Mass Effect 3 Fans Will Find Closure June 26th

[AceTrilby]

Why do I get the feeling that no matter how they handle this, this forum is going to be damn near unreadable for about a month from all the snark?

I'll play it - can't argue with free, and that 1.9GB file size is suspiciously large.
Bigger than Lair of the Shadow Broker, in fact...

 

[dreadedcandiru99]

I don't have any hopes. Judging by this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y7xk1_x8ko it is very clear that Bioware don't understand how the ending fails on all basic levels as a piece of storytelling, and that they are too full of themselves to listen the countless complains and grievances people have put out over the past couple of months. It hardly takes more than browsing for 10 minutes in any given thread about the ending to find out what is wrong.

They still seem to think that the hatred comes from a lack of "closure" and "clarity", when the most massive issues with ending are how it violates almost everything in the series thematically, dramatically, and lorewise, and that it is literally the exact opposite of what was repeatedly promised doing development. They are basically going to release a polished turd.

I think I am going to be sitting this one out on Youtube.

Seconded. As far as I can tell, no amount of "clarification" can change the simple fact that the ending was fundamentally broken. This Extended Cut thing is an exercise in futility--and what's more, it's kind of unnecessary at this point. I'm not hurting for better endings, myself; I've read dozens of them by now, written by fans who apparently know far about storytelling than Hudson and Walters. So yeah, maybe I'll watch it on YouTube. Maybe.

Also, it seems like this will never stop being relevant:

 

[RaikuFA]

With forum raging/spamming/trolling of Bioware, metabombing, hate mail, death threats, rating bombings, calls for firings...

And it wasn't a minority doing these things. There were certainly calls for civility from within but the movement had already defined itself by the majority its members actions.

It was a vocal minority, but seeing as you already clearly have the intent of slandering the movement, I see no reason to continue this argument.

Hey, remember when you guys demanded charity money back when it turned out it wouldn't affect the ending?

I do. And it made me sad.

 

[Zeraki]

I honestly hope the majority of the added content is during the actual mission on Earth. I want to fight alongside my Geth Primes and squadmates from Mass Effect 2.

 

[DanielBrown]

Guess I'll get it. Probably won't be replaying ME3 for a year or so though. Got a backlog and some recently arrived games to take care of, then I need to get my hands on another copy of ME2 for my PS3 just to make the game a bit better.
Having your past choices made for you had more of an impact than I assumed.

I missed Wrex.

 

[Starke]

People are STILL pissed about that whole thing? Whatever. People just need to get over it. I was fine with the ending as is, but then again, I'm a fan of cheesy and campy sci-fi. Mass Effect was always that to me, so the ending didn't bother me like it did other people. At least Mass Effect 3 was awesome all the way until the end (and is still awesome to me for the multiplayer); Dragon Age 2 was terrible the whole time.

Honestly I thought DA2 was hilarious the whole time...

Anyway, on topic, unless this includes a title card explaining how Casey Hudson is now living under a bridge in Vancouver, I'm not seeing it really bringing any closure.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

No closure to be had, its bad enough when a cheap flick done poorly but when a 60$ game goes bad its not good for anyone....

 

[Innegativeion]

So the sleeping crocodile Bioware's been poking with a jagged stick for months is finally going to awaken.

Whether it will shower them gifts from its magical swamp(crocs have those) or attempt to bite all of their faces and limbs off remains to be seen.

Given that they are so adamant in their assertion that the ending is not being radically rewritten, I'd have to lean my money on the second option.

 

[Blachman201_v1legacy]

Hey, remember when you guys demanded charity money back when it turned out it wouldn't affect the ending?

I do. And it made me sad.

Yeah, there were some confusion about that. But the extend it happened to seems to have been grossly exaggerated. Bottomline was that $80k was donated to sick children. It is rather hard to vilify that.

chapta: "let it be" ...I wish it was that easy.

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

Any word whether the 1.9 gigs are all for a single player content or a single player epilogue with a multiplayer update?

Personally, I'm hoping it's all devoted to single player content.

It better be or Bioware is gonna hurt. Bad.

 

[WanderingFool]

A case of 'damned if they do, damned if they don't'. I'm looking forward to seeing what is being offered, but there will still be lots of rage on the forums.

It will never be enough for some.

Personally, I didn't have an issue with the various endings, aside from the infamous Normandy scene and it coming out of nowhere.

