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more elevators please

Whoa snap.

That's not really what I was expecting Bioware to address with this panel.  To me, the issue with the level design in Mass Effect 1 was that it was unbearably repetitive.  They must have recycled the same three or four level layouts for the entire game, which grew really tiresome.  It was especially bad when all they'd do to change a level is get rid of a side room...and still have it shown on the map.  Hopefully Bioware doesn't forget creativity and variety with all this focus on technical performance, which didn't seem to be a huge issue to me when I played.  I have faith though!

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"Caleston, a story-related "outland" planet with refineries and industrial cartels that was intended to be a part of the game's core story arc, was deleted from the game outright. We will never get that planet back, people. Shed a tear."

Elevators agreed, even some moments in the Mako might work.

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Awesome. Thank you, Brad, for going after anything and everything ME2 for us!! I'm so excited for this to come out. =D

I obviously wasn't there to see, but it seems possible that Bioware could have thrown that little bit together for that specific occasion, as a demonstration. Though if it was a whole lot more than just that scene, then that assumption could be way off.

Also speaking from the "game fan" point of view, I don't know how to feel about that statement about level linearity. If the whole game takes on a more linear approach, they would obviously lose a lot of the craft on planet exploration, which I thought was cool. Then again, a lot of the main mission and even side mission stuff in that game was absolutely linear to being with, and the land vehicle itself wasn't the easiest to navigate with, so I could go either way.

By the way, whatever happened to the Mass Effect DLC plans? They were scrapped that quickly? I could have sworn I remember them saying there were going to be multiple Mass Effect DLC releases.

Hopefully Bioware will make the levels on the random planets interesting instead of numbingly boring.

Hopefully they also fix the trademark Unreal 3 Engine texture popping that was littered throughout the game.

I was there too... the guy next to me filmed the video on his phone, so you might be on the lookout for low-rez youtube videos at some point.

EDIT: Heck, they're already online.

Oddly enough, the "Shepard" they had in the video looked just like the one I made.


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You were being sent to a tower that held some "assassin" at the top you needed to deal with. You were told that there would be much resistance and that it would get stronger the closer you got to your goal. They had some other very rough gameplay video in the various stages of development with the player character popping in and out of cover and shooting what seemed to be Geth.

So... it's totally Mass Effect. Which is good!

Good read Brad

I hope Shephard really is not dead. Hopefully they ditched the default Shepard look so press guys such as Brad can't confirm anything.

I bet you they lead people to believe Shepard and company are dead all the way up to the first chunk of the actual game, then maybe you as a new character discover he isn't dead and that'd be when you take over as Shepard.  This would allow for tutorial and simple missions at the begining of the game without breaking the story line as well.  I don't care if Shepard dies...no wait I DO care but I wouldn't be as hurt if he dies so long as it was in a significant and heroic way...preferably at the end of the series.

They could've just not used the defualt Shepard. Looks cool regardless.

I wanted to attend this, but all I had was an Expo pass, god damn it.

Seems interesting, any info on ME2 gets me psyched.

Even though I doubt it, if Shepard does die it's not so bad, but kill off Tali and i'll weep!