Elder Scrolls V? **** that ****, this is even better. (Mass Effect 3)

[Zeonix]

I'm not sure why you felt the need to cry about the ending again when everyone understands it was ****ty, but alright.

How did the Protheans do "the whole keeper bit", anyway? The Keepers preceded the Protheans by millions of years and were created by whomever or whatever created the Reapers.

Also, I don't understand how you can cast Mass Effect to the wayside when it easily had a better story than the second and third, not to mention a logical ending. ME2 was saved only by its characters, and was plagued by a lack of direction and an abortion of an ending culminating with fighting a 20m tall manbot. Did no ones alarms go off after playing 2 in regards to the direction ME was heading? Cause I was concerned. And you know what? Plotholes and vague ending aside, I thought ME3 was a superior experience to 1 and 2, and the ending didn't really blunt the journey for me. The 3rd was all about sacrifice, and I hoped I was going to die by the end. The means by which I die and the consequences of my actions are currently beyond understanding, because they were probably on DMT when they wrote the ending, but you know what? I'm good. Mission accomplished. I'm dead, and I don't care what happens after. Unless I turn into a starchild and go around trying to save the various races, I'm content with the future being obscured.

Also, I absolutely love how every ******* on the internet is screaming DEUX EX MACHINA like they know what it even means. All of you, shut up. Goddamn. If you have an actual argument against, by all means, lay it out. Just stop regurgitating key phrases as if that, in itself, has meaning or relevance.

 

[Avenger]

I agree that Mass Effect 3 was a great game. But the ending was hardly logical at all.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deus ex machina

a god introduced by means of a crane in ancient Greek and Roman drama to decide the final outcome

...It's as Deus Ex Machina as it gets, Zeo, and people are for once entitled to use the phrase. Yes people are *****ing too much no they aren't wrong when call the ending that.

 

[Zeonix]

And not once has anyone in this thread explained how it relates to ME3. Simply stating the phrase over and over again does nothing to illuminate why you or they think it sucked for this very specific reason. It isn't even like it came out of nowhere, when the entire game was focused on creating this one thing that no one understood. They finally attempt to explain it in a roundabout way, and everyone instantly loses their minds because the 30 hours of game that led to that moment somehow doesn't jive with what they thought or felt should have happened.

The direction of the game was written on the walls.

 

[Mkilbride]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/mass-effect-3-alternate-ending-petition-raises-35k-for-charity-6366183

A number of Mass Effect fans are upset with the way the latest entry in the series ended, and they're voicing their displeasure by giving to charity.
It's tough to argue against charity.

It's tough to argue against charity.

Members of the Mass Effect community have set up the Retake Mass Effect ChipIn fund, collecting PayPal donations for the Child's Play charity in order to call attention to their request for BioWare to make alternate Mass Effect 3 endings.

As of press time, the fund had raised more than $35,000 from more than 1,400 contributors. The donation drive will run until April 11.

 

[Zeonix]

Yeah, that settles it. I ******* hate people.

 

[Avenger]

Personally I would have liked the choice of doing a good enough job that the Catalyst would be unneeded. The entire idea seems kind of ridiculous to me. But the game was fun. I enjoyed building a fleet and the levels.

 

[Zeonix]

I like the concept that an entity that has existed for millions of years and has been exterminating life for just as long was far too much to handle for the combined races of the galaxy. And so what it boiled down to is the Reapers' goal and function, and Shepard's ability to negotiate and manipulate.

 

[Avenger]

I don't see why it would matter that something has been around for a long time. Originally, the reapers were weaker than they were in this cycle... In theory, they could have been defeated early on, but weren't, presumably due to ****ty cooperation. Plus, you'd think they'd figure out some clever way of cloaking technology from the reapers, so they'd think a people was primitive when it wasn't. It really isn't that hard to cloak things if you're advanced enough to have spaceships.

 

[Zeonix]

Its age does matter as, generally speaking of course, with age comes experience. They've been exterminating races for such a long time, and they've existed for such a long time that their level of technology should and does surpass all other races. It is only through learning from Reaper and Prothean technologies that the races are able to hold on for as long as they have. The Protheans, the greatest of all races, were only able to delay their inevitable defeat. With all of their technology, with all of their military might, they could not stop the Reapers. While they were able to indoctrinate many Protheans, this did not give them the advantage they needed to maybe beat the Protheans. Instead, it only hastened their victory, because there could be nothing but victory for the Reapers.

