HadesGigas
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He could ask Liara I guess, but the ME internet is full of crazies who say they're actually cyborgs under the mask.
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Mass Effect 3 Spoiler Thread |OT2| Taste the Rainbow
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He could ask Liara I guess, but the ME internet is full of crazies who say they're actually cyborgs under the mask.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
You have lost interest in a franchise and a developer but you have gained a family, welcome brother.
Never gets old. Sorry you had to experience that.
Liara wasnt alive when the Quarians got driven off by the geth. That happened several centuries ago.
KingItachi
Member
Hey no free hugs, hugs are $14.99.
Lol, this ending is the gift that keeps on giving. I have gotten more laughs out of these two spoiler threads than anything else in recent memory.
I pretty sure he does.
RedRedSuit
Member
It really never does.
HadesGigas
Member
But she's the shadow broker. She probably has cameras in the quarian fleet's bathrooms.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Do you think Liara has cameras in Shepard's shower?
Do you think she...watches?
Do you think she...watches?
Yes and no. But she sells the vids.
Typographenia
Member
Well... Just finished it.
I'm not even angry. I'm just at a loss for how to feel. I know in my head how bad it was, but it just hasn't fully sunk in yet. Or something.
Those last thirty minutes...
The worst part, I feel, was when I was forced to renegade kill the Illusive Man.
I kid you not, my paragon meter was maxed out except for 5 points. I got 5 renegade points at some part early on in the game (not even sure what from, because I was playing very carefully), yet I couldn't choose the final super paragon dialogue. Instead, I sat waiting for my paragon choice to popup, Anderson dies. Okay, maybe now. Nope, I died. Great, now I have to sit through the discussion again, with no way of skipping it.
Freaking bull crap.
Not to mention, we are going to pull a FF10 and have bahamut little citadel boy suddenly come into existence? What is this? You can't do this! You have to build, hint, or do something to make things like this not feel incredibly contrived, lazy, and broken! Unless I was totally blind to it, this was the first time anything like this was ever remotely touched upon. I mean, come on.
And lol, at those three choices for endings. I was already frustrated, but that was just beautiful. I'm glad they provided images of Anderson and the Illusive Man to let me know which was which. I decided to go with option C, since it sounded like it was going to pull an End of Evangelion. I thought, "Why not? Let's see how stupid this can get."
Dear lord, I wasn't ready for a Joker/EDI to Adam/Eve visual. It made me cringe.
At least they showed Tali (I assume it's the romantic interest) getting out. Thank heavens it wasn't just the two of them left alive.
I mean... Ugh. I just... So much stupid... Just so much...
edit: Actually, no. The best part of all was the giant F-You from Bioware at the end of "hey guys, buy more stuff! YEAH!" So beautiful. They weren't even pretending about it anymore.
I'm not even angry. I'm just at a loss for how to feel. I know in my head how bad it was, but it just hasn't fully sunk in yet. Or something.
Those last thirty minutes...
The worst part, I feel, was when I was forced to renegade kill the Illusive Man.
I kid you not, my paragon meter was maxed out except for 5 points. I got 5 renegade points at some part early on in the game (not even sure what from, because I was playing very carefully), yet I couldn't choose the final super paragon dialogue. Instead, I sat waiting for my paragon choice to popup, Anderson dies. Okay, maybe now. Nope, I died. Great, now I have to sit through the discussion again, with no way of skipping it.
Freaking bull crap.
Not to mention, we are going to pull a FF10 and have bahamut little citadel boy suddenly come into existence? What is this? You can't do this! You have to build, hint, or do something to make things like this not feel incredibly contrived, lazy, and broken! Unless I was totally blind to it, this was the first time anything like this was ever remotely touched upon. I mean, come on.
And lol, at those three choices for endings. I was already frustrated, but that was just beautiful. I'm glad they provided images of Anderson and the Illusive Man to let me know which was which. I decided to go with option C, since it sounded like it was going to pull an End of Evangelion. I thought, "Why not? Let's see how stupid this can get."
Dear lord, I wasn't ready for a Joker/EDI to Adam/Eve visual. It made me cringe.
At least they showed Tali (I assume it's the romantic interest) getting out. Thank heavens it wasn't just the two of them left alive.
