go shop at the store too.

I also have not encountered any bugs on PS3 save for press triangle button visual hud (to shake off an enemy) being stuck right in my curser/aim sights until I got grabbed again a wave or two later. And only one lag match, but after I bailed I remembered I forgot to pause Steam downloading Dark Souls III again.


Conclusion... MEAmp might live on. And even if it doesn't, I say play it safe, begrudgingly give EA your money for a copy of MEA and start right now while everyone else too is new and just starting out at the game. Because so far I want to go back for more MEAmp, and even if it ends up short lived, it's still something.

Got more things to say, but I'm creating a new PSN account and about to start over (my display name is not same as PS3 for some reason. I will now be known as Sinful_Force_2), so got some catching up already. I'll say more later. But for now I'll also say the fact that tactical cloak has an animation before you can use power or shoot... sucks. And that having new enemies flying in the air and shooting beam weapons like an ME2 Praetorian as approaching you is very cool.