The word 'RPG' can scare people off Mass Effect 2

Optional second title: Halo gamers will love Mass Effect 2.

Polish website polygamia.pl has interviewed Heather Rabatich on Mass Effect (English version on the right). Quoting for the win:

I think that today's gaming audience is more and more sophisticated. [...] While the missions in Mass Effect 2 are very combat-oriented and play like a first-person shooter, that's just to make the gameplay more enjoyable.
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I think your skills as a player do transfer into the skills of your character.
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We've made a few key improvements [over the first Mass Effect]. There is no other game around that has this amount of reality within the digital actors, it's beautiful cinematically, the scenes are set up beautifully, the characters show emotions without speaking.
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We are trying to make the game more accessible to people. [...] because it's a first person shooter, it is a more attractive game, as the word "RPG" can scare people off from playing a game because they think it's going to be boring.
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Your Halo gamer would love this game, because again, it's a more sophisticated gaming audience now.

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Did he just say Halo gamers are sophisticated?

I don't like the direction they're heading with ME2. I want ME2 to be more complex than ME and more RPG than action game. Also I hope they made more variations of weapons/armors because I felt like I was using the same weapon/armor every time, only with a different color (sure there were some models which had a slightly different look but still...). I do expect it to be better but... well, you get my point.

I don't like the direction they're heading with ME2. I want ME2 to be more complex than ME and more RPG than action game. Also I hope they made more variations of weapons/armors because I felt like I was using the same weapon/armor every time, only with a different color (sure there were some models which had a slightly different look but still...). I do expect it to be better but... well, you get my point.

Renjinrezo

Words cannot describe how hard I'm facepalming right now.

I guess it's the same why people hate on D&D games and turn-based strategy. Too "nerdy" and not casual enough.

Did he just say Halo gamers are sophisticated?

Blue-Sky

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Did he just say Halo gamers are sophisticated?

devious742

look at halotracks.org

forgehub.com

mlgpro.com

gamebattles.com

the community is there and very complicated imo in making those forged maps and gametypes.

Did he just say Halo gamers are sophisticated?

Blue-Sky

Optional second title: Halo gamers will love Mass Effect 2.

Polish website polygamia.pl has interviewed Heather Rabatich on Mass Effect (English version on the right). Quoting for the win:

I think that today's gaming audience is more and more sophisticated. [...] While the missions in Mass Effect 2 are very combat-oriented and play like a first-person shooter, that's just to make the gameplay more enjoyable.
[...]
I think your skills as a player do transfer into the skills of your character.
[...]
We've made a few key improvements [over the first Mass Effect]. There is no other game around that has this amount of reality within the digital actors, it's beautiful cinematically, the scenes are set up beautifully, the characters show emotions without speaking.
[...]
We are trying to make the game more accessible to people. [...] because it's a first person shooter, it is a more attractive game, as the word "RPG" can scare people off from playing a game because they think it's going to be boring.
[...]

Your Halo gamer would love this game, because again, it's a more sophisticated gaming audience now.

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devious742

Scared? how?

The amount of stupid contained in that piece is staggering.

Did he just say Halo gamers are sophisticated?

Blue-Sky

:lol:

Yeah, and it's she. Unless there's guys with the name Heather.

Optional second title: Halo gamers will love Mass Effect 2.

Polish website polygamia.pl has interviewed Heather Rabatich on Mass Effect (English version on the right). Quoting for the win:

I think that today's gaming audience is more and more sophisticated. [...] While the missions in Mass Effect 2 are very combat-oriented and play like a first-person shooter, that's just to make the gameplay more enjoyable.
[...]
I think your skills as a player do transfer into the skills of your character.
[...]
We've made a few key improvements [over the first Mass Effect]. There is no other game around that has this amount of reality within the digital actors, it's beautiful cinematically, the scenes are set up beautifully, the characters show emotions without speaking.
[...]
We are trying to make the game more accessible to people. [...] because it's a first person shooter, it is a more attractive game, as the word "RPG" can scare people off from playing a game because they think it's going to be boring.
[...]

Your Halo gamer would love this game, because again, it's a more sophisticated gaming audience now.

link

devious742

We are trying to make the game more accessible to people. [...] because it's a first person shooter, it is a more attractive game, as the word "RPG" can scare people off from playing a game because they think it's going to be boring.
[...]

Your Halo gamer would love this game, because again, it's a more sophisticated gaming audience now.

devious742

So much fail. So much disappointment.

Well, what little hype I had left for the game just died.

At least the music will be good. :P

ME1 was already pretty light on the RPG mechanics. Looks like this is turning into Gears of War with a dialog system. Great.

Mass Effect was garbage. Go back to Kotor bioware, one of the best games of all time.

Funny, because it just made me want it more.

The first was already an action game with RPG elements so it isn't all surprising they are making it even more streamlined. Looks like I can safely skip this one until the price drops quite a bit.

Did he just say Halo gamers are sophisticated?