Could they have been beaten early on? I don't think so, because the first Reapers would have been made of the remnants of the most dominant civilization at that time: their creators. With their creators gone, who would have had the means to destroy them? It'd be like one of the earlier races being one of the many races dominated by the Protheans, and every race being completely destroyed by the Reapers leaving only them behind. What hope do they stand against such a force, when the civilization that dominated and borged them, basically, was defeated with such ease? Keep in mind that the Prothean weakness was not division, but a oneness that resulted in strategic and cultural stagnation, ultimately leaving them unable to adapt to the Reaper menace.

I don't know what cloaking anything is going to do against a force that homes in on planets, but I guess they could flee for a time. There is a counter for every move, however, and it would only be a matter of time before cloaked ships could be uncloaked and worse.

edit:

For everyone *****ing:

http://www.gamespot.com/mass-effect...t-really-spoilers-maybe-i-dont-know-62234895/
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Kaloneous/Mass_Effect_3_(True)_Ending_DLC_Revealed

 

[Damaera]

I don't know how accurate this is (if at all), but here's an interesting article: http://www.gamefront.com/rumor-mass-effect-3-dlc-the-truth-due-in-april/

And an interesting bit from the article:

The ending was half-assed because of the leak. They changed it at the last minute so they could have more time to prepare the real ending via DLC.

It’s called The Truth and it’s being released in April or May. You WILL be able to continue the story if you picked any of the endings. Your decision during that sequence will have a big effect on your ending of The Truth. The Truth adds two new sets of enemies, new classes, and multiplayer maps including “Firebase Hive”, which is a small area of the last remaining collector ship included in the DLC, which, by the way you should definitely bring Javik the Prothean along if you have him.

The picture here shows some of the leaked multiplayer classes and races. One race that isn’t shown is the Prothean Adept and Vanguard. This DLC also enables the ability for owners of the preorder and From Ashes DLC to find their DLC weapons in reinforcement packs.

All that content, and this might as well be labeled an expansion pack.

And it’s free.

You’re welcome.

 

[Denz]

well nuff said, a better ending and a way to make room for ME4 would be, gather your army, defeat the Rippers, the main ones that attacked the earth and what not, after that the main story ends, next thing you discover that the Rippers are still alive somewhere out of our Milky way galaxy and are heading your way. Also you are left to finish other side missions in a way to cleanse the galaxy from Rippers and ****.

what actually happened is EARTH IS BEING ATTACKED!!! but we have all the time in the world, to gather our army, EARTH IS DOOOOMED!!! yeah, get drunk, why not, sex with that blue skin alien chick? yep! OMG RIPPERS ARE ON EARTH OMGOGMOGMG! lets see, we could also try to befriend Geth and those weak aliens, WTH? I see the options, but I can't use them to change their minds cuz I didn't play multiplayer!!! I NEED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ONE OF THEM SPECIES?! THE ****!?... you know the rest..

So yeah, no need to think about it twice and search for good in this, we all played this ****ty game from day one and wanted to see a ******* better ending, solution, anything other than this crappy Fallout 3 picture endings that are practically done on pre-release day. The game is a total waste, part 2 is a filler, move on.

 

[Zeonix]

Tell me, Denz. Who shat in your cheerios all those years ago, when you were but a wide-eyed boy, full of hope and dreams?

 

[Mkilbride]

"We always listen and consider what our community has to say. We have been listening the entire time. That does NOT mean, however, that we are obligated to respond, to agree with you, or to develop the game to please you."

Found that part odd. I mean sure, they could have a vision, and don't need to change it for us...but that seems kind of like a bad business model if they don't develop the game to please the customer?


http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/9960839/2#9962345

 

[Denz]

Tell me, Denz. Who shat in your cheerios all those years ago, when you were but a wide-eyed boy, full of hope and dreams?

there was once this kid..
btw I never ate cheerios, those don't exist in my country, wonder how that tastes like with and without **** in it, mmmm

 

[Zeonix]

Found that part odd. I mean sure, they could have a vision, and don't need to change it for us...but that seems kind of like a bad business model if they don't develop the game to please the customer?


http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/9960839/2#9962345

Artistic integrity.

+4 Paragon

 

[Mkilbride]

 

[Damaera]

http://social.bioware.com/forum/Mas...wed/I-think-i-found-something--9947065-1.html

For those who don't want to read it, take a look at this picture:

Same eyes as Illusive Man when he was indoctrinated.

 

[Zeonix]

The Illusive Man has had those eyes since the foundation of Cerberus, though.

 

[Damaera]

I don't know how true the comics are to the main story, but people are saying he got those eyes from a Reaper artifact way before the story in the games.

 

[Zeonix]

Plausible, since he teams up with Saren at some point, but it kind of conflicts with the whole, "**** up everyone who isn't human, especially those goddamn Reapers" motif he was going for.

edit:

The picture of the kid as harbinger is fake.