Sir Garbageman
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FML, really hope I have an early enough save file.
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Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut is coming next week [Up: Out now, my sweet]
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WrenchNinja
Member
Its still probably going to suck.
Drew was good but from what we know his ending it wasnt all that great either, better than what we got, but it still tried to make sense out of the Reapers and their actions for a greater good, which really wasnt necessary at all. But whats done is done. Hopefully they salvage this space wreck and make it at least passable and workable so they can continue the franchise in some way that doesnt completely involve fast forwarding thousands of years and basically wiping the slate clean.
CharmingCharlie
Member
Read a comment somewhere that the extended cut only adds around 7 minutes to the game (depending on your choices). This was mentioned in the podcast that was released with the date. I can't confirm this as the thought of having to listen to Mac and Casey drone on makes me want to punch the screen.
graywolf323
Member
well I had it at 100% at one point and got the achievement for that, it's just degraded all the way back down to 50% in the months since
WrenchNinja
Member
At least his ending actually had something to do with the title of the series.
Psychoward
Banned
Your readiness isn't saved then, it's locked in once you do the Cerberus mission.
graywolf323
Member
is there any way to double check what it's locked in at?
edit: disconnected from my wifi and logged into the game's offline mode and loaded my saves from right before and after the Cerberus mission and both showed 100% war readiness
Confidence Man
Member
I don't care enough to even youtube it. This game has left such a bad aftertaste I can't even stand the thought of another second in this universe.
Boombloxer
Member
Does not compute.
The whole reason this exists is due to the outcry. If you haven't played, then you don't quite understand.
Looks like I'll play this weekend to get my miliary readiness back to around 90%
Really? I just checked the app, and mine shows what it currently is, not what it was. This would be good news though.
Pollux
Member
If true...just fuck. It sucks how far Bioware has fallen.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Stopped my first playthrough when I heard about this. I will dust it off and finish it now.
EarsOfASnake
Member
Just listened to that part of the podcast and he says 'several minutes'.
corrosivefrost
Member
Wonder how long before someone posts it on youtube. I'll get my popcorn ready.
12 hours give or take
EYEL1NER
Member
Well I suppose I need to start playing the game now.
I bought the Special Edition at launch and haven't played it yet, but not because of the ending. I never downloaded any of the additional content for ME2 and I have been waiting for it to go on sale again so I can play it
Oh well. Might as well just buy them now.
I bought the Special Edition at launch and haven't played it yet, but not because of the ending. I never downloaded any of the additional content for ME2 and I have been waiting for it to go on sale again so I can play it
and then be disappointed when the choices I make in the DLCs don't make any difference in ME3.
Oh well. Might as well just buy them now.
It's not about not looking forward, it's about managing expectations. People get all worked up like it's the 2nd coming and when it fails to reach those heights, they go apeshit.
Boombloxer
Member
iOS Datapad works. You can get 1% per area per hour.
then I can die happy
Meh. You get 5% per extraction, so play 5 games each day for the next 3 days...BOOM! 95% readiness.
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
The podcast just reinforces how stupid this whole thing is. They totally fucked this up in the first place and are just going to toss in some epilogue slides and some cutscenes to handwave away the BS in the end game so they can make more sequels.
This doesn't fix one of the core problems of ME3- that the decisions and consequences from prior games should have manifested themselves within the actual gameplay and the actual game. Not some cheap epilogue slides tacked on at the end.
This doesn't fix one of the core problems of ME3- that the decisions and consequences from prior games should have manifested themselves within the actual gameplay and the actual game. Not some cheap epilogue slides tacked on at the end.
LightofRohan
Member
I've been waiting for this for a long time.
I don't even know if I want it now. It's like getting back into an abusive relationship, because she/he promised they have changed. You want to believe them! But can you ever trust them again!?
I don't even know if I want it now. It's like getting back into an abusive relationship, because she/he promised they have changed. You want to believe them! But can you ever trust them again!?
ElectricBlue187
Member
Its an addendum not a fix though...so I'd say the chances are very low
What I think they didn't understand is that not everyone is comfortable/OK with having to connect the dots themselves, and want more exposition than what they gave us.
I don't think people had trouble with connecting the dots. It's that when they did, the dots formed a middle finger aimed straight at the viewer.
PrinceOfApathy
Banned
Usually, 90% of the time I look down on posters with extreme spite by saying they'll "Youtube" it for games such as Asuras and Heavy Rain, as watching a game like Heavy Rain and playing it is vastly different. Considering that there are possibilities of you the player failing a section, that the YouTube video didn't, or taking a different approach to a situation, which is more engaging, exciting, exhilarating because its "your" play though, and it shows when playing the game you have tense nerves, heart pumping craziness, sweaty brows.
