Mass Effect 3
 

Fuck Bioware.

AMIRITE?

Bought it. Haven't played it yet.

WAS IT ALL AN ALIEN DREAMS?

SPOILERS

NO ONE FUCKING KNOWS :(

omg

I'm replaying the second so that I can have a save file to import into the PC version. I have all but two of the squadmates and it's only taken 3 hours.

Hm, I liked 3. Sure, the ending is total balls but did you really expect they were capable of living up to everyones expectations? Nah.

Up until the end, this would be my Goty so far...

I really want to like Mass Effect, I really do. I just don't know what it is about it that makes it impossible to enjoy the game. The combat is boring, I really hate the inventory system and the game seems sterile and gray, somehow. I like the dialogue system and the characters seem intresting, but playing the game just isn't fun. It took me six months to play the first half of ME1, and I can't find the motivation to continue. I would like to try ME 2 & 3, but i'm afraid it's the same boring shit as ME1.

I loved the story and setting in the first game, and that's what made me want to keep going with it. The gameplay in 2 is a vast improvement over the first one. I don't know that 3 is exactly better than 2 in that regard, but it's definitely a progression of what they started shifting towards.

I just finished a big mission on Tuchanka, and I've read that it's pretty much a third of the way through the game. I like it a lot so far, but all of this bashing of the ending has me leery. I mean, I knew I'd be disappointed, but story is the main draw for me, so I was hoping they didn't fuck that part up.

Edit: And fuck you, EA. A fucking PROTHEAN is a DLC character? That's not a big enough deal to include as part of the main game? You have to squeeze even more money out of us? Fuck you.

I think EA/Bioware and I have different views of why I played Mass Effect. They thought I played it for action and bad writing. But I played it for cool characters and neat scenarios.

I get they're trying to attract Broseph Bob this time, but come on.

Also, included DLC in all this shit like preorders and toys and whatever is getting really lame.

The ending of ME3 seriously taints the entire series for me. It's that awful. I wasn't expecting something amazingly heroic, but I also wasn't expecting them to finish it off with some stupid Soprano's style ending that makes no sense and doesn't change no matter what choices you made.

I'm probably never going to buy another Bioware game again until it's been thoroughly vetted by the court of public opinion first. I thought that DA2 was an anomaly and figured they couldn't screw up Mass Effect, but I was wrong.

There's a video online showing someone editing a couple flags in one of the game's data files to enable the Prothean character in a regular version of the game, so the DLC thing was just a pure cash grab.

EDIT: Several major retailers are apparently dropping the price of the game already. :lol

Bioware also has a post on their ME3 forums basically stating "we know you think the end of the game is bad, but please stop spamming our social media sites with complaints because it's... uh... ruining the end for other people."

Spoiler, but a comparison of all the endings played at the same time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPelM2hwhJA

First Deus Ex Yellow Version did this to me, now ME3 :(

I'm just gonna avoid this thread until I beat the game. I'm supposed to go meet up with Quarians right away--finally. If the ending really is that horrible, I might just do what others seem to be considering and just not get anymore games from BioWare. It's a real shame, because they were my favorite game company for years.

I think it´s about time I played Jade Empire again, I love that game :)

Done. That was...weird.

Anyone Willing to put it in a spoiler for me?

On the Bioware forums, they have a post asking "Uh... please tell us how you would like the game to end..."

I'm almost convinced that they had no idea what to do, so they pulled a stunt like this so they can crowdsource the ending and then look like heroes when they "fix" it with some free DLC.

Free. :lol

You know the ending to Deus Ex: Human Revolution, where you have a big conflict, then you're in a room and you have to make a choice on how the game ends, then the game just kinda shows you some FMV and says "HMMMM INTERESTING CHOICE I HOPE IT ALL WORKS OUT"?

Take that, but add:



I think the writers just gave up.

I definitely feel a bit cheated, but I'm not enraged by the ending. It could have and should have been much better, though.

i own mass effect 2 but i've never played it might give it a go and make a lady shep

The more I think about it, the less incensed I am by that ending. I mean, the game itself was pretty awesome, and there were some reeeeally effective, touching moments. I loved Mordin's scene on Tuchanka.

My younger brother rang me up at 2am to complain about how awful the ending was; I wont be purchasing this game.


Mass Effect 1 was a good game to me, number 2 was a real disappointment, and it sounds like 3 is an improvement game play wise, but still not great.

at the least they definitely improved the level of disappointment you can find in three

:lol

Big media outlets are picking up the story now, so the only press that the game has gotten since two days after it's release is "the end is really bad." :lol

I really want Bioware to fix this :(

I really liked the first one, the second was a lot of fun, but didn't leave as much of an impact on me as the first, and the demo for the third... well 'underwhelming' was the first thing I could think of to describe it.
Oh and fuck their DLC fleecing cuntisodes. Release proper expansions, not this micro transaction bullshit.

Post from the CEO of Bioware today says they're going to expand on the ending with DLC. Hopefully they correct all the plot holes you could drive a tank through.

To be fair I can drive a tank through a mouse hole.

Lemme guess: you need to pay them AGAIN to get the good ending, right?



Just kidding. OF COURSE they'll charge you extra for a better ending!

