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Mass Effect Collector's Edition Info, More Background Unveiled

Posted by Zonk on from the november-is-the-best-month-of-the-year dept.

Several pieces of Mass Effect information have come up recently. Eurogamer had the chance to get some hands-on time with the title and speak to BioWare's Greg Zeschuk. " When we started Mass Effect's development, we decided to do a big space epic, we went away and wrote the story, and we just felt it fitted better as installments. But a key thing for us is, we never want to make a game where the end of part one doesn't feel like the end. That's not to say we'll never have any kind of cliffhanger, but you've got to be satisfied with the ending." For more of a sense of the game, check out a video exclusive over at MTV: a tense confrontation between the protagonist and the bounty hunter Wrex. Finally, if you're the type to like extras, they've finally released details of what's going to be in the Limted Edition.

16 comments

  1. Damn you, BW! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Unfortunately, it looks like the LE/CE is still only official for Europe...

    Why must you taunt me BioWare?!?!

  2. Fitted? by grilled_ch33z · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Are you serious?

    1. Re:Fitted? by Ted+Stevens · · Score: 1

      Perhaps fitted better onto the 360's DVDs?

    2. Re:Fitted? by tholomyes · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hopefully he's not the one who wroted the dialogue...

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    3. Re:Fitted? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      I assume you are American?

      The word "fitted" is the preferred word in this case for British English. Where Americans use 'fit' in the past tense, the British and Commonwealth countries use 'fitted'.
      Just because you are ignorant of differences in English, does not make it wrong. On the plus side, you learnt* something new today!

      (Please google: fitted past tense, to learn more)

      *Note: 'learnt' is the British version of the American 'learned'. Now you've learnt two things today!

    4. Re:Fitted? by the_fat_kid · · Score: 1, Funny

      and those gaps in your smile are the british version of teeth?

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    5. Re:Fitted? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Heh. I'm actually a New Zealander.

      So, yes.

    6. Re:Fitted? by Cadallin · · Score: 1

      Actually they're injuries from drunken brawls during the British version of Football.

    7. Re:Fitted? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      that would be "world version of football"

  3. Installments by ObiWanStevobi · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, they did a good job of concluding the KOTOR games, even though they were able to pick up the storyline for the next one. So I do think they can do it effectively. Although it's kind of a bummer to come out and say that once you've beaten the game, you haven't finished the storyline. Makes me feel like there will be another Halo 2/Gears of War moment at the end of the game where you feel robbed of any sense of accomplishment.

    1. Re:Installments by MooseMuffin · · Score: 3, Informative

      Bioware didn't do KOTOR2, nor can anyone possibly think it was well concluded.

    2. Re:Installments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You remember wrong, KOTOR was one game, and then another company, a shitty one, made KOTOR2, which is really just the same game running a poorly made modpack. Terrible, absoltely terrible, I hate Bioware for handing off Neverwinter Nights 2 to Obsidian as well, I mean, how much of a fuckup does it take before people don't trust a studio? Obsidian's KOTOR2 wasn't even as good as the prequel films, at least the films were released as complete movies, Obsidian didn't even finish KOTOR2 before it shipped.

    3. Re:Installments by Jestrzcap · · Score: 1

      You can blame Atari who made Obsidian cut large parts of the end of KotOR2 and ship it incomplete. Atari did the same thing to Temple of Elemental Evil. I hate Atari.

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    4. Re:Installments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Aeh no.

      KotOR 2 was published by Lucas Arts, Atari had nothing to do with it.

      Additionally, the game did not suffer from large cut parts, it suffered from the questionable quality of the content that was there. If anything it could have used tighter editing and more cuts to increase the quality of the overall work.

    5. Re:Installments by tooler · · Score: 1

      I played KOTOR2 first and just finished KOTOR last night. I thought both of them were pretty bland in the beginning and middle, maybe KOTOR a little more. KOTOR2 had a variety of bad dudes that kept things somewhat interesting. The ending of the first game was a lot tighter; I thought the twist in KOTOR2 was interesting, but not well done, and the whole "what happened to Revan?" thing was confusing.

      I may have to give KOTOR2 the nod though just because HK-47 was done better in that game! I played evil in the first one and was so disappointed by him.

  4. Official? by zegota · · Score: 2

    According to kotaku, someone from Bioware on the official forum has denied these details. http://kotaku.com/gaming/biowhat/mass-effect-limited-edition-details-emerge-306764.php