Mass Effect release date...In Australia

Asciipanda

The highly Anticpated Bioware RPG is scheduled to be released on 5/18/07
In australia.http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/12694/Mass-Effect-Dated-in-Australia/

If My years gaming have tought me anything Its that Games come To Canada and North America First.Needless To say I think I just shit my pants.Twice.

Bionic Monkey

If this is true, at least it confirms the game is coming out in 2007. This was one I was worried would be pushed back to 2008.

Iriah

I would laugh if it was delayed in other countries.

So hard.

(Of course, that will never happen. I'm just embittered by shitty release dates we're handed over here)

Wezoin

Asciipanda wrote:

Its that Games come To Canada and North America First.

You know... North America is a continent... A continent that includes Canada... You may not believe it, but it also includes Mexico. North America is not just the USA. If you were to remove USA from North America, there would still be Canada and Mexico. Does that make it clear?

[/rant] (Sorry about that, but it bugs the fuck out of me when people fail to acknowledge that Canada is part of North America, and feel that it's required to say "Canada and North America")

ToadTheMushroom

Dedunked by Microsoft as fake.

However they said 'we have no announcements on the release date'

Meaning, well, it might be true.

If it is true (in my opinion it will be a really late 07 early 08 title) then, oh my god, Bioshock in June and Mass Effect in MAY.

May, thats ridiculous.

Though anything for the 360 coming out this fall is going to be paved by Halo 3 and GTA 4.

Suriko

Best news I've heard today.

Well, it's still morning, but it's still good news. A nice change from the all-too-frequent months of waiting we often have.

Cokomon

My frothing demand for this game increases.

Asciipanda

Wezoin wrote:

Asciipanda wrote:

Its that Games come To Canada and North America First.

You know... North America is a continent... A continent that includes Canada... You may not believe it, but it also includes Mexico. North America is not just the USA. If you were to remove USA from North America, there would still be Canada and Mexico. Does that make it clear?

[/rant] (Sorry about that, but it bugs the fuck out of me when people fail to acknowledge that Canada is part of North America, and feel that it's required to say "Canada and North America")

Sorry about that.I was to busy Trying to post this before anyone else might (And subsequently Clean off my pants) That I wasnt really thinking.

YardGnome

So we in the US should get it next week.

ToadTheMushroom

Actually no.

considering no EU release date has been even talked about you americans should have been playing it a few months ago.

How was it? It looks good. I cant wait.

YodaTuna

I wouldn't be surprised if this was true. Gamestop has had a release date of May 23rd for quite awhile. Usually when the company doesn't know the date they release it just puts it on the first of the month. I highly doubt we'll have to wait until '08 at any rate.

ToadTheMushroom

YodaTuna wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised if this was true. Gamestop has had a release date of May 23rd for quite awhile. Usually when the company doesn't know the date they release it just puts it on the first of the month. I highly doubt we'll have to wait until '08 at any rate.

But.

But this game cant be coming out this May.


Thats the summer...

YodaTuna

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

YodaTuna wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised if this was true. Gamestop has had a release date of May 23rd for quite awhile. Usually when the company doesn't know the date they release it just puts it on the first of the month. I highly doubt we'll have to wait until '08 at any rate.

But.

But this game cant be coming out this May.


Thats the summer...

I think companies are starting to get the point to release games in the summer, what with Bioshock and Blue Dragon being released.

ToadTheMushroom

I know.

The Bioshock release was a total surprise.

Now this (almost certainly false mind you) would just be the icing on the cake. With GTA4 and Halo 3 due out by the fall, it would be a well paced year for the 360.

Hepecarne

Wezoin wrote:

Asciipanda wrote:

Its that Games come To Canada and North America First.

You know... North America is a continent... A continent that includes Canada... You may not believe it, but it also includes Mexico. North America is not just the USA. If you were to remove USA from North America, there would still be Canada and Mexico. Does that make it clear?

