Game News Writing For Mass Effect 3

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Learn more about the process of achieving the level of emotional engagment we all came to love BioWare for by watching this ME3 video interview.



BioWare, if you're reading this, please send me an N7 shirt. Thanks.

 

[Wyrmlord]

I like the shirt too.

 

[Wyrmlord]

By the way, I am still baffled by the idea of these Special Edition weapons. Human Revolution apparently had a grenade launcher in limited editions which made the game much easier. BioWare seems to be doing the same thing.

Can you imagine?! Pay more for a game at the earliest point of its release, and you'll be rewarded with a much easier game.

For what? Why? Would it not be better to have, say, an additional optional level that is much harder than the rest of the game and one that may lead to an alternate ending?

 

[Infinitron]

By the way, I am still baffled by the idea of these Special Edition weapons. Human Revolution apparently had a grenade launcher in limited editions which made the game much easier. BioWare seems to be doing the same thing.

Can you imagine?! Pay more for a game at the earliest point of its release, and you'll be rewarded with a much easier game.

For what? Why? Would it not be better to have, say, an additional optional level that is much harder than the rest of the game and one that may lead to an alternate ending?

Item DLC is indeed the stupidest thing ever. Pay money to make your game shittier!

BTW, Bioware did it first, both in ME2 and DA2.
Also in DA:O for preorders, though DA:O mercifully had no proper item DLC.

 

[Spectacle]

I think Shogun 2 had the dumbest pre-order bonus yet: Pre order at a certain retailer to start the game with an extra 1000 money!
Bonus items are easy to make, just a quick texture recolor and stats+1 and you've got a lure for retards. Making actual bonus content would require work.

 

[Infinitron]

Actually, in the specific case of DX:HR's grenade launcher, you don't get it until very late in the game, so it doesn't really ruin that much.

Getting a sniper rifle and double-barreled shotgun stuffed into your tiny inventory at the beginning of the game is really lame, though.

 

[Baron]

Pre-orders should come with a Miranda nipple slip or a MASSIVE Shepherd codpiece. Casual gamers don't have time to decypher complex Freudian benefits like really big guns, just cut straight to the chase... buy early and get more titty porn or bigger space cock.

 

[Carrion]

If I recall correctly, in The Witcher 2 Premium Edition (or whatever it is called) you get one of the best armors, the best trousers, the best gloves and one of the best swords in the game right from the start. It kind of fucks up the need for money when your starting equipment is better than what anyone can sell you until the very last chapter of the game. I really, really hated that shit.

 

[racofer]

Pre-orders should come with a Miranda nipple slip...

It should come with Miranda's butt modeled in silicon with a fleshlight embedded within its anus, so that you can bang her as you romance her adding to immershun.

 

[Kz3r0]

It should come with Miranda's butt modeled in silicon with a fleshlight embedded within its anus, so that you can bang her as you romance her adding to immershun.

Japanese hentai games already come with similar gadgets, I wouldn't exclude such move from Bioware.

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

It should come with Miranda's butt modeled in silicon with a fleshlight embedded within its anus, so that you can bang her as you romance her adding to immershun.

Why? I'm fairly convinced 90% of the world's wank rags have a more convincing personality than Miranda.

 

[Chuck Norris]

Only a fool would waste 6 minutes of his life watching a video about ME3's writing.

 

[Valestein]

ME3's writing is atrocious. They made every character that the average player dislikes into an indoctrinated reaper agent that needs a bullet in the head and canonized some of the worst fanwanks imaginable.

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

ME3's writing is atrocious. They made every character that the average player dislikes into an indoctrinated reaper agent that needs a bullet in the head and canonized some of the worst fanwanks imaginable.

Like what? What did they canonize? Abridge and edit out the horrors: I want to know, but not to vomit

 

[Harold]

Item DLC is indeed the stupidest thing ever. Pay money to make your game shittier!

BTW, Bioware did it first, both in ME2 and DA2.
Also in DA:O for preorders, though DA:O mercifully had no proper item DLC.

Don't be silly, Bioware did it first waay back with BG2, adding PsT and IWD themed-items (that lore-wise made no sense) to the limited and collector's editions that made fighting some of the game's tougher opponents (i.e. beholders) a cakewalk. At least back then you still had to buy these items from a shopkeeper in-game and they were pretty expensive.

 

[attackfighter]

Bioware Pulse

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

At least it ain't "Bioware Throb".

Yet.

 

[Valestein]

Like what? What did they canonize? Abridge and edit out the horrors: I want to know, but not to vomit

EDI hooking up with Joker, Tali as an admiral and the bar tender from Illium being Liara's "father" to name a few.

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

EDI hooking up with Joker

 

[Valestein]

It's actually worse than that. EDI ends up being uploaded to the body of a captured Cerberus fembot that was modeled after TIM's ex-girlfriend.

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

Oh fuck. Classic action hero dead wife issues but with a retardedly sexualized Bioware spin. Imma puke

 

[Gakkone]

I didn't even realize it was a Bioware thing at first, thought it was just another modern gaming site hyping a game. There's really no difference.

 

[waywardOne]

Don't be silly, Bioware did it first waay back with BG2, adding PsT and IWD themed-items (that lore-wise made no sense) to the limited and collector's editions that made fighting some of the game's tougher opponents (i.e. beholders) a cakewalk. At least back then you still had to buy these items from a shopkeeper in-game and they were pretty expensive.

Exactly. Before ToB and its "epic" level bullshit OP-ness, you had those two merchants selling, among other things, a shield that made beholders suicide, thus gimping one of the few truly impressive foes you could face in SoA.

 

[attackfighter]

Exactly. Before ToB and its "epic" level bullshit OP-ness, you had those two merchants selling, among other things, a shield that made beholders suicide, thus gimping one of the few truly impressive foes you could face in SoA.

To be fair the encounter design is pretty half assed when it comes to beholders in that game. It's all just tiny, repetitive corridors with encounter after encounter of 1-2 beholders and 3-5 gauths. I can understand why people would want to skip that shit... what would be cool is if they instead of making you fight hordes of copy pasted beholders when you're at a high level, is to instead make you face off against a single beholder when you're low level and with shit weapons (maybe Irenicus could have one guarding something in his initial dungeon...). Come to think of it, that applies to a lot of the enemies in BG2 - they would all be much funner to face at lower levels (say levels 6 through 12). Really wish they had a bit more self restraintwhen it came to experience rewards.

 

[Monk]

Lookin' good, but I won't bother with any pre-order bonuses as I'm more interested in the story.