Out of Pod Experience

The endings are idiotic and completely out of place compared to anything previously in the ME series, the person who wrote the current endings and the one who gave it the OK should be ashamed of themselves. It didn't need that "guardian", it could all have been played, and explained, through the Elusive Man. That would have been fitting and way more neat.

@Reiisha

And its not like we got trolls taunting people in despair.
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I will believe it when i see it.

well, I beat the game.

-the game itself was great for the most part. there are lots of details that have been pointed out here and elsewhere that could be improved but I can overlook most of them as they did do a good job of framing the bleak impending doom atmosphere. some scenes could even tug at your heart a bit

-the ending... it's all been said. Love it or hate it is up to you, I for one pledge an oath today that I will never pay money for another EAioware game. Of course the ending was done on purpose and it's so they can drag you out for another $50 later giving you what they intentionally withheld.

I told myself after DA2 I wouldn't pay for another EAioware game. I preordered this crap and I paid for the day one DLC (which if you've played the game and took the Prothean to Thessia w/ Liara it's obvious he's meant to be in the game). I've also argued to much extent here and elsewhere the validity of pirating software as a valid consumer action, especially in a day when people like EA will cut a bunch of crap out of a game (leaving the game itself nothing more than a DLC platform) but still have the balls to sell you the game for $70.

Never again will I pay for another one of their products. I'll play some of them, but they got my last dollar. And no matter what they do in the future (if anything) to rectify the slap in the face that the end of this game was, unless it's free DLC it will only go to support my opinions on pirating software to send a message.

Future conversations will go like this:

Bob: You shouldn't pirate software Alia, it's bad.
ME: I gave Bioware hundreds of dollars and 5 years of being a loyal fan. They repaid this by ruining the end of what could have been the most epic sci-fi game series of all time. The reasons for which are either sabotaging their own product by forcing development to meet an unrealistic due date (not likely) or to repay my patronage by trying to dupe a few more dollars out of me.
Bob: But it's stealing
ME: Yeah, I know. That's why I'm so mad at them.
Bob: That's not what I meant...
ME: I know.

Never again. I'd sooner stab myself in the leg than give them another dollar. It would hurt less.

I KNEW THEY WOULD DO THIS, that's the worst part. EAioware is Lucy and I'm Charlie Brown... lying on my back in the yard after having Lucy yank the football before I try to kick it for the umpteenth time.

ps: It's nice to see the interview with the executive producer who is pressed about the fan reaction amounts to "the game is perfect and internet people are lying"

pss: multiplayer is actually fun, if you can ignore the terrible glaring how-the-hell-did-they-realease-this-crap-in-this-state bugs.

/ragerant off

The forum rage on Bioware Social is still going on ... especially the story and discussion area of Mass Effect 3 where the first page is updated every minute. This reminds me of the incarana rage lol.

Best pictures so far:

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Edit: Best Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467pmIX-oZo

I don't really mind the endings - seems like if you have a high enough score you can get just about any ending you want. What really bothers me is that to get that score you have to do multiplayer. I really have no interest in multiplayer shooters, and mindless online shooting shouldn't have any effect on my story.

I will say I thought the synthesis ending was LOL-stupid. It's like a childish solution to end racism - make everyone interbreed into a single color of brown. But with flesh and robots. Maybe in the context of the cycle of destruction of synthetic and organic life it's not so unreasonable but it sure did look corny.

All that said - I have no doubt the indoctrination theories are correct. There's no other excuse for Shep waking up in London really. And they GIVE IT AWAY when Shep says "The Illusive Man was right all along."

So the true ending: Shep rejects indoctrination, destroys Reapers, lives.

I was bothered they didn't do something a bit more clever like... Shep was revived through Reaper tech. That would have made a "destroy all Reapers" ending a little more complicated.

Mass Effect 4... well the ending either hints at more Shepard (and there damn well better be - I need Shep! Just like that Kony dude desperately needs children!). I'm guessing it'll take place after the reconstruction of the mass relays. Surely a galaxy of scientists weren't just twiddling their thumbs for hundreds of years without figuring out how they operate. Don't you have to know how they operate to make a ship that interfaces with them?

And in the years it takes to rebuild the relays, a united inter-species government will have formed on earth from all the fleets settling there. Earth becomes the new seat of power for the universe.

MASS PREDICTION: Within a year, a DLC to give us a more satisfying conclusion and set up the next trilogy for Shep.

Problem here is : Do you really want to keep playing with a Shepard that killed EDI ? Joker will hate you FOREVER

This... deserves a post on ME3 forums

God babies... geesh there was nothing more I hated than walking in on a WOW role-play group at the tavern where the girls were all supposedly having god babies. And what do they do in ME3... Pfft.... When Karpyshyn left the project all hope left with him.

I'd rather look at reality than be in complete denial about the game endings being absolute garbage, what is the biggest **** take is the game pulls you along with perfectly acceptable storylines and choices towards the middle then it just comes along and kicks you in the balls for all your effort.