Mass Effect 3 SPOILER THREAD: LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE
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ViewtifulJC
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Human reapers
We should have seen this coming, you guys
We should have seen this coming, you guys
Haha, I mentioned that when I came here to rant after beating the game.
Yeah I thought that, I blew the whole thing to fucking smithereens! You'd think the mother of all explosions would prevent Cerberus from finding even fragments of the whole base, never mind that Reaper.
That's exactly how I felt a few hours ago when I finished it. I still don't feel right now.
Well in Mass Effect 2 you were going on a suicide mission, but still against all odds you made it out all alive and if you made the right choices even all your crew made it out alive.
In all those years Shepard thought to the blood against impossible problems, but still managed to overcome them. It against everything the players have played, that Shepard would just accept the solution presented by a Deus Ex Machina character in the last 5 minutes of the game.
You didn't even had the choice, screw you kid, we will all go down together rather then this or take our chances fighting.
Karak
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We all took the Paragon "Hope" choice for the game.
To our eternal cyclic regret.
Just wait another 5-10 years for Bioware to announce their next big CHOICE Impacting Trilogy. I am going to mail them a bag of shit with a reaper drawn with black ink on the bag.
jediyoshi
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Shh. It's best not to think about it too much.
Psychoward
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Well of course, but Borderlands didn't really take itself seriously.
Well Borderlands didn't have 2 'hugely important' prequels, so yes. This is much, much worse. In fact, this is the only time I've ever felt physically repulsed by a game.
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From what people say....xenoblade had a better ending
Karak
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Easily. That would be like saying getting a kiss from a somewhat attractive girl is better than getting your left ball kicked by a large angry man. It is a contest only idiots wonder about the results from.
CharmingCharlie
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If I remember correctly the mission you are talking about is "Oriana being lowered into a pit to be turned into Husks". The mission is still in the game but it has been significantly altered and hardly bears any resemblance to the leaked script now.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
I have a gift for you.
Close your eyes.
Dat scene.
Close your eyes.
Dat scene.
I'm assuming that third yes was for my inevitable "and people wanted to romance this thing?"
HP_Wuvcraft
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So it's not a matter of you wanting the choices to come back, it's that you just didn't like the current choices presented. Fair enough.
No, seriously. I'm asking for what people expected, not for some patronizing .gifs.
Psychoward
Banned
My stomach has been hurting all day.
I felt like I got punched when the ending happened. I skipped the credits, couldn't bear to sit through them.
Borderlands didn't even really have a story. Though not having anything in the vault was a huge kick in the balls.
Karak
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There are about 50 odd pages now of answers already though. Thats why we all took it as a patronizing question. The answers are already there so asking seems either like a mistake...or a setup.
MasterShotgun
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It's hard to think any game's ending that shits on three games simultaneously. (I haven't played the MGS series, so I can't vouch for MGS4.)
Did we ever see a Prothean reaper? Or did the reapers get annoyed with their sea monkey physique, and thought Terminator would be a better look?
That's how I felt after the DA2 ending. You learn to live with it.My stomach has been hurting all day.
I felt like I got punched when the ending happened. I skipped the credits, couldn't bear to sit through them.
I know there's a trope for the Gainax Ending, but is there a BioWare ending now?
Psychoward
Banned
I for one wanted to see the war assets make more of a difference and reasonably effect the choice. How does it make any sense on how many ships I have to determine whether Earth gets blown up or not? And if it does, why wasn't that explained a bit more?
I wanted to actually see the Geth helping out, maybe save an alliance ship or two, and because I saved the council, maybe see some alliance frigates get destroyed, which would crash in to earth and delay shepard. SOMETHING
But it's not a choice you get, that's the problem. That they take away the choice and are making it for you.
Karak
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My stomach has been hurting all day.
I felt like I got punched when the ending happened. I skipped the credits, couldn't bear to sit through them.
Funny you mention that. I have played some shit games, some shit endings, and some good games with bad endings(some of which people have mentioned here in this thread).
I still didn't understand why I was so effected by this. But man...I hear you. Something about the 6 years of real life that has passed since 1, the choices mattering from 1-2, the characters, the world and all the thought, to and ending that appears to have been written in a translated fortune cookie written by a person who doesn't understand the language they wrote the fortune in.
