Post by Steve Farrelly @ 10:12am 07/03/12 | 160 Comments
Unite us all in an epic bid to stave off the eradication of all species at the hands of the Reapers, that's what.
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Posted 10:28am 07/3/12
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Posted 11:40am 07/3/12
walk around, talk to peeps, yo! i'm commander shepard, saviour of the wotnots & watevs!
fly around the space gate thingos, do the missions, mine the fkn ore outta planets, shoot the bad guys pewpewpew! duck, cover, reload, pewpewpew!... upgrade, upgrade, upgrade! what's to be overwhelmed by? ;)
Posted 11:49am 07/3/12
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Posted 12:19pm 07/3/12
Nowdays i only check out vid reviews as i find it easier to decide if i will like the gameplay or not which is the only real reason i play games (f*** story). That and the closing comments of written reviews for a summary.
Posted 12:39pm 07/3/12
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Posted 01:31pm 07/3/12
probably less than 20 hours if you skip dialogue and side quests
Posted 01:43pm 07/3/12
I remember spending near forty hours on it, but i did so many of the side quests and what not. Could probably get close to half of it I think.
If anyone is wondering ME1 took around 10 hours in the last couple of days. I didn't skip any dialogue, did heaps of sidequests too. (But nowhere near all of them)
Posted 01:47pm 07/3/12
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Posted 01:51pm 07/3/12
I think I logged about 40hrs in ME1 and just clocked over 80hrs in ME2. I don't see the point in skipping over the story just to finish the games so you get the "rewards". The story itself is the reward.
Posted 02:49pm 07/3/12
Posted 03:28pm 07/3/12
should be
"all of that pays off triple here"
Posted 04:11pm 07/3/12
not sure about importing to me3, but i would guess you get the same stuff you got for importing me1 save to me2 (alignment points, money etc).
Posted 04:12pm 07/3/12
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Posted 05:09pm 07/3/12
Someone's done a ME1 face code generator for the PC, lol
http://masseffect.livejournal.com/656484.html
Posted 09:16pm 07/3/12
First time I played as a soldier and found the combat boring, second time I played as a chick and actually did ok with everyone living at the end. Last time I played a better class but still didn't end up nailing Miranda, talk about high maintenance!
Posted 09:54pm 07/3/12
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last edited by Eorl at 13:31:44 08/Mar/12
Posted 01:35am 08/3/12
Spoiler:
after you end the war between the geth and get her home world back, on the ship she tells you she's left something in your room for you. When you go up there it's a photo of her on her home world and you can see her without her mask/suit on and she's quite a looker
Going to replay again and go for ashely simply because I wanna know if she's packing something extra of if the rumour was just that.
Posted 02:20am 08/3/12
I like how it includes the DLC as well, theres been stuff that referred back to the choices I made in the Arrival DLC, and theres heaps of Shadow Broker stuff.
Posted 04:03am 08/3/12
Most of this would be butt hurt people who don't like the idea of the day one DLC. If you read some of the comments they haven't even played the game let alone bought it yet rate it a zero.
Posted 05:08am 08/3/12
Posted 11:06am 08/3/12
It really is pretty cool how much stuff it remembers from previous saves though, even if its only little things. Like the reporter on the citadel tried to interview me again, and I went to punch her again (cos I did that last time) and she dodged out of the way and is like "Not this time Shepherd!" so then I headbutted her instead. Much lols.
Posted 05:44pm 08/3/12
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Posted 06:08pm 08/3/12
Sad face. At the final part of the game I think and my entire squad (those with me in my party) were just killed. That means Tali. I r sad. Note to self: don't start final fight next playthrough with only 50% army strength.
Posted 06:14pm 08/3/12
Posted 06:19pm 08/3/12
EDIT: Website to get saved games from.
http://www.masseffectsaves.com/
Posted 06:26pm 08/3/12
Spoiler:
tali died, shepard died, most of my friends died, anderson died, all synthetic life wiped out, mass relays blown up and joker tried out running the blast but seemingly crashes onto a planty planet. I guess EDI is dead too. HAPPY END!
Posted 06:43pm 08/3/12
Posted 06:53pm 08/3/12
Posted 06:53pm 08/3/12
pretty sure that's how it is.
Posted 06:53pm 08/3/12
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Posted 02:07pm 09/3/12
- Spoiler:
humanity becomes part machine, like the TIM I suppose
- Spoiler:
shepard dies but destroys the reapers, the mass effect relays and any synthetic lifeform. Guess this includes your friendly geth buddies and EDI too. Normandy crashlands on a planet with lots of trees.
