Mass Effect 3 SPOILER THREAD: LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE

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HarryHengst said:
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A picture tells a thousand words. This should be in art gallery under the title "disapointment".
 
Just finished it and to sum up my feelings: I want a refund! You had me Bioware: for 98% of the game i was really amazed at how good ME3 finished everything up and i really thought you could pull it off. Man whos' laughing now? Guess the joke's on me, why did i even play this piece of shit. In retrospective DA2 wasnt even this bad. I cant think of a single, movie or game where the ending was this disappointing and ruined everything you did beforehand. :( :( :( So where's the real ending?
 
Dresden said:
It was like eight brutes and six banshees with infinite marauders and cannibals for me.
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Yeah, you're right. I didn't even fuck with em. Just killed a Banshee and hit the switch as soon as it was available. I was burnt out on the waves of enemies.
 
Does somebody have that post where it turns ME3 ending and fits it to be a LotR ending. I have a friend who knows of Mass Effect, but doesn't play it and wants to know what the big deal is. I figured that is the best way to explain it.
 
They updated their facebook page:

ME3 facebook page said:
''We appreciate everyone’s feedback about Mass Effect 3 and want you to know that we are listening. Please note, we want to give people time to experience the game so while we can’t get into specifics right now, we will be able to address some of your questions once more people have had time to complete the game. Let’s also remember the man/woman that started this journey for us. What do you love most about your Commander Shepard? Please try to keep the discussion “spoiler-free."
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kai3345 said:
Marauder Shields is the best character int he series.
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Yes he his
But noone commented of my idea of a Budweiser like video for him

" *Budweiser real men voice*

Here's to your conveniently placed Mr
Marauder sheild person
*comveniently placed Mr. Marauder shield person*"

T_T
 
SpectreFire said:
The battle itself and the War Asset gameplay element was the most disappointing part of the game for me. I went around building all these alliances, collecting all these races and War Assets, thinking they'll play into the final battle with their own unique cutscene and effect on the endgame itself.

I thought I'd see Geth drop down from the sky to support Marines under fire.

I thought I'd see the Quarian Liveships all fire their massive Thanix cannons against a Reaper, destroying it.

I thought I'd see the Rachni queen and her children rain down from the sky, pouncing on Reaper ground forces.

I thought that Volous bombing fleet or Cereberus fighters would swoop in and do bombing runs in support of Hammer units.

I thought I'd see my squadmates, old and new, leading charges against Reaper forces, or coming at the 11th hour to pull my ass out of the fire.

I thought I'd see a lot of things come out of my allies and I thought everything I did would give Hammer a much better chance to succeed. Instead, they get slaughtered completely regardless of what I do. What was the point of getting the Rachni or Geth involved if they don't show up at all in the final battle? Why was it that the only Hammer units I had any sort of contact with during gameplay were all Marines? Was it too much to ask for Rachni or Krogran charge? Was it too much to ask for that platoon of Geth Prime to back me up? I guess it was.

Because I saw none of it.
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Great post. We got nothing. The decision to save or kill the Rachni ultimately didn't matter at all.
 
I fucking lost it when viewing the End of Eva spoof and Marauder Shields.

I think Marauder Shields is going to be a legendary meme.
 
More info from the Final Hours app

bsn said:
Just going through that Final Hours-app for iPad. Mac says in a video that the ending doesn't explain much on purpose:

'The existence of the Reapers and where they first came from, those are answers we intentionally don't want to get in to right now, we don't wanna talk about them, because sometimes leaving them open to interpertation is sometimes better.'

He says BioWare does know the details, and they had a lot of extra questions you could ask the omgbigaliensuperrobot-AI/starchild, but they decided to keep it 'high level' so we can figure it out for ourselves.

It also shows a note in which BioWare expects the fans to be 'Boy, but why did he have to die?' leading to 'Lots of speculation from everyone'. And there is something about 'End of the first matrix' and 'Brave new world'. Also 'They say bomb'. Can't figure out most of that note.

