official Mass Effect 3

[trag3dy]

whats the deal with the "offer expires 12 april" thing ?

so my sheppard will still be dead :( , tali joker and garrus will still be stranded on a uninhabited planet full of kiwis and bananas .. ill just see abit more cinematics of them building huts and things :) , while earth reinvents the wheel again

i guess its better than nothing but i for one would have actualy payed for a better ending DLC :(

It's April 12, 2014.

I find this whole situation with the ending(s) amusing.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

BioWare Announces Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut

Well, well.

Look what've we got :s

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

Well, well.

Look what've we got :s

Boycott all the new editions!!!

[rajputwarrior]

i have lost so much respect for bioware for caving....

[akav0id]

"Tell me another story about the Shepard

..okay, just one more"

are they hinting at a possible Mass Effect 4 perhaps ..with Shepard?

[drotaru]

nope .. prob a prequel of how the salarians started eating flies

[TheLegendOfMart]

i have lost so much respect for bioware for caving....

Read the article before you start crying.

The free 'Extended Cut' pack will expand the ending through additional cinematic sequences and epilogues this summer.

The aim of the pack is to provide additional closure into how each player's personal journey ends.

They aren't changing the ending, they are just providing an epilogue of what happens after the ending for those that want/need it.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

"Tell me another story about the Shepard

..okay, just one more"

You have won the bet.

2 bucks deposited in your bank account.

Congratulations (Y)

[Phouchg]

"Tell me another story about the Shepard ..okay, just one more" are they hinting at a possible Mass Effect 4 perhaps ..with Shepard?

Call Of Shepard: Biowarfare

with Liberation Of Shanxi, Akuzze, Thresherwatch, Blue Box multiplayer maps and twenty not-so-different gear packs as DLC.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

Just ordered this game for ?20 on Tescos site earlier. Glad I waited a few weeks! I was prepared to pay double that! :x

I'm a big fan of Mass Effect 2 (and Mass Effect 1 was okay as well) so I'm looking forward to playing this!

[S00N3R FR3AK]

I really like this free DLC to add more to the ending. I really hope that the indoctrination theory is the correct ending and this just clarifies it and shows what happens to everyone. It would also be cool if the thing about tell me more about the shepard did hint at another game, though I am not sure just what he could fight next. Unless of course the war isn't over and him waking up after he beats indoctrination and finishes the fight.

[rajputwarrior]

Read the article before you start crying.

They aren't changing the ending, they are just providing an epilogue of what happens after the ending for those that want/need it.

it's a integrity thing bro. if that's how they felt it should have ended, you keep it that way. sopranos had the biggest cliff hanger ending ever and you don't see david chase rewriting it because everyone bitched.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

I just hope indoctrination theory turns out to be true. It makes sense after all.

Though there are sooo many things that have been left completely untouched. It feels rushed or incomplete or something like that.

[arrrgh]

it's a integrity thing bro. if that's how they felt it should have ended, you keep it that way. sopranos had the biggest cliff hanger ending ever and you don't see david chase rewriting it because everyone bitched.

You a) assume that the ending is what the writers wanted and not what we got because the game was rushed b) seem to be confusing "cliffhanger" with "nonsense".

As for the artistic integrity argument, that is such load of nonsense that it makes even the spacemagic ending seem reasonable.

[TheLegendOfMart]

it's a integrity thing bro. if that's how they felt it should have ended, you keep it that way. sopranos had the biggest cliff hanger ending ever and you don't see david chase rewriting it because everyone bitched.

It's not the ending they intended, the first ending leaked with the script for the game so they had to do a rewrite, then EA rushed them to complete the game which is evident from the last 1/3rd of the game, to make it come out in the fiscal year just passed to fluff their numbers so it looks good on reports and for the investors.

They even contradicted themselves:

?Experience the beginning, middle, and end of an emotional story unlike any

other, where the decisions you make completely shape your experience

and outcome.?

Interview with Mac Walters (Lead Writer)

?I?m always leery of saying there are 'optimal' endings, because I think

one of the things we do try to do is make different endings that are

optimal for different people ?