- Spoiler:
same as above but shepard lives.
Now I wasn't expecting an ending where everyone lives happyly ever after but there's no ending where the reapers just win flat out? No shepard+love interest are together at least? That aside, while we are on the subject of love interests it's worth noting that so far from what i've played Tali was the character they put the most thought into. Both the other 2 main girls seem very straight and uptight, where as tali jokes around with you while you are out on missions and you both make fun of each other. Even better when EDI is around for these moments as she lets you both know she is aware you have been screwing on the ship. Also Tali being drunk is hilarious.
I'm also liking that the choices you make here have pretty immediate effects. I guess they had to do that because it's ending to the story but for example Spoiler:
If you choose to let legion upload himself to the other geth, they eradicate the quarian and when tali see's the crashing ships and flaming debris from the planet below she kills herself. Don't think you get a replacement character for her either. So yeah don't do that.
Music also has a very daft punkish feel to it like it was from Tron or something which is kick f*****g arse. Oh and turns out the picture of tali and the scene from the very very last moment in the game are from stock standard images you can find online. They just put them into the game.
Posted 05:17pm 09/3/12
Posted 05:42pm 09/3/12
I'm still not very far in, since I've only played it for a couple of hours last night, and a couple of hours the night before, but one thing that I guess has let me down a little is the science doesn't feel as convincing as it was in previous ones. I mean, I know its mostly made up science anyway, but (especially in the first game) they made it sound really convincing, and if you went through the codex a lot of it was spelt out in great detail, even right down to how the battle tactics for different sized ships, how they cool the reactors of ships, the physics of travelling through a mass effect relay, etc. So far in ME3, while its sitll good, it feels like its dropped in quality a bit to generic cheap sci-fi science where they just throw around big words like "Quantum Entanglement" and hope they stick.
Posted 07:11pm 09/3/12
- Spoiler:
There is a mission early on to rescue students from a school under attack by cerberus. If you do this mission you get to see jack with hair, who looks really weird. However if you miss that mission (main story missions until the class one vanishes) you will fight jack later on after she has been brainwashed by cerberus. There is a similar thing like that with Thane and him coming to protect you with an awesome cutscene of him fighting.
I like the planning they put into things like that. That if you miss something it can come back to bite you in the butt.
Posted 09:45pm 09/3/12
Does anyone know where to DL save game files of different playthroughs of ME1/2 to upload into 3? Got this for PC and my last two were on xbox so no saves for me :(
Posted 10:11pm 09/3/12
Can select alignment, who you rooted in the last 2 games and select from a big list of games.
Posted 10:19pm 09/3/12
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Posted 03:57am 10/3/12
Makes me wonder though how those would play out if you weren't using a savegame that had played those DLCs. Like, is the Kasumi story even available?
Posted 04:04am 10/3/12
Posted 04:07am 10/3/12
Spoiler:
Its the one where you help out the Salarian spectre who is investigating Hanaar who have been indoctrinated, and you end up saving the Hanaar homeworld. I can't remember where it starts though, possibly in the embassy area?
Posted 04:18am 10/3/12
Posted 05:24am 10/3/12
Spoiler:
shepard didn't notice the kid in the vent so some random child getting on a shuttle never registered so two shuttles being blown out of the sky was just another day at the office... thus there was no reason for a retarded callback to the ending of contact and the devs decided to just end the game when the camera zooms out on silhouettes of anderson and shepard lighting up giant space-cigars and talking about how much strange they are gonna get when they get back to earth.
Pretty good ending really
Posted 01:52pm 10/3/12
Posted 04:31pm 10/3/12
- Sometimes when you load a saved game it f**** your character up. Like if you imported a saved game it sometimes resets your character look back to default or some randomised one. I just had my black haired shepard turn into a ginger with freckles.
- Same as above but my loadout sometimes changes to s***** weapons I never use with odd loadout mods like scopes on pistols.
- Why are some choices considered renegade when they involve saving people from being killed? This sometimes involves your own team mates.
- Anyone having an invisible garrus roam the ship? I hear him talking to people but can't find him anywhere. He was talking to tali, and my speakers told me he was right in front of me but couldn't see him.
- Sometimes people just don't show up in cutscenes. Like they miss their assigned position on the screen and it just shows a wall or something. Lol.
