BrianWilly posted:

So, it...

...summons you to speak to the Catalyst, who then gives you three choices, once of which isn't available without war assets?

That's its function? That's what the untold generations of the galaxy devised it for us to do?

Funkz posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QpU4Vg-4V0

Mordin Solus, never forget.

Cynic Jester posted:

People seem to think that the big reason for Bioware doing what they're doing is because some small, vocal part of the userbase asked for it. Not the case. The apparent majority of people who have played the game dislike the end. It's not like a lovely beginning where the remainder of the game clears up that perception. For a large part of the people playing Mass Effect 3, they'll do 1 run through of the single player and the main thing they'll remember, that will color the perception of the rest of the game and the entire loving brand, is an ending of a vastly different quality and tone than the rest of the series. Even if you feel the ending is ~good storytelling~ or whatever, it is a stark contrast to the rest of the game.

Nelson Mandingo posted:

His twitter is "Notaxation". He uses the word "Entitlement" to denigrate other people as well.

Roobanguy posted:

But how many years would it take to create that technology? How many billions will die before they even get half way to creating it? The fact that all infrastructure is pretty much destroyed also makes it hard to even start researching it.

e:how to grammar

ArdanSortek posted:

Can we not rebuild the Geth? They started off as network intelligence anyway, and EDI was the Luna VI, so a semblance of that can be rebuilt as well.

Destroy was the one I picked as well. I was never going to control the Reapers(TIM) or merge with synthetics(Saren)

OldTennisCourt posted:

So why are all these lovely game "journalists" siding with Bioware? They keep making these awful arguments and they all seem to desperatly cling to a point that makes no sense. When they all mention how this would RADICALLY ALTER GAMING FOREVER MY GOD they all seem to forget Fallout 3 and Broken Steel. How on earth do they not remember that?

NihilCredo posted:

In that DLC we also have to meet Liara's half-hanar half-sister.

etjester posted:

I must've missed that codex entry...

OldTennisCourt posted:

At this point I'm expecting IGN to post a story about how Statistically, most of the people in the retake ending camp are fat.

Ambiguatron posted:

Femshep has a secret photo album filled with pictures like this.

Ambiguatron posted:

Let's face it, we've always wondered how they mate.

Internet Kraken posted:

Because he was only able to do it after the crucible was built. Why didn't he use the reapers to build the crucible? SPECULATE ABOUT IT!

Cellophane S posted:

Would be more accurate if there were only three colours and none of the blocks fit into any of the holes

Banjodark posted:

My male shepard had ridiculous gay sex with kaidan, your comms officer is a lesbian, half of the citadel are women loving asari and your shuttle pilot has a dead husband.

thepopstalinist posted:

What I want to know is why the Collectors had apparently always been behind the Omega 4 Relay but only started culling human colonies after ME1.

Maybe that's accounted for somewhere, I don't know.

Killer robot posted:

Not to mention that the game sales themselves have been ten times that of Mass Effect as near as I can tell.

The Operative posted:

No, you can only get two out of the five points necessary to broker peace.

OldMemes posted:

I thought the implication was that Shepard was brain dead - alive, yes, but in such a severe state of damage that regaining consciousness, let alone being fully up and normal would be impossible using standard medical tech. So basically barely clinging to life in a coma/vegetative state with no hope of recovering, without Cerebus's intervention.

Burning Mustache posted:

"Your helmet did a pretty good job at keeping your brain in one piece! "
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Amateur Saboteur posted:

You know possibly the lamest part about humans in this universe supposedly being owns bones when it comes to genetics or whatever is that they keep saying it yet we have without a doubt the silliest and weakest 'reaperized' versions of anything. Husks have no powers, they don't teleport around, scream terrifyingly, and shoot space magic. They aren't Hulk Huge and don't come with guns attached to their arms. They do not have giant sacs with their live young inside or shoot mysterious red ribbons from their palms. They just run up to dudes and give them back massages. How lame is that?

Superstring posted:

The only winning move is not to play to pick whichever color ending you want then go make a sandwich and come back when the credits are over.

Arkanomen posted:

It was so bad I didn't even realize it was an option until the chipmunk invited herself to my quarters and I accidentally picked the top "initiate romance" option in a fit of paragon autopilot. Quickly reloading I told her to gently caress off. I love how there isn't even a Yes/No/Well talk later option. She immediately pissed me off when she approached me to come on the Normandy but I was like "ugh think of the war assets". When she hit on me I checked and she's only 5 points so I was like gently caress that get off my ship. Only after I started reading this thread I find out shes some nerd-baiting IGN shill "journalist" I feel justified.

VVVVV
E: And now you have given me a legit reason to replay the game. Thank you good sir.

Drighton posted:

This is everyone's primary issue with the ending:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPelM2hwhJA

Cthulu Carl posted:

Or people in red, green, and blue t-shirts who all ask the same question with only subtle wording changes.

FRAZZLED JOHNSON posted:

At least Activision were smart enough to screw the developers rather than the customers with Modern Warfare 3.

Cthulu Carl posted:

Seriously, they ditched the Infant Gospel of Thomas wherein KidJesus does poo poo like make clay birds on the Sabbath and turn them into real birds when he gets busted to destroy the evidence and ressurect a friend who fell off a house just to have him tell everyone that no, KidJesus did not in fact push him off.

OatmealRaisin posted:

THIS HURTS YOU.

Uncle Wemus posted:

If you punch Gerrel can you still get the peace ending?

Dr. Abysmal posted:

That talk about Rannoch made me realize that Shepard never had to fight quarians at any point in the series, unlike pretty much every other major humanoid race.

Kavak posted:

Great, but who's Gardner?

Sonnekki posted:

I agree, though that sort of honesty seems hard to come by these days.
I've convinced myself that when the advertising people asked the development people "there's dozens of endings, right?", the development people jumped the gun without actually being at "dozens of endings", and by the time the advertisement was ready, the game was different.

GruntyThrst posted:

Elcor Polka

Phylodox posted:

Holy poo poo, did I just hear Garrus in an AT&T ad?

Strange Matter posted:

That basically sounds exactly like George Lucas.

skoolmunkee posted:

HoveringCheesecake posted:

It's a submarine, not a pleasure boat.

Lord Lambeth posted:

Goddamn console peasants!