[/rant] (Sorry about that, but it bugs the fuck out of me when people fail to acknowledge that Canada is part of North America, and feel that it's required to say "Canada and North America")

You forgot all the Central American countries in your little tirade. Everything Panama up is North America.

Bionic Monkey

YodaTuna wrote:

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

YodaTuna wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised if this was true. Gamestop has had a release date of May 23rd for quite awhile. Usually when the company doesn't know the date they release it just puts it on the first of the month. I highly doubt we'll have to wait until '08 at any rate.

But.

But this game cant be coming out this May.


Thats the summer...

I think companies are starting to get the point to release games in the summer, what with Bioshock and Blue Dragon being released.

Yeah, I thought the same thing last year, what with them talking about exactly that and all. Then, they went and did the same exact shit and released everything in the fall. Fuckers.

Mothercruncher

This game is fucking dead to me until it comes out for a PC, therefore I don't give a shit. They could release it in 2010 for all I give a shit.

ToadTheMushroom

Mothercruncher wrote:

This game is fucking dead to me until it comes out for a PC, therefore I don't give a shit. They could release it in 2010 for all I give a shit.

Because? I dont see what is wrong with it on the 360.

Kotor was vastly superior on the Xbox than on the PC, ignoring minor graphical improvements and port problems.

Drez

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

Mothercruncher wrote:

This game is fucking dead to me until it comes out for a PC, therefore I don't give a shit. They could release it in 2010 for all I give a shit.

Because? I dont see what is wrong with it on the 360.

Kotor was vastly superior on the Xbox than on the PC, ignoring minor graphical improvements and port problems.

Annnnnd you're retarded.

KOTOR was superior on the PC. Slightly. But superior. What strain of crack are you on?

ben0207

So, given previous AU release dates, we should expect to see this in the EU about..oh... 6 months ago?

ToadTheMushroom

Drez wrote:

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

Mothercruncher wrote:

This game is fucking dead to me until it comes out for a PC, therefore I don't give a shit. They could release it in 2010 for all I give a shit.

Because? I dont see what is wrong with it on the 360.

Kotor was vastly superior on the Xbox than on the PC, ignoring minor graphical improvements and port problems.

Annnnnd you're retarded.

KOTOR was superior on the PC. Slightly. But superior. What strain of crack are you on?

The good kind.

But seriously, the game was built around Xbox controls, it felt clunky to me on the PC. The interface was a little too simplistic, which is why it works on the console. apart from that, and as I said graphics aside, there isnt much between the two.

The reason why I thought it was vastly superior was the huge amount of bugs in the PC port. Or am I thinking of Kotor 2? Either way, I know that I preferred it on xbox.

And Mass Effect is more suited to consoles than Kotor was, its real time, analog movement and aiming. Sure KB+M might work but its more snap aiming like metroid prime.

Also, I dont really give a shit. I was just wondering why he would wait 3 years for a PC version than 3 months for a 360 version.

Drez

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

Drez wrote:

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

Mothercruncher wrote:

This game is fucking dead to me until it comes out for a PC, therefore I don't give a shit. They could release it in 2010 for all I give a shit.

Because? I dont see what is wrong with it on the 360.

Kotor was vastly superior on the Xbox than on the PC, ignoring minor graphical improvements and port problems.

Annnnnd you're retarded.

KOTOR was superior on the PC. Slightly. But superior. What strain of crack are you on?

The good kind.

But seriously, the game was built around Xbox controls, it felt clunky to me on the PC. The interface was a little too simplistic, which is why it works on the console. apart from that, and as I said graphics aside, there isnt much between the two.

The reason why I thought it was vastly superior was the huge amount of bugs in the PC port. Or am I thinking of Kotor 2? Either way, I know that I preferred it on xbox.

And Mass Effect is more suited to consoles than Kotor was, its real time, analog movement and aiming. Sure KB+M might work but its more snap aiming like metroid prime.