- I had a crash (damn bugged room on horizon. save lots while here people!) and after reloading it shows my military strength at 0%. WOO! so gonna win this war now.
last edited by DM at 16:31:09 10/Mar/12
Posted 04:53pm 10/3/12
I never saw Renegade choices as "bad" or "evil", no matter how you play Shepard is still a hero, I just saw Renegade choices as more the "victory at any cost" and "take no s*** from anyone" kind of choices, so you can still do good things and get renegade points if you went about it in a no-bulls***, hardcore kind of way.
Sure he wasn't talking over the comm system? I've walked into a couple of rooms and walked in on conversations he was having with other people over the ship's comm system. He hangs out in the main gun battery area normally
Posted 04:55pm 10/3/12
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Posted 06:15pm 10/3/12
@DM - Yeah it would be interesting to find out what would go on if everyone died in ME2.
Yeah there really is no evil choices in the game, just "acting like an arse" choices lol.
Posted 06:40pm 10/3/12
there's a memorial on the normandy with the names of all the people that died in the previous games. i'm not using a save game so it looks like the deaths of wrex and thane are canon as well as a lot of the crew. kaidan is also up there but it can be ashley depending on your choice when creating your shephard at the beginning. i'm guessing more names would be on there if you choose numerous deaths at creation.
just got the new crew member from the dlc. he's awesome.
last edited by ravn0s at 18:40:12 10/Mar/12
Posted 07:00pm 10/3/12
Oh and the Garrus/James bulls*** conversation was hilarious too.
"they teach you to make up crap like that in the alliance? or did you think of it all on your own?"
"it's a gift"
Posted 07:18pm 10/3/12
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Posted 08:25pm 10/3/12
^^ wow what a s*** way to try and get a key that was, won't be using them again, 2 days later still no key
Posted 10:44pm 10/3/12
I've been doing heaps of side missions, so I'm still not that far through the actual main storyline, but as far as I can tell so far most (if not all?) of the people you can get in your party are characters who weren't with you in ME2, except for Garrus, and I guess it sounds like you get Tali as well. So even if everyone died in ME2 I don't think it'd make a huge difference to the overall game, just wouldn't get them turning up doing cameos/side missions like most of them do.
The only person I got killed on the suicide mission in ME2 was Samara, so I guess she wont be showing up for me, but a lot of the others have.
Best cameo I've come accross so far was the mission where you meet back up with Grunt, he was awesome. Which is weird cos he was probably one of my least favourite characters in ME2, but hes just hardcore in ME3.
Yeah, Wrex being dead was one of the things I used the savegame editor to change in my game. Cos when I played ME2, Wrex was alive, and was involved in all the stuff in Tuchanka, but then when I imported into ME3 I guess it looked for the flags from ME1 to see if Wrex was alive, didn't find them, and then just made it so he was dead since thats the default setting. So I edited my savegame and put the ME1 plot flags in there to represent the choices I made in ME1 so they got carried over properly.
Posted 11:14pm 10/3/12
On the romance side of things, not really a spoiler but just to be sure Spoiler:
don't expect a great ending. Mine with tali had none. She just appeared dead and shepard was 100% fine with it. No mention of it at all ever again. Bad writing there or my shepard was a total sociopath
EDIT - OH something else I see all the damn time. People have evolved since the last game to have rotatable necks. Seriously watch the way people tilt or turn their heads and it's crazy. How did they not see it looks f*****g stupid? Not to mention i've lost count at the times my shepards eyes have rolled into the back of his head when talking to someone, especially when on vid comm. Case in point watch when the quarians show up. You can't miss it.
last edited by DM at 23:14:15 10/Mar/12
Posted 11:37pm 10/3/12
Posted 11:41pm 10/3/12
in stark contrast, I went to gamesrocket and got my key immediately after making payment
Posted 11:42pm 10/3/12
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Posted 08:33am 11/3/12
Yes she did, I was going to stick with Miranda, but....
Also I got mine on Xbox 360 and the Kinect voice interaction is a fun gimmick, being able to shout commands, NPC conversation options and use powers.
Posted 09:09am 11/3/12
Posted 10:02am 11/3/12
eh she looks more manly now imo.
Posted 12:18pm 11/3/12
For anyone still wanting to buy, here's a summary of prices I've checked out:
[RU Version requiring EN patch]
cdkeys ( .com.au ) :: $40
directgamekeys :: $37
cdkeyshere :: $34
[Multi-language version]
cdkeys ( .com.au ) :: $47
intkeys :: $44 (or ~$41 if you use coupon code e0ab2639a1)
So in summary I'd recommend the intkeys multi-lang couponed version if you want a hassle/patch free install.
