Mass Effect Megathread: He said "I should go." Do I sound like that? - Games

[QUOTE=Korolev86;43779037]The Origin page says it comes with the N7 Arsenal Pack. I think the defender armor is a pre-order bonus item.[/QUOTE] Fuuuccck. I guess mods will have to do for now to get it, then. Thank you.

[QUOTE=God dammit;43771797]Hey guys! What do you think? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awt_zt9xasM[/media][/QUOTE] Damn you, I want to replay Leviathan now, but I know it's not nearly as awesome as that trailer.

Beat the game for the first time a few days ago. Went about as expected from what everyone's said about it. [sp]Does Destroy ending mean the Geth are wiped out as well? I really hope it doesn't.[/sp]

We have some bad news for you.... Although, to be fair, I think the EC hinted at the fact that they could be repaired.

[QUOTE=Fyhlen;43787597]Beat the game for the first time a few days ago. Went about as expected from what everyone's said about it. [sp]Does Destroy ending mean the Geth are wiped out as well? I really hope it doesn't.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]yes, sorry.[/sp] I personally ended at Citadel, [sp]and pretend that the Reapers were pushed back instead of destroyed, controlled, or synthesized with humans. So they need to think of a plan to destroy the Reapers, and the casualties of the war was at least 80-90% of the entire galaxy, only at most 1-2 billion are alive. So think Refusal, but with Reapers pushed back, no starbrat, and massive casualties with only a few million alive for each race, totaling to around 1 or 2 billion. I know you can't destroy via conventional warfare, but at the very least can't you push them back?[/sp]

[QUOTE=ForcedDj;43793492][sp]yes, sorry.[/sp] I personally ended at Citadel, [sp]and pretend that the Reapers were pushed back instead of destroyed, controlled, or synthesized with humans. So they need to think of a plan to destroy the Reapers, and the casualties of the war was at least 80-90% of the entire galaxy, only at most 1-2 billion are alive. So think Refusal, but with Reapers pushed back, no starbrat, and massive casualties with only a few million alive for each race, totaling to around 1 or 2 billion. I know you can't destroy via conventional warfare, but at the very least can't you push them back?[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]A better idea would be that the series ended at one. Here's my idea: no other race in the whole galaxy since the reapers have been around harvesting people has ever killed sovereign. But we did. Doesn't that justify stopping the cycle and leaving the galaxy well enough alone?[/sp]

[QUOTE=ForcedDj;43793492][sp]I know you can't destroy via conventional warfare, but at the very least can't you push them back?[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]This is so stupid. If you can kill them, you can conceivably win conventionally. I'm not saying it would be easy, and there would be massive casualties like you said, but it would be doable.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Irespawnoften;43802851][sp]This is so stupid. If you can kill them, you can conceivably win conventionally. I'm not saying it would be easy, and there would be massive casualties like you said, but it would be doable.[/sp][/QUOTE] Tactics can only account for so much - in the end, it seems to boil down to raw numbers and technology. The Reapers could snipe a ship from much further than everyone else, not to mention the beating they could take, and while their numbers were presumptively smaller by several zeroes, that alone would be enough to assure domination.

[QUOTE=Ekalektik_1;43757735]Mass Effect 3 has [url=http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/?]a Nexus page[/url]. Unfortunately, the Nexus is still the Nexus.[/QUOTE] I'll probably have to poke Jean Luc.

[video=youtube;q6yCw29JnQk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6yCw29JnQk[/video] So much promise.

I just started my third complete run of the series, almost five years to the day since I first played ME1. Haven't had a nostalgia blast of this magnitude for a long, long while.

I sold all my ME games shortly after I completed 3, I was so, so fucking angry. I plan to buy ME Legacy edition in July for PC though, it's all good.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think all these stories of ME3 anger causing people smashing discs/selling the whole series sound rather excessive? I know the endings were disappointing, but come on...

I thought the reaction by fans was a tad excessive, but I didn't really like the whole premise of 3 itself, so the ending being bad didn't shock me at all.

