64 replies to this topic

[Cake Bandit]

I love my brother, but I wouldn't fund his metaphorical meth habit. You've gotta' put your foot down sometime.

[Carebear]

As for Origin, just watch this, Origin/Youtube/Google, they connect ALL your accounts and turn your computer into big billboard. Valve doesnt want to be part of this and start to dig your computer like Origin. You guys know, if EA spots you're using torrents for movies/games/whatever they can sell/give info to police.

Just saying dont be part of those before its too late.

Edited by Carebear, 10 March 2012 - 10:52 PM.

[Carebear]

Mass Effect 4. Sheppard gives or no? How big? She fakes or no? Or do we have to wait Mass Effect 5! Suffice to say Sheppard is the first guy to do IT in video game!

Edited by Carebear, 13 March 2012 - 08:46 AM.

[Cake Bandit]

Kratos beat him to it.

[Carebear]

Cake Bandit, on 13 March 2012 - 04:46 PM, said:

Kratos beat him to it.

Ah, so first sex scene was made? I didnt know.

Edited by Carebear, 14 March 2012 - 06:31 AM.

[pursang]

Carebear, on 13 March 2012 - 10:19 PM, said:

Ah, so first sex scene was made? I didnt know.

What the fudge are you talking about?

[Carebear]

pursang, on 14 March 2012 - 12:37 AM, said:

What the fudge are you talking about?

That kind of stuff is so low even for EA, nothing more than make kids talk about it everywhere and buy the next game, also see those enormous boobs.

Edited by Carebear, 14 March 2012 - 06:30 AM.

[Karyu]

Aegis Kleais™, on 10 March 2012 - 09:54 AM, said:

I was SO relieved to hear EA or Ubisoft didn't pick up MWO as a developer, and now with it's PC-only focus, the only other publisher I could think of that I would have loved to have backed this game was Valve (don't get me wrong, I'm forever thankful that IGP picked up the game and gave it the backing needed to see the game through to light. (If you IGP boys n gals are ever down in FL, come on by and brews and a good meal are on me!)

EA did pick up the rights to MechWarrior a few years back, I played the beta. Sadly, it was pretty good but they canned it fairly soon.

[Carebear]

Thats just 4 naked boobs.

[saphon kell]

so kratos lasted all of 30 seconds. wow, what a manly hero he is
as for mass effect 3 i loved the game, all up to the part before the run to the light tower part. from there on it was a misery.
the ending was just... well, just....
what a sad and miserable end to such a great saga. for a game that's suposed to be about choices and decisions afecting the outcome, in the end its all for nothing as its utterly irrelevant how you played it.
paragon or renegade, made peace between quarians and geth, romanced tali or chased garrus around while exterminating the rachni, cured the genophage or not, in the end its all about green, blue or red ending. the mass relays explode in all of the endings, the normany ends up stranded in some lost planet.
i might replay the game eventually but ill stop before the final part and imagine my own ending. as for bioware/ea, unless they make a proper ending for the game (AND make multiplayer NOT essential for the solo campaign. my readiness never changed from 50% because of that) and i hope for free, i will not be getting any DLCs for ME3 at all

Edited by saphon kell, 14 March 2012 - 02:38 AM.

[Raegar]

So funny to read all this. I bet, if Bioware'd made a classic "happy ending", there'd be even more cries and tonns of hatred. It seems to me that most people just don't want to think and look a bit deeper. That's the problem. Awesome game and the best endings there could be for the whole series, that's my opinion.

P.S. And i'm just tired of reading all this wierd things about "multiplayer essential for single". IT IS NOT! The only thing you need in single is Effective Military Strength. Readiness percent only affects how much of your Military strength is Effective. That's all. You just need to do more additional quests and make right decisions if you don't want to play multiplayer.

Edited by Raegar, 14 March 2012 - 03:09 AM.

[Bloody Moon]

Raegar, on 14 March 2012 - 03:05 AM, said:

P.S. And i'm just tired of reading all this wierd things about "multiplayer essential for single". IT IS NOT! The only thing you need in single is Effective Military Strength. Readiness percent only affects how much of your Military strength is Effective. That's all. You just need to do more additional quests and make right decisions if you don't want to play multiplayer.

Just so you know, effective military strength counts in the endings. This fact is not bad at all IF it wouldn't be accompanied by another fact: only 6800-6900ish military strength can be achieved in a fully finished single player game IF you made the best choices in every single Mass Effect game in the past. The endings where the protagonist survives start at 4000 effective military strength which obviously can't be achieved by only single player atm (due to the 50% effectiveness). I say thats idiotic considering the whole sequel revolved around single player.

Y'know the minimalist ending was never a problem, Skyrim had it too, big deal i got used to it in Morrowind and Oblivion. The problem is that the previous Mass Effects had proper endings and most of the previous Bioware games had decent endings aswell. To take a few examples: Baldur's Gate 1-2-TOB had proper ending, so did the NWN and its expansions, not to mention the first KOTOR, even the Dragon Age 1-2 had somewhat acceptable ending. In ME3? Everything after Shepard is injured feels like a bad dream.