Bought mine from them last night, key arrived 11 minutes after payment.
Posted 05:23pm 11/3/12
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/854/masseffect3201203080148.jpg
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/600/masseffect3201203081817.jpg
Looks like she found a salon when she came back to earth, About time too.
3.5mil copies is a solid release. Also Soo many side quests to do.
Posted 06:04pm 11/3/12
EDIT - Also why does EDI have camel toe?
last edited by DM at 18:04:59 11/Mar/12
Posted 06:15pm 11/3/12
Posted 06:20pm 11/3/12
i think the reporter chick used to be a dude. i walked into her room and she was having a conversation with someone through the floating camera, and the other person said they couldn't believe how feminine she looked now etc.
Posted 06:23pm 11/3/12
Posted 09:37pm 11/3/12
Just had a look at the wiki, No sign of being a trap. http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Diana_Allers
Posted 12:25am 12/3/12
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Posted 12:50am 12/3/12
I've been wondering who this person is.
I must've gotten her killed in the first game :(
Posted 01:29am 12/3/12
last edited by DM at 01:29:14 12/Mar/12
Posted 10:06am 12/3/12
running around exploring the citadel and doing side missions atm.
Posted 10:43am 12/3/12
Does this mean I have to try to get as many alliances ASAP without wasting time on crappy side-quests or does it only mean that as alliance-making missions come up, I should try to ensure I succeed in each one regardless of how long it takes or what else I do?
Posted 01:44pm 12/3/12
last edited by DM at 13:44:53 12/Mar/12
Posted 01:49pm 12/3/12
Also some of the conversation options are deceiving. I'm trying to lean towards Renegade when talking to non-Squad characters - I pick whatever sounds most cold and unwelcoming and 1/4 of the time he says something positive and I get a Paragon point. Soft bastard >_<
Posted 02:00pm 12/3/12
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i'm going for paragon and the top right conversation option always gives paragon points. i'm guessing bottom right gives renegade.
Posted 12:06am 13/3/12
My Shep
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/565/masseffect3201203081853.jpg
EDI the new sex bot.
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/1319/masseffect3201203102340.jpg
Our Favourite Krogan
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5455/masseffect3201203120124.jpg
Posted 12:16am 13/3/12
Posted 12:54am 13/3/12
Samara died on my suicide mission in ME2, so shes not in ME3 for me, but I'm assuming she shows up when you're doing the mission at the Ardat Yakshi sanctuary?
This is pretty much quickly becoming the best Mass Effect game for me, I mean ME2 was great and all but this is just topping it in every way. And so much more epic. I guess a large part of it is seeing all the stories come to an end as well, so it might not be as good if you hadn't played the previous ones.
Posted 01:05am 13/3/12
that assassin should be ashamed, a terminally ill drell stopped him getting to his target made me lol.
Best moment with wrex though if he lived in #1 is Spoiler:
if you choose to lie about the cure and kill morden. Wrex finds out next time you go to the citadel and attacks you and you get the renegade option to kill him. He is f*****g piiiiiissed off to say the least, and with good reason. I want to do another, final run of the game but I really can't be arsed because of the endings. Hell it's not even the game ending that bothers me. It's that there's literally no ending to the romance part of things.
Spoiler:
If you take your romance girl/guy on the final mission with you as you would normally do thinking something will happen like a final scene between them, they just die along with person #2 in the group. There is no touching farewell to them, no speech, not even acknowledgement that they just died in front of you and you'll never be together again. Hell, there isn't even a camera pan to show your dead team mates or anything and you are just expected to carry on. The f*** kind of way is that to treat a story they spent like 40 - 50 hours building up over the course of 2 games?
last edited by DM at 01:05:57 13/Mar/12
Posted 01:42am 13/3/12
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Posted 10:11am 13/3/12
well i figured he probably died from that disease since he only had a few months left to live. glad to see he shows up with imported saves.
Posted 10:58am 13/3/12
Posted 02:41pm 14/3/12
I also hated the ending, if you can even call it an ending... /pout.
