Mass Effect 3 - 3.6.12.

[windward]

Loving this game.

 

[Alumni2k11]

I've made it 10 hours, loving every bit of it. My favorite mission so far was the one in Tuchanka at the Shroud.

 

[Alumni2k11]

Anyone else get to the endings yet? Without giving anything away, I'll just say I was disappointed (with the ending, not the game itself). Heard there is a secret ending if you beat the game twice and stockpile 5000 war credits or whatever they are called.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

Anyone else get to the endings yet? Without giving anything away, I'll just say I was disappointed (with the ending, not the game itself). Heard there is a secret ending if you beat the game twice and stockpile 5000 war credits or whatever they are called.

I slowed down the pace i'm playing at and am doing a bunch of side things. Don't want to rush to the ending.

 

[Manwiththeplan]

I'm not sure when I'm gonna get around to playing it. I loved the first 2, but when my x-box got the 3 RoD, I never got it fixed or got a new one. So right now I mainly play PC games (SWTOR), but I do own ME 1 and ME 2 on origin and would like to do a playthrough of each because I want to see how some of the choices from 1 effect the outcome of 3.

 

[Alumni2k11]

I slowed down the pace i'm playing at and am doing a bunch of side things. Don't want to rush to the ending.

That's how I'm doing the 2nd play through. Making a few different choices too.

 

[Ren]

Anyone else get to the endings yet? Without giving anything away, I'll just say I was disappointed (with the ending, not the game itself). Heard there is a secret ending if you beat the game twice and stockpile 5000 war credits or whatever they are called.

Last 10-15 minutes where terrible, it kinda put me off Mass effect for good, i played through the first 2 games 4-5 times, i have no desire to play trough 3 again that ending was horrible. Terrible way to end the trilogy that up until that point was/is some of my favorite games of all time.

Story wise it's not that bad, but it feels sloppy and rushed just horribly done, there's no closure at all

 

[Alumni2k11]

Looks like several "campaigns" have already been set in motion for a different ending via DLC.

http://gamerfront.net/2012/03/a-fan-campaign-has-begun-to-change-the-ending-to-mass-effect-3/17641

 

[MC KAos]

*SPOILER ALERT*

have you guys heard about the indoctrination theory? it makes a hell of a lot of sense, specially considering how great the story has been up to the point at the very end when harbinger comes down to wreck shop. think about it, the little creepy kid at the beginning of the game, how does he get to the spot with the door? how does he get into a locked building? how does he get from the building down to the evacuation area almost as quickly as shepard and anderson? and then, you see soldiers helping everyone into the shuttles, yet there is this little kid trying to get into the shuttle and no one helps him? i think its pretty obvious that at the start of the game the process of indoctrination is being started on shepard by harbinger himself. if you are interested in reading in more detail about it and seeing all the proof that points toward it, here is a good thread someone started at a forum thats entirely dedicated to this theory. the very first post is updated periodically with new info that is found on it.

I believe everything that happened after the shuttle was blown up (basically everything starting with the run to the conduit) was part of the reaper indoctrination and all in shepards mind. If this is true, it doesnt just not make it a bad ending, it might make it the most epic ending in video game history, assuming the DLC comes soon that resumes the game

if you have enough Effective Military Strength and you choose the option to destroy (the red "renegade" choice you see anderson take) then you see a quick scene of shepard laying in rubble and waking from something. Thats the only way you will survive the indoctrination, and if you believe the theory, you need to pick that option and have a high EMS to survive the indoctrination.

http://w11.zetaboards.com/Theorycraftng_HUB/topic/7688087/1/

 

[Alumni2k11]

*SPOILER ALERT*

have you guys heard about the indoctrination theory? it makes a hell of a lot of sense, specially considering how great the story has been up to the point at the very end when harbinger comes down to wreck shop. think about it, the little creepy kid at the beginning of the game, how does he get to the spot with the door? how does he get into a locked building? how does he get from the building down to the evacuation area almost as quickly as shepard and anderson? and then, you see soldiers helping everyone into the shuttles, yet there is this little kid trying to get into the shuttle and no one helps him? i think its pretty obvious that at the start of the game the process of indoctrination is being started on shepard by harbinger himself. if you are interested in reading in more detail about it and seeing all the proof that points toward it, here is a good thread someone started at a forum thats entirely dedicated to this theory. the very first post is updated periodically with new info that is found on it.