Other stuff:
- There is a deleted scene in which you see your squad die in London before entering the beam. It's quite dramatic. Garrus and Liara getting destroyed by the Reaper's laser.
- Crucible will cause 'galactic dark age'.
- The original idea (before Mass Effect 1) was that humanity was designed as slaves for the Protheans. Which made us extra special because we were engineered to use Prothean technology, unlike the other species.
- Casey: 'Everyone is going to have a different ending to some degree based on their choices and their galactic readiness, so it wass important for me to have one final scene where everyone has the exact same experience.'
- New Mass Effect games will take place before or during the events of Mass Effect 3, not after.
- A picture of Casey's wife which is encouraged to 'tap, then pinch and zoom'.
- Jacob Taylor survived the suicide mission in 93.3 percent of all games, Tali only 75.7.
- Multiplayer FPS stuff.
- 8 percent of the readers want a MMO, 17 percent a prequel, 66 percent want Mass Effect 4.
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Rebel Leader said:
You live up to your name
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Haha thanks, felt like doing something positive with all this negative energy.
hateradio said:
I guess that's a bit easier.

Here's number I collected.

https://minus.com/mbxm0TCIq#49

Edit: Is there a way to submit stuff to that tumbr? I would like to do that.
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Thanks a lot, you have rehosted a lot of the stuff I liked and forgot to save. I'll edit it to make it so people can contribute.

Zerokku said:
Yah, he just needs to go into his settings and make it possible to accept submissions. Standard tumblr feature.
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Where exactly is it? I went to preferences but didn't see it. Unfamiliar with Tumblr.
 
So I got the final hours app jsut now and flipping through it there is a great chart that maps out the plot for ME3 and all its possible variants. The only problem is that there good way to look at the whole image. Is there a way to rip images from an iOS app and no I don't mean a screen cap I want some kind of data mining tool.
 
Oh man, this quote from SomethingAwful is quite poignant.

SA Forum User said:
It's not even a totally original idea, unfortunately. Drakengard, for all its many flaws as a game, did the same thing in a far more coherent way: every ending involves the world getting fucked up somehow, and the next ending after it (usually obtained by receiving the previous ending and unlocking an extra chapter) solves whatever problem fucked the world up last time but introduces an even worse one in its place. The more effort you put into the game, the greater and more bizarre a catastrophe your actions visit upon the world. And in that game's case it's at least clearly intentional.
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When motherfucking Drakengard makes more sense than your game, you went somewhere seriously, seriously wrong.
 
SpectreFire said:
I just realized that Bioware doesn't exactly have much in the way of goodwill left with its fans.

Dragon Age 2, while by no means terrible, was largely considered a cash-grab in order to put money into the company. It was built very quickly, based largely on old assets. People assumed they were loading up their budget for Star Wars: The Old Republic or Mass Effect 3, but it kind of soured the franchise for a lot of people.

Star Wars: The Old Republic, did not come out as big as anyone had hoped, I'd imagine it'll fall into the same pit that any other MMORPG not named World of Warcraft eventually falls into.

And now with this whole Mass Effect 3 debacle, I think most of its core fanbase aren't thinking highly of them at all. The EA profit-first policy seems to be deeply ingrained into that developer's core now, I honestly don't expect them to really deliver a quality product that measures up to the same level as Mass Effect 1 or Dragon Age 1 did.
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I sure as hell wasn't kidding when I made a remark earlier in this thread about EA closing the original Bioware studio in less then three years.

History repeating itself, basically.


but ehm, what happened that made this thread explode? All I see right now is the Geoff booklet? Is that it?
 
Could someone please summarise the main points people are so pissed off about with regards to the ending? I get that the post credits thing was dumb and choices from the first 2 games didn't make much difference but other than that I don't really see what was so offensively bad. Certainly it wasn't as good as it could have and there's stuff I'd have liked to see that wasn't in there, but they only have so much time and resources to make what is already a massive game. I don't see why people are treating it like its worst ending of all time and that people actually think bioware should change it seems absurd.
 
