Mass Effect 3

Typhoid · 03-10-2012, 03:30 PM

I don't like the idea of playing a Mass Effect game and not allowing me to make any choices to affect my mass.

Seriously though, the limited option thing sounds weak.

What drew me to the game was the ability to alter something nearly every 2nd/3rd line of speech.

I heard beforehand there are 3 (or so) ways to play the game, pertaining to cutscenes and stuff. Action, Story and RPG (or something) each of which changes the amount of work you as the game-player put into actually playing the game. I'm not sure if that's just their way of saying "easy, normal, difficult" for this game. I kind of assume so.

Anyways, I finally beat ME2 last night. So I guess I should experience the third one at some point soon.

BreakABone · 03-10-2012, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

I don't like the idea of playing a Mass Effect game and not allowing me to make any choices to affect my mass.

Seriously though, the limited option thing sounds weak.

What drew me to the game was the ability to alter something nearly every 2nd/3rd line of speech.

I heard beforehand there are 3 (or so) ways to play the game, pertaining to cutscenes and stuff. Action, Story and RPG (or something) each of which changes the amount of work you as the game-player put into actually playing the game. I'm not sure if that's just their way of saying "easy, normal, difficult" for this game. I kind of assume so.

Anyways, I finally beat ME2 last night. So I guess I should experience the third one at some point soon.

You can play the demo

But it is more or less
Action game
RPG
or Mass Effect

One doesn't allow you to make choices, focusing purely on combat. All the dialog is played out like cutscenes.
RPG is like easy mode, it makes combat a much easier task.
And there's a middle ground

Typhoid · 03-10-2012, 04:03 PM

Why the funk can't there just be a "You can make all the dialogue options, and combat is the toughest." Why does it have to be one, the other, or a bit of both.

BreakABone · 03-10-2012, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

Why the funk can't there just be a "You can make all the dialogue options, and combat is the toughest." Why does it have to be one, the other, or a bit of both.

I guess to appeal to another base

Though, and probably does deserve its own topic. The writer for some of BioWare's game, also offered up a suggestion about games allowing the player to skip game play if they wanted to focus solely on story.

Curious what folks here would think

Combine 017 · 03-10-2012, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by BreakABone

You can play the demo

But it is more or less
Action game
RPG
or Mass Effect

One doesn't allow you to make choices, focusing purely on combat. All the dialog is played out like cutscenes.
RPG is like easy mode, it makes combat a much easier task.
And there's a middle ground

Other way around. RPG is the original style of play, where you have combat (can choose difficulty) and dialog choices.

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

Why the funk can't there just be a "You can make all the dialogue options, and combat is the toughest." Why does it have to be one, the other, or a bit of both.

There is.

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RPG is the original style of play, where you have combat (can choose difficulty) and dialog choices.

So yes, you can choose every dialog option and play on insanity difficulty AT THE SAME TIME.
Why dont you find out what youre bitching about before bitching at it?

Fox 6 · 03-10-2012, 07:04 PM

So much stuff to do on the citadel.... too much stuff...

Professor S · 03-10-2012, 08:23 PM

I'm so pissed my XBox is still broken. No, not pissed. Sad and jealous. Waiting for the PC version. Any ideas when that will come out?

Typhoid · 03-10-2012, 08:57 PM

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So yes, you can choose every dialog option and play on insanity difficulty AT THE SAME TIME.
Why dont you find out what youre bitching about before bitching at it?

When I looked it up, it just said the 3 variants of game mode, and a brief summary. And the way Babsy made it seem like was you either had to sacrifice dialogue for combat, combat for dialogue, or can use a little bit of both. I wasn't aware the "little bit of both" included a "choose your combat difficulty" as well.

But it's not like I looked very hard. That would have defeated the purpose of conversation.

Fox 6 · 03-11-2012, 03:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

When I looked it up, it just said the 3 variants of game mode, and a brief summary. And the way Babsy made it seem like was you either had to sacrifice dialogue for combat, combat for dialogue, or can use a little bit of both. I wasn't aware the "little bit of both" included a "choose your combat difficulty" as well.

But it's not like I looked very hard. That would have defeated the purpose of conversation.

Choosing combat difficulty has been an option since ME1