Spoiler

Yay you got into the teleport beam, then you somehow finish off the heavily implanted Illusive Man, i mean seriously if you look at him, he has nearly as many implants as Saren had, a shot in the belly should've never finished him. Then when Shepard falls in front of the activation console a godlike entity lifts him/her and offer a choice from the 3. Riiiiight... The big bad weapon you were building the whole game effectively does NOTHING except showing "god" that we are ready to make a choice... WOW... Oh and every option you have will have basicly the same effect ie.: Reaper invasion over, the remaining humanity and every other race reduced to the pre-spacefare era or doesn't exist at all, Mass Relays destroyed oh and the crew members who came out of the Normandy? Chances are without immense luck they are dead anyway as without Mass Relays and spaceships (as most of the planetary transport vehicles were based on the spaceship technology). Great i mean it, so when ME3 ends it also decimates the whole ME universe (which is surprising as i thought Bioware mentioned that they are planning to make more games in the ME universe after ME3).

Edited by Bloody Moon, 14 March 2012 - 06:52 AM.

[Raegar]

Bloody Moon, on 14 March 2012 - 06:08 AM, said:

Just so you know, effective military strength counts in the endings. This fact is not bad at all IF it wouldn't be accompanied by another fact: only 6800-6900ish military strength can be achieved in a fully finished single player game IF you made the best choices in every single Mass Effect game in the past. The endings where the protagonist survives start at 4000 effective military strength which obviously can't be achieved by only single player atm (due to the 50% effectiveness). I say thats idiotic considering the whole sequel revolved around single player.

First, there is only ONE ending where Shepard survives. Second, there is no need in 4000 effective military strength, I've got 3500 and it's more than enough. Nearly at 3000 the indicator is maxed so it seems to be nessesary.

Your words about "proper" endings and comments of me3 endings just confirm what I've already said about people dont want to think about the differences in effects that endings have for the universe. They just need a "proper" ending, I see now)

[Sesambrot]

I haven't played it through yet, so I'll reserve my own judgement for when I have.
Anyway, all the ruckus didn't go by unnoticed, so I actually put up with quite a few spoilers to find out what it's all about, and I think this, 5 page article might present the main reasons people are so upset about it...
I actually noticed rather early that my actions from the previous games had hardly any impact on the story in this one, so I'm already a little disappointed.

For example curing the Genophage:
if you keep Mealon's data, Mording uses it to create the cure, if you didn't keep it, he develops it himself, so no impact there at all.
For me not that big of a deal as I'd have expected Mordin to find a solution himself anyway.

The Rachni:
Now this is an example that really upset me. While freeing the queen in ME1 makes you find that particular Queen, killing her results in you finding some other random Queen, the only impact is that the option to free her this time is renegade instead of paragon, there is no other impact whatsoever. It also raises an important question, if you killed the supposedly last one in ME1, where did this second one come from? While you could argue that a second egg may have survived, it feels more like a cheap excuse.
This was actually one big decision in ME1 which had the potential to have a big impact on the Storyline (not the overall outcome mind you) yet it doesn't have any impact at all!
I mean in case you killed it in the first one they could have come up with something different, like the Reapers found a few eggs and are now using them to clone rachni and turn them into ravagers. Obviously you couldn't have gotten the workers then but maybe you could have found important reapertech that would help with constructing the Crucible...
Hell, not even that big of a change, could probably have used the same locations for that but at least it wouldn't have sounded like a cheap excuse to not having to change anything...

Edited by Sesambrot, 14 March 2012 - 09:59 AM.

[Carebear]

I think ME 4 is coming because, no pie for Sheppard and bad ending, or DLC but its ME 4.

Edited by Carebear, 14 March 2012 - 10:33 AM.

[Sesambrot]

This made me LOL so hard!!!

[Adridos]

I still don't know the ending, but it seems Shepard didn't accomplish "world peace".
The best of all, I remember EA saying: "Don't forget to backup your saves!"

[Blue Shadow]

Sesambrot, on 14 March 2012 - 09:58 AM, said:

I haven't played it through yet, so I'll reserve my own judgement for when I have.
Anyway, all the ruckus didn't go by unnoticed, so I actually put up with quite a few spoilers to find out what it's all about, and I think this, 5 page article might present the main reasons people are so upset about it...
I actually noticed rather early that my actions from the previous games had hardly any impact on the story in this one, so I'm already a little disappointed.

Thanks for that link now I also understand what all the fuss is about, I had a feeling they would stuff something up too bad it was the ending! But to push DLC on the player at the end really shocked me! That sort behavior is the reason I'm not buying buying EA games no more... that and Bioware are slipping one game at a time.. Oh well, long live MWO!

[Adridos]

Blue Shadow, on 15 March 2012 - 07:00 AM, said:

Thanks for that link now I also understand what all the fuss is about, I had a feeling they would stuff something up too bad it was the ending! But to push DLC on the player at the end really shocked me! That sort behavior is the reason I'm not buying buying EA games no more... that and Bioware are slipping one game at a time.. Oh well, long live MWO!

Wait, you can't get the right ending without DLC? Where did all that crash talk about "optional DLC, not stripped from the game", go?

[Ulric Kell]

I enjoyed the game immensely and as the saying goes "it's about the Journey, not the destination", it was rocking. My challenge however to the above statement is knowing that the destination is a dystopia where everyone dies, destroys the journey for me.

I can't bring myself to play any of the games in the short term because I'll always know that no matter what I do, it all ends in a crap shoot. So what's the point? The other side of me wants to go back and play all three games killing as many people as I can, since nothing done in any of the games really matters in the end lol.