Are you still mad?
>>345483621
About what.
>>345483621
After the shitpile that was ME2 I didn't even want to play ME3 for free.
>>345483621
Not really, I kinda enjoyed little things like killing off Kasumi allows you to genocide Hanar and Drell or killining/not killing wrex being both good and bad choices depending on another choices from ME2.
Ending was weak but picked Control.
>>345483621
Of course.
>destroy end kills reapers and all synthetic life
>merge end merges all organics and synthetics including the reapers
>control ONLY effects the reapers, not all synthetics
Am I the only one who thinks this is odd
>>345483621
I will always be mad about this
>>345483621
>There are people that call it the Merge Ending
>>345484680
>implying it matters
>>345483621
>Regardless of your choice you destroy every mass relay
>This also kills every single organic being in every system with a mass relay
>You effectively purge every major system and homeworld in the galaxy of all organic and synthetic life
What was the point of fighting the Reapers if you just kill everyone anyway?
>>345483621
Angry? No.
Have any intentions to buy another Mass Effect game? Also no.
>>345483621
I didn't even make it to the ending.
I played the shit out of the first to games. Combined I finished them about 15 times.
Uninstalled Mass Effect 3 after 15 minutes, because EVERYTHING ABOUT IT WAS TERRIBLE! WHO THOUGHT THAT RUN ANIMATION WAS OKAY? GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
>>345483621
>replay it years later
>never knew about the DLCs
>replace the end with the DLC
I'm happy now.
>>345483621
>change the filter over the cutscene
>lol it's a whole new ending guys!
>this kills the thread
>>345483621
still mad at the SJW defender that protect this game using misogony and equality
complain = anti-gay
>>345484816
As far as I know if you have enough galactic readiness they are only badly damaged so you don't genocide anyone else than the batarians.
>>345485049
That was added in the new ending. The original ending had the Mass Relays destroyed because the writers were fucking retarded
I didn't mind the DLC ending where you shoot the little shit. That's how it really should've ended, the Reapers are unfeasibly strong to beat just like that.
>>345484929
>happy from the DLC
Were you hit in the head multiple times by blunt objects until your IQ dropped 40 points? The DLC fixes nothing. The extended ending DLC answers no questions that matter, nor does it offer any actual closure for any of the characters. The Leviathan DLC makes ME3 even worse, which is an accomplishment, admittedly.
>>345483621
So we can all agree that merge is the best ending, right?
I mean, synthetics deserve a life too.
>>345483621
always
>>345484925
Look at the bright side, the ending was so atrocious most people forget the rest of the game was crap
>>345483621
I didn't even get mad, but it did kill any and all sort of love or enthusiasm I had for the series.
I was one of those faggots who played 1 and 2 multiple times (When I say multiple, I mean 10-15 times) played 3 once, got the ending, put down the controller and never looked back at it.
>>345484204
Control is pretty much stated to be "Control the Reapers" anon, they never said synthetics in there.
>>345485041
I've yet to see this faggot, anyone have any screenshots?
>>345485230
kys trans-humanism scum
>>345483621
>ME1 is one of my most hated games
>Series ended horribly
You all deserve it.
>>345485267
>>345485343
>saying shit about the geth
>>345483621
>beat 1 and 2 with my derpy asian looking shepard
>could smell the bad from 3 months from release: avoided like the plague
>mfw everyone else caught up when they got to the shit end
>>345485302
I know, thats why its odd though, its the only option that DOESNT effect other synthetics. Why does control differentiate between reapers and synthetics, while destroy and synthesis dont?
>>345483621
Nope. Didn't really give a shit about the story after the second game. All the Bioware red flags leading up to release would have told you it was a horrible game.
>>345484986
damn son.
>>345485230
>Thinks the best ending is the one they put in just so Joker can get it on with his ship waifu
Nice bait anon, just remember, bait needs to be subtle, otherwise we can all see thru it.
>>345484986
>ME3 shitstorm was 8 years ago
goddam I feel old
>>345484986
>>345483621
Was not mad because I played ME3 after they released the DLC that extended the ending a bit more.
Dealing with the Genophage, the Geth/Quarian conflict, etc, were all endings themselves as well.
>>345485280
How did people manage to look at that whacky running animation for like 30 hours or however long the game took to finish?
It also looked liked shit and the broken combat mechanics, which have been broken for the first two games, haven't even been fixed.
