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Bobby Deluxe posted:I think it may have been, but the writer change and the internet guessing the ending probably led to the last minute switcheroo. It was certainly a surprise, just not the good kind. What was the ending the internet guessed again? The Dark Matter one?
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Spikeguy posted:How many of you have played ME3 (or any of the other games) since you either played or learned about the ending? I'm curious if the initial anger went away and allowed people to play again, or if some people were just turned off outright. I've done a couple playthroughs for new DLC or to see if Kaiden or Ashley was more interesting, but I've never been able to complete one since I say the original endings. The closest I got was going through the goodbyes on Earth before losing all will to continue.
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Dec 27, 2013 16:09
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Spikeguy posted:How many of you have played ME3 (or any of the other games) since you either played or learned about the ending? I'm curious if the initial anger went away and allowed people to play again, or if some people were just turned off outright.
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Dec 27, 2013 16:31
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I've done multiple trilogy playthroughs since the game came out. Or at least tried to, I normally peter out early in ME1. God that game has aged abysmally. I honestly don't understand people who won't touch the entire series because of the ending.
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Dec 27, 2013 16:37
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Wait a second, what was the original ending that the internet apparently guessed correctly?
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n4 posted:Wait a second, what was the original ending that the internet apparently guessed correctly? Broadly, it had to do with the Reapers preventing the galaxy from being consumed by out-of-control dark energy. I don't think the specifics were ever nailed down.
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Milky Moor posted:I wish there was more of an interest in the creative process of games from gamers and gaming journalism (lol), like there is in films. How things were made, why certain decisions were made, what the difficulties and obstacles were. I reckon the development of Mass Effect 3 would be enlightening and pretty fascinating. There's no such thing as games journalism, it's just a bunch of people who are willing shill for large corporations in order to get access into the little club of game execs and managers (notice how nobody ever talks to some joe schmo particle animation guy or whatever)
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Spikeguy posted:How many of you have played ME3 (or any of the other games) since you either played or learned about the ending? I'm curious if the initial anger went away and allowed people to play again, or if some people were just turned off outright. I've played through ME3 probably about three times. My last playthrough was after all of the DLC had been released, so I could have the "complete" experience. I honestly thought that the whole ending controversy was blown way out of proportion when I played it right after it first came out, and still do. But, as I've mentioned earlier in the thread, I was completely fine with the "control" ending (despite leaning heavily Renegade throughout the series). Like you, there was a time when I used to put in a playthrough of ME1 and 2 at least once a year, but I haven't jumped back in just yet. I love ME1's writing and atmosphere, but it takes forever to get going. And it really sucks that I can't Biotic Charge my way through every battle. If they dumped the ME3's combat into ME1's exploration-focused structure, I would be a happy baby.
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n4 posted:Wait a second, what was the original ending that the internet apparently guessed correctly? If I recall right, it'd eventually turn out to be something to the effect of "Oh no, it turns out that massive use of Mass Effect technology will cause the universe to be consumed in a black hole, and the Reapers do their galactic cleansing cycle before any race in a given cycle can advance far enough for it to start!"
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Spikeguy posted:How many of you have played ME3 (or any of the other games) since you either played or learned about the ending? I'm curious if the initial anger went away and allowed people to play again, or if some people were just turned off outright.
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Dec 27, 2013 20:16
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BexGu posted:What was the ending the internet guessed again? The Dark Matter one? The internet guessing the ending is probably me projecting my own theory about the ending of lost, which is that they kept changing it because the fans kept working it out, to the point that it kind of stopped making sense. Maybe it's just that they changed lead writers (which apparently they did) and the new guy had his own idea.
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Wasn't there also something about their original final draft getting leaked out somehow? Between that and the head writers changing midway through, I'm somewhat surprised they didn't opt for everyone exploding into orange goo while rather disturbing music played in the background.
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Dec 27, 2013 21:14
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I have to try the Psychotic Biotic.
