Mass Effect 3 SPOILER THREAD: LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE

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Honestly, I kind of like the idea of an app that gets you messages from characters as you progress through a story. I just kind of feel it's weirdly out of place in ME3's setting.

Fuck if it linked to Persona 5 though...

Sounds like a Love Plus kind of thing
 
Tiny detail that has been bugging me. How does E-mail travel in space???

Does information travel to its destination through mass relays?

Not that big of a deal considering it is a helpful tool to cut down on running around aimlessly but it has been bugging me since ME2.
 
Tiny detail that has been bugging me. How does E-mail travel in space???

Does information travel to its destination through mass relays?

Not that big of a deal considering it is a helpful tool to cut down on running around aimlessly but it has been bugging me since ME2.

let's not think about that or else we need to wonder how they do holographic conferences as well.
 
Tiny detail that has been bugging me. How does E-mail travel in space???

Does information travel to its destination through mass relays?

Not that big of a deal considering it is a helpful tool to cut down on running around aimlessly but it has been bugging me since ME2.

Quantum entanglement?
 
Nah, it's new messages except they seem to start around the time I did Samara's missions or something. Like, I don't have anything relating to Earth at the start or Palaven or Tuchanka. Seems to have things referencing the Geth mission onwards. I assume there are messages for earlier in the game too.

EDIT: An companion app for P5 would be awesome. :o

Ok. Samara died in ME2 for me so lol. But on this run I just finished Tuchanka and have cleared everything else 100%, so that's good to know.
 
Tiny detail that has been bugging me. How does E-mail travel in space???

Does information travel to its destination through mass relays?

Not that big of a deal considering it is a helpful tool to cut down on running around aimlessly but it has been bugging me since ME2.

I wondered this a lot myself. I just assume its using mass effect technology.
 
Tiny detail that has been bugging me. How does E-mail travel in space???

Does information travel to its destination through mass relays?

Not that big of a deal considering it is a helpful tool to cut down on running around aimlessly but it has been bugging me since ME2.

Pretty sure that they mention relay stations at some point.
 
Tiny detail that has been bugging me. How does E-mail travel in space???

Does information travel to its destination through mass relays?

Not that big of a deal considering it is a helpful tool to cut down on running around aimlessly but it has been bugging me since ME2.

Quantum entanglement.
 
Tiny detail that has been bugging me. How does E-mail travel in space???

Does information travel to its destination through mass relays?

Not that big of a deal considering it is a helpful tool to cut down on running around aimlessly but it has been bugging me since ME2.

From what I understand, and this could be wrong, nearly all the communications was done through the mass relays. The only exception was the Quantum Entanglement, but those are hard to make and it only worked between two devices.
 
So Bioware's hope was to provide answers and give us closure whilst also leaving it open to interpretation and leaving us with questions?

Well I suppose that is memorable, but probably not the way Bioware wants it to be.
 
Playing ME1 right now. As much as I loved 3 it sure is nice to be able to manually reply to almost every line of Shepard's.

I already miss Garrus though :(
 
It's probably a glitch. It's because you are in a jail in the beginning of the game.

You are probably right, but contextually it doesn't make sense for Liara to come see you in jail shes busy being the Shadow Broker and is on Mars. When Shepherd sees her for the first time in the game he acts like its been a long time.
 
So Bioware's hope was to provide answers and give us closure whilst also leaving it open to interpretation and leaving us with questions?

Well I suppose that is memorable, but probably not the way Bioware wants it to be.

There are tons of memorable endings to movies and games that don't throw the conventions of the gameworld out the window to cockslap their audience.

The MGS3 ending is positively heartbreaking, but it's also one of the best video game narrative endings, period.
 
Thread is moving quickly, and I assume this has been posted. But just in case...

Interview with Casey Hudson:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming...s-director-addresses-the-games-controversies/

What are your thoughts on the reaction to the game’s endings?

didn’t want the game to be forgettable, and even right down to the sort of polarizing reaction that the ends have had with people–debating what the endings mean and what’s going to happen next, and what situation are the characters left in. That to me is part of what’s exciting about this story. There has always been a little bit of mystery there and a little bit of interpretation, and it’s a story that people can talk about after the fact.
 
You are probably right, but contextually it doesn't make sense for Liara to come see you in jail shes busy being the Shadow Broker and is on Mars. When Shepherd sees her for the first time in the game he acts like its been a long time.

Ya strangely enough some of the BW forum goers got that message as well but only after winning. It could be a glitch but god damn not a good time for that specific message hahahaha.
 
Thread is moving quickly, and I assume this has been posted. But just in case...

Interview with Casey Hudson:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming...s-director-addresses-the-games-controversies/

What is sad is for the most part many can't talk about the story as they are so wrapped up in the shitty endings.

Also he does say pretty clearly that they listen to fans feedback. But like I said elsewhere he is now involved in a couple outright lies. So guess whatever he says is not to be believed. Also the mystery is because of the terrible endings. I don't think Bioware wanted that to be talked about in that light. And with the news outlets now picking this up as more of a "Bad Ending" story drama. Its not good press.
 
Another thing I don't get, is that when shepard is moving via the player, he can barely move.

However whenever you pick one of the three choices, he moves with such vigor and resoluteness that it's as if he's not injured at all.
 
"Synthesis is the final evolution of life, but we need each other to make that happen."

-Star Kid

This quote is stuck in my head and I keep coming back to it. I am starting to think that he is right in synthesis being the next evolutionary step.
 
The LI message post game is almost certainly not a glitch, but assuming that it's some confirmation of a post release DLC ending is adding 2 and 2 and getting 5.

If anything it's just confirmation that after the end, the world still exists, and somehow or another your squad mates are in contact and within physical reach of you.
 
