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

[Kyero Fox]

There's always fanfictions XD Good ones I mean, not bad ones like these crap endings.

[Ak3mi]

Does anyone reckon, the mass effect franchise will continue, but in a different perspective or will bioware leave it like they left baldurs gate?

Also I am raging at me3 right now I hate these dream missions ><

[Nixl]

Oh, they are going to cash this cow for a very long time I suspect.

MMO, shows, action figures, you name it.

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

Spoiler for ending:

Not that I've played the game at all yet, prob won't ever get to. From what I'm reading its mostly what I expected except there seems to be a couple WTF BS things. - either from laziness or forgetfulness on BW's part.

Also, that ending you mention where they are all trapped on earth... yeah. Take a few different ethnic groups, dump them on a tiny island with depleted resources like food and shelter and no clear leadership. They'll be clawing each others faces off in no time. Now change the ethnic groups to bona fide aliens.

It's crap sack ending almost no matter how you look at it. Well, not crap sack. Bitter sweet, maybe with the epilogue, on whatever planet that is.

[Sugetsu]

Originally Posted by MeisterBabylon

Trust me, at the end of this all, there will be a [Mass Effect: The Next Epoch] mmo by Bioware once SWTOR begins to decline 7 years from now. You will be that little boy, growing up with your grandfather's stories, and setting out to bring peace to the galaxy once more.

7 years!? I dont see swtor lasting more than 3 years.

By the way, I am loving mass effect 3 so far; great plot!

[MeisterBabylon]

Yeah well I was giving it a good WoW thwack.

Fanfics for ME3... Hey Lowe, we need your Ecchi powers, now!!

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by Mr Hat and Clogs

Spoiler for ending:

Also, that ending you mention where they are all trapped on earth... yeah. Take a few different ethnic groups, dump them on a tiny island with depleted resources like food and shelter and no clear leadership. They'll be clawing each others faces off in no time. Now change the ethnic groups to bona fide aliens.

Spoiler for spoiler:

Except they're not trapped on Earth. Admiral Hackett (who would clearly be the clear leadership in this case) and his fleet is still intact and working, along with likely any surviving ships from the invasion fleet (including Quarian liveships if they survived). All which have FTL capability. Which means they can leave anytime they like. The only thing they can't do is reach their respective homeworlds quickly, but it's not like they don't have any other habitable planets within FTL reach in the meantime.

Earth is the planet that's the "most developed" of the ones within reach, but they're hardly trapped there. Also, it's not like every single Asari, Turian, Krogan, Quarian etc. participated in the liberation of Earth, and thus the ones that are on Earth aren't going to be in such a crapsack situation as you imagine.

The loss of the Mass Relays is a significant blow to galactic unity, but only in the sense that it won't be as easy to get anywhere as they once did. Basically it's the equivalent of having the airports on an island nation shut down. You won't be able to get to other countries in less than a day, but you still have your ships that'll take longer. The Council systems and the Systems Alliance territories are within the same quadrant of the galaxy anyhow.

[Kayin]

You'd also think that all the races know how the relays work and will rebuild them. It's not like they haven't mapped out the entire galaxy, the relays were just shortcuts. They understood how to make the Crucible, so to say that the relays can't be rebuilt is dumb.

Dark endings aren't bad endings, and we all knew that defeating the Reapers would come a very high cost. It's the disregard for the relationships you forged with your crew or potential love interests that is making people angry. Bioware didn't want to make a dozen different endings for all your characters, or just could not fit them in to meet EA's deadlines. Whatever the case, it's BS, and makes the prospect of a good DA3 ending that much more...troubling.

[synaesthetic]

Originally Posted by Kayin

You'd also think that all the races know how the relays work and will rebuild them. It's not like they haven't mapped out the entire galaxy, the relays were just shortcuts. They understood how to make the Crucible, so to say that the relays can't be rebuilt is dumb.

