Mass Effect 3 Demo

So the Mass Effect 3 demo is out on origin and I can't see a thread yet so what does everyone think?

Only played the single player so far but the opening sequence didn't seem to have the same impact as the other two games, graphics look improved especially the faces and runs pretty well on my HDX so no complaints their.

 

Origin and EA can kiss my , not buying it, but still gonna play it.

 

What kind of settings do you have it on? 1080p? Max settings? FPS?

Thanks in advance.

 

Really enjoying the multiplayer part of it.
A single AMD Radeon HD 6970m can easily max out the game at 1920x1080.

 

Doesn't seem to have any settings options, from the graphics menu I'm at 1680X1050 with anti-analising on and dynamic shadows on. Without checking on fraps looks like about 25-30 fps to me.

 

Thanks, will try this out with my 460m laptop soon.

 

Downloaded it but haven't played it yet. Excited too, just busy right now.

 

There are settings on an exterior settings thing not in the game menu.

it's in the folder where the game is installed. There are no texture options since the demo only has one set of textures, but you can control some other things (it's similar to the Mass Effect 2 settings executable)

edit:

that's the default settings for the demo (from what I can tell).

 

Yer just checked mine, apart from the resolution their all the same.

 

Why? Why are you resorting to pirating. It's killing the PC gaming industry.

By doing this you are effectively screwing all of us legal gamers over. So please understand why we despise you for hurting our hobby.

 

I have 500+ games on Steam, hardly screwing over the PC industry. I probably support it more than most of you.

Origin and EA can go to hell.

Tell me how I am hurting our hobby.

 

If you think they can go to hell, DON'T PLAY THEIR GAMES.

By continuing to play games that you never buy, you're bolstering the statistics of pirated games being actively played, which would result in game makers moving more and more to consoles and, for PC games, favoring more and more DRM. The most effective way to "send a message" (not to mention a legal way to "send a message"), if that's what you want to do, is to ignore the game entirely.

If you've got 500+ other games to play, I'm sure you wouldn't die from boredom without ME3.

 

Those statistics are corporate trolling at its best. Don't believe the lies that EA, or Ubisoft especially are throwing out. You can throw MPAA and the RIAA into the same category. They'll get people to agree to more DRM simply to screw over the legit consumers. That will happen regardless of what people do.

Best way to send a message is to see their sales plunder, but unfortunately all the propagandized drones will continue buying the games regardless.

 

Let's all get back on topic discussing the ME3 demo. Bearclaw, I suggest you review the forum rules on piracy before bringing it up again as a good means to voice your dissent with Origin (or anything else).

 

Just finish playing it, although the intro did not have a impact on me as ME2 had it was ok. I wasn't really blown away by everything, but I will get the game just to see how this story supposedly ends. Games runs super smooth on my system at 1080p, the controls took a little getting use to because I am use to strafing and its kind of weird doing it with the space bar. Also, has anyone kept messing up with the space bar, where you would accidentally jump over stuff or move around a barricade when you didn't mean to?

 

Ok finished playing it

Liked:
- Ashley looks about 100x hotter in this game
- Graphics are over all an improvement
- Skill trees are nice, lots of group improvements
- Humor, you cant have enough laughs when your entire lively hood could be destroyed by ancient robots
- Scenery is awesome, like always
- Plays flawless on a 485m

Didn't like:
- Voice syncing is absolutely terrible, in today's day and age of gaming there is no excuse for that crap
- WHERE IS MY SNIPER RIFLE?! EH EH
- Lack of HD textures, am i surprised? No it's a console port
- *STILL* feels like ME2 as opposed to ME1...it's OK I guess

Overall:

I can't wait to kick me some reaper bootay, I've been waiting 2 games to pwn them and I hope I get plenty of reaper killing. The lip syncing is so bad It's really hard to look past, I really hope it is fixed before it is released also, I hope Bioware releases an HD pack (*wink* Bethesda)

 

I have never used Origin. What's so horrible about it? Is it possible that ME3 becomes available in other stores later on?

 

Some people are mad because there was an incident where some people who got banned from the Origin forums also got cut off from their Origin games. Origin was in its infancy at the time, and to my knowledge, this is not their policy going forward.

Origin isn't bad at all. I actually find it to be smoother and less buggy than Steam can be, although the selection is a fraction of what Steam offers, and Steam has more sales. And downloads and installations are way easier and smoother than Battle.net downloads and installations (if you buy Blizzard games from BN instead of brick-and-mortar stores), probably on par with Steam in that respect.

