Yea I picked the game up late yesterday afternoon and finished it in the early evening--------------NOT!  LOL, I am having loads of fun with it, let you know more when I am finished, when ever that might be

Originally posted by Ikeda

Originally posted by Dreadblade

So you are blasting others who have played the game for complaining but you have not played it yet correct, fucking priceless

Yes.. because those are pretty ridiculous complaints.  They were ridiculous before, they are ridiculous now.  

I can't speak to the story or the gameplay and cannot defend or critique them.  But I STILL would find it hard to give any workable game a 0.  0 means the game is not playable, cannot be played, had a start screen and then a the end screen, or the like.

I'm more honest than most of them.. I admit I intend to play the game but haven't.. clearly some of these reviewers haven't even attempted to play.  Read some of their recent ratings... one guy had nothing but 0's and 10's for reviews.. I'm sure I could find a pattern from some of these chumps if I looked.

 

Don't try to attack my critique by pointing at me.  You should be asking why tools think it's ok to arbitrarily give a 0 to things because they are whining little babies.

 

@Gray - See but I can understand a 3.  If you played it and the story blew then ok.  But that isn't what I'm pointing at... what I'm pointing at is all the 0's and saying this is unfairly averaging a bogus review into a final number.

You do know most of those 0's and overblown rants wouldn't be there if many didn't feel ripped off right? This is what happens when gamers feel slighted. We get a bit overzealous when we feel a company has done us wrong, some more so than others. If you've been on this site for any length of time you know that.

Originally posted by GrayGhost79

You do know most of those 0's and overblown rants wouldn't be there if many didn't feel ripped off right? This is what happens when gamers feel slighted. We get a bit overzealous when we feel a company has done us wrong, some more so than others. If you've been on this site for any length of time you know that.

Yes, and gamers get their panties in a wad about dumb stuff sometimes.

I have to truly question how many "felt slighted" after purchase or if it's just the popular thing to do (because, let's be honest the stuff I mentioned above is probably REALLY silly for gamers).

But BECAUSE of them, they're actually hurting their cause.  If all the review sites are giving it 9+ and a bunch of reviewers are giving 0's... none of it is believable.  Nothing jives.  That's why I typically read the forums so I can get a picture from both sides, merge the picture and get a general picture that's pretty close to true.

It's JUST like ToR.  I didn't care for it.  Some people love it.  Would I give it a zero?  No.  

Originally posted by Ikeda

Originally posted by GrayGhost79

You do know most of those 0's and overblown rants wouldn't be there if many didn't feel ripped off right? This is what happens when gamers feel slighted. We get a bit overzealous when we feel a company has done us wrong, some more so than others. If you've been on this site for any length of time you know that.

Yes, and gamers get their panties in a wad about dumb stuff sometimes.

I have to truly question how many "felt slighted" after purchase or if it's just the popular thing to do (because, let's be honest the stuff I mentioned above is probably REALLY silly for gamers).

But BECAUSE of them, they're actually hurting their cause.  If all the review sites are giving it 9+ and a bunch of reviewers are giving 0's... none of it is believable.  Nothing jives.  That's why I typically read the forums so I can get a picture from both sides, merge the picture and get a general picture that's pretty close to true.

It's JUST like ToR.  I didn't care for it.  Some people love it.  Would I give it a zero?  No.  

lol, no it isn't just like ToR. Not everyone liked ToR but no one can honestly say they were ripped of or at least felt ripped off. Different situation all together. I'll tell you what though, if you want to discuss then sure, lets discuss it. But do me a favor, play it first............

Originally posted by kareem12345

i have been looking forward to mass effect 3 for along time . when it finally got relased today i play the game and it feels cheap! im playing the game on maxed out graphics and it looks terrible just like bioware did with dragon age 2 i had a feeling they where gonna do this but man its a waste of 60 bucks imo what do you guys think of it?

I have no idea what this person is talking about.

The game looks better than Mass Effect 1 and 2. The shadows are better, the textures are better. Secondly, didn't you play the Demo? Didn't you like the demo? And if not...why did you buy the full game? It's not Crysis level graphics, but neither were Mass Effect 1 and 2.

http://i.imgur.com/fPaX9.jpg

http://imgur.com/YuyAM

Note, those settings are with EVERYTHING at Maximum on an ATI 7970. The Driver settings are at defaults for texture filtering is set to the normal setting which is "quality".

What graphics card are you using, and what are your game settings? Can you post an image backing your claim that the graphics are bad?

