The facebook page is teasing something BIG coming on Sunday night. My guess is that it's the full launch trailer that was teased earlier this week. But in the meantime, the link on that post directed my attention to this:
Obviously, this is a way for EA to re-energize sales of Mass Effect 3 after the entire gaming world took a big dump on it after release. Shameful to drive players to spend 40 dollars on a separate game just to get a set of armor you have to have to finish DS3. I can't believe they would stoop to that ... oh, it's EA being EA being EA.
I can't tell if you're being facetious or not, but Mass Effect 3 has already out-sold both previous entries. I doubt they're really banking on Dead Space 3 to drive sales; if anything, it's the other way around, giving Mass Effect fans something for free in Dead Space 3 in the hope that they'll buy it.
It's not the first time they've done cross-game promotion like that. Dragon Age and Amalur:Reckoning come to mind.
Don't kid yourselves. People are going to buy Mass Effect 3 used, create a save, then return it within seven days to get their money back.
Y'know... sometimes, guys. Sometimes.
nel e nel wrote:The facebook page is teasing something BIG coming on Sunday night. My guess is that it's the full launch trailer that was teased earlier this week. But in the meantime, the link on that post directed my attention to this:
Obviously, this is a way for EA to re-energize sales of Mass Effect 3 after the entire gaming world took a big dump on it after release. Shameful to drive players to spend 40 dollars on a separate game just to get a set of armor you have to have to finish DS3. I can't believe they would stoop to that ... oh, it's EA being EA being EA.
I know its early.. but I nominate this as Post of the Year.
I know its early.. but I nominate this as Post of the Year.
Hold your horses. Bioware haven't exactly said much about DA3 yet, so give them a chance.
It's just fun stuff for people to enjoy.
+1
I see absolutely nothing wrong with offering things like this to fans.
nel e nel wrote:It's just fun stuff for people to enjoy.
+1
I see absolutely nothing wrong with offering things like this to fans.
And I totally buy into it - I think it is fun.
A lot of the things that people criticize about EA are the things I like about them. There are many tastes!
Hey now, at least my cynicism was directed towards other consumers.
I find the helmet to look a bit weird on that armor. That's about as far as my thoughts go on that matter.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with offering things like this to fans.
The latest reasoning from Visceral/EA is that this is catering to the mobile/instant gratification people, who expect to be able to pay to get ahead faster. (Insert standard defensive disclaimer here about it's Visceral/EA's game and they can do whatever they like with it, and gamers are free to spend their money how they like too)
What rubs me up the wrong way with this is two things. Firstly that they're shortcutting their own game, they designed it one way and then they're letting you do it another. The other that if the grind is bad enough in the game that you need to go farm then adjust the game, not charge for a workaround, and besides scarcity of resources and having certain resources by certain points in the game is kind of how DS works.
How many calories do you guys need to consume on a daily basis to keep up these high levels of cynicism and insufferability?
Hah! Hey man it in no way is a bad thing to be skeptical about a product who's publisher/developer may have screwed you over (in your own eyes) in the past.
ClockworkHouse wrote:I see absolutely nothing wrong with offering things like this to fans.
The latest reasoning from Visceral/EA is that this is catering to the mobile/instant gratification people, who expect to be able to pay to get ahead faster. (Insert standard defensive disclaimer here about it's Visceral/EA's game and they can do whatever they like with it, and gamers are free to spend their money how they like too)
What rubs me up the wrong way with this is two things. Firstly that they're shortcutting their own game, they designed it one way and then they're letting you do it another. The other that if the grind is bad enough in the game that you need to go farm then adjust the game, not charge for a workaround, and besides scarcity of resources and having certain resources by certain points in the game is kind of how DS works.
I'm not sure how this is related to the N7 armor or other cross-promotion items. It's a free bonus for having played Mass Effect 3. I seriously doubt either EA or Visceral expects people to buy Mass Effect 3 just so they can get a leg up in Dead Space 3.
I think that armor looks pretty sweet
If it adds perspective, recall that overpowered suits (and weapons) were offered as DLC for the previous games.
Dead Space 3 Trailer!
Oh...wait...hang on....
HERE's the trailer. Silly me.
I'm.....not really sure what they were going for..... although if Issac is constantly hearing bad Phil Collin's covers in his head that WOULD explain the Space Madness....
That gorilla video has me wondering how they would do motion capture on someone surrounded by a drum kit, so that leaves the options that they hand animated a CGI gorilla, or they've got a gorilla trained in drumming.
Well, an oat is really just a type of grain, which isn't really that flat (see this). According to what I could see on google, a quick oat is just a thinner rolled oat, which would make it quicker for cooking to get through the material, similar to cooking times on different thickness of spaghetti.
That gorilla video has me wondering how they would do motion capture on someone surrounded by a drum kit, so that leaves the options that they hand animated a CGI gorilla, or they've got a gorilla trained in drumming.
It's a man in a gorilla suit.
The gorilla suit was created by Stan Winston Studios in California. It took three months to produce, though pieces had been used in a large number of other projects prior to Gorilla. The "fur" of the suit is composed of knotted yak hairs. The exposed facial features are silicone, and are moved animatronically, through 27 remote-controlled motors and several levers. Two technicians were needed, in addition to the actor inside the suit, to produce the range of motions displayed in the commercial. The suit was cooled by ice-water tubing and a handheld fan pointed at the mouth between takes. While much of the suit had existed prior to the project, several adaptations were made, including custom-made hands for the drum sequence, foam muscle around the chest and shoulders, a new styling for the pelt, and the addition of a gold tooth, grey hairs, and a studio earpiece to give a more "wizened rock star" appearance
Scratched wrote:That gorilla video has me wondering how they would do motion capture on someone surrounded by a drum kit, so that leaves the options that they hand animated a CGI gorilla, or they've got a gorilla trained in drumming.
It's a man in a gorilla suit.
What about all those 'documentaries' I keep hearing about? Next thing you'll be telling me that it was just a sci-fi show with actors in suits too.
stevenmack wrote:Scratched wrote:That gorilla video has me wondering how they would do motion capture on someone surrounded by a drum kit, so that leaves the options that they hand animated a CGI gorilla, or they've got a gorilla trained in drumming.
It's a man in a gorilla suit.
What about all those 'documentaries' I keep hearing about? Next thing you'll be telling me that it was just a sci-fi show with actors in suits too.
All I'll say is...if people ever figure out David Attenborough films most of his stuff in his greenhouse with a couple of hand puppets and After Effects then there's going to be hell to pay.
Picked up a copy of dead space 2 during lunch. Never played it before, but I'd like to before 3 is out.
Do we know if there is going to be an online pass for dead space 3?
obirano wrote:Picked up a copy of dead space 2 during lunch. Never played it before, but I'd like to before 3 is out.
Do we know if there is going to be an online pass for dead space 3?
Is EA publishing this game?
Dangit.
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