Also, I dont really give a shit. I was just wondering why he would wait 3 years for a PC version than 3 months for a 360 version.

I agree with your final point, but I had KOTOR since the PC release date and it was bugless.

I cannot attest to the buglessness of KOTOR 2 though. I have it but never played it.

Wezoin

Hepecarne wrote:

Wezoin wrote:

Asciipanda wrote:

Its that Games come To Canada and North America First.

You know... North America is a continent... A continent that includes Canada... You may not believe it, but it also includes Mexico. North America is not just the USA. If you were to remove USA from North America, there would still be Canada and Mexico. Does that make it clear?

[/rant] (Sorry about that, but it bugs the fuck out of me when people fail to acknowledge that Canada is part of North America, and feel that it's required to say "Canada and North America")

You forgot all the Central American countries in your little tirade. Everything Panama up is North America.

Uhm... No no, thats Central America... not North America...
North America = Canada + US + Mexico (according to the Canadian school boards, at least)

(Just checked Wikipedia, and apparently we're both right)

According to some authorities, North America begins not at the Isthmus of Panama but at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico with the intervening region called Central America (or Middle America if the Caribbean is included) and resting on the Caribbean Plate

ToadTheMushroom

Drez wrote:

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

Drez wrote:

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

Mothercruncher wrote:

This game is fucking dead to me until it comes out for a PC, therefore I don't give a shit. They could release it in 2010 for all I give a shit.

Because? I dont see what is wrong with it on the 360.

Kotor was vastly superior on the Xbox than on the PC, ignoring minor graphical improvements and port problems.

Annnnnd you're retarded.

KOTOR was superior on the PC. Slightly. But superior. What strain of crack are you on?

The good kind.

But seriously, the game was built around Xbox controls, it felt clunky to me on the PC. The interface was a little too simplistic, which is why it works on the console. apart from that, and as I said graphics aside, there isnt much between the two.

The reason why I thought it was vastly superior was the huge amount of bugs in the PC port. Or am I thinking of Kotor 2? Either way, I know that I preferred it on xbox.

And Mass Effect is more suited to consoles than Kotor was, its real time, analog movement and aiming. Sure KB+M might work but its more snap aiming like metroid prime.

Also, I dont really give a shit. I was just wondering why he would wait 3 years for a PC version than 3 months for a 360 version.

I agree with your final point, but I had KOTOR since the PC release date and it was bugless.

I cannot attest to the buglessness of KOTOR 2 though. I have it but never played it.

Thinking about it, it was the sequel which was garbage on the PC.

The first one I didnt play on PC, cause I had the XB version, hence my confusion (I borrowed the second one).

So yeah, carry on.

bruin

May would be awesome. I wouldn't be surprised to see it during Summer or even earlier considering how it was originally set for late 2006, then "this winter".

Pancake

It's definitely nothing definite, but...

Bob McCabe wrote:

We at BioWare do not know the exact date of release yet ... I prefer to be conservative in my guessing. If I were a fan, and not an employee of BioWare who gets to look at the schedule, I'd probably like the sound of March & April.

Bionic Monkey

As far as I know, it hasn't even gone gold yet. Would March or April even be plausible at this point?

Dublo7

My wallet. It's bleeding!

bruin

Bionic Monkey wrote:

As far as I know, it hasn't even gone gold yet. Would March or April even be plausible at this point?

Games usually go gold only a few weeks before coming out. March is definitely possible, and there's no reason why April couldn't happen.

Houk

bruin wrote:

Bionic Monkey wrote:

As far as I know, it hasn't even gone gold yet. Would March or April even be plausible at this point?

Games usually go gold only a few weeks before coming out. March is definitely possible, and there's no reason why April couldn't happen.

if i remember, star wars galaxies went gold a bare two weeks before hitting store shelves. once it's gold, all that remains is product manufacturing and shipping.

