[360] Mass Effect

Thanks a lot. I was planning to ask about the book but not seeing many reviews online and lack of mention here, I thought there wasn't much interest. Now I have to pick a copy.

 

I ordered the book after reading the prologue chapter online (readable on Bioware's Mass Effect Website), which I found quite enjoyable. Surely nothing worthy of entering the grand halls of science fiction literature, but a good read. I too am now much more hyped about the game, the story and universe and characters now!

 

An new clip here http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/85139.html is showing the new dialog system.
It's very movie-like, and you can also *cut* the other one in middle of sentences. It'll be huge for replayability.

I bought the xbox360 mainly for Mass Effect as I'll move where Bioware release their single-player RPG.
While I'm not sure the FPS part will be interesting, at least I know I'll spend hours trying every dialog branches (Could it beat Planescape Torment ?).

 

I like how the characters don't just repeat what you select, and they play it out smoothly into the conversation.

Nice detail with the facial expressions and all, but the eyes were kinda weird for the girl. And well... Sheppard looked like he needed to take a crank.

 

You must love the Discworld and Monkey Island games.

 

Apparently Bioware acknowledged a small bug with the girls eyes, making her appear cross eyed sometimes....or at least that's what I heard

Really does look great though, these cut scenes rival any realtime cut-scenes, yet they are only very loosely scripted.

And the animation in Shephards face, WOW. Really has evolved by leaps and bounds, the feeling and emotion is written plainly across his face now, very cool to see. For example, when he asks her if she's lonely, he looks like a typical greaseball...would you like some dick with that???

 

Just simply awesome god I want this game so bad. Why are not more people taking about this game here? This could very well be the greatest RPG ever. It has every thing a huge universe stunning graphics and a great dialog system from the looks of it.

Here is some more a QA at gamespot.


http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/rpg/masseffect/news.html?sid=6175375&tag=newlyadded;title;1



Quote:
GS: You mention the "critical path" kind of core storyline. How linear is that storyline? You've said that this game is or may be the first part of a trilogy, so are we looking at, say, multiple possible endings, or is it going to be a more fixed progression for the storyline?

CH: There are definitely multiple endings, and it's actually a matrix of endings, and not just because it branches out into a few different points from one decision point. It's actually based on a combination of the way that you play the entire game and the decisions that you make throughout the ending sequence, so that both of those things actually really matter. It's nice to be able to make really important decisions as you approach the ending of a game to decide what's going to happen. But you don't want to have a situation where you can just reload and make different decisions and see a different ending, and see [all the endings] that way. Because, really, that's the value of being able to play a certain way throughout an entire game, is that that makes for a fundamentally different ending.

 

I don't know why more aren't frothing over it. Maybe because it's single player and not a fantasy MMO? Heh. Yuck. I fear that we live in times when a large number of gamers shun story in favor of multiplayer.

I live for these sci-fi RPGs. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

In the meantime, go beat KOTOR again. I would if I hadn't beaten it 3 times already, heh. (Refuse to try playing KOTOR2 again until Team Gizka is done). Another option is some System Shock 2. If you haven't played that, you're doing yourself a disservice.

 

THe extended E3 trailer is cool. If they smooth out framerate it will be an instant classic. This game has everything: bald space marines, chicks, huge space battles and frogmen. I have Mass Effect Revelation novel, but still haven't read it - I have to finish other books first. But I have plenty of time beore the game ships.

I love the matrix of endings idea. It will really add to replayability, but I hope it won't make endings unsatisfactory.

 

thats what came to mind, yes.

should fit in that scenario pretty well then? you could skip that mass extinction part....

hahahaha. thx for the lolzers...

pls don't spoil on the book. This game is going to be SICK!

 

I'm going to be all over this as soon as it hits PC.

 

Why doesn't come this to the pc? Now I have to buy an Xbox 360

 

You answered your own question

 

lolzors nice scoob

 

Everything else they've made has come to PC, I think.. Maybe in a year or so. Heh.

I think the lack of AA is the most "disappointing" aspect of the game. But, I'll get over it. Looks incredible otherwise. My old skool 36" SDTV will hide that stuff anyway.

 

reply of the year

 

I thought AA was mandatory on all 360 games?

 

nope, HD resolution is mandatory.

The thing about the 360 and AA is that supposedly you can have 4x AA for a very little performance hit (5%) if you make a proper engine that uses tiles.

 

I doubt the 5%. This is Microsoft (or is ATI's) quoted number, but you know how these things go. If it were really 5%, I doubt many devs would be using anything else. You are right about the engine of course.

4x AA may only give a 5% hit, but in conjuction with the requisite tiling, I'm sure some situations bring about a significant jump in % hit (redundant geometry).

 

What about v-sync... A lot of 360 games suffer from this not being enabled