Mass Effect 3 SPOILER THREAD: LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE

Status
Not open for further replies.
Um... I don't think that part with shep breathing after destroying synthetic life is Earth. Found the vid on youtube and it's just a lot of rubble. The kind of rubble you'd probably be in after standing that close to a thing that just blew the fuck up.

That's what I think anyway. It was an off screen cam vid though.
 
Dax01 said:
I don't know which is worse: the ending, or the fact that I waited over four years for it.
Click to expand...

Probably the latter for me, I looked at my CE's and shit and got really depressed. I had spent so much time with the universe only for it to get fucked up in the literal last 5 minutes.


Last time I get heavily invested in a fictional universe again.
 
I hate Tali's face. Quarians are just humans with three fingers and bird legs? Uh, okay. And to top it off it's just some image they took off google.
 
Using a generic stock photo as Tali's face is hilariously insulting.

And the fact she looks like a human. fucking bioware
 
branny said:
Don't worry about James because you can't romance him.







sigh
Click to expand...

Seriously? It seemed my options were either "fuck off" or "fuck me" at one point. Like with every single fucking person you could bring to your cabin. I brought Traynor up there to play chess and ended up with "let's have sex" or "I hate chess". No!
 
I beat the game last night and that was one of the most unsatisfying endings i have ever gone through. Basically everything dies and all that work I put in throughout the 3 games meant nothing.
 
Zeitgeister said:
that said, this is probably the first game where you meet a gay character right of the bat and it's not downplayed or anything. Have to say I enjoyed that part, just not the eventual "I have to romance this guy / girl OR NOT" thing.

I can't stand the idea that James or Kaiden is going to come on to me at some point. Just talking buddy, no need to get all excited. Should have saved that xenophobic bitch instead.
Click to expand...
You don't have to romance anyone actually. I don't think Kaidan hits on you if you had a relationship with anyone else or something.
 
This particular post on the BSN gives me a tiny glimmer of hope... I'm going to hold on to this until we get some sort of statement from BioWare.

"In the end, after the credits, we're given the Stargazer and the Child on a lone planet. As we know, Stargazer has been telling us the story of The Shepard, the person who overcame the reapers and brought a future to the galaxy...

From the Stargazer's perspective, they would have the recorded history of Shepard's life up to that final push when he/she goes MIA. From that point onward until the Normandy crash-lands is a blank space.

All three endings are fiction."

Imagine for a second, if BioWare was working on (free) DLC called something like 'The Truth'..

One can dream.

Further reading: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/9791373
 
Zomba13 said:
just did a quick google. Apparently it's a photoshopped stock picture.
http://www.gamebandits.com/news/mass-effect-3-spoiler-stock-photo-used-for-tali-de-masking-36529/
Click to expand...

The comments
KuGsj.gif
 
Zeitgeister said:
uurgh. I can't even talk to male characters in the game without having to think about the eventual 'coming on to me' lines, just like when I talk to any female in ME2.

I'm talking to you, not trying to perv out the damn universe. It's so damn awkward. Talk about a fucking power fantasy.. literally :(


that said, this is probably the first game where you meet a gay character right of the bat and it's not downplayed or anything. Have to say I enjoyed that part, just not the eventual "I have to romance this guy / girl OR NOT" thing.

I can't stand the idea that James or Kaiden is going to come on to me at some point. Just talking buddy, no need to get all excited. Should have saved that xenophobic bitch instead.
Click to expand...

You think that's bad?! Try having Liara's father thinking that my Shepard is her BF. What the fuck?! My Shepard likes men. He has been single throughout ME1 and ME2. I never lead Liara on, never even expressed remote interest in her as a LI. He was just being a good, supportive friend. And yet, this total nobody had the ball to assume that Shepard is her BF? What the fuck? Where did that come from?!
 
I personally am going to believe my own ending. Shep and Anderson die together, Crucible destroys reapers, Galaxy at peace (that actually lasts because of my choices), Tali mourns Shep. Garrus becomes the new Galactic Badass in Mass Effect 4: Calibrations.
 
