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Weekend Confirmed 104 - Mass Effect 3, Diablo 3, GDC remainders
by Garnett Lee, Mar 16, 2012 11:00am PDTMass Effect 3 tops everyone's list. There's no way the Weekend Confirmed crew couldn't talk about it, but there are no spoilers... hell, Cannata's not even finished with it yet and we wouldn't want to do that to him. It's no secret, though, that the game's ending has rubbed a lot of fans the wrong way. What we want from game endings and the difficulties faced in putting a conclusion on a story we've invested so many hours offers a lot to consider. We also take a first look at some of our impressions from the game being careful to not give anything story-related away. Other things are happening as well. There's the Diablo 3 release date announcement, finally, and we've got a bunch of stuff left over from GDC last week as well. It's a non-stop ride to Finishing Moves.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 104: 03/16/2012
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Round 1 00:00:30 – 00:27:07
Whatcha Been Playing Part 1 00:27:42 – 00:57:22
Whatcha Been Playing Part 2 00:58:15 – 01:26:09
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Comments
I really find it amazing how some people on podcasts who have no professional game development skills themselves eagerly patronize their audience to show everyone just how above the rabble they are. It doesn't make you look like cool headed reasonable people. It just makes you look like douche bags.
That said, the reality is that much of the dlc content was indeed produced while the discs were being pressed, which is why you still have to download lots of data to play it. However, what I'm experiencing on the PS3 with the $60 game, are rampant frame rate issues and screen tear. Maybe if Bioware's "business model" had been more dedicated towards providing a polished product, I wouldn't be experiencing these issues.
I'd also like to point out that dlc aside, I'm not interested in spending $50+ for Xbox Live (so that I can raise my readiness stat and get a "good" ending), or $150 for an "accouterment" free microphone that lets me drink a glass of water---which, if that's not a gimmick I don't know what is.
So, if I got the "hydration edition" of ME3, along with online play and dlc, I would be paying about $270 for the Mass Effect 3 experience---hey, I guess its more than a cat helmet, but its not exactly a bargain.
I don't know if you guys just "love selling things" but maybe be a little more scrupulous in your actual criticism (since lets face it, that is your function here) and a little less worried about just how "entitled" gamers are.
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Something like the 'reasonable person' test used in law to help decide liability could be applied, for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person
Vehicular combat is integral to Halo. It would be like taking the dialog choices out of Mass Effect and selling that mechanic separately. If that happened, you wouldn't see anybody including Jeff and I backing that decision, because it's taken an element of the design doc and excising it. That obviously impacts the experience on a fundamental level.
If Halo 4 say, offered launch day DLC that gave players, I don't know, the chance to inhabit a virtual avatar of Cortana as she hacks her way through some alien computer systems, then I would be ok with that. It's not key component of the Halo gameplay model, it's something that could easily be written around in a cut-scene, but adds some lore or something for Halo fans.
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