I don't think ME3 will ever be available on Steam. EA is moving toward Origin being its exclusive online service, like Battle.net is for Blizzard (you can't play WoW or SC2 through steam; you log on through Battle.net instead).

 

Can't say i had any lip sync issues over here, looked fine to me and I'm normally pretty picky about it.

Had a chance to play the multiplayer and I'm actually surprised how good it is, basically the maps are wave form but done really well with varying objectives and enemys. Loving the sniper rifle on my solider, just got the widow 1 headset kills pretty much anything

 

Time for me to play a game.

 

I never fully made it through ME1, haven't even bought ME2, and am just getting started on Skyrim. I'll pick this one up at discount I suppose. But downloading demo just for fun!

 

I hate EA and origin, might pick this up when its $30 or so. Only considering purchasing to support bioware and if a preorder gives me enough bonuses to justify purchase. As Bearclaw has stated Ea and Origin can burn in hell.

 

I'm gunna buy it from a CD key discount seller. Best way I know how to stick it to em. Or I'll buy it used for my PS3. Either way, I don't think I'm interested in a day 1 purchase.

 

Want to play ME3... but hate Origin with a passion. Not quite sure what I'm going to do. I could go console but I much prefer to play on PC with mouse and keyboard.

 

Okay, finished playing demo twice. How do I get the Kingdom of Amalur cross over stuff??

I'll be playing it again.

 

install Origin in a sandbox to restrict its access to your other files. i'm using Sandboxie myself and playing Battlefield 3 and FIFA 12 like that.

 

man now I need to play through the first 2 again for the perfect save file. Should not have deleted them when I played ME2 on PS3

 

PM me if you need someone to do coop with.

 

Partway through the demo and I have mixed feelings.

THE GOOD:
Looks gorgeous
Runs smoothly even on a 540M (at 1366x768)
Combat is the smoothest, most refined Mass Effect yet

THE BAD:
Captain Anderson looks ridiculous when he runs. Hope most action animations are better.
Didn't properly create a dramatic atmosphere like ME1 and ME2 did (though this may be a problem of the short length of the demo).

And now for a rant...

What ME3 has done with women is EFFED UP. Previous Mass Effect games were revolutionary in that women weren't stereotypical secks objects (Miranda excluded, and that was part of the story...she was genetically modified by her twisted father to be a hottie). Ashley Williams and FemShep looked as unflattering in flak jackets as men did. Ashley had a practical bun, thin lips, and no makeup...just like you'd expect from a Marine in a combat zone. These were real women soldiers, not secks-objects-for-teenage-boys women soldiers.

In ME3, FemShep's hourglass figure is accentuated. Her uniform is basically sprayed-on tight over her breasts, even though that's not how cloth actually fits over a woman's chest, particularly when we're talking about a military-issue cargo jumpsuit. It looks like Ashley had breast augmentation, lip augmentation, and went to a Hollywood stylist for hair and makeup. Whatever happened to Colonial Marines?

Female soldiers don't all look like Megan Fox. THIS is what a female soldier looks like:

(Sgt. Monica Lin Brown, Silver Star recipient for ridiculous acts of heroism in Afghanistan).

Not every male character in video games looks like Brad Pitt. Why does every single female character have to look like Megan Fox? We're doing a disservice to young girls who game by depriving them of realistic role models, and also doing a disservice to boys who game by reinforcing a culture where women must be hot AND brave/tough/ in order to be worthy. ME1 and ME2 didn't fall into this trap. ME3 does. That really, really disappoints me.

 

Kinda wish i let Ashley died now. xD
But i will keep my FemShep from ME1 and ME2, cause shes the the galaxy needs to fight off a reaper attack.

 

If I want to see ugly people I would hit up my local walmart. I have zero issues with attractive looking people in video games.

 

WOW! , This is the first time for me to play Mass Effect.
This is just amazing, graphics are stunning.
Gameplay is gratifying.

It plays well on my GT 525M @ 1366x768.

I can't wait for it!

 

This sounds superficial at first but he's right.

Do you expect people to say things like "Wow, the game's visuals are amazing! People look so realistically ugly!"

It's just another thing that helps you delineate between real life and video games.

 

9600 GT can max it out :O

 

I'm getting it for 360. The demo was AWESOME!!!!

