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Mass Effect 3 trailer gets extended

Mass Effect 3 trailer gets extended

Binh Nguyen 21 Feb, 2012 at 4:05pm ET Article published in Gaming

BioWare released an extended trailer for Mass Effect 3. This time they have stepped into the Dead Island realm, but we’re all pretty sure this game will actually be good.

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Comments

  1. 21 Feb 2012 ~ 4:09pm Michael Wilson If there are not massive battles against army sized forces in this game I will be disappointed, until I launch Serious Sam 3.
  2. 21 Feb 2012 ~ 4:41pm Binh Nguyen lol I was thinking the same thing!
  3. 21 Feb 2012 ~ 7:27pm fatcat Ashley went and got all hot hot, so now I have to play ME1 again and let Kaiden die..
  4. 21 Feb 2012 ~ 7:54pm Binh Nguyen I've always let Kaiden die....
  5. 22 Feb 2012 ~ 12:33am pigflipper
    I've always let Kaiden die....
    ^This
  6. 22 Feb 2012 ~ 11:19am csimon I failed at Origin login ...how sad. I really wanted to demo this.
  7. 22 Feb 2012 ~ 12:14pm Snarkasm Funny, I thought Ashley looked terrible compared to her original model. Faces are so damn important, and they're all wrong.

    Crossing fingers it was just the demo.

    Oh, also: now everybody has a Normandy? And here I thought Shepard was special.
  8. 22 Feb 2012 ~ 12:28pm Tushon Having not played any of the games, I thought the people looked great, but seemed like some of the details (fire stuck out a lot!) were stuck on after-effects. I hope that is also demo-only.
  9. 22 Feb 2012 ~ 12:57pm Snarkasm Original Ash:

    image

    New Ash:
    image

    The wiki has some other images from the original.

    And just look at how damn terrible she (and Anderson, and Shepard, and everybody...) looks when she speaks.



    I think my complaint with the character models mostly deals with how bad the faces animate, but her radical style change doesn't help, either. She looks all right when she shuts up, but... guh.
  10. 22 Feb 2012 ~ 1:08pm Basil Wait, that's Ash?

    Eugh, she looks more like a hairdresser than a soldier.
  11. 22 Feb 2012 ~ 1:13pm pigflipper Well, Ash is an officer now and how many years is this game after the first? Quit bitchin about minor details.
  12. 22 Feb 2012 ~ 1:16pm Basil
  13. 22 Feb 2012 ~ 1:25pm Thrax I'd hit it.
  14. 22 Feb 2012 ~ 1:40pm Snarkasm Heh, she's racist/speciesist in the first, too. Wonder if she still is.
  15. 22 Feb 2012 ~ 2:05pm fatcat
    Heh, she's racist/speciesist in the first, too. Wonder if she still is.
    She is a spectre now, so I doubt it.

    hot hot
    image
  16. 22 Feb 2012 ~ 3:42pm Canti
    I think my complaint with the character models mostly deals with how bad the faces animate, but her radical style change doesn't help, either. She looks all right when she shuts up, but... guh.
    That video is a bad example of facial animations and pretty much everything else. At 20 seconds a character is frozen in place between Anderson and Shepard for several seconds before blinking out of existence. I don't like to use the "it's just a demo" excuse but after seeing that I think it's pretty clear they still have some things to correct. Facial animations might be one of them. Also, something about the running animation in the playable demo is hilariously awkward.

  17. 23 Feb 2012 ~ 8:35am CB image
  18. 23 Feb 2012 ~ 10:09am Church4252
    Heh, she's racist/speciesist in the first, too. Wonder if she still is.
    She is a spectre now, so I doubt it.


    hot hot
    image
    I agree and approved
  19. 23 Feb 2012 ~ 10:48am Snarkasm If only that was in-game imagery...
  20. 23 Feb 2012 ~ 12:57pm Koreish I lost my save file when my hard drive crashed and I still haven't gone back to replay the games the way I had everything originally. Alas I don't think I'll have Super Shepard back in time for ME3.
    I've always let Kaiden die....
    Kaiden was actually a really good choice to let live if you went renegade. You can harden him and make him way more racist/specieist than Ashley is in ME1

  21. 23 Feb 2012 ~ 4:10pm Binh Nguyen Yeah, but have a hard time going renegade for some odd reason...
  22. 28 Feb 2012 ~ 9:14pm fatcat one week....

  23. 28 Feb 2012 ~ 9:30pm fatcat also Live action trailer...

