Creston wrote on Mar 7, 2012, 18:07:
To be fair, apparently the sniper rifle is already in the game, and if you use the Alienware code, all you do is unlock it earlier in the storyline.

Creston

Dev wrote on Mar 7, 2012, 13:30:

Creston wrote on Mar 7, 2012, 11:21:
Free sniper rifle give-away :

http://www.alienwarearena.com/giveaway/mass-effect-3-giveaway/

Creston

For PC only, so please only get it if you have (or plan to get) it on PC.

Creston wrote on Mar 7, 2012, 11:21:
Free sniper rifle give-away :

http://www.alienwarearena.com/giveaway/mass-effect-3-giveaway/

Creston

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 7, 2012, 09:09:
I'm sure if rhey really wanted to, Origin could get just as big as Steam though I don't think that's EA's goal. Origin is really just a rebranding of the EA Downloader they had for a few years prior for their own titles, whether they can translate that into rivaling steam by offering other titles from other publishers I don't know. I doubt we'll ever see the lastest Call of Duty on Origin for example, but stranger things have happened.

Bhruic wrote on Mar 7, 2012, 10:33:
Did anyone else import a save where they'd made Anderson the human council member instead of Udina? I was pretty sure that I'd done that in my import, but Udina showed up as the current councilor. Wondering if that happens regardless, or if I'm misremembering what I did.

Dev wrote on Mar 7, 2012, 02:31:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 7, 2012, 01:04:
While I chuckled myself, for someone who defends steam, you sure pile on the Origin hate. Just sayin.

Or maybe I'm just honest about them? If you've read my posts you see I criticize steam when it deserves it, same with valve. I give them praise when they deserve it too.

Yet, when I praise valve/steam I basically get called a fanboi, and when I criticize them I basically get called a hater. IMHO, that just means I'm fair towards them.

I'll freely admit I have an automatic bias towards EA and everything from them, because of their long history of screwing their customers, studios they buy, and their employees.
But you know what? I gave origin a try just in case EA changed since the days they tried to charge you a fee to redownload a digital game on their service after a few months. Guess what? Origin sucks. EA had a great chance to come up with something with a better interface than Steam's clunky one. Steam is right there for them to learn from and improve on. Did they bother to spend any of their millions on a couple UI programmers and make something awesome? No. When I tried it I posted a mini review on blues listing the stuff that I disliked about it. I often see additional stories on blues confirming my feeling towards it. Like creston's. He actually comes up with some imaginative insults, like "tardmongrels" I like that. Instead of continued repeating of the boring 4 letter words that everyone throws around so much they are meaningless, he comes up with something cool.

I also occasionally mention what EA needs to do to earn my money. Such as do a good sale on sims 3 collection, $200+ isn't a good sale. Or putting DLC on steam for me to buy, so I don't have to deal with trying to buy it elsewhere and figuring out how to manually install it. Or putting games on steam instead of pulling them out. Or how about come up with a BETTER than steam service? Not equal (which its nowhere near right now), but BETTER. They have the money, they don't have valve's reluctance to hire specialists, or valve's lack of adequate manpower, they have a shot at making a good alternative to steam, but so far they aren't doing too good a job at it.

The Half Elf wrote on Mar 7, 2012, 05:27:

InBlack wrote on Mar 7, 2012, 03:57:
So Legion isnt in the game?? Really? Man that was the most interesting character in ME2. He isnt in the game?

Well fuck it, I wasnt too hyped on the game anyway but now its a no buy.

So far I haven't encountered him but only at 63% of being ready to fight the Reapers. But I have encountered Thane, Jack, Grunt and Miranda so far.

InBlack wrote on Mar 7, 2012, 03:57:
So Legion isnt in the game?? Really? Man that was the most interesting character in ME2. He isnt in the game?

Well fuck it, I wasnt too hyped on the game anyway but now its a no buy.

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 7, 2012, 01:04:
While I chuckled myself, for someone who defends steam, you sure pile on the Origin hate. Just sayin.

Dev wrote on Mar 6, 2012, 22:09:

Creston wrote on Mar 6, 2012, 22:05:
Apparently even EA was stunned that someone would have already had Origin voluntarily installed, so their installer just didn't know what to do with their crazy scenario.

LOL, stop I can't take any more. I literally laughed until I cried when I read your post, especially this part.

Asmo wrote on Mar 6, 2012, 22:02:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 6, 2012, 12:25:
The other being after slogging through 2 again I'm left with the same feeling I had the last time, The entire plot is essentially playing therapists to your companions to try and gain the best possible outcome of them surviving the final battle solely on whether or not the player coddles them with their own personal issues that are in no way, shape, or form, even remotely tied into the plot itself.

Ummm, you do have the option to ignore them or go directly against their wishes which usually results in them getting snuffed in the last mission. Of course, this directly effects your chances of completing the final mission, but hey, you make your choices and you bear the consequences.

There's a difference between playing your character naturally ie. making choices on the fly without a grand strategy, playing as a pure paragon/renegade Shepard or playing a min/max who'll do anything to get the perfect ending. Two of those choices are purely to appease some sort of overarching strategy and ignore the role playing aspect of the game.

eg. I generally don't pick renegade but sometimes a renegade option appeals to me. This usually means I fall short of pure paragon, but that's the game.

It would be nice if performance in the final mission was more organic (eg. related to general morale, level, how often you've use a person on missions etc) rather than an arbitrary "you did their loyalty mission which makes them autowin", but that doesn't mean you have to ignore what you would choose to do if there wasn't an advantage to be gained by following the script of 'Shepard appeases everyone'.

Creston wrote on Mar 6, 2012, 22:06:
I am sorely tempted...

Creston

Creston wrote on Mar 6, 2012, 22:05:
Apparently even EA was stunned that someone would have already had Origin voluntarily installed, so their installer just didn't know what to do with their crazy scenario.