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Dec 28, 2013 00:39
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bobjr posted:Shepard knew otherwise they would have potentially treated Harbinger as a love interest, which would have been almost slightly better than what Harbinger ended up getting in 3. Do you have something against Harbinger being a love interest???
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Dec 28, 2013 02:47
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are you pursuing an agenda here, mr bobjr??? my reaper-human babies will rule this galaxy until kingdom come
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Dec 28, 2013 02:48
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Well I'm sure Harbinger couldn't be a worse love interest than Dianna Allers.
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bobjr posted:Well I'm sure Harbinger couldn't be a worse love interest than Dianna Allers.
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:Do you have something against Harbinger being a love interest???
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somebody explain to me why the sovereign ai projection (red thing on virmire) had a head. what is the point? http://minus.com/i/bvGbkZV4yZJWN
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:somebody explain to me why the sovereign ai projection (red thing on virmire) had a head. what is the point? You mean the thing to the left? I think that's an interface like the ones you see all over the CIC on the Normandy.
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Kibayasu posted:You mean the thing to the left? I think that's an interface like the ones you see all over the CIC on the Normandy. yeah, the thing to the left. It, more or less, has features similar to eyes so I always assumed it was supposed to be a head. And the CIC interfaces are shaped like monitors.
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:yeah, the thing to the left. It, more or less, has features similar to eyes so I always assumed it was supposed to be a head. And the CIC interfaces are shaped like monitors. Probably supposed to be a Minority Report-esque one where you stand and fling things around you.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_NAoNd4YyY It's the console Shepard uses. Obvious from the angle this video starts at, less so in that one screenshot (which is probably from about a minute in or so)
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It's pretty interesting to see how much the voice acting improved from Mass Effect 1 onwards. It's all fairly serviceable but flat. In particular, both Garrus and Tali are noticeably better in Mass Effect 2.
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Psion posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_NAoNd4YyY drat =[ i would also like to say the human reaper looked hella dumb
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:drat =[ i would also like to say the human reaper looked hella dumb Them's fightin' words. Milky Moor posted:It's pretty interesting to see how much the voice acting improved from Mass Effect 1 onwards. It's all fairly serviceable but flat. In particular, both Garrus and Tali are noticeably better in Mass Effect 2. They all got the same clip around the ears that Mark Meer did.
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Milky Moor posted:It's pretty interesting to see how much the voice acting improved from Mass Effect 1 onwards. It's all fairly serviceable but flat. In particular, both Garrus and Tali are noticeably better in Mass Effect 2. It's weird seeing characters you know from a game in the flesh, because you can't help but hear their voice as an entity separate to their real face. Funnily enough the Deus Ex thread was saying the same thing about Adam Jensen's voice actor, who also has a really distinctive voice.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's weird seeing characters you know from a game in the flesh, because you can't help but hear their voice as an entity separate to their real face. Ever since I re-watched 24, Admiral Raan will always be that terrorist-family mother to me.
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And in counterpoint, it was nice to end up in a firefight with Jayne Cobb.
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Spikeguy posted:How many of you have played ME3 (or any of the other games) since you either played or learned about the ending? I'm curious if the initial anger went away and allowed people to play again, or if some people were just turned off outright. It's not just the endings either, I have a real issue with how they butchered the Geth's character. It's total bullshit to imply that they weren't really alive the way they were before and they need to become more like organics to be considered of worth. It's also ridiculous how their whole interest as a networked AI with a lack of individuality wanting to join together as one giant entity was ignored and discarded in the way that you actually make them do the exact opposite of what they really wanted. I also dislike the way BioWare has made Cerberus the Team Rocket of Mass Effect. The whole about-face in the third game into token bad guys was ridiculous and boring. I was hoping you'd be forced to team up with the Illusive Man and he would act as a moral foil for Shepard. Basically, it's the story issues that have kept me from playing the game. I am actually looking forward to Mass Effect 4, but the subject of the "canon" Mass Effect 3 ending and BioWare's history has made me expect the worst. I'm afraid BioWare is going to make the Destroy ending canon, which I view as the lowest common denominator ending that reverts everything to the status quo. Having the Reapers still be alive in Mass Effect 4 and be on your side for a change would make things far more interesting. Their presence, knowledge, and technology would have a huge impact on how the galaxy develops in the future and present more options in general.
