[Gaming] Mass Effect 3 : It's here and thy ending is queeeeeeer.

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Sometimes things really are too good to be true. We knew it was going to happen guys. DA2 was the warning shot and ME3 was the shot that sunk my gaming battleship. I'll never love again.
 
Not only were 3's fetch quests terrible, they were also completely insane. No problem, this super war going on, I'll go dig out some power converters for you out of a reaper infested system. No biggie.
 
Last night I was really thinking about starting a new character in Mass Effect 1 with a class I typically don't play with a different romance option because I have such fond memories of those games.

Then I remembered how it all ends in Mass Effect 3 and I promptly shut the computer down and read a book.
 
Then I remembered how it all ends in Mass Effect 3 and I promptly shut the computer down and read a book.
This is one thing I hate about sequels that are done poorly, whether games or movies. That horrible event when the sequel changes a dynamic so much that when you go back to the original, you can't get as into it because the poor point of the sequel lingers in your mind, it changes how you feel about all the events before it.
 

figmentPez

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Better Business Bureau says that Bioware is guilty of false advertising.
“Mass Effect 3 is Having a ‘Mass Effect’ on Its Consumers for Better or Worse”

The issue at stake here is, did Bio Ware falsely advertise? Technically, yes, they did. In the first bullet point, where it states “the decisions you make completely shape your experience”, there is no indecision in that statement. It is an absolute. The next statement is not so absolute. It states “your choices drive powerful outcomes”. A consumer would have to very carefully analyze this statement to come to a conclusion that the game’s outcome is not “wholly” determined by one’s choices. This statement, really though, is very subject to interpretation. Also this is just a small example of their advertising and does not take into account anything that might have been said, as far as their public relations and other advertising campaigns.
 
This right here kills me... taken from a press release.

“… part of what you’re trying to do is save the universe so you can live in it. That’s part of the promise, I think, for any great IP. It has to be a world worth saving… I think Mass Effect has that quality to it. If you get rid of the Reapers and win that, wouldn’t it be amazing to just live on the Citadel or just take a ship to Omega? That makes sense.” – Casey Hudson

Yes Casey... yes it would... THAT'S WHY I FOUGHT SO HARD TO STOP THE REAPERS AND SAVE THE GALAXY YOU BASTARD!
 

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So Harry Partridge did an "animated saturday morning Mass Effect" thing on youtube that just seems really lazy. It's as close to his Watchmen saturday morning thing as it's possible to get without being a scene for scene remake.
 
He didn't really write it though. It looks like the IGN folk (Chobot's character is front and center in the animation, whoduthunk) who commissioned him to do it just wanted a scene by scene remake of the Saturday morning Watchmen.

I read somewhere where he defended it by saying something like, "If doing commissioned stuff like this lets me make Starbarians in my free time, so be it."

And here's a side rant that I haven't really seen talked about here about the Chobot character and why it bothers me so much. Tali has been a central character in the game since the beginning. Her appearance has been the subject of much speculation. When they finally decided to show what she looked like they used a shittily photoshopped stock photo.....then they went ahead and lovingly crafted bloated strange looking custom model for Jessica fucking Chobot.

Fuck your artistic integrity up your shit cunt.

Diana Allers is EXACTLY what's wrong Mass Effect 3, distilled right down to it. 22 million out of 10 says IGN, best game ever made and that ever will be made.
 

Okay, I'm going to do that playthrough I was thinking of through Mass Effect 1 and 2 while romancing Liara now. Then in Mass Effect 3 at the end after Anderson's speech on the citadel I'm going to pretend that the Reapers all died and then this picture is my ending. Much much better than EA's. Thanks Jay :D
 
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