Zeitgeister said:
I sure as hell wasn't kidding when I made a remark earlier in this thread about EA closing the original Bioware studio in less then three years.

History repeating itself, basically.


but ehm, what happened that made this thread explode? All I see right now is the Geoff booklet? Is that it?
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The game sold like 900k on day 1 in NA alone. Bioware for better or worse isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
 
Hero said:
Where exactly is it? I went to preferences but didn't see it. Unfamiliar with Tumblr.
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Click on your blog name on the dashboard, on the right hand side you'll see "Blog Settings", click that. There will be a checkbox there to enable submissions.
 
Hero said:
Haha thanks, felt like doing something positive with all this negative energy.
Thanks a lot, you have rehosted a lot of the stuff I liked and forgot to save. I'll edit it to make it so people can contribute.

Where exactly is it? I went to preferences but didn't see it. Unfamiliar with Tumblr.
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I'll just make a new one, so that I can work with it directly.

http://massdeflect.tumblr.com/
 
Okay, one quik thing, probably adressed but there are so many pages..
The annoying kid says i had a 3 choices, where do i actaully made that choice, i just walked in the beam...
Or is this the ultimate trolling attempt from bioware..
 
AngryMoth said:
Could someone please summarise the main points people are so pissed off about with regards to the ending? I get that the post credits thing was dumb and choices from the first 2 games didn't make much difference but other than that I don't really see what was so offensively bad. Certainly it wasn't as good as it could have and there's stuff I'd have liked to see that wasn't in there, but thats they only have so much time and resources to make what is already a massive game. I don't see why people are treating it like its worst ending of all time and that people actually think bioware should change it seems absurd.
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http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H_A7SeawU4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
 
- Casey: 'Everyone is going to have a different ending to some degree based on their choices and their galactic readiness, so it wass important for me to have one final scene where everyone has the exact same experience.'
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Oh Mr. Hudson, you're so very bad at this. What different 'endings' and galactic readiness' scores information/scenes were we supposed to see? The different fleets reporting in? Cause that's literally it.

- Crucible will cause 'galactic dark age'.
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Fuck all of the races currently alive, who needs 'em for ME4.

- The original idea (before Mass Effect 1) was that humanity was designed as slaves for the Protheans. Which made us extra special because we were engineered to use Prothean technology, unlike the other species.
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Kinda saw this coming as the reason Humanity was special, shame they dropped it for "SPACE JESUS" theme.
 
any hardcore me fans here loved the ending at first but then after days of seeing the fan reaction and reading this thread suddenly agree with the negative outrage?

i'm a hardcore fan, I played through ME1 7 times and ME2 3 times for all achievements, classes, decisions, and different save files in anticipation of ME3. when the game finally ended I was in complete awe, it was probably my fanboyism, as ME1 is my favorite game ever and me series will probably go down as my favorite series ever, but I loved the ending at first. then I proceeded to read forum reactions this thread, twitter, yt, and didn't get all the hate, but as it sunk in after 3 days i'm firmly in the disappointed side.
 
Empty Space said:
So I got the final hours app jsut now and flipping through it there is a great chart that maps out the plot for ME3 and all its possible variants. The only problem is that there good way to look at the whole image. Is there a way to rip images from an iOS app and no I don't mean a screen cap I want some kind of data mining tool.
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Press the "Home" + "Lock" key. It takes a screenshot of the screen. Next, just plug-in the ipad, explore the device and you can see the screenshots you took.

At least, that used to work when I worked at EA mobile. :|

- Casey: 'Everyone is going to have a different ending to some degree based on their choices and their galactic readiness, so it wass important for me to have one final scene where everyone has the exact same experience.'
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That can't be a real quote. Galactic readiness was just bullshit.
 
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