Nope.

Jennifer Hale's voice acting > whoever does the male version.

There are definitely issues with how he reads a few lines...but that smooth Shepard voice makes it all worth it.

Definitely agree that femshep is the best one. Especially renegade.

When you make a decision as a Renegade to do something "good", does it still do it in the "good voice"?

paragon femshep ftw :rant:

yeah, you kinda either have to do one or the other, mixin it up almost feels like you're playing a completely different person.

But renegade femshep is such a cold bitch. It's so satisfying.

lol, well thats true, she is a hardcore bitch. i only play femshep (because manshep is terrible) but i always play paragon first. game is more epic as paragon shep. renegade shep is only for the second playthrough just cause the game was good enough for a second go through.

The first time I played through more or less as myself. Mainly paragon stuff, but I totally allowed Grunt to Krogan out. Second time I sort of failed at getting perfect paragon, third time I figured it out (only because I wanted to save everyone).

A couple of Mass Effect 3 news with the Xbox 360 version of the multiplayer demo having a special "Gold"-access promotion for Silver/Free users starting on February 14 and lasting till March 6. PS3 and PC users will get the demo on the same date.

The single player demo will not carry any saves nor custom Shepard from previous ME games and was leaked to be a side quest style mission that doesn't really affect the ME 3 storyline or previous series saves.

Finally, EA will be revealing details on the mobile and handheld version of this game in the near future but its assumed to only be an app or extension pack to help manage items like what was done with Mass Effect 2 on mobile devices.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...s-coming-soon/
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/mass-e...d-access/3960/

I'm a bit bored of Femshep now. I am playing as the default Shepard to get my money's worth out of that face.

The Kinect thing has had plenty of derision, but my particular problem would be "Do Overload, no, wait, which one does Barriers?"

When I was given that choice, I had no idea of the implications. I didn't see why I would sacrifice my attack on Saren in order to save a bunch of pencil pushers. How am I supposed to know that it will have absolutely no negative impact to go out of my way to save them and that I was just being selfish?

That's the problem with a lot of these "morality" games. Mass Effect does it the best and it is still extremely flawed. If this was the Star Trek Universe at least we'd have some guidelines to follow rather than just guessing what the game makers consider to be good and bad.

The only reason I even know that saving the council was "good" was because it added a cut-scene that ended with Shep being a Spectre again. The first time I played Mass Effect 2 the council died. I encountered a shitload more anger from aliens because of it.

Achievement list got leaked with an achievement giving the option of either playing the campaign twice with no previous saves or once with a ME2 save imported. Highest point value is 75 for beating the game on Insanity.

http://www.screwattack.com/news/mass...r-immeasurable


Also for the Xbox 360 version is the ability to get free avatar stuff and early demo access by downloading the Mass Effect 3 Mission Command App from Facebook. The stuff has some requirements such as a free Normandy avatar prop to everyone if enough people sign up and then extra gifts based on achieving certain requirements with free DLC being given away as a possible gift.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...y-demo-access/

Take it with a grain of salt but Gamestop is already selling codes for DLC content for the game with the first one rumored to be called "From Dust."

The DLC has a $10 price tag but neither EA nor Bioware have made any mentions of DLC content nor day 1 DLC packs.

It could either be a mix up by Gamestop or something EA wants to hold off from revealing so that people don't get upset at Day 1 DLC.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...led-from-dust/

Hmmm...I dunno about the DLC, I got some just because I had gotten xbox points for Xmas. Feel like the DLC armor and stuff wasn't worth it. Though it was neat at first wearing the bright red Cerberus armor.

Not really fussed about the Collectors Edition, but HMV are offering a free N7 shirt with pre-orders, so I'm all over that shit.

This is the first game I've actually pre-ordered. Usually I wait a year as I'm a budget gamer.

paid off the game today...it will have to wait till im done with amalur tho

I hope the spikey armor I get from playing the Amalur demo is available from the start.

2 new characters were leaked with one having a physical appearance change and the other being a character who ends up changing part of the previous assumed storyline as a result.



They were also leaked to be playable in the campaign mode.

http://www.screwattack.com/news/spoi...d-mates-leaked

Gender change?

It's available for $47 this weekend from newegg.com with the promo code EMCYTZT1174

...whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

You can pre order this and enter the code above at checkout. Free 3 day shipping. I've ordered I think 4 games from newegg and they usually get here on Thursday, one time on Wednesday. No pre order bonuses though like with other sites.

Some people have problems with them not shipping until the next week but they seem to be in the minority and I've never experienced that.

Thought the game wasn't available until March. Hell, the demo's coming out on my birthday.

Pre-order

Ah.

Demo out tomorrow, unless you got it early. I can't figure out that facebook app "decode" shit...

One of the gameplay trailers (the reaper base one) clearly shows Legion in the Normandy.

Edit: not in the Normandy, but very much part of the game

Xbox 360 campaign demo is available today but with a small restriction on the co-op multiplayer part while the PC and PS3 version should be getting it before the end of the day.

The demo is around 1.7 GB in size and offers 2 single player missions with an extra 2 co-op missions only available now to those who activated their Battlefield 3 Online Pass. Non-pass users have to wait till February 17 to unlock the co-op portion of the demo.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...demo-now-live/

PS3 PAL version of the demo is reportedly delayed though for an extra day.

Multiplayer is hella fun. Level 9 or 10 sentinel right now. Can't wait to see what it's like in the full game. Looks like there are different enemies other than Cerberus, and obviously there will be more maps. It's just really smooth and plays really fast.

I enjoyed the single-player demo. I just wish it had let me port my character for it. Wasn't able to access multiplayer when I tried.

Can't figure out a good color scheme for my guy :(

Also can't remember which bionic power it was that kept an enemy levitated in the air

So, figured out that hotkeys will assign automatically if you select the character and restart the game (on PC at least).

That said, Sentinel is overpowered and fun as hell. Infiltrator is my second favorite class. Love cryofreeze spamming everything. Soldier is a pussy for the most part. Not that fun to play. Haven't played vanguard or adept. Engineer is sort of weak it seems. Turret is not that good, although I haven't really leveled it.

Yay for xbox! Multiplayer on the demo is online and fun. Everyone I play with is fucking horrible though. Maybe I need to turn the mic on...

Been playing alone on the White Firebase and just racking it up with my little engineer. Never knew the combat drone was so useful since I've always played as a sentinel (tech shield ftw).

Gunna add you

dazhavu752 xbox live

Wow...I...generally didn't care very much about the combat in Mass Effect 2. It wasn't bad or anything, but I felt like it was just a hurdle I had to overcome to get to the next part of the story.

Been playing the shit out of multiplayer now and, despite a few flaws (reviving a squad member usually puts you in the cover position), it is really fun. I might not make my teammates do all the work in the next game.

From Penny-Arcade's Tycho:

That's good to hear, I can go ahead and let my Gold membership expire then.