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;43849116]Is it just me, or does anyone else think all these stories of ME3 anger causing people smashing discs/selling the whole series sound rather excessive? I know the endings were disappointing, but come on...[/QUOTE] I was obsessed with ME3, man. Seriously. Every single day I went to school and went to do anything all I had in my mind was Mass Effect 3 and how it was gonna end. I was so fucking excited, seriously. I was going through some bad shit at the time, and you know, that's what kept me going. I dont wanna be too dramatic, but that's how I felt at the time. Then, like, the night I completed it, it was 7AM, with school at 8AM, and I had stayed up really late to finish the fight. I was wearing an N7 shirt, Garrus figure at my side. I finished it, and spent like, an hour, in my bed, crying. It really hurt me and changed the way I saw games. I was so angry and upset I deleted my mass effect saves on my 360 (ME1, 2, 3) and sold my copies.

Frankly, the ending of 3 just ruins the replayability of the entire series for me.

When it comes to my experience with ME3 it started long before it was released. There was a guy on 4chan who revealed the team made up the story as they went and had no idea how to finish it. Then the numerous script leaks... I knew in advance to get ready for the worst. And with the first impressions it was clear all hope was gone. That being said I didn't lose sleep over it but it was sad to see how ME3 turned out. And I'm not talking just about the ending.

I sure wish ME3 was better, but it's certainly far from being a bad game in my opinion. I've seen a lot of people shit all over it, BioWare, and even the whole series because ME3 wasn't up to their expectations. I think it's ridiculous.

[QUOTE=Marden;43850153]When it comes to my experience with ME3 it started long before it was released. There was a guy on 4chan who revealed the team made up the story as they went and had no idea how to finish it. Then the numerous script leaks... I knew in advance to get ready for the worst. And with the first impressions it was clear all hope was gone. That being said I didn't lose sleep over it but it was sad to see how ME3 turned out. And I'm not talking just about the ending.[/QUOTE] Can I get a link to something about that guy on 4chan? I knew there were script leaks, but I didn't think that the writing team was THAT incompetent.

[QUOTE=Loadingue;43850200]I sure wish ME3 was better, but it's certainly far from being a bad game in my opinion. I've seen a lot of people shit all over it, BioWare, and even the whole series because ME3 wasn't up to their expectations. I think it's ridiculous.[/QUOTE] In my opinion the series is still absolutely top-notch, especially compared to a lot of other games on the market. What bugs at me is the wasted potential, of which there is a whole lot. ME3 was pretty good, but it pales in comparison to what it [I]could[/I] have been and arguably should have been. The story is still very memorable to me but it just feels so...rushed. On the flipside, I feel like a lot of the wasted potential we see, we only see because of how much we love the games and how much we've played them and thought about the stories; in some ways I'm not sure a newcomer would be quite as bothered as us. I don't know for sure, but that's the feeling I get.

[QUOTE=Ekalektik_1;43852195]In my opinion the series is still absolutely top-notch, especially compared to a lot of other games on the market. What bugs at me is the wasted potential, of which there is a whole lot. ME3 was pretty good, but it pales in comparison to what it [I]could[/I] have been and arguably should have been. The story is still very memorable to me but it just feels so...rushed. On the flipside, I feel like a lot of the wasted potential we see, we only see because of how much we love the games and how much we've played them and thought about the stories; in some ways I'm not sure a newcomer would be quite as bothered as us. I don't know for sure, but that's the feeling I get.[/QUOTE] They totally should have had us pull a rescue on Garrus's family.

I just kinda feel like Mass Effect 3 sums up a good chunk of the issues ailing AAA development. From the insistence to appeal to EVERYONE (Me3 really isn't a good place for new players to start period, no matter what EA said about it otherwise.) to the the lackluster effort put into the design and animation, wasting a good chunk of the budget on advertising and pre-release marketing, the odd choices in story and writing and the PR disaster that promptly followed the ending. In a way, Bioware screwed themselves over with the ending because they took it in a bad direction and it seems like they're struggling to continue from it with the next game. I don't have high hopes, unfortunately.