I mean... Ugh. I just... So much stupid... Just so much...
edit: Actually, no. The best part of all was the giant F-You from Bioware at the end of "hey guys, buy more stuff! YEAH!" So beautiful. They weren't even pretending about it anymore.
Photolysis
Banned
There's probably a giant thread on BSN with some strange person giving a list of extensive reasons on why this is likely the case.
And how it all links back to the Indoctrination theory.
WrenchNinja
Member
There's more than one Forbes guy. David Thier wrote that specific article.
Liara sees everything. She probably knows the origins of the Starchild. She is our only hope for understanding the ending.
HadesGigas
Member
She couldn't even figure out that her gods were protheans. We have no hope.
RedRedSuit
Member
lol
I'm sorry, I feel your pain, but lol.
EDIT: Regarding the Illusive Man, the best you can do is get him to shoot himself. Personally that was OK for me, if a bit repetitive.
EDIT 2: I just suddenly got an email from EAoware. "Welcome to the fight to take back Earth" is the subject.
To be able to hit the red/blue responses in the final conversation with TIM, you always had to pick red or blue responses (any combination) when speaking to him in game or something. This will cause you to not shoot anderson and, provided you chose the paragon response, make TIM shoot himself ijust like Saren in ME1.
And she's the one who discovered the Crucible. So this whole thing is really her fault.
KingItachi
Member
Forbes putting the so called gaming media to shame.
Shots fired. :lol
Is this how you feel and look like right now?
We've all been there.
BoobPhysics101
Banned
AND WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THE CATALYST?
The Reapers/Catalyst claim their purpose/design is to protect organics from synthetic life. But that's BULLSHIT, because in the end, synthetics control everything anyways! The Reapers (synthetics) come and murder everyone, assimilating them, and just leave newb organics. It serves no purpose because they just repeatedly do that once organics evolve and prosper, to what end? It just shows that the synthetics cause chaos, restore order temporarily, and then do it all over again!
It's fucking stupid. It's SO GOD DAMN STUPID. There has to be more to it than 'well we don't like it when organics make synthetics and then the synthetics go crazy, so we're SUPER-SYNTHETICS that fucking kill everything and then let the lesser organics evolve to that higher level, rinse wash and repeat.'
WHY? Fucking why? It's all a god damn lie.
EDIT: And the Catalyst is the kid... the same kid at the beginning of the game... and in THREE FUCKING NIGHTMARES. What is the meaning of this? Wow. My mind is truly full of fuck the more I think about this.
The Reapers/Catalyst claim their purpose/design is to protect organics from synthetic life. But that's BULLSHIT, because in the end, synthetics control everything anyways! The Reapers (synthetics) come and murder everyone, assimilating them, and just leave newb organics. It serves no purpose because they just repeatedly do that once organics evolve and prosper, to what end? It just shows that the synthetics cause chaos, restore order temporarily, and then do it all over again!
It's fucking stupid. It's SO GOD DAMN STUPID. There has to be more to it than 'well we don't like it when organics make synthetics and then the synthetics go crazy, so we're SUPER-SYNTHETICS that fucking kill everything and then let the lesser organics evolve to that higher level, rinse wash and repeat.'
WHY? Fucking why? It's all a god damn lie.
EDIT: And the Catalyst is the kid... the same kid at the beginning of the game... and in THREE FUCKING NIGHTMARES. What is the meaning of this? Wow. My mind is truly full of fuck the more I think about this.
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
Typographenia
Member
It's just stupid that those 5 points forced me to act out of character, sit through that crap again, and funnel me into what they decided was how I had to do it.
Actually, more like this.
The pie is ME3, and Spongebob is Bioware.
edit: I'm kind of past the anger stage already, since I've been upset over how ludicrous things like the Crucible never being discovered by the Reapers was for the duration of the game. I sort of had my stages of grief in the first half of the game. Now, I'm just in a state of disbelief. I didn't think it was possible to be as bad as everyone made it sound.
It was all that and more...
*stands up from his folding chair nervously, foam coffee cup in hand, and addresses everyone else in the circle*
Me: "Hello, my name is Vicros and I just finished Mass Effect 3."
Everyone: "Hello Vicros."
