Vallora posted:

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Oh, a friend of mine is all excited about that game...looks zzzz to me

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Lasrael_Hellblade posted:

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im so addicted to the MP horde mode in the demo right now.. i havent even played the single player demo.. cant wait til the 6th

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Lasrael_Hellblade posted:

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I picked it up, and I can't put it down. Don't want to give away too much.. but wow there are some good "tear-jerker" cut scenes as well as action. Some will probably disagree, but the script for this game was done very well. I transferred my character from the previous Mass Effects because I am interested in how they put in my backstory, which seems pretty insignificant at the moment..Dragon Age was the same way, though.

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Milkand posted:

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watched a friend play the demo on xbox, didn't interest me

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Rhylith_Galahad posted:

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Milkand posted:

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watched a friend play the demo on xbox, didn't interest me

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You'd need to be invested in the characters first, probably by playing the previous games. There is some top notch world building and storytelling here. Without that investment to an outsider it would just look like a gears of war clone.

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Milkand posted:

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Rhylith_Galahad posted:

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Milkand posted:

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watched a friend play the demo on xbox, didn't interest me

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You'd need to be invested in the characters first, probably by playing the previous games. There is some top notch world building and storytelling here. Without that investment to an outsider it would just look like a gears of war clone.

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i've never played gears of war so it didn't ;D also, i don't need to be invested in it before i know if i would like it; storytelling in a game doesn't affect that for moi, only gameplay

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Daimar posted:

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finished it tonight, I'm happy with the ending, great game.

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Dums posted:

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SPOILERS.


Another thing. Say these are the true endings, and the Mass Relays are destroyed. This absolutely massive fleet, comprised of the full military power of all the council races combined, even including the Quarians, Volus, Elcor, and Krogan, are now for all intents and purposes stuck on Earth. We may as well have let the Reapers wipe it out, because sure as hell our now completely wasted planet (thanks to the Reapers) can't support all of these people.

Most of them fleet are dead so earth can sustain more than you think. FTL travel is possible without relays. Assuming there are surviving fuel depots they will be able to disperse to worlds and colonies on nearby stars, though it is too far for them to jump to other formations. There are also still civilians on other worlds. Life goes on.

And, why was Joker and the Normandy in the middle of a jump, anyway? What sense does it make that my crew, who stuck by my paragon femshep for better or worse through three games and countless battles, is running from the fight? And why is someone I saw on Earth just minutes before I went into the Citadel to make my choice, my LI, walking out of the Normandy on a distant planet? What the hell are they doing there, how did they get there, and why?

It never actually showed your squadmates running with you in the final charge (I looked around for them and certainly couldn't find them). They also received an order to fall back from the next ranking officer after Harbinger shot Shepard. A good amount of time passes between that moment and Shepard activating the crucible so it's not unreasonable that circumstances we did not see led to them being back on the Normandy.

Most of all, why does a series like this, that is predicated on the idea that 'your choice matters', end without closure and with 16 endings that are basically the same? The only difference is the color of the explosions. It makes no sense, and really just makes me think that we're being led into paid DLC with a further continuance of the story. In which case, Bioware, STFU and take my money. You earned it for this.

The endings are the same? That's kind of lame. I don't really have the time or the drive to go through that level again on this particular character and see the others. But yeah I'm definitely buying any dlc they throw at me because I loved this game.

Regardless, I played through ME1-3 twice, both games four times each. 2 Playthrough in each game for my paragon femshep, and 2 playthroughs in each for my renegade femshep. I've just now started playing ME1 as a paragon male shep, and now I remember why I shied away from playing the male. His voice actor is robotic and awful, and pales in comparison to Jennifer Hale.

Maybe I'm just used to video game voice acting but I didn't really have any problems with his voice. I do agree that Hale's voice is much more expressive though.

That is all.

