So....

Guys, seriously. Get the game, get the game, get the game. It's enjoyable building a new manifest with a new experience in learning the differences in skill tress, changes to powers/weapons, new maps/enemies/weapons/kits, etc, etc. Even if this enjoyment won't last, you should still get your money's worth and at worst you'll be better equipped to make fun of this game.

My one regret with ME3mp was that I wasn't there day one/first week, learning the game for the first time with everyone else and so on. So I'm glad I'm not making that mistake now. But if this don't bother you in the slightest, then sure, hold out on buying it.

So far the gameplay seems very solid. Looks like mp saves Mass Effect once again. This was one area I was hoping would come out right because team Montreal did mp for ME3. Seems more balanced too. Hope team Montreal remains on mp DLC if it happens, unlike last time where a bunch of Edmonton pyjacks handled the DLCs and just added some strange balance choices.

I don't yet have personal experience (no time at the moment to immerse) but I will buy the game. Being in the industry I am lenient towards early deployment phase issues as long as there is support and regarding plot and character criticism I will make up my mind on my own. I found some peace listening to this vid while I can't play it myself.

This would be under the false assumption that the game is worth buying…ever.

I specifically wait out game purchases to avoid these mistakes, but like a hopeful child, I bit and pre-ordered. The regret equals my personal shame.

All else aside, the loose, sloppy character mobility…major deal-breaker for me. They all feel like bumbling Gears of War oafs. And no chance in hell I’ll ever give a rat’s ass about the Ryder Twats to spend a second in SP.

But I’ll try to bring myself to find something worth giving a shit about in MP tonight…so it’s not such a painful waste of money. Yet I suspect I’ll take advantage of XBONE multitasking and fire up YouTube during wave 4-5 again (yes MEAMP was still ‘active’).

Wow. Bias and BS, presented with a side of fanboy and one single shred of truth - we all have opinions.

My brain resisted the infection of stupid that is this video, holy shit.

I'm glad someone said it. Some random dude tries to justify this ugly thing, like we have never played any games in our life.

We get another multi-million rushed, incomplete game after ME3, AGAIN. What more does it take to convince people, I wonder.

Biovar was right about one thing though. They said that "industry has moved on". That was pretty accurate, because other companies are more serious and productive that this group of clowns. Example: CDPR with animations and gorgeous characters, Blizzard with balancing, Id with understanding their own history. Wicher 3 came out successful, Overwatch is selling good and noone ever mentioned to "fix" the almost perfect Doom 4.

Even old Biovar could do it better. No matter how hard you try to polish a turd, it will still be a turd. 

But we really only bought ME3 for mp anyway. So if we just buy MEA for mp, it's the same thing. Personally, my buy definitely feels justified with just the mp side of things alone. Only real issues are again lag related. So temp solution, if you see some crazy lag in a match, bail out because not only is it not fun playing with too much lag, but in MEA's case on PS3, it seems to crash it.

Also, today we got a new map (APEX missions only so far) and a new character kit. And it's not even a DLC. I'm liking this trend.


PS, Mission_Scrubbed. Buy this game now. Thank me or hate me later. Only too bad I don't have a good enough rig so we can continue some matches on PC, but I will eventually. Ditto goes to all other I play with on PC.

Wow, I didn't think this game would be this unpopular here, at least based off a quick glance through this thread. Pre-ordered the game a month in advance and was playing the moment my game unlocked. I've put about 10 hours into the SP campaign and I'm honestly really liking it. Exploring the (few) planets you can are very fun and the Nomad puts the garbage Mako to shame. I do miss my Mako cannon though. The beginning of the game truly felt alien to me, I thought it was really well done. Very curious to learn more about the scourge as the game goes on. The gameplay improvements in movement and gunplay/powers are excellent additions as well, it's so nice to be able to use charge without worrying about it glitching out and causing me to die, or to not get stuck in cover for going to close to it like ME3.

MP is awesome of course, put about 4 hours into that so far and my novagod is still a god so I'm happy. Like Terminator Force above said, the improvements made to MP are quite nice. My main gripe about MP and the game in general is still no dedicated servers, so you have to hope the dude that's hosting has decent internet or you're gonna rubber band everywhere. On the bright side, off host gameplay in general feels better and the vanguard is now decent to play and that's coming from someone that 100% refused to play vanguard off host in ME3. The maps are quite good as well IMO, it's nice to be able to jump around instead of being forced to only run around. The new kits are pretty decent to, I especially look forward to unlocking the Krogan vanguard who has both charge and nova. A Krogan Novagod, how can you go wrong with that?


Of course, the animations suck and can be pretty awkward at times, but that's been said a thousand times and to me the gameplay improvements far outweigh the bad animations. Sure would be nice if they'd do something about it, or even if they had just done a better job with it in the first place, but overall I'm very happy with the game and the money I spent on it. Some of the voice acting isn't to great either unfortunately, I find it's mainly the characters on the Nexus that bother me. Main characters like squadmates are well done though IMO. The game also needs some more patching for sure, game tends to crash a bit to often for my liking and it does so without warning or an error code. It also glitches out my Logitech keyboard when the gaming software is running in the background. causing the backlights to stop working, exiting the Logitech software completely fixes the issue. Only game that this has ever happened in for me.