[QUOTE=Marden;43850153]When it comes to my experience with ME3 it started long before it was released. There was a guy on 4chan who revealed [B]the team made up the story as they went and had no idea how to finish it.[/B] Then the numerous script leaks... I knew in advance to get ready for the worst. And with the first impressions it was clear all hope was gone. That being said I didn't lose sleep over it but it was sad to see how ME3 turned out. And I'm not talking just about the ending.[/QUOTE] Looking back on it now, I guess that should be rather apparent. I remember there was a Casey Hudson interview where he essentially explained his process on the game, and he said that he knew what he wanted in the story, or where the story itself had to go, but he didn't have the finite details. He used the Illusive Man as an example, saying he knew there had to be this ominous figure working with Shepard in some capacity, but he left it up to Drew and Mac to nail it down.

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;43849116]Is it just me, or does anyone else think all these stories of ME3 anger causing people smashing discs/selling the whole series sound rather excessive? I know the endings were disappointing, but come on...[/QUOTE] Nope. People were extremely invested and BW marketing sold them a bill of goods based [i]directly[/i] on that investment. I don't think you comprehend how much people spent in both time and money on the franchise.

Mass Effect 3 was a game I enjoyed as I played, then I hit the ending and didn't know how to feel. Then as the months rolled on and my disappointment set in I saw more flaws with the game, from start to finish. After a while I realised the game was mediocre, especially compared to the previous games, and that much of it felt unfinished or rushed. Then I tried to replay ME1 and I discovered that ME3 managed to sap my love for the series dry, I don't dislike it or anything, but when I try to play ME1 or ME2 everything seems so futile because I remember that if I continue I'll have to play the ending again. On the other hand the multiplayer was a pleasant surprise, and I'm hoping ME4 includes a better version of it. It's a bit sad that the thing I'm most looking forward to in a future Mass Effect game is the multiplayer.

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[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;43853360]On the other hand the multiplayer was a pleasant surprise, and I'm hoping ME4 includes a better version of it. It's a bit sad that the thing I'm most looking forward to in a future Mass Effect game is the multiplayer.[/QUOTE] The multiplayer was pretty cool but I just couldn't keep playing. The reward system was so fucking annoying were you had to be really lucky to get the right thing. It completely destroyed my experience when I saw people getting all this cool shit and I kept opening things for 1-2 classes.

[QUOTE=Loadingue;43850200]I sure wish ME3 was better, but it's certainly far from being a bad game in my opinion. I've seen a lot of people shit all over it, BioWare, and even the whole series because ME3 wasn't up to their expectations. I think it's ridiculous.[/QUOTE] That's the reason why I started to play the entire series again, just finished ME 2 yesterday. 2 years ago, when I first saw ME 3's ending I was more than disappointed. I even watched dozens of videos on YouTube about the ending, at first because of denial, later because I wanted people to confirm what I already felt about it. Like there was one single person in the development team who forced his/her own "artistic vision" on the ending, manipulating it. But of course you still should respect the series itself even if it's only for the fact that so many people got emotionally invested in it. Hold the line. No one gets left behind. There are more lines like these which perfectly symbolise why we should still care for Mass Effect.

To this day I keep wondering if my expectations got high after ME1 and they simply couldn't deliver them. I think there was a lot of hardware limitations but who knows how true they were. One thing that bothers me to this day is that Bioware made these cool aliens but in three games we haven't seen most of the opposite sex. At this point I don't care about Bioromances and it's really annoying to see most of the aliens to be male throughout 3 games. Not to mention you meet female Turian only in a DLC. If they focused ME2 more on getting the galaxy ready for the Reapers instead of Shepard the Superhero we could have seen much more of the galaxy.

[video=youtube;mhjvtxtq5wc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhjvtxtq5wc[/video] It's always good to see him.