Mass Effect 3 multiplayer confirmed

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 10 October, 2011

Australian magazine outs new feature.

Mass Effect 3 multiplayer - the worst kept secret in video games - has been confirmed.

Australian magazine PC Powerplay announced the feature on its website alongside an image of the cover of its November issue.

"That's right - Mass Effect 3 is getting multiplayer!" said the mag. "We travel to BioWare's office in Edmonton for hands-on time with the series' first foray into online gameplay, and chat with Mass Effect Series Producer and Mass Effect 3 Project Director Casey Hudson about the decision to go multiplayer in the epic battle for the galaxy."

"Fight alongside your friends as the galaxy goes to war!" reads the magazine's coverline.

Last month a scan of a South African magazine revealed the contents of the Mass Effect 3 Collector's Edition, and in that list was mention of an "online multiplayer pass".

Sources have told Eurogamer that Mass Effect 3 includes an online enabled co-op mode that is standalone and features competitive elements.

We understand BioWare Montreal was creating a multiplayer Mass Effect experience, either as a standalone game or component of Mass Effect 3.

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  • MerricK #1 8 months ago

    How to ruin another game by bioware....

  • Kostabi #2 8 months ago

    If it's just co-op in the main campaign then ok, but if I've got to play co-op/online to get the full story Bioware can go swivel.

  • Histeria #3 8 months ago

    This had better be an easily ignorable bolt-on side mode.

  • DUFFMAN5 #4 8 months ago

    Why bother.
    We don't need or want it, not every game has to have this "feature".

  • Apaar #5 8 months ago

    I wish all the millions spent on this fluff had been spent on adding depth, detail and polish on the campaign proper.

  • Aretak #6 8 months ago

    Can't wait to get to work on the 50,000 frags achievement.

  • HisDudness #7 8 months ago

    Nice. Will be a good reason to include a season pass!

  • Nova1977 #8 8 months ago

    so this is why the game was delayed.

  • RedPanda #9 8 months ago

    Post deleted at 14:31:59 28-01-2012

  • IonOnion #10 8 months ago

    I wonder how many will swear off buying Mass Effect 3 because of the online pass like they said with Uncharted 3.

  • spellenberg #11 8 months ago

    If there is a game that does not need multiplayer it is Mass effect 3. But hey maybe its good who knows.

  • Whitster #12 8 months ago

    Well since it's seperate from the main game I'm pretty happy, and given how many of my friends will have this come March I may actually get some play out of it. Hope you can take your campaign Sheppard online.

  • bad09 #13 8 months ago

    Yay engrossing single player experience gets pointless multiplayer, that's a new one for the modern video game industry.

  • Mortey #14 8 months ago

    but, but I am shepard, no one else...


    edit....too early....typo!!
    Edited by Mortey at 10/10/11 @ 09:01

  • Daddy-Doom-Bar #15 8 months ago

    I might complain about something I know very little about...or I could just wait till I play it, then decide whether it's good or not...hmmm...decisions, decisions....

  • yoomazir #16 8 months ago

    Not only the news are bad, but that cover magazine is fucking UGLY, my goodness how low Bioware has fallen...

  • Gumersindo #17 8 months ago

    Do we need that?
    NO!

  • Daddy-Doom-Bar #18 8 months ago

    I could even blame Bioware...or I could remember that if anything is ever bolted on to an EA game, then it's always EA that's made that decision, not the dev. I could then blame the monsters that should always get the blame for everything...EA.

  • TheBlackBandit #19 8 months ago

    Augh.

  • FearCrads #20 8 months ago

    This is a sad day indeed. Fuck you EA!

  • ubergine #21 8 months ago

    I guess they are not trying to appeal to the people who already want Mass Effect 3, but to new people, people who want multiplayer.

    Which is how I guess they justify this fucking stupidity.

  • StolenGlory #22 8 months ago

    Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

  • rudedudejude #23 8 months ago

    I hope it features chopper gunner :p

  • Sodding_Gamer #24 8 months ago

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    The start of the week couldn't be worse :/

    Edit: Negged... Really?! We are all singing the same tune here
    Edited by Sodding_Gamer at 10/10/11 @ 10:44

  • the_dudefather #25 8 months ago

    Remember when they ruined Assassin's creed, dead space and Uncharted by adding multiplayer?

    might as well give this a 2/10 now, doesn't matter what the MP is like, the entire game is ruined now.

