Mass Effect 3

[VirtualStranger]

I can't access the multi-player because it requires me to create an Evil Empire EA account. Not that I give even the most microscopic shit about multi-player, anyway. Yay. Yet another game in which I can get called a niggerfag by 12-year-olds. How exciting.

I can't help but think of all the time and resources that were used to implement a multi-player mode. Time and resources that could have gone towards improving the single-player, instead.

Dammit, Bioware knows my weakness... little kids who are implied to have died.   Dammit... I'm in tears.

I thought it was lazy writing. There are millions of people dying all around you and the writers want me to mourn the death of this one kid? At least 5 Alliance officials were crushed by a flying desk just 20 minutes prior and there weren't any reaction shots and poignant music when they died.

It's clear that the writers want the kid's death to have an emotional impact on the audience, but they give us no reason to actually care about him. We know nothing about him at all. They expect me to concern myself with his well-being solely because he's a child, instead of giving him actual characterization in order to cause me to form some sort of emotional connection with him.

It's a textbook example of "forced drama".

[Vypernight]

Sounds like fun.  Once I get the game and play through once, I'll play mp with anyone who's on XBox Live.

[Askold]

Dammit, Bioware knows my weakness... little kids who are implied to have died.   Dammit... I'm in tears.

I thought it was lazy writing. There are millions of people dying all around you and the writers want me to mourn the death of this one kid? At least 5 Alliance officials were crushed by a flying desk just 20 minutes prior and there weren't any reaction shots and poignant music when they died.

It's clear that the writers want the kid's death to have an emotional impact on the audience, but they give us no reason to actually care about him. We know nothing about him at all. They expect me to concern myself with his well-being solely because he's a child, instead of giving him actual characterization in order to cause me to form some sort of emotional connection with him.

It's a textbook example of "forced drama".

Or maybe you just do not have no empathy.

They concentrated on this one kid to show us a one of the victims of the attack. Sure they could have done this the Bruckheimer way and shown a montage of people minding their own business (Waving flags of USA if this was  a Bruckheimer trailer) just before the attack. Instead they show us this one kid(Also I thought that the kid is a girl.) playing with a toy. Million is a statistic but by concentrating on this one child we now have a "face" to the tragedy.

Besides how much more characterization can they give in a trailer? We see the kid for few seconds and that's it.

Besides like I said earlier this way the attack and the suffering has a face rather than just showing ruins and craters.

EDIT: montage, not collage.

[Shane for Wax]

In the demo we see a young boy. In the most recent trailer it's a girl. In the demo you are left wondering about the kid the entire demo.

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You eventually see him get on an Alliance craft to be airlifted out of there but there's still that feeling that there's more to him than you think

As for the Alliance peeps crushed by a desk uh... have we forgotten they grounded you in the first place? Have we forgotten they ignored your warnings for the entire first two games?

[VirtualStranger]

Dammit, Bioware knows my weakness... little kids who are implied to have died.   Dammit... I'm in tears.

I thought it was lazy writing. There are millions of people dying all around you and the writers want me to mourn the death of this one kid? At least 5 Alliance officials were crushed by a flying desk just 20 minutes prior and there weren't any reaction shots and poignant music when they died.

It's clear that the writers want the kid's death to have an emotional impact on the audience, but they give us no reason to actually care about him. We know nothing about him at all. They expect me to concern myself with his well-being solely because he's a child, instead of giving him actual characterization in order to cause me to form some sort of emotional connection with him.

It's a textbook example of "forced drama".

Or maybe you just do not have no empathy.

They concentrated on this one kid to show us a one of the victims of the attack. Sure they could have done this the Bruckheimer way and shown a collage of people minding their own business (Waving flags of USA if this was  a Bruckheimer trailer) just before the attack. Instead they show us this one kid(Also I thought that the kid is a girl.) playing with a toy. Million is a statistic but by concentrating on this one child we now have a "face" to the tragedy.

Besides how much more characterization can they give in a trailer? We see the kid for few seconds and that's it.

Besides like I said earlier this way the attack and the suffering has a face rather than just showing ruins and craters

Trailer? What? I was talking about the game.

Also, concluding that "I have no empathy" from what I said is a pretty big leap.

In the demo we see a young boy. In the most recent trailer it's a girl. In the demo you are left wondering about the kid the entire demo.

Now I'm confused. I don't think that the kid in the demo and the girl in the trailer are supposed to be the same character.

[Shane for Wax]

I never said they were the same character. However, both are doing the same thing at the beginning of the demo and the trailer-- playing with a toy ship. Probably should've clarified/wrote that better.

And now for info about some DLC:

"We're happy to confirm that Mass Effect 3: From Ashes DLC will be available at launch for all platforms. For those of you who have purchased the N7 Collector's Edition, you will get this content at no extra charge. We'll have a lot more details for you later this week! Stay Tuned!"

The DLC will be 800 MSP for those who didn't get the N7 edition.

[Askold]

Yeah, I thought you were talking about the trailer. Sorry.

[VirtualStranger]

"We're happy to confirm that Mass Effect 3: From Ashes DLC will be available at launch for all platforms. For those of you who have purchased the N7 Collector's Edition, you will get this content at no extra charge. We'll have a lot more details for you later this week! Stay Tuned!"

The DLC will be 800 MSP for those who didn't get the N7 edition.

800 MSP. So.... 10 dollars. On top of the 60 dollar base game. For content that was developed at the same time as the game itself, but was conveniently excluded so that they can milk their customers wallets and make them pay for the same content twice. Fucking wonderful.

It's times like these when it gets really hard to oppose piracy.

[Shane for Wax]

Are you going to bitch about every single part of the game?

The DLC has no bearing whatsoever on the story. You're bitching about this, an extra mission and a character.

The same extra mission and character that people have known about for the past few months, ever since the N7 Collector's Edition was announced.

It's Zaeed Massani all over again. *facepalms*

[VirtualStranger]

Are you going to bitch about every single part of the game?

Yes.

[Shano]

Are you going to bitch about every single part of the game?

Yes.

Well... You should know that I personally do not appreciate it. I also think many others do not appreciate it.
It is now clear that you dislike the situation (if not the game). Can we move on?

[shadowpanther]

Dammit, Bioware knows my weakness... little kids who are implied to have died.   Dammit... I'm in tears.

I thought it was lazy writing. There are millions of people dying all around you and the writers want me to mourn the death of this one kid? At least 5 Alliance officials were crushed by a flying desk just 20 minutes prior and there weren't any reaction shots and poignant music when they died.

It's clear that the writers want the kid's death to have an emotional impact on the audience, but they give us no reason to actually care about him. We know nothing about him at all. They expect me to concern myself with his well-being solely because he's a child, instead of giving him actual characterization in order to cause me to form some sort of emotional connection with him.

It's a textbook example of "forced drama".

She got what she deserved for appearing in an EA game.

[Meshakhad]

What I actually remember from that scene most wasn't the kid, but Shepard. Normally, Shepard projects an aura of badassery, and she was in a particularly foul mood that day. But when she saw that kid, she turned... motherly. And in a good way. I love seeing Shepard show a gentle side, and to be rejected was not fun.

[Witchyjoshy]

Are you going to bitch about every single part of the game?

Yes.

:stareface:

[Shane for Wax]

What I actually remember from that scene most wasn't the kid, but Shepard. Normally, Shepard projects an aura of badassery, and she was in a particularly foul mood that day. But when she saw that kid, she turned... motherly. And in a good way. I love seeing Shepard show a gentle side, and to be rejected was not fun.

So both options in the dialogue thing had that reaction? Cause I swear I switched it up in my second playthru and got the same event.