Randolph Freelander
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What the heck did I just play. :/
Mass Effect 3 SPOILER THREAD: LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE
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There were several points in ME3 when I couldn't wait to see how the allies I'd gained would affect the Awesome Final Battle. Instead, those Geth Prime units and Rachni hordes just ended up as part of a number, never to be heard from again.
Vyse The Legend
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Thank God for Internet hyperbole. I set my expectations astronomically low for the ending, thanks to the venomous fervor surrounding it.
I'm actually OK with it, for the most part. I only wish the actual end cinematic wasn't a measly four minutes long.
I'm actually OK with it, for the most part. I only wish the actual end cinematic wasn't a measly four minutes long.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
That was my theory: ending the series in a way that paves the road for something new. But according to Hudson and Walters they didn't even want to make post-ME3 games, with future Mass Effect games taking place during or before ME3.
Disheveled_Zen
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Doubtful. If anything I see ME4 being a prequel, possibly the Contact Wars or something around the formation of Cerberus and background into TIM.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Self preservation. They knew they couldn't beat the Quarians, so it was either side with the reapers, or be destroyed. Their beef with the reapers was philosophical, you can look past philosophy in the face of destruction.
It's not depressing. The end was to deliver everyone from the Reapers and their tech -- except for Control in which the Reapers remain but their mass relays are gone, which doesn't make sense because then the Shepard-controlled Reaper fleet could simply recreate them again.
In any case, there are no plans for ME4 that we've heard about.
AdmiralSnackbar
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He also explains that the Geth saw no other option if they wanted to live. Same deal with Mordin and the genophage, if you press them on the issue they just admit they were wrong. (but in Legion's case you can tell they called the reapers for help begrudgingly)
Metroid-Squadron
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I don't know, it was the Crucible energy wave what vaporizes humans on Earth, so think the same happens across the galaxy. Nobody survives in the Normandy either, for example.
Disheveled_Zen
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Which in itself is a plot hole, seeing kiddyboy said that Synthetics will destroy Organics, yet the Geth/Quarian war is nearly the opposite and goes against everything he says.
Yes. I am almost 100 percent sure that is why they did it in fact. It's why all the relays just had to explode in every possible ending I am thinking.
LowEndTorque
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It saddens me to think that this is how the entire ME story arc ends.
so much wasted potential...
But I guess the endings made that fairly obvious since any post-ME3 games would have to have 3 completely different stories/story arcs and essentially be 3 completely different games unless they just chose one of the endings to be canon and ran with it.
Metroid-Squadron
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To me it's all about the journey, hence why the ending has no effect on me.
Freeza Under The Shower
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oh, so now space magic is suddenly not there, huh?
Not really serious about that, but you need to see that there is no relationship between EMS and the existence of space magic. It couldn't be related. Not in the fiction, not in the real.
That said, you see the door just starting to open afaik. There are survivors on the Normandy in every ending, I think.
Joke about MGS series here.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Plus you can have them make peace. Right after the stupid reaper was all self righteous.
I'm just glad I got to use the renegade interrupt in that conversation and shoot him in the face again.
My mistake then. I forgot what thread I read but it was about 2-3 pages of people just complaining about the entire game in general. Story, gameplay, etc.
Different reasons. In ME3 Legion justifies getting help from the Reapers because the Quarians are trying to kill them.
Disheveled_Zen
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No kidding, I got so excited as I did all the fetch quests to gather the various forces around the Citadel. Volus bombing squadrons, Geth Primes dropping from passing shuttles, fighting alongside the human resistance, Rachni dropping in to mess up their twisted Ravager counterparts.
Nope I got to see a human pilot flying around in a little fighter.
First time I have heard this and well that's just stupid.
Its like Bioware just wants to keep rubbing salt in my wounds. I have no interest playing in the ME universe before humans arrived or during ME1-3 either. So that leaves a window from first contact war to the 30 or 40 years(?) til ME begins.
No thanks Bioware.
No, all the other endings are the same.
