Ciastek3214
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But I don't have Mass Effect 3. Trololololol
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Mass Effect 3 |OT| Space Jesus Returns (tag all spoilers)
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But I don't have Mass Effect 3. Trololololol
shinobi602
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shinobi602
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Oh I see. Lol, how can people just start making up shit like that?
If you fail to save Grissom Academy, she probably gets abducted. She reappears as basically a generic Phantom named Jack in Cerberus HQ.
He gets replaced by a Geth V.I if he dies, but he still looks exactly like Legion, and Shepard and Co. call him Legion and he says "I'm not Legion." You get an email from Morinth, but she appears as a named Banshee on Earth. And I mentioned Jack above.
This brings me joy coming from you. Mass Effect is probably my favorite game series ever, and I would be devastated if the ending made me subsequently hate the series.
It's kinda sad that I am happy to know the ending is bad, but not bad enough to ruin the series.
Don't worry. Give it a few days and you'll join the dark side. Because it really does ruin the trilogy, at least for me.
Jack spoiler
If you never show up to save grissom academy, they torture her and send her against you.
This is what happens when a thousand people say the ending is the worst thing ever. People somehow start thinking it'll be even worse and when they see it they're not as disappointed.
We need to stop giving Bioware an out here by hyping people up
KoreanBarbecue
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The journal is still driving me completely crazy. My newest gripe - on 360, when you open it up, it defaults to like midway through the COMPLETED quests, not the current ones. So every time I need to check a quest, I hit start, select journal, and then scroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool up. I've finished/have a ton of quests. All that scrolling is ridiculous. Maybe it's a bug?
bigace33
Member
Bruh, there are people on this earth who actually eat those fruitcakes they get for Christmas. There are people on earth who actually like beets and liver for dinner. I'm sure if you search hard enough, there will be some people who actually like ME3s ending. The game itself is amazing, but that lackluster ending kind of ruined the series for me. Doesn't take away from the phenomenal gameplay or story bits at all.
I've played around 35 hours, and I had my 360 do a hard freeze once. I've heard that hard crashes on PC are more common, though.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
It's fair ridiculous and totally hateable. I can appreciate people being extremely disappointed with it, and I'm not in the least bit surprised to see most people hating it. So you might still.
But I didn't. That's not to say I loved it, but I didn't hate it.
Doubt it. And I definitely don't feel that way.
This is what happens when a thousand people say the ending is the worst thing ever. People somehow start thinking it'll be even worse and when they see it they're not as disappointed.
We need to stop giving Bioware an out here by hyping people up
I should thank you all for overhyping something for being so very less worse than what I was anticipating.
I've gotten like 4-5 loading freezes last night. And it occasionally did freeze on me before. But yesterday was the worst.
And what does all those War Asset give you? Like a better ending? Doing all those Citadel mission are a drag--
Nope, not a single crash playing ME3 on my PC.
It does that shit on PC too. Annoying stuffs.
Sir Garbageman
Member
Haha, I'm in the same boat. I'm about 2-3 missions away from the end I suspect and the anti-hype has been a little depressing honestly.
Skellig Gra
Member
I don't get all the hate for the ending. Why does an ending hold so much weight with you people? The fun part of the game is playing it, not watching some clip at the end. Most of the people bitching beat this game within like 48-72 hours of release. Surely they enjoyed themselves or would not have marathoned 20+ hours in such a short time frame. The journal is shit tho, lol.
At least scrolling is fast on PC. There's that at least. =/
Happens to me too. Fuck that shit. I just sort entries with Y, though, instead of scrolling up.
Oh I fully expect to not like it, but I don't want a 10 minute ending ruin the hours of the best content in the series. I beat ME2 6 times and I consider this better in just about every aspect. I don't want it to kill my interest in the game and never play it again over such a small part.
shinobi602
Member
Same here. Just press the 'Y' button and it'll instantly scroll to the top for you.
Because it's a story driven series. Can't really explain anything here since this isn't the spoiler thread. No it doesn't ruin the good times I had playing the game but so far I haven't been able to muster up any will to play any of the games. All I can think about is the ending.
Wrex was alive and I had the cure data from ME2 so Eve was healthy as well. I felt that Tuchanka was in good hands so I warned them about the sabotage the first chance I got. Mordin had to sacrifice himself but he went out like a boss and finally got the redemption he craved, so it was all good. Amazingly satisfying to do right by the Krogan and save the future of their people
HarryHengst
Member
See it like this: you get an amazing dinner at a fancy restaurant. You are ready for the final desert and the cook presents you a warmed up piece of shit (literally). How would you feel about the complete experience?
bigace33
Member
I think the hate comes from players like myself who have been there from day one, and have waited patiently to see the big payoff from all the hours invested into this series as a whole. I've put in maybe 150+ hours with this series counting the times I beat ME 1 and 2 on 360 as well. You build these characters and choices since like 2008, only to be dropped kicked in the face by some lame Matrix type ending, you have to understand some people getting pretty angry about it. The gang who just imported an ME2 save off the internet may be a bit more forgiving since they have less time invested.