Blue-Sky

If the gaming audience is "sophisticated" they aren't going to be scared away by it being an RPG.

Really, Bioware, what the crap?

Mass Effect was garbage. Go back to Kotor bioware, one of the best games of all time.

WINDWAKER1

garbage how?

So it's a bad thing they want the combat to be more fluid and fun? Wow cry more? I guess you'd rather go back to swords and magic :lol: DeadMagazines

Making the game more fps makes it more fluid and fun? no offense but first person shooters along the lines of halo and killzone are about as boring as it gets, and it gets REALLY repetitive. The side missions + the different abilities you can invest points in make the game a lot more interesting.
For example, my first playthrough took me 10 hours just doing the main story line playing as a soldier. I beat the game and really enjoy it but decided to try out vanguard which turns out to be 10 x better! This playthrough I'm actually doing every sidequest because the combat is WAY more enjoyable now that I have different unique abiltiies and it's even less of a shooter than it was my first playthrough. It's actually kind of strategic now.

And although it isn't magic per-se, there is a "type" of magic in mass effect known as biotics and it's probably the most fun element in the game. Throwing people never gets old.

I agree with the people who said more complexity would be better. Mass Effect is an easy game already. The side missions are very and the main story line takes like 9-10 hours. I would like more length + more rpg elements. different stat trees per c lass would be pretty cool, that way you can play through multiple times as the same c lass with different setups and have a bunch of other c lasses to play as well. If they made mass effect more like halo or killzone I think it would be a change for worse for people like myself, but a change for the better when it comes to sales + casuals buying it up.

If anything, this would make you think that gamers have become less and less sophisticated over time, trading good story for moar explosionz.

Ugh, hardly anyone I know likes rpgs; they'd rather be playing Call of Duty.

So it's a bad thing they want the combat to be more fluid and fun? Wow cry more? I guess you'd rather go back to swords and magic :lol: DeadMagazines

If a company that makes an RPG is afraid of putting of calling it an RPG because it might cause people to overlook it and claims this game is perfect for Halo fans, what does that tell you?

To me it says "the main focus in this game is combat and we'll sprinkle in a few RPG elements here and there." When I play an RPG, I like to have my stats have an effect on how I play. In ME1 I never felt my stats were of much importance because I rarely came across anything that required them. Most of it was just a slight and unnoticeable increase in damage or protection, rarely was anything else ever used in the game world. I suppose I wasn't able to open those hundreds of crashed probes on those barren lifeless planets but ultimately what was the point?

By the way, game genre has nothing to do with this conversation. Nice job missing the point.

he says "We are trying to make the game more accessible to people" i think they should add a melee combat like bourne conspiracy then

I think that today's gaming audience is more and more sophisticated.
[...]
I think your skills as a player do transfer into the skills of your character.
[...]
There is no other game around that has this amount of reality within the digital actors, it's beautiful cinematically, the scenes are set up beautifully, the characters show emotions without speaking.
[...]
We are trying to make the game more accessible to people. [...] because it's a first person shooter, it is a more attractive game, as the word "RPG" can scare people off from playing a game because they think it's going to be boring.
[...]

Your Halo gamer would love this game, because again, it's a more sophisticated gaming audience now.

devious742

Well, ME was a bad shooter with some RPG elements thrown in. So ME2 is going to be even more dumbed down?dont-read-this

Well, at least Bioware aren't trying to lure "sophisticated" audiences to their games with huge amounts of sex, gore and metal music.

Oh wait... :|

This has got to be the biggest piece of **** I've ever heard from Bioware.

Seriously, I don't mind better shooter mechanics and better cover, I welcome it, but for **** sakes calling it a shooter due to the "sophisticated Halo gamers".

[QUOTE="dont-read-this"]Well, ME was a bad shooter with some RPG elements thrown in. So ME2 is going to be even more dumbed down?Planeforger

Well, at least Bioware aren't trying to lure "sophisticated" audiences to their games with huge amounts of sex, gore and metal music.

Oh wait... :|

Did he just say Halo gamers are sophisticated?

Blue-Sky

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Did he just say Halo gamers are sophisticated?

So it's a bad thing they want the combat to be more fluid and fun? Wow cry more? I guess you'd rather go back to swords and magic :lol: DeadMagazines

[QUOTE="DeadMagazines"]So it's a bad thing they want the combat to be more fluid and fun? Wow cry more? I guess you'd rather go back to swords and magic :lol: mo0ksi

Considering ME is just a TPS w/ RPG elements, idk why it would scare people off.

I am not going to complain that they are trying to refine the gameplay, LOL. Just because the game actually plays better, it does not mean that it will be any less of an RPG in other areas. "Oh NoEz, aN RPG cANnOt haVE goOd gaEmplaY." Come on, fellas.

Considering ME is just a TPS w/ RPG elements, idk why it would scare people off.

Derek240

It's probably because, by this gen's standards, that counts as a deep RPG. :(