BioWare "Aware" They Need to Provide Introductory Experience For Mass Effect 2 on PS3

PS3T writes: "The biggest and most welcome surprise for PS3 owners at this year's Gamescom was easily the announcement that BioWare's hugely successful Mass Effect 2 title would be heading to PS3."

"Talking with the BioWare doctors at Gamescom this year, Ray Muzyka, BioWare CEO, when asked about whether we could see the original on the platform, told PS3T that they are aware that they need to provide an introductory experience for PS3 owners."

[TrevorPhillips]

Mass Effect 2 will do fine on the PS3.

[Sizzon]

Yeah, like the first Bioshock :)

[Silly gameAr]

Get over it :)

[AtatakaiSamurai]

the first bioshock didn't sell as good on the PS3, why? cause it was a 1yr old game and PS3 gamers had too many more current exclusives to play.

Second bioshock sold much much better in relation to 360 sales so the lesson? if you want your resources to pay off for making a game multiplat, then release them the same date and day or your game would sell like crap on one of the consoles. stop lying to the public that a game is exclusive when it is not.

This is why I think ME3 will sell way better on the PS3 than ME2 especially if they go back to the gameplay roots of ME1.

I for one won't be able to pick up ME2 in febuary cause I'll still be plowing through socom4, killzone3, motorstorm3, gran turismo5 and many other PSN games too. maybe something in 2012 or just before ME3 comes out and the price is now $14.99 i'll pick it up.

no rush, it's not going anywhere. its on the ps3 forever and i can play it at any time

[NYC_Gamer]

Bioshock sold like half million on ps3...thats good for something 1 yrs old...either way 2k made profit so whats ur problem?

[Philoctetes]

As Nyc_Gamer noted, Bioshock actually sold okay on the PS3, but let's look a little deeper, shall we?

1. Bioshock was a year-old game listed a full price, with very little in the way of extras to justify the price tag. Yeah, it had the new difficulty level, but that was about it. By contrast, ME2 is probably going to include previously-released DLC. It's more comparable to the Fallout 3 GOTY edition than it is Bioshock.

2. The PS3 Bioshock port was widely panned when it first came out. It got patched and ended up looking great, but the bad publicity was already there. I seriously doubt that BioWare is going to screw up this port.

3. Even if ME2 doesn't sell on the PS3, so what? It's not a multiplayer game, where you need a strong community to make it worthwhile. As long as I get my copy, that's all that matters to me. I don't care if I'm the only person who buys it; it doesn't affect me at all.

4. If ME2 doesn't sell on the PS3, that actually demonstrates the opposite of what Microsoft fanboys seem to think. ME2 is widely considered to be the single best game in the 360 library. If PS3 gamers can't be bothered to play the best game on your platform, what does that tell you about the quality of games available for the PS3 vs. the 360?

[Philoctetes]

a Day 1 buy for me. Bioware seems to know exactly what PS3 owners are looking for.

[mantisimo]

Looks very cool, hope they don't make a mess of the port but being such good devs, I very much doubt it.

They already said they were somehow going to involve back story so we will have to see which way they go.

Bring it on!

[NYC_Gamer]

this series belongs on all 3 platforms...happy EA/Bioware dont believe in 3rd party exclusives

[xbox360achievements]

Totally agree. At the end of the day, the more people that play one of the greatest titles of this generation, the better.

[CombatEvolving]

But you having the game and enjoying it hurts me. /s

[MrLife]

I agree with you

[darkstar]

Already played through 3 times, so I will have to pass, but I think its awesome ps3 fans finally get to play it. I was holding out after all the ps3 rumors but for $29 I couldnt pass it up any longer. Great game, great developers.

[Chris399]

and it's a pretty good deal. Especially considering that there's no GOTY version for the 360.

[AtatakaiSamurai]

i read somewhere that they will have dlc content for the ps3 version that won't be on the 360. depending on how meaty it is, i may just get the game sooner rather in 2011 than later in 2012

[Weaksauce1138]

But it's going to be $60 when the 360 version is like $30 right now so that DLC won't be free. Maybe 4 months later in May it will hit price parity and be the better value.

[dosgrtr]

now a pc,ps3,360 'exclusive'

[comp_ali]

ouch, no wii, that's sad. maybe they'll announce it next year. /s

[dosgrtr]

more like hell yeah!a wii port is coming with yoshi as the final boss,and all mario galaxy planets unlocked with peach minigame dlc/s

[gamingisnotacrime]

i dont see where the ME2 hype comes from.
A year old game making a half assed debut, because without ME1, ME2 will be out of context. And Bioware is already giving signs that the PS3 port is just trying to bank some easy money. Should keep this port in perspective. It is not the best game of 2010, and 2011 is very packed with AAA exclusives

[sinncross]

PPl have got to get over this notion that ME2 will mean nothing to PS3 players without ME1.

Yes, the full ME experience is only on PC/ 360, but any introductory arc that explains ME1, at the very least, is all that is required to provide context for ME2.

Some people like to talk about the whole saved game feature (not directed at you GINAC)which needs ME1. You don't need ME1 data to play ME2. Do you think all the people who bought the 2nd without the first couldn't play the game r something?

Nonsense.

Adding ME2 to 2011 for PS3 only adds to what looks like an incredibly packed year for PS3 gamers which just makes it so much better!