I'm gonna be so screwed when it comes out tho. How am I gonna budget my time for studying when all I'm gonna want to do is play this game 24/7!?

 

I have to download Origin to play the demo. I was interested but do not want to install origin.

Gave this a wide berth.

 

And yet Captain Anderson, Joker, etc are not hotties. They're not profoundly ugly, no, but they're not sexpots either. Indeed, Anderson is uglier in ME3 than he is in ME1--his cheeks are pitted with old acne scars that I don't remember from the first game.

In ME1, both genders could look average. Now in ME3, it's a one-sided rule. The men can all look average (not ugly, just average), but the women are ALL expected to look like HT Wingnut's profile pictures.

It also looks like Liara is in for a Playmate makeover. Liara from ME1 is on the left. A Liara statute sold with ME3 DLC (that presumably reflects how she will look in ME3) is on the right:



Bioware gives a preview of Kotobukiya Bishoujo Liara to mixed reactions - TOMOPOP

 

mitlov, that liara comparison is offbase...you compare a headshot in one to a bodyshot in another...not apples to apples

 

She had tiny breasts in ME1 and sure as heck didn't ever pose like that. Look up screenshots for yourself if you don't believe me. And her entire facial structure changed--note the lip and jaw differences.

Also, as for "we can't have ugly characters in games"...am I the only one who remembers that Garrus got half his face blown off early in ME2 and spent the rest of the game looking like the Phantom of the Opera? Yet we're going to take a female character who was a 7/10 (believable for her character) and we're going to turn her into a Victoria's Secret Angel for ME3, and hope nobody notices the change?

 

ME 2 ME 3

Breasts are still tiny, We can all go home now...

Lip and Jawline make her statuette more Anime/youthful style. Don't see why her pose is bad? She may just be exploring her secksy side, something most women like to do regardless of being a US Marine, Colonial Marine, or my wife.

 

That's Liarar in ME2. It's been a progression since ME1 (realistic) to ME2 (somewhat secksed up) to ME3 (totally secksed up) for the female characters. The men haven't gotten any hotter; to the contrary, some have gotten uglier.

This is Liara in ME1:

 

This is not about ugly people vs beautiful people. It's about real women (who can be beautiful, by the way) vs cartoonish overstuffed p0rnstar manga characters.

I haven't played the demo, by the way, so I don't know what I am talking about.

 

I don't personally see nothing wrong with it. It's doesn't seem to be as drastic as that one picture you posted. The character models are usually based off of real people, like celebrities and what not. Then there are changes made I.e.

Spoiler

 

I don't see anything wrong with an alluring female in games, nor in movies. I quite enjoy it. It's a break from reality, let me fantasize.

 

That's the problem I'm trying to get at. It's a straight male fantasy (men come in all shapes and sizes, but women are uniformly voluptuous hotties) that's being forced on all gamers, whether the gamers are [edit]ghey[/edit] or straight, male or female. For a fifteen-year-old guy or a thirty-year-old guy, the fact that all female characters look like Barbie dolls may be enticing. But for a fifteen-year-old girl, the fact that every single gaming universe looks like this is just another contributing factor to poor self-esteem, eating disorders, plastic surgery, etc.

Mass Effect 1 was an exception to this rule, a nice break from the tradition. The fact that they've actually changed characters from ME1 to make them conform to the Barbie stereotype (Ashley being the most striking change) just really disappoints me.

 

Pics or didn't happen. Need to find their comparison .
Today's people are really messed up. Even if some games don't have women as total babes, the community later fixes it. Just look at all those TES/FO/.../Nexus websites. I mean they post stuff which changes metal plated armor to bikini with same specifications, you can change you characters, hmmm, personal area sizes and so on. How screwed up is that.

 

Lol, there seems to be a word missing in your sentence. I didn't know this forum was so puritanical. I actually feel offended by this stupid censorship.

 

Ashley Williams, Mass Effect 1 through 3:

Ashley Williams' transformation - mass effect 3- - YouTube

 

Dahell happened? I almost fell of my chair.

 

Well I see many of the men in games outrageously muscular, handsome, or suave well beyond what any man could realistically represent (well except for me of course ). That doesn't make me want to go out and pump iron, slick my hair back, and read every book on how to attract a woman.

I dunno, I play games to escape the reality of the mundane day to day. But whatever. I'm more interested if the game has a solid story, great graphical theme (doesn't mean great graphics), and no bugs.