>>345484986
>>345483621
Yes I will always be mad.
I don't think I'll ever not be mad. I felt like I got trolled by that ending, like I had gotten a joke copy of the game.
Its whatever to me now, I enjoyed the MP a lot at least. Pic related, best class
>>345484925
i need more of this owl pls tell me you have more owl webms
It's still the first thing I think about when I wake up, and it's the last thing I think about before I go to bed.
>>345485563
>being a time traveler from 2020How is Elder Scrolls 6? Is GTA VI any good?
>>345485770
Sorry, that's the only one I have.
>>345485820
not as bad as this
>>345485985
That's honestly better as you don't get choices if you don't talk to certain people, unlike ME3 where it's all based of your readiness meter.
Forget about the ending, can we talk about the fact that one of the main antagonists was just some douche with a sword? Like, seriously, the fuck was that? Shepard headbutts Krogans like it's going out of style but couldn't handle some asshole with a fucking sword?
>>345486249
Reminder that this is canon and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
I enjoyed it. I love the universe more than any other in gaming history and cannot wait for Andromeda, especially if it does to Mass Effect what Dragon Age Inquisition did to Dragon Age.
The issues with the series didn't start with 3 they started with 2 when they took away a lot of the RPG elements and open world(s). If they kept going with what 1 had and enhanced it instead of splashing modern shooters into it then the series would've been way better in my opinion. The videos of Andromeda have me hopeful that they're going back to what the first game had and less of what the second one changed.
Plus I mean the second games story had very little to do with the overarching story, it was a giant sidequest.
>>345485985
stayed true to the original, just not in a good way
>>345486376
What the fuck am I looking at?
not really
>anyone not seeing this shit coming after the fiasco that was DA2
>>345483621
I pirated it for nothing. What a waste of bandwidth.
I like to pretend the new series will be good.
They had not made a sequel to a major game and all their shut has been close ended before.
Like, maybe, just maybe, they weren't expecting to make more and shit kept going pants-on-head because they were expecting the series to get canned.
Maybe they're even planning out shit this time.
But then I wake up
>>345484925
>>345484925
OH MY GOD
IT'S SO CUTE
AAAAHHHHH I WANT TO GET THAT OWL POKEMON STARTER
I hope he doesn't evolve into a piece of ugly tryhard edgy shit.
>>345485985
You are wrong because everyone excepted HR to be shit so it wasnt half as disappointing
Imagine the moment when someone at the design meeting proposed that they could just tint the ending sequence
Think about it for a second
>>345486501
http://thecreativeforums.myfastforum.org/archive/mass-effect-deception-ragecomic-edition__o_t__t_2965.html
Allow me to give you an update on my status regarding Mass Effect.
I'M STILL FUCKING ANGRY
I feel NOTHING even close to hype for this fucking game
The storyline and universe is ruined; the well is poisoned, there is no going back. Every time I feel even the slightest inkling of desire to play Mass Effect again I just remember how fucking terrible Mass Effect 3 was and I spiral into a grief-fueled rage spin and then I go off onto another one of these stupid fucking rants. Am I autistic? Probably; ME3 was so fucking stupid it made me retarded.
How the FUCK do they think they're going to make another Mass Effect game after the fucking joke that was the last game? Unless the MC of this game is being sent back in time to assassinate half of Bioware's staff before ME2's DLC was complete in order to avert the terrible tragedy of ME3 then there is NO FUCKING POINT in making a new game. You would need to retcon the ENTIRE last fucking game to salvage the universe in which ME takes place.
Mass Effect is fucking over, Bioware is just the fucking asshole standing over the grave of the franchise it murdered, furiously jerking off over 'muh FeMC' while justifying itself frantically to all the other funeral attendants.
I am literally more excited for ass cancer than this game. Fuck you for posting this.
>>345486723
I LOVE BIRDS!
>>345483621
i lost interested after 2 so i am not mad. i just laughed
I'm still mad that it's origin exclusive on PC. For that reason I haven't played it.
>>345483621
No. ME had a good story and nothing else.
ME2 had good gameplay but nothing else.
Why the fuck would I waste time with 3?
>>345487017
A decent multiplayer?
