Swag? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotional_item)
Speaking of the press, Gamespot posted an article: "Why do you hate Mass Effect 3?" He lists 3reasons, the story isn't one
http://www.gamespot.com/features/why-do-you-hate-mass-effect-3-6365175/
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Mass Effect 3 SPOILER THREAD: LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE
- Thread starter XANDER CAGE
- Start date
- Status
Swag? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotional_item)
Speaking of the press, Gamespot posted an article: "Why do you hate Mass Effect 3?" He lists 3reasons, the story isn't one
http://www.gamespot.com/features/why-do-you-hate-mass-effect-3-6365175/
Sorry for not replying earlier but I'm doing work at the same time but I already complained a lot about these things for ME2. I was there in the story discussion thread of ME2 complaining about the plot of the game (working for cerberus, baby human reaper, collectors nonsense, Ashley/Kaidan not abducted but the girl five feets from them is abducted, etc.)
It really feels like they were making up stuff as they were going along.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Also, Chobot got more than she bargained for in my playthrough, most likely ending up stranded on jungle planet with the rest of the random crew members. That's what I am to believe, I'd say.
LOL, what the fuck at this game. WOW
LOL, what the fuck at this game. WOW
EA puts a lot of pressure on reviewers when their big anticipated games come out. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them didn't even finish the game.
Like I say though. Never trust the gaming press when it comes to wrpgs, they just don't know how to judge them because most are not big genre fans.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
They are afraid of...... the black book
:lol
This track is like ME3, it's awesome up until the end when the brass instruments and the drums come in instead of just fading to silence, like you expected.
Oblivion with Guns 3: Broken Steel.
Lostconfused
Member
I guess Fallout 3 counts when Bethesda released Broken Steel but Fallout 3 and Bethesda games in general are not big story driven games. This is a far bigger problem and it stretches across 5 years, 3 games and 4 books.
Well, the I know that the japanese animation studio Studio Gainax (Tengen Toppa, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Panty and Stocking) loves to release every year or two a movie that rewrites a important moment in the series story or ending. Mostly for fun though it seems, not like that the originals are bad.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Which is why I think we were OK with it
Also F3 wasn't shown or pur as choose driven as Mass effect.
Ok with the dlc? Yeah I mean I sure didn't care about it because I didn't care about the story that much. I bought it with pleasure because of the level cap increase and the extra little mini-campaign.
Last Hearth
Member
After thinking about it, here is what I would have done with the story.
The Reapers are not beatable. The only way to survive is to retreat and go into hiding. So convince all the Citadel races to jointly retreat into a a star cluster that has a single Mass Relay that is far away from all the others and then shut it down after going through, make the final battle about all the fleets of the council races defending the Mass Relay as the civilians fleets tries to get through. That would have been a good ending even if Shepard dies to make it happen, it would have given closure rather than this nonsense.
The Reapers are not beatable. The only way to survive is to retreat and go into hiding. So convince all the Citadel races to jointly retreat into a a star cluster that has a single Mass Relay that is far away from all the others and then shut it down after going through, make the final battle about all the fleets of the council races defending the Mass Relay as the civilians fleets tries to get through. That would have been a good ending even if Shepard dies to make it happen, it would have given closure rather than this nonsense.
EmCeeGramr
Member
boy i hope that when the relays exploded they exploded in a special way and not in the arrival-destroy-the-whole-system-they're-in way
EmCeeGramr
Member
ha ha of course, it's homophobia
seriously where did the press get this idea that it was a big controversy? twitter trolls and 4chan posts? nobody on any serious community I've seen has had any negative reaction to it.
You know, I didnt think of that. Last time a relay exploded, the whole system it was in died...
So in the end, Sol and all other systems containing a mass relay (meaning, pretty much every important system) got destroyed by the (I asume) following explosion?
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Just think.. talking to joker in reaper form :lol
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Bioware you have angered those infinitely greater
I like how moat posts talk about the shitty endings
Empty Space
Member
Besides Fallout 3, there's Prince of Persia 2008. I was actually okay with the endings to both those games. I will admit I didn't play Fallout 3 till all the DLC was out for that one so my opinion on it is a little differently colored then most.