Posted 03:39pm 14/3/12
Pros:
- Good dialogue and interesting characters
- Lesbians
- Combat was a bit more diverse than previous games, felt more engaging
- The story mode seems interesting for further playthroughs to skip combat
Cons:
- The ending
- Also, the ending
- Melee is horrible
- Quests were sometimes hard to keep track of
- I felt the story lacking in immersion primarily because the choices you were presented with sometimes felt disjointed or even useless, like it didn't matter what choices you made
- This was also culminated in the ending
It was pretty clear that sacrifice was a big theme throughout but the way they tried to push choices which lead to the same events happening anyway didn't seem to fit all that well with their polarised paragon/renegade system, not to mention it just left me feeling like a passive bystander sometimes.
Overall I'm confused with a lot of the ratings the game is getting, this is nowhere near a perfect game by any stretch of the imagination but neither does it justify the massive backlash it got at release. Sans the ending I would give this a solid 8/10 but mainly for the characters (knock 2 off that including the ending).
I also have a sinking feeling that they will probably release another DLC (aka do a fallout) which changes the ending but I can't help feeling that it won't be motivated by anything other than milking out some more cash.
last edited by eXemplar at 15:39:42 14/Mar/12
Posted 04:15pm 14/3/12
This. For example why would you EVER pick Spoiler:
siding with the geth over the quarians when it results in tali killing herself so you lose an important team mate and then the ending results in the geth being destroyed anyway by the blue/red science?
Posted 04:39pm 14/3/12
I'm going to youtube that s*** right now!
Posted 05:13pm 14/3/12
Spoiler:
For me, Legion sacrificed himself to upgrade the geth and make them more intelligent and more awesome, and they have joined me in the fight against the reapers and are helping the quarians to recolonise rannoch. And the quarian fleet has also joined me.
Sounds to me like the choices you make can have pretty huge effects on the game, not that I've looked into ALL the different things that can happen, but just the wildly different versions of the geth thing and the krogan genophage thing that I've heard tell me theres some pretty huge differences in the way things can play out.
Spoiler:
I didn't go renegade on the genophage thing, I told Mordin about the sabotage and he went up to the tower to fix it and ended up sacrificing himself to cure the genophage. But my friend went full renegade and he ended up having to kill Mordin to stop him fixing the tower, and then blamed it on the Krogans. Then later on the citadel Wrex found out what he had done, and he killed Wrex. Thats pretty damn different to the way it played out for me.
Posted 05:09pm 14/3/12
Posted 05:13pm 14/3/12
F***, if you don't have Legion how does any of that play out, cos hes so vital to that whole section after the dreadnaught :S
Posted 05:16pm 14/3/12
EDIT - I heard that if legion is dead he is replaced by a standard geth named Geth IV, same events happen though
last edited by DM at 17:16:00 14/Mar/12
Posted 05:16pm 14/3/12
Posted 05:17pm 14/3/12
Yeah, Legion, he shows up, he plays a pretty big role on the Geth/Quarian bits.
Posted 06:48pm 14/3/12
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Posted 11:57pm 14/3/12
you tell him he isn't going up. Shepard goes on and on about how mordin has always defended his work and that the genophage had to be done and he is like WELL I WAS WRONG!. He really gets pissedSpoiler:
Posted 01:26am 15/3/12
Posted 01:38am 15/3/12
only just started fighting through the building on mars, hopefully it gets better
Posted 10:12am 15/3/12
Posted 10:34am 15/3/12
The eye roll thing happened to me when Shepard (female) first spoke to Ashley, the door opens, I step out then my eyes roll up into the head with an expression that was saying, 'Ahhhh f*** whats she want now' .. It set the tone for their relationship from that point on. Best glitch ever.
Posted 12:43pm 15/3/12
Also heard best dialogue line so far "If you were dancing, would you be waving your arms?"
I've noticed lately, must be about half way through the game, the body animation/speech in the cut scenes has gotten more choppy/wierd - not sure if its game bugs or my PC. I also have way echoey dialogue sometimes.
Posted 12:52pm 15/3/12
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Which is bulls*** because that's exactly what you get. ending A B or C
Posted 04:15pm 15/3/12
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Posted 07:05pm 16/3/12
Are people just annoyed that it wasn't all lovey dovey, or that many of the games choices up until then were irrelevant to the outcome of the ending?
Posted 12:16am 17/3/12
Posted 12:23am 17/3/12
Pretty much your last sentence. People felt cheated that it ended with all but a colour change. Hell I just watched all 6 endings and wouldn't have been able to tell the difference albeit the colour.
