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I'm on the Mass Effect subreddit where they have been very good about not spoiling things, but everyone keeps saying the ending left them feeling "empty", "like a husk", "shattered", "numb", "terrible". And people who haven't beaten it are saying things like "I hope you guys are collectively trolling us and it's actually good", and the response was "You poor, poor soul."
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I was trying to avoid the topic since some/most/half haven't even gotten to play the game yet.
Let's just say, it certainly wasn't what we all expected. |
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"I don't need luck, I have ammo."
Possibly my new favourite line.
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03-12-2012, 01:22 PM | #57 |
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Wow, you're that far already? Been playing since midnight?
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03-12-2012, 01:28 PM | #58 |
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The new Blasto movie is the best.
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It arrived a couple hours before I had to leave on friday so I played a bit then, and I arrived home at about seven yesterday evening and played a couple hours then. Playtime of maybe ten hours or so, played quite a lot today and am probably going to stop soon.
EDIT the first: Ok, so having played a decent bit today I feel the need to weigh in my opinions. All the people complaining about the lack of dialogue control are, for the most part, pretty stupid. The only difference between the previous games and this one that I've seen so far is that you don't pick all the irrelevant middle lines. S'all we've lost. Boohoo, we can't choose the lines that make absolutely no difference to anything anymore! Waaah, we we can't choose an option to completely contradict ourselves mid-sentence anymore! Maybe I'm the only one who always found it retarded how you could be comforting someone, hear them say all of two words and then switch to telling them to go die in a hole, and that's all that's gone. Rant over, combat is pretty good - someone already mentioned it's annoying that one button does everything because it means you do something by accident, and yeah it's annoying when it happens but it's happened to me all of three or four times thus far. Very much enjoying my Infiltrator. Also the DLC character is pretty cool, and well integrated (sticks out like a sore thumb as obviously not originally there much, much less than Kasumi and Zaeed did). Quite liking having a large crew to talk to without having a ridiculously oversized squad too. Plotwise, the game is awesome so far. I haven't bothered with the side missions that just involve "go here and pick this up", but there've been a lot of optional missions that fit perfectly into the story, and the main missions have been pretty cool too. Occasionally I do want to headdesk at how stubborn some characters are - I mean we're clearly so far beyond the Godzilla Threshold that if the answer to "might this help with our immediate problem" is yes then the potential future ramifications are freaking irrelevant (I'm looking at you, Dalatrass).
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I'm used to it at this point, but even the irrelevant dialogue choices was great, at least for me. I felt more immersed, and while I can see while some would be very bored with it, I just wished they'd added an extra option to the narrative options to allow for full immersion, like in the first two. Then you could pick the medium dialogue option, which is what this one is right now. Quote:
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Okay, what is Galactic Readiness and how do I get it to move past 50%? Because I'm a beast right now and that number will NOT SWAY and I don't know what I'm supposed to do (if anything?) to get it to do so.
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03-13-2012, 04:40 AM | #62 |
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Play multiplayer.
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Do I NEED to to help the ending or something? Because if so, that's pretty stupid. Although I want to anyway. But still. If that's really the case... dumb.
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So I just fell through the floor. First bug I've come across. Also:
"I'm Garrus Vakarian and this is my favourite spot on the Citadel!" This game has some excellent line and moments, some just hilarious and some that are great callbacks to earlier in the series.
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Apparently, while it's possible to get the best possible ending without multiplayer, I hear it's nearly impossible. When they say "it can be done", from the amount of moaning on the bioware forums it seems like in order to do so you have to play through all the options in all three games basically perfectly.
Might be an exaggeration, s'just what I hear.
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> bioware forums
why do you do this to yourself? you poor, poor man. |
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I like to soak in the RAEG. It fuels my own.
I've run into most of my old ME2 squadmates now - makes me wonder where Miranda and Jack (who died in mine) would've appeared. Also gotta say (unrelatedly), this game really isn't pulling the emotional punches.
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Also, just dropping in to say I think the DA and Mass Effect 3 anime are going to follow in the footsteps of DMC and similarly other ill intentioned projects. I'm surprised Bioware is even trying to make them.
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Seen on reddit/circlejerk:
"I thought the ending to Mass Effect 3 was quite good, and really tied the entire genre together." - Joseph Kony Died laughing. In other news, I've been storming through this game. I've wrapped up basically every side mission, and all that's left before launching the final mission is to get my effectiveness up through multiplayer (which I've done a bit of already, and I'm sitting at a steady 65% readiness rating. Need to get that as close to 100 as I can. |
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Ok so that was... interesting.
It's going to take some time for me to sort my thoughts about the ending into something coherent. I don't, unlike a vocal part of the fanbase, immediately hate it though. Spoilered comments will come tomorrow - also on the other parts of the game, such as those places where I shed MANLY TEARS.
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