orcishgamer: Wait, how do you see that Escapist Article as a bad thing...? that sounds like sound design to me...
Roman5: Bioware have said themselves that they "Want Call of Duty's audience" When a developer says "This game will be more Accessible for New Players" it usually spells out "This game is going to be shit"
They may have said that elsewhere but they didn't say it there, everything they said there is completely sane, limiting yourself to only the people who've played the other two games (one of which is extremely long) is a bad idea. You wanted a deep story (well it was sorta deep) in the other two, you got it, the price the devs paid was trying to keep the story you expect from the last two while not pissing you off by doing a "On last week's episode" for a ton of the playtime, because you don't care, but some people do.
They know there's people who are buying this thing solely due to the Kinect integration, alienating them is a moronic move, when they may have nothing against playing a deep, interesting RPG, they just don't know this particular deep, interesting RPG.
orcishgamer: Wait, how do you see that Escapist Article as a bad thing...? that sounds like sound design to me...
bevinator: The "sixty hours of exposition on previous games" is pretty worrying, methinks. Though the requirement to play coop in order to get the good ending is even more worrying. I also wonder if new non-imported games will have made the same horribly bad past decisions in ME3 that they did for new games in ME2.
No, they're saying if you played the previous 2 games you probably have 60 hours or so of backstory that newcomers will not. That's actually a fuckton of backstory and it makes sense to integrate a way to help newcomers understand it without annoying the longtime fans.
Co-op multiplayer may or may not be bad for the game, it's definitely not available on the 360 w/o Gold though, so it's kind of a dick move to restrict your single player success by your ability to do this.
Roman5: Over 200 Dollars of DLC Already confirmed and the game isn't even out yet
Tizzysawr: Don't be an alarmist. Those "200 dollars", I'm sure you already know, are simply small weapons that come with collector figurines they're selling separately. It's not "DLC", just something added to try and get more people to buy the figures and it won't affect your game experience at all. I find it ridiculous that people complain about this but don't complain about having different preorder bonuses on different stores by saying they now have to buy the game 5 times and therefore that's $300 on DLC. It's the same principle.
I know I wouldn't feel alienated from Gears 3 by not having the pink Lancer skin, so yeah.
