Acquiescence
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So I just completed it. It's pretty much the worst game in the trilogy isn't it. I remember back when Mass Effect was more like Star Wars and less like... The Killing Fields or something.
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Nah it's a pretty good game. Worst ending of the trilogy for sure though.
shes duhon bad i swear to god
It's an excellent game with a bad ending.
Freeza Under The Shower
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wow. That presentation with just the codex speech is incredible.
Should have stopped there though.
Chairman Yang
if he talks about books, you better damn well listen
I don't particularly care if Bioware changes the ending or not. Like the Star Wars prequels or Indiana Jones 4 did to their respective series, the Mass Effect spell has been broken for me...whatever happens from now on is just sort of irrelevant.
Seriously Jim Sterlings response was cringe worthy.
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CharmingCharlie
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This was just posted on the spoiler group, most likely a fake :-
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/4/48438/2150483-1331884897290.png
Didn't embed it because if it is true it could be a bit too spoilerish.
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/4/48438/2150483-1331884897290.png
Didn't embed it because if it is true it could be a bit too spoilerish.
Yeah, looks fake.
bigace33
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I'm starting to think a lot of these gaming journalist are not really gamers at all. They keep spitting out these blatant lies like people are crying about the end because it's not a happy ending. Clearly the outrage goes much deeper than that, but these journalist insist on painting this picture of the whiny gamer who wants a sweet ending. It almost feels like these guys are mostly hired guns for these big game companies. They utilize them to influence the weak minded and suppress anyone who has any complaints about the latest so called AAA games.
Probably fake.
Randy Lanzarote
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I just completed the game.
Ummmmm..... So.... I chose the "control reaper" option, i'm going to go watch the other endings on youtube to see if I chose the bum ending
edit: oh wait, post credit video..... Let's see if anything cool
fake edit: no, that were donkey balls to. In fact I half expected the kids to say "what are medi-chlorians"
Ummmmm..... So.... I chose the "control reaper" option, i'm going to go watch the other endings on youtube to see if I chose the bum ending
edit: oh wait, post credit video..... Let's see if anything cool
fake edit: no, that were donkey balls to. In fact I half expected the kids to say "what are medi-chlorians"
firehawk12
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Game Journalists have been and always are the biggest fanboys/mouth pieces for video games. It's really insipid.
Sterling takes it to the next level by trolling people on purposes in order to get hits and ad dollars.
bigace33
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Yes, this is absolutely cannon for my MALE Shep. I romanced her from ME1 and did not touch anyone else. It is only fitting that her and Christian Shepard have children. They even talked about it in my play through. They even had sex before the final battle where my shep died (just like in Braveheart).
If this not fake I swear to god, I will nerd rage even harder!
Definitely fake.
Shake Appeal
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That, and one or two other spots, is why I said '95%'.
I think there are, like, three instances in the series where the outcome is meaningful if you fail to hit an interrupt: usually it's just a case of rewarding the player for watching a cutscene attentively by granting them another cutscene. And more often than not there are complementary red and blue options so the outcomes are virtually indistinguishable in mechanical terms. Most of the ones in ME3 just seem to be a pointless pat on the back, and yet another opportunity for Bioware to push meaningless numbers to the screen (see also: reputation, experience, and very nearly credits, which in ME3 are the single most devalued currency I've ever encountered in a videogame). Now, I'm sure these numbers plug into some system somewhere, but are utterly without context and so useless for the player. I get that I am being more Paragon-y on balance, and that over time making consistent decisions in this regard will enable me to make other, similar, decisions more efficiently, but that's the whole of my understanding.
"Numbers appeared! I'm roleplaying, ma! See, these bars are filling, that's how you can tell!"
In the Mass Effect games, plot structure is transparent and mechanics opaque. That's literally the exact opposite of what a role-playing game should be.
A lot of them are not what I consider a gamer. Yes thy play them, but their constant trolling of the gamers themselves distances them from what I consider a video game fan. Like some kind of sick hybrid.
firehawk12
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+5 to Paragon.
Acquiescence
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Just can't agree with that.
- WAY inferior main cast compared to 2 (I'm refering principally to squadmates here).
- Precious little exploration. One hub world... really?!
- Overly depressing story. I think in Bioware's bid to be as epic as possible and have EVERYTHING AT STAKE, they ended up with a tone that was inappropriately downbeat for the Mass Effect series.
- More than ever, the different choices are superficial and don't amount to much.
- No Tali reveal. Now that's some bullshit!
Also, this ending fiasco. Could someone please point me in the direction of a post or article somewhere detailing why the endings are so derided? Maybe I'm not so bothered because I thought they were only as wayward as the rest of the game, but I'm very curious as to why they've caused such a controversy. Thank you.
bengraven
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Something about her little quantum space "moment" with him because it's never defined really how they breed with females? I don't know, I wasn't paying attention.
I just like the idea of a little Asari girl named Shephard in the next game.
