eot
Banned
NOPE
It was the worst long before then. The ending just completed the shit sandwich.
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Fan writes 400-page blueprint to 'fix' Mass Effect 3
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NOPE
It was the worst long before then. The ending just completed the shit sandwich.
ChamplooJones
Formerly Momotaro
Hate to be "that guy" but that's 400 pages that could have been applied towards his own work instead of a two year old game. Jesus.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
dang! I thought it was
Artorias of the Abyss
Neo Member
^this. Bioware never gave a shit about your choices because they never had a real impact to begin with, it was just minor cosmetic changes.
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Now that, is some dedication.
Nail it right of the bat
you win the 1st post. HARD
Nail it right of the bat
you win the 1st post. HARD
was actually gonna post something in that regard, haha
Senor Kami
Banned
"Cats that hung out together trying to find a solution found nothing. Cats that might have proved space or cured cancer, West Indian Archie might have been a mathematical genius... "
Denzel Washington, Malcolm X
An apt quote to such a waste of potential.
Denzel Washington, Malcolm X
An apt quote to such a waste of potential.
We had closure well before Priority: Earth, it wasn't just fan service that your members of your crew happened to show up on nearly every mission. The main themes of the series where about cycles and the conflicts between man and machine, creator and created. Those theme were throughout the series in the form of your squadmates, like Miranda and Jacob or with the Geth/Quarian conflict. It was about those cycles repeating, constants throughout millions of years. What do you think the main themes are?
What I would have loved to see if perhaps picking up additional crew members based upon your actions, not squadmembers but people like Joker who would help out around the ship. I think the EMS would have been fine if, like you said we saw the pieces in play during the final mission. For instance you might not even get to the conduit if you didn't have enough people to help you, stuff like that.
The Ps4 Looks Great
Banned
Literally made me start pelvic thrusting the air
I imagine that your version had the Extended Cut from the beginning. That DLC is a extended (duh) and better version of the ending (eliminates some things that didn't make sense too).
masterkajo
Member
The problem, at least for me was that all decisions you made throughout the entire trilogy did not influence the ending at all. Then there was the stupid child (I never cared for during the entire game/dreams) and the fact that the solution to the reaper problem was "pushing a button" and space magic. And then the contradictions on top.
This is borderline obsessive. One thing are theories, or criticism. But a 400-page book?
About ME3, I still feel that the issue was that Drew Karpyshyn wasn't the lead writer. He hinted a few times at the idea he had for the ending after the shitstorm, and I think it made much more sense (and was a more interesting choice). Probably because he wrote the first one and worked with Walters in Mass Effect 2, where there were references to this idea.
About ME3, I still feel that the issue was that Drew Karpyshyn wasn't the lead writer. He hinted a few times at the idea he had for the ending after the shitstorm, and I think it made much more sense (and was a more interesting choice). Probably because he wrote the first one and worked with Walters in Mass Effect 2, where there were references to this idea.
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
So is the guy insane or what? No one in their right mind could care this much about the ME ending. It really wasn't that bad.
Saint god my sides.
400 pages sounds way too much. All that was needed, honestly, was a good finale. I had no complains at all until i decided not to be saved by Marauder Shields.
I actually read through quite a bit of this. If you enjoy Mass Effect, it's worth a read, it hits every note the game should of done.
He doesn't change too much with the main game, just removes a few annoyances (So Anderson on the council, the Rachni). The Ending and Epilogue are very well done and differ considerably, the effort put into separating the endings really makes it though, he's gone through every character and given them a separate ending based on your actions with them, exactly how it should have been.
I know it's only fan fiction, I know it doesn't really matter, but if you can pretend for one moment its not, just read through the ending (or more importantly YOUR ending) and epilogue.
He doesn't change too much with the main game, just removes a few annoyances (So Anderson on the council, the Rachni). The Ending and Epilogue are very well done and differ considerably, the effort put into separating the endings really makes it though, he's gone through every character and given them a separate ending based on your actions with them, exactly how it should have been.
I know it's only fan fiction, I know it doesn't really matter, but if you can pretend for one moment its not, just read through the ending (or more importantly YOUR ending) and epilogue.
thread killer!!
I think that 1 was more of an RPG than a shooter, which I enjoyed. I think that's the distinction. 2 felt like gears of war with rpg elements. 3 was just a disaster. It was more of the same from 2 but a lot less interesting, except for a couple of missions.
I may read this to see how he would have ended it.
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Fine Ham Abounds
Member
And yet where's the Kotaku story on this masterpiece?
Hey, we've already got merchandizing for this one
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Brilliant.
*takes a bow*
Yeah the Wii U version is the special edition with all the extra content and stuff, and supposedly the fixed better ending. I guess that's the main reason then.
Ok, I noticed the same that the decisions didn't really affect anything, but it didn't take away from the ending IMO. Kind of made the actual story of the game pretty meaningless, but on the other hand the ending, including the child made it work pretty well IMO. I didn't really expect anything like that, so it was a nice surprise and if I played it second time, I'd get a lot of the story better than on my first time.
You're wrong. To sum it up, one of our new mods has posted a summary of why
but hey, it had awesome cutscenes! and we all know that's the only thing that determines whether a "game" is good or not these days
because for some people Mass Effect had a lot of promise and potential.
It's not just easy to let that go.
Yeah, the posters with the right joke at the right time are the people that make NeoGAF great.
That doesn't say much for the rest of you fuckers, though. Three pages and multiple requests and still no-one can be bothered explaining the joke for those of us who stopped after ME1 or ME2?
i still love how the ending was so bad that the fans literally couldn't believe it. Truly a precious moment in gaming history.
EDIT: and yea, that first post, holy shite.
Em, really?
ME3 ended with a choice of three paths:
Each triggered a different ending movie, with a different color theme, blue, red and green.
masterkajo
Member
Em, really?
ME3 ended with a choice of three paths:
Each triggereda differentending movie, with a different color theme, blue, red and green.
corrected.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPelM2hwhJA
video of the ending, so don't watch if you don't want it spoiled
Glittering Crux
Banned
BioWare should hire his guy. Sounds like he has more respect for the series than they do.
cascardian
Member
And that's basically it. An Indoctrination ending wouldn't have been genius, but it would at least have been clever and built on previously established canon of the Reapers as such an overwhelming force (remember that they even managed to defeat the Protheans) that merely uniting the galaxy's races against them would have been insufficient. It would have fitted their generally established modus operandi--and that's that. It's clever, but in no way groundbreaking. It's still a million times more coherent than what we actually got.
WrenchNinja
Member
Did anyone skim through this? Did the dude change anything interestingly?
If writing a big ass fanfiction for a game is the way of getting hired in a important game company these days, I'm going to cut one of my balls.
(Hell, maybe they will give him a small job, Bioware likes to toy with their fanbase aspirations... and the guy claims to be broke, yeah no shit)
The first page of the thing is basically "Yeah, i'm doing this because i hope it can help me land a job"
I think you just won life.
I doubt anyone did.
Even if it was possible for modders to implement his changes, it's not like it would matter. The people that know ME3 sucks wouldn't play the game again if you paid them and the people who think ME3 is good wouldn't bother either
The Lamonster
Member
amazing first post
Jesus Christ, that was perfect.
But foreal, personally, I loved Mass Effect 3, everything but the fucking ending.
Why, BioWare? WHY?
Makoto Yuki
Banned
Exactly. That game had bigger problems besides the ending, yet people go on and on about it. The ending wasn't amazing, but at least they put out Extended cut. Also Citadel DLC was funner and had better writing than most of the main game missions.