Oh yeah I remember that thread. That was the one where rather than try and defend your point or even have any kind of discussion you just said "People are disagreeing with me??? I DON'T WANNA PLAY ANYMORE!!!"SweetLiquidSnake said:Eric the Orange said:I know you report what gets views... but GOD DAMN, can we just drop the Mass Effect shit.
sorry for going off the handle but I am more than sick of hearing about this. I know I don't have to read it, but I do see it popping up every other thread made.AnarchistAbe said:This makes me want to scream. Entitled douchebags, all of you. No arguments, deep down you all know its true.Where were all of you on my other post? I made one pointing out that these over-entitled fans should be labeled as "Massholes" and condemned, but the entire post ended up getting flooded with Massholes butthurt about my name calling and tried to tear me a new one.The Artificially Prolonged said:Mass Effect 3 fiasco sticking around like a bad rash. I was hoping all fallout over this was over.
Glad to see I'm not alone in thinking this is a dead issue.
well past tense maybeDustyDrB said:I'm calling it: Majorie Stephens is a Mass Effect fan.
I'm by no means a fat masturbating loser, and I fucked my girlfriend last night, and this morning before heading to work, and I lived in Afghanistan and Iraq for 8 years while deployed in the while in the army as a ranger, and yes life in a lot of ways sucked ass, but I fail to see the relevance to how customers feel cheated towards an investment(paying money for a product expecting a certain experience is an investment) Yes things are worse elsewhere but if you want to bend over and take it up the ass from these corporate dicks after failing to deliver what they advertised that's your problem. If you don't like the fact that others are complaining about thier investment, then simply ignore it. Bitching about people Bitching is just fucken retarded.Batsamaritan said:I hope the fat masturbating losers that are keeping this embarrasing mess going get laid soon, they need it.
ITS JUST A GAME. THE ENDING WAS SHIT, GET OVER IT. LIFE IS FULL OF DISSAPOINTMENTS FAR WORSE THAN THIS.
Go live in iran, north korea, zimbabwe or some other shithole, spend a year there then see in the grand scheme of things exactly how life destroying a crap ending to a frankly overrated franchise is. Better yet go to a cancer ward and tell the sick people how frustrated you are i'm sure they will emathise.
sheesh... rant over.
AnarchistAbe said:This makes me want to scream. Entitled douchebags, all of you. No arguments, deep down you all know its true.
Zeel? Is that you? I've missed you!AnarchistAbe said:[many other quotes]
Casey Hudson and one writer created the ending themselves with no oversight. Those are the "writers" that I have an issue with.Kazedarkwind said:i feel really bad for the writers at bioware right now, as an artist myself all i can imagine is them slumped down behind a desk hating their life cause people are practically wishing death upon them for there work. Which is one of the most heart breaking things ive seen out of this whole ending debate.
if i ever meet them im buying them a drink. They don't deserve this crap that the retakers are giving them.
The Great JT said:Jesus, at this point, this isn't just a shit-storm, this is a shit-hurricane!
songnar said:Mass Effect's story was built around irony.
Nobody got it.
and the fact that (upon further examination) it looks like shepard "wakes up" on earth....(concrete and such, not futureistic metal)Kopikatsu said:I just want to point out that the Shepard Lives scene is part of the ending (provided that you did the right things).
Indoctrination theory is still possible.
your ranting about people rantingBatsamaritan said:I hope the fat masturbating losers that are keeping this embarrasing mess going get laid soon, they need it.
ITS JUST A GAME. THE ENDING WAS SHIT, GET OVER IT. LIFE IS FULL OF DISSAPOINTMENTS FAR WORSE THAN THIS.
Go live in iran, north korea, zimbabwe or some other shithole, spend a year there then see in the grand scheme of things exactly how life destroying a crap ending to a frankly overrated franchise is. Better yet go to a cancer ward and tell the sick people how frustrated you are i'm sure they will emathise.
sheesh... rant over.
Let's look up what the word "outcome" means, shall we? Because it does mean "An end result; a consequence." Fancy that, the "end result" of all playthroughs being entirely detached from the individual player's decisions makes the "outcome" not "completely" dependent on the player's decisions.irishda said:Thank you, Andy, for providing us with an article that has brought nothing new to the table. Oh no, you guys, turns out everyone who disagreed with Retake is wrong cause the BBB office in NORTHERN INDIANA said it's false advertising.
One woman feels the "outcome" is defined entirely by 5 minutes of a 90+ hr. series, and therefore this constitutes a breach of a broadly worded advertising campaign because ALL (If my eyes roll any harder while typing this word, my retinas might detach) complaints are the same.
You mean the part where no matter what you do you get to choose between (at most) three endings, which are really just pallet-swaps of each other? Yep, that end result sure does depend on your decisions.irishda said:She hasn't answered any of the counterpoints about the "promise that our decisions would affect the outcome and the experience." Mainly, that the state of the universe is EXACTLY dependent on everything the player does, and whether or not you feel the end result of said universe truly constitutes the ending is pretty determinant of which side of the fence you're on in this debate.
