EA’s happily spreading the news that Mass Effect is the biggest entertainment launch of 2012. The giant publisher shipped over 3.5 million copies of the game worldwide, and almost 900,000 in 24hrs in the U.S. alone.
“We have been truly humbled by the amazing response from fans and critics for Mass Effect 3,” said Dr. Ray Muzyka, Co-Founder of BioWare and General Manager of EA’s BioWare Label. “The game is a gripping, engaging experience where the decisions and choices you make will truly stay with you for the months and years ahead. We are all incredibly proud of Casey Hudson and the teams in Edmonton and Montreal for delivering the best game BioWare has ever made.”
im a little deflated on it so far.
the community interaction feels so stripped down over ME2.
the last one you could go to the citadel and talk to literally anyone and they would give you tasks to complete for them.
you could walk around your ship and interact with the characters and again they would ask for your help.
now everythings so limited, it almost feels like a linear path everything feels preset.
the missions are not very well connected either, you can play the game for 6 hours straight and feel like you have made absolutely no progress what so ever!
the way the missions are set out is a little confusing its hard to tell what is a priority mission and what is not very important and can be left.
one thing thats really pissing me off is allot of reviews warned allot of side missions can only be done for a certain amount of time.
but does the game tell you which ones that are time restricted?
nope!
so im constantly sitting at my galaxy map thinking hmmmmmm which mission should i do?
oh ill do this one because its been sitting here for a while and it will probably expire soon.
so i do that one, then get back and find a earlier mission has expired.
it reminds me allot of dead island.
your given so many things to do your left scratching your head figuring out what you should do now, and what should be left, or saved for later.
just lacks direction!
Hmm. Most are saying it’s actually the best ME yet.
gameplays allot better then ME2 but the story and characters are as deep as a wafer biscuit!
allot of the personalizations been removed.
dialogue with characters is allot thinner, you have allot less choices, theres allot less people you can talk to in other areas like the citadel.
im about 12 hours in now and ive barley made any decisions, and which ones i have dont really feel like they have changed anything.
i think they have focused so much on improving the gameplay and bringing back the RPG elements the original had, which they have, they lost time to work on what made the series so great!
gameplay has never been the strong point of the series, story was.
all they have done with this is turn a bad point into a mediocre one, and its strong point into a weak one!
one step forward, 3 steps back.