Originally posted by GrayGhost79

But do me a favor, play it first............

I shall return!

Originally posted by Ikeda

Originally posted by GrayGhost79

You do know most of those 0's and overblown rants wouldn't be there if many didn't feel ripped off right? This is what happens when gamers feel slighted. We get a bit overzealous when we feel a company has done us wrong, some more so than others. If you've been on this site for any length of time you know that.

Yes, and gamers get their panties in a wad about dumb stuff sometimes.

I have to truly question how many "felt slighted" after purchase or if it's just the popular thing to do (because, let's be honest the stuff I mentioned above is probably REALLY silly for gamers).

But BECAUSE of them, they're actually hurting their cause.  If all the review sites are giving it 9+ and a bunch of reviewers are giving 0's... none of it is believable.  Nothing jives.  That's why I typically read the forums so I can get a picture from both sides, merge the picture and get a general picture that's pretty close to true.

It's JUST like ToR.  I didn't care for it.  Some people love it.  Would I give it a zero?  No.  

Dude, seriously tho. Have you even bothered readin through the negative comments?  And it's not even just Metacritics where people are bashing the game. It's friggin everywhere!  This was not the case with ME1 and ME2, where people were overly positive. Hell, even SW:TOR did get a fairly positive rating from the gamers!  Go figure!  When so many people are raging and angry AFTER having actually PLAYED the game (unlike you who haven't even played it yet!!) there got to be some truth behind it.

Originally posted by Gel214th

Originally posted by kareem12345

i have been looking forward to mass effect 3 for along time . when it finally got relased today i play the game and it feels cheap! im playing the game on maxed out graphics and it looks terrible just like bioware did with dragon age 2 i had a feeling they where gonna do this but man its a waste of 60 bucks imo what do you guys think of it?

I have no idea what this person is talking about.

The game looks better than Mass Effect 1 and 2. The shadows are better, the textures are better. Secondly, didn't you play the Demo? Didn't you like the demo? And if not...why did you buy the full game? It's not Crysis level graphics, but neither were Mass Effect 1 and 2.

http://i.imgur.com/fPaX9.jpg

http://imgur.com/YuyAM

Note, those settings are with EVERYTHING at Maximum on an ATI 7970. The Driver settings are at defaults for texture filtering is set to the normal setting which is "quality".

What graphics card are you using, and what are your game settings? Can you post an image backing your claim that the graphics are bad?

Ehm..Those graphics ARE bad. I see jagged edges. The characters look like they've been cut out of cardboard aka flat.

The environment has no details at all, even the textures only have a gradient and look flat.

I don't know how they compare to Mass Effect 2, it's been a while since I played that.

Perhaps they are better but it's 2012 now, even some mmorpgs look better then that.

Edit

And also everything looks to dark and there is not enough contrast. Once again resulting in a flat image with no depth.

Originally posted by Zekiah

Stop buying games at launch maybe?

Do you realise just how ridiculous that statement is when we're talking about a single player RPG that's previous incarnations were very very good? This isn't an MMO that you expect to evolve, it's 50 bucks for the conclusion to a story... and it just plain sucks.

Originally posted by dimasok

Originally posted by Laughing-man

Originally posted by dimasok

Originally posted by SterlingG

Originally posted by dimasok

Finished the game today. Love it but some things irk me: the sex scenes are non-existent - WTF?! Can't romance EDI - sucks. There is a shortage of quality side-missions and whats there is similar to MMO's where I need to scan, collect and bring an item to someone...  if anything, it made me appreciate SWTOR much more... and these missions are also played in a very small boxed area that they use in MP so they feel pretty bland compared to the grandiose main missions...

I would give it a 9/10 but overall its a winner

(mod edit)

I'm 25 buddy. And if I can afford to sit 24 hours and play a game that's not something that you should care about either way. I am not a fan of Bioware but I did love the ME games and this is the best one so far. I really dont think I had anything in my posts that should have triggered this reaction but based on the way you talk and react i'd say you fit the minor category snugly

And yes I wanted the sex scene to be more explicit - what's wrong with that? That doesn't imply anything about me or my leisure habits - especially if I decided to dedicate my day off to gaming and to nothing else.

People like you are the reason gaming has a bad reputation - get a life and stop commenting on the live's of others and you should be fine son

How long did it take you to play through it?

Was this like a non stop gaming session or?