  24. 28 Feb 2012 ~ 9:41pm Canti
    Yeah, but have a hard time going renegade for some odd reason...
    That's a shame

    image
  25. 28 Feb 2012 ~ 10:21pm Tushon I'm pretty sure that is over 9000, let me check my power meter.
  26. 29 Feb 2012 ~ 12:13am Koreish Her cheeks are so hollowed looking, and she has manly jawls too. Weird.
  27. 1 Mar 2012 ~ 4:03pm Canti http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/5413-Mass-Effect-3-A-Gay-Erotic-Love-Story

    I laughed so hard it hurt.
  28. 2 Mar 2012 ~ 2:58pm fatcat This is it, isn't it?.....

  29. 2 Mar 2012 ~ 3:12pm Canti My ability to resist pre-ordering this instead of waiting to buy it when it's on sale is much weaker after watching that.
  30. 2 Mar 2012 ~ 3:56pm MiracleManS
    My ability to resist pre-ordering this instead of waiting to buy it when it's on sale is much weaker after watching that.
    I was going to wait as well. Now impossible.
  31. 2 Mar 2012 ~ 7:28pm fatcat
    My ability to resist pre-ordering this instead of waiting to buy it when it's on sale is much weaker after watching that.
    I luckily have the day off from work next Tuesday :)
  32. 2 Mar 2012 ~ 7:32pm Canti Lol me too
  33. 2 Mar 2012 ~ 7:43pm Snarkasm Everybody's back

    Gigantic space battles

    Telling the Illusive Man to fuck off



    I need a towel.

    This comes out on like the 9th [edit: 7th!] for me and I couldn't take time off until the 14th :(
  34. 2 Mar 2012 ~ 7:55pm Ilriyas Can't...resist...buying...must...be...Turian...in...coop
  35. 2 Mar 2012 ~ 8:17pm Canti
    Everybody's back
    uuuuhhh yeah...everyone. I didn't kill any Krogans on my team in Mass Effect 1 or anything....certainly not Wrex. Don't look at me like that.

  36. 3 Mar 2012 ~ 9:54am Koreish
    Everybody's back
    uuuuhhh yeah...everyone. I didn't kill any Krogans on my team in Mass Effect 1 or anything....certainly not Wrex. Don't look at me like that.

    Canti! That wasn't very paragon of you!!
  37. 3 Mar 2012 ~ 5:50pm Canti Just remembered I had $50 left on an Amazon gift card. ME3 got. Come at me Reapers.
  38. 4 Mar 2012 ~ 12:34am fatcat Remember, you owe EVERYTHING to her.

    image

    http://onibox.deviantart.com/art/ME2-metamorphosis-220797280
  39. 4 Mar 2012 ~ 6:06am Thrax Okay, now that I've finished ME2 (just in the nick of time), I finally sat down to watch this trailer.

    I cannot believe how good the CGI was. I'm usually one of the first to whine about the uncanny valley, and can always spot CGI characters/environment, but this was seriously good work. Seriously freakin' good. Wow.
  40. 5 Mar 2012 ~ 11:11pm fatcat http://www.livestream.com/biowaretv

    Live-stream of Launch Event
  41. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 12:06am Canti Game unlocked. Brb, punching Reapers in the dick.
  42. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 12:08am primesuspect Bye bye Icrontic. See you guys when you all get back from punching reapers in the dick.
  43. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 2:18am pigflipper I won't have a chance to play until the 14th at the earliest, no money and I am working insane hours right now. Need to wait for next paycheck and extended down time.
  44. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 3:40am fatcat Beat the game, here is my review.

  45. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 12:21pm Koreish So the opening to ME3 is based on DLC for ME2? That I didn't buy, and now my Shepard seemingly went against character because the game was trying to fill that void. Bioware and EA are devious bastards.

  46. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 12:23pm MiracleManS
    So the opening to ME3 is based on DLC for ME2? That I didn't buy, and now my Shepard seemingly went against character because the game was trying to fill that void. Bioware and EA are devious bastards.
    That outcome was inevitable and not a choice. EVERYONE is forced to make that choice in the DLC.
  47. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 12:58pm Church4252 I believe the bridge between ME2 and ME3 was the DLC named Arrival.
  48. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 1:14pm fatcat Yup, it was Arrival, which you should have played. BUY ALL DLC's people lol
  49. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 3:44pm Canti I just watched this.


