official Mass Effect 3

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Celestial: imean I didn't get like a call from Hackett telling me go to this planet to meet that guy, you know, the usual ME schtick. It doesn't seem like the game knows I paid for the DLC, or a. I supposed to run into this guy randomly?

I can't remember but I think I was just looking over all the systems and one had a mission I went and did.

[Scorpus Veteran]

We'll be discussing Mass Effect 3 in our regular gaming podcast live tonight at 7 PM EDT: https://www.neowin.net/news/neowin-gaming-podcast-010---live-mar-13--7-pm-et

If you have an opinion about the ending in particular we'd love for you to comment during our discussion about it. Should make for an interesting podcast :)

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Celestial: imean I didn't get like a call from Hackett telling me go to this planet to meet that guy, you know, the usual ME schtick. It doesn't seem like the game knows I paid for the DLC, or a. I supposed to run into this guy randomly?

You get an email about a Cerberus attack on Eden Prime at your private terminal. It says something like they dug up a Prothean artifact, and that you should check it out.

[sila]

Some of the things Javik says are brilliant. "SALARIANS!? They used to eat flies...."

I'm 22 hours in and just finished the first Quarian home world mission. I hope i'm still a long way from the end, I don't want it to finish :cry:

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Thanks a lot sooner and spacer, hope i get this mission at some point.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

Phaeston is definitely my first pick in AR category (Y)

Its weight can be reduced considerably by upgrading it to lvl 5, and with the ammo capacity of 129, it looks, feels and acts great

[rajputwarrior]

anyone else on PC getting random FPS dips to 30 for like 1 second then back up to 60? it's completely random. and it's always back down to 30 exactly. never higher or lower.

[soniqstylz]

Interesting take on the endings, obviously massive spoilers.

And the requisite angry Hitler video

[rajputwarrior]

the ending is that bad eh?

[TheLegendOfMart]

Interesting take on the endings, obviously massive spoilers.

Holy **** its the only thing that makes sense. If you get the good ending and Shepard lives when he starts breathing like the video states he has to be back on earth in the rubble of Harbingers blast because the Citadel is made out of metal.

I really hope the ending is actually the reapers attempt at indoctrinating Shepard because none of it makes sense, the seemingly paragon option is to control the reapers thus the indoctrination is complete and the seemingly renegade action is to destroy the reapers thus rejecting indoctrination and waking back up on earth, the only way you can look at it is Shepards mind in a jumble trying to make sense of things, he would hope that the Normandy and his crew would survive which is why you get that Normandy crashing on a world and surviving.

If this is true I expect some free DLC from Bioware soon with an epilogue, they are either ridiculously clever or idiotically stupid.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

the ending is that bad eh?

You have no idea

[TheLegendOfMart]

Watch the video that Soniq posted.

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If the default endings can only be explained by a fan THEORY, then that just shows how terrible the endings actually were.

It's an interesting theory, don't get me wrong. And, I really hope there is something more to the end that explains what the hell happened. But there are no public plans, and this dream theory is not official. So it's moot at this point.

[TheLegendOfMart]

If the default endings can only be explained by a fan THEORY, then that just shows how terrible the endings actually were.

It's an interesting theory, don't get me wrong. And, I really hope there is something more to the end that explains what the hell happened. But there are no public plans, and this dream theory is not official. So it's moot at this point.

Mike Gamble, Mass Effect 3 producer, said we would 'want to keep Mass Effect 3 forever' with the stuff they have planned that is coming. The only way I can see it is if they release an Epilogue DLC, there is no way a high profile comapany like that is going to leave ME3 ending the way it is

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Mike Gamble, Mass Effect 3 producer, said we would 'want to keep Mass Effect 3 forever' with the stuff they have planned that is coming. The only way I can see it is if they release an Epilogue DLC, there is no way a high profile comapany like that is going to leave ME3 ending the way it is

I sure hope you're right.

[Corris Veteran]

Well, I finished the campaign.

From the beginning all the way up to the final charge of the Hammer teams, it was awesome. The side-stories and character moments where great. Even the co-op was/is great fun. I had a lot of fun playing the game...until I watched the ending.