  • revan8 #26 8 months ago

    Pointless, waste of development time which should have been spent on single player.

  • RexRunti #27 8 months ago

    Did anyone ask for this: No
    Does anyone want this: No
    Will it effect the single player campaign: No
    Will we actually use it: Probably
    Will we enjoy it: Probably
    Will the internet complain about bioware adding a feature: Definetly

  • s3y3 #28 8 months ago

    This worries me slightly, but Mass effect horde might be good. But will reserve judgement until we get some information about it.

  • kinky_mong #29 8 months ago

    @the_dudefather: Probably should have thought a bit longer about those examples. Assassin's Creed multiplayer was bobbins, while Dead Space 2 had a poor Left 4 Dead rip-off, and the single player wasn't great either.

  • Mentat_Idaho #30 8 months ago

    I really hope this it's good seeing as they are spending time, disk space and money on it. I fear they're only doing this to cut down on second hand sales though. I'm guessing a second or third player will be able to take on the role of your team mates. It'd be weird with loads of different Shepard's running around.

  • RexRunti #31 8 months ago

    How to ruin another game by bioware....

    How?

  • HyperTails #32 8 months ago

    Oh great, another game that will have a MP which nobody will give a crap about. So, can we expect the same tacked on MP to be in Dragon Age 3 then?

  • IIJAZMANII #33 8 months ago

    Damn it!!! Will this nightmare ever end!!!!! AAAAAaaarrrrgghhhhh!!!!
    Edited by IIJAZMANII at 10/10/11 @ 12:48

  • Razorus #34 8 months ago

    I hope it turns out to be a great extra feature that can show people that including a multiplayer component doesn't ruin the single-player experience like so many of you believe. It doesn't HAVE to suck, they just usually do, unfortunately. There's no reason why a developer can't focus on a single-player campaign and then create a decent multiplayer mode. It shouldn't take anything away from the single-player. Even if the multiplayer turns out terrible, how will that affect the campaign, really?
    This is Mass Effect we're talking about. Who said there's a limit to disc space? I'm sure there's plenty of money going into this game. The campaign can only be as good, if not better than 1 and 2. The multiplayer is just an extra. Nobody is forcing you to play it, but you probably will anyway.
    Edited by Razorus at 10/10/11 @ 10:29

  • ChronoMizaki #35 8 months ago

    Isn't the multiplayer component being created by a different company? If so, it would not affect development of the main game.

  • Lukree #36 8 months ago

    It's pretty damn obvious that EA doesn't know it's customers.

  • The-Bodybuilder #37 8 months ago

    "Fight alongside your friends as the galaxy goes to war!"

    FFS, No I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT ALONGSIDE FRIENDS.
    This is my story, my experience. Please, I have tons of multiplayer games, just let me experience this story alone. I don read books with friends, ditto ME.

  • anomagnus #38 8 months ago

    Here we go again.

    Firstly, it actually states, OPENLY in the fifth paragraph, of this VERY short piece of text that it multiplayer is standalone. Of course, given that many of you have limited literary skills, I wouldn’t expect you to read that far anyway. Histeria, are you living up to your name, and panicking without reading the piece, or are you just confused?

    @Apaar – I’m sorry, I didn’t know you were a Bioware Project Manager on ME3. What’s the exact breakdown of costs and resources allocated to each portion of the game? You don’t know? Oh, wait, I see, you’re using internet opinion/fact numbers to try and prove a point. You don’t actually know anything about resource allocation in the game.

    How many of you actually remember when Bioware put multiplayer into their games? Something I see a lot is ‘EA is ruining Bioware’ and ‘BG2 was their best game, and they’ve been downhill since then’. It shows how poor your memories are, that you’ve forgotten that Bioware was putting multiplayer into games, LONG before EA bought them. And that somehow, BG2, which was something everyone agrees was a great game, didn’t seem to suffer in the least being multiplayer. How many of the negative moaners even remember that BG2 and NWN were multiplayer?

    Somehow though, because ME3 has multiplayer in it, it will AUTOMATICALLY be a bad thing, and because some of you are incapable of rational thought, you must, must be straight on the comments section of an ME3 story to prove your street cred with ill informed, reactionary quotes, about ME3, with no basis in fact.

    While we’re on the subject of multiplayer, there was another major franchise launched at the same time as ME. It was Assassins Creed. Correct me if I am wrong, but it doesn’t seem to have suffered in the slightest by having multiplayer in it. In fact, the last two AC games were far superior to the first.

