Mass Effect 3

[ChrisBaleBatman]

The Aria thing seemed like a clear set up for a Take Back Omega DLC.

Yep.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Does Kirahee have Thane's role in the game if his father dies in ME2?

You mean Kolyat?

He'd probably make for a cool squadmate if they wanted.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Bioware doesnt need to do that. They told their ending. Some like it, some hate it, but thats what's there. People just need to deal with it and move on. At the end of the day, this is Biowares story. We dont have the right to tell them what to do. They're the creators, we aren't. I wouldn't mind some kind of 'addition' but they dont need to change a thing.

You know, I've seen the sentiment online...on twitter too...still managing to skate by the spoilers.

But, speaking as someone who hasn't finished the game yet...it does sound unreasonable to want Bioware to...make a new ending. That idea actually sounds insane to me. Epilogue, afterthoughts, are all reasonable.

But, the people demanding that they make a new one...come off as crazy to me. I've never seen that idea, not even in our now DLC-mandated videogames.

 

[Soapy]

The Spike Thrower is pretty cool.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Oh by the way, how incredible is this soundtrack? I mean am i the only one who thinks this is a phenomenal soundtrack?

 

[smashmode]

You know, I've seen the sentiment online...on twitter too...still managing to skate by the spoilers.

But, speaking as someone who hasn't finished the game yet...it does sound unreasonable to want Bioware to...make a new ending. That idea actually sounds insane to me. Epilogue, afterthoughts, are all reasonable.

But, the people demanding that they make a new one...come off as crazy to me. I've never seen that idea, not even in our now DLC-mandated videogames.

I think most of the energy deals with the lack of closure/epilogue etc. There is a good portion that do want a new ending, but I don't fall in that camp.

 

[iamlegend]

The Spike Thrower is pretty cool.

Agreed. When I did carry a shotgun, I went with it. Though ultimately, after being a shotgun-heavy player in ME1, I drifted away from it in 2 and 3 pretty substantially.

 

[smashmode]

Oh by the way, how incredible is this soundtrack? I mean am i the only one who thinks this is a phenomenal soundtrack?

If there is a video game awards, and ME3 doesn't win best music, that would be a crime.

 

[iamlegend]

I assume you lock in to [blackout]Miranda by kissing her in the apartment?[/blackout]

Spoiler

Yep. I split between Ashley and Miranda in 1 and 2... and ultimately settled on Miranda here. She just fit my Shepard far more than Ash did. And I generally favored the ME2 cast over ME1 (my boy Garrus excluded, though I'm not sure if he counts since he ran the gauntlet).

Ugh. Hate not having any emotional closure on damn near any of the supporting characters, short of basically Anderson (since, ya know, he went and got himself dead).

I mean, honestly, if BioWare had spent just a tiny bit of time and wrote in an epilogue (which isn't beyond them, since they did it in Dragon Age) I think there'd be far fewer folks hating on the finale.

 

[Reek]

speaking of playing me1 being shotgun heavy, you can beat the main story in like 3 hours if you have a character youve beat the game with a few times. a shotgun shot kills like 12 people.

 

[Soapy]

Oh by the way, how incredible is this soundtrack? I mean am i the only one who thinks this is a phenomenal soundtrack?

It's pretty good. I think the Mass Effect 2 soundtrack was way better though. So far at least. I'm still not that far into the game, I'm in the middle of the Tuchanka stuff. I've been pretty distracted by Snake Eater.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

It's pretty good. I think the Mass Effect 2 soundtrack was way better though. So far at least. I'm still not that far into the game, I'm in the middle of the Tuchanka stuff. I've been pretty distracted by Snake Eater.

Yea ME2 had a great soundtrack as well. Just incredible.

As soon as iTunes puts the ME3 soundtrack up ill go ahead and grab both that and the 2nd games soundtrack.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

I don't think there's anything as good as Suicide Mission, but A Future for the Krogan, I Was Lost Without You, I'm Proud of You and Catalyst were all very good.

 

[iamlegend]

I think most of the energy deals with the lack of closure/epilogue etc. There is a good portion that do want a new ending, but I don't fall in that camp.

Yeah...

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I think most (if not all) Mass Effect players kind of expected that this was Shep's final stand. To stop a menace this great, dude probably wasn't coming back. And they foreshadowed it heavily both throughout the game and in the final conversations with your squadmates.

