*** Mass Effect 3 ***

Pighardia said:
Origin is fairly harmless tbh. It is only when you have a problem and need to contact CS that you will want to go on a killing spree. The actual program is fine.
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Gotta say my opinion is "a bit" different :)

- Origin wants to start up with Windows - enabled by default.
- Clicking the close button just minimizes it to the system tray icon - no way to disable this annoying behavior.
- Has "notifications" aka "annoying things that interrupt my gameplay" enabled by default.
- Has a game overlay enabled by default.
- Tries quite hard to get you to enter personal details and a photo, and share this information publicly. No thanks.
- It's yet another thing that needs a username and password.
- It's yet another thing that requires an internet connection even for offline/single player games.
- Let's not forget Battlelog, requiring a browser addon and again publishing everything about my BF3 play (and personal details FYI) publicly on the internet by default. No way to turn this "feature" off completely btw.

Bottom line: It's spyware that I don't want or need. I miss the days when I could just insert a disc, install a game and play it.

To be fair, it does have ONE useful feature: cloud storage for save-games and settings.


When I phoned EA to get a refund I had to wait 25 minutes to get through and I had to inform the guy who answered that ME3 has a standard edition and a deluxe edition, but they did refund it without any quibbles (I wanted to get a refund for the standard edition and then buy the deluxe edition). So they could use a little more product knowledge and allot more staff but they got the most important part right for me.
 
Well, for anyone still wondering whether the digital deluxe edition includes the "From Ashes" DLC, behold.

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Can anyone please tell me if there are any repercussions from the Overlord DLC from ME2?

I am playing through ME2 atm(motoring through actually, getting through it much quicker than 1) and I am thinking of playing Overlord tonight.

Thanks
 
It's a a more or less standalone story, but honestly with Mass Effect every story has some potential long-term meaning and consequences so who can say for sure?

It's also my favourite ME2 DLC :) Shadow Broker was great too, especially the first boss.

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Westie said:
Cheers rigsta was that with the greenman gaming offer? Or just straight from origin!
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Straight from Origin, before I knew about the discount >_>

I'm not sure how that Greenman Gaming offer even works tbh. It'd be nice to hear from someone who's gone through with it but as far as I can tell they are the exact same product.

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And now it's downloading a soundtrack too... blimey this might even be worth the extra twenty quid.
 
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Rigsta said:
It's also my favourite ME2 DLC :) Shadow Broker was great too, especially the first boss.
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Oh I have played it before, I'm just doing my playthrough ready for 3.

IMO, at the moment it is a good piece of dlc, I especially thought the combat was excellent in it(probably because it featured more of the Geth tbh). However, if they introduced some significant consequences for the decision made in it then it could make it much better, and it is something that I would very much like to see.
 
Regarding Overlord decisions impacting ME3:

The "big decision" in Overlord is whether to leave David in the hands of Cerberus or release him to an alliance facility. Theoretically, leaving him with Cerberus could result in them coming up with some method of hacking or controlling Geth or countering Reaper indoctrination, which could plausibly lead to some developments in ME3.

To me it feels like a purely moral decision though. I don't think it will affect ME3, though leaving him with Cerberus could cause issues when trying to gather alien allies.
 
PermaBanned said:
Am i the only one still boycotting? :p
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Probably, I'm just not bothering to get it until its drastically reduced in price. The only thing that interests me about the game is the MP which isn't worth the asking price for a game that clearly had so many corners cut it resembles a perfect circle.
 
phoar, just completed it in around 25 hours pretty sure I got a good ending, overall it was a brilliant game although a lot of people are knocking the dlc and story I thought both were fantastic and the dlc not really necessary at all.

Hopefully they will make some other games in the Mass Effect Universe.
 
Guys how do i get to install me3 on another drive as i have origin on my ssd with bf3 and Want mass effect on my hdd is this possible at all? Only reason is cause i only have about 11gb spare :(
 
Westie said:
Guys how do i get to install me3 on another drive as i have origin on my ssd with bf3 and Want mass effect on my hdd is this possible at all? Only reason is cause i only have about 11gb spare :(
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Change the Origin game directory, it won't move installed games but it will affect new ones.
 
Will any highstreet stores be doing the insanely expensive collectors edition?

I checked for it online and its sold out everywhere, other than retailers selling it above rrp. If I can't get it, is it worthwhile purchasing the digital deluxe version instead?

I would check up on this myself but the internet is sooooo slow where I am that I will probably get a faster response on here than if I spend the next few hours waiting for pages to load...
 
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