Mass Effect 3 - Part 1

[X Knight]

couldn't the voice commands be done with a headset or something?

at least the Kinect features are optional........don't own Kinect and don't have any real desire to do so?

 

[jacobed]

Headsets dont recognize voices like kinect does

 

[BlackLantern]

**** kinect....if i want to be active and do ****, ill go play outside

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Headsets dont recognize voices like kinect does

I'm pretty sure it could recognize words, it did when I had Rainbow Six Vegas.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

Live Demo currently in progress

http://live-event.ea.com/e3/chat/mass-effect

 

[imaperson2]

^So far so good The game looks beautfiul.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

Shepard in the demo confirmed that [BLACKOUT]Cerberus is indoctrinated[/BLACKOUT]

 

[imaperson2]

Yeah I caught on to that. I would say that's a pretty lame excuse but hopefully there is more to that.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

Spoiler

I expect that the Illusive Man will show up looking for help early in the game.

The devs also kind of hinted that we'll see a Quarian out of their suit.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

On the Krogan female:

"She's a fertile female that Wrex really wants to.... yeah,"

 

[Soapy]

Will that Q&A be archived anywhere?

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

I just asked on the Bioware dev forum.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

^So far so good The game looks beautfiul.

I love your avy t:

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

I liked the new stealth gameplay mechanics they showed off.

 

[Nightmare]

I love upset spideyfan's avy

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

Here's the video for those who missed it

http://www.livestream.com/electronicarts/video?clipId=pla_f07c21d3-3cfb-40f1-9415-094b85c03e9b

 

[Matt]

Yeah I caught on to that. I would say that's a pretty lame excuse but hopefully there is more to that.

I wonder if that will differ based on whether or not Shepard gave them the Reaper base.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

I wonder if that will differ based on whether or not Shepard gave them the Reaper base.

I doubt it, Cerberus as the enemy seems to be a pretty important part of the game - what I think will change is that after defeating Cerberus you'll be able to arm your side with hi-tech weaponry that they developed as a result of their research into the Collector base.

 

[Soapy]

Here's the video for those who missed it

http://www.livestream.com/electronicarts/video?clipId=pla_f07c21d3-3cfb-40f1-9415-094b85c03e9b

Thanks.

 

[imaperson2]

I love your avy t:

Thanks, THE BLACK KEYS!

I wonder if that will differ based on whether or not Shepard gave them the Reaper base.

Hmm, you have me thinking.

Spoiler

What if giving them the base causes Cerberus to move their operations into the Collector base which in turn causes something funky to them. Maybe the ship has something left over that causes everyone to go crazy? Then again, like Upset said, it's too big of a plot point. We'll see

 

[Matt]

I doubt it, Cerberus as the enemy seems to be a pretty important part of the game - what I think will change is that after defeating Cerberus you'll be able to arm your side with hi-tech weaponry that they developed as a result of their research into the Collector base.

Thanks, THE BLACK KEYS!



Hmm, you have me thinking.

Spoiler

What if giving them the base causes Cerberus to move their operations into the Collector base which in turn causes something funky to them. Maybe the ship has something left over that causes everyone to go crazy? Then again, like Upset said, it's too big of a plot point. We'll see

But if what the producers have said is true, then every person's game will consist of differing huge plot points depending on our respective decisions in previous games.

[blackout]Perhaps Cerberus will hunt Shepard regardless, but the motivation may be different depending on your choices. If you gave them the Collector base, they are indoctrinated but if you blew it up, the Illusive Man is hunting you for revenge?[/blackout]

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Quick article detailing why the voice commands in Mass Efect 3 are Kinect only.

While it might make sense for BioWare to also support voice controls in Mass Effect 3 via the PS3's PlayStation Eye or a USB microphone, the game's developers say they aren't planning to support anything but Kinect at this point.

Mass Effect executive producer Casey Hudson says BioWare is bringing voice commands to Kinect and Xbox 360 because Microsoft's sound and motion-sensing controller is doing the hard work of voice recognition. Kinect's internal hardware is what makes it possible—or at least much easier to get voice commands working—not just its microphones.


While it might make sense for BioWare to also support voice controls in Mass Effect 3 via the PS3's PlayStation Eye or a USB microphone, the game's developers say they aren't planning to support anything but Kinect at this point.

http://kotaku.com/5810138/mass-effect-3s-new-voice-commands-are-xbox-360+only-and-heres-why

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

Interesting. It makes sense from a dev standpoint since it seems they're getting a result for relatively speaking little effort and I'd rather they spend time developing the actual game than trying to get voice commands working for the PS3 when the gain I feel is negligible.

 

[imaperson2]

Q&A on right now

http://masseffect.bioware.com/me3/game/biowaretv/