The sad thing is when man is playing as a woman in game. Thats just weird… and creepy.
- comment at GameTrailers
Seriously. Come on, seriously. Why does anyone play as BlokeShep? That voice! That is the voice of authority. - By Your Command: FemShep Lives - Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Tell your friends we’re coming for them.
Demo is out, downloading now. There are bonus items for completing the demo, as if I needed the demo to figure out whether or not I was going to buy the game.
Well that was pretty awesome. I think I was mistaken about the bonus items, oh well. Less than a month to go, can’t wait
Did you feel that there were any spoilers in the demo? I’d like to play it but have been in a pretty solid news blackout and would hate to break it now.
I don’t think there’s that much in the way of spoilers. The demo is pretty much the intro, maybe about the first 20 minutes or so, then another mission somewhere in the middle of the story. There is no real context provided for the second half of the demo. Also that mission was widely documented in some of the action videos released ages ago. It’s mostly just lots of combat. Its not unlike the Dragon Age 2 demo, as in you get the intro then skip ahead to Isabellas first companion mission.
I’ll put a very brief description of the second part in a spoiler box.
[spoiler]You are on a salarian world and have to rescue a krogan female for some reason. I think there are a couple of cut scenes that are skipped on purpose. There are a few familliar faces involved [/spoiler]
Personally I’m very opposed to spoilers so I’ve tried to err on the side of caution in my description. I haven’t been following every bit of development news (although I haven’t been purposely avoiding it either) but I don’t think there was anything revealed in the demo that I didn’t know already.
Thanks a ton. I believe I’ve already seen these particular spoilers (they are why I went on the blackout) and will, based on what you said, download it and play it tomorrow. 
Just finished the demo and…
[spoiler]That Atlas was a bitch. Only time I died the whole thing and it took 5 tries. Oh, and why didn’t my Infiltrator have a sniper rifle?[/spoiler]
Cause it’s really a Soldier demo. Rest assured your concern is addressed in multiplayer
But I did get a kick out of the new levelling system. Batch updating the skills when I jumped to part 2 was a bit annoying, but it could be fun.
Though adding 2 more tiers of power-up means it’ll be tough to get squadmates to elite levels on more than 1-2 skills.
Oh wow. Apparently the new level cap is 60 and if you import a character you retain their level going into 3. That’s crazy. And awesome. And crazy.
Not sure how balanced it’ll be in the early going when you have characters starting at either L1 or L20.
I imagine enemies will scale like ME2. Actually insanity in ME2 was harder starting with a maxed out character compared to a new one.
I finished it (took longer to download than play) and loved it. Any spoilers are speculations that the 2nd mission make me think of, and I have a lot of them. I don’t consider anything from the first mission to be a spoiler, as it’s the first mission. I played it first, so consider it part of the game.
On to the specifics:
Gawd the world is beautiful. Look at that water!
It seemed hard to control, compared to ME2. My character was too much in the way and things were too hard to find. Though, I had this problem with ME2 after playing ME1, and they went away so I’m willing to guess that they’ll do so here as well.
Love the new leveling system. You at least get 2 points per level up through the first 24 or 25 levels (I levelled up mid-game and think I still got 2 points, and started at level 24). I didn’t notice how many points my cronies had, but when I levelled up they only got one each.
Each tree took 6+5+4+3+2+1=18 points to level up. There were 6 (7?) trees so you’d need 6*18=108 points total. That implies that, to max out, you’d stop getting 2 points per level at around level 48 or so. Any less and you can’t max out.
Spoilers from the DEMO. If you’ve played the demo, you can read these:
[spoiler]
Wrex! Ashley! (And I’d assume Kaiden!)
Seems like Ashley or Kaiden will be teammates. Wrex will probably not. Ashley got a major rework and looks even more beautiful than before.
You start on Earth, not part of the military but not part of Cerberus. I wonder what’s up with that?
Why are you freeing Krogan females (other than it’s the right thing to do)? My guess is that the Krogan (through Wrex) are needed to fight the Reapers and they refuse until they get a bona-fide cure for the genophage.
[/spoiler]
Isn’t the cap in ME2 60?
30 Duder …
Finally got some time to play the demo…happy noises
spoilers for story? ish in demo:
[spoiler]I got such a kick out of seeing Kirrahe again. Wrex is adorable as usual. Garrus! Liara! Mordin! Can’t wait to see the rest of the gang. Oh, Mass Effect, I’ve missed you.[/spoiler]
Just finished playing some multiplayer. Very cool stuff, except…
Let’s just say that when playing a Krogan, expect half of your screen to be filled by said Krogan. Dudes are hella massive.
So they showed the “Take Earth Back” trailer during The Walking Dead last night. I have to say I would pay an arm and a leg to see a full length ME movie that was this good. Screw live action! 
I was thinking the same thing when I saw the cinematic trailers for Star Wars: The Old Republic. I’d go see full length movies like that in the theater if they’d make them.
Sex-y. Nice callback to the demo, too, though I played the demo as a female and am now thinking that they even changed the sex of the little kid? For me, the kid with the model ship was a boy.