Gavinrad's Mass Effect 3+ Thread

All of the ME3 Map Packs are free. You can pay for equipment packs if you want to burn money, but that's it.

Tuco_sl said:

Because Casey Hudson and Mac Walters are the project director and lead writers? They're the bosses when it comes to how the game ends. Who knows how increasingly isolated they got with their dumbass ideas and wanted to 'go rogue' just to force their shitty ideas into the product.

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They're also the ones who take all the blame.

I'd much prefer to take the blame over dipshit things I do versus a nameless employee.

New announcement coming during 2013 VGAs - StickSkills.com

The 2013 Video Game Awards are set to take place next month, and we've been informed that the next Mass Effect title will receive an announcement there. The source that passed this information to us is also the same that helped us bring forth the first details on the existence of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.

Sean_sl said:

All of the ME3 Map Packs are free. You can pay for equipment packs if you want to burn money, but that's it.

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This is true, my bad. The prices I was thinking of were all the spectre packs and shit - which you are really retarded if you buy to be honest, lol. MAYBE a spectre pack or two if you are just starting and have nothing since they are like a few bucks but hellll no to more than that.

Tuco_sl said:

Because Casey Hudson and Mac Walters are the project director and lead writers? They're the bosses when it comes to how the game ends. Who knows how increasingly isolated they got with their dumbass ideas and wanted to 'go rogue' just to force their shitty ideas into the product.

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I mean, yeah, I know that.

But I just think it's fucking CRAZY that a TEAM wrote an *entire* production and then all of a sudden at the end, the leader writer goes, 'Welp, see ya! Fuck you guys, I'll finish this one out.'.
I know how it was *literally* allowed to happen, but it still leaves me slackjawed to this day that it actually played out that way.

It's like performing open heart surgery with a full team of specialists and nurses and when the operating cardiologist receives the fresh still-beating heart to be transplanted placed into his hand he declares, 'OKAY GUYS, WE'RE GOOD NOW! YOU CAN ALL GO HOME'. Like, lol.

eXarc_sl said:

I mean, yeah, I know that.

But I just think it's fucking CRAZY that a TEAM wrote an *entire* production and then all of a sudden at the end, the leader writer goes, 'Welp, see ya! Fuck you guys, I'll finish this one out.'.
I know how it was *literally* allowed to happen, but it still leaves me slackjawed to this day that it actually played out that way.

It's like performing open heart surgery with a full team of specialists and nurses and when the operating cardiologist receives the fresh still-beating heart to be transplanted placed into his hand he declares, 'OKAY GUYS, WE'RE GOOD NOW! YOU CAN ALL GO HOME'. Like, lol.

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That's just how fucked up game studio management structure can be. There's absolutely retarded shit that happens in the industry on a daily basis.

Sean_sl said:

That's just how fucked up game studio management structure can be. There's absolutely retarded shit that happens in the industry on a daily basis.

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Reminds me of the music industry in the worst way. Mixing artistic talent, egos and business is such a fucking disaster.

I am still sad because the original dark matter ending seemed pretty compelling with the choice of letting the Reapers win and saving the universe or destroying the Reapers and possibly dooming the universe.

Yeah the dark matter stuff was a little too hand wavey but whatever, the ending to Mass Effect 3 was always going to underwhelm due to the weight of the plot. Just no one expected Bioware to drive the ending off of a cliff and then pee on the remains.

The synthesis ending is still some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen.

Zulst_sl said:

Every ending is still some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen.

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Fixed.

Amazing how Bioware went from Christopher Nolan to Uwe Boll in the span of a year.

After Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan talked about some of the things he wanted to do but was voted down by the other writers. He admitted in retrospect that they were bad ideas. Breaking Bad is now seen as one of the greatest shows of all time. The moral is, if you have a system that is working and has you creating one of the best video game/sci fi in general trilogies of all time DON'T COMPLETE ABANDON WHAT GOT YOU THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU FUCKING IDIOTS. That would be like a team gets to the Super Bowl with an awesome running game and the running game can't be stopped by the other team, then on the last drive to win the game from 1st and goal at the 5 your coach decides to throw it 4 times in a row with your rookie qb.

