The game was great, including how well it reflected most of your choices in earlier games. Only the end let it down
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The game was great, including how well it reflected most of your choices in earlier games. Only the end let it down
Only the end let it down
I am SO intrigued by this ending.
...now I know it is gonna be crap(so many people think so, i haven't seen a good comment!) I will probably enjoy watching it.As the end of a standalone shooter game it's probably not entirely terrible. As the end of an RPG trilogy that heavily features choices and multiple paths from those choices it's pathetic.
The series builds Shepard up as someone that does the impossible and generally ignores when people/superior races insist something can't be done only for the end to basically make him bend his knee to some god child thingy that gives him 3 options and none of them don't involve screwing over all the people/races/fleets he'd spent the game gathering.
And don't even get us started on WTF happens to the Normandy
And don't even get us started on WTF happens to the Normandy
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Didnt EA or bioware say you didnt need to play the multiplayer for best ending? I'll just cheat, sack multiplayer.
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you don't but you need to pretty much max out the single player game and side quests apparently.
Finished all my 3 endings (destroy reapers, control reapers & synthesis) with at least 5000 military strength.
Overall its a good (not great) game story-wise although the game engine is a little dated. Was it worth game of the year, I don't think so. Was it worth release status buying, yeah it did get me through the past week and I did enjoy the game.
The ending for me wasn't satisfying enough, it earned a "meh" from me ..... they unfortunately painted themselves into a corner and I felt Bioware spent most of the writing time tying up the loose ends rather than working on the ending. Mordin, Thane & Legion sacrificing themselves were appropriate and well written but the ending just kinda stamps over your decisions you've made in the past games.
Someone on the Bioware forums described it as "space magic" for the resolution ..... and for me, the ending of Mass Effect 3 is akin to the ending of The Matrix Revolutions .... "magic" turns our protagonist into some form of Jesus ending a cycle that has existed for a very long time and along the way we learn how bad war can be as friends make sacrifices or die.
It was happens when you build something up with religious overtones ... same thing happened with Battlestar Galactica as well
Overall its a good (not great) game story-wise although the game engine is a little dated. Was it worth game of the year, I don't think so. Was it worth release status buying, yeah it did get me through the past week and I did enjoy the game.
The ending for me wasn't satisfying enough, it earned a "meh" from me ..... they unfortunately painted themselves into a corner and I felt Bioware spent most of the writing time tying up the loose ends rather than working on the ending. Mordin, Thane & Legion sacrificing themselves were appropriate and well written but the ending just kinda stamps over your decisions you've made in the past games.
Someone on the Bioware forums described it as "space magic" for the resolution ..... and for me, the ending of Mass Effect 3 is akin to the ending of The Matrix Revolutions .... "magic" turns our protagonist into some form of Jesus ending a cycle that has existed for a very long time and along the way we learn how bad war can be as friends make sacrifices or die.
It was happens when you build something up with religious overtones ... same thing happened with Battlestar Galactica as well
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Finished all my 3 endings (destroy reapers, control reapers & synthesis) with at least 5000 military strength.
Overall its a good (not great) game story-wise although the game engine is a little dated. Was it worth game of the year, I don't think so. Was it worth release status buying, yeah it did get me through the past week and I did enjoy the game.
The ending for me wasn't satisfying enough, it earned a "meh" from me ..... they unfortunately painted themselves into a corner and I felt Bioware spent most of the writing time tying up the loose ends rather than working on the ending. Mordin, Thane & Legion sacrificing themselves were appropriate and well written but the ending just kinda stamps over your decisions you've made in the past games.
Someone on the Bioware forums described it as "space magic" for the resolution ..... and for me, the ending of Mass Effect 3 is akin to the ending of The Matrix Revolutions .... "magic" turns our protagonist into some form of Jesus ending a cycle that has existed for a very long time and along the way we learn how bad war can be as friends make sacrifices or die.
It was happens when you build something up with religious overtones ... same thing happened with Battlestar Galactica as well
Thats where the biggest fail comes from, until the stupidity of the god child catalyst thingy there was few if any religious tones or hints in the entire ME series. The Reapers were an unknowable force with a somewhat unknown motivation for their actions but they weren't hinted at as being controlled by anything.
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Worst part of the ending?When that little message box popped up saying, now continue your adventures with DLC!
So true. My immediate thought was, what is the point, I have finished my story now!
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Woo met Conrad again. He has some classic lines, including a few digs at the fans and an amusing retort regarding the bug in ME2 where he always thought you went for the renegade option in the first game.
Nobody is expecting them to write 5 different games depending on how you did things. They were probably expecting things to actually vary between each experience.
The extent of ME1 to ME2 decisions were pathetic crap like:
Save the Rachni Queen? You get a little dialogue that boils down to 'Hi Shephard, we're still here you know!' with some random NPC on Illium.
Save the villagers: Mini-quest about the nasty corporation on Illium with all its fine print. Save the Asari? The generic NPC is replaced by her instead.
Wrex is killed? Replace Wrex by some generic Krogan.
Tiny little things, just enough to make some of you wet yourselves in glee at the link between the 2 games, while leaving everyone else wondering what the point was.
I was expecting something more substantial. Would it have been so much trouble to have a real side quest involving the Rachni if you saved them instead of the aforementioned irrelevant encounter with a completely unrelated NPC?
Could Wrex being alive have meant things played out a little differently? Rather than simply allowing you to skip a dialogue choice (I think that was about all it affected anyway). Maybe he could've given you a sidequest also while you were on the planet. a REAL sidequest, not a 'pick up some item while you're at the place you were going to anyway' type of sidequest.
Maybe events could've played out differently in subtle ways. But no, instead they had everything playing out exactly the same way with all the previous choices being almost inconsequential little additions. Even if it meant the outcome of a situation was the same, there could have been big differences in how you got to that point.
Honestly going by this thread I think most people who bought ME3 have absolutely no concept of criticism what-so-ever and simply complement everything. The effect of the choice system was an absolute joke and could've been made considerably better if Bioware had put even the smallest bit of effort into it instead of just token gestures.
Haven't seen him yet. Where/when abouts did you see him?
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Was that sarcasm? Almost every gaming thread I see these days is filled with whinging and "criticism". I very rarely see any game complemented. Then again, people are much more likely to rage on forums and complain than post something complimentary.
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After the Citadel mission, down in the docks/refugee area.
Really? Half this thread seems to be saying 'omg the game is awesome in every conceivable way' and the other half is jumping on the 'omg the endings suck' bandwagon. Any other complaint is immediately dismissed.
Really? You sure you have the right thread?..... I haven't seen anyone praising the game without also criticizing aspects of it. EDIT- LOL, except the guy above you, didn't see that
Some people are just not letting the bad bits(of which there are a few too many to completely ignore imo) spoil their enjoyment of the game.
PS. When I have completed the game, I will review it with plus/minus points, and believe me, there will be plenty in the minus bit!
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