Since people kept complaining about ME3's ending, Square Enix decided to put Commander Shepard in a game that has no ending instead

ol

this is pretty funny really i mean how often do you really play a videogame that ends up having good plot twists and shitanymore anyway.

loved everything til the last 10min
and am sure everyone know why

Do you think that maybe they did it on purpose, so that people would be almost forced to purchase a better ending in DLC? Or maybe They made it a bad ending on purpose, so that when they "fix" it, they become the good guys of the video game world?

i want to believe it was done with reason,but i really feel that it was on purpose and that bioware felt fine with that ending, thier focus shifted to the MP and ME4 and few other dlc.
i think the outrage over the ending caught them off guard, so with this new dlc coming in april i think it will just add on the ending.
imo,i believe bioware was just over eager on getting started with ME4 or the ME mmo that has been hinted at

I don't know that ME4 is even going to happen, so I doubt that's it. I genuinely think that they thought they were doing a good job with it. I've got a friend that works there, and I spoke with a bunch of others that do as well, and everyone seemed pretty honest about it. I just think that they're really starting to take fan opinion into consideration.

Yeah, I think that they went off into their own little world and didn't realize the epic level of shit that they were creating. Their idea of "players' choices affect everything" and what actual players actually interpreted that to mean is obviously very different. I can understand them trying to railroad players back into one common storyline for future storyline potential, but the way they executed everything is a horrible pile of suck. Three endings that only differ by the colour of the explosions, all with the same gaping plot holes.

I'm reasonably confident that it will be fixed with DLC, but I'm not holding my breath anymore. What was seen cannot be unseen and my faith in Bioware to produce good games is gone. DA2 was a disappointment and the end of ME3 was just rubbing salt on the wound.

I loved Mass Effect Three but I was kind of hoping for more of a Fallout type of Ending where it would wrap up things based upon your actions. Very disappointed but I am sure they will make a cash grab and make more content to continue it.

Hasn´t there been a leak of some sort, revealing almost all planned DLC and the concept for Mass Shift or whatever they call the next story?

reading this and was,"mmmm"
http://www.gamefront.com/rumor-mass-...-due-in-april/

"And it's free"

If it wasn't, Bioware would lose pretty much all of its fans overnight, I think.

mass shift? hopefuly its a timetravel game :O

Some of the bitching really goes from thoughtful and coherent to entitled and stupid. Critisize all you want, but don't fucking act like you're owed anything. If 99% of the game was good, then shutup because you got your money's worth.

I agree that it definitely could have and should have been better than that, that they should've written it better, and it'll be a really dick move to try to get people to pay for an "actual ending," but until that happens, settle the fuck down. Call it a narrative misstep. I'm not going to hate BioWare because they fucked up. They also made some of my favorite games and by all indications, they seem to care about story and fans.

Edit: That's in general, not specifically here. I just posted here because there's no fucking way that's even worth saying at some of the other places, and there's at least a chance that a few people here aren't quite so filled with entitled nerd rage.

I can't believe there are still people who expected them to turn out a quality ending after DA2.


Anyway, for me, the complaining that went too far was when a group of the fans decided to submit a complaint to the FTC and the Better Business Bureau:

http://www.gamepur.com/news/7426-fan...-3-ending.html

That right there is seeing your friend being a whiny bitch and saying, "son, let me show you some first-class crying over spilt milk."

i will have to say,i never seen so much outrage before,this is epic rage if you will.
The New Yorker,and Forbes even got into the action
for me i kinda look at bioware in a new light,with DA2 and ME3, am more cautious now and will no longer just buy on blind faith,60$ for a game isn't cheap and not something i can just through away,imo

I'm going to be more cautious with every game that I buy from now on, but that's largely due to the new Resident Evil. Fuck that game. Then again, I've pre-ordered BioShock Infinite and GTA V on blind faith, but I reeeeally doubt either of those will make me regret it.

BioWare has made more games that I consider classics than any other company, so I'm willing to cut them some slack. Well, Rockstar is on-par and they've never disappointed me, but I still love BioWare. I'm really curious as to how DA3 will play.

someone sent a 1000 cupcakes to the biowares offices as a rant about the ending :lol

They were color coded to match the colors of the ending, with A,B,C on them, because Bioware was all "THE ENDING WON'T BE A, B, OR C" even though they did that anyways.

i want a cupcake

I love this whole thing because I can keep telling the same tired ass Godfather III joke whenever someone else I know brings it up, like some old man hitting on a new nurse at the retirement home

I had this amazing idea yesterday, did a little research and then cranked out a better ending to Mass Effect 3 today.

http://members.shaw.ca/achimp/me3/

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perfect
- some video game guy

Casey Hudson just took a shit on our faces with this Extended Cut, and he's DEMANDING THAT WE LIKE IT.

Because art.

I played through the four endings yesterday and while they are better than the original bullshit, they´re still far from satisfying. I CAN live with the Control-Ending, the Synthesis-Ending is what I would´ve chosen if it was real (progress by any means, I don´t care if you don´t like it, if I can alter your DNA to make my and all species a better lifeform, I´ll fucking do it), the Destroy-Ending changed from best to worst and the Refusal-Ending is just fun to watch :D

Still, the stupid God-Child still blubbers nonsense the second he starts talking, he´s still going on about how synthetics destroy organics so synthetics don´t destroy organics while ignoring the fact that Shepard himself has proven him wrong three times already (Grunt, EDI, the Geth - all of these are Creations that don´t rebell against their Creators, at least not anymore).

Plus: He´s just a fucking AI that can´t get over the fact that HE rebelled against his creators.

The Slideshow...ah well, I guess there´s only so much you can do in a few month´s time and Bioware had to try and save what they could of ME3 before no one gave a shit anymore.