Well, he was kidding, so...

Other people on the internet weren't.

The biggest issue was either Bioware, EA, or Microsoft themselves ended up accidentally spoiling a piece of Mass Effect 3 when it went up too early on the Xbox Marketplace. It wouldn't be that big of an issue if it wasn't for the fact of it changing what was known about the story in the previous 2 games.

I know on Kotaku, people were screaming for the heads of the editor in charge of the report just because the DLC picture he uploaded for the article ended up having the tag line that was in the DLC pack on the marketplace.

Well my opinion on is that it shouldn't be dlc...and if it is, it should be free to all via a cerberus network type thing. It's simply too big of a wave in the ME lore to make it simply something that is "premium"

I guess we could wait for reviews before downloading it.

Going to wait a bit before grabbing him.

Im gonna snatch up all my team members right away. I felt the same way as Fryza with Legion...you get him so late in the game, and he's so damn cool, gut you dont get to use him too much.

Im currently powering through another play of ME2, and snatched him up asap, which had been entertaining, especially when taking him on missions like Tali's loyalty one and citadel ones.

Legion better damn well play a good role in this game.

In case anyone doesn't care about being spoiled and wants to know how the ending and parts of the game actually play out.

http://www.giantbomb.com/mass-effect...t-3/35-537798/



Didn't actually spoil the ending with the tags but gives an idea of how it occurs if you've played a certain other game.

does this drop tuesday?

with amalur i prolly wont get around to playing THE COPY IVE ALREADY BOUGHT until late spring. but still good news.

Some of the things that happen in this game. Just gonna leave it at that for now.

Say it ain't so...getting the game like tomorrow or the day after.

Don't worry, DttS. The game is good. It's just, well we can talk about that later. Don't wanna spoil anything in anyway for anyone.

Disc swapping on the 360 is a bummer though. It's like all side-quests on disc 2, disc 1 for main quest.

Also, I played the last 2 games full renegade, I'm finding it hard to do a lot of the renegade choices in this one because they're too evil instead of just being a hard-ass.

8th disc swap #bothdiscsarefuckinginstalled

Really? After you do the first 4 or so main story missions you shouldn't have to anymore. Didn't switch discs at all yesterday, and I played for like 5 hours.

I get to meet Mark Meer tonight (Voice actor for Shepard).

PC ftw

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Will do.

I played in the middle the first time, then tried and eventually achieved full paragon. Sucks they turn his renegade into a psychopath.

...hmmm...can we screw salarians?

I dunno...really love my controller.

Less psychopath, more racist on the renegade path unfortunately.

My female Shepard has been a lesbian since the first game, does that count?

Initial thoughts on the mechanics/dynamics, spoilered in case:

Got it. Love it.

Heart actually racing during a mission there. Holy shit.

Oh gosh, Garrus maybe my favourite character in anything ever now.

Yeah Garrus is an alien you wanna hang with.

This game IS better with Kinect. I have to put the sensor closer to me and shout a little louder but it's awesome not having to bring up the wheel every time you want to issue commands or use a power yourself.

Game is in route to my house via mail, will have it in 2 days.

I was the asshole whos hard drive died and lost all my data.

Can someone who has this create a new chracter from scratch and give me an idea of what kind of Shepard I am going to be rolling with?

Now that I've seen the Prothean character and the stuff he tells you about from when his people fought the reapers. I'm kinda pissed he's DLC. Gives to much info on the reapers to be DLC and not in the game by default.

Saves you can download for ME 1 or 2:

http://www.masseffectsaves.com/

Or, I can email you mine (if they're small enough.) I have a perfect paragon save and a perfect renegade save (minus Legion because I gave him to Cerberus.)

I can't speak to your question but this should help you find a save that was comparable to your decisions from the previous two games.

You get to pick weather or not Ashley, Kaidan, or numerous party members died. That's all you can do from the character creation.

Wouldn't be a Bioware game unless something went wrong but the studio is working on fixing the import Sheppard feature that has been giving problems to almost everyone.

Apparently you can't just import straight from Mass Effect 1 nor from Mass Effect 2 and if you didn't make any changes or use the demo to update your character, it wouldn't be importable to Mass Effect 3.
http://kotaku.com/5890992/bioware-sa...-import-errors


Also confirmed is cloud saves from Mass Effect 2 are not compatible with Mass Effect 3. This one probably won't be fixed any time soon or even at all.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...ves-from-cloud

Works fine on PC.