How are you guys this autistic the endings are different you took the screenshot of the crucible firing which is the only way it can end, and act like it just showed this and nothing beyond it mattered, how the fuck are these "the same endings" the le one ending meme is retarded
>>345486837
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
>>345485230
The reapers are lying to you so that you don't pick destroy, it actually doesn't kill anything else than the reapers or the new ending wouldn't show Sheperd breathing after the child told you BLAHBLAH YOU ARE PART SYNTHETIC TOO YOU KNOW
>>345483621
I will never not be mad about it
>>345487140
To be fair, before the dlc (which is completely free by the way and everyone who still has interest in playing this game should download it before) they really didn't give much to the ending. The dlc was what fleshed it out with an DA:O type epilogue.
ME3 in terms of gameplay wasn't even that far from ME2, what the fuck are you guys takling about
>>345485230
>hey now that we're all green I don't have to kill you!
>>345487123
MP was only fun for about an hour.
I will never not be mad.
pasta.tiff
>>345485413
what? I remember back in the day all the xfaggots gloating about having ME, and I had to wait forever to play on PC.
everyone praised the game back then. Only the shithead kids start talking bad after ME2
>>345485213
>stop liking what I done like
>>345483621
The collapse itself is just funny at this point, but I still get a little bothered by the whole "entitlement" that came from it. It baffles me that so many people in the industry actively shit on the consumers that drive it and call them retards for having standards, or hell, even just expecting what the devs promised.
>>345487330
Being fair, the DLC ending did give me one of the endings I wantedwhich is we don't make it. kinda got that with the new ending where it's implied and Liara makes new beacons for whatever new races happen to be around 50,000 years from now
>>345485413
>ME1 is one of my most hated games
Seems a bit harsh, it was good at the time but 2 and 3s gameplay was so much better that 1 just seems like it sucks balls now.
>>345485563
>1990 was 40 years ago
>there are people whose first game was Halo who now have children old enough to vote
>>345487715
To me,it was the beginning of the resentment between the average hardcore gamer and the people in the press that culminated with gamergate.
>>345483621
>there are people that paid or pirated ME3
kek
>>345483621
>>345485230
Yeah it would be the best ending EXCEPT IT DOESNT MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE ITS JUST A RETARDED MAGIC BEAM THAT TURNS ROBOTS AND ANIMALS INTO CYBORGS, WHAT THE FUCK
This game would be better if green ending didn't exist as an option.
I post this in every thread, but what I really really don't get about the me3 ending debacle was the fans came up with some massive, indoctrination theory which saved Bioware. People were actually happy with the theory, and it seemed to placate some people and might have even been a bit of clever writing. In the extended dlc, they could have kept it vague and just thanked the good Lord that they lucked out hard enough for someone to come up with a half decent ending for them and save them.
But then for fuck knows what reason, they just said "nah son, we got this" and carried on with the fucking trainwreck of a situation they were having, coming out and rejecting the fan theory. In equivalents, they were up shits creak without a paddle, someone offered them a paddle and they just gave it back saying that this is exactly the situation they wanted to be in and to go fuck themselves.
>>345487238
I hated that joke. I know people used it to heal but that was a really dumb way to do so
so are ME one or two worth playing?
>>345486249
You've just reminded me I've got a few bits of the novelisation saved. Read it slow. Just take it in. Savour it.
>>345483621
the colored endings don't bother me that much
the retardation about the kid doesn't bother me that much
the illusive man going full retard doesn't bother me that much
gay steve the gay character who has the personality type "gay" doesn't bother me that much
you know what bothers me a whole lot?
that fucking ninja edgelord guy, and that bioware thought this was an acceptable character
>>345487906
You're probably right, it was around then the people who cover the industry were outed as not really being the ones who play games or critique them.
>>345488014
You gotta realize the ending of your game is bad when random internet chucklefucks are coming up with better shit on the first try.
>>345488250
I forget whether these were in any particular order
>>345483621
On the first try I shot Catalyst because he was so annoying. The most satisfying thing brought the worst ending :(
>>345488343
>>345488273
What the fuck were they thinking? It's like they brought a literal toddler in one day to design a character
>>345487725
I like to imagine that's the canon ending for Andromeda and the reason we're in Andromeda in the first place. Years later the remaining resistance of the Milky Way blast off into deep space, waking up from cryo sleep in a new and unusual Galaxy.
I know this won't be the case but I don't give a fuck.
>>345488450
>>345487140
Because its literally the same fucking thing
No matter what you do, the citadel blows up and a wave of energy for some reason does a specific thing based on what you did, and also blows up the mass relays.
