Mass Effect 3

Repetion, huh?

edited 22nd Mar '12 12:38:28 PM by fakeangelbr

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@Firebert: Yeah, Patrick said to Chris Priestly that he didn't write it.(why would he? Its suicide to announce who you are and then criticize your coworkers)

I hope Patrick doesn't get fired for this.

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I will be amazed if somebody doesn't get fired for something when this is all over.

"I know where I am, I just don't know where I am in where I am." - Me

Hopefully it's who caused all this (Mr. Napkin)

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I doubt they do fire anyone.

I hope we get developer interviews about the endings and pre release interviews so we can learn if it was PR talk on purpose or if that really was their opinion.

@zeal: does it??

Yes. If synthesis changes fundamental asari biology into something so wildly different, what else does it change? Do men have babies now? Are thresher maws sentient? Can a tree solve a rubik's cube?

Yes to all those questions. The mysteries of the Synthesis ending resolved!

edited 22nd Mar '12 12:54:35 PM by HellmanSabian

Synthesis ending makes whatever's convenient happen.

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Yeah, the thing is that with a 15LY/D drive you can travel a bit over 30 lightyears in that time and there are several hundred stars within 30LY of Earth and planets are turning out to be REALLY common. I don't think that's going to be a deal breaker.

Yeah, no. The crew that crashlanded on that planet is doomed. They don't have enough humans to start a viable breeding pool never mind the aliens. If they even try they've got a few generations before inbreeding starts to hammer them and a few more beyond that before it's just not possible to continue on. Minimum viable population is about 5,000 humans of breeding age or 2,500 breeding pairs. Humanity can't survive with only 30 individuals. In fact every human colony and outpost with less than five thousand people is pretty much doomed in the long run.

Asari are all chicks.

"Tyyr's a necessary evil. " Spirit

I guess they put the 10, 000 years thing since they figured out that after that long time of dark age of galaxy Shepard's exploit's details will be lost and he would be legend of The Shepard

Well it seems like there might be some hope. Changing the ending isn't as bad as people think, movies get changed all the time depending on test screenings, Clerks has the main character get shot, Dodge-ball had the good guys lose, Terminator 2 had a very happy ending rather than bittersweet, and so on. And as for changing the Mona Lisa argument, never at one point was it finished, if Leonardo was alive today and saw it displayed on the museum he would rip it off the wall and start changing it.

And if that report on the last page is true, it seems that the ending suffered a serious case of protection from editors.

edited 22nd Mar '12 1:02:17 PM by Jeorg

A love that crushes like a mace.

^According to Patrick himself, it is fake.

Up and Down

• I enjoyed the first Citadel combat mission. Once again though I find myself wishing I'd had more things to shoot. Some nice set pieces exist but by and large there are not enough Cerberus troops to put bullets in. I spent a lot of time running through the terrain that should have been spent running and shooting things that bleed. Still, fun to finally get to kill people on the Citadel, still no the really annoying ones though.

• Kai Leng... is a pussy. Ok, maybe more like a traditional ninja... same difference. One sick Drell kept him from completing his mission. Though I couldn't help but think that a single adrenaline rush and a Mattock clip would have ended things right on C-Sec's parking lot.

• Shep can't drive for shit. Why her squad keeps getting in moving vehicles with her is a mystery.

• Phantoms are cute with their carwheels and little swords. Mattock to the face.

• Nemesis are also kind of adorable with their shiny lasers drawing my attention right to them. Mattock to the face.

• The AI just cannot handle the player running and gunning. If you sit in cover they are great. If you start to move around they are lost. This culminated in a five way beatdown. Instead of staying cover I advanced against a pair of Nemesis', a phantom, and a regular troop. Well everyone starts to follow their imperatives, the Nemesis to fall back, the phantom to flank, and the trooper to move through cover to where he could shoot me. All four bunched upbehind a single small wall. I was almost out of ammo so I fired twice and that was it. While they are all trying to move, dodge, fightback, or take cover I just start slamming 'F' as fast as I can and start to beat the unholy hell out of all four of them with my rifle butt. One Nemesis went down, the other slid out finally as I cracked the trooper's skull. I adrenaline rush and gun the retreating nemesis down before sliding around the corner and heavy meleeing the phantom right in the face. There was much laughter.

