Hilo - Mass Effect 3

Vizard escribió:Sobre el acento del personaje, algunos fans han dejado caer una teoría curiosa:

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Vizard escribió:La gente se supera con las tiras

A todo ésto...¿alguno lo ha jugado en PC? Más que nada por saber cuánto hay de cierto en que Origin es poco menos que un portal al Infierno del espionaje digital

Vizard escribió:Pues vaya . Con todo el debate me había picado rejugar a ME 1 pero lo tengo en DVD (con su propio DRM), Steam me dice que me meta la key por donde no me da el Sol y tenía curiosidad por ver si quizás en Origin había más suerte.

Muchas gracias, creo que seguiré con mi política de "ni con un palo"

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Ray Muzyka, el cofundador de BioWare, ha confirmado que ya hay nuevos títulos de Mass Effect en desarrollo y que sacarán un nuevo contenido descargable para aclarar el final de Mass Effect 3, tras el descontento general que ha provocado la conclusión de esta trilogía.

El mes que viene se darán nuevos datos sobre este contenido descargable y han dicho que están trabajando en mantener un equilibrio entre la historia original y las sugerencias que han recibido de los fans.

"La reacción al lanzamiento de Mass Effect 3 no ha tenido precedentes. Por un lado, algunos de nuestros leales fans han expresado apasionadamente su descontento con cómo concluye; nos importan estas opiniones y estamos planeando lidiar directamente con ellas", dijo Muzyka.

"A pesar de ello, la mayoría de la gente parece estar de acuerdo en que el juego es excepcional, con más de 75 críticas que le han dado la puntuación perfecta o con una media de 90. Estoy orgulloso del equipo, pero podemos y debemos hacerlo siempre mejor".

"Escucharemos y responderemos a las críticas constructivas, pero no toleraremos los ataques individuales a nuestros miembros del equipo, por lo que no daremos respuesta a los comentarios destructivos".

I have nothing to do with the ending beyond a) having argued successfully a long time ago that we needed a chance to say goodbye to our squad, b) having argued successfully that Cortez shouldn't automatically die in that shuttle crash, and c) having written Tali's goodbye bit, as well as a couple of the holo-goodbyes for people I wrote (Mordin, Kasumi, Jack, etc).

No other writer did, either, except for our lead. This was entirely the work of our lead and Casey himself, sitting in a room and going through draft after draft.

And honestly, it kind of shows.

Every other mission in the game had to be held up to the rest of the writing team, and the writing team then picked it apart and made suggestions and pointed out the parts that made no sense. This mission? Casey and our lead deciding that they didn't need to be peer-reviewe.d

And again, it shows.

If you'd asked me the themes of Mass Effect 3, I'd break them down as:

Galactic Alliances

Friends

Organics versus Synthetics

In my personal opinion, the first two got a perfunctory nod. We did get a goodbye to our friends, but it was in a scene that was divorced from the gameplay -- a deliberate "nothing happens here" area with one turret thrown in for no reason I really understand, except possibly to obfuscate the "nothing happens here"-ness. The best missions in our game are the ones in which the gameplay and the narrative reinforce each other. The end of the Genophage campaign exemplifies that for me -- every line of dialog is showing you both sides of the krogan, be they horrible brutes or proud warriors; the art shows both their bombed-out wasteland and the beautiful world they once had and could have again; the combat shows the terror of the Reapers as well as a blatant reminder of the rachni, which threatened the galaxy and had to be stopped by the krogan last time. Every line of code in that mission is on target with the overall message.

The endgame doesn't have that. I wanted to see banshees attacking you, and then have asari gunships zoom in and blow them away. I wanted to see a wave of rachni ravagers come around a corner only to be met by a wall of krogan roaring a battle cry. Here's the horror the Reapers inflicted upon each race, and here's the army that you, Commander Shepard, made out of every race in the galaxy to fight them.

I personally thought that the Illusive Man conversation was about twice as long as it needed to be -- something that I've been told in my peer reviews of my missions and made edits on, but again, this is a conversation no writer but the lead ever saw until it was already recorded. I did love Anderson's goodbye.

For me, Anderson's goodbye is where it ended. The stuff with the Catalyst just... You have to understand. Casey is really smart and really analytical. And the problem is that when he's not checked, he will assume that other people are like him, and will really appreciate an almost completely unemotional intellectual ending. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it.

And then, just to be a dick... what was SUPPOSED to happen was that, say you picked "Destroy the Reapers". When you did that, the system was SUPPOSED to look at your score, and then you'd show a cutscene of Earth that was either:

a) Very high score: Earth obviously damaged, but woo victory

b) Medium score: Earth takes a bunch of damage from the Crucible activation. Like dropping a bomb on an already war-ravaged city. Uh, well, maybe not LIKE that as much as, uh, THAT.

c) Low score: Earth is a cinderblock, all life on it completely wiped out

I have NO IDEA why these different cutscenes aren't in there. As far as I know, they were never cut. Maybe they were cut for budget reasons at the last minute. I don't know. But holy crap, yeah, I can see how incredibly disappointing it'd be to hear of all the different ending possibilities and have it break down to "which color is stuff glowing?" Or maybe they ARE in, but they're too subtle to really see obvious differences, and again, that's... yeah.

Okay, that's a lot to have written for something that's gonna go away in an hour.

I still teared up at the ending myself, but really, I was tearing up for the quick flashbacks to old friends and the death of Anderson. I wasn't tearing up over making a choice that, as it turned out, didn't have enough cutscene differentiation on it.

And to be clear, I don't even really wish Shepard had gotten a ride-off-into-sunset ending. I was honestly okay with Shepard sacrificing himself. I just expected it to be for something with more obvious differentiation, and a stronger tie to the core themes -- all three of them.

