[PC/PS3/360/WiiU] Mass Effect 3

[NorthernFallout]

The MP was a fresh wind really and I didn't expect it to be so good. I think it's the cooperative nature that does it, which makes it even better if you have 3 mates to play with. If it had been PvP it probably would have fallen pretty flat. It's also quite nice with the difficulty levels as bronze is just fine for starting off, Silver is fine for practicing for Gold, and Gold itself is a masochist's dream. Would have been nice if it had balanced itself according to the amount if players... But seeing how everything else went, it might have been for the best. The class system works quite nicely as well. I've found Engineer to be my favorite, which surprised even me as I'm primarily an Infiltrator. Really, all the classes are really fun to play and neither feels OP compared to the rest.

[BetoJR]

So... Anyone's had the guts to finish the New Game+ and see the "real ending" yet?

[Linkark07]

Originally Posted by Xion Valkyrie

So who are your favorite squad mates?

I generally take Liara (stasis is boss) and randomly switch out the other characters for random missions.

Prothean is pretty strong with his Dark Channeling and Lift Grenads (ridiculous damage). Garrus is okay with Overload, ammo, and concussive shot.

Anyone with an assault rifle is actually pretty good at doing damage with the modded Particle Rifle (since squad mates have unlimited ammo).

Tali is pretty good against Geth.

EDI/Ashley are okay, but their skill sets just don't seem to be as useful. Finally, Vega just seems completely useless. Terrible character too. I don't think I've used him since I've gotten a 3rd squad mate.

Well, since Ashley is my Male Shepard LI I usually take her with me and give her the most powerful weapons. My second teammate is Garrus since, well, like Shepard or Garrus says: there is no Shepard without Vakarian.

If for some reason I don't take one of them then I get Liara with me. And where is my Krogan, we need someone like Wrex again.

[Aqua Knight]

My team is usually Liara ( my love interest + biotic powers are in need a lot) and Garrus ( totally bro character). Sometimes I take Kaidan/Prothean, when I am bored, but no one can beat Garrus in conversations/jokes and I find his voice totally awesome.

[BetoJR]

My favorites are Liara (my maleShep's LI, since they royally screwed up Miranda's romance, this time around) and Garrus, as well. Got pretty pissed when I took them with me for the final mission - only to have one magically appear somewhere else, later. That was weird, to say the least.

I'm still struggling to decide who I'll roll with my femShep, since the game did not recognize her ME2 save (who knows why) and the Renegade vanilla options are kinda meh (Wrex, Thane and Kelly Chambers are already dead, for starters), but I'll try to soldier on. Sometime.

Edit: Holy shit, the Mass Effect anime is about James Vega! Will they get Freddie Prinze, Jr. to voice him again?

Speaking of which:

Originally Posted by synaesthetic

Seriously, this was my reaction upon discovering that James Vega was not only voiced by, but also modeled after Freddie Prinze Jr.:

Seriously, if they modeled Vega after him, they did a pretty bad job of it. They look absolutely nothing alike.

[Merilyn Mensola]

Ho man....there is a bug in the Italian version game...

in the side mission Grissom Academy: Emergency Evacuation...for me..is impossible to start the mission..the game freeze...Bioware is working for a patch..damn....only in the Italian game...

[SoldierOfDarkness]

Originally Posted by BetoJR

So... Anyone's had the guts to finish the New Game+ and see the "real ending" yet?

what real ending?

Spoiler:

There are only 3 endings

Finished the game and my main LI was Ashley with Edi/Javik as part of my squad for most of the time.

About the Prothean

Spoiler:

I liked Javik and the things he contributed to the story. I cannot see how Bioware justified saying he wasn't important at all. This is a ****** prothean whose race was extingushed 50,000 years ago and he's back with a vengance. During the mission to recover the artifact at the temple he boosts the Asaris' morale by letting them what the stakes were and such

Edit: Holy shit, the Mass Effect anime is about James Vega! Will they get Freddie Prinze, Jr. to voice him again?

Was he that popular? Wasn't all keen about him actually.

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

You know what? I think Bloware got it wrong.

I know that they want to leave room for future games set in the same universe. But that shouldn't mean Shepard should be stuck with sucky choices no matter what he had done all three games.

By all means, create a "canon" ending for future MassEffect games. But don't cut the happy ending out just because you think you can...

What am I saying? They are just waiting to sell the happy ending as DLC.

The illusion of choice had always been important. But it seems the illusion had finally been broken. There is no choice at all. There is no point replaying ME 1 and 2 over and over to get the perfect save file to import. There is only one ending.

I didn't ask for much. Just peace between the Quarians and the Geth. All the forces of the galaxies banned together like brothers to defeat the common enemy, and succeeds. It could have been a non-canon ending. I would have been happy with that.

The entire argument the Reapers made were unconvincing.

[SoldierOfDarkness]

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

You know what? I think Bloware got it wrong.

I know that they want to leave room for future games set in the same universe. But that shouldn't mean Shepard should be stuck with sucky choices no matter what he had done all three games.

By all means, create a "canon" ending for future MassEffect games. But don't cut the happy ending out just because you think you can...

Yeah I was thinking of getting ME1 and ME2 but now? It's a waste. Easier to just grab the saves off from websites to save yourself the trouble.