From the point where the ninja guy showed up and started doing ninja shit that was so completely un Mass Effect like, it undid all the good the first 2.5 games had built up. I honestly have absolutely no desire to play any future Mass Effect games. Not out of protest, I just don't have any interest in the franchise anymore.

It wouldn't have been half as bad had the Leviathan stuff been in the late stages of ME2. But as a post-game ME3 release DLC, coupled with all the other bullshit it was just disappointing and reeked of "Lost" levels of not knowing where their story was truly heading from the start. And the latter stages of the game felt underdeveloped as if they ran out of money or time. We should have seen a Citadel cutscene with the Keepers suddenly turning all "Final Solution" and ass-raping the inhabitants and piling their bodies. But I'm not going to rehash old shit. As pissed as I am, I will be a day 1 buyer of ME4.

And the ME3 Multiplayer was A++ great.

Ambiturner_sl said:

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The one ending I did like was the one in the extended cut that allowed you to say fuck you to the star child, shoot him in the face, have the reapers win, and the next batch of civilizations finds Liara's lockbox. Every other ending was completely nonsensical, with synthesis taking the cake.

And from my understanding, the Montreal guys who did the multiplayer are the ones making ME4? But with the doctors gone, I don't know if we'll ever get another DA:O/ME1/ME2 again. The next Dragon Age should be quite telling.

It is a source of occassional amazement to me how they managed to run Dragon Age into the ground in one release. It's usually a process. I mean look at Final Fantasy.

The thing that makes ME different is that they have a chance to reset the story and realign the gameplay. They got all the super retarded giant space-ship monsters out of their system... now they can make a good story again.

Frankly, just send me deep into Geth space on a recon mission. You can do some truly trippy neuromancer shit guys. Fuck. Make me PLAY a geth collective.

WE ARE THE BORG.

The "apology patch" (not the "apology DLC" Citadel) would have saved the entire train wreck if they had patched in a post credits scene of Marauder Shields throwing your corpse into the beam... or making the "Fuck You" choice incorporate GBS in whether or not you win or lose.

Until EA/BioWare prove they have their shit together and can go a major title release without telling their customers to fuck off, I'll continue to sit here amazed at how some of you cry rape then immediately turn back to let them have another go. Especially with the community's heritage.

Sulrn_sl said:

The "apology patch" (not the "apology DLC" Citadel) would have saved the entire train wreck if they had patched in a post credits scene of Marauder Shields throwing your corpse into the beam... or making the "Fuck You" choice incorporate GBS in whether or not you win or lose.

Until EA/BioWare prove they have their shit together and can go a major title release without telling their customers to fuck off, I'll continue to sit here amazed at how some of you cry rape then immediately turn back to let them have another go. Especially with the community's heritage.

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That's not completely fair. We as a whole here really should put our money where our mouths are, but we haven't had a chance to yet. I think peoplewilldo so when it comes to Dragon Age Inquisition. Bioware hadn't shit all over us until Dragon Age 2 and the end of Mass Effect 3 (which were both different teams). Nothing has come out from them since those games. Once DAI comes out, I think most people will hold off unless they hear enough positive news about the game.

Tuco_sl said:

I'm not buying DAI no matter what. I might play it but I'm not buying it.

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I will buy it and tell you if it's even worth pirating or not!

Javik was meant to be the big "do not use Gamefly, do not buy used games" but ended up just pissing off actual customers more than it pissed off the non customers. The used gaming industry needs to be crushed because it does absolutely no good for anyone. I am saddened that Microsoft backing off their always-on DRM stance means that not only do publishers still get raked over the coals by PawnStop, but that console gaming will likely miss out on things like the Steam Summer Sale.

Having attended all the Mass Effect panels at PAX East this year I have to say I am glad that Bioware Prime is getting out of the Mass Effect business simply because they did not seem to understand exactly what it was that they had. The universe is probably much better off in the hands of the Montreal team.