It was terrible. It was so bad, it forever tarnished the Mass Effect series in my eyes. ME1 was my favorite game of all time. The Mass Effect universe was my favorite fictional universe. I played all the games and read all the books. Even after playing the first 2 games more than a dozen times, I still loved reading all the codec entries and exploring every dialogue option of every conversation. It was, without a doubt, my favorite story of any movie, novel, or game. Yet the last 15 minutes of Mass Effect 3 has completely destroyed any love I had for the series, and I will never be able to enjoy ME1 or ME2 again.

All three endings felt more like a kick in the teeth than an acceptable reward for finishing the trilogy. No questions were answered, no decisions made any consequence (save for the very last one), and there was no closure for ANY of the characters. All of the endings were so cryptic and unsubstantial it literally left me hot with anger. It was a complete failure of an ending from every perspective a RPG could have. I can't believe this is the best Bioware could come up with.

I'm not asking for a cliche action movie ending where the good guys win, and every one of the main characters live on. I don't even need Shepard to live for it to be a good ending (even though he does live through the Renegade ending). But something, ANYTHING other than the abstract, nebulous ending that we got would have been infinitely better.

There are so many things I dislike about the ending. So many questions left unanswered. I just can't believe we waited all this time to see how the story ended, and we just get that slop thrown at us.

I am utterly and completely disappointed.

Couldn't agree more, utterly terrible ending, I'm trying to think of a worse ending for a game but I am coming up with nothing.

The game and series was fantastic until the last 5 minutes which looking back now just sours my experience of what are some of my favourite games this gen.

Seriously, they rounded everything up from the 3 games with a Citadel AI controlling the Reapers "just because", now I didn't need an origin explanation or anything to the Reapers but to end it how they did with 3 nonsensical options was really lame.

If the ending was just to destroy or control the Reapers, that would have been fine, no need for a ludicrous explanation for killing civilisations off and storing them as Reapers because there is some chance that Synthetics will take over, no need to try and be overly deep, let alone destroying such a staple of the series like the Mass Relays too.

I'm not sure I would want another Mass Effect game after this, I'm not even sure how they would do one after screwing over so much of the lore with either of the endings.

[trag3dy]

So if my me2 play through is renegade and I choose not to remove Shepards scars because they are badass, will he have them in me3? It's the minor things I want to know about, lol. Couldn't care less about the endings at this point.

Also do we really need to keep using the spoiler tag now? The game should officially be out everywhere in the world and it seems most people here have already beaten it.

[rajputwarrior]

Watch the video that Soniq posted.

well i want to finish the game first...

So if my me2 play through is renegade and I choose not to remove Shepards scars because they are badass, will he have them in me3? It's the minor things I want to know about, lol. Couldn't care less about the endings at this point.

Also do we really need to keep using the spoiler tag now? The game should officially be out everywhere in the world and it seems most people here have already beaten it.

theoritically it should be no problem, but they do have that problem with importing faces from previous save games. i had no problems personally.

and eff that u jerk :p i haven't finished it yet yes so YES spoiler tags are needed... so selfish sometimes trag3dy

[trag3dy]

well i want to finish the game first...

theoritically it should be no problem, but they do have that problem with importing faces from previous save games. i had no problems personally.

and eff that u jerk :p i haven't finished it yet yes so YES spoiler tags are needed... so selfish sometimes trag3dy

lol

I don't even own the game yet (I think I will wait until an ultimate edition is released later in the year at this point) and I'm reading all the spoilers.

Of course I know they bother some so people continue on as they must. I guess. :rofl:

[TheLegendOfMart]

So true.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

lol that was awesome (Y)

And true

[Lighthalzen]

[Muhammad Farrukh]

Thats a nice review. :pinch:

:rofl:

[Lovell]

the ending is that bad eh?

It's not so much an ending as it is oh **** look at the time what do we do about the ending? dunno lets just make it a cheap cutscene that dismisses the 2 previous games.

[rajputwarrior]

Thats a nice review. :pinch:

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thats exactly like deus ex. that game was amazing until the end where whatever positive feelings you felt about the game were just instantly gone. and now from what i am reading, bioware is gonna do it to me with this :(

It's not so much an ending as it is oh **** look at the time what do we do about the ending? dunno lets just make it a cheap cutscene that dismisses the 2 previous games.

deus ex and now mass effect suck at endings. so what this means is canadian video game developers suck at making a good end to their games