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Mass Effect 3 Spoiler Thread |OT2| Taste the Rainbow
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PinkCrayon
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Don't be silly, of course you can!
If you guys want some really great fan fiction, you should read this (NSFW):
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/06/fan_fiction_friday_optimus_prime_and_princess_leia.php
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/06/fan_fiction_friday_optimus_prime_and_princess_leia.php
PinkCrayon
Member
Wow that was amazing lol
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I'm not sure if that was written seriously or for humor.
So after letting the ending simmer for a day (beat it last night) and reading about the way the end was handled, I kinda feel why everyone was so upset.
It just deserved a better ending, I guess. I thought the writing was great, the character interactions were just as good as they were in ME2, the combat was never better, the music was amazing, the graphics improved... It was all there. Everything except the ending.
What a shame. It's not even that the ending was that bad, to me... It was just woefully incomplete. Well, that and the fact that all of the choices you made throughout the series meant absolutely nothing in terms of the outcome.
It almost makes me sad. I still will look back on this game and the trilogy fondly but I agree that the ending just leaves you a little empty.
It just deserved a better ending, I guess. I thought the writing was great, the character interactions were just as good as they were in ME2, the combat was never better, the music was amazing, the graphics improved... It was all there. Everything except the ending.
What a shame. It's not even that the ending was that bad, to me... It was just woefully incomplete. Well, that and the fact that all of the choices you made throughout the series meant absolutely nothing in terms of the outcome.
It almost makes me sad. I still will look back on this game and the trilogy fondly but I agree that the ending just leaves you a little empty.
i am able to view the map. i thought i did more then 5 since i have all of my squad members available except 2. Guess i will just do some side missions until it appears. Too bad i cant play the game until i go back to school :\ lol
Typographenia
Member
I think I can safely say that was the first and last fan fic I will ever read.
First Name
Member
I feel like I just saw god being brutally murdered in front of my eyes.
That's why it is brilliant.
Blue Ninja
Member
There is no god. Not anymore.
utsavinheaven
Member
menu behind can be used after some time,happened with me.
i think it is some bug.but after u load a game,everthing becomes normal.
alysonwheel
Member
More fanfic:
Why do the reapers do what they do? Why do they only target advanced civilisations? Why preserve them at all?
Because somewhere out there, whether outside the galaxy or in another dimension or whatever, is a giant machine or mechanism that monitors galactic population density. When that gets beyond a certain level, the machine starts killing that galaxy's stars with dark energy. The reapers exist solely to stop this happening; to keep galaxies alive, and to preserve life in whatever form they can. The galaxy is seeded with just enough mass relays to ensure that there is no motivation to develop FTL technology so the populations stay in predictable areas, and so as to delay the activation of the mechanism.
Once the reapers have been defeated, the galaxy has, say, a thousand or so years to find out what this mechanism is, where it is, and why it is.
Why do the reapers do what they do? Why do they only target advanced civilisations? Why preserve them at all?
Because somewhere out there, whether outside the galaxy or in another dimension or whatever, is a giant machine or mechanism that monitors galactic population density. When that gets beyond a certain level, the machine starts killing that galaxy's stars with dark energy. The reapers exist solely to stop this happening; to keep galaxies alive, and to preserve life in whatever form they can. The galaxy is seeded with just enough mass relays to ensure that there is no motivation to develop FTL technology so the populations stay in predictable areas, and so as to delay the activation of the mechanism.
Once the reapers have been defeated, the galaxy has, say, a thousand or so years to find out what this mechanism is, where it is, and why it is.
Dr Zhivago
Member
So the Reapers are just protecting us from the SuperReapers?
What if the SuperReapers are protecting us from the HyperReapers???
What if the SuperReapers are protecting us from the HyperReapers???
alysonwheel
Member
Pfft, you just hire quality writers like Mac Walters to get you out of questions like that...
And what about the SuperReapers Turbo HD Remix?
EarsOfASnake
Member
Is there a chart or guide that goes through how choices made in 1 and 2 effect 3?
Escape Goat
Member
when does Zaeed and Samara show up? I want to make sure I dont miss them on this playthrough.
Zaeed is involved in a sidequest on the citadel AFTER it gets attacked. Samara is part of one of the main missions when you go to the ardat-yakshi monastery.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Breaking up with people in this game is pretty interesting.
On my first playthrough from my import I broke up with Garrus (Liara in ME1, Garrus in ME2) and it was this heartfelt thing. My FemShep really tried to let him down easily.
I'm playing again on insanity and I broke up with Liara this time around and it was so blunt and matter of fact I actually laughed!
Is there a time I can do it later and it will be more sympathetic?
On my first playthrough from my import I broke up with Garrus (Liara in ME1, Garrus in ME2) and it was this heartfelt thing. My FemShep really tried to let him down easily.
I'm playing again on insanity and I broke up with Liara this time around and it was so blunt and matter of fact I actually laughed!
Is there a time I can do it later and it will be more sympathetic?
Zaeed shows up for what is arguably the worst sidequest ever on the Citadel, where you investigate the Volus ambassador's corruption. Samara shows up on the Ardat-Yakshi temple mission.
Escape Goat
Member
Cool, thanks brohams.
If you did not have his loyalty in ME2, what happens in that encounter is you walk into the room, he gets shot, and Shepard literally walks up to his corpse, picks the item you were looking for up, then leaves without saying a word. Awkward.
