So he’s not technically dead. He’s just swimming around in a wad of information somewhere.
He’s become part of every Geth. He’s sort of like a robot Jesus.
The ending dlc is called extended cut and it’s free
From BioWare’s blog
I don’t know how this will effect the indoc theory
That’s all we need to know. They’ve mess up the end and won’t change it one bit because… screw us.
On the one hand, if the ending is as bad as people say, that sucks for the people invested in the story and shame on Bioware. On the other hand, this was evidently planned and I would kind of (figuratively) lose respect for them if they entirely retconned their ending just because people don’t like it.
Thats 3 failures in a row for bioware (Dragon Age 2, Swotor and now ME3), they are probably making money alright but loosing players trust.
I will seriously think twice about buying anything from bioware from now on.
Edit : Make that 4 failures, the 1st dragon age expension was crap to.
Edit 2 : check that : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MlatxLP-xs&context=C4d1e070ADvjVQa1PpcFOAotan6Dc9_jGpjj0VDps2UnZJ8Hh1XoQ=
this guy has it just right.
^ First Dragon Age in general was crap. The base story was pretty good, but the rest of it was meh. I didn’t like the side stuff you had to do to get to the ending of the story either. Mass Effect 3 isn’t a fail, it’s just the ending that is a fail.
^ Yes indeed, many people seem to forget that the vast majority of ME3 was brilliant.
And that’s what pisses me off. The ending was dumb but was it really so bad that you can dismiss the rest of the game as crap? Of course not! But saying ‘Most of the game was good except the ending’ just doesn’t sound as cool as ‘ME3 FUCKING SUCKS’. I mean people can’t really just forget the the first 10 or so hours of awesomeness playing the game, can they? Or is the ending just one giant forget me ray that makes you forget the rest of the game entirely?
idk, I know I enjoyed the game, and I could’ve enjoyed the ending a lot more if they just explained it, which they apparently are gonna do with the extended cut.
ME3 is wrong on more points than just the endings.
There were HUGE “links” opened for ME3 to be even more personnal and unique for everyone with the choosing of paragon or renegade for every one in your ship, even more so with your own actions (killing the rachni, wrex, destroying the collectors base ect, ect…) None of those led to something in the 3 but pathetic “points” in your galatic war bullcrap.
The scenario is full of incoherencies, You tell me how could they move the crucible to earth ? How did they prevent the reapers from blowing it ? I could keep on going for quite some time, my point is the only thing ME3 did better than the other 2 is the gameplay and even that could have been quite better.
Anyway whats done is done, nothing they will be doing now will save the game, It would seem that Bioware just lost it.
ME3 was really good moment to moment. The moment mordin dies is really well done. The moment you choose between the quarians or the geth is really well done. The moment the leave earth would be really well done if ithad no kids in it.
However, on the whole, its just a mess. The crucible has no reason to exist, the citadel has no reason to be the catalyst, the various races have no reason why they could help against the reapers and even if they could they didn’t have any reason to be as dickishly selfish as they were. At no point did you feel like the galaxy would end. Your squadmates, you, civilians, and everyone else was always fairly calm about their impending destruction.
In short, the whole game was a massive trainwreck from a story perspective and Mass Effect deserves to be remembered as how not to do a trilogy.
This, and the post below it.
ME3 was phenomenal but now Bioware has to deal with all the stigma the ending brought.
They should’ve entirely revamped the endings rather than adding the cutscenes they plan to. It’ll take more than what they have in store to win back the community.
[COLOR=‘Black’]EDIT: 2 AM, and fuck am I tired. Will respond to the post above me tomorrow if I get to it.
Hah, thanks mate, I was starting to feel lonely. I agree there are some nice scenes but those should also have been more complex.
I remember on my bitch renegade shepard in ME2 convincing mordin he did a good job with the genophage, why would he want later in ME3 to heal it ?
I also have been talking to every quarian in tali’s mission on my Hero paragon shepard, telling them going at war was not a good idea, even legion gave his point of view and the quarians seem to understand and should not have been likely to go attack the geth.
Also, in the end I was seriously disapointed by the illusive man it was too easy… how could such a man get indoctrinated ? Also forcing him to suicide … I had seen that already and was like “Meh”
What do you mean “how could TIM get indoctrinated?”. He was a very influential man who studied and implanted himself with Reaper tech. He was a human version of Saren, except they made him believe he was saving humanity from their clutches.
And besides that, he had a run-in with a specific form of a Reaper Dragons Tooth in the First Contact War which left him with visions and blue cybernetic eyes.
Alright, here’s a better question: Why did they think it was okay to do the exact same plot device they used in the first game, down to forcing him to kill him self. It was incredibly lazy.
Not to mention the reapers should have been the threat in the game, not the sudden military superpower that Cerberus inexplicably became.
So yeah the multiplayer DLC looks like fun
You guys are right, at first I was pissed off with the ending but I was a bit wrong… there were worse things that could have happened to the mass effect series, I for one have always thought that mass effect would become a MMO game eventually (thankfully that did not happen…yet). So not the worst possible ending for the series (especially when you consider that EA bought BioWare).
I like space operas, I was always a fan of star trek, so when I played the first mass effect I was instantly hooked. I enjoyed every part of mass effect, except the ending of the last game.
It’s kinda like eating an awesome chocolate cake but it’s not all chocolate, because there’s a piece of a turd stuck inside…like who cares it will blend with the chocolate amirite?
Except, as I just finished saying, the problem wasn’t just the ending. The whole plot of ME3 was total shit. And for a story based series, that is very bad.
Admittedly the plot of ME2 was shit too so we should have seen that coming, but still. Would have been nice if it was good.
So what I have come to the conclusion is that after reading an interview with one of ME’s top dogs (Weeks) is that EA didnt want to pour a lot of resources into this game and they wanted bioware to deal with what they were given. Furthermore I think its fair to say that EA had something to do with such a speculative ending leaving it open for possible games in the future to milk the series past games excellence…
however in the end it was biowares baby and they decided to turn the ending into a load of spunk, I’ve decided that nothing is going to change the current game and that it will just continue to spiral down the drain as time goes on and the companies really give less and less shits about their fans and their stories
Noted. Seconded. The whole game was a disappointment. From buying fuel for interstellar travel to the endless (but mostly skippable) overwrought cutscenes. I guess that ME2 set the bar for dog-fuckery of the franchise and ME3 continued the trend. I preferred roaming across planets in my awesome jeep, complete with guided rockets and a machine gun. I liked interacting with virtual strippers at a significant financial savings. And I never gave a monkey’s red ass about the Shepard character, his/her sex life, or how others perceive his responses as naughty or nice. For me, the real appeal was that open-ended, massive multiverse that has systematically been cut to the barest essentials to maintain gamer loyalty. ME3 is a sequel, not a very good one, with all the idiosyncratic charm of an idiot savant. No sir, I didn’t like it.