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[Amyntas]

My first thought was also about how many recycled areas DA2 has, and how this could mean that the ME3 team has also adopted the DA2 philosophy of giving areas "depth" (euphemism alert). Let's hope the Bioware devs won't damage their flagship IP as well.

Modifié par Amyntas, 31 mars 2011 - 04:48 .

[Razorsedge820]

Earth is very very very big and much much much bigger than Kirkwall.

[Pr3ying M4nt15 360]

I can imagine the first half of the game being about recruiting the people you helped or screwed over throughout the series. Then the second half of the game (disc 2) taking place on earth. Or if its 3 discs perhaps it'll just be disc 3 that covers all the earth assets.

I can also see the games primary hub world being grounded in earth and becoming the new citadel in this game. From which you warp to other planets from.

Or I can see the earth section being the equil of the suicide mission and perhaps the reapers have only actually attacked the UK so far. After all it seems logical to establish a base there as the inbetween to attack other Europe and America. They like to methodically attack things in order don't they?


I don't see it taking place all on earth.

[cedgedc]

Razorsedge820 wrote...

Earth is very very very big and much much much bigger than Kirkwall.

I think no one is calling into question the size of earth.
The concerns, whether valid or not are more based into the fact that:

A) while earth is indeed bigger, the playable areas that we have access to explore are not going to be the size of earth. They will more likely resemble the size of kirwald's explorable areas. Or say, the citadel from ME1.

If we wanted to spend time exploring earth, we'd be outside instead of inside playing Mass Effect lol.

I think that's a bit closer to the mark in terms of what people are concerned with. We can see earth. Screw earth. I play Mass Effect so I can pretend i'm not living on a world where people think our president wasn't actually born in america cause they haven't each individually seen his birth certificate.

[Sidac]

its gonna be like "OMG EARF IS UNDER ATTACK! RUN SHEPARDS!" and hes gonna be all like "LOL BRB" then he goes to the citadel and like "BAAAAW EARF IS GONNA GO BOOM BOOM" then the coincil is gonna say "yea thats not gonna happen, you get no help" and shepards gonna be like "ILL ZUCK YA DIK" and they be like ok tell us where to meet you.

then credits.

[Benji1306]

The reapers could have succeded in disabling all the mass relays, hence we wouldn't be able to go anywhere else beside the sol system. Just a guess though


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And I'm guessing thats where we are, since that's the place we go after we finish the arrival dlc

Modifié par Benji1306, 31 mars 2011 - 05:21 .

[JoeClose]

People who post these threads should be banned, seriously it's so stupid.

[Ozzelll]

The mission in ME3 will be for Shepard to gather allies around the galaxy for the defence of Earth against the reaper attack. Earth will probably be like the suicide mission in ME2.

[charmingcharlie]

cedgedc wrote...
I think that's a bit closer to the mark in terms of what people are concerned with. We can see earth. Screw earth. I play Mass Effect so I can pretend i'm not living on a world where people think our president wasn't actually born in america cause they haven't each individually seen his birth certificate.

The thing is their concerns are based on absolutely nothing.  If I started posting on here "OMGZ they better not set Mass Effect 3 in London only" I would be rightly called a complete and utter idiot.  Well it is just as stupid to say they are going to set the entire Mass Effect 3 game on Earth.

Yes Earth will feature in the game (a great many people have wanted that) but it is not going to be the entire focus of the game.  I really do not know how anyone can see a 1 minute trailer and go "OMGZ it is totally set on Earth".

As much as I loved the ME 3 teaser trailer I am actually wishing Bioware had never released it now simply because of all the totally unfounded "concerns" and "worries" from some on the board that have come to the conclusion a 1 minute trailer = a summary of a 30 hour game.

[xIREDEEMEDIx]

^ I agree, we have to go gather the troops. So it can't be confined ti just Earth.

