EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Take Back Omega will be about Shepard helping Aria remove Cerberus from Omega.
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Mass Effect 3 Spoiler Thread |OT2| Taste the Rainbow
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Take Back Omega will be about Shepard helping Aria remove Cerberus from Omega.
hahahah. I feel like we had the same exact playthrough and expressions. I remember saying something outloud to myself "oh come on there just offing every character I like..."
then he comes out all badass
I was just reading this on the Mass Effect Wiki. It's pretty interesting that the Rachni Queen could actually be there as well.
If you didn't do his loyalty mission back in ME2 and you insisted on staying longer to free the Rachni queen (instead of fleeing right away), he'll die while holding the line for Shepard and others.
If he's loyal, you can do whatever you want and he'll survive.
At least you're dedicated.
Apophenia Overload
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James Vega's debut starring role!
Before Shep dies, obviously. All planned DLC is pre-Cerberus mission.
Man, I wonder if anyone cares about that since it won't matter in the end. Hehe
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
It was in the original script, and is a likely DLC scenario. In the original script Zaeed was to appear on Omega, re-hired by Cerberus, as your enemy. The mission got cut for whatever reason, though is almost certainly going to re-appear as ME3 DLC.
They'll probably just reword Aria's dialogue to start the mission pre-end game, not unlike Liara hunting the Shadow Broker in ME2.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You poor soul
Have to say the poorly photoshopped photo of a model they used to reveal unmasked Tali was pretty weak - though I really loved how the romance played out from 2 into 3 and up through the end of the Geth/Quarian war.
Kinda made it worth Miranda dying to get the scene of Tali getting drunk in the crew lounge immediately afterward.
Kinda made it worth Miranda dying to get the scene of Tali getting drunk in the crew lounge immediately afterward.
One of the rumors is more race types for MP, so maybe.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You get that scene whether she lives or dies...
Oh man, fighting Zaeed? That would've been fun.
I was hoping someone like Zaeed, Jacob, or Miranda would be important enemies of yours but I guess all of them got away from Cerberus easily.
Tali gets drunk whether Miranda dies or not.
As for Aria DLC, buy the DLC and see how it affects the ending: purple ending added!!!
Sorry but that's just dumb.
Why would Shepard help her take back Omega when he's focused on trying to take down the Reapers and she gave her word that she'll help you if you solved her little problem with the three groups.
If they edit the dialogue to make it seem as if Aria never said "after this is over" than that's even worse.
If this DLC actually is real I'm officially done with BioWare. No one cares about Omega and who wants to fight Cerberus some more? They're extremely boring enemies that pose no challenge at all. Not to mention that none of this matters because of the ending. What motivation is there to do this?
Yeah Aria, I'll help you take back Omega just for you to never actually go back to it.
Why would Shepard help her take back Omega when he's focused on trying to take down the Reapers and she gave her word that she'll help you if you solved her little problem with the three groups.
If they edit the dialogue to make it seem as if Aria never said "after this is over" than that's even worse.
If this DLC actually is real I'm officially done with BioWare. No one cares about Omega and who wants to fight Cerberus some more? They're extremely boring enemies that pose no challenge at all. Not to mention that none of this matters because of the ending. What motivation is there to do this?
Yeah Aria, I'll help you take back Omega just for you to never actually go back to it.
I forgot to mention other stuff such as the elevator rising is a parody of games that tend to elevate their main characters to religious symbols. In this case, Walters chose to make this literal to make the parody as obvious as possible.
I thought the OSC reference was pretty obvious especially with the epilogue as I thought that was a reference to OSC's Hamlet. The ghost kid was another reference to his Hamlet.
I thought the OSC reference was pretty obvious especially with the epilogue as I thought that was a reference to OSC's Hamlet. The ghost kid was another reference to his Hamlet.
Miranda lived in my game and I still got the Tali drunk scene. Seemed a bit weird though.
Edit: Jarmel, its not funny...
Ban.
Plus you get five war score points and the satisfaction of knowing you helped a crime lord retake her headquarters from a terrorist organization.
See, this DLC package won't make a lick of sense coming after the fact. Cerberus has been wrecked, and what in the hell would Cerberus want with Omega anyway?
Yeah, I looked up the other version - pretty much the same except she says "good job" instead of "rest easy" for the toast.
Apophenia Overload
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So why couldn't they have evacuated the Citadel prior to Shepard reaching the control room?
After this is over could mean anything. And I thought there was some implication that you would hep her. Sadly, that was cut.
I thought the elevator part was obvious, too.
As for OSC, I don't know who he is.
From what I remember, the Reapers took over it and even moved it. Doubt they had time to evacuate unless I missed a piece of dialogue about it.
You can't prove me wrong though. This is just as valid an interpretation as any other.
Orson Scott Card.
jediyoshi
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If you start applying logic as to why Shepard does almost anything after leaving Sol, everything starts breaking.
Weird, I think a Gaffer posted that in th first OT, lol
MegaKungFuRadio
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Why does Shepard do anything in ME3? War assets! If anything, taking back Omega is one of the less contrived ways to boost your number that apparently doesn't matter too much unless it's below 1750 or above 5000.
I think you underestimate how encompassing Walters wanted to be in his ludo-narrative. For Walters, he did not want to disparage or parody lesser-talents like Asimov and Clarke, he wanted to transcend them. That philosophy is manifest in the final three decisions. Each decision represents departures from traditional, contemporary, and newly-emerging styles of writing. However, the fact that all endings are the same narrative and no decision really matters means convey the impossibility of such a task. The utter failure of Walters to deliver a compelling tale is ironic and intentional in nature: he is conceding his hubris.
The real ending of course.
Shepard gets up and he is VERY ANGRY.
Shepard proceeds to rip off his armor while this plays in the background.
The Reapers never saw it coming.
Not only that, but there are lines in the game's script that indicate that that scene is 10,000 years after the events of ME3. So it's all real. The game is over.
However since the story takes place inside a framing device, couldn't you say that this is Walters critiquing not himself but the franchise as a whole? Since the old man is telling the story, this could be interpreted as Walters commenting on the linearity of the ME franchise in that since everything is the same in the end, nothing matters thus the Mass Effect franchise doesn't matter.
If you interpret it this way then you could say that Walters was indeed critiquing himself.
This concurrent theme of paradoxes was represented all throughout the ending such as the Reaper's motivation.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Why do anything in Mass Effect 3? None of it matters in the end.
Take Back Omega will be just like all the single player DLC we'll for ME3, and what we got for ME2: random side missions.
jediyoshi
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Now the Stargazer sequence makes sense.
heliconsoul
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Ok, so I feel the need to pull up a chair. I finished this last night.
Five years making my choices, chosing my bro's and my Waifu and I get this fucking shit. I could forgive TIMs indoctrination and his human control powers because it was at least plausible within the universe. Everything was awesome up until the jesus elevator.
I fully expected Shepard to die, but not in this shitty manner.
It won't change the fact that it was the best game series I've ever played, but man. I need to go ly dow.
Mostly I'm upset I won't get Mass Effect 4: The Adventures of Garrus. I don't even know if my bro survived earth
Five years making my choices, chosing my bro's and my Waifu and I get this fucking shit. I could forgive TIMs indoctrination and his human control powers because it was at least plausible within the universe. Everything was awesome up until the jesus elevator.
I fully expected Shepard to die, but not in this shitty manner.
It won't change the fact that it was the best game series I've ever played, but man. I need to go ly dow.
Mostly I'm upset I won't get Mass Effect 4: The Adventures of Garrus. I don't even know if my bro survived earth