    What about another major franchise, Uncharted. Uncharted 2 had multiplayer. It didn’t stop it being one of the best games on the PS3.

    Yet, somehow, despite the pedigree that Bioware have, they’ll fuck it up. At least, according to a lot of people here.

    Let’s be clear here, this nothing to do with Bioware. Many of you just want the game to fail. You need to be proven right. Your little bandwagon has to be the coolest thing around.

    There’s nothing more pathetic than fanboys, giving out about optional play style, simply because they’re butt hurt over removing random dice rolls from a game.

    Edit: Sorry dude father
    Edited by anomagnus at 10/10/11 @ 12:24

  • karaokequeen3 #39 8 months ago

    Ugh, thanks a bunch EA for a feature that no-one wanted.

  • Old_Books #40 8 months ago

    "Mass Effect 3 multiplayer confirmed."

    Mass Effect story to go out on a whimper confirmed.

    Mass Effect 3 Collectors Edition containing 2 exclusive maps confirmed.

    Bioware, EA's bitches, confirmed

  • ruisranne #41 8 months ago

    ... *sigh*

    I really hope they don't fuck this up.

  • ectotropic #42 8 months ago

    "You maniacs! You blew it up! Oh, damn you! Goddamn you all to hell!" - Planet of the Apes

    :'o(

    I wish I could believe this wont affect the rest of the game*. I really wish I could.

    A little bit of me died today.

    *By which I mean using dev resources that could otherwise be used for SP
    Edited by ectotropic at 10/10/11 @ 10:55

  • Slipstream #43 8 months ago

    Thank you Anomagnus. As I was browsing these comments I was hoping a voice reason would be here somewhere. you're absolutely right aswell, plenty of this hate is driven by a blind bandwagon, picking up blind passengers.

    This is more evident due to the + and - system it seems.

  • Boki #44 8 months ago

    I could totally see a co-op option where you have Shepard plus an AI team member, and your buddy choosing to be one of the other characters playing side by side + sort of that conversation randomroll from ToR deciding who'd say what, but that might be going a bit too far seeing as Shepard is the hero. Nevertheless if by coop they mean story related stuff not just the usual horde/beast/shooty-shooty mode, then color me intrigued

  • ectotropic #45 8 months ago

    Coming soon to a Mass Effect 3 game near you: http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7140/masseffect3.png

  • Genome #46 8 months ago

    anomagnus: Great rant and I agree with you on all points. Except one. I think you need to read dudefather's post again and try to parse what he's really saying.

    Let's call it an exercise in literary skills. ;)

  • onyxbox #47 8 months ago

    I swear they're trying to turn this game into Gears of War with Force powers :/

    I bet they'll even be a Horde mode.

  • DanForinton #48 8 months ago

    Is this going to be yet another bolt-on multiplayer that almost no-one will be playing three months after release, because the people who enjoy this kind of thing will have moved on to the next new MP game?

    @anomagnus - money spent on the multiplayer is money not spent on something else. Now, if they've got a bunch of coders/design monkeys/artists sat around with nothing better to do, then by all means make them earn their wages, but I'd rather see them employed on the single-player stuff, even if it's DLC.

    What I'd REALLY like to see is Eurogamer coming back to this several months after ME3 is released and doing some actual journalism to assess whether adding multiplayer to the third instalment of a previously single-player series had any measurable effect.

  • spekkeh #49 8 months ago

    While anomagnus has some really good points, and I'm certainly not in the oh Bioware thou hast forsaken me camp, part of me always feared that this series was going to pull a Matrix. You could say it speaks for the next Mass Effect that the combat is now ostensibly good enough that it warrants a spinoff game mode, and we'll have to wait to see how it pans out, but it does give the impression that the game is going to be an actionfilled fragfest, where I was hoping it was going to be a story heavy finale instead.
    Mind you, I do think that Bioware is actually improving their games gameplaywise, so I'm quite certain the game and multiplayer will be great fun regardless (I just never play online multiplayer, but if my wife's shep and mine can duke it out in splitscreen, that would be cool).

  • tyrant1 #50 8 months ago

    So Bioware is wasting time and resources and game space on an unncessary feature. The big question is though, for whose benefit? The dumbasses who think everything in the game must be linked to current shooter games if it is to sell, or the dumbasses who think everything in the game must be linked to current shooter games if they are to buy?