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Burning Mustache posted:Ever since I re-watched 24, Admiral Raan will always be that terrorist-family mother to me. Raan - Admiral, author, tech support: (starts at 3:47 if Youtube doesn't automatically redirect you) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FPFUrXbQgc&t=227s
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quote:I am actually looking forward to Mass Effect 4, but the subject of the "canon" Mass Effect 3 ending and BioWare's history has made me expect the worst. I'm afraid BioWare is going to make the Destroy ending canon, which I view as the lowest common denominator ending that reverts everything to the status quo. Having the Reapers still be alive in Mass Effect 4 and be on your side for a change would make things far more interesting. Their presence, knowledge, and technology would have a huge impact on how the galaxy develops in the future and present more options in general. I agree with this, and also am against Destroy being the canon ending for other reasons (no Geth, EDI, etc.), but having said that, Control be the canon ending, even just synthesis, and having Reapers around as allies, creates broadly the same problem as having God as a character in a story. I.e. why doesn't God just fix it with a wave of a wand? Or in this case, why doesn't a Reaper just fix it by vaporizing somebody or just hovering there and looking menacing? The most I could see them doing is either having Destroy be canon and retconning out the "killed all synthetics" officially and make it just Reaper stuff (lame but I can live with it) or go with Synthesis and hand wave away most of the space magic and write the Reapers out of the story somehow. Lightning Knight fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Dec 28, 2013 |
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I still play the gently caress out of the multiplayer if that counts!
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1st AD posted:Raan - Admiral, author, tech support: It's kind of uncanny, really, her and Brandon Keener have such distinct voices that they require hardly any post-processing when they do the alien voices in Mass Effect, so their alien characters sound pretty much exactly like they do. Like, I don't think Harbinger's VA sounds that much like Harbinger in real life. Although that would be pretty funny. E: Actually, speaking of which, wasn't there a goon that did some Harbinger voice clips way back in the old ME2 thread? Some of those were pretty good. Burning Mustache fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Dec 28, 2013 |
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Lightning Knight posted:I agree with this, and also am against Destroy being the canon ending for other reasons (no Geth, EDI, etc.), but having said that, Control be the canon ending, even just synthesis, and having Reapers around as allies, creates broadly the same problem as having God as a character in a story. I.e. why doesn't God just fix it with a wave of a wand? Or in this case, why doesn't a Reaper just fix it by vaporizing somebody or just hovering there and looking menacing? Hell, just take a look at Afghanistan. The US has more than enough firepower to flatten the country and everything in it, but that isn't feasible for obvious reasons. Of course we don't know enough about a possible ME4 plot to judge things. Perhaps a guerrilla warfare campaign by surviving Leviathans trying to ruin everything? quote:The most I could see them doing is either having Destroy be canon and retconning out the "killed all synthetics" officially and make it just Reaper stuff (lame but I can live with it) or go with Synthesis and hand wave away most of the space magic and write the Reapers out of the story somehow.
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Choices don't have consequences though, because no matter what you have to accept what the Catalyst is doing either by choosing one of it's options or by doing nothing and letting everyone get wiped out. For a series that tricks you into thinking that self-determination is a thing, it really takes a dump on everything you've accomplished at the end.
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Burning Mustache posted:E: Actually, speaking of which, wasn't there a goon that did some Harbinger voice clips way back in the old ME2 thread? Some of those were pretty good.
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Naw, there was a goon who put recordings on Tindeck saying poo poo like "Asari, perfectly adapted for fellatio"
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Burning Mustache posted:Like, I don't think Harbinger's VA sounds that much like Harbinger in real life. Although that would be pretty funny. He sure doesn't!
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