Therapist: "You're among friends here son, please tell us what happened."
Me: "Well, everything was going great. I was nearing the very end of the game. I knew people hated the ending, but I had avoided spoilers so I had no idea what to expect. As I was sitting on the ground by Anderson in the citidel I thought "this has been pretty cool so far, what are people so pissed off about?", and then....
Therapist: "Yes? What happend after that?"
Me: *sob*
Me: "Hello, my name is Vicros and I just finished Mass Effect 3."
Everyone: "Hello Vicros."
Therapist: "You're among friends here son, please tell us what happened."
Me: "Well, everything was going great. I was nearing the very end of the game. I knew people hated the ending, but I had avoided spoilers so I had no idea what to expect. As I was sitting on the ground by Anderson in the citidel I thought "this has been pretty cool so far, what are people so pissed off about?", and then....
Therapist: "Yes? What happend after that?"
Me: *sob*
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Makes me laugh every time.
All I can say is don't fall for the indoctrination theory, no matter how much your weakened mental state feels it makes sense.
Typographenia
Member
Shep and Anderson staring at the planet would have been a lot more touching, if I hadn't been distracted by how bad the quality of the image of earth was. Hopefully it looked better on pc, because that was pretty bad.
You could have just saved yourself the trouble of writing all this and just post this instead :
welcome
the cupcake donation ended,you can participate in the next campaign.
hold the line marauder shields.
BoobPhysics101
Banned
Watching this right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ythY_GkEBck&feature=player_embedded
Either it's true, or Bioware started employing the author of Twilight. I mean... yeah, maybe nobody saw Shepard get up and go into the beam, but if Harbinger left, why did everyone retreat?
Fuck.
The one that gets me the most is the 65 million years ago one.
tearsofash
Member
Post-ending Reaper love interest/romance DLC. Synthesis or control required. Though control might be a little too risqué.
Having just literally played completed the sidequest that I believe you are referring to this morning, I can say you are mistaken. You only sell info to the Shadowbroker once in the entirety of ME1, and it's about Cerberus.
LightofRohan
Member
At Best Buy and read the end part in that Collectors Edition Strategy guide. Seems like there were a lot of uses for those points... had a list of like 20 things that change depending on your points. But none of it was obvious...
Also, they said something about. If you kept your paddle fish alive between both games, that something special happens after the game is over in Liara's room. Anyone know?
Also, they said something about. If you kept your paddle fish alive between both games, that something special happens after the game is over in Liara's room. Anyone know?
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Its like a war, people are still falling left and right.
All with the same reactions, and people who are past that look and say, I was like them.
So sad.
What have you done Bioware.
All with the same reactions, and people who are past that look and say, I was like them.
So sad.
What have you done Bioware.
BoobPhysics101
Banned
From the indoctrination theory video:
"What is the meaning of the dreams?
Why does nobody notice the body?
Why would Shepard be immune to indoctrination?
Why does Harbinger take a special interest in Shepard?
Why are there trees from the dream around the beam?
Why does your sidearm have infinite ammo?
Why is the beam directly leading to the panel that opens Citadel's arms?
Why are corpses everywhere on the Citadel, just like on the Collector's ship?
How did Anderson enter the beam before Shepard?"
This sucks.
"What is the meaning of the dreams?
Why does nobody notice the body?
Why would Shepard be immune to indoctrination?
Why does Harbinger take a special interest in Shepard?
Why are there trees from the dream around the beam?
Why does your sidearm have infinite ammo?
Why is the beam directly leading to the panel that opens Citadel's arms?
Why are corpses everywhere on the Citadel, just like on the Collector's ship?
How did Anderson enter the beam before Shepard?"
This sucks.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
It's interesting the Eletania vision was never used. It's one of the few (maybe only?) save flags that is not used for anything, not even an email.
the ones that felt first took the heat!!
the newer guys atleast wont have ign and kotaku mocking them.
RedRedSuit
Member
Don't do this to yourself.
littleworm
Member
It gives you an Intel bonus, which you can use for either a 10% bonus to weapons or power.
CharmingCharlie
Member
You just get an extra "data packet" that you can cash in at the terminal in Liara's quarters and get a slight upgrade to something that for the life of me I can't remember it was just that good.
