Mass Effect 3 Thread

[OmegaFenix]

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ITS A FUCKING GAME. The endings in ME1 & ME2 also only differed in the slightest variations. Is Bioware the first developer that aimed for the stars but made it only to the moon? If I got upset everytime a game didn't deliver on the pre-release hype I would be pissed off all the time. I've said it before and I'll say it again, all choice in games are illusions, there is no choice because the paths are set out by people and no dev team can account for every possible choice you could want to make. How I experienced the game was that my choices changed the galaxy as a whole and I got to see the effects straight away, did the quarians get their planet back, did I cure the genophage all those choices you made along the way resolved parts of the plot. The ending is just that, a less than 5 minute cut scene that leaves a hell of a lot to the imagination just like every decent sci-fi novel of note. It lets you the player imagine what you want, how the characters you grew to care about lived on or didn't. But no you want it tied up with a neat little bow that explains everything and doesn't leave any blanks. Why the fuck would I want a ending that ties the game off one or even 12 particular ways?

You dont have to agree with me just like I dont have to agree with you. You dont have to like my opinion but for the love of pete stop fucking complaining about the last 5 minutes of a 50 odd hour game. People are going ON AND ON AND ON about the god damn ending(s) and its the smallest part of the entire series, they are ignoring the most significant part of a truly great game in lieu of complain because the developers didn't spell out exactly what happened and left it up to the imagination.

And why the fuck can't those of us who like the ending, like it for what it is?

[Crzwaco]

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But do you understand now why people are hating on the ending.

[OmegaFenix]

But do you understand now why people are hating on the ending.

I also honestly dont give a fuck (my true opinion will piss people off). I enjoyed it and thats all that matters.

[iNNOS4iNT]

If your ending sucked. Play it a second time, do things differently maybe .. but to complain about an ending you didn't like .. Hm!

[Crzwaco]

If your ending sucked. Play it a second time, do things differently maybe .. but to complain about an ending you didn't like .. Hm!

Thats just It even if you play diffrently its the same... Thats why they are mad since your choice does not matter in the end since its the same dam ending.

[Graal]

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tl;dr

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u mad bro?

Also, for someone who pissed his pants about possible spoilers a few days back, nice spoilers you got there.

Also also, there's a major difference between not living up to hype and not delivering on explicit promises. For someone who struts around this place as if he is the most 'enlightened' person here, I'd expect that to be a pretty easy distinction to make.

If your ending sucked. Play it a second time, do things differently maybe .. but to complain about an ending you didn't like .. Hm!

That's just the thing, though. There isn't such a thing as 'my' ending. The only difference between 'my' ending and the next guy's ending is a different color explosion.

You dont have to like my opinion but for the love of pete stop fucking complaining about the last 5 minutes of a 50 odd hour game.

No. Who are you to tell us what we can or can't do around here?

[Grimspoon]

The control system on xbox is getting so fucking annoying I am ready to smash my controller.

[OmegaFenix]

No matter which side you fall on the argument, it's clear that the ending of Mass Effect 3 has divided the videogame community like nothing else has ... since BioWare's last non-MMO game. Other game designers are especially invested in how BioWare decides to handle the controversy. Speaking at a symposium to celebrate the art of videogames at the Smithsonian in Washington DC, Paul Barnett from BioWare-Mythic said that if games are to be considered art then the audience must respect the creators' right to make the game as they see fit. Ken Levine from Irrational Games - currently working on BioShock Infinite - chimed in to say that even if BioWare wrote a new ending, the audience still would be disappointed and that the whole thing made him "sad".


"If computer games are art than I fully endorse the author of the artwork to have a statement about what they believe should happen," said Barnett. "Just as J.K. Rowling can end her books and say that is the end of Harry Potter. I don't think she should be forced to make another one."


Those gathered to hear the discussion loudly applauded Barnett's words. When the ovation died down, Ken Levine made sure to express his opinion on the controversy surrounding the ending of Mass Effect 3 because he saw this as a watershed moment in gaming.


"I think this is an important moment," he said.


"I think if those people got what they wanted and (BioWare) wrote their ending they would be very disappointed in the emotional feeling they got because ... they didn't really create it," Levine said.


"This whole thing is making me a little bit sad because I don't think anyone would get what they wanted if that happened."

Source: The Escapist

[OmegaFenix]

Extra Creditz Talks about Day One DLC

[Murph]

The control system on xbox is getting so fucking annoying I am ready to smash my controller.

I agree it gets really annoying in places, nothing like diving around like an idiot instead of taking cover or taking cover instead of running. Died during one mission last night because he just wouldn't take cover.