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[Mass Effect] SPOILER ALL ME3 DISCUSSION. EVERY SINGLE BIT. EVEN HINTS.
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Yeah. Going through the game all I could of was "That was so awesome/perfect/heartbreaking/badass". Then the ending hits.... Now it overshadows all the good parts of the game.
You have 30 hours and you're only where you are? What have you been doing exactly? I thought I was taking it slow and I'm only at 21 or so.
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Yeah, the specific issue was no peer review, when all the other writing in the game had peer review to shore up the weaknesses.
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wow I didn't realise I had that much left
I just hit 24 hours and I've done a couple of Rannoch missions, fully maxed out the reputation bar and pretty much filled the war assets bar too because I've done every sidemission I could find
and it feels like insanity this time around is easier than ME2
I carry just my graal and N7 smg everywhere my charge cooldown is crazy fast, lots of fun
That said, the synthesis option is the good and proper solution, but how they got there was rubbish. There is no viable reason why it had not been done up until that point except "lol macguffin." it bugged me too how they framed it as the middle option, and the other two as paragon or renegade(notice the blue in one corner and red on the other?). And yet, the paragon option is anything but.
Furthermore, the execution was terrible. Where's the character resolution? How can you produce what might be the very best series of character moments in all of video games, and completely drop the ball with resolving those character stories? And seriously, fuck that epilogue. I can't hate on the bad voice acting too much because hey cool Buzz Aldrin, but deciding to frame the entire narrative as a grandpa telling a story? "some of the details might be off?" wtf? No, the goddamn details are all right because I made those choices, damn you.
Basically, if you're going to ignore the characters at the end and go for a hard scifi contention, then you should at least have it make some damn sense. Mass Effect 3 was one big run of validation and awesome character moments, and they undid a lot of that good will at the very end.
The recent Deus Ex farmed out all their boss battles.
What could possibly go wr-
Hrm.
It's like the Council, they don't want to admit that Vanguards are a threat so they silence you for bringing it up.
Of course, I did find a few things odd along the way. Liara was my love interest throughout the series, and I really didn't feel like I got as much interaction with her as I was expecting. Often after a mission, you'll go around to different crew compartments for a chat, and I felt that as my girlfriend, Liara would have a lot to say. But strangely, there weren't all that many dialogue wheel sequences with her. In fact, I actually felt like I got way more sequences with Garrus. And that's a good bromance and all, I love Garrus like a brother, but it seemed strange that BioWare gave me more significant interactions with him then with the girl I've slept with. There were also multiple cutscenes with Liara where she talked about us being friends, which just seemed really odd, as if I were watching scenes meant for a playthrough where Shepard had hooked up with someone else. I mean, I slept with her way back in ME1, I don't think we should really be calling each other friends anymore? Kinda hurt my feelings, just a bit. Of course, I dunno what other people's experiences with Tali or Ashley romances are like, so maybe they get more interactions.
Now spoilers to talk about the bad ending:
Why was the Catalyst in the form of the stupid kid that I kept having bad dreams about? I never cared about that kid. And why would the Catalyst know to take that form? Could it read my mind? Is it naturally a blue ghost kid? Was that kid in the beginning of the game the Catalyst? Why would the Catalyst be a little dumb kid living on earth?
Also, I'm still not even sure what the Catalyst is. It said it controlled the Citadel. Does that mean it's the Reapers? Is it one of the Reapers? Is it something even higher, controlling the Reapers? Is it just God? It never really explained what it was.
The Catalyst's plan doesn't really make much sense. The whole idea is that organics will create synthetic life, like the geth, and they'll wipe out all organic life. So instead, the Reapers come and wipe out most advanced organic life every once in a while? That sounds like a really dumb plan. Instead of the Geth wiping out all organics, you've got the Reapers, wiping out almost all organics. Surely there must be something a bit less destructive they could've come up with. Like... why don't the Reapers come around every once in a while and wipe out any sentient AI that are hellbent on killing the organics? And they can create new Reapers out of the elements of the rogue AI? See, that even makes more sense, cause you're using the parts of sentient robots to build more sentient robots, instead of the idiotic notion of using organic tissue juice to grow new sentient robots.
And at the end, you can choose to send out some sort of pulse to merge all organic and synthetic life together, like a new DNA. Well... that sounds like magic. How would that even work? How could a green flash of light convert everyone's structure into this new amalgam? It sounds like a huge deus ex machina.
The ending cutscene is always the Normandy landing on some beautiful tropical planet, evoking the imagery of a garden of Eden. It looks nice and all, but it just makes no sense. Last time I checked, all the important squad members of Shepard were down on Earth, fighting with him. Now they suddenly end up back on the ship with Joker? EDI and Liara and James? How did that happen?
EDIT: Here's a drinking game for ME3. Take a drink anytime someone says the word "Crucible." You're gonna die.
Oh goodness.
Also, after he gets shot in the back, and still rides up the elevator, I thought "Oh fuck, please die on the way, don't tell me he's going to be crawli-AW MAN NO NO NO D8"
That happened to me today.
Then I was high scorer of the match.
So nya.
Wait, like a facial code?
Because I sort of demand that code.
NOW.
Yeah, this is a very bad idea in general, let alone when making the grand finale of a hugely successful three-part story.
Hopefully, the reception they've gotten will teach them to never do that again.
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
Damn ending...
Again, where the hell did Harbinger go? Can't believe they skipped a confrontation with him!
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I actually can totally buy that. In fact I even kind of like it.
This was actually why I decided I'd try a Vanguard with just a Phalax pistol.
Turns out, pretty gorram effective.
Furthermore...
Vanguards are the new face of warfare. The lesser classes don't measure up. <3
Abslooly. I've been having great fun with my pistol vanguard now that I have half nova. Its not so I can nova twice, not at all. Its so I can take an errant hit before I charge again!
In my last match I managed to charge four turrets to death while my team looked on in frustration/awe/pants wetting lust. I'm betting lust. One of them kept checking out my swank orange with lime highlight armor.
Blue ending: Shepard takes control of the reapers. Everyone lives? Shepard now has control of the reapers to do his bidding? (Basically could use it as the ultimate peace keeping force?)
Green ending: This is the one I chose because I am so tired and have no idea what was going on. So like, did everyone turn into robot/organic lifeforms or did it wipe out all current life in the galaxy so the normady crew can adam and eve it up?
Red ending: All synthetics destroyed. Does this include all technology? No more spaceships or anything?
I am so tired I have no idea what is going on.
It seems deeply insane to not properly vet things or give the proper number of writers, especially when this is the last thing people will see in a universe you theoretically want to continue building upon.
I find insanity is the best challenge ratio in me so far. Unlike in me and me2 soldier does not auto win by pressing y anymore.
The game feels really rough though. The camera routinely wigs out and I have had it fail to load and crash to a black screen twice nice. Still love the game though, but it sure loves reminding me it has issues.
Casey Hudson should be sacked, basically.
I don't think you should try and put much effort into understanding the endings. Bioware obviously didn't...
Green one: All species ever are now robot/organic lifeforms. Final stage of evolution and stuff.
Red one: All synthetics destroyed. That means Reapers, Geth, EDI, people with cybernetic implants like Shep, all gone.
The Normandy and Joker are in every cutscene. As for what that means...no one really knows.
Multiplayer is the only thing that changes Galactic Readiness.
Readyness goes up if you win multiplayer matches. 4-7% per win, if I recall correctly.
hit by a totally cool bug in MP
which reset all my guns, mods, equipment, and unlocked classes
wheeeeeeeee
Had the same problems as you with where they actually took the ending.