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My dumb fanficcy wish was for the Crucible to mess with the Reapers' minds and cause them to go psychotic and start killing each other and themselves. I just thought that would've been a cool scene to watch.
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It should have teleported them back into dark space so everyone could finish the secret projects they were working on in me2.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:56
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My fanfict wish is that the third game never happened so i didn't have to wade through like 22 pages of arguments about the dumb ending that i stopped caring about as soon as I heard it. I remember alt tabbing for 20 minutes, looking up gamefaqs to see if i got the bad ending, so i picked what anderson would have, and never felt bad at all. Then i tried synethesis, and never played me 3 story again. The real important question is where Joker's Hat belongs in the new perfect world.
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Axe-man posted:My fanfict wish is that the third game never happened so i didn't have to wade through like 22 pages of arguments about the dumb ending that i stopped caring about as soon as I heard it. I remember alt tabbing for 20 minutes, looking up gamefaqs to see if i got the bad ending, so i picked what anderson would have, and never felt bad at all. Then i tried synethesis, and never played me 3 story again. Joker and EDI have joint custody of the hat after their inevitable divorce
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Feb 18, 2016 20:01
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Is there a mod that just cuts from Shepard and Anderson straight into the Destroy ending? That's probably the best you could do to "fix" it I guess. I looked at that Happy Ending mod out of curiosity and man oh man the amateur voice acting and awkward editing just makes it too cringe-y to watch.
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Feb 18, 2016 20:23
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TheCenturion posted:Now, I love a good fan-wank as much as anybody. I've spent years joyously debating the ending of Evangelion, where End of Evangelion fits into it, how much of it was budget, original intent, creator breakdown, etc etc. It doesn't matter what was intended, by the author or anyone else. We can only judge Mass Effect by what it is, not some imagined platonic ideal of what we somehow know it should have been. However, if we're looking for things to remember, then the thing we should remember with Mass Effect is that the Lead Writer isn't some kind of auteur who designs the whole project, top to bottom. It's a group effort involving many people. The closest to one person having oversight over the entire series, including the art, music, gameplay and writing, is the Project Lead... Casey Hudson. As it happens, the creator-created organic-synthetic tension dates back to the very earliest drafts of the game, when it was still called "SFX", Shepard was called "Captain Anderson" and the Reapers were the "Nazari". It was specifically added because everyone felt Karpyshyn's first stab at a plot (mosquito-headed Saren and his batarian bat-people steal ancient alien FTL tech) wasn't enough to carry a series. So no, you're wrong. Have a think next time before you repeat tired old fan conspiracy stories.
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Feb 18, 2016 20:32
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Lt. Danger posted:It doesn't matter what was intended, by the author or anyone else. We can only judge Mass Effect by what it is, not some imagined platonic ideal of what we somehow know it should have been. The problem is that we ARE judging it by its merits, not the perceived ones. Mass Effect is a Picasso painting, strange and wonderful with dark deapths... except that it is unfinished and just has a cartoon ninja and an anime baby sketched on one side. Under these crude yet also insulting caricatures are the words "I'm so wasted!". Trying to make sense of mass effect's nose dive isn't coming up with imagined scenarios. The Reapers control the ultimate weapon and there is a space baby inside it who says impossible things to a dying man. Also a robot indoctrinated guy teleports there, or something, and shoots a gun. Then all the relays burn up most of the universe and maybe in two of three endings the Reapers win. Or indoctrination isn't a thing anymore maybe? All these things clearly happen. It would be nice to just have some sense to it all.
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I don't see the relevance of your post - or any of your posts in this thread, to be honest. Honestly happy to answer any questions you might have. I don't really have a response to incoherent ranting though.
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Mass Effect 3: Please Submit You're Post's For Review anyway this is the snippet from the supposed leak today: "1: there us a Krogan character in the squad so far called Drake. 2: There is a Synthetic in the squad...it is not a geth 3: A big thing that was a focus of this was showcasing the "no loading times". Apparently there are none. From flying through the "map" to picking a planet to landing with the squad. Problem my friend was made aware that thanks to this approach graphical features were loading after game play begun. He did not care much....but the person making him aware was not happy. 4: Squad AI was better than he remembered from ME3. He pointed out the companions were aggressive and actively using shields when the team was taking damage and whatnit but he made it sound like they were more like the Geth deployable shields from the early ME1. Might have been me interpreting wrong tho. Game play was described as "familiar" and "refined" from ME3."
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Feb 18, 2016 20:56
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Also featuring Urdnot Chad and Urdnot Jayden
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Strategic Tea posted:Also featuring Urdnot Chad and Urdnot Jayden I always preferred Urdnot Kendrick tbh Also the leaked name for the krogan squaddie was Drack so I think that's where they're hearing
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Lt. Danger posted:It doesn't matter what was intended, by the author or anyone else. We can only judge Mass Effect by what it is, not some imagined platonic ideal of what we somehow know it should have been. Yes exactly. And what it is, is three separate games with inconsistent art and story direction, and a last minute left-field ending bolted on. I still love it, I've bought and played through it on multiple platforms, but realize that thinking of it as one coherent whole is the imagined platonic ideal here.
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Rhjamiz posted:Is there a mod that just cuts from Shepard and Anderson straight into the Destroy ending? That's probably the best you could do to "fix" it I guess. I looked at that Happy Ending mod out of curiosity and man oh man the amateur voice acting and awkward editing just makes it too cringe-y to watch. No matter where you stop you'll have still played a bad game.