And for some reason it also destroys your ship.
Its like the destroy option was the default, and control and synthesis were just added there to give the players choice.
If edi was destroyed then there would be a reason for the ship to crash.
>>345488450
>That made him an extremist, not to mention a racist, and that was fin with Leng.
BRAVO BIOWARE
>>345487871
>tfw the kids of today will never know how awesome skyrim was back in the day
>>345486249
His fights were fucking weak too. It was literally just a guy trying to kill a bunch of laser-wielding people with a sword. His only saving grace was the shit ton of minions that were with him.
>>345488005
If they could do this why didn't they do it from the start for fuck's sake
>>345488663
i know you're memeing but skyrim was so fucking shit, i still can't believe how many prestigious weeb developers picked it as their GOTY
>>345488014
Nothing could save them from the horrible textures in the citadel. Those bodies used N64 assets
>>345488609
The ship crashed because Joker was in a mass relay when they were destroyed, and clearly they don't do the same thing they all fire the Crucible which was the entire point of everything you were doing throughout the whole game and then you get an explanation of what your choice actually meant.
>>345488551
> I told Leng to have breakfast and he fucking did it the madman!
>>345488551
My god who edits this shit?
are ME 1 or 2 worth playing fellas?
>>345484925
>mfw I uninstalled the game after 30 minutes of watching my character run like he had shat her pants
>>345483621
rip Marauder Shields.
>>345489151
I highly recommend 1Just forgive and forget the goddamn inventory system.
>>345489151
Yes
Even 3 is worth playing desu. It's just the ending and Kai Leng that are shit.
>>345489151
Yes. At least to understand a small part of video games history.
>>345489264Also the mako
>Mass Effect 1
>Cerberus is some evil mysterious terrorist organization assassinating army commander
>Mass Effect 2
>Cerberus is a well equipped band of pro-humanists
>Mass Effect 3
>Cerberus is an entire army complete with multiple large warships and infantry units
How did they do it?
>>345489264
Better still, try not to use it. Decide if you want to use equipment the moment you get it, sell everything not used ASAP.
I have a confession.
Used to work in EA QA, back in 2010. Mostly on the sports games. An opportunity came up to work on the Mass Effect team, but I didn't take it because I didn't want to spoil itand there was greater job security staying on EA Sports titles. Builds would sometimes show up in network locations where I could access them... but I'd still fight the temptation to put a copy on my own 360 devkit out of a desire to avoid spoilers before seeing the finished productand pretty much everyone walking by my desk would've been able to see I didn't have a sports game running on my screen.
Up until ME3, I was a massive ME fag. I read all the books, all the comics, bought the games on 360 and on Steam. If I'd been on that team, maybe I could've told them how much of a goddamn catastrophe the ending was. How much of their own lore it shat on, even just lore exclusive to the games themselves. Maybe that would've listened. Maybe they'd kick me back to the sports titles, or just fire me, but I was going back to Uni soon so that wouldn't have mattered.
Instead, I have to live with the fact that I missed an opportunity, a small one, but an opportunity regardless, to save ME3 from being the biggest fucking disappointment I've ever had the displeasure of playing.
>>345489264
>>345489294
>>345489323
okie dokie
ive had the first two a while, just normally hate playing games that /v/ already spoiled the endings for.
Heard about the 1 save file continuing choices in 2 so guess ill start at the beginning
>>345489479
I never got the hate for the Mako. Is it something to do with the console controls like scanning planets in 2?
>>345489479mako was great nigga, the fuck you are on about?
Maybe I liked because I played a shitton of monster truck madness back in the day.
>>345483621
Not really.
ME3 had its moments. The ending was shit and unforgivable but I don't understand why everyone got their panties in a twist about a video game.
The MP was buzzword as fuck. I forgot all about the SP campaign once I got into it.
>>345489563
Noone could have known buddy.
>>345489151
1 has a good environment and music and is the only one with a sensible story
2 basically perfected the combat system and is actually pretty fun to play
3 has good multiplayer but nobody plays it anymore so it doesn't matter
>>345489479
The Mako did nothing wrong. Not its fault that people suck at driving.
>>345489563
It's okay, friend. There's nothing you could have done. You did the right thing.
would it have been a better ending if they cut to destroy right after this and not given you a choice? Seems like extended slides really took care of reflecting "your story".
