Mass Effect 3 Actors Come Back For More

[NinjaDeathSlap]

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Yeah, I guess so. It's just that, while I thought the ending was bad, it didn't make me angry, more just achingly disappointed. What made me angry was how deliberately vague and pompous the PR response was from Bioware, with all the cock-tease Twitter comments and such. Didn't they put us through enough, without keeping us in the dark and leading us on too? It would be a show of good faith, on par with making this additional content for free in the first place, if they could just be straight up with us for once.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Did he just say the ending was "just an oversight"?

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

If the DLC is free, then it might be considered to alter the canon ending. However, if you have to pay for it, then its just optional content.

 

[Aisaku]

Did he just say the ending was "just an oversight"?

Here's to hoping...

Also I just went MWAHAHAHAHAA at the news... Has the ME fanbase (which I'm a part of) gotten their way? Is this a great or a monstruous precedent? Only time will tell.

 

[Vault101]

Does anyone actually care about the two-bit developer known as Bioware anymore? They are a joke not only to us but it seems like the entire video game industry is actually laughing at them constantly.

They deserve it IMO. For failing as hard as they did they will never regain the fans they lost with this game. That is for certain.

I do....

jsut saying

I don't expect much, but its somthing anyhow

well I DO expect alot of angry annoyed people on the internet

 

[DeimosMasque]

If the DLC is free, then it might be considered to alter the canon ending. However, if you have to pay for it, then its just optional content.

The Extended Cut DLC is free so take from that what you will.

As someone who used to spend alot of time on the Bioware boards I can tell you that unless the EC DLC turns your rock collection to gold and gives you accurate lottery numbers for the next three years its going to get a lot of extreme hate.

 

[Vault101]

I see this as somewhat good news. There was all that talk about this DLC being just some added cutscenes and an epilogue. This at least shows that Bioware is putting some effort in to the DLC. Sure, it's still putting a Band-Aid on a GSW but at least the Band-Aid has pictures of Spongebob on it now.

but no femshep .....*sob* theres no Mass effect without femshep

 

[HellenicWarrior]

Please... PLEASE be good!

 

[Emiscary]

My skepticism is resolute and unyielding. I'm not getting roped into that "hope" bullshit again.

 

[Innegativeion]

Personally if I was Bioware I'd just break the 4th wall and just insert a sequence where the various characters argue about what the hell just happened over the closing credits - director's commentary style.

...I love you...

But seriously, that would actually be worth a couple bucks, IMO, just for the lulz.

Hell yes.

Commander Shepard Version of

Spoiler: THIS

NOW! Make it happen!!!

Hell, re-watching this video, I realized that replacing Shinji's voice with the commander's, the video almost makes perfect sense in the context of mass effect!

 

[insanelich]

I would call "This is EA in a Bioware-skin suit" a fair assessment of my reaction to the ME3 ending.

I've given up on Bioware after ME3. Microtransactions, tons of DLC, and writing, gameplay and polish left by the wayside. No more.

And this DLC would need to be something truly and exceptionally special to change my opinion.

 

[applesandoranges]

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[Metalrocks]

many people on the ME3 forum are also very skeptical about the EC, including me.
from the sound of it, i think he dint really bother to read the script or played the game to understand whats going on about the ending.

well, i have no hope at all that the EC will clear things up. ?Aoware knows exactly what we think of the ending, and they still stick to it. use there artistic integrity BS as an excuse. if it werent for the EC, i woulnd have bothered to install ME3 on my new pc. i dint even bother to play it again.

 

[Spoonius]

Indoctrination theory.

Who said their artistic integrity is misguided or non-existant? If they pull something like IT off now, their reputation will be restored and the entire gaming world will know about it.

Lots of hate out there, but it's all free publicity, right?

So if everyone starts hearing about how their official ending was actually valid within the new context, and that Bioware successfully tricked their entire fanbase using in-game means, then it's possible that ME will go down as one of the best and most intelligent trilogies in history.

So newcomers buy into the publicity, and purchase all three games...

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Well, it makes more sense than the indoctrination theory.

How does IT not make sense?

 

[Maxtro]

"It was just an oversight," he continued. "Usually when a guy loses the game, the game shuts down, it's over, you're done. The players didn't like that."

LOL!

I just got an idea.

How about when Sheppard makes it to the light, the game just displays "You Win!" and then the credits start.

 

[Diana Kingston-Gabai]

Indoctrination theory.

Oy, here we go again.

Let's be clear here: Indoctrination Theory won't solve or fix anything. At best it loops the player back to before the Citadel sequence - in that way it's even less of an ending than what we already have.

And it's ultimately unnecessary. IT sprung up as a tool BioWare could use if they wanted to insert a completely different ending - a "real" ending, as it were - after the RGB sequence. That's not going to happen, so what use would IT be on its own?

 

[insanelich]

Oy, here we go again.

Let's be clear here: Indoctrination Theory won't solve or fix anything. At best it loops the player back to before the Citadel sequence - in that way it's even less of an ending than what we already have.

And it's ultimately unnecessary. IT sprung up as a tool BioWare could use if they wanted to insert a completely different ending - a "real" ending, as it were - after the RGB sequence. That's not going to happen, so what use would IT be on its own?

Actually, it could be "Indoctrination -> Shepard's Dead -> End". This requires only a small scene, and while it would make the story horribly depressing, it would also be a satisfying, sensible conclusion. Well, for some values of satisfying.

This ending doesn't fit into the story. And not surprising, given that the writing staff changed between ME2 and ME3.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

The Extended Cut DLC is free so take from that what you will.

As someone who used to spend alot of time on the Bioware boards I can tell you that unless the EC DLC turns your rock collection to gold and gives you accurate lottery numbers for the next three years its going to get a lot of extreme hate.

Hmm, all reports seem to be that it only clarifies a few things, the ending remains unchanged.

I was actually hoping for wedding bells, everyone alive, flying off in to the space equivalent of a sunset. Instead we got a blatantly obvious opening to continue the series despite them saying "3 and done."

 

[DeimosMasque]

Your right, what is announced is clarification. Clarification of what parts of the ending? We have no idea. What they mean by clarification, also unknown. Yet most have decided to condemn it sight unseen.