3 games, 6 years all served up into one massive pile of failfuck in one fell swoop is awe inspiring. Heroic fantasy...damn.
HP_Wuvcraft
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The hate for the Human Reaper still gets me.
It's a trilogy. You honestly expect to get the full story in the second game?
Instead of being the boss, however, it should have been just something you see. Like a background object during the real boss fight.
Except you have three choices? Again, I will ask: what possible things from the past three games did you think were going to be present at the ending? How would they possibly be a part of that ending?
Granted, the Mass Relay Apocalypse does come out of nowhere and would be more accepted if it were planted earlier on.
It's a trilogy. You honestly expect to get the full story in the second game?
Instead of being the boss, however, it should have been just something you see. Like a background object during the real boss fight.
Except you have three choices? Again, I will ask: what possible things from the past three games did you think were going to be present at the ending? How would they possibly be a part of that ending?
Granted, the Mass Relay Apocalypse does come out of nowhere and would be more accepted if it were planted earlier on.
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Zelda... cdi ending :3
Stuff like that makes me even more pissed about the ending. Seeing everyone cope with their impending doom gave us some of the best moments of the entire franchise.
This never made sense. They said that all Reapers are just previous species, yet only the humans get a reaper that looks like them?
heliosRAzi
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The MGS series is a series of movies where you passively affect the story. With ME, you greatly affect the series so MGS4's ending, although a huge problem, is not as big as ME3's.
dragonelite
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From Reapers perspective i can understand it why they attack the citadel first in the prothean cycle. A galactic empire and way higher in tech then we would ever be. I really got that condescending feeling because of how Javik talks to you if you recruit him early. So yeah take out the their leaders first.
With our cycle they probably felt cocky and just went full on because the galaxy was splintered. So the best strategy would probably be divide and conquer. And it is in a race best interest to preserve themselves instead fighting together and hope we can take them on. And you have 3 big galactic players Human,Turians and Asari attack the citadel and most would probably order their troops back to their home planet before the reapers can shut down the mass relays.
That is why Shepard is so important people are willing to follow him into battle or even death. And because he is space jezus, he can rally every race together for a final battle for earth against the forces of evil.
Atleast that is how i see it.
Im a krogan fan so no if i have to choose i choose them.
Grunt going all rambo on the rachni i had already thought that is the way he wanted to die so when he emerges i was like Hell yeah suck on that reaper scum.
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Like how EDI was trying to understand the feelings she felt
Ashley drunk.on the floor
Garrus out sniping you
Dammit Bioware, stop putting relevant information in your DLC.
Karak
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God damn dude...this is more and more painful after reading bits like this...sigh.
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No the marauders are turian turned reapers and the banshees are Asari turned reaper.
Yeah, so many great moments. It's pretty much just a nonstop train of fanservive for long time fans of the series, and I loved every moment of it.
And after that confrontation with TIM, I was like, okay, this isn't that bad! I felt something stir in my chest when I saw Anderson die. Shep closed his eyes. I was like, hah, people are overreacting.
Then the vent kid pops up. I knew that fucker would ruin the game somehow.
I wish we fought Harbinger in a kind of wave formatted attack of Collectors until we finally fought the "command" Collector and all the while had Harbinger taunting us but gradually getting more desperate in his verbal attacks as we made it closer to the "command" Collector.
It would have been a great opportunity to show more insight into the reapers and that they weren't infallible and invincible. It would also have made things much more personal than the reaper baby fight alone. That is for ME2.
I mean the big reapers. They said they harvested the previous species and stored them in Reaper form.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
He meant as ships.
Yeah, fighting Harbinger head on would have been great.
Zomba13
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Just reminded me. Tali drunk drinking through an 'Emergency Induction Tube'. So good. And her going on about how her father wouldn't have approved of her and Shep and how he would have hated him. <3 Drunk Tali.
MasterShotgun
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I loved being an asshole to Ashley in that scene.
Drunk Tali was also priceless. "Emergency Induction Port."
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Have you seen Ashley drunk? If not, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVwM3UIs1o&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Kabuki Quantum Lover
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So many great character moments ruined by a subpar story. This scene was particularly well-done.
Zomba13
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I thought the exact same thing. I was all 'That wasn't so bad' then I got worried there might be more.
Then the floor lifts Shepard up...
Karak
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This was a pretty big moment for me as well.
Lifejumper
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