Dresden said:
I hate Tali's face. Quarians are just humans with three fingers and bird legs? Uh, okay. And to top it off it's just some image they took off google.
Click to expand...

I don't understand why they showed us her face if we failed in taking back her planet.

Take back her homeworld and make peace between her people and the Geth = no face

We fuck everything up and she kills herself = face


I guess the formal would have meant they'd need to model her face and they needed to do more work than just Googling her for that.
 
Replicant said:
You think that's bad?! Try having Liara's father thinking that my Shepard is her BF. What the fuck?! My Shepard likes men. I have been single throughout ME1 and ME2. I never lead Liara on, never even expressed remote interest in her as a LI. I was just being a good, supportive friend. And yet, this total nobody had the ball to assume that I'm her BF? What the fuck?
Click to expand...
When does this get mentioned?

I think I inadvertently crushed several hearts in the game. All the women are loved staved it seems. :P

Kaiden didn't mention the option, and I passed on Cortez.

Mass Effect: The Friendzone of Forever Alones
 
Einchy said:
I don't understand why they showed us her face if we failed in taking back her planet.

Take back her homeworld and make peace her people and the Geth = no face

We fuck everything up and she kills herself = face


I guess the formal would have meant they'd need to model her face and they needed to do more work than just Googling her for that.
Click to expand...
You can see her face if she survives and you romance her.
 
Replicant said:
You think that's bad?! Try having Liara's father thinking that my Shepard is her BF. What the fuck?! My Shepard likes men. I have been single throughout ME1 and ME2. I never lead Liara on, never even expressed remote interest in her as a LI. I was just being a good, supportive friend. And yet, this total nobody had the ball to assume that I'm her BF? What the fuck?
Click to expand...
<3

I restarted my save and just didn't do the Paragon quick-time event thing. When the father was hinting about Shepard being Liara's BF, I just took it as her being misinformed. :(
 
It's kinda funny watching this thread go in waves with new groups of people finishing this game every day.

-I was cool with this game up until the ending
-The ending made no sense and here's why
-Here's a better ending
-What happened to dark matter?
-Hey guys so Tali's a stock photo
-DLC extra ending

Plus some new variations (IT WAS ALL A DREAM) each time.

It's... almost like a cycle...
 
branny said:
Don't worry about James because you can't romance him.



sigh
Click to expand...

Wait, the overly muscular guy with the tight clothes and his 'nicknames' for you isn't a romance? Huh. Well, that's kind of.. weird.


Then again, you can't "romance" EDI either. But that would end with a female body part in the sink anyway. Which is really gross.

You think that's bad?! Try having Liara's father thinking that my Shepard is her BF. What the fuck?! My Shepard likes men. He has been single throughout ME1 and ME2. I never lead Liara on, never even expressed remote interest in her as a LI. He was just being a good, supportive friend. And yet, this total nobody had the ball to assume that Shepard is her BF? What the fuck? Where did that come from?!
Click to expand...

It goes both ways, indeed. I didn't actually consider that though, but then my shep likes blue tentacle ra- "sex".
 
hateradio said:
When does this get mentioned?

I think I inadvertently crushed several hearts in the game. All the women are loved staved it seems. :P
Click to expand...

When you first interact with that nobody. Exactly! First interaction and he already accused you as "Liara's BF who used to work for Cerberus". WTF? And my reaction is only limited to "I wasn't working with Cerberus" instead of "I wasn't working with Cerberus and I'm NOT her BF!".

Zeitgeister said:
Wait, the overly muscular guy with the tight clothes and his 'nicknames' for you isn't a romance? Huh. Well, that's kind of.. weird.
Click to expand...

Not available for either male or female Shep. Bioware's revenge, one may assume, because we bitch so much about his design when he was first revealed.
 