    To anyone who whines about people thinking this is a bad idea: fuck and go play Gears or COD and stop trying to turn every game into a dumbed down point and shoot bore fest so your thick skull can cope. If you cant see the blatant homogenisation of games in a greedy attempt to "be another COD" so bitch about the folks smart enough to do so.

    Now, Ill be sure to check before purchase whether the campaign is a) a lot longer than that disconnect shooter driven bore fest that was ME2s "plot" (lol... "plot";) and b) a lot better than written that poorly thought out series of shitty "go here, do this" shooter missions that was the makeup of ME2s "plot".

    I mean, if you can waste time on shit like this Bioware, surely its because youve done such a bang up job on the campaign, isnt it? Rather than a cheapass attempt at raking in more shooter fans- I mean "money".

  • Syrette #51 8 months ago

    - I'm pretty sure EA can afford to pay extra to get a multiplayer component without diverting resources away from the singleplayer development.

    - Bioware are made of several studios and this is being done by a separate one to the SP guys. Why is that so difficult to understand?

    - Did you lot cry when Uncharted added multiplayer? Assassin's Creed?

    - Why do you automatically assume that it will be the worst thing ever? Even if it is you're not going to be forced to play it.

    Some cringe-worthy hysteria going on here. You're judging something you know next to nothing about based on pure assumptions.

  • ShiroBen #52 8 months ago

    A quiet pang of worry has arisen in my heart.

  • rtk79 #53 8 months ago

    Bioware has a lot more experience with MP than their Mass Effect fans know. Starting with the very first Baldur's Gate. See, for instance, Neverwinter Nights, whose very weakness lies in its single-player campaign !

    Let's give them the benefit of the doubt.
    Edited by rtk79 at 10/10/11 @ 12:06

  • ForozM #54 8 months ago

    First BioShock 2, then AC: Brotherhood, then Dead Space 2, and now Mass Effect 3.

    They think they can steal players from the Call of Duty cake, but unless you don't have a game that is thematically similar like Battlefield 3, they can forget about that. Also, alienating their original fanbases while trying.

  • metroid455 #55 8 months ago

    sigh we all saw this coming, Mass Effect is certainly no longer an RPG thats for sure. Oh Bioware how the mighty have fallen

  • Syrette #56 8 months ago

    @ForozM

    How are they alienating their fanbases? How does that even make sense?

    It's just beyond me how people can be so sensitive about something that they don't have to play. They are not replacing Mass Effect 3's singleplayer or notably changing it to force in a co-op mode in the campaign or something.

    The publishers spend a little extra money and you get another feature in your game. If anything people should be grateful.

    FYI - the multiplayer component in each of your listed titles there was done by a separate studio. They were also entirely optional and took absolutely nothing away from the SP at all in any of those titlesl. In Brotherhood's case, the MP was widely praised.

  • Syrette #57 8 months ago

    @metroid455

    Right, because RPGs never have anything to do with multiplayer.

  • anomagnus #58 8 months ago

    @tyrant1

    Its funny that while you bitch about other people being thick, you can barely string a sentance togeather.

  • geeza2020 #59 8 months ago

    Who gives a fuck? I think everyone I know who plays this will not bother playing the MP at all. Same as Dead Space 2, its just an attempt at getting customers to hang on to their games a bit longer and not trade them in. Personally I find the idea of ME multiplayer co-op or competitive to be completely uninspiring, so I will be trading this in after completion anyway.

  • strangerism #60 8 months ago

    they are adding multiplayer simply because they can expand the game potential. further on they will leverage everything they have learned in this process to actually turn this franchise into an mmo (it was also said not long ago). if this is bad or good is not for me to tell.
    Edited by strangerism at 10/10/11 @ 12:33

  • Kikizosan #61 8 months ago

    So long as they've invested the necessary amount of time and resource, and creative energy, into making the single-player campaign/story the epic and awesome finale that it needs to be, then if they want to put time into a multiplayer mode, fair play to them. If it in any way adversely affects the SP campaign, then that's a fail.

    Personally, I have no interest in MP in Mass Effect, but if it's good I might give it a try. But I don't understand the mentality behind it other than providing another feature tick on the box - the sorts of players who enjoy Mass Effect are surely not interested in such a feature...seems like a waste of money and time to me, but if that's what EA/Bioware want then whatever.

    If it's yet another 'Horde' mode, though...double fail for me. I enjoy some MP in certain games, but Horde modes leave me cold. Story-related co-op would be a winner for me (if a separate side story).