Dark endings aren't bad endings, and we all knew that defeating the Reapers would come a very high cost. It's the disregard for the relationships you forged with your crew or potential love interests that is making people angry. Bioware didn't want to make a dozen different endings for all your characters, or just could not fit them in to meet EA's deadlines. Whatever the case, it's BS, and makes the prospect of a good DA3 ending that much more...troubling.

Spoiler for ending:

Yeah. I don't have a problem with the ending being dark. I fully expected Shepard to die, and I was pleased with her sacrificing herself to save everyone. I have a problem with their assertion that your choices would matter, and you'd see the result of those choices. You don't. You don't see what Shepard's actions did for the krogan, for the quarians and geth, for the Alliance, for anyone at all.

Instead you get Blue God Kid and Space Magic and a boatload of pretentious hipster bullshit and three palette-swapped magic explosions. Order and chaos, the Reapers preventing synthetic life from destroying organic life--it makes about as much sense as using a circular saw to trim threads off of your favorite t-shirt.

For example, I had no problem at all with Dragon Age II's ending. I found it entirely appropriate for the series and very fitting for the game's overarching themes. Hawke's actions really changed very little throughout the game, and the ending was inevitable. There was no chance to Take A Third Option--Anders forced everybody's hand. You could figure this out long before the actual end if you were paying attention.

The problem with ME3's ending is that you bust your ass to unite the galaxy and fix a lot of the long-standing issues with the various people, and yet you don't get any closure for all Shepard's sacrifice--including the last great sacrifice.

I think what bothers me the most about the ending is the pervasive Hollywood-style "TECHNOLOGY IS EVIL" theme running through it. Studying Reaper technology has always been dangerous, but it's those who are reckless who fall victim, not those who are careful. The destruction of the mass relays bothers me more than anything else because they're just fucking roads. They aren't Cthulu's iPad that'll drive you insane the moment you start playing fucking Angry Birds.

Shepard busted her ass, went above and beyond, defied impossible odds (which is the obvious recurring theme of the entire series) and was rewarded with a big FUCK YOU. And we also got virtually no closure for the end.

[Who]

I knew one of these was going to be made sooner or later.

[Waven]

^

Always good when one of these pop up... but hitler playing paragon? c'mon now

[Linkark07]

Originally Posted by Waven

^

Always good when one of these pop up... but hitler playing paragon? c'mon now

Maybe he had a change of mind

[Stiletto]

Originally Posted by Waven

^

Always good when one of these pop up... but hitler playing paragon? c'mon now

"This is clearly fake. Hitler would be renegade" was my thoughts on it.

[Who]

Why be renegade in a game when you can be renegade in real life?

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by Who

Why be renegade in a game when you can be renegade in real life?

Right? thats how it is isnt it?

anyways, lets hope bioware heard it.

[Gai-Kakashi]

You guys are looking at this ending thing all wrong. Totally wrong.

Warning: DO NOT WATCH THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED Mass Effect 3. DO NOT WATCH IF YOU ARE A LITTLE GIRL AFRAID OF SAVING THE GALAXY. BIG BRAVE SHEPARDS WITH BALLS AND OVARIES OF STEEL NEED ONLY APPLY.

Spoiler for ME3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAmVVAjZZeM

The thing is, that IS the ending we got. And it was amazing.

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by Gai-Kakashi

You guys are looking at this ending thing all wrong. Totally wrong.

Warning: DO NOT WATCH THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED Mass Effect 3. DO NOT WATCH IF YOU ARE A LITTLE GIRL AFRAID OF SAVING THE GALAXY. BIG BRAVE SHEPARDS WITH BALLS AND OVARIES OF STEEL NEED ONLY APPLY.

Spoiler for ME3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAmVVAjZZeM

The thing is, that IS the ending we got. And it was amazing.

Originally Posted by Gai-Kakashi

You guys are looking at this ending thing all wrong. Totally wrong.

Warning: DO NOT WATCH THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED Mass Effect 3. DO NOT WATCH IF YOU ARE A LITTLE GIRL AFRAID OF SAVING THE GALAXY. BIG BRAVE SHEPARDS WITH BALLS AND OVARIES OF STEEL NEED ONLY APPLY.