Yeah, I think
this choice seriously depends on who is around. Wrex and Eve? Definitely. Wrex alone? I'm going to play favorites and say "yes". Wreav and Eve? Maybe, if Eve can counter him well enough. Wreav alone? Sorry, but it's just no good for the galaxy for krogans to be around if he's leading them during a weakened period for everyone.
shinobi602
Member
The ME1 music playing was so nostalgic to me. :')
Same here, any thoughts of a replay of the game are gone and buried beneath a pile of poorly textured bodies.
After this mess the only way they can continue the series forward in time is do either pull a magic trick out of their asses
to enable deep space travel
I´m more inclined to believe they will prequel the fuck out of the series. First game... CoD clone set in the first contact war with the Turians.
Skellig Gra
Member
I've been playing since 1 as well, and unless the game crashes and deletes my save at the final battle, it will have been a fully enjoyable experience. All I'm getting at it is I play games for the gameplay and the challenge, not the ending cutscene. A good story is a secondary bonus for me.
Yes, if i very much enjoyed over 30 hours of ME3, no kind of very bad 5 mins cutscene is going to make me forget how i loved the rest. Overreaction is GAF's best weapon.
Just look at any E3, ME or Wii U related threads for proof.SuperSonic1305
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I hate how the ammo powers turn off after every cutscene, after using a workbench even if I make no changes, and turn off for my squad every time I switch weapons even if I don't have a squad ammo power. Whose bright idea was this?
Wow, I thought I was going crazy, or loaded the wrong ME1 save or something.
In ME1 I swear down I put Anderson on the council, because he was the better man, yet in ME3 Udina is on the council. I didn't think much of it at first, just thought I must have loaded the wrong save or something since it has been about 4 or 5 years since I played ME. So now I've finally got to the cerberus attack on the citadel, where Udina is trying to start a coup, and it all makes sense. They retconned my choice so they could pull this shite. What the hell? This was the reason I didn't put him on the council to start with, he couldn't be trusted!
Re Shadowbroker, Project Overlord, and Arrival: Respectively,
Liara, Legion (and also the Cerberus scientist who performed the experiments on his brother, assuming you play the N7 mission where you rescue the Cerberus scientist), and a Batarian captain tell you what happens if you didn't play these three DLC packages (you are not involved in those events at all - it's just Liara kicking the Shadowbroker's ass, the Geth eavesdropping on Cerberus's Project Overlord experiment and the aforementioned Cerberus scientist telling you what happened, and the Batarian captain just blames the Alliance, not you specifically (don't really understand why you're on trial at the beginning of the game then).
Re Kasumi:
she doesn't appear at all and isn't mentioned in the Cerberus side-mission she appears in if you play her DLC
Don't know about Zaeed, since he was included if you purchased ME2 the first day (thanks for not doing the same thing this time around, Bioware - you love your fans, obviously. -_-)
It's been like that in at least the last two, and it's a huge pain in the ass. I also noticed some random times my guns will all be unequipped and unmodded when starting a mission.
bigace33
Member
That's fair enough. I loved the game play and the journey to get to the end. Unfortunately, I play games to also get a payoff at the end, and this one is horrible. So horrible that it will be quite some time(if ever) before I return to play these games again. There are plenty of games I can play that simply reward you for good game play and challenge. A huge part of ME as a series is the story, and the building up of all these great characters and decisions. Story is equally important as gameplay.
bigace33
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Kasumi
appears in a very lame and brief mission on the Citidel. She also becomes a war assett for you.
That's how it was with mine. Soon as I confirmed Kaiden, it locked everyone else out.
You won't miss anything CORE. But you will miss a lot of fleshing out and some fairly important insight on at least one mission.
There is some key stuff that makes the character really interesting to the overall story. He has some amazing banter with Liara. It's a god damn shame that he's DLC. He should have been part of the main-game.
I was paranoid about getting locked out, but I told Liara I was still interested and I was still able to pursue other romance options. Reading a guide, I didn't see anything for Liara that would lock you out otherwise. However, I believe there are other characters that could lock you in.
Karak
Member
Ya play-throughs of particular games are usually for roleplaying for me. This has effectively removed the desire to ever touch the series again. Good gameplay, challange and payoff can indeed be found elsewhere without 1 impacting and destroying the enjoyment of the others.
Me too. I am stuck browsing GAF at work. The ending would have to be twice as bad as A Dance with Dragon or as bad as The last book of the Dark Tower series to live up to the hype.
Karak
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Honestly its fairly important and just one more thing that will be missing after you finish ME3 if you don't have him to flesh out a couple of the missing bits.