  • actionfitz #62 8 months ago

    So, this is so they can justify an 'Online pass' for ME, and so piss off the pre-owned guys?

  • arcam #63 8 months ago

    If they were doing it for the right reasons, I wouldn't be bothered.

    But if it weren't for the concerted effort to reduce second-hand sales, I honestly don't believe Bioware would have considered it. I know they said the other day they are autonomous and their decisions aren't affected by being part of EA, but I believe things like this show that not to be true.

  • actionfitz #64 8 months ago

    That awkward moment when you and your mate are playing co-op Mass Effect 3... and he trys to 'Romance' you.
    O.o

  • MisterM #65 8 months ago

    Really don't care for multiplay in my RPGs. Really don't care for multiplay at all, frankly.

    There must be an easier way to get kids to question my weight/race/sexuality, or that of my mother, than playing online.

  • tyrant1 #66 8 months ago

    @anomagus Go play Gears to shooter tard.

    Whats the matter, pissed that people dont want their game filled with "teh shooty shooty".

    Bioware are liars. They said this series was going to be about their new style of interactive storytelling, and with each successive game its been more about dumbass (thats you) friendly shooter gameplay where 90% of your time is spent lining up crosshairs on enemies and shooting them. I know thats intellectually stimilating for you, but I remember before Mass Effect 1 was released being specifically sold on the game being about more than just its TPS element.

    The multiplay WILL suck. Thats a fact. It doesnt matter how techincally sound it may be, its being shoved in for the benefit of one fanbase thats being excessively pandered to by BiowarEA and their dumbing down of the game.

    I know it hurts that admitting you like these features makes you a dumbass, but that doesnt change the fact that people like me have a right to be pissed that precious game resources are being spent on crap like this. Theres only every other fricking game on the market with a multiplayer aspect to choose from.

    They and morons like you talk like its innovation, adding new features. Its stagnation. Too many games are becoming the same derivative shit with multiplayer tacked on. What was wrong with focusing on telling the best singleplayer story possible with 100% effort spent on sending the trilogy out in style? Why needlessly tack on a virgin feature at this stage that has the potential to screw things up? Money. Thats why. Morons like you think its for the betterment of the game, but youre simply deluded. Its just to try and squeeze more money into EAs pockets.

  • Daeltaja #67 8 months ago

    If it's just complimentary to the campaign, ala co-op, then ok. Any other variation doesn't belong here.

  • coolbritannia #68 8 months ago

    Sounds good, the squad potential here is brilliant. As long as the multiplayer doesn't affect the story, I welcome it.

    Majority of people here are mouth breathing idiots anyway, no one gives a toss what the EG majority think, you're frequently completely wrong at predicting the success and failure of games and features.

  • Zombie-Hamster #69 8 months ago

    Jeez, surprised at the level of hate here! I love ME but I think this could be pretty good. Of course, I spent so long playing ME2, I'm not sure I have any friends any more... :-O Damn you EA and Bioware!!

    Also, hasn't anyone considered that maybe the single player just didn't take all that long to sort out as they had the core gameplay structure there already and I'm willing to bet they already knew how the story would play out as well? I suppose that would just be an indication of laziness to most people on this thread though from the looks of it.

  • Inmediasress #70 8 months ago

    @tyrant1

    Completely agree.
    Remember how they denied any MP nooooo thats just silly rumors and whatnot.
    Well somebody was lying I guess but you know, Bioware are like Blizzard no matter what they do rabid fanboys eat anything.
    Then go on praising them in the process like good little zombies.

    Honestly Bioware really went on to become the lowest of the low.
    Their recent games tend to be a mixture of japanese rpgs with limnited interaction and idiotic sex fantasies with some sort of push a button and something awsome happens gameplay.
    Edited by Inmediasress at 10/10/11 @ 14:02

  • Ironsword #71 8 months ago

    Shortly after tyrant1 clicked post comment, men in white coats dragged him away while he was screaming and foaming from his mouth.

  • arcam #72 8 months ago

    To be fair we already knew this already if we were paying attention: [link url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/all-ea-games-to-feature-online-dlc
    ]http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/all-ea...[/link]

    "In fiscal 2011, every one of EA's releases will have an online component, both downloadable content and online play," he told investors during a conference call.