What am I saying? They are just waiting to sell the happy ending as DLC.

You do know that after the credits the game says, "Go back and try a new game or use downloaded content for more!"

The entire argument the Reapers made were unconvincing.

Spoiler:

Like how the created will always rebel against the creator so the Catalyst created the Reapers to keep this from happening?

[BetoJR]

Originally Posted by SoldierOfDarkness

what real ending?

Spoiler:

There are only 3 endings

It´s been hinted that the NG+ could wield a different ending. But I haven't seen anyone commenting on it, hence the question.

Originally Posted by SoldierOfDarkness

Was he that popular? Wasn't all keen about him actually.

Me neither. But maybe we're both wrong, eh?

[SoldierOfDarkness]

Originally Posted by BetoJR

It´s been hinted that the NG+ could wield a different ending. But I haven't seen anyone commenting on it, hence the question.

Well the end of the game says Shepard will have further adventures with more DLC down the line

[SRanger]

so how bad is the ending guys? Without using spoilers please.

I've heard really bad things..

[SoldierOfDarkness]

It's like Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Everything you've done from the beginning meant nothing.

On that matter

From Twitter from the Producer

Hardest. Day. Ever. Seriously, if you people knew all the stuff we are planning...you'd, we'll - hold onto your copy of me3 forever.

IMO Chrono Trigger is probably the best series that actually had reasonable endings.

[Flying Dagger]

Originally Posted by SoldierOfDarkness

From Twitter from the Producer

Hardest. Day. Ever. Seriously, if you people knew all the stuff we are planning...you'd, we'll - hold onto your copy of me3 forever.

$100 worth of DLCs inc within the next year?

[SoldierOfDarkness]

I don't see how they could motivate people to buy DLC's when in the end it doesn't change anything at all.

I mean the internet is in an uproar over the ending. I don't see anything unless it actually relates to the ending.

[Matrim]

I loathe Vega and the bimbo reporter modeled after Jessica Chabot. Both of them feel excruciatingly out of place in the Mass Effect universe.

Word. What's worse is that you are stuck with Vega for no apparent reason and you can't take any of the ME 2 squadmates except for Tali and Garrus. I am no big fan of ME 2 but it's whole idea was assembling a crack team and now you can't use most of it? Talk about silly.

As for the rest of the squadmates, I loved that Liara continued her positive development. I guess a lot of people were pissed by her in ME 2 which led to The Lair of The Shadow Broker DLC and her role in ME 3. Tali was also terrific during the quarrian missions. Garrus and Kaidan were cool.

The entire argument the Reapers made were unconvincing.

That's a bit of understatement.

Spoiler for ending:

The argument of the moronic catalyst essentially boils down to that South Park joke - "See, you have to kill those animals or else they'll die". The Reapers destroy organic life because otherwise some other AI will do the same, That's like shooting yourself right now because you are going to die at some point anyway.

And due to the godly power of the space-kid-god, the ending choice is completely irrelevant. for all you know tomorrow the kid might change his mind and decide to wipe out the galactic civilization anyway.

I didn't like the incredible power given to Cerberus either. Somehow they can sneak to any destination and land in force - all that in the middle of the biggest war ever.

Anyway, the combat was improved as biotics are useful again and the adversaries are smarter but the dialogue was often facepalm-worthy, the side-quests were for the most part nothing but planet scanning, the journal is extremely unhelpful and there are just too many Reapers, so they suffer from the conservation of ninjutsu trope. The continuity-porn is excellent, though, some missions are awesome...which makes the other flaws all the more annoying somehow.

[synaesthetic]

Originally Posted by SoldierOfDarkness

It's like Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Everything you've done from the beginning meant nothing.

DXHR's endings make perfect sense regarding the story. I don't see anything wrong with them. They are logical and consistent and are not full of obvious plot holes like ME3's ending.

[Nixl]

No question that there will be extra story DLC to actually complete the story..for a price. That or, some "epilogue."

Frankly, some of the endings just do not appear consistent at all with the series, especially Synthesis(magic ending?). Sovereign in ME1 made the Reapers appear like a collective of hyper intelligent beings (each a nation, etc etc). In ME3 they appear kind of stupid. All the subtly and patience of Sovereign thrown by the way side. Hell, even Harbinger used the Collectors, so I am not sure why all that was forgotten by the Reapers, especially since they waited generations to properly kill the Protheans.


About the planet with the 2 moons,

Spoiler for .:

I still refuse to believe the Normandy crew established an entire civilization. Just not enough people on that ship to do anything of the sort. I hope Bioware is not this foolish. A genetic bottleneck of that type would screw any descendants the Normandy could possibly produce after a few generations.

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by SoldierOfDarkness

From Twitter from the Producer

Hardest. Day. Ever. Seriously, if you people knew all the stuff we are planning...you'd, we'll - hold onto your copy of me3 forever.

I'm laughing so hard right now. Damage control out the ass.

[Nixl]

Originally Posted by SoldierOfDarkness

Hardest. Day. Ever. Seriously, if you people knew all the stuff we cut from launch and reselling as DLC...you'd, we'll - hold onto your copy of me3 forever, unless you are not a "long time fan of the series."[/i]

I fixed it up a little.

Once they are done with all the DLC, I suspect an MMO or a continuation of the MP in some form in the future.