Reminder that they added shooting the Starchild in as a response to the backlash over the color-coded endings. They literally added a "YOU GET NOTHING, YOU LOSE, GOOD DAY SIR" ending as a fuck you to everyone.
Never forget
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uu1969WQ5I0
>>345485230
Nah, I pick Control and then can do Synthesis later, picking merge is just handing galaxy over to the reapers who don't kill you anymore because you're just advanced husk thinking what they want you to think.
I will never stop believing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwVXH_StQeg
>>345490019
Yes. Frankly, everything after Sovereign shouldn't have happened.
Just finished ME1 and ME2 this week. Should I go for ME3? Loved the other two.
>>345485230
I replayed the trilogy about a month ago and accidentally picked merge. I hated the idea of everyone being part machine now. Shit was stupid.
But it was nice that EDI got to survive and become a person I guess, since that's really what she was building toward through the whole game. Kind of sucks for everyone else though.
>>345489505
bioware writing
>>345490073
>for plot reasons the greatest assassin in the galaxy and a genetically enhanced cyborg super soldier forgot how to aim guns for a few minutes
![maxresdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vuORdcM.jpg "maxresdefault[1].jpg")
>>345483621
What could have been:
>Two main branches for story, siding with Alliance vs siding with Cerberus depending on what you did with the human reaper in ME2, kind of like Roche/Iorveth in Witcher 2
>Alliance focuses on uniting galaxy to destroy reapers (Paragon), Cerberus focuses on sending Shepard to missions to support research on the human reaper with the ultimate goal of controlling them and using them for the good of humanity (Renegade)
>Motivation of Reapers explained as the haversting cycles being their method of reproduction. They let new species develop for 50,0000 years, and then pick the strongest one to join them. They harvest genetic material and upload the consciousness of an entire species into a single entity (Sovereign is described by Legion as being a collection of minds similar to the Geth). Species they deem unfit to join them are still sometimes kept as servants to aid in their search for worthy species (Collectors, Keepers).
>Upon realizing this, there are thee endings: Let all other species in the galaxy be wiped out and let all of humanity become a new form of life in the form of a new Reaper, destroy the Reapers with the Alliance and leaving the galaxy in ruin from the costly battle, or have Shepard take control of the Reapers himself and using them as a peacekeeping force, possibly with the hint of using them as protection from some unknown danger outside the galaxy.
Instead, what we got:
>LOL purpose of Reapers is to kill organics to stop them from creating synthetics which will kill organics
It's amazing how there were legitimate ways the ME trilogy could have ended in an interesting way, and how Bioware was able to undermine so much lovingly-made world building and storytelling through such a shit ending.
>>345490073
>lets kill one of the most interesting characters
Bioware is legit autistic. What was in their mind when they designed the game? It wasn't even impactful, it was just retarded. Same with EDI becoming a robot bitch and asking tips how to date Joker. What the fuck is wrong with them?
>>345490540
having the alliance and cerberus split be as dramatic as that would have been a waste
just have the illusive man occasionally pop up on a private frequency to give you an alternate way of dealing with a certain problem, but not make cerberus a complete faction on the level as the alliance, that's stupid, and ME3 shows it
>>345485041
I'm gay and one of the top things I hated about ME3 is that I felt like I was being blatantly pandered to, like the developers wanted me to be a useful idiot and buy it because "SHEPARD AND KAIDEN CAN INEXPLICABLY TURN GAY NOW LOL!!!!" Shit was stupid and the gay romance options were half baked and corny as fuck and not at all done in a believable way.
>>345490540
I think I read somewhere that the original motivation of the reapers was supposed to be that using element zero somehow created some dark energy or some such that contributed to increased entropy of the universe. The reapers would wipe out civilizations as they got to the point where they were using it en masse.
Still would've made more sense than what they went with.
>>345490540
>purpose of Reapers is to kill organics to stop them from creating synthetics which will kill organics
>to prove everyone that synthetics and organics cannot coexist we'll force synthetics that haven't done anything in hundreds of years to attack organics
>WE WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG GUYS
>>345490776
fan service
>>345490540
>LOL purpose of Reapers is to kill organics to stop them from creating synthetics which will kill organics
the sad part is that this is literally in the last 5 minutes. Before that it literally is a choice between "we have to destroy the reapers" and "humanity can control / become the reapers and rule the galaxy".
THEY COULD HAVE JUST KEPT THEIR FUCKING MOUTHS SHUT AND HAD A MUCH BETTER ENDING.
