How best to ruin Mass Effect 3

[Exile714]

Snip?

n Obsidians defence, didnt they suddenly have their development time cut in half. I feel bad for them, they got fucked over.

You'll notice in my original post that I thought the first 3/4ths of the game was good. But you can't say that Obsidian wasn't to blame for the final portion. However, lumping everyone at Obsidian into the same category would be terribly unfair.

The people who were responsible for pushing the release date and killing the ending, they are to blame, whoever they are.

The real disappointment was that KOTOR 1 had promise, KOTOR 2 was a superior sequel story-wise until the final moments of the game. If someone wants to mess with ME3, they have to make it great until the ending. Like baking chocolate cookies in front of a child, letting him smell them cooking, taking them off the pan, giving the child a nibble, then throwing the whole batch down the sewer and walking away. That's what differentiates a simple let down (like TFU2) from a catastrophe.

 

[Crazedc00k]

Imagine: You've just popped in you're game disk, sat back with some mountain dew and mom's chicken bake, and sent Shepherd and company in to assault an enemy facility. A gas cloud fills the screen, Shepherd and the gang stumble out of the facility, gasping for breath. The cloud clears.

They have all been transmuted into Hanar. The Reapers feast on morsels of sadness. Game ruined.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

Adding aiming down sights for all weapons removing the cover system mapping an offensive grenade and tactical grenade to each bumper removing shields and health bar and introducing a fatigue feature the story plops you down in each location with no way to explore the world removing tech and biotic abilities and focusing only only on gunplay making most the enemies you face either Russian or evil Americans and adding a mode where you fight off waves of krogan and whatever the dogs things are called also adding a multiplayer mode where you level up to rank 50 unlocking weapons and perks along the way and earning credits to purchase said guns and perks along with minor character customization such as face paint with the option of resetting your level for a prestige level and eventually the ability to use golden weapons. Also break the melee system have people spawn behind you and give every player the ability to survive a 50.cal bullet to the chest fall over and kill you with a pistol. oh and of course no morality system renegade becomes the norm for better or worse.

 

[thenamelessloser]

The game opens with Tali and Garrus being killed by Hanar Volus.

I dunno...that sounds fairly plausible. Have you seen those Volus? Machines of death, I kid you not.

OT:
1. Garrus is a same-sex romance option. I've got nothing against gay people, but Garrus? Yeah, he ain't gay.
2. Not showing us the females of any species besides Quarians and Humans. Seriously, we have yet to see a female Turian , Krogan (though, with the whole genophage thing, that's understandable), Volus, Elcor, Salarian, Batarian, Vorcha, or Drell in either game. Asari and Hanar (I believe) are mono-gendered, so they don't count. Bioware better show us a female alien of at least one other race in ME3, or I'll be pissed.
3. The Reapers are, in fact, a myth. Harbinger and Sovereign were the last of their kind.
4. They work a nyancat into the plot somehow.

I love fucking 3. I think that would be brilliant.

 

[uguito-93]

Doing everything people in this sub-forum [http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/category/325/index] want you to do. Warning: click on threads at own risk.

Excuse me, I need to out and buy more aspirin and antidepressants.

 

[Azdron]

Return to mass effect 1 style combat and inventory management systems, keep or even dumb down the mass effect 2 lvl and skill system. Get rid of the rocket mako and return the old one... but without breaks or jump features, but also never go to any world with ROADS. Make the final boss fight a dialog option (kill the reapers with a logic bomb/power of love) Kill Shepard and replace him with tali who leads an all elcor combat team on a volus crewed ship. The geth are never heard from again and garrus is killed by jacob... for the antilulz.

Jack is made an important part of the plot and grunt does NOT die a heroic death. Miranda continues to refuse to take her pms pills and ashly does not undergo radical facial surgery to make her less butt ugly. Liara becomes evil, you must kill her, no renegade option to join her in the evil.

Thanes disease turns him into a tentacle monster, which you defeat only to have him return as a thane tentacle husk, which returns once more as a thane tentacle husk skeleton (like saren) which wont die until you drown him in lava. Joker and the ships doctor hook up foir creepy creepy sexual relations untill they are blown up by moridin partly to save us all from cripple/mature creepysex and partly because he made a deal with the reapers who want him to genophage everyone. Creating a stable subdued population for infinite harvesting.