I agree that had there been an epilogue, even just pictures and text, like in Dragon Age, people would have swallowed the ending far, far better. But BioWare legitimately left everything WIDE open, which I'm honestly very surprised with. They've been doing these character-centric games for awhile now, they had to know they'd face backlash.

Though I will say that the ghost-boy showing up and basically dropping some plot hole bombs didn't help BioWare's case either...

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

Bumped into Grunt and damn, that whole mission was intense. [BLACKOUT]I thought I made the wrong decision by saving the rachni queen as that choice seems to sacrifice Grunt. And the whole time I was witnessing his "final stand", I admit that I was a bit teary. But when he came out of the cave like a boss and said "Anyone got something to eat", I laughed out loud with relief. Definitely one of the greatest moments so far in the game. [/BLACKOUT]

 

[Matt]

I'm getting teary eyed walking through London, talking to all my squad mates.

I just wish the convo with [blackout]Wrex[/blackout] was a bit better.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I don't think there's anything as good as Suicide Mission, but A Future for the Krogan, I Was Lost Without You, I'm Proud of You and Catalyst were all very good.

I won't argue with you. Thats a great theme.

 

[Balthus Dire]

After some pondering about the ending, I've come to the conclusion that...

Spoiler

I don't like it. I mean, the actual finality with Shepard dying is alright if handled properly, but it wasn't handled properly. All it would take is an additional hopeful scene or follow-up with the squad/survivors to leave the game feeling "hopeful" (which is pretty much the whole theme of ME) but instead we're left with a dreary mess.

Now, changing my tune, I'm really warming up to the indoctrination-DLC idea. I think it'd be a really cool twist to throw and would fit the game perfectly. However, if they decide not to do that (which I expect), they seriously need to do SOMETHING. Some ideas:

- A Shep funeral cutscene, including adding his/her name to the Normandy plaque. It could be so emotional with Hackett delivering a eulogy and squadmates looking on and stuff and it would offer closure. After that, cut to a pic of the name on the plaque and play Liara's time capsule message. BAM!
- Post-Game still images with squadmates/races with narration explaining how your Shep's actions effected them in the post-reaper galaxy

Bottom line, there needs to be some kind of closure, and Bioware are complete morons for not realizing this.

I'm admittedly surprised at my feelings towards the game, because up until the last 10 minutes I thought it was like the best game in the universe. Now I just don't even want to play it...it's so weird.

 

[iamlegend]

I'm getting teary eyed walking through London, talking to all my squad mates.

I'm a big fan of Garrus, and I thought the conversation he and Shepard in London had was unbelievable. They were all good, but I thought that one was very deep.

 

[Matt]

Agreed. I also liked Liara's. Curious, I wasn't a big fan of Liara in ME1 or even Lair of the Shadow Broker, but I really liked her this time around. She was basically Shepard's consistent friend, throughout the whole damn thing.

 

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[ChrisBaleBatman]

The Illusive Man track from Mass Effect 2 is still a fantastic track.

That and Suicide Mission are real highlights for me from the ME2 soundtrack.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Bumped into Grunt and damn, that whole mission was intense. [BLACKOUT]I thought I made the wrong decision by saving the rachni queen as that choice seems to sacrifice Grunt. And the whole time I was witnessing his "final stand", I admit that I was a bit teary. But when he came out of the cave like a boss and said "Anyone got something to eat", I laughed out loud with relief. Definitely one of the greatest moments so far in the game. [/BLACKOUT]

Me too. I actually got nervous, thinking my decision had led to that.

 

[iamlegend]

Agreed. I also liked Liara's. Curious, I wasn't a big fan of Liara in ME1 or even Lair of the Shadow Broker, but I really liked her this time around. She was basically Shepard's consistent friend, throughout the whole damn thing.

Yeah, she grew up a lot over the three games.

Spoiler

She even *****ed at Wrex for giving my Shep a hard time about kinda/sorta destroying the original notes on the Genophage cure in ME2... And while I never romanced Liara in any of the games, I feel like she was probably written as the strongest romance story in the series. Or maybe her voice actress just did that good of a job portraying the character's feelings for Shepard.

 

[Balthus Dire]

Am I alone in thinking the ME2 character romance were kinda lame? It seems like you get really great scenes if you romance anyone from ME1, but anyone from ME2 and you get almost nothing.

I kept up my relationship with Miranda and I thought it was such a letdown.