MotionBlue
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Pre-ME3, Geth out-matched Quarians in every way. Quarians recieved a massive upgrade in Military strength even between ME2 and ME3, which is never explained.
Neither species is limited by the Treaty of Farixen, but Geth should of had the advantage.
Luckily, the journey is brilliant. And though it may not have had an affect on you, the ending does affect others. Have a little empathy for those who have been left depressed, I guess.
Yellow portion is DLC.
The ability to self-determinate is pretty useless when you no longer exist, just saying.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
They started loading guns on on all of their life ships too.
That too. Any speculation on this?
Jake Tower
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Did you go back and replay the end to see the other cinematics?
Xen develops something that scrambles Geth communications, or something. It's why they were willing to accept Reaper code upgrades--Quarians couldn't mess up their codes anymore.
Metroid-Squadron
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I don't understand this part of your post, sorry.
Not in the worst one.
Yeah I think it's pretty stupid too. I understand they probably want nothing to do with the franchise anymore since they've been working on it almost non stop since Kotor finished but they made it so no one can work on it. What if EA wanted to fulfill my dreams and let Obsidian make one that took place after? What if they wanted to make a MMO that took place after?
Now they'll have to go the Star Wars route and make something in the past, and no one will buy it if there's no humans so they've got like 40 years to work with and not much interesting happened in that time.
The journey's fine, yeah, but it would do wonders for my motivation if the entire thing had a satisfying conclusion as well. A rounded out experience is always preferable to me.
I ran out of steam on my inferno play-through of ME2. Here I can't even gather enough momentum to start the game up again. In fact, it's already uninstalled, to prevent myself from impulse buying any future DLC late at night...
Oh shit balls. I just realised they can make it so My Sweet is the main character in ME4, and is a part of a crew of the first people to explore space since The Shepard events of 20xx. My Sweet along with the crew encounter strange new alien species, forge relationships and uncover a plot that threatens the fate of the new galaxy.
Faith of the Heart can be the theme song. *Tear*
I think that you're supposed to presume they increased their military strength to fight the geth.
chickdigger802
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playing around with the final hours app.
54% of people imported from ME1 on 360 while 87.2% of people have customized faces. A lot of fury about not importing faces I bet.
65% played soldier in ME3? It's like playing a storm trooper when you could play as Jedi.
54% of people imported from ME1 on 360 while 87.2% of people have customized faces. A lot of fury about not importing faces I bet.
65% played soldier in ME3? It's like playing a storm trooper when you could play as Jedi.
Just give me a game where you play the Illusive Man or Cerberus and it's day one. Easily the most interesting characters and story in the series. Kinda like a Resident Evil game where you play from Umbrella's perspective.
dragonelite
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Hey now they don't have to write other / newr races background info indoor lore.
They say as much, but I am asking how. They make a point of telling you that they actually have some advanced technology and ships they probably shouldn't have. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I don't think so.
This seems to be the worst possible ending, and it has the Normandy in the strange planet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QjWlb-99ZHs#t=1290s
They did find a weakness in the Geth's programming or networking or some such, hence the offensive. I don't remember what it was exactly, but it's what drove the Geth to seek aid from the reapers, they couldn't counter it otherwise.
I don't think it's ever explained.
Jake Tower
Banned
Oh, I think that relates to Tali's father experiments. Maybe all does.
Don't think it's explicitly stated, but it would make sense, yeah.
The percentage was somewhere around 80% for ME2.
The worst part is that the War Assets and Galactic Readiness mechanics are pretty compelling in concept, but there's absolutely no payoff at the end other than enabling a few seconds of interchangeable video clips that in no way call back to anything you've done. There's so much missed possibility.
It's doubly frustrating because the Suicide Mission was such a great way of incorporating your actions throughout the game into the final sequence.
At least the multiplayer is fun!
Proof that even when you give the shooter crowd choices they still choose to just shoot shit.
I find it funny that Kai Leng was Bioware's attempt at creating a super cool villain the audience loves to hate, but instead they only succeeded in making one of the most annoying, retarded fucking characters in game history.
Unworthy to wear the Cerberus logo.
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