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Too bad they couldn't take that team, assets, and ideas and actually make the single player part agreed, I find that multiplayer to be a great interpretation of Mass Effect when it's running on full cylinders. Each of the games iterated on the gameplay until the point of the ME3 multiplayer which has the best gameplay in the series. Most of the time I'm not sure where I should be in cover to engage enemies and my squad mates often get in the way of my shot. I've died a bunch of times because my character wouldn't crouch it the spot I directed. ME1 has crap combat and the cover system is finnicky.
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I'm replaying the series now on PC and I'm pleasantly surprised at the progression of the level design. The first time I did it I tried my own thing and got hung up on a few low cover spots where they killed me. I saw the two Atluses move in a clockwise circle from their entry point, I just followed their movement eventually destroying the second right near the ladder to the button. I got lost in this hanger also, but I replayed the game on veteran and had less problems. I would rotate around a room moving from point to point. My standard practice would be to enter a corridor/closed space, pause the game to figure out where the enemy choke point is, then set up my squad in cover and hammer them from a distance. There's the expectation you play it in a specific way, moving from conveniently laid out cover point to cover point. I don't think the design was necessarily bad, just narrow and bland.
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Sure, there are some stickiness issues witht eh whole "run on the same button as take cover", but that's generally something that you learn how to deal with I remember these two spots you are referring. It's interesting how many are so dismissive of the combat in Mass Effect, meanwhile, I've easily put 100 hours into the multiplayer, just because of how satisfying it is. besides the whole Gears of War issue of "Hey, there's a bunch of waist-high cover in this room - I bet I'll do some shooting here!", I can't remember any issues of getting lost or finding it directly uninspired. It's been a long time since I played the Mass Effect 3 singleplayer, but. there's a lot of cover, but also a lot of places where you (and the enemy) can invalidate said cover by use of higher ground. Most of them have a lot of interesting side-corridors for flanking and escape. They aren't so interesting when you encounter them in the main game, but most of them are very interesting when played in the intended setting (multiplayer). You figure out how to switch between corridors, open spaces, how to emphasize movement, how to highlight effective choke points, and so Yeah, I agree on the Multiplayer - overall, I think they've done a great job designing the multiplayer maps. I actually pay a lot of attention to map design in these kind of games because it helps when I'm designing maps for my tabletop games. Now, Mordin's loyalty mission (which may also be the best hour of Mass Effect altogether) has great map designs in addition to how well it handles all those other elements. But I wouldn't necessarily point to the map design as being super interesting in a gameplay sense. From a narrative-gameplay level, I think Jack's loyalty mission is extremely well done in how it breaks off environmental story, cutscenes, light spurts of combat and basic movement and navigation, it's also extremely pretty. It also requires you to move what feels extremely slowly which is always a turnoff (this is why the rachni mission is terrible, having to walk slowly and stand still while burning things).
The geth consensus was very pretty, but extremely shallow from a gameplay standpoint. There are many other examples, Did you guys feel this way too? Just super I'm talking map design as it relates to gameplay in addition to aesthetics. Later on in that mission you are being lead down all of these halls that have videos of EDI, you, and Kai Lang on them and as you are fallowing these trails of videos, it leads you to a dead end (even though you are suppose to be rushing through the level, trying to get back to protect the crucible) and I ended up running around, trying to hop over ledges and stuff for like five minutes. I ended up running around for three more minutes trying to find it. Completely out of the way, not obvious at all. The final button you have to press is like down the ladder to your right. I felt at times, like when you were at the Illusive Man's hanger, trying to launch that fighter into that door.
Most of the time you couldn't even view a map. I thought the level design in many missions was terrible. Just making sure I am not the only one here.
I have listened to the Bombcast and read many reviews of Mass Effect 3, and I not yet noticed any complaints about the level design. Just played the entire series one through three.
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