Joystiq just posted that Mass Effect will get online multiplayer

  http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/09/rumor-mass-effect-3-to-be-revealed-at-the-vgas-will-include-mu/
 
Jesus, I guess when EA said they want their properties to have online he wasn't messing around. Hopefully it's just co-op..or maybe hell I don't know.

It's a rumor.

" It's a rumor. "

Dammit. Well, this had better not detract from the single player in any way. Also, 
 
 http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/09/rumor-mass-effect-3-to-be-revealed-at-the-vgas-will-include-mu/        
 
It's a proper link now. 

Now where did I leave my pitchfork...

Well I hope all focus is on the single player and multiplayer is an after thought
 
EDIT: By after thought I mean second. Of course I want it to be good but I would rather have a fantastic single player with a good multiplayer than the other way around.  But I do have faith in Bioware. Never let me down before

Well hoping this will be fun. ME2 is more of a shooter then the first, so If they more changes than hopefully it will be for the better

Well hoping this will be fun. ME2 is more of a shooter then the first, so If they more changes than hopefully it will be for the better

Blah, I'd rather there be no multiplayer

Great news. Being able to play Mass Effect with my friends will be awesome. 

" It's a rumor. "

If Assassin's Creed can do it, so can Mass Effect. It'll be even easier with ME, they'll even be able to keep the leveling system intact since that's all the rage. It's a third person, cover based shooter with leveling, that's 90% of mulitplayer shooters out there, only difference is ME has magic.

Aslong as it's seperated from the singleplayer. If it's done like Assassins Creed Brotherhood then I'm fine with it, the singleplayer didn't suffer in any way and the MP was fun.
 
Playable Turians, Asari, Quarians, Solarians, Geth, Volus, Hanar and Elcor or bust.

Ehhh, I don't know.  Shoving multiplayer into the third installment of a SP trilogy seems a bit much, even for Bioware.  I'd hope they'd just make it a spin-off if they wanna do multiplayer ME, then come back to ME3 when they figure out how they're gonna cram a second and third act into one game.

Everyone wants some of that Call of Duty money... 

 “We want to take on the big boys of the multi-player genre,” says (Evan) Wells (of Naughty Dog Entertainment) 

People bitched when they found out Uncharted 2 was going to have multiplayer. Same thing for Bioshock 2, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and probably a hundred other titles.  
 
Same shit, different game. 

I'm not for the multiplayer in ME, as I won't play it. 

" Aslong as it's seperated from the singleplayer. If it's done like Assassins Creed Brotherhood then I'm fine with it, the singleplayer didn't suffer in any way and the MP was fun.  Playable Turians, Asari, Quarians, Solarians, Geth, Volus, Hanar and Elcor or bust. "

Lemme guess:
 
Class based combat with leveling and perkzzzZzzZZzZzzzzz...

" Lemme guess: Class based combat with leveling and perkzzzZzzZZzZzzzzz... "

I just play Mass Effect to burn through the story, so I have zero interest in an online component. To be honest though, I'm not a fan of the way the story is progressing anyway so I will have to see what they do for 3 to see if I'm even going to be interested in the series anymore. By the end of two I was kind of warm on the whole series. It seems like every game Bioware makes I'm liking less and less each time. Ever since EA bought them I hate the direction all their games seem to be going in.

You had me at Mass Effect.

" Dammit. Well, this had better not detract from the single player in any way. Also, 
 
 http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/09/rumor-mass-effect-3-to-be-revealed-at-the-vgas-will-include-mu/         It's a proper link now.  "

Metroid, Assassin's Creed, Dead Space, Bioshock, and now possibly Mass Effect. Let's hear it for unnecessary multiplayer!

" Well I hope all focus is on the single player and multiplayer is an after thought "

Bleh =/ I wouldn't of minded some multiplayer spin offs, but multiplayer to be a feature in ME3?? Absolute ew.

" @septim said:

" Lemme guess: Class based combat with leveling and perkzzzZzzZZzZzzzzz... "

No, its a blue alien dating MMO "

I hope it doesnt, i reckon it would be TERRIBLE, yes thats in capitals, thats how bad it would be.

