Mass Effect 3

[resistanze]

I started playing a new game as well, trying to get over my tragic loss.

I'm actually happen the whole "take back Earth" human-centric marketing campaign was just a ploy. It seemed against the nature of a a game that built itself on being so much more than just humans in the galaxy.

I'm about 8 hours in, and it's a good game. As redzero said I've heard things about the ending, but I won't think about it now. The customizable weaponry and loot is pretty good. I find the cover system in combat a little wonky though - I can't keep track the amount of times I've just popped out of cover for no reason, worse than ME2 in that respect.

[resistanze]

I started playing a new game as well, trying to get over my tragic loss.

I'm actually happen the whole "take back Earth" human-centric marketing campaign was just a ploy. It seemed against the nature of a a game that built itself on being so much more than just humans in the galaxy.

I'm about 8 hours in, and it's a good game. As redzero said I've heard things about the ending, but I won't think about it now. The customizable weaponry and loot is pretty good. I find the cover system in combat a little wonky though - I can't keep track the amount of times I've just popped out of cover for no reason, worse than ME2 in that respect.

[BanditHiro]

How I felt after finishing the game.

[BlackSwordsMan]

a lot of people hated the ending I'm so tempted to spoil myself I'm still a long ways to go

[redzero]

[BlackSwordsMan]

i youtubed all three endings and am confused as ...

[redzero]

I saw the endings on YouTube, too. At least there was a point to doing everything in Mass Effect 2. The endings in 3 barely differ.

[resistanze]

I'm probably 60% done my playthrough. I've said in the past this trilogy took a Matrix-esque turn, so I expect ME3 = Matrix Revolutions

Game isn't bad so far, although I ended up playing a New Game so everything story-wise & character-wise is ed up.

[resistanze]

@ the ending I had for ME3. Oh boy.

The last level had excellent build up too.

[resistanze]

I haven't bought the DLC but Javik (The Prothean) seems to be the best ME troll ever.


at 1:30

[phyzik]

what a huge letdown.... I finished the game about a week ago... The ending sucked...

I mean seriously... these were direct quotes from Chris Priestly and Casey Hudson MONTHS before the game was released...

“There are many different endings. We wouldn’t do it any other way. How could you go through all three campaigns playing as your Shepard and then be forced into a bespoke ending that everyone gets?”

“Mass Effect 3 is all about answering all the biggest questions in the lore, learning about the mysteries and the Protheans and the Reapers, being able to decide for yourself how all of these things come to an end.”

“Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the architect of what happens."

“You'll get answers to everything. That was one of the key things. Regardless of how we did everything, we had to say, yes, we're going to provide some answers to these people.”


And what do we get at the end? an A,B or C choice which hardly diverge from eachother.



that , Im pissed....

At least they are listening though...

We appreciate everyone’s feedback about Mass Effect 3 and want you to know that we are listening. Active discussions about the ending are more than welcome here, and the team will be reviewing it for feedback and responding when we can. Please note, we want to give people time to experience the game so while we can’t get into specifics right now, we will be able to address some of your questions once more people have had time to complete the game. In the meantime, we’d like to ask that you keep the non-spoiler areas of our forums and our social media channels spoiler free.

We understand there is a lot of debate on the Mass Effect 3 ending and we will be more than happy to engage in healthy discussions once more people get to experience the game. We are listening to all of your feedback.

mother ers better fix this . ing selling out to EA.... !!!







Dont get me wrong, the game was ing EPIC!!!!.... until the last 10 minutes of complete and utter letdown and failure.

dont even get me started on the day 1 DLC bull either.... ing sellouts!

[redzero]

people actually want to pay for a DLC that fixes the ending.

[phyzik]

people actually want to pay for a DLC that fixes the ending.

I wont pay for DLC that fixes the ending, or any other DLC they put out.... period... I'm gonna ing pirate all the DLC they release until they make good on their claims of what ME3's ending was supposed to be.

They robbed me of my time and money making promises on how there was gonna be closure and how our actions where going to affect the ending... I have no problem robbing them until they make ammends.

Right now, they are snake oil salesmen to me.... They are that "bum" you see on the corner every day that you KNOW lives in an upscale home and dares to ask for more money playing the part of a helpless victim just to get that extra cash.

[Xevious]

I've yet to beat the game (real life getting in the way), but I've read enough spoilers to know why people are pissed. And alot of my concerns early on have come to pass it seems. While I am enjoying the game, your ME1 and ME2 playthroughs make almost no difference... minor dialogue changes here and there. Instead of your prior experiences really impacting the direction of ME3 (and ultimately deciding whether it's possible for you to beat the Reapers), everything is tallied into a number. Depending on what the number is, you get one of three endings that barely differ. Am I correct here?