No judgements, I sit down and play games for 20+ hours when I have a chance to and i'm 28

Finally a decent response :)

Took me 22 hours to go through it in fits and starts gaming session (mainly to eat and other home stuff during which I kept the game running) but I skipped a lot of the fluff that entailed travelling between clusters for scanning missions. Otherwise, it would probably take me close to 30. Its nowhere near the 40-hour mark as Bioware claimed though.

I have 20 hrs or more in, and I have a shit load of side missions to do. Well probably more like 15 or 20 quests, but I wanted to fit in with the hyperbole crowd around here That isnt taking into account the ones I completed, nor the ones I got too far into the game to complete. 

ME3 is a tougher shooter this time, but it is also a lot deeper with the RPG aspects than ME2 was. When I get to the point that I have played thru 8 or 10 times, and knocked out all the acheivements like I have for the prior 2, then I will be able to say for sure where this sits on the ladder for the 3 games.

Right now I gotta say things are looking good.

As for the Prothean....I had ordered the CE long ago so this didnt affect me. If I hadnt, I would rather be able to get it on day 1 than have to wait a few months while those with CE were having fun.

F.ck haters, amazing game. GJ Bioware

This is just ridiculous. Professional reviewers give only 4 words to explain their score? Have you tried going to the reviewer's website? Critic reviews are 3-4 page long. If you look only at metacritic (which is to be honest the most unreliable and lowly site to read reviews), yes they  have 3-4 lines for each critic review. That's because they copy pasted the last 4 lines of the review.

This is just blind hate. I don't think that ANY game got 2.3 score in the past. I can't think of a single game that got such a low rating! And those retards give a 2.3 to Mass Effect? 

20 minutes was all I could handle of this "game". How anyone can play the game and say it is good with a straight face is beyond me.

Bioware is dead. First DA2, then SWTOR, now this. I was so looking forward to the final chapter but all I got was this crap of a console game.

I hope they crash and burn financially. Its the only way for them to wake up and stop this parallel console/PC gaming development chaos.

well, honestly i hate EA and their attitude how they trying to drain out as much money as they can from the ppl, but actually i liked this game and i give it a 85/100 because there isn't anything sci-fi themed product recently. What i didn't like is the too dramatic ending and yeh the graphics are outdated.

Sounds like im gonna like ME3 because i loved the changes to Dragon Age 2 that happened. if they modified things as well as they did from ME1 to ME2 then the game will be golden to me. not that ill buy it or anything.

Originally posted by Tbkrulez

well, honestly i hate EA and their attitude how they trying to drain out as much money as they can from the ppl, but actually i liked this game and i give it a 85/100 because there isn't anything sci-fi themed product recently. What i didn't like is the too dramatic ending and yeh the graphics are outdated.

Perhaps this is an indication of why we keep getting the same lack of quality in games.

Originally posted by Inf666

20 minutes was all I could handle of this "game". How anyone can play the game and say it is good with a straight face is beyond me.

Bioware is dead. First DA2, then SWTOR, now this. I was so looking forward to the final chapter but all I got was this crap of a console game.

I hope they crash and burn financially. Its the only way for them to wake up and stop this parallel console/PC gaming development chaos.

so I take it you didn't like Mass Effect 2 either?

I loved both ME and ME2 but I cannot for many reasons love ME3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri0vrJ-y2zM&list=UUy1Ms_5qBTawC-k7PVjHXKQ&index=13&feature=plpp_video

Watch this before you buy ME3.

Last game I bought at release was Skyrim. I feel lucky. How lucky? How's this... The prevoius game I bought at launch was Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Not a perfect game, but fun enough, ending blew though, BUT because of the free items Gamestop had I bought it from them. Well they pull a bonehead and yank the cards from the games that give you the game free on OnLive. Well the Gamestop I got it from never got the message, so I get the game, The free Onlive code that I Ebay for $40, a sorry we're boneheads $50 gift certificate from Gamestop which I promptly spend on Skyrim (best free AAA game I ever 'bought') and two free used games.

Yea. I should have that kind of luck in Vegas. It was a good day. :)

jesus christ the complaining in this thread. i'm tired but I'm going to respond here anyways:

1. the graphics in mass effect 3 are fantastic, what the hell are you guys talking about? this is right up there with The Witcher 2 and Final Fantasy XIII as having some of the best graphics in any RPG ever made.

2. the endings were fine. and to the previous poster, the endings were fine in Deus Ex as well. play a bunch of multiplayer before finishing the campaign and you'll get a better ending. other than that I don't know what you consider "good", there's nothing wrong with leaving things to the imagination of the player.