Posted 05:11pm 17/3/12
At the very least you have to take everything once you return to the citadel as the ending, and even looking at it that way, I still found it pretty satisfying. If you get tunnel vision and look at just that last choice as the ending out of context of the rest of the game then sure, it could seem a bit underwhelming, but to me most of that stuff just felt like an epilogue, cos everything had already been resolved by that point essentially. The game wrapped up absolutely every storyline and every character arc possible, so I couldn't hope for a better ending to the series tbh.
Its not really like a COD game or something where you can just watch the final cutscene and claim you've now watched the ending, it just doesn't work out of context like that. I agree with Zapo, I think people are just butthurt that it wasn't some huge heroic happy ending, or that it wasn't the ending they had imagined in their heads, which blinds them to just enjoying the game for what it is and enjoying the story that was told. Its not really uncommon for that to happen though, I can't remember the last time a long-running popular series finished and people weren't b****ing about how much they hated the ending, it never lives up to what they had imagined in their heads.
Posted 05:25pm 17/3/12
Spoiler:
I do find it amusing though what people consider the "good" ending. A lot people seem to consider the one where Shepard survives to be the "good" ending, I've even seen it described as the "perfect" ending, but to me it doesn't seem very good. I mean, all the geth get killed, and EDI gets killed, and even though hes not dead Shepard is probably crippled and in agony.
To me, the "good" ending was the synthesis one. Yeah, Shepard dies, but everyone else ends up better off and the galaxy in general seems to end up in a much better state
Posted 04:14pm 18/3/12
I haven't played the game but from my completely ignorant layperson's perspective, PA's wrap up seemed to be fairly reasonable, ending with this:
"The book has been written and you can change the way you read it but don’t pretend you’re the author."
Posted 07:45pm 18/3/12
last edited by ravn0s at 19:45:10 18/Mar/12
Posted 08:43pm 18/3/12
The whole game felt like the ending to me too, until I read this on PA I thought I held some freakish point of view that nobody else did but I'm glad to find out I'm not completely alone (even if I do seem to be in the minority).
Found this article to be a good read too, and it mostly mirrored my views also.
http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/why-the-ending-of-mass-effect-3-was-satifying-and-worthy-of-the-series-mass
Posted 11:05am 19/3/12
The only part of the game which I felt disappointed by (a very slight disappointment) is that the ending reward was too little on detail as to how the choices you make affect the galaxy in a positive or negative light in the long term.
Spoiler:
At the ending cutscene at about 60 seconds in length, this does seem to be far too cheap a reward for tying up loose ends and for 50+ hrs or 150+ hrs of gameplay if you include ME1 & 2.
After I had invest all that time, not only in commander sheperd but also the secondary characters, I felt that I should have gotten more detail than a quick 60 second clip of showing a crash landing of the normandy on a green planet. Assuming that my teammates had been vaporised and commander sheperd dead from throwing himself into the beam (I did the synthesis ending).
Instead they simply gave you a cliffs notes or hints that this is how things turned out and you can use your imagination for the rest. This also discourages me from playing through the entire series again as I know that I can't affect the ultimate outcome.
Sure I think that the choices that you make do have an effect on the story afterall it's your story, and everyones may be slightly different (or greatly).
Aside from the above point, I think Bioware did a fantastic job and I'll be looking forward to seeing if there is a ME4.
Posted 01:24pm 19/3/12
Posted 05:28am 07/4/12
I saw somewhere you need 4000 to get the best ending, and I've seen on other fourms peeps had 7000.
I Imported saves from ME1 and ME2 with most s*** done and ultra paragon. In ME3 I've researched every galaxy to 100%, done all the side quests I could find, and have been ultra paragon (Got everyone working together except the Solarians are a bit pissy about curing the genophage) yet my military strenth is like 3200. wtfbbq!?
last edited by Viper119 at 05:28:27 07/Apr/12
Posted 08:31am 07/4/12
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Posted 01:41pm 07/4/12
Posted 11:03pm 08/4/12
Think the fanboy rage at the ending is way over-rated, if you take the very final cutscene as the ending then of course you'd miffed, but really the last 30-40 minutes of the game is the ending, and that's all awesome - overall a great wrap up. I can see why peeps would want all the questions answered, but thats standard ending fair.
Spoiler question!?
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I didn't fully understand the controller kid though, he created the reapers and the cycles to prevent the inevitable chaos of humans creating synthetics and causing war? Who created him? Was he a synthetic?