>>345489839
It wouldn't have been bad if there was only like 2 missions that required it but you drove that shit for like half the game.
>>345485230
>change everyone's genetic code without their will, knowledge or consent
>best
space eugencis pls
>>345485213
The Citadel DLC was bizarre. It changed the game from a sci-fi epic into a sitcom.
>>345491054
and yet it was better written than anything not Tuchanka
>>345483621
I still consider the Shepard was Indoctrinated theory canon.
It's the only way ME3 makes any sense at all, and it's the only way I can keep my sanity
>>345490540
>What could have been
>human reaper is still a thing
Into le trash it goes.
>>345484986
Fucking brutal. I can't believe I never saw that in the middle of that shitstorm.
That's such a good burn I don't even know how to compliment it properly.
>>345484874
I didn't write that post but fuck it could have been me.
I will never not be mad at this.
>>345491054
They realized too late that people really wanted swashbuckling waifu adventures in space, not "muh artistic integrity" and gave a saccharine fanservice DLC to try to make up for it.
>>345490998
The fucking thresher maws too. Easy as fuck but sometimes at random they pop from under your feet and one shot you. Fuck them.
>>345491137
Patrick Weekes wrote both Priority: Tuchanka and The Citadel DLC (as well as Priority: Rannoch).
So, same writer.
>>345490928
Doesn't answer why the Reapers create the mass effect relays which allow for more efficient collection of element zero.
Was there a squad member less interesting that Jacob? His only unique point was that he was black. That was it.
>>345491448
Morinth, if you chose her. She has pretty much no dialogue after you do that mission.
>>345491054
I agree that the Citadel DLC felt completely out of place and off key with the rest of them game (Liara felt completely out of character too) it was probably the highlight of ME3. It was so much fun and the dialog was great.
yfw you didn't play this shitty game
>>345491221
thing is ME3 doesn't have the balls to truly dedicate itself to the sort of story it tried to tell so on the one hand you have the reapers ravaging the galaxy while on the other hand you have the guarantee that you will be able to stop them somehow and then in an attempt to be "deep" they haphazardly shoved the deus ex ending choices in
if they really had balls midway through ME3 there'd be the reveal that the crucible wasn't a weapon but rather a device that would allow a very small number of ships to remain undetected during the reaping and survive to the next cycle
not enough ships to house a breeding population of every species you've encountered
you've just been tasked with deciding which few thousands in billions of sapients will live, deal with it or die trying
>>345491448
The problem wasn't uniqueness. He was just boring and uninterestingly written.
>>345490994
>>345490540
It was to stop the organics from creating a synthetic so good organics become extinct, Reapers only took out the most advanced.
>>345491312
Interesting because Rannoch is honestly, aside from the ending, the worst part of ME3
>>345483621
Is that literally the paid DLC ending you fags were complaining about? TOP FUCKING KEK they really did fuck you guys over, makes me glad I never got into the series.
>>345491610
There also wasn't anything remarkable about him that made him worthy of being part of the suicide team.
>>345485985
Don't see the issue.
The choices actually made sense here. How the "truth" was presented to the people would affect how they react and who they would blame.
ME3 was a clusterfuck of nothing making any sense and everyone got shoehorned into the ending they wanted you to see. There was never any real choice or consequence.
I mean, fuck, if you didn't physically alter the game files, you could only get the best ending if you played their gay ass multiplayer horseshit. It was doomed from conception as a quick buck.
>>345491741
>paid
Free
>>345483621
MY FURY SHALL BURN ETERNAL
EA AND ITS MINIONS WILL PAY FOR THEIR CRIME
THEIR CHILDREN SHALL CRY AND THEIR LINE WILL BE ENDED
This smug little shit always makes me mad.
>organics are literally incapable of surviving without our existence
>becoming a shitty reaper for all eternity is better than dying
>hurr war between organics and synthetics is inevitable
>WE'RE ONLY DOING THIS BECAUSE WE'RE PROGRAMMED THIS WAY DON'T BLAME US
>never mind we can do something else now because you managed to create something we never could have imagined
>synthesis never worked before, but we're pretty sure it will work now
>you don't wanna die? too fucking bad
>>345483621
Just wasted potential.
I would rather have the big twist that the main villain end-up being "Element Zero". Reapers are just an elaborate mask.
The cycles are just Eezo's way of reproduction.