Reaper Shepherd: Hey Joker, check this out. *Plays dub-step*
Yeah eh, I guess it was a special magical controlled explosion. This whole time they just held magical pixie dust to help merge humans and synthetics.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
I just saw some Kotaku comments..... they have no idea
------
Going to bed.
------
Going to bed.
No, it only kills all life in a solar system if your war assets weren't high enough brah.
LumpOfCole
Member
Fucking awesome (even though the toothbrush wasn't sharpened into a shank)
state-of-the-art
Member
I just finished the game today, and I'm not sure if I'm disappointed or just underwhelmed.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Don't try and think too hard about it, Bioware sure didn't. Makes no sense that they would harvest the most advanced race every cycle and turn them into reapers, only to have every reaper look exactly the same.
Empty Space
Member
I might be wrong since its been a while, but I think the reason there isn't a Prothean reaper is because their genetic code didn't allow for the construction of one and were instead turned into collectors
Was the Human Reaper going to be turned into a Sovereign-class or Destroyer-class? In ME2 it didn't seem that big unless the "essence" of it (skeleton or w/e) is incased inside a Sovereign-class one (which is like 2km in length). Then again, they all look the damn same within each class.
Trickster
Member
Just completed the game. Fuck the ending, all the choices are so goddamn bad, jesus christ.
And reading just a few pages of the topic makes me realize how many holes there is in the story of the game. The Mass Effect series is a crystal clear example of when writing a trilogy, you need to write the whole story in one go. Not write part 1, then part 2, and lastly part 3.
And reading just a few pages of the topic makes me realize how many holes there is in the story of the game. The Mass Effect series is a crystal clear example of when writing a trilogy, you need to write the whole story in one go. Not write part 1, then part 2, and lastly part 3.
Mister Wilhelm
Member
I beat it an hour ago.
I uninstalled it 55 minutes ago.
I will never buy another Bioware game again.
Now I know how all those people that watched Lost for so many years feel.
I uninstalled it 55 minutes ago.
I will never buy another Bioware game again.
Now I know how all those people that watched Lost for so many years feel.
therealminime
Member
How many times did people have to swap discs?
I had my game installed and did basically every single thing there was to do with about 32 hours on the clock and only swapped discs 4 times.
I had my game installed and did basically every single thing there was to do with about 32 hours on the clock and only swapped discs 4 times.
LumpOfCole
Member
Once - I only had to switch to disk 2 when installing the game, because PC Master Race.
This feels worse than Lost, because this is me playing and MY Shepard. I think there's a big difference, personally.
After Lost, I was a little baffled but then forgot about it the next day. I don't see myself forgetting this as easily. And it's a shame because this game has so many awesome moments and so many improvements over the previous games (save for the Journal).
Last Hearth
Member
Actually the Lost comparison is interesting, except as much as I was unhappy with the Lost ending, it's still much better than this. I didn't finishing watching that and never wanted to watch an episode of Lost again. I don't know if I can touch this game ever again.
Yeah about 3 or 4 times sounds right. A non issue. Not sure what the hell those people were doing that swapped discs 4 times in a 10 hour span.
Yep, I think this makes it worse. I couldn't even play the game at first when it did not load in my shepard, I couldn't play with a 'close enough' shepard, it had to be MY shepard.
Mister Wilhelm
Member
I just posted a little bit of an expansion on the Lost thing:
But I agree it does feel like a more personal stab in the heart for that reason.
To keep consistent with the comic, wasn't the toothbrush sharpened the other way around? So Kai Leng should stab with that end.
But great video, I loled IRL.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
Fucking, yes! Man. It's a shame the creative minds behind the game couldn't have seen this scenario, or something like it, through. So disappointing.
The Kai Leng plot was also quite stupid to be honest. It's like I'm supposed to believe how awesome he is while he struggled to beat Thane which was afflicted with space lung cancer and he wins on Thessia by cheating and attacking the support pillar. He also failed to assassinate Miranda too (if you tell her about him on the citadel). The whole Shepard losing confidence because of him was awkward and rushed. The email Kai Leng sends you make it seems like you both have some old grudges and this really not the case.
Let's just say Lump of Cole comics didn't help me admire his character either.
Let's just say Lump of Cole comics didn't help me admire his character either.
state-of-the-art
Member
- Status