[xbox360achievements]

Mass Effect 2 a year on will still be one of the best titles around. Fact. And it is the best game of 2010 in my opinion - thus far - Nothing else comes close.

[gamingisnotacrime]

the PS3 2010 packs Heavy Rain and God of War 3
ME2 is not better than either of those 2.
ME2 is just a recruit your team members monotony, when you get into a real mission you realize is the last one and game over. what a joke

[xbox360achievements]

Wow. Fanboy much? You're blatantly a blind follower of Sony, just don't come crying to me when they bend you over too much.

Bit of advice: love the games and don't be a pawn for a company that only cares about sales and not about you. It's business my friend and you are one of the weak souled individuals that certain publishers/developers/companie s manipulate to make you a tool of their marketing. How does it feel?

[Solbadguy]

I already have both ME1 & 2 on PC but all that DLC in one nice package is nice so I will be getting it again on PS3. I didn't buy any of the DLc for PC cause there was so many things already on my Bioware download list.

[MGRogue2017]

Xbox 360 needs to learn to share it's toys.. whether it likes the idea or not. Microsoft brought it up to be way too greedy.. :P

[00]

you shared with "us" early on in this gen so I think it's time "we" return the appreciation.

[Gobot]

I finally tried MassEffect2 for the 360, and man, the controlling on that thing is horrendous. it feels like i'm playing counter strike on XBOX1, terrible just terrible.
I will enjoy this game on the second superior version, DA PS3!!

[darkstar]

It will be different on the ps3 how? Besides the controller I will go out on a limb and say it will handle pretty much the same on the ps3 as it did on the 360.

[Gobot]

I wasn't aware that feces had limbs..

[gamingdroid]

Actually, I have a feeling it will be worse on the PS3 considering Bioware used UT3 for Mass Effect games. Most if not all Unreal Engine games have been "inferior" on PS3 compared to their Xbox 360 counterpart.

[Persistantthug]

That's called irony, gamingdroid.

[gamingdroid]

Irony or not, Unreal Tournament 3 was created by Epic themselves. However, I'm not familiar with how Unreal Tournament 3 is better on PS3 than Xbox 360. Care to share with some sources?

[00]

I'm surprised you managed to troll worse then N2G, quite a feat.

EDIT: HA HA you funny.

[Gobot]

Bro, how is it trolling when i'm stating fact?

EDIT: And that's why the ladies love me

[DigitalAnalog]

They did it with NGZ & NGZ2. Just add a little retouching to bypass the IP license from Microsoft.

-End statement

[Solid_Snakeps3]

Anthologies? hahaha lol

[Horny Melon]

Mass Effect 1 on the disc. Like Valve did with Half Life

[The BS Police]

Not as easy as your making it out to be, especially if Microsoft is involved.

[Wii360BeatsPS3]

I played through Mass Effect 2 with a Mass effect 1 save file, and the differences were small to say the least. You really don't need to play Mass effect 2 with a Mass effect 1 save file. Mass Effect 2 hardly mentions Mass effect 1. No mention of Saren, only a brief mention of the ending of Mass effect 1.

PS3 owners have nothing to worry about.

[Tommykrem]

Maybe RPGs will be PS territory again. This was by far the biggest RPG series PS3 was missing out on, and with Eternal Sonata, Star Ocean and most other earlier 360 exclusive RPGs on PS3 PlayStation could take back the genre it's known for.

Car games also need to return to PS3. But I think that will happen this year.
To be 100% precise I think it will happen around the 2nd of November in North and Latin America, and around the 3rd of November in Europe.

[T3MPL3TON]

"To be 100% precise I think it will happen around the 2nd of November in North and Latin America, and around the 3rd of November in Europe."

Instead of trying to be slick you could have just said, "When GT5 launches."
It's a shame you're going to incorrect thou..

[N4PS3Fanboys]

In all honesty, to the gaming community as a whole, Mass Effect 2 will be old news in 2011.

[Xilef]

If you want to know the story in short go to www.IGN.com and watch "Mass Effect in 5 minutes" video. It's helpful if you do not know the story of the first Mass Effect.

[T3MPL3TON]

It's still so funny to me how excited you people are for an old game.. played it.. beat it.. sold it. That'd be like xbros getting excited for God of War 3.. It's been out quite a while now.. playing it on a relaunch makes you look retarded. That'd be like paying full price for a reboot of Kingdom Hearts. Oh that's right that plan to do that... Ah ha ha ha. "We're awesome, I get to spend $60 on a game I could get for $35.. I'm awesome!! My system is teh uber leet, we get all the OLD Xbox exclusives.."

Silly fuckers.

[Heisenberg]

How could those "fuckers" be so stupid as to be stoked about a game YOU'VE already played... Your analogy about GoW3 sucks too, cause that WOULD be exciting for someone who hasn't played it.

See Joe, the fact that a game has been out for a little while, has absolutely nothing to do with how much someone will enjoy it. It's supposed to be a great game, why wouldn't someone who's never played it be excited they'll get the chance to if they haven't already? I certainly am. Sounds to me like you're a bitter little fangirl.

[TANUKI]

Well, considering Bioware has been on quite a hot streak, we just gotta have faith and patience. We're talking about Bioware here, and not some company like... Massive Bear, lol.