I believe everything that happened after the shuttle was blown up (basically everything starting with the run to the conduit) was part of the reaper indoctrination and all in shepards mind. If this is true, it doesnt just not make it a bad ending, it might make it the most epic ending in video game history, assuming the DLC comes soon that resumes the game

if you have enough Effective Military Strength and you choose the option to destroy (the red "renegade" choice you see anderson take) then you see a quick scene of shepard laying in rubble and waking from something. Thats the only way you will survive the indoctrination, and if you believe the theory, you need to pick that option and have a high EMS to survive the indoctrination.

http://w11.zetaboards.com/Theorycraftng_HUB/topic/7688087/1/

Yea I read about that theory too, and I agree. It makes a ton of sense. It's also rumored they are already working on some DLC called "The Truth" which would supposedly change or "add" to the ending.

 

[Ren]

I was thinking something similar before i saw it online, When you meet the illusive man at the end he has like this black fog around him you also see it around Shepard, i think though it's just grasping for straws ME is a very personal experience and it's hard to accept the way it ends. I think the ME universe is one of the best sci-fi universes ever created and the way it ends kills it, but you can kinda feel it coming from about the middle of the game.
The time capsule thing with Liara and the bottle scene with Garrus really stand out.

I just wish they hadn't made it so depressing, the whole game you see everything just falling apart and you expect to make it better, but you really don't. That final choice was brutal cause i hated every option. Those damned of you do damned if you don't choices are what makes the game so good (Krogans/Salarians and Geth/Quarians), but to just end the game on one feels like it was all for nothing. You get offered 3 different ways to screw over everything you have been fighting for and you're forced to chose then the game ends. Honestly, Shepard dancing with ewoks would have been better then what we got.

Bioware almost have to do something about it cause a lot of people have been so put off by the ending that they have no desire to play any more ME and that might effect them financially if they try to make more games in the ME universe in the future, something they've hinted at wanting to do. I Don't see how a sequel could work with how it ended and even a prequel would be "meh" at this point when you know how it all ends. So, even if that theory was never their original intention they might end up adopting it as a get out of jail free card to redo the ending

 

[MC KAos]

I really hope that they adopt it even if it wasn't the original plan. But I believe it was all along, there is just too much smoke for there not to be a fire. I'm actually kind of thinking they could really have a whole new game if you think about it, Shepard wakes up, the crucible starts tearing up some reapers, but harbinger and a few of them retreat, you could have a new game to find and destroy harbinger and finish off Cerberus. Then have a proper ending, I want to know how the quarians and geth get along (I was able to end the war and provide peace between them in my play through, getting both for the battle) I'm curious to see what javik does after the war, the last prothean alive! (personally if I was him I'd mate with an asari since its the only way to have the prothean bloodline continue somehow) and they didn't go into much detail about the whole thing with the protheans and the asari and how they had a major advantage because of the technology they acquired from them, that whole part seemed rushed because of the Cerberus d bag! If it's just over the way it is, it's one of the worst endings ever, but for a company like bioware that prides itself on storytelling, I think they have something up their sleeve

 

[StevenOtero]

*SPOILER ALERT*

have you guys heard about the indoctrination theory? it makes a hell of a lot of sense, specially considering how great the story has been up to the point at the very end when harbinger comes down to wreck shop. think about it, the little creepy kid at the beginning of the game, how does he get to the spot with the door? how does he get into a locked building? how does he get from the building down to the evacuation area almost as quickly as shepard and anderson? and then, you see soldiers helping everyone into the shuttles, yet there is this little kid trying to get into the shuttle and no one helps him? i think its pretty obvious that at the start of the game the process of indoctrination is being started on shepard by harbinger himself. if you are interested in reading in more detail about it and seeing all the proof that points toward it, here is a good thread someone started at a forum thats entirely dedicated to this theory. the very first post is updated periodically with new info that is found on it.