Food

Wezoin wrote:

Asciipanda wrote:

Its that Games come To Canada and North America First.

You know... North America is a continent... A continent that includes Canada... You may not believe it, but it also includes Mexico. North America is not just the USA. If you were to remove USA from North America, there would still be Canada and Mexico. Does that make it clear?

[/rant] (Sorry about that, but it bugs the fuck out of me when people fail to acknowledge that Canada is part of North America, and feel that it's required to say "Canada and North America")

Just thought I'd point out that if you were to remove the USA from North America, you'd not only have Canada and Mexico to deal with, but also Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, The Bahamas, Jamaica, The Dominican Republic, Dominica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago as well. Yes, Central America and the Caribbean are part of North America too.

(and I'll just go ahead and admit I had to use wikipedia for those last few caribbean countries.)

MHYoshimitzu

Hey, this comes out on my birthday.

*said like Bandit Keith* In Australia.

did i do it rite?

Wezoin

Food wrote:

Wezoin wrote:

Asciipanda wrote:

Its that Games come To Canada and North America First.

You know... North America is a continent... A continent that includes Canada... You may not believe it, but it also includes Mexico. North America is not just the USA. If you were to remove USA from North America, there would still be Canada and Mexico. Does that make it clear?

[/rant] (Sorry about that, but it bugs the fuck out of me when people fail to acknowledge that Canada is part of North America, and feel that it's required to say "Canada and North America")

Just thought I'd point out that if you were to remove the USA from North America, you'd not only have Canada and Mexico to deal with, but also Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, The Bahamas, Jamaica, The Dominican Republic, Dominica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago as well. Yes, Central America and the Caribbean are part of North America too.

(and I'll just go ahead and admit I had to use wikipedia for those last few caribbean countries.)

Look at my last post on the first page, there's actually 2 different definitions of North America, one includes only Canada, Mexico, and the US. The other includes everything down to the Panama canal.

ToadTheMushroom

When was the last time an Xbox 360 game launched in Guatemala.

I think for the purposes of this argument it is USA and Canada only.

In my opinion North America the continent is Canada, the US and Mexico only, though there are two ways to define continents, geographically (as in, the tectonic plates) and politically, as in the agreed borders.

Sansaarai

Looks like it was a mistake.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/02/mass-effect-release-date-spotted-on-official-xbox-site/

Cokomon

Tycho mentioned this today and I can't help but think of the recent EGM, which listed the kick ass games of 2007. It was divided into categories by season, and Mass Effect was situated as being released in Spring (if I remember correctly). I assumed it was just a guess by EGM, but this mistake seems to support their speculation.

Also, those links Tycho posted were pretty nice. :^: I can't wait for this game.

Zetetic Elench

Cokomon wrote:

Tycho mentioned this today and I can't help but think of the recent EGM, which listed the kick ass games of 2007. It was divided into categories by season, and Mass Effect was situated as being released in Spring (if I remember correctly). I assumed it was just a guess by EGM, but this mistake seems to support their speculation.

Also, those links Tycho posted were pretty nice. :^: I can't wait for this game.

Most estimates are floating around as March/April/May, and from following their official board I don't see it coming out later than that. They keep talking about how close they are to finishing the game. They've been on track for Q1 2007 for a long while now, and May is only a little outside of that. My bet's on April, personally.

I actually think that the Xbox Australia thing was a genuine slip-up; there are tons of estimated release dates out there, and most of them seem to just copy each other. Just in case it's real, though, can anyone tell me how late games tend to arrive in Australia compared to the US/Canada? A month? Or more, like Europe? I can't even remember whether Australia's PAL or NTSC right now.

But yeah, Bioware have said over and over again that they refuse to set a date until they know for sure the game's done. Which pretty much means when it goes gold, that's when we'll know.

That said, the boxart got released a few weeks ago. Trust me, we're close.

Cokomon

So close I can taste it.