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[Mass Effect] SPOILER ALL ME3 DISCUSSION. EVERY SINGLE BIT. EVEN HINTS.
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2. Where was the necessity of the cycle at all demonstrated? Where was it shown that there was any reason to believe that synthetics overrunning the galaxy and/or universe was ever a problem to be significantly concerned about?
A bit too late for that though...
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That would certainly explain things but it's hardly ideal for external Extended Universe information to be required for the games themselves to make sense.
This amuses me.
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FFS, it's not. Take a step back, look at how much fun you had, how engaged you were with the characters along the way.
Even if you hate the ending with the power of a thousand suns, didn't you enjoy drunk Tali, or target shooting with Garrus, or the Brothean talking to that Hanar, or motherfucking Blast 6: Partners in Crime?
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It wouldn't have been an ideal ending, but it would have been an acceptable one.
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Ideally, we'd have a fully playable epilogue where you'd walk around on the ship and Earth and talk to everyone to get their take on everything. Maybe a few missions afterwards to show that things aren't perfect.
Hopefully we'll get a DLC that is basically like that.
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Ending wasn't horrible, but just felt out of place. Shepard making the ultimate sacrifice (at least, in my ending) is perfectly fine. The problem is that, for a franchise that's supposed to be about choice and consequences, we don't get to see any consequences. Ambiguous endings are fine if they ask the viewer/player significant questions, but what's there to figure out? In my game, Shepard brokered peace between the Quarians and Geth. He already broke the cycle there, for all intents and purposes. The Reapers are stopped, no matter what the player chooses (for shits and giggles, I tried shooting at the ghost kid). Why not show something more interesting than Buzz Aldrin (who's a fucking boss, regardless) talking to a kid? Or, in my case, the newly hybridized Normandy crew crash landing on a random planet?
I'm also not a fan of the Catalyst info dump. It's helped by the day-one DLC, as Javik really beats you over the head with the whole "Organics and synthetics cannot coexist" meme, but since the reapers are techno-organic, we don't get any kind of confirmation about that until the end. It would have worked better if the Prothean data found on Mars also described what the Protheans understood about previous cycles, with supporting corroboration coming from Liara, Thessia, etc. Draw it out, reveal it in pieces, rather than just spew it all out at the end.
Finally, where's Harbinger? He made, what, like one appearance? What a wasted opportunity.
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Look, Bioware. I'm not even mad like other people are mad. I'm just very confused.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
And then of course, how is the conquest a problem if you're ok with just straight up murdering trillions of people. Unless you're ascribing a ridiculous purpose to evolution, then if you're willing to kill trillions of people every 50,000 years and eradicate galactic civilization, why the fuck do you even care that it might be being run by only 1 set of guys. Do their citizens not have regional differences in culture, art, scientific study? It's a civilization not a population of homogenizing bon Neumann machines (which is much closer to what the Reapers seem to behave like).
And on top of that all is the fucked up torture and experimentation: the Reapers don't just kill people. They harvest them. They torture and mutate them and psychologically destroy them. None of which is necessary - at all - if the purpose is simple annihilation.
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Yeah he basically just makes the appearance at the very end
<Shepard> Then who?
<Conrad Verner> *busts through a wall like the Kool Aid man* DON'T WORRY SHEPARD, I'VE GOT THIS!!!
<Shepard> *Renegade throws Conrad into the Synthesis beam*
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Thats just it tho.
WHere the fuck is joker going? Why? How? How did garrus and EDI who were with me on earth get there?
Does no one remember the MASSIVE flack the movie contact got for the aliens being her dad? This is the same thing... its dumb! make it something like vigil but not some sappy char (just introduced in this damn game) from sheps past....
If the relays DO NOT wipe out the systems SOL is fucked. Every major military faction stuck near earth which is decimated and depleted (its why we left, earth is used up of resources.) Turians and quarians cant eat our food so they starve off. Shit is very very dire in all cases.
Its like they heaped on way more questions than answers.
I WANT MY MP- look me on the origins my PC buddays- lets get those credits and xp coming on strong! I want to run goldS!
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Also I didn't even realize that thing with Charr was the same as the guy from the previous game. That's extra sad now.
Putting this re-imagining of the ME3 ending here again:
And it wouldnt even knock off that many points.... its just damn!
Well, still...
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Also, I made peace between the Geth and Quarians! Eldritch ghost boy disproved.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Infiltrator tits?
Another thing I found a bit odd with the ending
But then, who'd want to sacrifice themselves for a Yahg cycle?
This goes to the fact that reaper motivations changed between 2 and 3.
NOW they are motivated by stopping the sythetic singularity. dark energy was no where in there in 3.
Ah whatever...
The kind that you see a shimmer and know they are there cloaked... just jiggling there invisibly taunting you?
Some of the ambient conversations in this game are just amazing, and the infiltrator tits one was a personal favorite.