I believe everything that happened after the shuttle was blown up (basically everything starting with the run to the conduit) was part of the reaper indoctrination and all in shepards mind. If this is true, it doesnt just not make it a bad ending, it might make it the most epic ending in video game history, assuming the DLC comes soon that resumes the game

if you have enough Effective Military Strength and you choose the option to destroy (the red "renegade" choice you see anderson take) then you see a quick scene of shepard laying in rubble and waking from something. Thats the only way you will survive the indoctrination, and if you believe the theory, you need to pick that option and have a high EMS to survive the indoctrination.

http://w11.zetaboards.com/Theorycraftng_HUB/topic/7688087/1/

Yep, I agree with the indoctrination theory and I'm holding out hope.

Just completed my 2nd play through today on Insanity. I did EVERY side mission and obtained 100% of the assets. Sheesh...how tedious lol

http://www.trueachievements.com/Steven+Otero.htm

49 achievements out of 52 won (inc 2 of 2 DLC achievements)

http://www.trueachievements.com/Mass-Effect-3-xbox-360.htm?gamerid=321889

 

[Ren]

I'm tempted to get 52/52 i'm 49 as well but the once i am missing are the 2 insanity once and the hijack once, but ending is so bad i just can't make my self play trough it again so i probably never will. Got the 5000 kills one from doing the MP which is surprisingly a lot of fun

 

[MC KAos]

im almost through my first playthrough, on insanity, all i need is to double check ive done all the side quests and then i launch the assault on cerberus' base. i have almost all the achievements except the one about hijacking an atlas or something? anyone have any tips for that?

 

[Alumni2k11]

Yep, I agree with the indoctrination theory and I'm holding out hope.

Just completed my 2nd play through today on Insanity. I did EVERY side mission and obtained 100% of the assets. Sheesh...how tedious lol

http://www.trueachievements.com/Steven+Otero.htm

49 achievements out of 52 won (inc 2 of 2 DLC achievements)

http://www.trueachievements.com/Mass-Effect-3-xbox-360.htm?gamerid=321889

How many war assets did you get by doing everything?

 

[Dallas]

I love this game!

There is this girl I work w/ in my office. Everytime I see Miranda's cute butt in ME3, I am thinking of this girl in that same painted on "butt of the year" award Cerberus zipper suit.

Both are SMOKIN.....sizzle.....sizzle...



Miranda is gamer girl of the year award from me. MeOW!!!

 

[Alumni2k11]

Had a date last night who actually knew what Mass Effect was, and even knew the entire back story of the whole thing.

I can already tell she's a keeper (not to be mixed with the "keepers" on the Citadel, of course).

 

[StevenOtero]

Mass Effect 3: New Ending Incoming

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/122/1221273p1.html

 

[Dallas]

I see both sides of this. The uproar from fans was very surprising to say the least. I understand and am actually preparing to end ME3 for myself here in a few minutes. Final battle for Earth!!! It's my first time through and I expect to go back and play a different career and not be the goody good paragon I always am, at a later time. :

People get attached and expect good things or expect what should be expected in pretty much everything. Be that playing a game or even reading a book.

My son a few weeks ago was reading a book series on his Kindle and came to me that night all upset. He said he didn't want to keep reading the series anymore. He was clearly bothered, so I asked him why. He told me that they had killed off the main character and he had grown to to enjoy the character so much that he was mad and didn't want to finish it. We sat and talked about this for about an hour and I ended up asking him to give it a chance and continue reading. He later came to me and informed me that he appreciated the talk and the advice and he would be finishing the series.

The attachment hurts and seeing characters die or respond in a certain way or endings to take place that we don't agree with, can really bother some of us.

But again..I do understand the flexibility the artist and writers wish to have.

Saying that...I hope I am not to dejected here in a few minutes. :

The Mass Effect series is huge and I am always very excited each time they come out w/ the next release.

Bioware is probably the top game dev in the business. We as fans expect better and expect a solid product. I myself have never been let down by them.