Mass Effect Thread

**SDoner8790** · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:30 am Post subject:

Played for about 12 hours so far. I'm loving it so far. It's like ME2, which is fine. And I don't think you NEED to play multiplayer to get the best ending, you just need to do all the single player stuff possible.

Edit: And I was right http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/9665384
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**Nubnut** · Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Posts: 2078 Location: Denver, CO

I'd definitely call this far from a terrible game, however in comparison to their past games it's about a "meh" on the rating scale. Soras pretty much covered the majority of problems I have with it (though I don't feel as strongly as he does), I'm now starting to get sincerely worried about Bioware's quality of product after signing on with EA.

so far they've developed 3 games with EA since they were merged together with Mythic entertainment, and of those 3 games. They've ranged from "meh" to "unrivaled hatred".
With Mass Effect 3 landing in the meh category, Star Wars: The Old Republic landing in the middle area, and Dragon Age 2 in the "unrivaled hatred".

Sadly, it seems like Bioware is permanently off of my companies who I buy games from on day one.
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**raynebc** · Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 992

Not to mention EA gets peoples Xbox Live accounts hacked (to buy Fifa crap that gets resold through the black DLC market).

**sorasgoof** · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 2314

I was just beginning to cool down when I came across this... http://crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com/2012/03/bioware-day-one-dlc-developed.html
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**Nubnut** · Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Posts: 2078 Location: Denver, CO

**MSH-Hitman** · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 4481 Location: Florida

Yeah a good chance EA pushed them into making the Prothean DLC you have to buy also, with it maybe initially being considered more DLC like the Zaeed DLC of ME2, where all you had to have was the online pass that came with every new copy. Darn shame, could've been a fun character to play with.

**Nubnut** · Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Posts: 2078 Location: Denver, CO

http://www.gamespot.com/features/why-do-you-hate-mass-effect-3-6365175/#335737926

Interesting article to say the least.
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**MSH-Hitman** · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 4481 Location: Florida

Beat the game. People really went overblown on how "bad" the ending is. It's not a very strong ending and it needed to show alot more, but it's hardly the worse ending for a game I've seen. It's pathetic to see people say that the ending was so horrible, it's made the series unplayable for them. That's just stupid lol

Aside from the end and DLC issues, I really enjoyed it. It's not as long as ME2, but I'm someone that doesn't require a game to adhere to a specific length as long as it gets the story across and I think it does. More couldn't have hurt, but I can't fault it for being shorter. No doubt worth a rental and I would recommend buying it if you don't go into it expecting it to be the end of the trilogy that you were wanting. Everything up till the end is pretty good I thought.

**Nubnut** · Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Posts: 2078 Location: Denver, CO

I think people are so upset by the ending purely in comparison to their past games.

Even games that weren't endings to series had FAR stronger endings than this. Hell even if they pulled a DA:O and just took us character by character and told us what happened to them (for a good 15-20 minutes) I'd be far happier with that.
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**MSH-Hitman** · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 4481 Location: Florida

That could be true, but in comparison to ME2's ending, this wasn't really that much worse. ME2 didn't really have any choices other than making sure you chose right with keeping your squad alive.

The "endings" might all be just different flavors of the same drink, but it was a reasonable ending. It just simply needed more to show what happened to the universe. It isn't that monstrously bad as people made it out to be. Hell, story wise, I think this game is probably the better one of the series. It's just abit "meh" with the ending.

**Nubnut** · Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Posts: 2078 Location: Denver, CO

Aye, another reason people are getting upset though is the continuity errors (MAJOR ones) throughout the game, which that mixed with the ending does create some problems.
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**bclare** · Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 6048 Location: Boston

Alright, I just finished single player the other day. I'm not pissed off about the ending, but I'm a little disappointed. One thing that I didn't like, which I haven't seen much in other complaints, is the lack of closure or epilogue. I mean, I made the choice at the end, and there was some cinematics and then 8 hours of fucking credits. It wasn't really clear exactly what happened, or what will happen going forward. I don't know if that means that ME4 will happen or that DLC will make it more clear, but either way I wanted more explanation from the game's real ending.

(And for the record, I went into the final battle with like 6500 effective military at 100% readiness, so I had three options at the end and chose the third)
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**SDoner8790** · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:04 pm Post subject:

I beat the game 2 days ago, I wasn't pissed at the ending either but it was pretty lacking. I just expected more, and some kind of epilogue, but it just kinda ends, and you have no idea what happens with anyone. The build up to the ending was so good though, so I just expected more out of it.

And I'm pretty sure they said this would be the end of Shepard's story, so if there is a ME4 it won't be about him.
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