I'm going to go ahead and pretend mass effect 1 was a stand alone product like I do with The Matrix. The mystery and intrigue of the story and the unresolved is just much better than the actually shit that dripped out eventually in the sequels.
 
Einchy said:
I don't understand why they showed us her face if we failed in taking back her planet.

Take back her homeworld and make peace her people and the Geth = no face

We fuck everything up and she kills herself = face


I guess the formal would have meant they'd need to model her face and they needed to do more work than just Googling her for that.
Click to expand...

They gave her a special sub-helmet face for ME2, I believe. All Quarians have a vague face behind the plastc to give some sort of shape back there. I think hers was a little bit differently modelled from all the other Quarian faces in ME2. The other female Quarians got her face from ME1.
 
Zeitgeister said:
Wait, the overly muscular guy with the tight clothes and his 'nicknames' for you isn't a romance? Huh. Well, that's kind of.. weird.
Click to expand...
Wait. So now you're offended that he's not interested? :lol

CAW said:
When do you meet her father? I must have missed that.
Click to expand...
Presidium commons. Liara's sits in a table by herself, and you can talk to the Asari bartender who reveals her paternity.
 
LumpOfCole said:
Of all the potential DLC they could release for ME3, a "team up with Aria to take back Omega" DLC is the most obvious.
Click to expand...

Except with the ending I just don't effing give a damn about taking back Omega. Unless there is a DLC that expands/changes the ending I won't be buying any other DLC.

And I have bought every single ME DLC since the first game, have collector edition game and game guide of every game. But I have no interest in some side mission DLC.
 
Replicant said:
When you first interact with that nobody. Exactly! First interaction and he already accused you as "Liara's BF who used to work for Cerberus". WTF? And my reaction is only limited to "I wasn't working with Cerberus" instead of "I wasn't working with Cerberus and I'm NOT her BF!"..
Click to expand...
To be fair, that was like the only instance of it. I thought the conversation with Kaidan there was far better than I could have hoped for, and I liked that you could just dance with Cortez like a friend at the club. Still pissed about James, though. "BioWare's revenge" is a good way to put it, because it certainly feels that way. =\
 
Tookay said:
It's kinda funny watching this thread go in waves with new groups of people finishing this game every day.

-I was cool with this game up until the ending
-The ending made no sense and here's why
-Here's a better ending
-What happened to dark matter?
-Hey guys so Tali's a stock photo
-DLC extra ending

Plus some new variations (IT WAS ALL A DREAM) each time.

It's... almost like a cycle...
Click to expand...

I'm starting to think Bioware planned all this. They created the Reapers (the ending) and we ignored the warnings of others and still finished the game and weren't prepared for the ending (we're the council, ignoring your proof about these so called "reapers").
 
elrechazao said:
I'm going to go ahead and pretend mass effect 1 was a stand alone product like I do with The Matrix. The mystery and intrigue of the story and the unresolved is just much better than the actually shit that dripped out eventually in the sequels.
Click to expand...

As one of those people who actually liked ME2 and (most of) ME3, I'm just going to pretend that Shepard dies before he meets the vent kid.
 
branny said:
<3

I restarted my save and just didn't do the Paragon quick-time event thing. When the father was hinting about Shepard being Liara's BF, I just took it as her being misinformed. :(
Click to expand...

Ugh. I wonder if I should restart that part. I'm not sure if I have the save before that though. It'd be a long trek behind. Don't want her to assume otherwise and for me to close off my other romance options.
 
hateradio said:
When does this get mentioned?

I think I inadvertently crushed several hearts in the game. All the women are loved staved it seems. :P

Kaiden didn't mention the option, and I passed on Cortez.

Mass Effect: The Friendzone of Forever Alones
Click to expand...

I like that Samara turns you down in ME2 if you pursue her.

Friendzone indeed. Pity too, would have been hilarious to see Miranda/Jack/Tali's reactions.
 
Replicant said:
Ugh. I wonder if I should restart that part. I'm not sure if I have the save before that though. It'd be a long trek behind. Don't want her to assume otherwise and for me to close off my other romance options.
Click to expand...
Don't worry about it. I'm sure it doesn't affect anything.
 