Yep. Either that, or the hive mind is so strong that nobody wants to dissent and be ridiculed by the others as "the idiot who agreed with all those fans with their Tali bodypillows".
There seemed like there should have been paragon and renegade options for that one. In fact, I had two of them but they were grayed out and I couldn't understand why. Had a full paragon bar and everything.
So I had to do the renegade interrupt in the end. That is after letting him shoot me.
I love my squad members, that is the best part in ME3 I think.
I like to talk to them after every mission, and I am glad they have many things to say in ME3. And sometimes Shep just listen, it feels like they are not just friends of Shep but also friends of each other. Conversations between Garrus and Wrex, Javik reveals the truth of Asari Goddess to Liara, "I still have my shortgun", Joker's comments on missions... I am so happy that Bioware at least deleted the Garrus/Liara dying scene, I mean that + space magic will make me really crazy. Right now no matter how bad the ending is, at least I am glad I can have so many memories of these lovable characters.
I like to talk to them after every mission, and I am glad they have many things to say in ME3. And sometimes Shep just listen, it feels like they are not just friends of Shep but also friends of each other. Conversations between Garrus and Wrex, Javik reveals the truth of Asari Goddess to Liara, "I still have my shortgun", Joker's comments on missions... I am so happy that Bioware at least deleted the Garrus/Liara dying scene, I mean that + space magic will make me really crazy. Right now no matter how bad the ending is, at least I am glad I can have so many memories of these lovable characters.
*gets laid off from company*
"Screw your day one DLC!"
Yeah, that's a weird reaction.
You can mind meld with Morinth in ME2, killing you, and I'm pretty sure that it is just like that black room in execution.
I don't really get the hate for that pic. I think she looks nice. I was worried Tali would be sort of ugly, but that pic is about the best I could hope for. So what if its a common photo on google? Its Tali Zorah vas Normandy now.
-The cast might be smaller, but what we got was of better quality than the other games.
-I'd rather have one decent hub world over a few shitty hubs. ME3's hub wasn't great, and it was a bit too small, but it did have its moments.
-Well, the first game starts with dudes getting impaled on magic cyberzombie sticks. I think the shifting tone of the games, as we perceive them, depend more on the aesthetics of the universe.
-They never mattered.
-Photoshop.
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Shake Appeal
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This is the closest to a complete summary:
http://www.gamefront.com/mass-effect-3-ending-hatred-5-reasons-the-fans-are-right/
Also check out the Mass Deflect Tumblr for jokes and solace:
http://massdeflect.tumblr.com/
firehawk12
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You wanted Tali to be a woman from a stock photo that was photoshopped?
I dislike how utterly lazy it is of them to select a stock image from Getty and barely attempt to disguise the fact that it is, in fact, a stock image with some photoshop.
But I rather liked the image chosen because I imagined Tali and the Quarians would look like Persian Night Elf aliens, and that's what we got.
Still lazy.
Same 100% paragon can anyone tell is why the last paragon/renegade options were greyed out?
jakershaker
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I just wanted her to not have mandibles tbh.
Does it matter?It's lazy sure, but it's such a minor detail.
Yep, I don't want to defend the bad ending, but the previous series' big choices never had anything to do with what you did previously in the game.
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Population me and....well, you now!
edit: Holy shit Rebel Leader.
subtract atleast 20% =3
(mostly post useing secondapps on phone/wii) can't multiquote and pain an the ass to C&P and type EXACTLY where I want to on the phone
You will not get the Paragon/Renegade options with the IM unless you had previously used either paragon OR renegade OR a mix of the two in ALL the previous conversations with the IM.
If you ever picked white when blue and red were present (even if greyed out), you will not get those final paragon/renegade options.
Basically makes that final conversation the culmination of you undermining his confidence in what he's doing.
No, I just wanted her to look nice after all these years of wondering. I don't care if the photo is a stock one. I mean the model for her would come from someplace anyway, right? So who gives a shit if its a popular photo. I think the real issue people should have is that you didn't get to see her in-game face. But hey, the photo is better than nothing. Now people can say they know.
firehawk12
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I don't care, because Tali and Quarians are horrible people, but having them look like humans with three fingers is the last thing I expected.
It's just lazy that they didn't even take the time to make a model of her and show her in the game talking to you.
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Interesting that you had that problem, as I went full paragon and I had both options available too, which I thought was odd. Did you use paragon/renegade speech options in all the previous meetings with the Illusive Man? I recall 2-3 conversations over the game where you can try to convince him using blue/red, so perhaps you have to do that each time? It's the only thing I can think of right now that might make such a difference.
Edit: Still too slow, dammit.
Well, it'd be nice to have Bioware pay some attention to something that is rather significant in their own universe. Now any attempt at making the Quarians something more than just blue humans is going to be a retcon.
ShockingAlberto
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It's a photo where they literally erased the ring finger and pinky
And not even well
It's shitty and lazy and am genuinely shocked to see anyone defend that kind of work.
And not even well
It's shitty and lazy and am genuinely shocked to see anyone defend that kind of work.
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