EvaUnit02 on 12/12/2010 at 02:57
Here's the (
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-10-mass-effect/708363) debut teaser.
(
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/10/mass-effect-3-outed-on-ea-store/) PR blurb:-
Quote:
Earth is burning. Striking from beyond known space, a race of terrifying machines have begun their destruction of the human race. As Commander Shepard, an Alliance Marine, your only hope for saving mankind is to rally the civilizations of the galaxy and launch one final mission to take back the Earth.
It's scheduled for Q4 2011, so hopefully the shorter dev cycle hasn't affected the quality.
2011 looks to be a very promising year for RPGs, there's this, Deus Ex 3, Witcher 2, SW:TOR and Guild Wars 2. Dragon Age 2 is still looking quite pants, my expectations will be low. Skyrim though? Based on my experiences with Fallout 3, I do expect fairly bad writing. I highly doubt their technology will have come a long way either, another iterative build of their buggy arse, unstable engine, with the same limitations on character animation and the like.
Eldron on 12/12/2010 at 03:19
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Here's the (
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-10-mass-effect/708363) debut teaser.
(
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/10/mass-effect-3-outed-on-ea-store/) PR blurb:-
It's scheduled for Q4 2011, so hopefully the shorter dev cycle hasn't affected the quality.
2011 looks to be a very promising year for RPGs, there's this, Deus Ex 3, Witcher 2, SW:TOR and Guild Wars 2. Dragon Age 2 is still looking a quite pants, my expectations will be low. Skyrim though? Based on my experiences with Fallout 3, I do expect fairly bad writing. I highly doubt their technology will have come a long way either, another iterative build of their buggy arse, unstable engine, with the same limitations on character animation and the like.
It never had any limitations on character animation, that was all their animators fault actually, but from what I've read they've actually taken their time to fix up their engine for this title, while obsidian got to use the older version.
icemann on 12/12/2010 at 03:30
The first 2 games had good writing overall. So I wouldn't worry too much.
Looking forward to ME3 as I loved the first 2 games.
Sulphur on 12/12/2010 at 07:07
Wait. They had the entire galaxy at their disposal but the writers decide that it comes down to 'save the world'?
Ah, Christ. When will you grow a pair, BioWare.
june gloom on 12/12/2010 at 07:21
Well, I dunno. Is Mass Effect intended to be only a trilogy? Because if not, then I don't see how a story less epic in scope could be a detriment.
Sulphur on 12/12/2010 at 07:30
It is supposed to be a trilogy, but I don't see why EA wouldn't want to run it into the ground.
I wasn't talking about scope so much as it's the most cliched attention-getting premise in the entire history of fiction.
Phatose on 12/12/2010 at 10:06
The problem is that this actually is less epic then they could go for. A lot less epic. The adversaries in ME have been established as destroying the entire population of the galaxy, repeatedly. Compared to that, just blowing up Earth is unimpressive.
Sulphur on 12/12/2010 at 10:29
Scope is one thing, but 'save the galaxy' is just an extension of 'save the world'. They could have made it far more unique a teaser by just destroying Earth for once and making it about empty revenge, or shunting the story of the Reapers to another galaxy/dimension with different rules, or made the game about fighting off motherfucking entropy and come off less cliched.
Dresden on 12/12/2010 at 11:33
I agree but this is only a teaser. Surely they're not going to lay all of their cards out in it.
