Grown-ups play games, not consoles.
It's a conspiracy!
If ME is a shooter than almost every jRPG is a simple turn-based strategy game. Mass Effect has more role playing elements than any other so-called RPG. Role playing isn't about combat mechanics or boosting your stats. It's about choices and consequences. In ME you make decisions all the time - small ones, like being friendly or rude in a dialog, big ones, like saving/killing a teammate and huge ones, like deciding the fate of an entire race. And they all have consequences that influence game...
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"The network comes along side with the console"
ROTFL. My PS3 came with the whole Internet in it :D
Stay in school, Guido.
The reviewers played the full game, full 256 player battles in perfect conditions during the event. In other words, it can be only worse, as customer's won't be playing on LAN with entire Zipper team to support them.
Get over it, MAG was never meant to be AAA, it's a tech-demo for the netcode. Fortunately I'll be playing Mass Effect 2 and Heavy Rain soon, so it's going to be easy to forget the Massively-generic Action Game.
Joyride is better, because it's FREE!
jk
Please cry some more. Your tears are delicious.
PS. People complained about price of Shadowrun and ODST.
"You're a soldier that fights in a war" is not a story. MAG doesn't need plot, let's not try to make one up.
@mastiff: Come on, man. I'd really want to know your take on the story, but you keep writing walls-of-text consisting mainly of typos. Have mercy!
ROTFL, having 256 players justifies 60$ price? There should be more MMOs on the consoles then - they can be utter crap, but all you have to do is hit the 256 player milestone and suddenly: instant hit!
By the way, I have nothing against MAG's price tag or MAG itself. 256 players is a technical achievement on consoles, but it's far less important than gameplay and content.
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@ryuzu: ever heard of MMO FPS? Besides, I'm replying to "First console game to ...
Maps > Skins. Not enough good maps in U2 - I want more! And skins from other games should have their own playlists, so we don't end up with Super Smash Drake with sackboys or Ratchet & Clank characters.
Haha, thought the same thing. Xbox vs Capcom, 3D fighting game with characters from Halo, Gears of War, Mass Effect, Splinter Cell, Shadow Complex and others. :D
Speaking of assumption, you're assuming that MS paid anything, that it's enough to make any difference in their 1st party studios and that they have one budget for funding developers and securing exclusive deals (otherwise saving money on A does not affect B). See? We're all in the dark, as far as MS agreements go. But I think it's safe to say, that 30-day exclusive deal for a map pack does not cost enough to affect 1st party studios. Besides, this is how business works. Gamers would be happy...
@Wh15ky: So MS should not buy exclusives/timed exclusives, so they can open a new studio in 20 years? :D
Not a good direction IMHO. What's next? Trophies for clicking ads? Visiting websites? Every 2 hours your PS3 is on?
So, you really think that 30-day exclusive deal for a map pack costs as much as creating a new game studio (that does not make pac-man clones in Games Factory)?
ZOMG, I just paid for a beer instead of buying a new car!
@Kalowest: Yes, because people play only exclusives.
Another N4G classic...
Pennywise is sick of trolling? Are you deleting your multiple accounts then?