[IRMcGhee]

At the very least I'd expect you'll have to deal with the Quarian/Geth issue and the fallout from Arrival. It's pretty obvious a major part of the game focuses on Earth, but it's possible you might not even set foot on it. Might even have to sacrifice it to save the rest of the galaxy.

Modifié par IRMcGhee, 31 mars 2011 - 05:58 .

[Solid_Shepard12345]

Honestly, although I doubt we will be constrained to earth, I am extremely concerned that Earth will be the final mission (which it certainly should not). Personally, I feel that either the Citadel or the Reaper's base in Dark Space (if they have one that is) should be the ending. The former because the Citadel is the most important place in the Mass Effect universe that we know of (the head of government and it allows them to take control of all the Mass relays). The problem with this is that by the time they reach a Mass relay their first course of action should be to attack the Citadel. It would be much more difficult than simply stealthing in through the Dark Space relay but a whole fleet of them should manage to overwhelm the defences in place at the Citadel (unless they add a huge amount of soliders and ships). This then adds another problem as, if they do get the Citadel then it shouldn't be possible for Shepard to zoom around the galaxy collecting allies and, if they don't go for the Citadel and simply attack earth first then that's just an extremely stupid move for them that defies all logic (because surely they could simply take the citadel, shut down all the relays, go to earth and indoctrinate the citizens and use them to make another reaper without any interference). The latter (the Reaper base in Dark Space if there is one) should be fairly obvious and I don't think it's necessary for me to explain why.

[cedgedc]

charmingcharlie wrote...

The thing is their concerns are based on absolutely nothing.  If I started posting on here "OMGZ they better not set Mass Effect 3 in London only" I would be rightly called a complete and utter idiot.  Well it is just as stupid to say they are going to set the entire Mass Effect 3 game on Earth.

Yes Earth will feature in the game (a great many people have wanted that) but it is not going to be the entire focus of the game.  I really do not know how anyone can see a 1 minute trailer and go "OMGZ it is totally set on Earth".

As much as I loved the ME 3 teaser trailer I am actually wishing Bioware had never released it now simply because of all the totally unfounded "concerns" and "worries" from some on the board that have come to the conclusion a 1 minute trailer = a summary of a 30 hour game.

I agree with you. I am not so much saying that I expect that will be the case as much as - I would hate it if it were.

I think the reason that people believe it will take place in large part on earth (anyone who thinks the WHOLE game will take place on earth, is dumb.) is the fact that the premise is.. the reapers are coming NOW. It's not two years to prepare, or some mysterious amount of time. They're coming right away, which implies that the plot will include something of a rush to get to earth, and that there will be a lot of fighting there.

Even if you have loads of time to go do other side quests and stuff - because it's  not as though there will be a giant timer in the upper right hand corner of your screen saying 'Count down till destruction of earth/human race!'- the whole thing would feel akin to any quest you've ever played where they're all: "Get out of here before the building blows up!" - but all the while you know there's no timer, so you could go slow and open all the crates and look for hidden stuff if you wanted.

You feel pressured to rush and spend the rest of the game on earth, even if you don't necessarily have to.

I think that's a more reasonable fear, and something that seems quite plausible. I don't know if I conveyed it very well though lol.
In otherwords, you'll have to spend a large portion of the game on one planet. The rest will be optional content which only has minor effects on the plot, i.E. how many reinforcements you can call in at the big fight, or how many crew members you have to choose from.

[charmingcharlie]

cedgedc wrote...

is the fact that the premise is.. the reapers are coming NOW. It's not two years to prepare, or some mysterious amount of time. They're coming right away, which implies that the plot will include something of a rush to get to earth, and that there will be a lot of fighting there.

I can't really say too much because this is a non-spoiler forum but I didn't get the impression the Reapers are coming "now".  After the last DLC I get the impression we have put a fair dent in the Reapers plans.  It certainly sounded to me as if good ole Harbie was a tad bit annoyed at Shepard.

cedgedc wrote...  You feel pressured to rush and spend the rest of the game on earth, even if you don't necessarily have to.

