Official Mass Effect 3 Topic

[Biollante]

Then if the game has been out to so many people, and is such a "disappointment", and you hate Mass Effect for whatever reason, how come you're just now figuring it out? You know, after the game has already come out? Shouldn't this have been news to you for a while now?

What? Yeah, the game has been leaked for a few days. I'm just talking about it now.

(even though you're the only person I've ever seen say anything bad about Mass Effect)

I don't hate the first Mass Effect, it's a pretty decent RPG with acceptable writing (Namely the Reaper speech). I do hate that EA has essentially run this series into the ground and people will continue to eat up Mac Walters awful writing and Bioware's pathetic casualization. Go anywhere else that isn't Bioware's forum, people can't stand Mass Effect 3 (see that meta critic page) and are starting to realize where Mass Effect 2 went wrong.

It's pretty obvious we're talking paid reviews when you consider the HUGE contrast between "critics" and user scores.

[GotengoXGodzilla]

*Looks at the Metacritic page*

...The game has a 94 out of a 100! The only game that has a higher score than it right now is Skyrim! That's not disappointing at all.

What? Yeah, the game has been leaked for a few days. I'm just talking about it now.

...Except that the game was released to everyone last night, so it doesn't really matter if the game was leaked for a few days anymore.

[Biollante]

...The game has a 94 out of a 100!

(Large budget, hyped ending to a trilogy)
Totally not paid reviews.

...Except that the game was released to everyone last night, so it doesn't really matter if the game was leaked for a few days anymore.

What do you mean it doesn't matter? The point is that people have already realized how bad it is because of the leak.

[GotengoXGodzilla]

(Large budget, hyped ending to a trilogy)
Totally not paid reviews.

Metacritic is still one of the premiere websites for reviewing, and the base score says 94 out of 100. It's still more impressive than most games. I don't care if they were paid or not, the game still has a score that would make most game designers cry.

What do you mean it doesn't matter? The point is that people have already realized how bad it is because of the leak.

...Except that, as you said, the leak only happened a few days ago. Subtract a day from that, and you get two or three days. That's really not enough time to decide if a game like Mass Effect is "disappointing" or not, especially when the critic scores say it's a damn good game.

[Biollante]

I don't care if they were paid or not, the game still has a score that would make most game designers cry.

What the skreeonk?

Let me try to explain what's happening. The reviewers were paid, as in given money by EA/Bioware (the company distributing the review copy to critics) to say that their game is good. This isn't an "oh we love critics so much that we're slipping a nice paycheck with our review copy for being such awesome people," this is a "You HAVE to say good things about our game unless you don't want review copies anymore/want to be fired from your job." You think that's respectable? You think that's something Bioware should be proud of?

Subtract a day from that, and you get two or three days. That's really not enough time to decide if a game like Mass Effect is "disappointing" or not, especially when the critic scores say it's a damn good game.

Two-three days is more than enough to finish one playthrough of Mass Effect, it's not that long of a game. It's enough time see the awful animation, it's enough time to hear the hamfisted, poorly voiced dialogue, and it's enough time to reach the ending that ultimately leads to none of your choices making a difference.

[HeiseiGodzilla117]

Let me try to explain what's happening. The reviewers were paid, as in given money by EA/Bioware (the company distributing the review copy to critics) to say that their game is good. This isn't an "oh we love critics so much that we're slipping a nice paycheck with our review copy for being such awesome people," this is a "You HAVE to say good things about our game unless you don't want review copies anymore/want to be fired from your job." You think that's respectable? You think that's something Bioware should be proud of?

Is there any proof of this?

[Biollante]

Thousands of people playing the leak happen to hate it but the devs who receive their review copies from EA happen to love it and give it 10's, 10's! It's pretty obvious and happens a lot in the gaming journalist industry.


Also, here's another gem.
https://p.twimg.com/AnWiyoPCMAEaDDm.jpg:large
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYOeaV0D ... e=youtu.be

So hilarious. I don't even think The Old Republic was this bad with being lazy.

[Proofpoochie]

^ Unlike you, I actually played the game and it is terrific so far. Play the game and form your own opinion. Until then, shut up.

[SuperSaiyan4Godzilla]

Also, here's another gem.
https://p.twimg.com/AnWiyoPCMAEaDDm.jpg:large
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYOeaV0D ... e=youtu.be

So hilarious. I don't even think The Old Republic was this bad with being lazy.

Manipulation of stock images and using them as bases and inspiration is a very common practice in games and other visual based media.

[Biollante]

Manipulation of stock images and using them as bases and inspiration is a very common practice in games and other visual based media.

It's one thing to be inspired, it's another thing to take an image of a model from a free domain site and forget to quality control the four knuckles on her "three fingers."

If you're going to reveal the body of a side character with a reasonably large following, it helps to actually have some creativity and uh, effort.

[SuperSaiyan4Godzilla]

If you're going to reveal the body of a side character with a reasonably large following, it's help to actually have some creativity and uh, effort.

Well, that's only if its efficient and economical. The manipulation of the image was both. I see no issues with what they did.

[Proofpoochie]

I went on a couple of sites to see who was saying the game sucks and all I found were a bunch of homophobic reviews from idiots. Really?

[Biollante]

I see no issues with what they did.

You are high. An important side character with a large following doesn't even get their own original design, just a poorly photoshopped picture of a model from some random website. You know her reveal was also crucial to the mystery of her race, right? Were you expecting something unique and interesting like the bulky, hump-back Krogan or the avian Turians? lol too bad, you get a normal white girl with three fingers. They couldn't even give her a unique skin color like the Asari.

It's blatant laziness and corner cutting. This should not be acceptable

[Proofpoochie]

The only bad reviews I've found for this game are from homophobes with bad grammar.

[SuperSaiyan4Godzilla]

I see no issues with what they did.

You are high. An important side character with a large following doesn't even get their own original design, just a poorly photoshopped picture of a model from some random website. You know her reveal was also crucial to the mystery of her race, right? Were you expecting something unique and interesting like the bulky, hump-back Krogan or the avian Turians? lol too bad, you get a normal white girl with three fingers. They couldn't even give her a unique skin color like the Asari.

It's blatant laziness and corner cutting. This should not be acceptable

You clearly never had to create something for profit and under a deadline, have you?

Bob Eggleton discussed this (through me) in the Godzilla comic thread: when you have a deadline and you're working for money, you do what you have to do. There's a deadline and things need to be done by then.

[Biollante]

You clearly never had to create something for profit and under a deadline, have you?

Oh don't give me that. Bioware has the time, creativity, budget and talent (though I find myself doubting this one) to make a decent reveal picture for a mysterious race.

[SuperSaiyan4Godzilla]

You clearly never had to create something for profit and under a deadline, have you?

Oh don't give me that. Bioware has the time, creativity, budget and talent (though I find myself doubting this one) to make a decent reveal picture for a mysterious race.

Didn't seem much like a big reveal. Seemed like something you'd walk by without noticing. So...I wouldn't waste my budget on something so minuscule on the grand scheme of things.

[Biollante]

lol, more quality control by Bioware.

http://www.destructoid.com/mass-effect- ... 3252.phtml

[SuperSaiyan4Godzilla]

lol, more quality control by Bioware.

http://www.destructoid.com/mass-effect- ... 3252.phtml

Nice retort.

Anyway...

Well, that sucks. Good thing I've never played any of these games before.

[Hedorah]

Anyone else wondering why Biollante has so much shit to say for a game they clearly have no desire to play?

Edit: Yeah butthurt was a dumb way to say it