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Feb 19, 2016 00:27
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sassassin posted:No matter where you stop you'll have still played a bad game. The same could be said of all your posts of this thread, even as they abruptly switched gears from legitimate caremad to wannabe ironic troll in the final ten pages.
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Feb 19, 2016 00:33
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TheCenturion posted:Yes exactly. And what it is, is three separate games with inconsistent art and story direction, and a last minute left-field ending bolted on. Hmm, yes. I suppose that would make sense if you were an idiot who just got schooled in three separate ways. If only this thread had a really tedious poster who knew all about Mass Effect, including such esoterica as "what a lead writer does" and "basic metaphors for daddy issues"! We could ask him stuff instead of making up dumb poo poo.
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Feb 19, 2016 02:08
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Lt. Danger posted:Hmm, yes. I suppose that would make sense if you were an idiot who just got schooled in three separate ways. this thread's EMS score is too low for that
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exquisite tea posted:The same could be said of all your posts of this thread, even as they abruptly switched gears from legitimate caremad to wannabe ironic troll in the final ten pages. My posting has been sincerely caremad from start to finish. But thank you for reading.
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Feb 19, 2016 02:26
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Big ups to the ending of Mass Effect 3 for making people mad on the internet four years running
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Feb 19, 2016 02:30
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It's not four years yet, but we should definitely have a big party in a couple of weeks
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2house2fly posted:It's not four years yet, but we should definitely have a big party in a couple of weeks Spill some drinks, get loud?
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Lt. Danger posted:Hmm, yes. I suppose that would make sense if you were an idiot who just got schooled in three separate ways. yes hello what do you need
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Rhjamiz posted:Is there a mod that just cuts from Shepard and Anderson straight into the Destroy ending? Here you go.
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Anyone who mods the ending, including using the EC, should be destroyed with high explosive rounds from a grenade launcher.
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Alain Post posted:Anyone who mods the ending, including using the EC, should be destroyed with high explosive rounds from a grenade launcher. look at this guy who takes the mediocre heavy weapons in ME2
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Lt. Danger posted:If only this thread had a really tedious poster who knew all about Mass Effect, including such esoterica as "what a lead writer does" and "basic metaphors for daddy issues"! We could ask him stuff instead of making up dumb poo poo. *slides into frame and begins kramering wildly*
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I thought we already decided that Mass Effect 1 was the bad one
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Feb 19, 2016 07:47
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I thought we already decided that Mass Effect 1 was the bad one It is.
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I like it the most, actually. One of the most satisfying endings to a video game I've played.
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Feb 19, 2016 08:19
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ME2's ending was better. ME2 was better in just about every single way, actually.
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Mymla posted:ME2's ending was better. ME2 was better in just about every single way, actually. MMmmm.
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Just thinking about the pacing of the ME2 suicide mission makes me pumped. What a game.
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Mymla posted:ME2's ending was better. ME2 was better in just about every single way, actually. ME2 barely had a story to end. Hell I like threes story better. And it's poo poo. Two is the most fun to play tho. It's weird how a trilogy of games are all basically standalone as well. Playing the previous ones don't help you understand the others, probably because they each do their own thing and don't give a poo poo about the others. CharlestheHammer fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Feb 19, 2016 |
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Doctor Reynolds posted:I like it the most, actually. One of the most satisfying endings to a video game I've played. When I was first playing through the trilogy the ending of Mass Effect was the first time since Perfect Dark where I actually wanted to sit and watch the credits. ME2 I was all "yeah we're ready for you Reapers now" but wasn't nearly as pumped. Then I played ME3 and just kind of sat in disbelief staring at my screen thinking "well, I chose control and I was a Paragon Shep, so I made the right decision...right?" and then there was that stupid stinger at the end. I will be honest I think one of the main reasons I was so pumped for finishing ME1 was a combination of frustration because load times are loving dour on PS3 and the save system was horrible, meaning that while my final time was like 25 hours or something it was probably more like 50 hours in total because of dying and going back to checkpoints that were almost an entire hour old. The other part of the combination was actual satisfaction because Ilos through to defeating Saren/Sovereign was one of those moments in gaming where I just could not put down my controller until I was done. It had good pacing, good music, relatively good story, the option of saving the council actually felt more thematic than what they tried to do in ME3. That and the final splash of your Shepard looking ready to continue the fight against the Reaper just worked so well with what the final cutscene was building to, and then we cut to the credits. Despite how playing ME1 is just not fun in comparison to 2 and 3 for some reason I still love it through all its faults
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See, ME1 supporters are like this: Doop de dooop doop And ME2 supporters are like this: Deep do deeep duup And ME3 supporters are like this: Faaaaahrt faaaaaahrt fart.
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Mymla posted:ME2's ending was better. ME2 was better in just about every single way, actually. ME2 might be the best game of the last console generation.
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Vitamin P posted:ME2 might be the best game of the last console generation. I wouldn't go that far, but is was definately the best of the series.
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CharlestheHammer posted:ME2 barely had a story to end. What's it like being illiterate?
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Combat ME1>2>3 Story ME2>1>3 Fun hangouts with your "friends" ME3>2>1
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Biotics in ME1 were definitely the best.
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The best place to hang out with friends, IMO, is the Mass Effect 3 thread
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