"I don't want to hear about this stuff anymore, but I can't be bothered to not click on the links"irishda said:I say it's high time the mods start banning anyone who starts a thread with the words "Mass Effect" in them (even if it's for 1 or 2), and any article on ME3 gets a red light unless it's something shockingly new and relevant.
Fuck me, Diablo 3 needs to get here quick so we can ***** about something else.
Darkmantle said:this was most definitely a case of "straw that broke the camels back" looking at this as a singular incident, it may seem like non-sense, but when you check out bioware/EA 's track record lately (DA2), and all the other controversies that ME3 sparked (prothean DLC, tali stock photo) the ending being shit is what set off the powder keg.
basically EA kept playing with fire by abusing their fans, now they are getting burned for every past grievance, using the ME3 ending as a focal point.
THAT controversy was way more fucking stupid than the ending in my eyes.other controversies...tali stock photo
You have not been listening to the complaints much have you?AnarchistAbe said:Jokes on the gamers! Now, we'll get the same exact ending to every fucking game. The safe, happy ending that nobody has grounds to complain about. Thank you, "retakers". Thank you for your entitled douchebaggery.
1. Having had sex fairly recently, I can say that it has little relevance on my disappointment with the Mass Effect 3 debacle. I'm not sure where you got the idea that sex was somehow involved in the disappointment here, but I think you might need to take a look at an anatomy textbook, since the penis is in no way involved in playing most video games.Batsamaritan said:I hope the fat masturbating losers that are keeping this embarrasing mess going get laid soon, they need it.
ITS JUST A GAME. THE ENDING WAS SHIT, GET OVER IT. LIFE IS FULL OF DISSAPOINTMENTS FAR WORSE THAN THIS.
Go live in iran, north korea, zimbabwe or some other shithole, spend a year there then see in the grand scheme of things exactly how life destroying a crap ending to a frankly overrated franchise is. Better yet go to a cancer ward and tell the sick people how frustrated you are i'm sure they will emathise.
sheesh... rant over.
I'm still a fan. Ten awful minutes cannot ruin 120 (increased a ton by multiple playthroughs, which brings the total to more like 1200) hours of greatness in the series. It's impossible. Hell, I still say it's my favorite game series.zumbledum said:well past tense maybeDustyDrB said:I'm calling it: Majorie Stephens is a Mass Effect fan.think there an endangered species now
You mean kind of like how in your life the sole outcome is that you will be dead no matter what choices you've made in life? And yet your existence will be defined by the state of your life as it was when it ended and not just the fact that no matter what you do you don't even GET to choose your ending. Gee, sounds like everyone's life is exactly the same since we only get ONE ending ourselves: dead.Seldon2639 said:You mean the part where no matter what you do you get to choose between (at most) three endings, which are really just pallet-swaps of each other? Yep, that end result sure does depend on your decisions.irishda said:She hasn't answered any of the counterpoints about the "promise that our decisions would affect the outcome and the experience." Mainly, that the state of the universe is EXACTLY dependent on everything the player does, and whether or not you feel the end result of said universe truly constitutes the ending is pretty determinant of which side of the fence you're on in this debate.
Hey, you're right. Lemme start a thread about something else. Oh, wait, now it's buried under a massive pile of Mass Effect threads. How sad."I don't want to hear about this stuff anymore, but I can't be bothered to not click on the links"irishda said:I say it's high time the mods start banning anyone who starts a thread with the words "Mass Effect" in them (even if it's for 1 or 2), and any article on ME3 gets a red light unless it's something shockingly new and relevant.
Fuck me, Diablo 3 needs to get here quick so we can ***** about something else.
Talk about entitled.
I can't believe I'm actually reading this argument. The game parallels real-life so that it makes it okay?irishda said:You mean kind of like how in your life the sole outcome is that you will be dead no matter what choices you've made in life? And yet your existence will be defined by the state of your life as it was when it ended and not just the fact that no matter what you do you don't even GET to choose your ending. Gee, sounds like everyone's life is exactly the same since we only get ONE ending ourselves: dead.
And that means it's going to be instantly ignored by the other people who don't want to talk about Mass Effect?irishda said:Hey, you're right. Lemme start a thread about something else. Oh, wait, now it's buried under a massive pile of Mass Effect threads. How sad.
Hopefully you've noticed I've highlighted the important parts. Although I should really clarify so let me add on to thatLovely Mixture said:I can't believe I'm actually reading this argument. The game parallels real-life so that it makes it okay?irishda said:You mean kind of like how in your life the sole outcome is that you will be dead no matter what choices you've made in life? And yet your existence will be defined by the state of your life as it was when it ended and not just the fact that no matter what you do you don't even GET to choose your ending. Gee, sounds like everyone's life is exactly the same since we only get ONE ending ourselves: dead.
In other words, if you replace "your life" with "the game's story", you'll see a reason why not all of us feel that an A,B,C ending means all of your decisions throughout the game are meaningless.your existence will be defined by the state of your life as it was when it ended and the decisions you made throughout, not just "Oh, he's dead now, so I guess all those things he did are pretty meaningless."