EA Boasts of 40% Day One DLC Take Up Rate for Mass Effect 3

[Matty]

The wildly differing metacritic comments and user score of 5 make me hesitant.
The fact that it is on rails, has huge cut scenes, is third person*, has strange controls on the PC and is not available on Steam set the acceptable price for me at around $25, including all current and future DLC. Your mileage may differ.

*(I HATE third person - how hard would it have been to make it an option, like Skyrim?)

LOL, Mass Effect has always been third person, has never been full sandbox, the cutscenes are part of the storytelling process, and i don't know wtf you mean by strange controls, it's wasd + mouse, like every other first and third person game.

The 3rd person is a design decision, take it or leave it, but it may well have been difficult to implement first person with the cover system.
You get used to it really fast, and it suits the game very well imo.

Sounds like you are after a different game, yup, this one may not be for you!
But you are missing out!

You completely misunderstood his post.

[korbain]

The wildly differing metacritic comments and user score of 5 make me hesitant.
The fact that it is on rails, has huge cut scenes, is third person*, has strange controls on the PC and is not available on Steam set the acceptable price for me at around $25, including all current and future DLC. Your mileage may differ.

*(I HATE third person - how hard would it have been to make it an option, like Skyrim?)

have you ever played a mass effect game before!? because you sound like a complete idiot saying all that lol

[lordsoth]

37% of those 40% were console gamers.

[Bluefire]

Pretty sure he was saying he doesnt personally like the style so will wait for sale price ie..$25.. which is well.. his choice.
Considering you could get standard digital edition for between $33 and $48 on release day....(if you like origin and lube)
Me Im gonna wait for a sale as well, not because I dont like the game, I really enjoyed ME1&2.. Im waiting for sale because I still refuse to install origin until they re-write the program instead of just changing the eula.. which means I need to get a hard copy of the game and I refuse to pay B&M prices for a CE when all I want is the day0 dlc that should have been part of the game.

[Ooshp]

Le sigh. This conversation again.

Buy the CE if you want the extra content.

The DLC is optional. You don't need it to finish the game.

Boring DLC = outrage at the price. Interesting DLC = outrage that it's not free.

The Prothean is a complete jerk anyway. I actually preferred sharing Liara's romantic view of what the Protheans were like, rather than facing the reality that they were self-righteous imperialist scum.

Pretty sure the people making all the noise about this are people who refuse to buy the DLC or CE, and therefore haven't actually played it. All power to the bandwagon though.

[PalZer0]

On a sorta related note, can Marius confirm if he's made his FemShep look like Leliana?

[PinothyJ]

Le sigh. This conversation again.

Buy the CE if you want the extra content.

The DLC is optional. You don't need it to finish the game.

Boring DLC = outrage at the price. Interesting DLC = outrage that it's not free.

The Prothean is a complete jerk anyway. I actually preferred sharing Liara's romantic view of what the Protheans were like, rather than facing the reality that they were self-righteous imperialist scum.

Pretty sure the people making all the noise about this are people who refuse to buy the DLC or CE, and therefore haven't actually played it. All power to the bandwagon though.

What he said…

[Nekorose]

Le sigh. This conversation again.

Buy the CE if you want the extra content.

The DLC is optional. You don't need it to finish the game.

Boring DLC = outrage at the price. Interesting DLC = outrage that it's not free.

The Prothean is a complete jerk anyway. I actually preferred sharing Liara's romantic view of what the Protheans were like, rather than facing the reality that they were self-righteous imperialist scum.

Pretty sure the people making all the noise about this are people who refuse to buy the DLC or CE, and therefore haven't actually played it. All power to the bandwagon though.

the problem with that veaw is people who don't like it have to put money down for it, to see if its worth it or not.
and from what i have read and my own veaws it isn't at all about what the content is, but at how it was done. but i actually think its worse considering the content itself.

[Marius]

I'm not getting the DLC for storyline reasons.

IMO it works a lot better to have them as an extinct race. You don't have to play it.

I'm customising the game to my liking by not buying it.

And why the hate at Origin? It's less invasive than Steam. I don't even start it up to play the game anymore. I just double click on the ME3 in the desktop, and Origin starts up quietly in the background. And then when I shut the game down I can easily close down Origin.

I wish I could say the same for the bloated Steam.

The wildly differing metacritic comments and user score of 5 make me hesitant.
The fact that it is on rails, has huge cut scenes, is third person*, has strange controls on the PC and is not available on Steam set the acceptable price for me at around $25, including all current and future DLC. Your mileage may differ.

*(I HATE third person - how hard would it have been to make it an option, like Skyrim?)

Because to change all those aspects of the game would be to fundamentally change ME3. They can't make a game for everyone. Sounds like you want Doom Effect 3. And I don't want that. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

Pretty sure he was saying he doesnt personally like the style

But he was also saying two different games should have been designed. They already have an action mode without so many custscenes, so all I can take from his post is he wants another version of the game which is more... Doom-like? I don't want a generic FPS version of the game.

[DjVu]

And why the hate at Origin? It's less invasive than Steam. I don't even start it up to play the game anymore. I just double click on the ME3 in the desktop, and Origin starts up quietly in the background. And then when I shut the game down I can easily close down Origin.

I wish I could say the same for the bloated Steam.

Wait, what? You can set shortcuts for Steam on the desktop, at which point Steam will load in the background and you're still required to close it like Origin. How are the two any different?

[Marius]

Steam takes about 5 times longer than Origin to boot up.

Origin is invisible, Steam seems to require minutes to log in, display the prerequisite pop up ads, and so on. It's bloated.

Steam also has load up on startup on as a default, and Origin doesn't.

The main difference is that Steam seems to want to be a core program you have on all the time. Origin only wants to be on when you play the games, not as a social network.

The main selling point for Steam is easy access to indie games. But as a game loading tool I much prefer Origin.

Origin also has a more stable download rate. Steam is dependent on mirrors, which sometimes seem to be wonky. Great example is when I was trying to download the 3GB Skyrim texture pack. It refused to download whenever I was in a game for some reason, so Steam blocked me out of my games library during that large download.

[Ash_Williams]

And they wonder why people pirate games? >_> *cough*I hate Origin*cough*

[Toasty Fresh]

Le sigh. This conversation again.

Buy the CE if you want the extra content.

The DLC is optional. You don't need it to finish the game.

Boring DLC = outrage at the price. Interesting DLC = outrage that it's not free.

The Prothean is a complete jerk anyway. I actually preferred sharing Liara's romantic view of what the Protheans were like, rather than facing the reality that they were self-righteous imperialist scum.

Pretty sure the people making all the noise about this are people who refuse to buy the DLC or CE, and therefore haven't actually played it. All power to the bandwagon though.

If you care in the slightest about the universe of the game then the DLC is NOT optional story-wise.

[Wanell]

They were absolutely lying when they said that it wasn't essential to the story. I played through it (got it from the N7 edition) and it pretty much answers every question you've ever had about the Protheans.

This. It also answers alot of things about the other races. Considering I played full renegade a jerk Prothean was awesome.

Not to mention you get the best gun in the game from him. I mean a beam weapon that never needs ammo is pretty OP. The best NPC character with skills. Dark Current + Grenade + Slam GG's anything.

[Marius]

If you care in the slightest about the universe of the game then the DLC is NOT optional story-wise.

Why? If I just want content knowledge, I can just watch you tube videos if I'm really inclined, or read a wiki or something.

If I want to play a complete game ME3 is good enough as it stands without DLC.

My own Shepard doesn't care in the slightest about the Protheans. She just wants to end the war so she can retire. And even if she did meet a Prothean, she'd just send it to help build the Death Star.