Any news on Mass Effect 2?

[mrstickball]

endimion said:

mrstickball said:
There's very little chance of ME 2 or ME 3 being on the PS3. Microsoft has done everything possible to keep Mass Effect as a X360/PC exclusive, and I doubt that with 2m+ units sold that Bioware has a big reason to release ME2/3 on the PS3, as you'd have to also re-release ME1 on the PS3, which adds more cost to the equasion.

Now, BioWare/EA could release the ME triliogy once it's completed on the PS3 - maybe even 1 BR-DVD if they wanted to. But I doubt it'd be within ~6mo of the trilogy being completed on the 360.

Now, as for the PC, I think that since MS is publishing it, that they will try to do day-and-date for the PC side of things.

Again, just because EA bought Bioware doesn't mean they can throw out any written contract that they've made with Microsoft. EA could easily of published ME2 by themselves, but MS is doing it. If MS is publishing the PC version, why in the world would we expect everything else to change, to fit PS3 fanboy desires? Not every game is going to be on the PS3, deal with it.

exactly what I was about to post, on top of that if I recall ME 2 and 3 are suppose to use the character you built on the first one, so if you are missing the first opus, it willl be a nightmare to dev for the skill mechanics and the difficulty level, basically it would be 2 different games beside the environement and the story and still with the story you'd be missing all about what happened in the first one....

same reason I don't see the point to release just MGS 4 on XB if you don't do the entire main serie first....

 

Eh. I don't think that an issue with it coming to PS3 would be due to the whole character progression from ME1>2. After all, how could you expect the game to garner a new fanbase if you couldn't play it without beating the first one?

Again, my main issue has to do with the fact it's a real trilogy, with 3 planned games. It's like releasing Lord of the Rings trilogy, with TTT first to DVD, without Fellowship of the Rings at all on DVD, but in movie theaters....It's just not the greatest move for a userbase. Other games outside of this (MGS, FF, Halo, ect) I think would work well, because the story isn't always as cohesive as what Mass Effect is, and how close the launch cycles of each game.

Mafoo - Us XBL people are citing the documents and statements that BioWare and MS have made, as well as whatever has been out there since the EA acquisition. The PS3 owners are the ones stating it'll come to PS3, no doubt, so it's pretty much a stalemate.