*** Mass Effect 3 ***

Yahtzee knows the score. Not his best though imo.


That EA email has popped up again I see....... Very strange if it turns out to be true. Not sure I believe it to be true, but nothing would surprise me in this whole affair tbh. It makes as much sense as anything else.
 
Pighardia said:
Yahtzee knows the score. Not his best though imo.

That EA email has popped up again I see....... Very strange if it turns out to be true.
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I actually thought it was one of his worst.

As for the EA email, i don't see it as being remotely true because theres just no need, if they want to know the crack they only need to google/look at the Bio forums etc.
 
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/03/22/frozen-synapses-changed-ending-a-mass-indie-effect/

All the important games are changing their endings these days, you know. If you want a high profile, that’s the way to go – and as Mass Effect 3 teaches us, preferably after initially concluding your narrative with a last-minute bodgejob riddled with continuity errors, then subsequently bowing to fan ouctry. Frozen Synapse developers Mode 7 Games did no such thing, but have sensibly realised that the route to true success entails screwing around with their creative vision willy-nilly to suit whatever their community demands, and as such a new, happier (and far sillier) ending to their splendid turn-based strategy game will go live later today.

“I don’t mean this to be critical of Bioware even slightly,” Mode 7′s Paul Taylor tells me. “It’s just an experiment. I was so bowled over and fascinated just by the fact that such a change would even be considered, so I thought I’d see how it felt to do it.”

After quizzing the FZ community, Mode 7 went with a silly ending, taking on board such sober suggestions as “Moar ponies”, “Moar dinosaurs” and a promise to include the words ‘moist’ and ‘dolphin-proof.’ I won’t spoil the new ending here, but you can see a suitably ponydinotastic shot of it above and I can indeed assure you that these challenges were met. Also, that it’s a perfectly happy ending: it even includes a “yay!”

“It felt like vanadalising my own work,” admits Taylor, “and I feel really, really genuinely bad about any player who has been slogging their way through the game and is unlucky enough to finish the game in the week where this ending will be present.

“I don’t know why I’m doing this to them.”

Because you want to SHOW THEM, Paul. That’s why.

If you’re unwilling to complete the singleplayer campaign to see the new conclusion, you can do the following instead:

Open the console with `
playCutscene(alternate);
Close the console with ‘

And if you’re outraged by these shenanigans, you may be glad to hear that FZ will revert to its traditional ending next week.

Thus, the gauntlet is laid. We want to see more indie games jumping on this experimentation/ambient protest bandwagon: Change The Game deserves to be a worldwide movement, and #changethegame is its Twitter hashtag. Let us know if you’re joining in and we’ll do a round-up post in the next couple of days.

“I definitely think all indie devs should do this,” says Taylor. “It is very enlightening and a bit like a creative enema.” Ew.

So yes – CHANGE THE GAME. That’ll teach someone a lesson about something or other, probably.

More seriously, this is one of those things that makes videogames such a singular medium: even a concluded narrative can be deconcluded and altered at a moment’s notice. The way it went down and was responded to (by both sides) in the case of Mass Effect is all kinds of troubling, but the possibilities of story deformation are absolutely fascinating.
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Amraam said:
So...

Who's enjoying MP? I'm loving playing as human vanguard. Biotic charge,followed by several Novas is serously racking up me some points :)
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Played a bit of MP last night, played as a lvl 15 soldier and joined some random challenges. The funniest one was when I went head on with a Banshee and my Omniblade. Let's just say her fist and my armor were a poor match :)
 
That sums it up really, shows just how much the last few mins with the space wizard renders the entire ME story completely ridiculous

On a side note, the number of people in MP who don't understand the concept of biotic and tech combo explosions is rather annoying
 
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So... regarding the ending, wondered if anyone could clear it up for me as its rather confusing. Heavy spoilers, obviously.

Basically..

I did everything I could in the game positively, War Assets, side missions, you name it.

So obviously once I had done that I went on and finished the storyline, but then we get to the weird part. I'm just about to activate the crucible thinger and then this weird ghost kid shows up and talks a load of nonsense acting like he's the god of all. Then I'm supposed to choose between 3 things..

Control (Which is obviously bad choice if you follow the storyline)
Symbiosis (Which is also obviously bad, if you follow the storyline)
And finally Destroy, which seems like the only one left to take after the above 2 are ruled out.

But then... Citadel blows up (With everyone on it seemingly? Wheres the positivity in that?) and also all the Mass Relays blow up standing everyone you've ever known in random corners of the galaxy never to be seen again.

Earth seems saved, Reapers fall over.

Even the normandy crash lands on some random planet stranding your crew/friends for eternity seemingly.

And all we get at the end of that is a shot of what can only be assumingly Shepherd still alive, but albeit barely.

So I ask you this, what the hell happened. Is this the good ending? Did I spend all those hours for that?

I can't even comprehend what the "bad" ending must be like, if you have no war assets and are a butthole to everyone.

Seems such a letdown.

I posted earlier in this topic I was loving the game.. I thoroughly did until the ending.
 
stop trying to make sense of it!

Bioware obviously didn't want it to make sense with their "LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE" line.
Oh and there is very little difference between the 3 endings, the explosions are just a different colour. Mass Relays are destroyed in all of them, Normandy crashes, Shepard dies(don't give me that breath scene nonsense- biggest troll ever!) and you do not find out what happened to anyone
 
MooMoo444 said:
Stop trying to make sense of the ending a trilogy I've just invested so much hours into? o_O
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I was obviously being sarcastic:p

Honestly, the more you think about it the less sense it makes.

Indoctrination theory is the only way out of this mess, even if it wasn't intended
 
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Yeah, the more you think about what happened at the end the more it make the various events throughout the 3 games either contradictory or irrelevant
 
Re the ending. ;)

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Amraam said:
So...

Who's enjoying MP? I'm loving playing as human vanguard. Biotic charge,followed by several Novas is serously racking up me some points :)
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I have to confess some annoyance at some of the folks who play vanguard like a Scumbag Steve. They often seem to just charge around the map, maximising their own score to the detriment of the team. "Oh sorry, I'm too busy racking up kills and being number 1 to revive you or cover you while you hack the whatsit." And then they scream for a revive when it turns out they can't solo 8 geth hunters and 3 pyros.

On the other hand, nobody comes to the rescue quite like a vanguard played by a Good Guy Greg. "My friend is in trouble on the other side of the map? BAM I'm on top of him and unloading shotgun rounds into those troubles."

I often play vanguard, but I like to think of myself as one of the latter group.
 
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