True. The only way to avoid said rage is to crucifie Casey Hudson go back in time and not let the ending as is leave the drawing table.

 

[Vault101]

1.9 gigs? holy shit....

well I'm not expecting much..but we will see

as for those saying they'll watch it on youtube..unless you've traded in the game wouldn't you at lest just play it for yourself?

 

[Knight Templar]

So only three days huh?

I have low expectations for this considering they made it very clear, they are not fixing anything.

 

[Ickorus]

inb4 it sucks.

Ok, that's unfair, I haven't even got ME3.

Hopefully it'll be good so everyone who invested in the series it can finally get the ending they deserved.

 

[Scorekeeper]

Wow, they sure made a lot of typos there. They kept adding an 'S' to 'ending'.

 

[KrabbiPatty]

Yeah well, even though I know you're just being purposefully obtuse and smart-assy, count me on the "irrational retake side".

I'm done with Mass Effect. I'm sorry if I'm not "grateful" enough for this "gift" but I spent five fucking years of my life and over 200 dollars on a series, not including novels and comics which WERE canonical and thus, allegedly necessary. And my SINGLE, ONLY request was to not fuck it up in the last five minutes of the game. Everyone just DYING and failing to stop the Reapers would have been a fine ending for me...depressing as hell but depressing doesn't mean bad, and it certainly wouldn't have ruined it by retconning the entire plot of the previous two games for no discernible reason. I'm literally serious: if EVERY character had died horribly in the last five minutes, dying in futile, pointless battle against the Reapers, and it just cuts to black and rolls credits I would have shrugged and went "Meh...so cliche, but whatever" and so would every other ME fan.

Oh but no. No, no, no, Baby Jesus had to appear out of fucking NOWHERE and suddenly change the entire plot in five minutes just because Bioware couldn't be bothered to animate more than one ending and felt "rocks fall, everyone dies" wasn't GOOD ENOUGH for them. Apparently the dude I played D&D with in middle school had a leg up on payed script writers. Yeesh.

I'll probably buy this. Why not. At this point it won't fix anything and it couldn't hurt. At the worst it's a waste of time, and I have nothing but time...at best maybe it comes with some extra DLC weapons to fart around with. It's still a con, but of course, stupid me, I sat through six fucking years of LOST so I should be used to being conned by shitty writers who can't come up with a better ending.

Internet sigh.

I miss the deep, well-thought-out, nuanced storytelling of George Lucas. If he'd written ME3 the worst that would happen is Baby Jesus would have a really shitty voice actor and we'd find out that Biotics are the result of germs. That's the fantasy best case scenario that keeps me holding on people...

 

[samaugsch]

You have no idea or, more likely, are willingly blind and ignorant to what that movement was.

The movement was a fan-initiative to get Bioware to change the ending so it actually took the decisions players made into account, instead of giving us Casper the Space Ghost and his 'choice' clearly pre-defined endings.

With forum raging/spamming/trolling of Bioware, metabombing, hate mail, death threats, rating bombings, calls for firings...

And it wasn't a minority doing these things. There were certainly calls for civility from within but the movement had already defined itself by the majority its members actions.

If there were actually death threats involved, I'd be more worried about the person's safety, if anyone at all. Though if he actually committed murder over a game, that would be an interesting story to tell to his cellmates...

Anyway, as long as they do this effectively, I don't see how anyone other than the people who say that the endings were fine (personally, I doubt that those who say they liked the ending actually gave a shit about the franchise at all) would complain about it.

 

[Xelien]

YES! Went out of town with my PS3 and when deciding which games to bring I didn't think Mass Effect 3 would be necessary, but then a little voice in my head was like "DLC!" So I decided, hmm doesn't hurt to bring along although the DLC probably won't come out while I'm away.

SO huzzah for little voices!! Now I can be disappointed or hopefully pleasantly surprised like everyone eles.

 

[RaikuFA]

Hey, remember when you guys demanded charity money back when it turned out it wouldn't affect the ending?

I do. And it made me sad.

Yeah, there were some confusion about that. But the extend it happened to seems to have been grossly exaggerated. Bottomline was that $80k was donated to sick children. It is rather hard to vilify that.

chapta: "let it be" ...I wish it was that easy.

True, but I still call RME the biggest mess in consumer rights in the games industry.

 

[fnartilter]

It's free! No expectations! Fantastic.