Interview with Mike Gamble (Associate Producer)

?There are many different endings. We wouldn?t do it any other way. How

could you go through all three campaigns playing as your Shepard and

then be forced into a bespoke ending that everyone gets? But I can?t

say any more than that??

Interview with Mike Gamble (Associate Producer)

?Fans want to make sure that they see things resolved, they want to get

some closure, a great ending. I think they?re going to get that.?

Interview with Casey Hudson (Director)

Interviewer: [Regarding the numerous possible endings of Mass Effect 2] ?Is that

same type of complexity built into the ending of Mass Effect 3??

Hudson: ?Yeah, and I?d say much more so, because we have the ability to

build the endings out in a way that we don?t have to worry about

eventually tying them back together somewhere. This story arc is

coming to an end with this game. That means the endings can be a lot

more different. At this point we?re taking into account so many

decisions that you?ve made as a player and reflecting a lot of that

stuff. It?s not even in any way like the traditional game endings,

where you can say how many endings there are or whether you got

ending A, B, or C.....The endings have a lot more sophistication and

variety in them.?

?We have a rule in our franchise that there is no canon. You as a player

decide what your story is.?

Mike Gamble (Associate Producer)

Those quotes were post ME2, pre ME3, and its GLARINGLY obvious that the ending of ME3 wasn't intended to be what they ended up with.

[ViperAFK]

I just hope indoctrination theory turns out to be true. It makes sense after all.

Though there are sooo many things that have been left completely untouched. It feels rushed or incomplete or something like that.

IMO that theory is obviously not true, just based on bioware's reactions to this controversy.

[Neo003]

Is there a way to find out what choices I made in previous games,

because I want to make peace between quarians and geth but the options are greyed out. The only choice is killing either geth or quarians.

[S00N3R FR3AK]

Is there a way to find out what choices I made in previous games,

because I want to make peace between quarians and geth but the options are greyed out. The only choice is killing either geth or quarians.

I did the loyalty missions in ME2 as well as all of the missions before the last one on Rannoch. You need to make sure any time you have a chance to get a side to stop fighting you make them do it. You might also need a certain amount of rep and paragon/renegade points.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

Is there a way to find out what choices I made in previous games,

because I want to make peace between quarians and geth but the options are greyed out. The only choice is killing either geth or quarians.

You will need to have a certain amount of Paragon or Renegade points in order to do that.

I am working on it too

[Muhammad Farrukh]

ME3 Operation Beachhead Goes Live Today

Latest N7 Multiplayer Weekend event offering a 25 percent boost in XP.

The next N7 Multiplayer Weekend event for Mass Effect 3 is scheduled to go live later tonight. Operation Beachhead starts at 6PM PST tonight (Thursday April 5, 2012) and will run until 5AM PST on Tuesday April 10 for Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3.

For participating in any Theater of War event players will get a 25 percent boost in Experience Points. So which of you will be hitting the event and earning that sweet XP boost this weekend?

[Knightwolf20024]

Join the war for Earth in Mass Effect 3! Owners of Mass Effect 3 can download the first multiplayer expansion for no additional cost. The Mass Effect 3 Resurgence Pack adds new unlockable content: deadly weapons, new consumables, and powerful characters for each class in multiplayer, including the Asari Justicar, Batarian, Geth, and Krogan Battlemaster. Additionally, the Mass Effect 3 Resurgence Pack also includes 2 new maps, Firebase Condor and Firebase Hydra. Download this pack on April 10th and take the battle online in the critically acclaimed Mass Effect 3 multiplayer experience.

http://blog.bioware.com/2012/04/06/mass-effect-3-resurgence-pack/

[Phouchg]

Join the war! Multiplayer! No cost! Unlockable content! Critically acclaimed... yea-yea-yea-yae-yeah. BULLSH*! DIE FROM A COLON CANCER AND TAKE YOUR SCHMULTIPLAYER WITH IT (whoever thought this was a good idea, I mean, and not Neowin posters, unless it's one and the same thing)

[Muhammad Farrukh]

Ahh? Multiplayer content. I see.

*& %$%/-+ %% &^ % (* ^&%^*^# $*( )(^*/-

[drotaru]

so.......instead of an ending......they'v been working on............krogan battlemaster vanguard holy batman............

[Muhammad Farrukh]