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Bioware aclarará y extenderá el final de Mass Effect 3 con un DLC gratuito

Se estrenará en verano y responderá a varias de las dudas surgidas entre los aficionados.



Tras la gran polémica suscitada en torno al final de Mass Effect 3, Bioware ha decidido lanzar un pack de contenidos descargables gratuito con el que aclararán muchas de las dudas surgidas entre la comunidad de aficionados, que verán así respondidas gran parte de sus peticiones.

Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut actuará, pues, como un epílogo de este juego del que BioWare asegura sentirse “increíblemente orgullosa”. Aun así, asegura uno de los fundadores del estudio, Ray Muzyka, "desde el lanzamiento hemos tenido tiempo para escuchar las sugerencias de nuestros fans más apasionados y estamos respondiendo a ellas".

"Pensamos que hemos conseguido un buen equilibrio a la hora de dar a los fans las respuestas que están buscando mientras mantenemos la visión artística del equipo sobre el final de esta historia en el universo Mass Effect", continúa.

La importancia de este pack de contenidos descargables es tal que el propio director del juego, Casey Hudson, ha confirmado que han cambiado sus planes de lanzamiento para darle mayor prioridad a este DLC frente al resto de contenidos adicionales.

Aun sin una fecha de lanzamiento concreta, esta Extended Cut de Mass Effect 3 se lanzará en verano.

April 5, 2012
BioWare Announces Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut
Free* DLC Pack to Provide Additional Cinematic Scenes to the Ending of Mass Effect 3 this Summer

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BioWare, a Label of Electronic Arts Inc. announced Mass Effect™ 3: Extended Cut, a downloadable content pack that will expand upon the events at the end of the critically acclaimed Action RPG. Through additional cinematic sequences and epilogue scenes, the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will give fans seeking further clarity to the ending of Mass Effect 3 deeper insights into how their personal journey concludes. Coming this summer, the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will be available for download on the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and PC for no extra charge*.

"We are all incredibly proud of Mass Effect 3 and the work done by Casey Hudson and team," said Dr. Ray Muzyka, Co-Founder of BioWare and General Manager of EA's BioWare Label. "Since launch, we have had time to listen to the feedback from our most passionate fans and we are responding. With the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut we think we have struck a good balance in delivering the answers players are looking for while maintaining the team's artistic vision for the end of this story arc in the Mass Effect universe."

Casey Hudson, Executive Producer of the Mass Effect series added, "We have reprioritized our post-launch development efforts to provide the fans who want more closure with even more context and clarity to the ending of the game, in a way that will feel more personalized for each player."

The Mass Effect franchise is one of the most highly decorated series in the history of games, having earned over 250 awards from critics around the world. Mass Effect 3 launched last month to universal critical acclaim, receiving over 75 perfect scores. For more information on Mass Effect 3, please visit http://masseffect.com, follow the game on Twitter at http://twitter.com/masseffect or "like" the game on Facebook at https://facebook.com/masseffect. Press assets for Mass Effect 3 are available at www.info.ea.com.

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How To Unlock Mass Effect 3 From Ashes DLC For Free

(Update: EA has responded to people accessing the From Ashes content for free in Mass Effect 3.)

Light evidence surfaced a few days ago indicating that the "From Ashes" downloadable content for Mass Effect 3 was already stored on disc. Well, hackers have taken it one step further showing how you can unlock the day-one disc-locked content without having to pay EA a dime. There's potential spoilers ahead, just so you know.

Xbigy Games came across a YouTube video that found out that the downloadable content was not actually downloadable content but rather disc-locked content. Everyone who believed producer Casey Hudson and other Bioware employees about the DLC being separately designed from the main game have been fooled. The character content was there all along, although there is still a sizeable mandatory download for additional mission data.

So here's the thing, all you need to do is follow the steps below to unlock the Prothean DLC on the PC version of Mass Effect 3. Unfortunately, unless you have a modded Xbox 360 console you won't be able to gain access to the files:

1. Open Coalesced.bin with this http://wenchy.net/me3-coalesced-utility

2. Search for this: MemberValidCID=22, MemberAvailablePlotLabel=IsSelectableProthean,

3. Replace with this: MemberValidCID=, MemberAvailablePlotLabel=,

So what have we learned from this folks? That EA is still the top dog for being an evil corporation and here it is I thought Capcom was about to supercede them with having an entire third of the game's content disc-locked behind a pay-wall.

BioWare and EA will undoubtedly have a press statement to issue defending this, I'm sure they'll say that for the PC version it was just easier to include the content but that it wasn't possible for the Xbox 360 or PS3 version because certification is different. You know what's worse? I'm sure most people will believe them, allowing for more disc-locked content to become a normal trend in today's marketplace.

Hopefully gamers will wise-up before 75% of the entire game is locked away behind a pay-wall where you'll be paying $870 dollars and upward to access all the content.

Thanks again Xbigy Games, you've definitely helped turn a cornerstone on the matter, even though EA and BioWare are probably fuming about it. Have fun gamers, and game on!

And here's a little something, something for EA...

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Wodux escribió:Gracias a todos por vuestras respuestas,teneis mi gratitud

Acabo de ver (ayer) todos los finales extendidos y la verdad es que la cosa mejora bastante. Aunque la mierda esa (spoiler) del niño dios, y la motivación de los reapers me siguen pareciendo una mierda. Al menos ahora te lo explican todo mucho mejor y no te deja ese sabor a timo barato. Además ahora los finales SÍ se diferencian entre ellos.

Mandan todas las teorías a la mierda y explican mucha de las incongruencias del final del juego. Aunque solo he visto los finales y por lo visto añade lineas de dialogo y escenas desde bastante antes. Pero ahora estoy en Amalur. Ya me lo pasaré entero para verlo todo bien.