Mass Effect 3 Fans Will Find Closure June 26th

[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.

 

[Erttheking]

I want it to be good, I really REALLY do but...god damn it, it's being made by the same people who green lighted the star child.

 

[AbstractStream]

Not gonna get excited or anxious...okay, maybe a little bit anxious.

I'm just surprised at how big the size of the dlc is. Hmmm, just how many scenes are there? Wait, won't wonder about that either. I'm so torn!

 

[Erttheking]

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.

Yeah well, the ending to Mass Effect 3 was the biggest fuck up in terms of ending a good series, so the way I see it it balances out.

 

[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.

Yeah well, the ending to Mass Effect 3 was the biggest fuck up in terms of ending a good series, so the way I see it it balances out.

Not really. Yeah the ending was bad but it still dosen't excuse death threats, rape threats and demanding dontations back.

The cupcakes thing though... Keep it up.

 

[Erttheking]

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.

Yeah well, the ending to Mass Effect 3 was the biggest fuck up in terms of ending a good series, so the way I see it it balances out.

Not really. Yeah the ending was bad but it still dosen't excuse death threats, rape threats and demanding dontations back.

The cupcakes thing though... Keep it up.

Death threats rape threats? Ok, pretty sure that you're exaggerating. Not everyone did that you know, even then it was only because of confusion and 80K still went to kids.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

This is what I'm hoping for. If they have all this stuff...Well, I still won't be HAPPY, but I'll be much less pissed.

1. A better explanation of the Reaper's motivations. Right now, it doesn't make any fucking sense. As we all know. I'm not going to get into it.

2. A better explanation of what the flying fuck that kid even IS. Is he a reaper? Is the Citadel? Is the the Citadel a Reaper? Is he the entire Reaper Hive Mind? All of the above? What the fuck is he? (Preferably something NOT stupid)

3. The removal of the bit where Joker ends up on a random planet. Barring total removal, I would at least like a better explanation for why he's running, how my squad got there, how he even SURVIVES, etc. But even if they explain all that, it won't stop that entire thing from being INCREDIBLY anti-climactic. So Joker has to bone my (lesbian) love interest to repopulate the species, huh? Gee, how fucking inspiring. Oh, and I guess Garrus get's to watch. He sure as hell has nothing better to do. Yeah, that's a great final moment of the series.

4. You know what? Show them getting rescued. PLEASE. Just do ANYTHING that negates this plot point. This is honestly my biggest problem with the ending. YES I know about all the other stuff. Please don't quote me.

 

[Spartan212]

First spoiler is out. Shitstorm has already begun

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/12693643/1

 

[Zenoss]

(personally, I doubt that those who say they liked the ending actually gave a shit about the franchise at all)

Yep, this is pretty much exactly what I have against the RME movement. The belief that anyone not in agreement with their viewpoint is not relevant. The assumption that only people who aren't paying attention could have a differing opinion.

I played ME1 and 2 repeatedly to experience the paragon and renegade stories. I went through the whole series again in the lead up to ME3 in order to have the perfect save going in to the new game. Each playthrough was completed to 100%.

And when ME3 came out, I did the same thing. I played all the way through, to 100%, as paragon and renegade, and I was happy with the whole game. Start to finish. It is easily one of the best games I have ever played.

So I'm glad that this dlc is going to be just an extension rather than a re-write. I'd be pretty irritated if what I experienced turned out to be all a crazy dream or some crap like that. It would pretty much destroy the validity of the whole series if it could be changed on a whim.

 

[Erttheking]

First spoiler is out. Shitstorm has already begun

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/12693643/1

EDIT:

"Takes deep breath" ok, when I think about it it's not TOO bad, but it still seems rather weird and makes me feel uneasy.

 

[samaugsch]

(personally, I doubt that those who say they liked the ending actually gave a shit about the franchise at all)

Yep, this is pretty much exactly what I have against the RME movement. The belief that anyone not in agreement with their viewpoint is not relevant. The assumption that only people who aren't paying attention could have a differing opinion.

I played ME1 and 2 repeatedly to experience the paragon and renegade stories. I went through the whole series again in the lead up to ME3 in order to have the perfect save going in to the new game. Each playthrough was completed to 100%.

And when ME3 came out, I did the same thing. I played all the way through, to 100%, as paragon and renegade, and I was happy with the whole game. Start to finish. It is easily one of the best games I have ever played.

So I'm glad that this dlc is going to be just an extension rather than a re-write. I'd be pretty irritated if what I experienced turned out to be all a crazy dream or some crap like that. It would pretty much destroy the validity of the whole series if it could be changed on a whim.

I guess it would be more accurate to say that the story doesn't matter as much to you as some people (maybe it's better that way). From what I've heard, according to the lore, pretty much everyone gets screwed over... wait. Something just occured to me. Maybe the idea isn't so much to allow the different races in ME continue to exist as it is to allow whatever races that will exist in the future to do so (apparently, the Mass Relays will strand everyone in Earth's solar system, killing everyone there due to starvation). Basically, in the short term, things will seem pretty ugly, while in the long term, future races thousands of years in the future won't have to worry about synthetic/organic abominations attempting to exterminate them all. So I guess all that's left is the inconsistency of the endings. ^^

 

[Fusioncode9]

I can't wait for Bob to make another video about this, when he's not complaining that the medium has evolved too much and every game should be exactly like Mario 3.

 

[Vault101]

First spoiler is out. Shitstorm has already begun

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/12693643/1

Hacket told Joker to leave Sol...ADMIRAL HACKET told Joker to ABANDON Shepard.......



EDIT:

"Takes deep breath" ok, when I think about it it's not TOO bad, but it still seems rather weird and makes me feel uneasy. Why are they just leaving the crucible open to enemy fire? Why are they clearing away from it? It just makes me nervous about what is to come.

aggghhhhh!

we didn't need to know that..seriously....spoilers