Mass Effect Thread

[GaryCXJk]

Yeah, no matter how you twist or turn it, or no matter how much you like the current ending now, EA is still the worst company ever.

Case in point: The Katy Perry edition of Showtime. Which I still want.

[DrRocketGenius]

The Destroy Ending was easily my favorite.

[Vainamoinen]

Originally Posted by Shadowknight1

Okay, just did the extended cut for Synthesis. Spoilers:
Well, I was glad that they showed Joker coming to pick up my team-mates.

I just played that extended cut and now I hate EA even more. Eh, I probably picked a "wrong" ending.

The Normandy landing RIGHT IN FRONT of the teleport to the Citadel is the greatest crap. If they could do that, why the fuck have foot soldiers running into their death against it!??!!???!

And then I did the only reasonable thing, shot the annoying AI kid in the face. Resulting in a cheap thirty second Shepard sighs/ Liara beacon ending.

So this was my "extended cut". What a laugh.

[Darth Marsden]

Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

then I did the only reasonable thing, shot the annoying AI kid in the face. Resulting in a cheap thirty second Shepard sighs/ Liara beacon ending.

Yeah, it's widely regarded as a great big middle finger to anyone who wanted a wildly different ending.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

Yeah, it's widely regarded as a great big middle finger to anyone who wanted a wildly different ending.

Well it's what the Shepard a lot of people played would have done. That was one of the major complaints about the original ending: Why can't Shepard just do that.

[Darth Marsden]

Because that would have required a hell of a lot of work on Bioware's part, creating a completely new ending that effectively undoes the design choice that they decided on before the game was shipped.

No 'new' ending would has satisfied everyone, so they create a quick little "fuck you" to shut up everyone who didn't like the extended endings that they did (and which I think work, more or less).

[GaryCXJk]

Which is also a good way of getting a lot of fans to turn against yourself. Any middle finger approach will not work.

Also, they should have just gone with the Indoctrination Theory. Made a whole lot more sense to me.

[Darth Marsden]

Originally Posted by GaryCXJk

Also, they should have just gone with the Indoctrination Theory. Made a whole lot more sense to me.

Agreed. But, again, more work for Bioware!

[GaryCXJk]

Or, they could have just gone on Twitter and go like, sure, the Indoctrination Theory is true, and just go on and build a Mass Effect 4 around that. Heck, they could make the main protagonist be not-Shepard and make the protagonist hunt down Shepard. Depending on whether Shepard was indoctrinated, Shepard would or would not be the real antagonist of that game, and you had a choice of executing Shepard or not.

You hear what I'm hearing? It's a truckload of fictional cash that may or may have not existed on EA's bank account.

[DAISHI]

Originally Posted by GaryCXJk

Which is also a good way of getting a lot of fans to turn against yourself. Any middle finger approach will not work.

Also, they should have just gone with the Indoctrination Theory. Made a whole lot more sense to me.

The only thing that matters is not buying, and not enough people would do that for a theoretical part four to really hit their wallet.

[der_ketzer]

I didn't buy part 3.
Yay me?

[Vainamoinen]

Originally Posted by der_ketzer

I didn't buy part 3.
Yay me?

*sigh*

For boycotting Origin, you DO deserve a medal. I hate that one with a passion, and I will never ever buy another game on that platform.

Still, I had fun with ME3.

Some of the dialogue is the best in the series, particularly involving everything concerning Eve and Mordin. Although anything but my favorite character in ME2, Mordin Solus had such a meaningful farewell it did make me cry. And I just love what they did with Jack/ Subject Zero.

Yes, those dumb last two hours CAN ruin the entire series, and they still do in that useless piece of extended cut shit. But the path to disappointment is actually still a nice ride.

[Alcoremortis]

I haven't bought part three either and I plan to hold off on it until it moves to Steam or there ends up being more than one game on Origin that I would actually want to play. Because I really don't want to get a whole new game download service for one game.

[Darth Marsden]

I haven't got it 'cause I haven't seen it cheap enough on the 360. Shallow? Me? Meh.

(And before you ask - YouTube videos reveal all.)

[Gman5852]

*console master race.

[der_ketzer]

console who?

[Darth Marsden]

Originally Posted by Gman5852

*console master race.

Hey, I hate Origin and like consoles. Sue me.

[Shadowknight1]

God, I am so sick of the negativity around this ending. I swear, I haven't seen this much hate over an ending since Neon Genesis Evangelion. I seriously do not understand why you guys see it as "shit". And I really am sick of hearing "Indoctrination Theory". If that WERE true, then that makes all three games completely pointless and is just as big a cop-out as if Shepard were to wake up on Earth on a peaceful sunny day to find it was all a dream. I can understand a difference of opinion, but those of you who don't like it parade around your opinion that it's "crap" as if it were undeniable fact. Which it isn't. It's an opinion. So what if Bioware didn't give you the ending you wanted? Is that their job? No. Their job is to tell the story THEY want to tell and make money doing so. You want your own ending? Then open up a Word program and get to writing your fanfiction where Shepard rips out Harbinger's brain with his/her bare hands and then relaxes on a beach with Garrus and Mordin. And personally, I'm of the opinion that there was not going to be a happy ending where Shepard lives with his/her love interest in a house on Earth/Thessia/Palaven/Rannoch.

In other Mass Effect news, BioWare's finally giving us PS3 players the ability to play Mass Effect 1. Sadly, no release date as yet...

[Gman5852]

Yeah, I saw that Mass Effect Trilogy thing to. That will be when I finally buy the series instead of renting it whenever I want to play a game.

Dunno if I'll get it on PS3 or PC.

PS3 would get me to avoid Origin, so probably that...

[Alcoremortis]

I think the issue is that there's suspicion that Bioware wasn't allowed (via time constraints or what have you) to make the ending that THEY wanted to make. Kind of a KOTOR II type deal all over again. I haven't played the game, but the fact that the ending kinda looks rushed makes me automatically feel like they were pressured into releasing an unfinished product and that they had a more involved ending planned that got cut due to some factor that we will probably never heard about.

Also, the government can hear my thoughts, but this tin foil hat helps loads.