" @septim said:

" Lemme guess: Class based combat with leveling and perkzzzZzzZZzZzzzzz... "

No, its a blue alien dating MMO "

Oh, Bioware. I shall remember Neverwinter Nights fondly as your final achievement, given the horrific directions that Mass Effect and Dragon Age are going.

" Well I hope all focus is on the single player and multiplayer is an after thought "

I don't mind as long as they don't make it a huge focus of the game. It could actually be pretty fun if they do it right. 

 I wish they would wait to do MP, I think, no I KNOW, Bioware can do it but they should make the best possible single-player conclusion to Shepard's story first, then MP.    

what happened Bioware?

Dude, if I could join my friend's game and play as Garrus, that would be fucking killer.
 
Add co-op campaign support where friends (or randoms, but let's face it, friends) can hop in and play as your squad members.  They only have three powers (LB RB and Y) and carry two guns (hold X to switch) so they won't need to pause the action.  Or you can make it so the radial wheel only slows time down by 70% or so rather than stops it.  During cutscenes the Shepard player is still making the major dialogue choices, but now the squad members have a choice of a couple options to say, to keep your squadmates interested.
 
And then, as DLC or as Cerberus Network incentives to buy new, you can have a bunch of challenge rooms and so on designed for co-op.  Horde mode, some specially designed missions....
 
 
Are people really so down on multiplayer Mass Effect?  Imagine if they build it like old Battlefield games, and what you're playing is the Greatest Battles in the History of the Milky Way!  One team plays as the indomitable krogan as they assault the homeworld of the terrible rachni!  Cerberus attacks the Migrant Fleet attempting to secure a biotic girl, play as human Cerberus operatives or as the Quarian marines!  Days before the invention of the genophage, the krogan and the turians meet on Korlus in the bloodiest ground encounter of the Krogan Rebellions.  Relive the Battle of the Citadel as C-Sec desperately defends against the geth invasion force!  Or fight in the great revelation of the First Contact War, as the dawn of humanity in the galaxy brushes against the Turian Hierarchy!
 
 
Fuckin' Mass Effect multiplayer could be so fucking dope.

cool i guess. i don't didn't like mass effect really. i only played the first one.

I'm hoping that, now the shooting is right where it needed to be in ME2. They can work on the RPG aspect of the series for ME3, and we can have the perfect balance.

" what happened Bioware? "

I reckon I'd need to have a separate save for mucking around in multiplayer should it feature some kind of co-op.

First thought on possible Mass Effect multiplayer:

1. Player 1 (RED) sees player 1 (BLUE) 
2. Player 1 (RED) casts Pull on player 1 (BLUE) 
3. Player 2 (RED) casts Pull on player 1 (BLUE) 
4. Player 3 (RED) casts Pull on player 1 (BLUE) 

" People bitched when they found out Uncharted 2 was going to have multiplayer. Same thing for Bioshock 2, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and probably a hundred other titles.   Same shit, different game.  "

" @Soapy86 said:

" People bitched when they found out Uncharted 2 was going to have multiplayer. Same thing for Bioshock 2, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and probably a hundred other titles.   Same shit, different game.  "

True, but Mass Effect is an RPG franchise so I think people like me have a right to be up in arms about this. "

  http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/  
 
That will ease the pain..
 

I just need this game to be better than Mass Effect 1. I don't like waiting for the other parts of a trilogy when all along the first game was my favorite.

Ill wait for the reveal at the VGA.
 
Then I'll dance my happy dance or bury my copies of ME1/2 to mourn yet another great series gone to fuck thanks to idiotic decisions.

" I just need this game to be better than Mass Effect 1. I don't like waiting for the other parts of a trilogy when all along the first game was my favorite. "

" @xyzygy said:

" I just need this game to be better than Mass Effect 1. I don't like waiting for the other parts of a trilogy when all along the first game was my favorite. "

... what? The first game was horrible. It was only with Mass Effect 2 that the series achieved any actual quality. "