Dammit I assaulted the Cerberus base without knowing that it wouldn't let me do any side quests. So I missed out on a bunch of things.

After beating the game though the ending just doesn't make it worth going back though just to get Thane.
 
Jibbed said:
This particular post on the BSN gives me a tiny glimmer of hope... I'm going to hold on to this until we get some sort of statement from BioWare.

"In the end, after the credits, we're given the Stargazer and the Child on a lone planet. As we know, Stargazer has been telling us the story of The Shepard, the person who overcame the reapers and brought a future to the galaxy...

From the Stargazer's perspective, they would have the recorded history of Shepard's life up to that final push when he/she goes MIA. From that point onward until the Normandy crash-lands is a blank space.

All three endings are fiction."
Click to expand...

You know, normally, I don't ever give the BSN any credit.

This was good.
 
Wait...you could meet Liara's father in the game? How did I miss that? I scoured every inch of the Citadel every time I came back to it...which was often...
 
hateradio said:
Wait. So now you're offended that he's not interested? :lol
Click to expand...

NO....yes... no... Actually I kind of figured that a guy THAT BIG would be an obvious gay favorite. And I'm wondering what the hell he's doing on my ship, aside from pissing me off.
If I could just airlock someone at random, you shouldn't be surprised if it was Vega, loco.

Snarky exit response included. "so long, loco!"

Just let him float around in a vacuum for a bit. You know, next to reporters asking questions. And annoying Protheans and people who like to make jokes. Nah, I'm kidding, EDI couldn't fly the ship alone, right. OH WAIT, SHE CAN, so who's funny now huh?

I may have anger issues from playing paragon.

Presidium commons. Liara's sits in a table by herself, and you can talk to the Asari bartender who reveals her paternity.
Click to expand...

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.. I missed that


ViewtifulJC said:
I wanted to give Aria the finger(s) for a long time, although maybe not in the way you implied.
Click to expand...

DLC! :P

Wonder if that would be another battle between Samara / Morinth and Aria at some point. Also, what does hapen to Morinth if you choose her?
 
Zyzyxxz said:
Dammit I assaulted the Cerberus base without knowing that it wouldn't let me do any side quests. So I missed out on a bunch of things.
Click to expand...

Well, this isn't Final Fantasy XIII/XIII-2 (for better or worse). I always thought it's weird anyway that you can go back to where you were before the final battle. Unless time travel is involved, it feels too weird for me.

Zeitgeister said:
NO....yes... no... Actually I kind of figured that a guy THAT BIG would be an obvious gay favorite. And I'm wondering what the hell he's doing on my ship, aside from pissing me off.
Click to expand...

Some of us have standards. He's a butterface. All of that muscle won't matter with that face...unless you paperbag it. Even then....ugh.
 
Zyzyxxz said:
Dammit I assaulted the Cerberus base without knowing that it wouldn't let me do any side quests. So I missed out on a bunch of things.

After beating the game though the ending just doesn't make it worth going back though just to get Thane.
Click to expand...
I like how the game doesn't inform you of when side quests will expire

in fact the journal is a useless piece of shit as a whole in this game
 
And why could we not investigate with space wizard kid like Vigil?


I'm thinking it's because BioWare simply couldn't think of an explanation.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production"
2 3 4
188
4K
DrFigs replied
Bioware Reconfirms Next Mass Effect Game Still in Development - "Committed to telling more stories"
2
88
89
STARSBarry replied
PSA Mass Effect Legendary Edtion 90% off ($5.99/€6.99) on PSN.
Deals 
37
548
Hero_Select replied
What are your expectations for the next Mass Effect game?
2
92
2K
Hudo replied
‘Mass Effect’: Live Action Series Moving Forward. Doug Jung Joins Amazon’s Adaptation Of Video Game As Showrunner
34
1K
Punished Miku replied
Top Bottom