• Killing Udina via cutscene pistol wasn't as satisfying as I thought it would be. No witty one liner, no pink mist head shot. Just a business-like one to the heart.

• I wanted to shoot Ashley though to get to him. I really did. I thought we'd finally put the "Oh you're with Cerberus! How can I trust you?!" bullshit behind us and here it is back full force. I can see where she's coming from but making it such a thing between you and then resolving it only to open it back up again annoyed the shit out of me.

• I hate the "Shep the Snoop" mechanic for obtaining quests. Are you fucking kidding me? I get a dozen quests in the Citadel in one go after the Cerberus attack from being a busybody? First of all it's one thing when its random flavor. Now it's an actual game mechanic that makes so little sense it's scary. Fucking hate this set up. That's not enough though. It's a bunch of fucking fetch quests. They don't even have the decency to be quick surface missions to kill things or go to interesting locales. No, it's fly to cluster X, scan planet Y, get token and run back to the Citadel. Only the shitty quest system sometimes leaves you with just a cluster name to search. A reaper controlled cluster ensuring you are forced to endure the Reapers done Benny Hill style over and over. Seriously, fuck this stupid shit. I've got the fucking Shadow Broker on my ship, sleeping in my bed and I get information like this by overhearing other people's conversations! And didn't Prothean ruins used to be amazing and rare? Now I've got random schmuck refugees trying to barter away the location of Prothean artifacts to C-Sec officers. FAAAAAACK YOU Bioware.

"Tyyr's a necessary evil. " Spirit

^O-o Okaaaaaaaaaaay.

Am I only one who didn't actually mind fetch quests since they didn't involve actual missions and because of that were fast to complete?

No, I felt the same way.

Kai Leng does suck massively, though, the damned weeaboo.

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Well, you can sustain a population through non-natural means - that is, BOTTLE BABIES.

Which is how you can have a hybrid human/asari.

Jonah Falcon

The fetch quests were...okay, but I was annoyed about having to scour the entirety of the Citadel just to get the targeting reticule for the quest giver, because the quest tracker is quite fucked.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

I'm til trying to get why people are still using swords in that day and age. Rule of Cool maybe? Except Kai Leng isn't cool. He's just a failure. A bit fat cowardly failure.

I started using a map for the fetch quests after my first play through, so I don't care. They're tedious, but at least I know what the hell I'm going now. The journal...yeah, I hope they get fired for how horribly designed it is.

edited 22nd Mar '12 1:20:40 PM by Frosplosion

"I know where I am, I just don't know where I am in where I am." - Me

Kai Leng and his Phantom friends are obviously all weeaboos who want to be ninja. Unlike the ultimate space ninja Thane.

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A sword is an omni blade that doesn't require a battery.

After all, stabbing is a good way to kill someone. Sharp object, melee attack.

Jonah Falcon

On Paragon Lost.(is that name supposed to be joke at Paradise Lost? I guess its because James Vega took renegade solution to his mission :P Which proves once again that renegade choices are worse than paragon ones!)

edited 22nd Mar '12 1:25:52 PM by SpookyMask

But everyone carries around an Omnitool, well, most everyone, so what not just drop the sword and go with the Omniblade? It's easier to conceal than a damn sword, which is really good for a ninja since they're usually supposed to be sneaky?

Okay, that opens this up: Kai Leng is a horrible assassin. Where Thane moved through a building relatively quietly and efficiently, Kai Leng can't do his job without an entourage of armed soldiers to help him. Or a fucking gunship. He's a disgrace. I don't give a damn if he was cool, or maybe more menacing in the books he came from. He should have been able to win people over who hadn't read those things, and he failed big time. You failed Kai Leng, stop your ninja flipping around and go cry in a corner because nobody is afraid of you.

"I know where I am, I just don't know where I am in where I am." - Me

He wasn't even cool in the books, either. He pissed in a vase and ate Anderson's cereal and killed an autistic girl with a pencil.

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