They use organic life to propagate somewhat like a virus.
>>345491915
>still pre-ordering Andromeda though
>>345489687
It was riding a moonbounce for hours over completely empty landscape to eventually find a base that most of the time, wasn't really important.
It was fucking boring after the first few planets.
Scanning sucks dick too but at least it's faster.
>>345491692
You say that because you hate Tali.
People's opinions about Rannoch are almost completely related to how they feel about Tali. It's Tali's Story (ft. Legion). And Weekes was Tali's writer, so he wrote her story. People who love Tali love Priority: Rannoch. People who hate her hate it. Which is fine.
>>345484986
Fuck thats brutal
>>345491595
Didn't the harvesting process take centuries though? In the first game the Protheans on Ilos were able to cryo-freeze themselves and remain undetected by the Reapers but their life support failed.
>>345483621
I took game design classes at uni, they said illusion of choice is very much important and that people are dumb and no one will play a game twice anyways.
They called it genius and that it improves the player's immersion in the game, even if all choices lead to the same outcome every time
>>345484986
>>345492002
>organics are literally incapable of surviving without our existence
What's funny about that is that the Leviathans were surviving alright before they created Harbinger
>>345492340
My god did that Harbinger thing get old quick.
>>345488450
>>345488551
This is absolutely pleb tier writing. It's seriously written at the literary level of the 5th grade. I feel like I am reading a fucking news paper- except news papers have editing.
>>345492107
No I say that because I like Legion and I like the concept of the Geth as presented in ME2 which was entirely 100% butchered in ME3
>>345483621
Gonna play ME3 for the first time guys, how do i get the "best" ending without playing the multiplayer?
>>345492146
It did because the prothean empire was much larger than council space.
>>345492480
Ah, that makes sense.
Chris L'Etoile wrote Legion and the Geth. He was a writer in ME1 and then quit halfway through ME2 because of too much meddling. I thought he was their best writer and he made a lot of condemnations of the ME3 ending when it came out.
But yeah, they assfucked his creations in ME3.
>>345492002
This shit was pretty easy, ancient race realizes Organics are fucked create super machine that will wipe and out and at the same time preserve the organics every 50 thousand years, the crucible get improved and preserved each cycle, the reapers know about the crucible but never expected it to actually happen, they finish the crucible but the Reapers effectively won already. The kid realizes the cycle can't continue and eventually they will lose, so he gives up and gives Shepard the decision because he knows his way of thinking doesn't work anymore.
>>345492432
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Why is jokers face so damn weird in that game.
I've never played ME2 or 3 with any DLC, are either of them made vastly better with DLC or should I just leave it?
>>345486723
This is exactly how i felt about Chespin :(
>>345491741
The ending DLC was free, and no, the webm is basically the original ending.
>>345492146
Harvesting took centuries but with the reaper methodology being what it was, the minute they take the citadel its over (or it should have been)
They take the citadel and wipe out its defensive fleet as well as the largest fleet concentrations in a single alpha strike, then utilize the citadel to selectively shut down the entire mass relay network which instantly and irreparably fragments the empire(s) of whatever spacefaring species are currently active in the galaxy as well as decapitating their government as the citadel is set up to be the perfect place for a galactic capitol
then they can hop to the now isolated planets in relative safety to engage the reaping process, the mass drives of the various species being relatively slow and such effectively constrained to the nearby star systems
the actual process takes a long time sure, but the war is over in usually hours
>>345484037
>Control
>Being indoctrinated this hard
No wonder you like it
>>345491192
I thought it was kind of dumb when it was revealed in the second game, but I think having Reapers reproduce through harvesting other species is the best way to incorporate it. It would also explain their interest in Shepard and why the Collectors set bounties on him. If they reveal a human reaper in the second game, then they ought to have explained WHY they made one in the third game. Instead, all of the other Reapers look like they are of the same species.
>>345492867
notice: none of this is present in ME3 because the writers are hacks, the minute they got the citadel everyone should have been fucked: enjoy trying to assemble a big ass fleet when jumping to the nearest major planet takes 20 years
>>345483621
yes they literally said that since it didn't have to line up with a fourth games beggining the choices you made would result in various endings that branched out significantly I will forever be mad.
>>345485413
>ME1 is one of my most hated games
How many games have you played?