But with this Mass Effect 3 ending. For sure. " I'll YouTube it " seems to do justice here.
But with this Mass Effect 3 ending. For sure. " I'll YouTube it " seems to do justice here.
Based on some of the conversations I've had with people, yes, they did have trouble connecting the dots. Ambiguity doesn't sit well with some people. Obviously, you are not one of those people. You just plain didn't like it.
corrosivefrost
Member
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
I didn't have any trouble connecting the dots, I just had issues with some of the half-assed bullshit that came out of the canned final sequence (without the bonus scene in the 1 ending).
I mean, come on [ENDING SPOILERS]
That scene with Joker getting off the Normandy is so fucking bad it's not even funny. First, somehow, magically, the two crew members I had with me during the final stage of the battle on earth miraculously made it onto the Normandy and it just happened to be speeding off somewhere so it could crash land when the Mass Relay overloaded? Right. And even better, I used EDI all the time... if I chose the ending where all synthetics were destroyed, how did EDI survive to get off the ship, at least in the mobile platform she used in this game?
R_thanatos
Member
The impression on GAF will be impressive that night.
Disheveled_Zen
Member
Damn, not sure I even have a save file from before the Cerberus base, and I'm really not sure I want to play through the game again without knowing how good these actual endings are.
lucius
Member
There is something lost after your first playthrough, so no matter what changes I doubt in the end this will please many that we're upset. All though extended film versions do seem to work out ok when they are released usually years later, can't think of many that released a couple months later that turned out so well.
Photolysis
Banned
I have no expectations for this, but I'll play it just to see what shit Walters manages to come up with this time around.
I'll just put the game on the easiest setting and edit my readiness score. I'm not resubbing to Live and grinding for a weekend to get it up to 100% again.
I'll just put the game on the easiest setting and edit my readiness score. I'm not resubbing to Live and grinding for a weekend to get it up to 100% again.
When you start the final mission, it saves before the Cerberus base automatically when starting the mission because
it's the point of no return
I'm going to be watching this on YouTube, can't be fucked to go through the game again unless it turns out to be good.
Complistic
Member
This is their very last chance for me.
"We need more speculations"
Yeah, with everything they're saying in this podcast, I have no faith in this. I am still on the fence if I'll bother playing through it.
Mass Effect 1 is my favorite game of all time.
I took a day off of work to play ME3 that first day.
What the hell have you done Bioware?
EDIT: From the podcast: The "care" and "concern" they put into this content? LOL.
Also, we "wouldn't know how to write" a new ending? Wow. Although I'm guessing that a tacit way of saying "It's not indoctrination theory. Seriously, get over it."
Mass Effect 1 is my favorite game of all time.
I took a day off of work to play ME3 that first day.
What the hell have you done Bioware?
EDIT: From the podcast: The "care" and "concern" they put into this content? LOL.
Also, we "wouldn't know how to write" a new ending? Wow. Although I'm guessing that a tacit way of saying "It's not indoctrination theory. Seriously, get over it."
Based on the interviews with a couple of the VAs called back, I don't exactly have high hopes for this. I think Bioware is on the record for saying this will not change the Starchild, tricolor ending, nor the clusterfuck that was the ending. It will only add scenes to "clarify". I'm sure that it will ultimately improve the ending, and I appreciate Bioware taking the time to work on it, but from my perspective, the ending has some many fundamental flaws with it, that no amount of explanation will solve its problem (and any explanation seriously trying to do so will have to go through an insane amount of mental gymnastics to get it to logically make sense).
You get 3% if you win one game, which takes around 15-20 mins each, even less if its Bronze, i see Bronze games taking like 10-11 mins.
But you also lose % if you dont play for a while. I know for a fact that im always at 97% when i come back from work at 4pm and i played for the last time the day before at 11pm when it is at 100%.
Anyway, readiness was never an issue for me because i play 2 games MINIMUM every single day. The multiplayer mode is that fun and addicting to me.
Yes, i still think the original ending was crap, but that never stopped me from playing the game and enjoying the multiplayer.
Forsythia
Member
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/12695580/1
They fixed the EMS thing, no grinding in multiplayer anymore!
And do they basically admit they lied about everything being available in singleplayer alone?
Up to 2% in each area per hour if you had already maxed out every purchase the first time through.