Conflict NZ said:
Just finished listening to the Mass Effect 3 edition of the Giantbombcast in which they interviewed Casey Hudson. He said that any future DLC would not affect or be part of the core storyline in any way as they wrapped up all the lose ends and presented the player with a full story in the final product. I almost smashed my ipod.

*knocks over magazine rack*
 
What is sad is for the most part many can't talk about the story as they are so wrapped up in the shitty endings.

Also he does say pretty clearly that they listen to fans feedback. But like I said elsewhere he is now involved in a couple outright lies. So guess whatever he says is not to be believed. Also the mystery is because of the terrible endings. I don't think Bioware wanted that to be talked about in that light. And with the news outlets now picking this up as more of a "Bad Ending" story drama. Its not good press.

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The LI message post game is almost certainly not a glitch, but assuming that it's some confirmation of a post release DLC ending is adding 2 and 2 and getting 5.

If anything it's just confirmation that after the end, the world still exists, and somehow or another your squad mates are in contact and within physical reach of you.

Well perhaps that will be their DLC/nondlc closure for the Shepard living? Slowly walk players through his recovery via messages? That's one low cost way to handle the Shepard living ending. I can honestly say I could see them doing that for the living Shep ending.

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I'm thinking of starting a Female Shepard playthrough, but I'm not sure if I want to. Not having Wrex, not being able to solve the Quarian/Geth conflict, not seeing the ME2 characters, etc. etc. feels like it'll be a barren, empty and incomplete playthrough.
 
Niiiiice. Can I stick something in it?
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"Synthesis is the final evolution of life, but we need each other to make that happen."

-Star Kid

This quote is stuck in my head and I keep coming back to it. I am starting to think that he is right in synthesis being the next evolutionary step.
That's the one I picked. It seem like the one everyone could recover from the easiest.

Everything would be super-connected so thinking of a way to create new relays or transport would be easier.
 
I'm thinking of starting a Female Shepard playthrough, but I'm not sure if I want to. Not having Wrex, not being able to solve the Quarian/Geth conflict, not seeing the ME2 characters, etc. etc. feels like it'll be a barren, empty and incomplete playthrough.

Wow dude. Women can achieve a lot you know.
 
What is sad is for the most part many can't talk about the story as they are so wrapped up in the shitty endings.

Also he does say pretty clearly that they listen to fans feedback. But like I said elsewhere he is now involved in a couple outright lies. So guess whatever he says is not to be believed. Also the mystery is because of the terrible endings. I don't think Bioware wanted that to be talked about in that light. And with the news outlets now picking this up as more of a "Bad Ending" story drama. Its not good press.

I'm curious has Casey Hudson specifically been caught lying or just Bioware the company as a whole. If anybody has a say in what Bioware does its him and as best as I can remember hes got a pretty good track record in terms of saying we listen to our fans in relation to a question and it then being fixed afterwards.
 
I'm thinking of starting a Female Shepard playthrough, but I'm not sure if I want to. Not having Wrex, not being able to solve the Quarian/Geth conflict, not seeing the ME2 characters, etc. etc. feels like it'll be a barren, empty and incomplete playthrough.

Can't you just find a save file somewhere where someone has already played through ME1 and 2 and kept everyone alive?
 
I'm curious has Casey Hudson specifically been caught lying or just Bioware the company as a whole. If anybody has a say in what Bioware does its him and as best as I can remember hes got a pretty good track record in terms of saying we listen to our fans in relation to a question and it then being fixed afterwards.

Well he was the one Neogaf'ers have posted past interviews with in the last couple pages that indicate huge issues with the ending compared to what he was saying. He is pretty clear as to what we would get...which is not what we would get.

I will say this. With the donations(Not alot but that news story is quickly being put on on major news outlets and gaming outlets), the outcry itself. I could see a company looking at it. Again not to forget it HAS happened where a company adjusted the ending to a game due to complaints.
 
I'm curious has Casey Hudson specifically been caught lying or just Bioware the company as a whole. If anybody has a say in what Bioware does its him and as best as I can remember hes got a pretty good track record in terms of saying we listen to our fans in relation to a question and it then being fixed afterwards.

Hudson tweeted how great the Deception book was and then it turned out to have a ton of errors and terrible writing.
 
That's the one I picked. It seem like the one everyone could recover from the easiest.

Everything would be super-connected so thinking of a way to create new relays or transport would be easier.

Right; the technology to rebuild the Relays could definitely happen. They have been studied over and over again by all of the races for years; add some synthetic abilities and the universe would be up and running again fairly quickly one could assume.
 
So...if you choose Synthesis the only survivors are "merged" Joker, EDI, and Javik? All on a jungle planet?

Is there anyway for Shep to actually survive? or organic life to survive without merging?
 
I just don't understand how someone who wrote all of those interesting stories/dialogues on the missions can write the same drivel for the ending? I'd just assume that different people write different parts of the game. In that case, can someone on Bioware please fire whoever wrote the ending and stick one of the more competent writers to rewrite the ending? Thx!

So...if you choose Synthesis the only survivors are "merged" Joker, EDI, and Javik? All on a jungle planet?

Is there anyway for Shep to actually survive? or organic life to survive without merging?

Destroy ending with 5000 or more galactic readiness gives you 5 sec of Shep's hard breathing and most organic life surviving, one assumes.
 
I just don't understand how someone who wrote all of those interesting stories/dialogues on the missions can write the same drivel for the ending? I'd just assume that different people write different parts of the game. In that case, can someone on Bioware please fire whoever wrote the ending and stick one of the more competent writers to rewrite the ending? Thx!

If what I heard was correct the two people who wrote the ending were the two head writers so I doubt they'll get fired lol.
 
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