opblaaskrokodil posted:

I was really disappointed the Illusive Man was indoctrinated. It's such a cheap reason for him to be doing what he was doing .
And what IS up with his eyes? He had freaky eyes back in ME2 when I assume he wasn't indoctrinated at that point (otherwise what the gently caress was he doing stopping the Reapers).

e: also I hated the ending and wanted the option (even if really hard) to have a "happy" ending where Shepard lives, the relays survive, reapers are dead (or otherwise not a threat...). I figured that went without saying

Lloyd Boner posted:

Because Bioware didn't think about the lovely ending they wrote.

Two Finger posted:

Why are you arguing with me about this when the biggest flaw with the whole game was the fact that black shepard had a white son and was totally cool with it, who was keeping his bed warm?

Isaacs Alter Ego posted:

Then why the hell would he spend the most resources pretty much ever spent ever to revive Shepard, the only guy to ever have killed one of the things? If he's indoctrinated, that would seem to imply he's on the reaper's side, but all of his actions would dictate that he is not except for at the very end being arbitrarily not able to kill them. It makes no sense at all, I mean, in ME2 he's not a psychopath and in ME3 he is. Bah.

Axel Serenity posted:

Really, I'm not all too upset about the endings, though i will echo that they were a little short and should have fleshed out what happened to your crew buddies a little more. And it would have been nice to see something a little more tailored to all of your choices rather than whatever one you make in the last five minutes of the game. But, I destroyed the Reapers and my Shepard lived so I really can't complain.

Slim Killington posted:

I said come in! posted:

God, there was some hilarious poo poo in ME3. I got quite a few laughs out of some of the stuff I encountered. At least Bioware has a sense of humor. The news reporter that is finally ready for your upper punch was pure gold. But she still got her rear end knocked out in the end!

randombattle posted:

randombattle posted:

gently caress it this is my ending

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAmVVAjZZeM

MY SHEPARD IS THE SHEPARD THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!

TheJoker138 posted:

But...But they said nothing in my ending about the relays being dead. Why are the relays dead no matter what you picked?

randombattle posted:

Mass Effect 3 will forever be a fantastic game full of fantastic moments that will never be talked about because of how bad the ending is.

Mehrunes posted:

The synthesis ending doesn't make any loving sense at all. This isn't Blade Runner, that's actually good writing. This makes even less sense than "RED MATTER" (i.e. Black Hole droplets). You can't just smear everything with translucent circuitry and say you've solved anything. It doesn't make any sense! Aghh!

TheJoker138 posted:

Them having the one Prothean we ever see be a huge dickhole to everyone instead of the enlightened scholar that they were always made out to be was actually a stroke of genius, and a great twist on expectations. It sucks that he was day 1 dlc, cause I can't imagine playing the game without his interactions with the rest of the crew (I never used him on a single mission though).

xeria posted:

He's really at his best if you take him to the asari homeworld with Liara, but I also liked his interjections when talking to Wrex on Sur'kesh.

Wrex: "I like to eat salarian livers."
*Salarian guard narrows his eyes*
Javik: "They are quite a delicacy."
Salarian guard: "......."

I'm on my second playthrough and I've been taking him on every mission just to see what else he has to say as he meets 'new' races and we go to different homeworlds.

kevdude posted:

I felt that the destroy ending was the only "real" ending based on how the game and story and choices had gone for the entire series. Instead of just making it one of the choices, they should have made it the default and branched off from there. I was shocked that the synthesis and control options were even presented to me, it just seemed like a giant dump on the where the game was steering you.

I am also still pretty upset about Mordin Best videogame character of all-time in my opinion.

ThePutty posted:

From what I saw in that space battle, they were bombing it's arms and they started to fall off, not a giant strike.

WAR FOOT posted:

It interesting, as the kid discusses the paths, you see The Illusive Man attempting Control, and Anderson having a go at Destroy.

It seemed natural that Shepard would do what Anderson would.

kevdude posted:

One dude taking control of the machines hellbent on murdering the trillions of innocents is perfectly fine? Turning all life into part robot likely against their will is perfectly fine? You're being a bit hyperbolic here.

Amateur Saboteur posted:

As stated before Shepard -- a character as built up over 3 games wouldn't take any of the options ever. It just isn't him. Renegade has some small compatibilities but that's because that mentality is kill first don't care that you gently caress over billions later.

inthesto posted:

So I just beat the game and I don't think I need to beat the "the ending sucks" drum any more. Even before the final cinematic, the whole deus ex ghost kid sequence was terribly hamfisted at best.

The concern I really want to voice is this: Does anyone else get the sense that each game in the series was written by a different team, each one in isolation from the others? Cerberus does the best job of representing the disconnect between each game. In ME1, they're a horrible terrorist group that performs live experiments and murders an admiral in cold blood. In ME2, they're shady but have the right goals and all the terrible poo poo they did is handwaved away by Miranda. Then in ME3 they're right back to the terrorist angle, except now it's pushed far over the top with a healthy dose of "NO I USED YOU" as garnish.

Then you just get other poo poo like Harbinger being a complete afterthought in ME3, each of the games having gigantic plot holes inbetween them, and drastic shifts in tone in each game. It's like they were all working off the same notes but had zero collaboration.

inthesto posted:

Haha, holy poo poo this does indeed explain a lot. Apparently my guess of "different writers, same notes, no collaboration" wasn't all that far off the mark.

That said, does Tali's face ever actually get revealed?

TheJoker138 posted:

Apparently it's not a stock photo that they changed slightly, at least according to some random blogger who says he ran this:



through some photoshop fuckery and ended up with this:



E: Fixed for table breaking.

Two Finger posted:

Ahahahahahahaha you have to be loving kidding.

Internet Kraken posted:

Literally a space elf. It's like they just decided to go with the most common fan creation they found on deviantart.

EDIT: How do you properly maintain hair that long when you're wearing a helmet all the time?

Internet Kraken posted:

As much as I hate that ending even I admit its a bit touching simply becuase of the Mass Effect 1 theme being played.

I'd say its less a teaser for a new DLC or more a setup for inevitable spin-off games in a far distant future where most of what you did aside from the very end has become irrelevant.

EDIT: But really, could they not have found a better voice actor for that kid?

TheJoker138 posted:

Yes, the entire game (all THREE games) is just some old guy telling a kid a story.

Scionix posted:

The funniest thing was I was pretty dissapointed already at that point because the best thing Bioware could come up with as a plot device to beat the reapers was a ~*superweapon*~

At least the gameplay was good

Gaseous Snake posted:

"Then the Shepard had Traynor come up for a game of chess. But no chess was played my child. Those two hosed like crazy! I tell ya, my child, no one had seen two ladies go at it like that until that day."

Charlie Mopps posted:

That was probably the hardest part for me. Must have died there about 15 times.

Lava Lamp Goddess posted:

Speaking of Chambers, is Kelly in this game at all? I saved her in ME2 but didn't see her at all in ME3. Not even an email.