  • intpleeus #73 8 months ago

    I have no problem with multiplayer in Mass Effect, but it really needs to be a standalone game. If they are going to do it, then do it properly. The news here doesn't paint a promising picture. It sounds like an independent short story for two players -- not the comprehensive multiplayer overhaul of Assassin's Creed II or Uncharted 2. It just screams pointlessness. I would prefer they devote all their resources to getting the single-player done (or, at least, getting a headstart on DLC). That said, fingers crossed that it'll be good after all.
    Edited by intpleeus at 10/10/11 @ 14:25

  • Uncompetative #74 8 months ago

    Put in a Forge where I can mod the locations in the Campaign to be played co-operatively and share the maps in a Community Hub - kinda like Halo: Reach's Firefight meets Little Big Planet. Essentially, a "make your own adventure" tool.

  • darkmorgado #75 8 months ago

    In Space, noone can hear you scream.

    But they can hear you call each other faggots over XBL, thanks to multiplayer noone wanted!

  • Agent_Orange #76 8 months ago

    Hang on - what can we discern from this - In previous Mass effect games you played as Com Shepherd. So that would make a co-op campaing difficult to play and stupid with 2 Shepherds. Thus the MP Is not co-op campaign based, or you dont play shepherd in the game... Probably the former is more likely. So yeh maybe bolt on deathmatch or something :)

  • arcam #77 8 months ago

    Survival mode, not part of the storyline.. You and up to 3 friends against waves of enemies. That's what I expect.

  • rtk79 #78 8 months ago

    @Uncompetative :

    "Put in a Forge where I can mod the locations in the Campaign to be played co-operatively and share the maps in a Community Hub - kinda like Halo: Reach's Firefight meets Little Big Planet. Essentially, a "make your own adventure" tool."

    Essentially Neverwinter Nights then.

  • Kaonazhie #79 8 months ago

    It's astonishing; I loved Mass Effect 1 and was extremely hyped for Mass Effect 2, I even bought 2 copies of it. And yet... Mass Effect 3 is doing nothing for me. I watch gameplay from E3 and so on, an it's just not interesting me at all. Maybe it's because they are only showing the shooting/action parts off.

    There are still RPG mechanics, right? It was the idea of exploring mysterious alien worlds that drew me into Mass Effect, not shooting random human mercs over and over.

  • anomagnus #80 8 months ago

    @tyrant 1

    Lol, ‘go play gears to shooter tard’. What the fuck does that even mean? Did you write parts of Bulletstorm? Will you ‘kill my dick’ next?

    You illiterate little prick, you’re a prime example of the current crop of internet bitchers. All fucking mouth and attitude, and not a brain cell to back it up. Had you the fucking wit to read my post, and comprehend it (which would be akin to having a polar bear fly a plane to the moon), you’ll have seen that I offered no preference on game play whatsoever.

    I’m pissed off that mouth breathers like you see fit to judge a game, before its launched, based on 6 paragraphs, telling us about a COMPLETELY OPTIONAL game play choice, that as arcam has shown to us, WE ALREADY KNEW WAS COMING, from the only rpg company that’s still open today, to have been pushing multiplayer games for over 10 fucking years.

    I never said multiplayer was a fucking innovation. I would have thought that was clear, when I mentioned in my posts, MULTIPLE times that Bioware was putting multiplayer in their games as far back as 1999/2000. But you haven’t the sense to see that, you illiterate little cunt. I’m sure

    You’ve the right to be pissed about the changes. But you don’t have a clue what the game is like yet, because IT HASN’T BEEN RELEASED. If the game comes out, and its shite, then yes, you can complain to the high heavens that, maybe (because you won’t know how resources are spent) they shouldn’t have put in a MP section. But because the game hasn’t come out yet, unless you’re from the future (and you’re too fucking thick to be a time traveler), you don’t know if the game is adversely impacted or not by a multiplayer segment.

    I want you to point to a single, a SINGLE news article where bioware said they were going to spend less time on the story telling to accommodate the MP section. Go on tyrant, be a man, show this to me. There’s no fucking proof anywhere of this. It’s just your shitty little, butt hurt opinion.

    I’m also more than aware that EA is interested in making more money. Unlike you, I expect businesses to do this. I don’t pretend to live in some hippy fucking dippy bullshit fantasy where games companies are prepared to lay out 60 million on a game, just to target less than a million players. That shit doesn’t fly. Unlike you though, I don’t let it bother me. If the game works, and I enjoy it, as I did Mass Effect 2 (which remains to this day, my favorite game) then what the fuck do I care what EA does?