Edit: I forgot one point I wanted to make. Whether these endings are the true and complete endings or not, I agree that the destruction of the Mass Relays and Citadels are necessary and don't think it's stupid at all. The Reapers used the Mass Relays and the Citadel as a basis for control, to limit the technological prowess of the galactic community. Such travel is never duplicated by any of the civilizations, simply because it's there already. It leaves the civilizations that use the Mass Relays to base their technology off of these systems left in place by the Reapers, and leaves them open to the inevitable confrontation. While the Reaper threat has been eliminated (as long as these endings hold up and are the only endings we'll ever see), it still makes sense that the Masss Relays be wiped out because they are Reaper machinations. This will leave the galactic civilizations to strive toward making their own technology to fill the void, making everyone stronger and more self-reliant than ever before.

Yup!

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Milkand posted:

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this thread is pretty entertaining if you scroll up and down quickly while looking at rhylith's quote of dums' spoiler text after you've had a few beers!

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Rhylith_Galahad posted:

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The multiplayer is pretty rad too. Someone look me up on xbox if you wanna play.

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Vallora posted:

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Milkand posted:

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this thread is pretty entertaining if you scroll up and down quickly while looking at rhylith's quote of dums' spoiler text after you've had a few beers!

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fixed

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Dums posted:

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Rhylith_Galahad posted:

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The multiplayer is pretty rad too. Someone look me up on xbox if you wanna play.

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I'll get at you when I want a break from ME1. The multiplayer is a lot of fun and I'd like to continue leveling my engineer. You're Amalockh or something, right?

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Lasrael_Hellblade posted:

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Ok, so I FINALLY got to finish the game. I totally understand why some people could get upset. Personally, I thought the ending was perfect (assuming this is the last installment of the series). My choice was obvious to me..


(Red)Choosing to destroy all synthetic life (along with myself and presumably EDI) did not seem like the right choice. EDI was able to think on her own and begin to have emotion (The Geth you saved showed this also). So, if our future children developed Synthetics that would/could eventually "destroy" us..there is no certainty it would happen. After all, Shepherd already proved the Catalyst wrong by living.

(Middle) Synthesis seemed to be a popular choice for many. My problem was that there should never be an end to evolution. We shouldn't "play God". It is not for us to decide every being's life. If everyone ended up being the same, there would be nothing to learn, no triumph or adversity. Nothing to feel "alive." Destroying all the Mass Relays would be completely detrimental to everything Shepherd accomplished (ending wars between feuding races (i.e. Krogan and Turian).

(Blue)This one made the most sense. Sacrifice myself to control the Reapers. Humanity can carry on. Evolution continues. Yeah, I guess in a way it sort of sucks dying..but to me, it was the most logical choice. In the end, Shepherd still became a legacy and hero.

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Rhylith_Galahad posted:

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Lasrael_Hellblade posted:

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Ok, so I FINALLY got to finish the game. I totally understand why some people could get upset. Personally, I thought the ending was perfect (assuming this is the last installment of the series). My choice was obvious to me..


(Red)Choosing to destroy all synthetic life (along with myself and presumably EDI) did not seem like the right choice. EDI was able to think on her own and begin to have emotion (The Geth you saved showed this also). So, if our future children developed Synthetics that would/could eventually "destroy" us..there is no certainty it would happen. After all, Shepherd already proved the Catalyst wrong by living.

(Middle) Synthesis seemed to be a popular choice for many. My problem was that there should never be an end to evolution. We shouldn't "play God". It is not for us to decide every being's life. If everyone ended up being the same, there would be nothing to learn, no triumph or adversity. Nothing to feel "alive." Destroying all the Mass Relays would be completely detrimental to everything Shepherd accomplished (ending wars between feuding races (i.e. Krogan and Turian).

(Blue)This one made the most sense. Sacrifice myself to control the Reapers. Humanity can carry on. Evolution continues. Yeah, I guess in a way it sort of sucks dying..but to me, it was the most logical choice. In the end, Shepherd still became a legacy and hero.

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congrats, your shep got indoctrinated!

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