The final ideas still rest with the developers after all or at least from Wasteland2's development, it seemed tat way with setting milestones based on the amount they get...

Spreading through the word of mouth is really acceptable in the current age of web 2.0 which we are in... In fact, it may be the best form of advertising now...

You do have a point with people not buying the game when it is out but I think when they propose the idea, I am sure they have already factor in some profit? At times, you can see loads of developers which does it for their passion and was just not having enough funds to make it into a reality... How often do we read publishers like EA/ Activision ruining contents just for profit and even against the will of the developers? Life is more than just making profit especially after watching the video interviews with most of the top guns game designers...

But yeah, time will tell... ATM, the Wasteland2 project look to be kicking really well...

The development period of SC2 was too long which sorta increase the price... They even remade the game engine at one point... Engines could just be reused or licensed from available engines... Games shouldn't cost that much as well if u factor out the amount it cost for all those flashy cutscenes/ graphics... Good games will be good even in 32bit graphics like all of the older games out there... And I think a big amount also goes to the publisher for the management and publicity?

If they say that all they need is 900k to make a good game with an impressive portfolio of success in the past, it isnt a big issue i feel to support them

Just finish replay on ME1

I concluded that Sovereign is the only one true reaper

I dont think using Blizzard as an example for the high cost of a AAA game is a bad example. All their games took years to develop, while most other AAA games release annually or bi-annually.

I remember Diablo 3 was almost completed in 2005, but when Blizzard North left, Blizzard decided to scrap everything and restart again. I heard it was shit, thats why they made a new engine and a new team to build it. They could have just release it and use the current one as Diablo 4. Samething happened with Warcraft 3, Starcraft 2 and WoW. As far as i remember, SC2 did not have everything scrapped though. WoW and Warcraft 3 did.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Mar 29 2012, 08:12 PM

Aye.

He actually made reapers scary.

But, Harby himself wasn't too bad.

Sadly, Harbinger never talked in ME3.

You live because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it!

I really don't see why they needed to give the Reapers a reason to destroy. They should have just kept the Reapers as this menacing threat that you needed to overcome. No one needs to know why they do it or where they came from.

This post has been edited by hahli9: Mar 29 2012, 09:22 PM

kinda agree on this...
they could at least justify it better i feel...
like preserving their race by harvesting other organics or something

lol...this is funny...someone in bioware forum posted this 2 years ago...



http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/105/index/970146/1

Bioware combined both of those just to troll that guy.

So. You know those 400 cupcakes? Bioware donated them to a local youth shelter. Good show good show.

This post has been edited by hahli9: Mar 30 2012, 11:09 AM

Rannoch reaper was pretty cool too.

I thought the sending of the cupcakes to Bioware in the first place was a terribly stupid idea.

The Reapers are synthesis being, not synthetic... they explained this in ME2 (the exoskeleton reaper = Reaper that mainly harvesting human)

IMHO, current ending is good enough, why purposely release another ending just to cater the fans/players? I believe we should respect the developers/writers decision for the endings

anyone can tell me the name of the music played during installation process for PC? There are 3 musics I know 2 of them are spectre induction and suicide mission. What is the last one?

except the ending was a decision made by casey hudson & mac walters without consulting other writing staff. this was reflected on patrick weekes (another writer who wrote Tuchanka scenario & Mordin's character) post on penny-arcade forum (which was removed entirely upon his request later on).

as for the plotholes/problems with the ending, you should read this excellent article. it sums up exactly about why ppl hated the ending.
http://jmstevenson.wordpress.com/2012/03/2...-mass-effect-3/

the problem wit ending is that...no closure or explaination...just liket tat...more to cliffhanger..and what about our decisions ? None of it were affected it

exactly. all we want is closure. after all those hours playing all three games

Errr, well they did closed it... the ending was allll about Shepard created a legend and been told forever ever after?

I won't say its a cliffhanger, it was just poorly done. They should have put up a short CGI for 3 different endings that shows the difference between the final choices we make

no closure to the rest of the people such as ur squadmate which u cared about over the course of 3 games... its nt just about Shepard...

Harbinger is always like chilling out far away, having a teh tarik.

Just so you know

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/supplydepot/