We were forced into a linear story while we thought we were actually making a difference. Want Anderson on the council? Naa, Udina will be there with no on-screen explination. Want to kill the last Rachni queen? No problem, there's a backup. Destroy the geno e cure? There's another one. Key characters killed off? Plenty of random NPCs to replace them with little impact on the story. I'm sure there's plenty more examples. I haven't seen the Quarians and Geth yet.

[resistanze]

Depending on what the number is, you get one of three endings that barely differ. Am I correct here?

Yup. You could find quotes a year ago by BW saying how much divergent the endings could be.

Also ME3 just shows again that everything did in ME2 made no sense. I still have no idea why the Collectors were introduced and what the "human Reaper" was for. Because by the start of ME3, the Reapers had flew to Earth in less than 6 months while the galaxy had their thumbs up their asses.

ME3 wasn't a bad game overall if you treat it as self-contained game (...like you had to do for ME2). But the ending is just so plain lazy that you might actually hate the entire experience.

[vander]

Yup. You could find quotes a year ago by BW saying how much divergent the endings could be.

Also ME3 just shows again that everything did in ME2 made no sense. I still have no idea why the Collectors were introduced and what the "human Reaper" was for. Because by the start of ME3, the Reapers had flew to Earth in less than 6 months while the galaxy had their thumbs up their asses.

ME3 wasn't a bad game overall if you treat it as self-contained game (...like you had to do for ME2). But the ending is just so plain lazy that you might actually hate the entire experience.

this renders the whole ME1 story moot as well

[resistanze]

this renders the whole ME1 story moot as well

Very true. I just made that assumption from the very beginning

[resistanze]

[Sense]

didn't even finish ME2, just watched the ending(s)...

It's all the same no action whatsoever on the ending apparently as far as gameplay... but wow I would be upset too.

[Fernando TD21]

I finished the game. The gameplay is good, but I had more fun playing ME2. Maybe because there were more interesting characters in ME2. I think that the interaction with the characters from the previous game was too brief and I was hoping more of them would join the crew in the normandy.

I wasn't pleased with the ending as well. I read a theory (Indoctrination Theory) that gives an alternative explanation to the endings but I think that would make the conclusion to the story even worse.

[Hooks]

The ending was rushed mainly because they had to change it because some leaked the whole script. The original ending was supposed to be about dark energy going out of control from too many people and the reapers had to wipe them out to keep it under control, it explained the human reaper etc.

[vander]

The ending was rushed mainly because they had to change it because some leaked the whole script. The original ending was supposed to be about dark energy going out of control from too many people and the reapers had to wipe them out to keep it under control, it explained the human reaper etc.

huh, I just assumed the reapers were evolution farmers, upgrading themselves with whatever this iteration of evolution offered, and then wiping it out before it became a threat, IMO that made pretty ing good sense and explained the human reaper.

[resistanze]

The ending was rushed mainly because they had to change it because some leaked the whole script. The original ending was supposed to be about dark energy going out of control from too many people and the reapers had to wipe them out to keep it under control, it explained the human reaper etc.

WTF? They destroyed the ending because of a leak most people who played ME3had no idea about? That might be a dumber move by BW than having the current ending because they were lazy.

[Fernando TD21]

I forgot to say, I think there was too little secondary missions. Specially considering that many of the missions consisted of just finding a planet and throwing a probe on it.
At least they got rid of the gathering minerals thing.

[Hooks]

huh, I just assumed the reapers were evolution farmers, upgrading themselves with whatever this iteration of evolution offered, and then wiping it out before it became a threat, IMO that made pretty ing good sense and explained the human reaper.

My memory on the original ending is vague so I can't really remember, I'm sure you can find it if you google it though. All I know is that it had to do with a massive amount of dark energy that would've destroyed the universe or something... In the original ending you still had choices, I think one of them was to destroy earth in order to stop the build up of dark energy, etc.

WTF? They destroyed the ending because of a leak most people who played ME3had no idea about? That might be a dumber move by BW than having the current ending because they were lazy.

Yeah that's why they delayed the game's original release date.

Someone had leaked the entire script just a few months (maybe 3 months?) before the game came out. The person leaked it on the official Bioware forums, Bioware acknowledged that the leak was indeed legit and decided to delay the game to change the ending.

That's why it took forever for it to be released, I think it was like a 6 month delay or something like that, but based on the original script I think the only thing they really changed was the ending.





Bioware says they DO NOT plan to stop the Mass Effect franchise, BUT they did say Shepard's story is over.