    The truth is, you foul little man, that even if the game is nothing but ME2 in new locations, it’ll sell bucket loads. It’ll be bought by normal people, not a bunch of drooling thickos, who’ll treat it as a game to enjoy. In the meantime, you’ll be curled up in your mothers bedroom, pissing your pants while crying that the big bad shooter crowd have stolen RPGs from you.

    Word to the wise to, you odious little cunt. If you’re going to call people thickos, make sure you can fucking string two words together.
    Edited by anomagnus at 10/10/11 @ 15:35

  • tyrant1 #81 8 months ago

    @anonmagus

    Just go kill yourself you brain dead little cunt. Ive insulted your preshy weshy little Bioware and Mass Effect havent I? Do you wank off to the game to force you to defend it so?

    Every single "whine" about multiplayer is perfectly justified, and Bioware are cunts if they think for a second otherwise. This trilogy (trollogy) has been sold since 2006 as a hybrid single player experience driven by the story. Not by TPS gameplay. Yet every step they take under EA is a betrayal of everything it was sold for originally.

    You and all the other negging retards who dont like the fact that your shit for brains favourite gameplay is being hated on just have to accept it. Its like a disease, and you retards who accept it, or even enjoy it are the carriers.

    Its seems there is hardly a developer out there these days who cant develop a game unless its a) shooter oriented b) has multiplayer, or c) dumbed down specifically for cunts like you anomagnus.

    So stop crying, get a better argument (one that doesnt force you to fall back on grammar you slobbering retarded cock) and stop crying when Bioware gets called out for the shit they pull.

    I for one wont have shitbrainers like you crying their eyes out because I refuse to have games brought down to your level. Seriously, its shooter season right now, if you want multiplayer fuck off and play those games. Its clear in nearly every single discussion when this comes up their has been NO FUCKING CALL FOR IT WHATSOEVER in Mass Effect.

    Thats because its a SINGLE. PLAYER. GAME. You know, its been so like that for the past 5+ years, shut your cunt of a mouth, take Biowares cock and shove it back up your ass, and let those who have a problem with this idiocy express themselves.

    Its the least you can do if you arent prepared to jump under a bus you fucking parasite. Enjoy.
    Edited by tyrant1 at 10/10/11 @ 16:26

  • agent55 #82 8 months ago

    Sounds about as misguided as a KOTOR MMO...

  • rtk79 #83 8 months ago

    @tyrant1 : "Just go kill yourself you brain dead little cunt" ?
    Take it easy, man. It seems a little silly to say "it's only a game" on a game site, but still : it's only a game, man.
    Edited by rtk79 at 10/10/11 @ 16:50

  • Histeria #84 8 months ago

    Good lord. Whilst I confess to thinking this tacked on MP is more than a little lame - doubly so as I have a suspision it's the reason for the delayed release - I can’t imagine ever being as angry about a videogame as some people on this thread.

  • anomagnus #85 8 months ago

    @tyrant1

    Oh, it looks like the crying in your mothers bedroom has finally stopped, and little tyrant1 has spent the last 45 minutes writing in word to make sure he sounds like a proper adult. You’re all mouth, Tyrant, we all know it. If you even weigh over 100 pounds, I’d be surprised.

    Anyway, on to the content if your rebuttal. You laughable little prick, I’ve made multiple arguments, none of which you’ve addressed, because you can’t, can you? I asked you to point to a statement where bioware said they’d drop resources from the single player story to develop MP, and you couldn’t do it.

    I argued that you have to wait for a game to come out before you can judge it, and you didn’t reply to it, because you can’t. You know you can’t argue any of these points, which is why you’re attacked my attacking of your literacy. Its fucking laughable that you would insult anyone for being thick, while you would say things like
    ‘go play gears to shooter tard’

    You know what’s funny, you sad, sad little man?. When ME3 comes out, I’ll buy it, play the shit out of, even if it scores 5/10. If it scores more than that, I’m coming out on top. And then I’ll move on to the next game, and the next. You’ll still be crying like a petulant child that Bioware put in an OPTIONAL play style to your game. I’m going to lay something out for you easily.

    ITS
    STILL
    A
    SINGLE
    PLAYER
    GAME

    It’s just got an OPTIONAL bolt on. If they force the main story to be completed only with someone else on board, I’d agree with you. I probably wouldn’t piss my pants like you did, because you know, I’m an adult, but I would understand where you’re coming from. But they made it clear in this news article, its STANDALONE. Now, I know that’s a big word for you, but if you break it into two, STAND and ALONE that means its separate from the main game.