Spoiler for ME3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAmVVAjZZeM

The thing is, that IS the ending we got. And it was amazing.

That was pretty annoying.. sorry no offence...

aaanyways

Spoiler for Ah yes, The "ending" we have dismissed that claim.:

Ah yes, the Mass Effect 3 ending. The brutally nonsensical deux ex machina allegedly waiting in the last five minutes of the game. We have dismissed this claim.

[Aqua Knight]

Wow, guys you are so fast.

I've been playing ME 3 since March 6th, but I am only at

Spoiler for story spoiler:

Cerberus attacks Citadel

and have 15 hours of gameplay.(btw is this the middle of game or more towards the end point? - if it's only the middle then it's awesome

[synaesthetic]

Originally Posted by Aqua Knight

Wow, guys you are so fast.

I've been playing ME 3 since March 6th, but I am only at

Spoiler for story spoiler:

Cerberus attacks Citadel

and have 15 hours of gameplay.(btw is this the middle of game or more towards the end point? - if it's only the middle then it's awesome

You're around the midpoint. The game is longer than ME1 with its DLC and longer than ME2 without its DLC (though ME2 with all the DLC is longer by a bit).

When I beat the game I was at the 27 hour mark. Granted, I could probably finish it a lot faster but I played through blind, no guides or walkthroughs, so I had a lot of time spent bumbling around the Citadel looking for quest turnins.

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Spoiler for spoiler:

Except they're not trapped on Earth. Admiral Hackett (who would clearly be the clear leadership in this case) and his fleet is still intact and working, along with likely any surviving ships from the invasion fleet (including Quarian liveships if they survived). All which have FTL capability. Which means they can leave anytime they like. The only thing they can't do is reach their respective homeworlds quickly, but it's not like they don't have any other habitable planets within FTL reach in the meantime.

Earth is the planet that's the "most developed" of the ones within reach, but they're hardly trapped there. Also, it's not like every single Asari, Turian, Krogan, Quarian etc. participated in the liberation of Earth, and thus the ones that are on Earth aren't going to be in such a crapsack situation as you imagine.

The loss of the Mass Relays is a significant blow to galactic unity, but only in the sense that it won't be as easy to get anywhere as they once did. Basically it's the equivalent of having the airports on an island nation shut down. You won't be able to get to other countries in less than a day, but you still have your ships that'll take longer. The Council systems and the Systems Alliance territories are within the same quadrant of the galaxy anyhow.

Spoiler for ending and major spoilers:

Well, depending on which one of the endings you pick, the Mass Relays might be reconstructed faster than you might think. The epilogue might be only a few generations after Shepard dies, not hundreds of years like I originally thought.

I am unhappy that we didn't get to see what happened to your teammates or your love interest, though. Makes your choices both in the game itself and the very end seem almost.... irrelevant. As if whatever you chose in the end didn't matter worth shit because all the endings had more suck to them than their respective benefits.

I wouldn't have hated the ending so much if there was an option to preserve the Mass Relays. The loss, however temporary in the grand scheme of things, of galatic civilization no matter what ending I chose pissed me off. One could assume that Synthesis would mean that the Reapers would be non-hostile, and thus rebuild the Mass Relays, but the epilogue suggests they didn't, or it's taking a long time. I didn't particularly love that outcome anyway, because I wanted to kick the Reapers collective asses, but I didn't want to kill the geth, either. Especially after Legion's sacrifice. Or EDI, for that matter.

Still pisses me off. Won't keep me from replaying all three of the games on Legendary, but it is still kinda irking. If not for the ending (and the fact that we STILL don't know what Tali looks like under the mask), the game would have been perfect.

This game is going to be brutal on Legendary. It's gonna make ME1 on Legendary seem like a goddamn summer picnic. I died enough as it is on NORMAL, mostly from turrets and Brutes. I can't imagine how hard it's gonna be to kill Banshees on Legendary.... ugh.