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    Mass Effect 3

    ...should be arriving at my door tomorrow. I've desperately been trying to avoid spoilers, so far mostly successfully.

    Anyone here playing it yet?
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    55 € (~ 72 $) as Standard version or even 75 € (~ 100 $ )as Digital Deluxe Version ...
    that makes it easy for me to wait 6 months or more till the game is much cheaper
    (especially considering the fact that I have enough games at the moment to spend my rathr limited free time on)
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    Someday I've got to finish the first one.
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    I have no idea how far into it I am, maybe halfway? Maybe less? There are still five (I think) former squadmates who have yet to pop up, and given the massive stakes now involved, I expect some of my comrades to die, but did it have to be
    Spoiler:
    Mordin? My absolute ****ing favorite? Things aren't looking too good for Thane either...


    So far, this is pretty kick ass.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Guynemer View Post
    I have no idea how far into it I am, maybe halfway? Maybe less? There are still five (I think) former squadmates who have yet to pop up, and given the massive stakes now involved, I expect some of my comrades to die, but did it have to be
    Spoiler:
    Mordin? My absolute ****ing favorite? Things aren't looking too good for Thane either...


    So far, this is pretty kick ass.
    Heh, yes. There were less deaths than expected, and no suicide-mission like mission so far, but i've still some way to go by the looks of it. It might also depend on performance on the previous games though. I'll need to play with other characters though, but there's at least one choice that makes me think the differences are minor.

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    Just finished it.

    There is much internet butthurt about the ending, and I admit, the ending could be better. But it is not that bad. It was never going to end "well", either in happiness or in awesomeness compared to the rest of the games.

    However, it was an affecting, exciting, very challenging game throughout--playing on Insanity was a ****ing nightmare at some points (ie, multiple Banshees bearing down on me, whilst being buffed by multiple Marauders, HOLY ****ING ****)--and I would not hesitate for a moment to recommend it for any and every gamer.

    It is implied that
    Spoiler:
    your final squaddies die, so RIP Garrus and Tali, didn't seem right trying to end the game without you two. RIP Mordin, Thane, Legion, and Anderson, as well. And ****ing rot, Illusive Man, you piece of ****ing ****.
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    I heard the ending is all in your head.
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    Nice to see some people not going insane about the endings (unlike at social.bioware)

    I'll admit the 1st time I finished the game the ending(s) pissed me off, but I am coming around to them.

    The fact that every single other part of the game is 100% awesome doesn't hurt either

    @ Guy

    Spoiler:
    what happens to your squad mates changes depending on the choice you make. In Destroy, both my squad mates are on the Normandy
    Also, they aren't shown on the final run to the Citadel. Take that for what you will.
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    Just read the theory that Al eludes to, and given the ending I chose (let's call it the "red" ending), that actually makes a metric **** ton of sense. If true, that changes Bioware from "awesome series, just didn't stick the landing," to "awesome series, holy mother of god you beautiful bastards, that was ****ing amazing."

    @boo

    Spoiler:
    I also picked Destroy; Tali and Garrus where with me, but Liara and Javik stepped off the Normandy with Joker.
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    Just for shits and giggles, since I finished my paragoniest paragon game, I checked to see how some stuff changes if you play a renegade.

    Holy ****, things get dark. God damn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Guynemer View Post
    Just read the theory that Al eludes to, and given the ending I chose (let's call it the "red" ending), that actually makes a metric **** ton of sense. If true, that changes Bioware from "awesome series, just didn't stick the landing," to "awesome series, holy mother of god you beautiful bastards, that was ****ing amazing."

    @boo

    Spoiler:
    I also picked Destroy; Tali and Garrus where with me, but Liara and Javik stepped off the Normandy with Joker.
    It was at that point that I started to accept the ending. I don't know if I could ever "like" it, but I can live with it. It may grow on me with time.

    also

    Spoiler:
    Really? What was your Battle Readiness Points total thingy?
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    I just finished it.

    Spoiler:
    Chose the middle ending. A bit of a discontinuity though: Liara got off the Normandy with Joker and EDI, but she was with me on Earth, so it seems kind of weird she managed to teleport into the Normandy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrboo123 View Post
    Spoiler:
    Really? What was your Battle Readiness Points total thingy?
    Oh hell, I don't remember. The bar was full, and I think there were only two "fetch quests" left on my list.
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    @N35tor: Same thing happen to me...

    @ Guy: Played any multiplayer? That affects the effectivness raiting (if you care enough to play mp, which is surpisingly good)
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    MP for me is awfully laggy (due to a crappy internet connection), so I had to make do with 50% readiness.
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    Have not tried MP yet; I am of the firm belief that hell is other people.

    But my understanding is that you can pick different races, and your potential class depends on that race? I might give it a try; my paragon femshep is a straight up biotic nightmare, might be interesting to try an infiltrator or something.
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    Fyi Major spolier in that link
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    The ending sucks, worse than the KOTOR II debacle. It's not that I demanded a "happier" ending, it's that the ending(s) provided were badly-conceived and obviously rushed and incomplete. I want some closure, and this didn't provide it. The gaping holes in plot and logic were too big to be ignored, IMO.

    That being said, the rest of the game is almost universally awesome. It was going to be the best of them all until... the end.

    I think this is a pretty succinct article on the problem with the endings, with which I mostly agree (yes, spoilers ahead):

    http://www.gamefront.com/mass-effect...ans-are-right/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Guynemer View Post
    Just read the theory that Al eludes to, and given the ending I chose (let's call it the "red" ending), that actually makes a metric **** ton of sense. If true, that changes Bioware from "awesome series, just didn't stick the landing," to "awesome series, holy mother of god you beautiful bastards, that was ****ing amazing."
    The ending being a dream or induced hallucination is the ONLY way it makes any sense, actually. Otherwise, the WTF factor is insurmountable to anyone who has been paying attention for the whole saga.

    My problem with giving Bioware the benefit of the doubt on this is that, as mentioned above, we have KOTOR II as an example of them completely cocking up a game finale because of rushing the game out the door.

    Now, IF this ending is deliberate just to set up ME4 and IF it was a deliberate allusion to the terrible KOTOR II ending, then I'd have to give Bioware credit as being amazingly brilliant. But I don't think that's reality (and the post-credits scene reinforces my view).
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    Not sure whether or not to abandon the spoiler boxes at this point, but here we go...

    Spoiler:
    The more I think about it, the more the fighting-Reaper-indoctrination theory makes sense.

    Slo-mo like her dreams of the kid.

    Infinite ammo for her gun.

    Black wavy shadows like in her dream.

    No one else even looked at the kid while he was "alive" in the prologue. Not even given a hand up into the shuttle.

    The kid gives her three choices: one of which is basically what the Reapers are doing to begin with (and what Saren wanted), one which is exactly what the indoctrinated Illusive Man wanted, and one, the "red" choice, the "renegade" choice, that is what you've wanted all along. The choice to reject the indoctrination.

    Do I really think that's what Bioware intended? Probably not. But they sure as **** left the door open.
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    Ahh, yes. Bingo. Exactly what I was talking about.
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    Jesus... even the name The Illusive Man, instead of the seemingly-more-accurate Elusive Man, hints at this possibility.


    Or, I could just be completely in the bag for Bioware. I've no idea.
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    This is one of those endings I pretend was different to make myself happy.

    My theory is that Bioware was indoctrinated by Reapers to make us angry and destroy each other. They're just working for the bad guys now
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    If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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    Excellent.
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    Yes I have played this games and this is amazing games. It is one of the most adventurous games I have ever played. The graphic and theme are more superb than previous variant.

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