I remain positive that with the final, dying breaths of some of the council members that had just taken a direct hit from a reaper laser beam, as they stared it eye to eye through the broken windows, the crumbling buildings, the shattered future of billions across the galaxy, they still uttered doubt of the reapers existence. It was so fucking tiring. It literally took the death of half the galaxy before they thought they should check it the fuck out.
>>345490897
Token characters and offensive pandering are now politically correct, and the liberals who claim to fight for your rights only care about meeting quotas. Deal with it.
>>345483621
Yeah the game was meh overall, leaving the ABC ending out of it.
But Citadel DLC was fucking glorious. Made by mass effect writers who actually gave a shit. My god I had fun in that DLC. Why couldn't they put the same care and love into the rest of the game?
>>345493239
I'm fairly sure the dying words of the council members were "don't worry, its just a gas explosion"
>>345486723
>I hope he doesn't evolve into a piece of ugly tryhard edgy shit.
Yeah because I play Pokemon just for my pokemon to evolve into fucking faggots.
>>345483621
I never got why this was such a big deal. Yeah it was a shitty ending, but the outrage over it was kind of ridiculous. You don't see petitions being made to change an awful ending to a movie. But gaming fans these days make petitions to get games cancelled. All because of this shitstorm
>>345483621
>>345489839
This though? Like it handled like a warthog from Halo, I never understood why people had such a hard time with it.
>>345485170
>writers were fucking retarded
How is unpredictable effect of super-weapon desperately scrapped together by multiple different dying races retarded?
Noone knew how crucible was supposed to work exactly, at least in present galaxy so it wasn't concious choice. Also adds some grimdark and make reapers seem much more dangerous since they can only be defeated by such desperate means.
It were things like reaper-kid/rushed scenes/lack of explanation that were retarded.
>>345483621
Why does joker look back over his shoulder to check the explosion behind the ship?
I was never actually mad or disappointed. With the extended cut it was a satisfying conclusion (as long as you picked Destroy, the only ending that makes sense) to a series with it's own ups and downs.
The main problem with Mass Effect 3 is all the wasted potential built up from the previous games, most likely caused by the writers shifting. Instead of sticking to the main theme of literally mass effects they went with the human vs organic subplot that started in ME1. Not to mention all the characters that got absolutely shit on like Ashley. Another huge offender is how they insanely trivialized Cerberus' intentions to something a Saturday morning cartoon villain would do.
>>345494024
>Another huge offender is how they insanely trivialized Cerberus' intentions to something a Saturday morning cartoon villain would do.
Did they even have any intentions? TIM just wanted a pet reaper and everyone else just was indoctrinated to fuck shit up and fail at it.
i didnt even make it to 3
2 fails completely as a "middle chapter". possibly the worst one ever.
>>345494185
2 was pointless, literally. Nothing you did in that game ever mattered.
>>345488337
No way that was go number one. The poor sap who thought it up was on a rage and grief fueled bender. I guarantee it.
>>345483621
No because I'm not some autistic manchild who holds a grudge against a fucking game.
>>345483621
Nope, never even finished the second game.
>>345483621
I'll always have a laugh that these are pretty much the same exact choices as the original Deus Ex.
>Control -> Illuminati ending
>Merge -> Helios ending
>Destroy -> New Dark Age ending
>>345493940
I'm fine with the crucible having unforeseen side effects but when those include turning every planet into the galaxy into a fucking tomb world completely defeats the purpose of fighting the reapers at all.
>>345489563
It's cool. I doubt another QA tester saying their shit was broken (not matter how fully you thought it was broken) could have saved ME3.
>>345495019
*in the galaxy
I didn't read what I wrote.
>>345491610
>>345491763
The entire point of him being there was to give Shepard a third party member in the early stages of the game, they should have just shelved him into being the upgrades guy once you picked up 2 more party members
>>345493239
Being fair, how would you react when one of your special agents comes in telling you that Jesus is coming and repent before the time is nigh?
You would do the "Ok dear, that's nice" and shove him out of your face.
>>345491847
They were both bad. I think both of the Deus Ex version of this ending are better than ME3's.
>>345493239
>>345495606
THE CITADEL WAS A GETH-SIDE JOB
>>345489243
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye0Rl16elKo
>>345494845
Yeah, but at least I had to make my way to those choices.
That said, HR did it too. And I was less than pleased then. Still annoyed. By all of them.
>>345485985
No, ME3 was much worse than that. Human Revolution's ending made sense, for one thing.
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