So back to the Gurren Lagan thing?
alysonwheel
Member
Never seen it. All I know is there are drills involved, and someone stands on the galaxy at the end
Based only on the information in ME1 and 2 there are dozens of possible explanations for the reapers' motivations. I bet any of us in this thread could come up with ten in an hour; of varying quality, sure, but all likely better than the explanation we actually got. Even the idea put forth by someone in ME1 that it's just the way they reproduce is better.
MrTroubleMaker
Gold Member
Shepard
Liara
Shepard
Liara
lol carry on
^ wth. hah. (I notice you have my quick quote script.)
(Edit/Damn it, now my post is out of sync.)
@alysonwheel,
I personally didn't care too much for TTGL, but here's the premise.
(Edit/Damn it, now my post is out of sync.)
@alysonwheel,
I personally didn't care too much for TTGL, but here's the premise.
There are beings called anti-spirals (non-evolving) who go after spiral (evolved) lifeforms, because evolution somehow affects the universe's stability. If such life forms were to continue, the universe would end. The anti-spirals were once spiral, but they decided to martyr themselves in order to prevent that from happening. They then devised a plan to stop/kill all the spiral races in the universe if their numbers got large enough.
Once the civilization of Earth, or whatever the planet is called, reached one million, the anti-spirals came to attack it. However, you don't learn about this until after half-way through the season.
Once the civilization of Earth, or whatever the planet is called, reached one million, the anti-spirals came to attack it. However, you don't learn about this until after half-way through the season.
I was surprised all three endings destroy the mass relays. That really sucks for the aliens in the Sol system cause now they can't get home right?
And what the hell is Joker and the Normandy doing in the mass relay system? After Shepard goes up to the Citadel everyone hops back onto the Normandy and runs away?
Edit: Oh, haha, I see the Normandy thing is in the youtube vid. Oh, and the mass relay point. I should have watched this video before posting.
Ending sucks.
And what the hell is Joker and the Normandy doing in the mass relay system? After Shepard goes up to the Citadel everyone hops back onto the Normandy and runs away?
Edit: Oh, haha, I see the Normandy thing is in the youtube vid. Oh, and the mass relay point. I should have watched this video before posting.
Ending sucks.
I haven't been keeping up, but am vaguely interested, but IIRC, the Bioware guy who spoke at (PAX?) said that long-range travel is definitely doable, it just takes a hell of a lot longer.
I think he mentioned "rebuild".
HadesGigas
Member
They would try to repair the relays with all the "reaper tech" that is laying around now (especially in destroy).
They would also put more resources into researching ways to improve FTL travel now that it's the only way to travel great distances untill/unless they repair the relays.
Sounds nice, but still seems like things that'd take a long ass time and the billions of people in the Sol System don't have a ton of time.
They are orbiting a wrecked planet Earth with only whatever resources they brought with them (and whatever magically didn't explode on the Citidel even though the Citidel exploded). Best case scenario they set up farming colonies then spend years mining and researching and scavenging before they are able to do much of any truly long distance travel.
Or they get lucky and one of the species on the planets in another system that were left better off find way to fix all the relays through their own and everything is back to normal. Salarians to the rescue! (Their planet seemed mostly untouched by reapers and they're a race of science nerds)
MrTroubleMaker
Gold Member
It's great! thanks for writing it
I wish ME3 ended like Gurren Lagan.
Can someone refresh my memory please? After you drove off Reapers from Tuchanka and Rannoch, you don't see any Reaper icon near their system on the world map. But did the Reaper icon show up again towards the end before you launch attack on Earth? If so, if the majority of their fleets left for Earth: Final Conflict, how much are left defending their homewolrd?
PinkCrayon
Member
Yeah the reaper icons are on all systems. Activating the crucible is more important than defending other worlds.
Here's something I was thinking of today: For such an evolved being, why does the Star Child speak so...poorly. "My idea won't work anymore", etc. Yes a statement like that is technically correct English but it I would think an intelligent creature would be more eloquent in speech.
Eh, you really think they would have bothered to do it considering how rushed and badly thought the ending already was?
HadesGigas
Member
Considering it can seemingly read Sheps mind to take the form of the little kid, it must also able to adjust his speech to something Shepard would understand I guess?
And since Shepard just took a reaper beam to the head and his brain was already dead rotting tissue once, he probably doesn't show up as super intelligent to godchild's mindscan.
Joe Molotov
Member
Or it could have just been that the ending sucked balls on every level, including dialog.
To be honest, my eyes were rolling so hard to the back of the sockets at that point that I was more worried I wouldn't be able to revert them back to its position.
"Gee, your plan no longer working? It never worked and is fucking stupid in the first place" was what I was thinking while my eyes were rolling so hard.
I'm curious how they'll attempt to expand on it. BW has a strange plan, indeed.
:lol
Tribes of Trusty
Member
AND BW would've been able to give a good plot reason if they ever decide to make a sequel to ME3.
Also, the more I think about the "synthesis" ending the less sense it makes. Re-write the organics DNA in order to fuse with machines...wut ? They wouldn't be carbon-based, but still organic.
Well I think I'm going to stop thinking about it and wait for the DLC. I hope it will deal with the immediate events after the ending in a satisfying manner.
There was always FTL travel in the ME universe, the Relays just made instantaneous travel over extremely huge distances possible. So what would take years or centuries with conventional FTL travel could be done in minutes with the Relays.
Heck, if the Quarians lasted 300 years roaming around, it's not unreasonable to think folks will find a way to get back to their home planets.
WrenchNinja
Member
They lasted 300 years roaming around in a not-devastated and connected galaxy. They were just as dependant on populated worlds and colonies for supplies as everyone else.