Mass Effect

is there anywhere that concisely and clearly summarizes the ME3 ending controversy?

Recommend the video posted above by kelpolaris.

Its still a good game for those who've played the first two installments as gameplay is fine and it ties up a lot of loose ends. But you can quit after the foot race to the London conduit at the end, the finale does ruin a bunch of themes of the trilogy.

huh tried watching some of that but i need something with more context, i've never played any of these games.

https://twitter.com/#!/DamonLindelof/status/182263625082355712

Also (avert your eyes, spoiler averse!):

http://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/af134/gnosblax/yodawgme.jpg

It is pretty hard to not be spoiled by that huge image, I'm just saying.

http://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/af134/gnosblax/yodawgme.jpg

It is pretty hard to not be spoiled by that huge image, I'm just saying.

not really a spoiler if you at least played just half of ME1

http://pastebin.com/i2cNVDp4

not really a spoiler if you at least played just half of ME1

when you say spoilers below I don't check to see what it is if I am worried about spoilers, generally speaking.

Digging multiplayer.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/03/19/whats-right-with-mass-effect-3s-ending/#more-99917

I die a lot on multiplayer and jerk faces don't revive me.

I think if you play on silver then people are more likely to understand that they will die if you die. On bronze people have zero incentive to save you because they just might finish the level with or without you.

I've almost got to 100% galactic readiness and I can be done with multiplayer.

I went from 50-100% readiness in 6 (or so) hours of multiplayer last night and today (25% xp bonus weekend). Fell in with some good players for most of the evening. Revived most of the time even on bronze. Probably would have been better if I had a headset.

Biggest faults: Aside from the reactor and Tuchanka map, they're all on the small side. I spent 100s of thousands in credits for random packages and never got a lightweight assault rifle (M-15 or M-96) suitable for an Adept. Stuck pling-plinging away with a Locust SMG.

I've got this pistol, I forget the name but it shoots projectiles that stick to the enemy then explode. It's been pretty sweet.

this is circulating
http://i39.tinypic.com/1gnlw2.jpg

altho it's pretty lame how this "laid off so secrets of the universe revealed" phenom has been such a continual occurrence. i'm partial to this one as well, mostly considering a) dragon age 2 was far past an "alpha stage b) the volus antag thing sounds like some serious trolling.

Are there spoilers in that link?

heres a cool read http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/03/23/mass-effect-3-ending-what-do-game-writers-think/

that pastebin i posted up above is by a bioware writer who posted it on the pennyarcade forums, he admits that the ending was written by one guy with autism and wasnt reviewed by any of the other writers which is completely against hte norm for any of their mission writing

i enjoy your gloss on it

otm

hilarious, heated "debate" in the comments thread over whether the asari in mass effect count as biologically female or not:

http://io9.com/5890426/why-did-bioware-add-a-gay-option-to-mass-effect-3?tag=space-opera

kinda cool article about the gear used to make the music of ME3 http://toksin.tumblr.com/post/17925900472/the-music-of-mass-effect-3-synthtopia

ending was shite

Beat this last night finally. Didn't mind the ending, actually sort of hilarious. I thought it mimicked real life in that you really only had the illusion of free will throughout the game. Everything will almost always turn out the same anyway. With different color explosions.

i wasn't so left with a feeling of being mugged as by the illusion of choice (just a half-assed move by bioware, there) than the closing scene involving joker and edi ready to get jiggy with it on a private island resort planet. and then those smarmy fucking credits: "Project Director: Casey Hudson" with the boogie-down music was the point in which blood started flowing to my head and i couldn't fucking believe they could ruin a series in a matter of minutes.

you really only had the illusion of free will throughout the game. Everything will almost always turn out the same anyway. With different color explosions.

― Jeff, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:53 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SRSLY

to think that in ME2, when deciding whether save the genophage cure data, i actually went to length of putting down the controller and thinking it through whilst taking a piss, coming to the painful decision to save the data as i shook out the last driblets of urine

bioware, you dicks

Spoilers. Saving the genophage data does allow Eve (the fertile Krogan shaman) to live in ME3, and its pretty clear that the Krogan are doomed to more apocalyptic expansionist and/or intraclan warfare post Reapers without the females having a stronger voice.

BioWare Announces Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut

Wow.

http://www.joystiq.com/screenshots/the-gallery-of-questionable-shepards/#/0

So I just played all three games for the first time over the past month or so.

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

I couldn't figure out why people hated the ending, save the oddness that the Normandy was flying through a Mass Relay and the kind of quick "that's it!" but I also didn't mind. It felt like the game was all about sacrifice and inevitable doom anyway, and I really loved some of the character stuff (basically Liara and Shepherd as bros was really pretty moving tbh). 3 had a great, epic feel to it, and even if the ending wasn't some amazing thing (though I had no issues with the god child thing), it didn't do a disservice to those quality Garrus moments, or the Mordin death scene. I chose to kill the Quarians, but that's because somehow I made a stupid decision and Tali died in 2 despite me having ~~romanced~~ her. It's all a bit RTD-era Who, though, in that the build up to the finale is fantastic and the actual finale is inevitably a let down. Had a great time, and as I don't play video games very often, I was quite surprised how taken I was with the universe and some of the characters.

Mordin :~(

that gallery is great

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2012/04/shep4-1334155217.jpg
http://www.joystiq.com/screenshots/the-gallery-of-questionable-shepards/#/10

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2012/04/ugshep3.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox?ie=UTF8&ref_=pe_26410_20202130#

29.99 today only

thanks for the heads up. purchased.

am i crazy or is that a sign that it's about to be a much cheaper game to get?

not necessarily

Decide app says Buy now

It's the third highest selling game this week, so it would maybe be a little early to make it a platinum hit.

Prices will rise or hold steady with 83% Confidence

Amazon often does these one-day, half-off deals. I don't think it's indicative of a price-drop.

if you miss it check out walmart, they also knocked it down to 30 for a spell, it is definitely going back up to 60 after though, according to people who work there? some thing i saw on reddit, anyway.

http://www.lasertimepodcast.com/2012/04/23/laser-time-special-the-end-of-mass-effect/

neat little podcast covering the series

Anyone downloaded the new ending?