    Looks pretty shit for the price they're charging.
  50. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 9:47pm UPSLynx


    >Romanced Liara in ME1
    >Romanced Tali in ME2
    >Suddenly torn between the two
    >Suddenly suddenly confronted by Liara
    >"That thing with Tali, is that in the past?"
    >MFW

    image
  51. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 9:59pm Koreish I'm at 9% installation after 6 hours. I might be setting a record.
  52. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 11:25pm Thrax It's all about Yeoman Kelly, gentlemen.
  53. 6 Mar 2012 ~ 11:39pm Church4252
    It's all about Yeoman Kelly, gentlemen.
    *cries* I TRIED!!!! >_<
  54. 7 Mar 2012 ~ 12:06am Thrax I documented my exploits: http://imgur.com/a/c8RM8
  55. 7 Mar 2012 ~ 2:30am UPSLynx >Implying Kelly is still alive in my game.
  56. 7 Mar 2012 ~ 8:52am Snarkasm I saved her ass, all right. I saved errrbody.
  57. 7 Mar 2012 ~ 1:20pm UPSLynx She was the only one I didn't manage to save. I didn't realize that getting her out alive was time dependent, and I spent too much time looking around.
  58. 7 Mar 2012 ~ 3:51pm Thrax Mordin and Miranda died in my timeline. As a completionist gamer, it upsets me. As a human being who finds eugenics and Miranda deplorable, it's cool.
  59. 7 Mar 2012 ~ 4:09pm Snarkasm My last playthrough was picture-fucking-perfect. Everybody saved, everybody perfectly loyal, all missions complete with perfect paragon outcomes. It is glorious.

    I cannot wait to throw it into ME3 and watch it destroy my work by forcing somebody to die.
  60. 7 Mar 2012 ~ 4:47pm Canti
    My last playthrough was picture-fucking-perfect.
    paragon
    Your logic is flawed.
    I cannot wait to throw it into ME3 and watch it destroy my work by forcing somebody to die.
    I'm several hours in and don't know what you're referring to. The only forced death is Ashley or Kaiden.

  61. 7 Mar 2012 ~ 5:33pm fatcat Bioware has said major people will die in ME3 and there won't be shit you can do about it. #dealwithit
  62. 7 Mar 2012 ~ 5:45pm Canti I should have expected as much. More company for the Turian general I put a hit on last night I suppose.
  63. 11 Mar 2012 ~ 5:29pm Canti
  64. 11 Mar 2012 ~ 5:39pm fatcat yea there is a lot of rage towards Bioware right now, and not even for the DLC
  65. 11 Mar 2012 ~ 6:08pm Thrax Another equally viable explanation is that the assets were complete and shipped with the GM disc, but the remaining DLC content (scripting, audio, etc.) were not done in time. Why wouldn't you package as many files as you could into the retail download, rather than wacking people with a massive DLC file later?
  66. 11 Mar 2012 ~ 6:24pm UPSLynx Why waste space on a disk or download and install for those who aren't going to bother with the DLC? You've made it easier for those who want to buy the DLC, and made it worse for those who don't want it.

    Optional content, optional install. Don't put assets on my PC for the sake of doing it.
  67. 11 Mar 2012 ~ 6:40pm Thrax Of course, if a plurality of your playerbase is going to purchase the DLC, it still makes sense. ;) Plus, those assets can be re-used for any other DLC (free or otherwise) along the way.
  68. 12 Mar 2012 ~ 12:33pm Koreish I wasn't going to get the Prothean to begin with, but now I might since I don't have to purchase DLC. Thanks Bioware.
  69. 12 Mar 2012 ~ 1:59pm fatcat The DLC fills in SO MUCH back story, must have for the die hard Mass Effect fan
  70. 12 Mar 2012 ~ 2:59pm Snarkasm It would seem we have differing views. I guess I haven't played it without, so I can't be sure, but there's really only one scene I had where having him with me made a distinct difference and filled in information.
  71. 12 Mar 2012 ~ 3:21pm UPSLynx I'm a Mass Effect die hard and I haven't played a single DLC for any of the 3 games.

    I effing hate DLC.
  72. 12 Mar 2012 ~ 3:38pm Thrax Guess you're only a critically injured hard. Sorry, bro.
  73. 12 Mar 2012 ~ 4:58pm UPSLynx image
  74. 12 Mar 2012 ~ 6:21pm fatcat
    It would seem we have differing views. I guess I haven't played it without, so I can't be sure, but there's really only one scene I had where having him with me made a distinct difference and filled in information.
    I didn't say difference, I said back story, yanno the 50,000 years between

    Do you talk to all of your companions after every mission/side quest?
  75. 13 Mar 2012 ~ 2:57pm Snarkasm Mission yes. Crappy little "I lost my obelisk" side quests, no.

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