    As for my intelligence level. Please don’t insult my intelligence. All we have to judge each other on is the quality of our posts. And your posts are a joke. Much like the ‘man’ behind the keyboard. Now why don’t you run along, and pretend that when Philipa Isleheart is slapping Cynthia on the ass in the Witcher2, it’s a deep and romantic moment, juxtapositioning the status of the leashed with stunning commentary about how people from all walks of life can make excellent characters, and not a cheap titillating moment in a game that aims at the most basic stereotype of rpg gamers.

    On the plus side though, if calling you a cry baby had this impact on your posts, I’ll take credit for the +5 to your int.

    You’re still a cunt though.

  • Faramis #86 8 months ago

    EA has done it again. Absorbed one of the greatest game developer and made it into money milking company which does not care about fans a bit. Mass Effect was always single player, and players were happy. Now why would somebody who played ME 1 and 2 play it online? And the new potencial people who will hop onto this train in ME 3 won't appreciate this game as much as if they played previous two games. So for who is this game really? That is the question. I feel EA is no longer interested in ME and wants to ruin it, so they can move into some new, less cost heavy franchise - Call of Effect maybe?
    Edited by Faramis at 10/10/11 @ 17:25

  • icematt12 #87 8 months ago

    As predictable as the DLC for MW3 being overpriced but still a bit down by the news. Still waiting to see it in action though before making a final verdict.

  • romelpotter #88 8 months ago

    Loved ME1, despite its technical failings. I played ME 1 then ME2 back to back and just failed to enjoy ME 2 anywhere near as much as the first game and I was pumped to play through ME 2 right after finishing the first one. HOWEVER there were several issues that became strikingly apparent. The UI was shocking in my opinion, when comparing it against the first. Story etc, it was just not the game I thought it was on the first play through, for me, ME1 > ME2.

    ME 3 with multiplayer, I think this is a bit shit really. I would rather have BW spend time and resource on making the single player game the best it can possibly be. I don't understand the thinking behind this as there has been little appetite for this from their existing player base, they must consider the churn from those that don't want this feature, and that will wait for the reviews to come out; to be less than the potential for new buyers (specifically for multiplayer).

    Every player to date has been their own personal Shepard, with their own story, abilities and connection: how would that work in multiplayer? It just makes no sense!

    It strikes me as being a marketing decision to include MP feature, not a gaming one; and that makes me worried. ME 1> ME2 and will ME3 be the worst of them all? BW are not the company they were!

    This is my concern, ME was and could have been an amazing franchise compared to one that was brilliant at the start but failed to hold station over the years it was running for.

    I want and hope ME 3 will be the series finale that every one wants, the big spectacle that makes people sit back and go..fuck that was cool... After playing Dark Souls [EDIT (Dark Souls, an example of a series going from strength to strength, in my opinion)], I now more than ever want this to be the case.

    The risk is that EA/BW will put out a second rate single player experience, with never ending DLC that means the story doesn't ever really conclude, and we get endless MP DLC maps etc - TAT just to cash in on a franchise!

    My fingers remain crossed and I will poor over as many reviews as I can read. I will get the game at some point, but it may well be the platinum version of the goty!

    Edited by romelpotter at 10/10/11 @ 18:49

  • evarofzentral #89 8 months ago

    Bioware!!! I want an offline action-RPG stop wasting your time with flipping multiplayer. Why can't there be more studios like Bethesda who don't care about multiplayer.

  • Colvin #90 8 months ago

    I really cannot believe how many people think EA would/could actually tell BioWare what to do with the game.

    Let's at least see what it's like before we complain about it all, eh? too late.

  • Ahskay #91 8 months ago

    Old news, this was covered in the world exclusive preview of Magazine "Chief" two months ago. They had the first hands-on, everybody else came afterwards.

  • mushroomyakuza #92 8 months ago

    The fact that ME3 is getting multiplayer is not NEARLY as sad as some of the comments in this thread. Good Lord.

  • marblepuke #93 8 months ago

    Maybe the multiplayer has threesome romances? Seriously speaking though I think it might be ok. I myself liked dead space 2's story and its multiplayer was well designed too. I doubt it will be any different here. The streamlining towards a more actiony gameplay is what worries me.