Thresher maws are sentient offspring of protheins and are our only hope against the reapers.... Hmmmm did I leave anything out?

 

[bootz]

Um in the mako you run out off gass and have to run around to find it DNF Style.

The reapers invading were made from killer rabbits or volus or nugs.

Tali leaves to reclaim her planet. Takes off her gear and dies because shepard brought disease onto the planet.

Cerebus makes Shepard do TV commercials for Human Testing ("Hi I'm commander Shepard and I believe in killing people for the Greater Good")

Garrus turns into an emo spiderman 3.

While exploring you find the planet Naboo and a Gungan Can join your party.

 

[Pinkamena]

Instead of the Normandy, they fly around in a giant can of beans. Yeah, that's all I got.

 

[Wuggy]

Hand the entire development of the game to Obsidian. Yeah, you'll know how that'll go.

 

[Adzma]

Put multiplayer in it. BAM!

 

[zehydra]

Make the game entirely cel-shaded, with 15 min long cutscenes with bad voice actors.

 

[zehydra]

Put multiplayer in it. BAM!

How would adding an optional feature ruin a game?

 

[Adzma]

Put multiplayer in it. BAM!

How would adding an optional feature ruin a game?

Ok fine. Put multiplayer in it and make it mandatory.

 

[latenightapplepie]

Letting the fans make important development decisions.

Ha. Very good.

On topic: um, I can't really think of anything specific.

 

[JustJuust]

Hire about 10 voice actors to do the voices for everyone in the game
About 10 different dialogues in total for all random npcs (mudcrabs, horrible creatures)
Bring in a new unlikable character that every characters in the game seems to know and love
Change the characters' personalities, and traits (Shpeherd is now British cynical twat or something idk)
Also Shepherd is now a muscular chunky space marine
chest high walls everywhere
emphasis on the gunplay and action (Explosions everywhere every 10 second)
script written by an angsty 16 year old who writes creepy fan fictions on the internet for a living
Only two ways to end the game (baby eating evil vs give up life for orphan good)
no romance options
Multiplayer
Make it about 8 hours long
The story doesn't end at the end
Announce Mass Effect 4,5,6 etc

 

[DaJoW]

Change anything. Or nothing. Either way, people will claim it's the worst game ever and that they'll never buy anything from Bioware again (until their next release).

Please note: I do not mean this to be personal, if it doesn't apply to you then no need to feel offended, but this is the impression I get from a whole lot of people on all gaming-related forums I visit.

 

[Feline Jaye]

"-Tali is genetically male with gender dysphoria and is living a lie with the female suit and fake female voice. This is revealed and he becomes Shepard's same sex romance option."

This would not ruin it for me. In fact this would probably make me fangasm for Bioware.

 

[Zeriu]

What does everyone have against the Volus? I think their awesome...and so would boy!Tali! Anyway...It would be wierd if Blue Oyster Cult leant a few songs to the-Damn it, that would be awesome. I guess I can't think of a way to ruin it.

I can tell you why i hate the idea of Volus in two words: space jews. It's an incredibly racist... well,race. Every goddamn space opera has to have a race of weak, money-grubbing aliens.
It is however just a theory. But if I see just one Volus comedian I just want everyone to know i called it.

Jews? They seem more like semi-rabbid jackles. How are they money-grubbing?

They're very good with money, only care about money and are cowardly. Sounds like space jews to me.

Wait, the VOLUS? Yeah, sorry, my mistake, I'm talking about the Vorcha. Yeah, man, the Volus are SO Jews.

EDIT: I mean...not like...that came out wrong.

I was kinda wondering where you got that "semi-rabbid jackals" vibe from.You're right though about the vorcha. I like them too. They sort of remind me of the Prawns in "District 9".

 

[Drakmorg]

Make every level end with a boss fight like the final boss from ME2.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Make TIM the leader of the reapers. Railroad Shepard into vouching for TIM to the universe so TIM gets control of the citadel and have Shepard press the button that allows the Reapers in. Then spend the rest of the game blaming Shepard for his 'choices'.