I have the import problem. It's horrible and I hope they fix it soon, I won't be playing ME3 till it's fixed.

It doesn't for everyone.

:-\

The article doesn't specifically mention PC users so I just assumed it was a problem with the console ports.

That's a huge bummer though. I really wouldn't want to play without importing.

I imported my character fine all I had to change was the face which I use the default Shepard anyway and my class. All my decisions stood and even the right crew members that died stayed dead.

Looks like Iop went to get the game
 

Big spoilers here. Do not read if you aren't past Tuchanka.

It's here, it's queer and it's going to take up the majority of my time for the next few days.

Holy shit

:lol: Bioware is being accused of using a lot of fan-made and stock images for certain screens in the game.

The spoiler involves Tali.



I think the trailer or intro to the game also has images that were blatantly taken from stock images and fan art.

One annoying thing, my multiplayer characters from the demo didn't transfer over. Going to have to rebuild my level 20 engineer now, yaaay.

Is there a comic that explains what happened between ME2 and ME3? I kind of figured Shep would have just kept his ship and went around preparing for the coming war.

No comic and the only reason it was done for ME 2 was because of ME 2 debuting on the PS3 and Microsoft owning the rights to the first game.

Only reason the comic was made for the Xbox 360 was to generate some extra money as a DLC piece and try to bring in new Xbox 360 owners to the series if they didn't play ME1 or didn't want to have to spend 20+ hours to finish the first game just to have stats carry over to ME 2.

I meant like a paper comic. I just want to know how Shep went from where he was at the end of ME2 to now.

Oh in that case, yes there is one coming up although don't know the date.

Just checked and its supposed to come on April 4 and is called Mass Effect: Homeworlds.

ME: Invasion was the previous one that was a 4-part series and ended on January.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect#Comics

Gonna wait till all the DLC is out before I get this.

escaping from reaper ships and still getting all the loot is laughably simple

Even if you do et caught, just a simple resume and you're in that syste.

I do like that the Reapers are nice enough to wait for you to scan a planet and just wait inches away from you.

Getting this for Xbox 360 tomorrow! I've read about the importing glitch. Can I still import all of my decisions from the first 2 games? I don't mind rebuilding my Shepard's looks because I pretty much remember where all the sliders go.

Decisions mostly seem to be fine apart from some of mine from ME1 don't seem to have carried over. Not seen much else from anyone else apart from appearance.

So based on my playthrough of the demo I figured my first playthrough was gonna be the action one.

Do you still make choices on that one? or is it a set path on your decisions from the other 2 games.

End of game spoilers. Beware

the game did not give me an option to play tactically or what ever...

What do you mean by that Destor?

It's in the options.


Was it ever mentioned in previous ME games why all the aliens speak English (or whatever language the game is set to)? I feel like I remember learning about it in a codex entry but I'm not sure.

Yeah I think it says in a codex. Some sort of instant translator built into their omnitools or something.

Spoiler tags just in case someone (FA) hasn't played the games to that point

Pretty sure you pick it right up front when you start the game.

I just assumed universal translators ala Star Trek.


That might be true.

So I dunno.

All the aliens use translators. It's mentioned in the codex, it's also mentioned in the Shadow Broker DLC on Tali's profile.

Did they come up with something better than mining for resources in this one?

You still scan planets but it's a more stream lined process. Basically you fly the Normandy through a system and ping. Once your scans pick something up you fly to it, scan once, and retrieve the item. It's either a quest item, intel (which is used via a terminal on the Normandy for upgrades), or credits. It's a much better system. The system in ME2 was unnecessarily mundane.

So it's basically like ME 1 without touching down on any planets?

So finally got to the one mission we were talking about:

Omg Blasto 6

I don't know if I would rather see that or Elcors performing Shakespeare.

Speaking of which, haven't seen one Elcor yet

Not to spoil anything, but the DLC from ME2 has been paying off for me in dividends. Glad I bought it all.

KATSUMI!!!!!

Bought it, getting ready to start it up, just waiting for the From Ashes DLC to download from Xbox Live. Goodbye entire weekend!

There's a system called "Skepsis" :|

"Prothy the Prothean":rofl:

When they asked Javik if he had any knowledge on the weapon they were building, I was hoping he would say something along the lines of "That's not a weapon. You guys are building a giant statue of a Prothean phallus. What the hell is wrong with you people?"

badassfully