I really see no basis for assuming that, if anything it will happen in a similar way to ME 2.  Yes there will be a point where if you delay you will lose out in some way but I really do not think that is going to be right at the beginning of the game, it just doesn't make sense for them to do the game that way.

I mean after you visited the collector ship in ME 2 did you feel compelled to immediately race off get the IFF and then defeat the collectors ?  No you didn't the actual "pressure point" didn't happen till well towards the end and you could delay that pressure point as long as you wanted.

We do not know how or when Earth features in ME 3, it could be at the beginning, middle or even the end of ME 3.  We don't know if it is just Earth under attack either, for all we know the Reapers could be simultaneously attacking the Asari, Turian, Salarian and Elcor homeworlds.

At the moment all we know is that Earth will feature in some way and it will be attacked by the Reapers.   Now I don't want an Earth centric Mass Effect 3, but I do want Earth to have a fairly decent place in the game it has been ignored for two games already.  I just don't see why people are overly concerned that ME 3 will be nothing but Earth, it would be pretty moronic of Bioware to do that.

[cedgedc]

I do agree with what you've said, and  I generally have a good bit of faith in Bioware. They know what it is that made the first two games masterpieces so they're not just going to throw out the playbook for this one and start shooting blindly.

I'm simply saying that if there was a reasonable fear to have for the third game, that is definitely one of them.

charmingcharlie wrote...

We do not know how or when Earth features in ME 3, it could be at the beginning, middle or even the end of ME 3.  We don't know if it is just Earth under attack either, for all we know the Reapers could be simultaneously attacking the Asari, Turian, Salarian and Elcor homeworlds.

I do hope that is the case. I just don't like the idea of the reapers deciding on the fly that they just want to go after only humans, to make another giant terminator.

[Mr.Tacito]

Ever notice, Shepard isn't even on Earth during the trailer...

[IntoTheDarkness]

completley agree. this space oepra is about to be another generic 'save the earth;' crap

[Whatever42]

Mr.Tacito wrote...

Ever notice, Shepard isn't even on Earth during the trailer...

Did you see what was going on down there? I'm not going anywhere near that!

[Whatever42]

IntoTheDarkness wrote...

completley agree. this space oepra is about to be another generic 'save the earth;' crap

What planet did you want to save?

[Bendok]

There's no way this is gonna happen. If it does I can't be held responsible for any loss of life or property damage within a 50 mile radius of me when I learn of such news.

[Clonedzero]

yeah, this is nonsense. there was a reason for DA2 to take place in kirkwall. you were the CHAMPION OF KIRKWALL.

however in ME3 it makes absolutely no sense why shepard would only be on earth the entire game. theres no evidence of that, theres no references to that, why anyone would even think you'd be restricted to earth other than pure fear mongering and trolling is beyond me.

[IntoTheDarkness]

Whatever666343431431654324 wrote...

IntoTheDarkness wrote...

completley agree. this space oepra is about to be another generic 'save the earth;' crap

What planet did you want to save?

I personally do not want any 'saving a planet.' - common plots.

I hope ME3 has much more complex stories resulting in unpredictable events and stories, like normandy blowing up couple times, earth becoming dusts, reapers conflicting themsevles due to virus, and etc.

Modifié par IntoTheDarkness, 31 mars 2011 - 10:42 .

[XyleJKH]

Be nice to finally see canada in a future setting. Maybe show a small glimpse of future toronto?

[matt-bassist]

i think pretty much everyone agrees that humans are NOT the only species in the galaxy and as such, should NOT be the fuc-ing center of the plot in ME3. ALL RACES ARE IN DANGER BIOWARE. DO NOT MAKE THIS JUST ABOUT F-ING HUMANS. NO ONE CARES ABOUT COD OR ANY OF THOSE OTHER BS POS GAMES.

[Halfdan The Menace]

Bioware got storyline writers for each races/species so y'all dont have to worry about that...