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Topic: Mass Effect 3 Spoiler Thread [Spoiler tag free, beware] (Read 526669 times)
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Ingmar
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Let's head off the inevitable, unreadable 20 pages of spoiler tags in the regular thread.
Bhodi Edit: Changed title, no more spoiler tags
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« Last Edit: March 12, 2012, 02:37:29 PM by bhodi »
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Lakov_Sanite
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End game.
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~a horrific, dark simulacrum that glares balefully at us, with evil intent.
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kildorn
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Kro-Planet spoiler:
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Reg
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My MANShep is a confirmed heterosexual - he had no choice since ME1 and ME2 didn't allow for anything else for males. He finds it disturbing how Kaidan is giving him soulful looks and meaningful glances. I mean, sheesh!
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Simond
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End game.
Also (complete ending spoilers - do not read until you really want to be spoiled): I am not making this up. So...anyone know if Obsidian are working on any RPGs at the moment? |
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Fabricated
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This is literally the most disappointing ending to a sci-fi series I have ever seen. I have seen Matrix Revolutions. What a fucking awful, hackneyed, meaningless, shitty ending to what could be a good series.
I'm not buying this game. Ever.
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Lakov_Sanite
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RE end
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~a horrific, dark simulacrum that glares balefully at us, with evil intent.
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Merusk
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This is literally the most disappointing ending to a sci-fi series I have ever seen. I have seen Matrix Revolutions. What a fucking awful, hackneyed, meaningless, shitty ending to what could be a good series.
I'm not buying this game. Ever.
Yeah, glad I'm not the only one. I was still on the fence because of Origin vs. Steam before I read that over the weekend. That's what killed it. |
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Kageru
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It's nice knowing I can read spoilers since I'm not going to buy it.
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Margalis
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If ME3 was a Japanese game everyone would be all "welp, another Japanese game with a nonsense ending you have no control over!"
The explanation for the Reapers is just..I don't even know...it's like someone wanted to go for a Babylon 5 vibe but just had no idea how to make it work. It's like an attempt at a classic sci-fi twist except that it's just nonsense. They created a frankenstein's monster but entirely on purpose, in order to prevent the creation of frankenstein's monsters........WHAT? It's like "chop off your nose to spite your face" turned into a video game plot.
The epilogue is also incredibly trite ("the future was actually the past all along!!! Cue shock!" - didn't that just happen in Battlestar Galactica?) and the image is a photoshop of a free desktop wallpaper...it's like they did it in the last 15 minutes before gold. You really think this kind of idea comes up in a 2 AM bullshit session and the next day everyone comes to their senses.
All 3 endings are basically the same anyway. It's like they wanted to copy Eternal Darkness but lacked the budget. (lol) If you remember in Eternal Darkness throughout the whole game there are 3 different gods represented by red, green and blue symbols and depending on what you do you get an ending cinematic where one of them beats down the other. It's like someone watched that and all they got from it was "hey guys, if we swap red and green and blue we can get 3 different endings!"
I feel sorry for people who grind to maximize their readiness to get the "best" ending only to see that all the endings are basically the same with the lasers recolored.
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« Last Edit: March 06, 2012, 09:30:38 PM by Margalis »
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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rk47
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eldaec
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End game.
The explanation for the Reapers is just..I don't even know...it's like someone wanted to go for a Babylon 5 vibe but just had no idea how to make it work. It's like an attempt at a classic sci-fi twist except that it's just nonsense. They created a frankenstein's monster but entirely on purpose, in order to prevent the creation of frankenstein's monsters........WHAT? It's like "chop off your nose to spite your face" turned into a video game plot.
Spectres, the Krogan plague, Cerberus, Rachnii, Geth, there are countless examples of this in the story. A lot of it is badly written and lacks continuity, but the one thing I liked about ME is that is has themes in the writing, and 'hey bad shit is going down, do we swallow a spider to eat the fly?' was probably the one they did best. |
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luckton
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It's nice knowing I can read spoilers since I'm not going to buy it.
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Fabricated
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I just like the whole "Welp nothing you ever did in the entire game series really mattered. Sorry if we gave you the impression that you'd get anything more than flavor dialog and some model-swaps in cut scenes for your choices" angle.
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Sjofn
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EDI:
DLC dude:
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God Save the Horn Players
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kildorn
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EDI:
DLC dude:
DLC dude: EDI: Jack: |
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Sjofn
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DLC dude:
Hahaha, that was totally the moment where my eyes went all big and sparkly and I got all, "I LOVE YOU, DOUCHEBAG DLC GUY." Jack:
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God Save the Horn Players
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Stormwaltz
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I never heard of that while I was there. That doesn't mean it wasn't floated at some level above me. I haven't watched the endings yet (I'm not going to play the game, because being the sort of OCD I am, I'll just end up throwing juvenile tantrums over every physics violation, canon retcon, and ship painted the wrong color), so I don't know what ended up in the final version. When I left, the Big Reveal was going to be |
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cironian
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Still sounds better than what they went with.  |
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Paelos
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Actually Stormwaltz, I like that version. That sounds ridiculously better than what I'm hearing.
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Merusk
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Agreed. "Oh hey, you never mattered, thanks for the cash." is what I get from this story. Even dying and galaxy destruction as only one outcome rather than ALL outcomes would have been better.
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luckton
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Fabricated
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The ending Stormwaltz posted makes way more sense even if it is sort of like an episode of TNG.
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cironian
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Plus it explains why the Reapers would keep steering the galaxy through the exact same technological cycle, which doesn't make much sense if their main objective was to prevent a certain technological development that happened on every previous iteration.
It's not necessarily the perfect story, but it's an ending that is internally consistent with the bits of story presented in the first two games.
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Simond
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eldaec
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Now I wish I'd let my Shepard sleep with Tali in ME2.
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Merusk
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She kills herself?  |
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Stormwaltz
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Um.
I would be gobsmacked if Casey, Preston, or Mac were even aware of TTGL's existence.
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The whole, "The badguys are really the goodguys looking at the big picture; you're the badguy. You're Hitler!" angle isn't exactly a new thing. Edit: Hey, let me remind you who was right. I guarantee Shepard is going to merge with the reapers and fly them away forever or die finishing them off or something in whatever the canon ending turns out to be. Yeah. Seriously, can we stop this fucking cliche already? |
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« Last Edit: March 07, 2012, 12:36:39 PM by Fabricated »
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Fordel
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Just for clarification:
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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pxib
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Dude, naw. Shepard Jr. will get to be part of the team that rediscovers everything we already know about. The Mass Effect equivalent of Star Trek: Enterprise.  |
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Merusk
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Just for clarification:
Yes, and No. |
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Tengen Toppa Puella Mass Effect?
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Simond
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Just for clarification:
Nah, like I said in the boring thread last week this just preps the ground for Mass Effect: the MMO. Something like... Tengen Toppa Puella Mass Effect? Mass Effect: Death & Rebirth/End of Mass Effect "It all returns to nothing, it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down" E: Quick, someone shop a picture of Shepard sat on a chair with everyone else from the game applauding her and put "Congratulations!" at the bottom.  |
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« Last Edit: March 07, 2012, 03:21:55 PM by Simond »
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"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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ajax34i
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They must have liked the Princess Bride and its ending. I mean, Princess Bride, who doesn't like Princess Bride? Right?
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