Mass Effect 3

[GDM]

**spoliers....well I think****


Well, here is my take. I restarted playing ME 1 from the beginning and wanted to catch anything that Bioware sneakily placed into the games but people may not have picked up on.

When you first get to the Citidel in ME 1 you can run around the old version of the embassy area. There is a statue of a Mass Effect relay, if you go and check it out one of the squad members asks if you hear a odd humming noise. Same line Vega uses when you are in the new normandy in the shuttle bay. So,


In short, I think BioWare Indoctrinated the players

[whitehatt]

<sigh>

Okay, I just joined the ranks of those who reached the end only to feel utterly let down. Normally when I hear ahead of time something is bad but I wanna see it anyway, like John Carter, I go in expecting bad and leave pleasantly surprised. But finishing ME3 knowing so many were let down by the ending, I still....was let down by the ending. What a suckfest! Great start, great improvement on gameplay, but like the previous posters, I have zero desire to replay now after that ending.

[C.W.M.V.]

Yes the "indoctrination theory" about the ending...we have dismissed those claims.
lol

But seriously, I wanted Shepard with Tali on Rannoch, happily ever after. Thats all. Was that too much to ask?

To sum up why Im mostly pissed:


And:

Or from a Turian perspective...


EDIT: And WTF is with linking the Multiplayer and single player campaigns? I have to play multiplayer to get galactic readiness over 50%?
SCREW YOU BIOWARE!

At least those make me laugh!
back to Il2 '46 DBW for me.

[armygunsmith]

Ok...well I just finished it.
I'm pissed. Really, really pissed.

I'm with you on this one. What really got my goat were the inconsistencies at the end. I wasn't looking for a happily ever after ending, but more explanation would have helped. I hope they don't try so spin it all as indoctrination...

[j.hors]

I played thru twice, yes I do like the game. Did anyone else pick up on the while be careful with how far you advance technology wise?

[Icypu]

The endings made me so mad so I don't know if I want to play again. Plus my wife wont let me play through mass effect 1 "this game is all about you walking through the mall (Citadel station)". And she refuses to let me play through ME2 afterwards because she doesn't understand how I could die and be alive again.

This means unfortunately I am stuck with my ME3 import. Miranda died in the swarm, Jack in the stand the line and a few others gone. I also don't have any romances from the previous games so every night I sleep I get the freaky dreams.

[mossy]

The endings made me so mad so I don't know if I want to play again. Plus my wife wont let me play through mass effect 1 "this game is all about you walking through the mall (Citadel station)". And she refuses to let me play through ME2 afterwards because she doesn't understand how I could die and be alive again.

This means unfortunately I am stuck with my ME3 import. Miranda died in the swarm, Jack in the stand the line and a few others gone. I also don't have any romances from the previous games so every night I sleep I get the freaky dreams.

why do you let your wife decide what games you can play??? if you died in ME2 you did not put enough effort into your character every single import i have has full loyalty and all squad surviving the suicide mission. if you did not like the game play in ME3 its probably because you are missing out on a ton of stuff by not having all your squad survive the suicide mission. my advice is to clear o up about 50 hours or so and create a new ME1 character. you dont have to stick to paragon or renegade style thanks to a handy glitch that you can use to fill out both bars. just dont kill NPC though, they show up in the other 2 games and help out in the final battle with the reapers.

when you import your new game into ME2 pick a paragon or renegade style and stick to it. you will need a full bar to defuse some conflicts that arise in your squad. do all loyalty missions, mine out planets to fully upgrade the Normandy and buy the upgrades for your squad members finally be smart about your choices during the suicide mission i find if i left the techs alone to hold off the collectors one of them always died. send a loyal mordin solus to escort the ship survivors back to the shuttle, keep a loyal tali and thane with you in the battle with the human reaper.

as for the romances in the game male shepards go liara-tali-liara.
female shepards go liara-samara (she dont give anything up and is old as he1! but its fun to dream right)-then back to liara.
and dont forget about the hooker in ME1 for a little extra action if you play your cards right

by the time you get ready to import into ME3 they should have DLC out that will make the ending a bit better. enjoy

[aznanimekid]

use masseffectsaves to get around your wife.

[Hoop]

FWIW

"Daniel Gonzalez, director of marketing and public relations for EA Latin America, says that they will release no DLC with a different ending. There will be a DLC to better explain the details of the ending, but the ending will remain the same.

Regarding the future of the franchise, he declared that ME3 was the end of Shepard but not the end of the game, and promised that news about more DLC would be forthcoming in two weeks' time."

Which was what I was told...

[Laser Sailor]

Apparently when they told us there was going to be thousands of story variations leading to unique endings they were referring to the thousands of ways you can destroy an Xbox controller in frustration and anger....

Thanks Bioware, thanks, back to Skyrim.


Sent from my iPhone while crashing my mountain bike.

[C.W.M.V.]

End of Shepard but not the end of the game eh?
Well no Shepard means I'm really not interested.

[Hoop]

Bioware has now officially announced that there will be a free DLC with additional cutscenes and character epilogues sometime this spring/summer.

[gorenut]

Ending didn't bug me as much as people blew it out of proportion. I saw the whole game of ME3 as the ending to the trilogy and I enjoyed the game. Even the multiplayer is really fun. Honestly, my biggest disappointment is how they just throw in a bunch of generic guys if you don't have previous saves. I lost all my saved files for ME1 and ME2 when I migrated all my files to my new console. Really kills a lot of moments where I'd have more background with the characters due to my decisions in previous games. Watching my girlfriend play through the same areas I did, except with past characters really made my experience seem not as gratifying.

Its funny seeing people talk crap about ME3, yet herald Skyrim. Bethesda games in general epitomizes being overhyped and people misusing the word "epic" on them. Its a fine enough environment to just waste time in, but you can't tell me the game itself and the story had any real substance. The ending for example, "you.. the great dragon kin.. killed the world eating dragon.. congrats.. now go back to doing whatever you were doing before you saved the world...."

[Hoop]

I've been playing Skyrim for a few months now and was unaware that it had a main storyline.

[Laser Sailor]

I've been playing Skyrim for a few months now and was unaware that it had a main storyline.

I can see how that could happen..