A lot of people feel deceived due to the difference between what the developers said the game would be, and what the game eventually turned out to be. They said the ending wouldn't be a simple choice between A, B, and C, but that's exactly what it was. There could be a false advertisement claim in there.
[Gaming] Mass Effect 3 : It's here and thy ending is queeeeeeer.
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Good point. Guess they shouldn't have said that.
I'm going to just post a link to this image since it is so big (and spoiler warnings, etc., but if you've made it this far in the thread without spoiling yourself, good job)
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Part of me wants to call them whiny babies who need to get used to disappointment... but another part of me wants to see game developers/publishers finally held accountable for years and years of false advertisements. All the times that gamers have been lied to with bullshot, cut features, known bugs and all the other times developers/publishers have over-promised and under-delivered. When it comes to the function and mechanics of a game, why shouldn't companies have to deliver what they promise? I realize that artistically we can't hold games (or movies, or books) to being "The most visually stunning masterpiece I've seen this year - IGN Critic", it should be a given that if a game developer says "we will fully support 16 player online games" that the game won't ship only supporting 8 player games. The ending of ME3 falls somewhere in between, it's both an artistic choice and a gameplay mechanic, so I'm not sure how much Bioware/EA should be held accountable for, but the line has to be drawn somewhere.
A friend of mine just told me some of how Mass Effect 3 works. Like Yahtzee discussed in his review, there's the building of war assets and such. Which I think is a great idea.
However, what really bothers me is that you can only get maximum assets by playing the multi-player. Worse, apparently those assets earned in multi-player slowly drop unless you're playing it for a long period? So, first of all, what about people like myself who don't want to play the multi-player? Secondly, if you need to play it for a long period, what does that mean for casual players like myself? We have to settle for one of the lesser endings?
If all that is true, then that's bullshit. I'm not buying or playing this game anymore. Time to hit YouTube to see what this so-called controversial ending is all about.
However, what really bothers me is that you can only get maximum assets by playing the multi-player. Worse, apparently those assets earned in multi-player slowly drop unless you're playing it for a long period? So, first of all, what about people like myself who don't want to play the multi-player? Secondly, if you need to play it for a long period, what does that mean for casual players like myself? We have to settle for one of the lesser endings?
If all that is true, then that's bullshit. I'm not buying or playing this game anymore. Time to hit YouTube to see what this so-called controversial ending is all about.
One issue I had by the end was that the "War Assets" had no point.
You can do side-quests to do it, but as others said, it doesn't matter. The war assets mean nothing.
I consider this video canon, now.
The Indoctrination Theory explains Shepard's actions, but doesn't explain Joker's with the Normandy at the end
Holy shit Jay... I practically fell out of my chair laughing at that video there...
Watching that, and hearing all of Garrus' dialogue and stuff makes me so sad that Bioware PISSED IT ALL AWAY... beacuse they truly made some compelling and memorable characters in the series.
That pretty much sums up while Garrus is by far my favorite character in the whole series.
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Gamers plan to Send BioWare Cupcakes
They've already gathered the money, and hope to send about 400 cupcakes, with red, blue and green frosting, but they're all going to be vanilla flavored.
They've already gathered the money, and hope to send about 400 cupcakes, with red, blue and green frosting, but they're all going to be vanilla flavored.
figmentPez
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Maybe that's the option Bioware expects their fans to take, and choose not to play Bioware games anymore.
Lets be honest: They probably thought they might be poisoned/tainted so they shoved them off on someone else.
How's about THAT for moral dilemmas?
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